Self Portrait with Cows Going Home - Plachy's most complex and personal book to date - is composed of a rhythmic cycle of photographs taken over the past forty years during several trips back to Eastern Europe, pictures from her own family albums, and stories of growing up there. As a whole, the pictures in Self Portrait with Cows Going Home interact non-linearly to form a moving and innovative book that is experienced, not as a narrative telling of Plachy's life, but with the intensity and mystery of memory itself. Recent ...
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Self Portrait with Cows Going Home - Plachy's most complex and personal book to date - is composed of a rhythmic cycle of photographs taken over the past forty years during several trips back to Eastern Europe, pictures from her own family albums, and stories of growing up there. As a whole, the pictures in Self Portrait with Cows Going Home interact non-linearly to form a moving and innovative book that is experienced, not as a narrative telling of Plachy's life, but with the intensity and mystery of memory itself. Recent photographs taken on the set of the film The Pianist, and in particular of her son Adrien Brody, are indicative of her ability to condense expansive layers of meaning within a single image: serving simultaneously as representations of Nazi era Europe, as film stills, and as tender portraits of her son.
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Add this copy of Self Portrait With Cows Going Home to cart. $33.50, very good condition, Sold by DogStar Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lancaster, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Aperture.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 193178843X. B&W Photographs; 4to 11"-13" tall; 208 pages; 1st printing. Oversize 4to snugly bound and clean in original glossy pictorial dust jacket. Trace shelf evidence to jacket edges; binding just slightly shelf cocked. Contents bright and fresh. VG+/VG+ or better....Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
Add this copy of Self Portrait With Cows Going Home to cart. $38.00, like new condition, Sold by Old New York Book Shop rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Aperture.
Add this copy of Self Portrait With Cows Going Home to cart. $48.95, like new condition, Sold by GIBBS BOOKS rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Buffalo, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Aperture.
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Author. Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Inscribed by Author(s) 1st. Edition later printing 2004, Hardcover with the dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the artist Sylvia Plachy on the title page, 208 page book. Illustrated with black & white full page plates with some color plates. Condition: Fine ( as new )
