MAXIMOVA, Eugenia - Associated Nostalgia

Background information

"When Bulgarian photographer Eugenia MAXIMOVA started working on the design for her self-published photobook 'Kitchen Stories from the Balkans', she began to think about how to include some of those incredible plastic tablecloth patterns so beloved in these latitudes.
She came the to garish tablecloths which have been manufactured in her hometown for many years - all the serendipity she needed to forge a new project, 'Associated Nostalgia'. From plastic cats to brightly patterned wallpaper, nothing is too brash or clashes too much to be included in her still lifes.

Content

This monograph, Associated Nostalgia' by Eugenia MAXIMOVA compiles highly staged scenes of the kitsch so beloved in her pocket of Eastern Europe, creating both a splash of a photobook and an authentic glimpse into the Bulgarian home aesthetic.

Book review

"Limited edition photo volume 'Associated Nostalgia' by Bulgarian photographer Eugenia MAXIMOVA is a delightful photobook. Gatefolds, a jacketed, raw stamped board cover and vivid floral endpapers based on the iconic plastic tablecloths of Maximova's Iron Curtain childhood are just a few of its charms. The photographs themselves present kitschy "vases and figurines in crystal or fretted glass and in colorful ceramic, plastic flowers and fruit, proud possessions of those who in times of deprivation projected onto these modest trinkets precisely laid out on a cloth or displayed in a cabinet, their dreams and desire for a little modest 'luxury.'" (© artbook)

About Bulgarian photographer, Eugenia MAXIMOVA (b.1979)

Photo books by Eugenia MAXIMOVA