Portraits and Dreams
by Wendy Ewald
Photographs: Wendy Ewald
160 pages
Year: August 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912339-89-1
Price: 38.50 €
Comments: OTA bound paperback 17.5 x 25.5 cm, Design by Katy Homans. First edition, second printing.
"The resulting pictures […] call up a music of the place only Ewald’s students could hear and access; and thus the book amounts to a reliquary of a magic hour in the children’s own lives, fleeting and resonant.” – Rebecca Bengal, The Paris Review
"A unique vision of the rural south: one where imagination is uninhibited, aspiration is untainted by economic realities, and where the adults — tired, covered in coal dust, distinctly not Dolly Parton — seem to live in a parallel universe." – The Financial Times
"Encouraged by Ewald to delve into their dreams, the children return from sleep with visions as dark as as a Grimms’ fairy tale: of killing a best friend, or of a brother buried under a woodpile. But it’s the revelations of waking thoughts that truly disturb." – Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker
"This new version [...] brings new life to what is already considered to be a masterpiece." – The Washington Post
When Wendy Ewald arrived in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in 1975, she began a project that aimed to reveal the lives, intimate dreams and fears of local schoolchildren. Tasked with finding authentic ways of representing the lives of these children, she gave each of them a camera and interviewed them about their childhood in the mountains. Through these intriguing transcripts and photographs, we discover the lives of families as seen through the eyes of their children: where domestic, rural life is understood with startling openness and depth. In Portraits and Dreams, life’s most mysterious realities – love, loss, violence, death, new life – are given voice through an altogether novel discovery: the camera. We learn the eloquence and originality with which children see the world and we see a generous new way of engaging children in the possibilities of the photographic medium.
This revised and expanded edition of Ewald’s now-rare book, first published in 1985, and called “An American masterpiece,” offers access to a different and broadened view of the rural south over the span of 35 years, and includes contemporary pictures and stories by eight of the students from the original publication.
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Photographs: Wendy Ewald
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Year: August 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912339-89-1
Price: 38.50 €
Comments: OTA bound paperback 17.5 x 25.5 cm, Design by Katy Homans. First edition, second printing.
"The resulting pictures […] call up a music of the place only Ewald’s students could hear and access; and thus the book amounts to a reliquary of a magic hour in the children’s own lives, fleeting and resonant.” – Rebecca Bengal, The Paris Review
"A unique vision of the rural south: one where imagination is uninhibited, aspiration is untainted by economic realities, and where the adults — tired, covered in coal dust, distinctly not Dolly Parton — seem to live in a parallel universe." – The Financial Times
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When Wendy Ewald arrived in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in 1975, she began a project that aimed to reveal the lives, intimate dreams and fears of local schoolchildren. Tasked with finding authentic ways of representing the lives of these children, she gave each of them a camera and interviewed them about their childhood in the mountains. Through these intriguing transcripts and photographs, we discover the lives of families as seen through the eyes of their children: where domestic, rural life is understood with startling openness and depth. In Portraits and Dreams, life’s most mysterious realities – love, loss, violence, death, new life – are given voice through an altogether novel discovery: the camera. We learn the eloquence and originality with which children see the world and we see a generous new way of engaging children in the possibilities of the photographic medium.
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Comments: OTA bound paperback 17.5 x 25.5 cm, Design by Katy Homans. First edition, second printing.
"The resulting pictures […] call up a music of the place only Ewald’s students could hear and access; and thus the book amounts to a reliquary of a magic hour in the children’s own lives, fleeting and resonant.” – Rebecca Bengal, The Paris Review
"A unique vision of the rural south: one where imagination is uninhibited, aspiration is untainted by economic realities, and where the adults — tired, covered in coal dust, distinctly not Dolly Parton — seem to live in a parallel universe." – The Financial Times
"Encouraged by Ewald to delve into their dreams, the children return from sleep with visions as dark as as a Grimms’ fairy tale: of killing a best friend, or of a brother buried under a woodpile. But it’s the revelations of waking thoughts that truly disturb." – Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker
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