For decades, the photographer Kate Sterling has an artistic practice of examining the boundaries between the individual, family and community. In his first book, Still Life: Photographs & Love Storiesshe uses intimacy in all its forms to tell a story of life, death, family, and race in America. Combining lyrical photography and poetic writing, Still Life is a dreamlike narrative examining kinship and romance, friendships and tragedies, the complexities of black identity, and personal and generational loss over the course of a lifetime. It’s a testament to an artist’s commitment to creation and a profound blend of the personal and the universal.
To infuse everyday life with a sense of historical significance, poetry, and dignity is to affirm that the private lives we lead deserve investigation, not only from others but from ourselves. Expressing the ineffable, immortalizing it in ink, is to encourage us to explore things that we have never dared to admit. To be interested in witnessing, invoking, and approaching these moments, as Kate has been all her life, means being fully aware that the fleeting present, in all its texture, will be mostly forgotten but still undeniably felt. With a loving and intimate telling of this story, we can begin to understand why. » – Excerpt from the afterword by Tessa Thompson
Kate Sterlin : Still Life – Photographs & Love Stories
Anthology Editions
Essays by Arooj Aftab and Tessa Thompson
Language : English
Hardcover : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1944860622
ISBN-13 : 978-1944860622
Weight: 2.05 pounds
Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.9 x 10.7 inches
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