Background information
"The reprint of this highly successful 2013 book, 'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP coincided with a retrospective of her work at the Barbican Art Gallery in London from June to September 2018. In 2011, Vanessa WINSHIP was awarded the Henri-Cartier-Bresson Award, which enables artists to pursue a new photographic project.
For over a year, the British photographer Vanessa WINSHIP traveled across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana in search of the legendary 'American Dream'. 'She dances on Jackson' marks a further development in Vanessa WINSHIP's work: stylistically similar to her earlier work with black and white material and shot with a large format camera, Vanessa WINSHIP's portraits remain arresting and nerve-wracking, but the work also shows her as an experienced landscape photographer. For Vanessa WINSHIP photography is a process of literacy, a path to understanding life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment." (publisher's note, © Mack Books, 2013)
Content
'She dances on Jackson' contains a conversation, as well as a lyrical and lively interaction between portrait and landscape (s-photography), exploring the vastness of the USA while trying to understand the connection between the country and its inhabitants.
For Vanessa WINSHIP this relationship is inseparable: places only gain meaning through the people she meets, through what she sees and what happens to her personally. Every human encounter, every sound and smell creates additional dimensions of your work and the resulting photographs." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
About the British photographer Vanessa WINSHIP (b. 1960)
Photo books by Vanessa WINSHIP
- Format
- 2nd print run, linen bound, embossed HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 144 pp., 64 b/w tritone ills., text language: English