Bertien Van Manen - A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters *Signed*
Publisher: De Verbeelding
Year: 1994
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition - Signed
Condition: Very Good
Pages: 90
Size: 25.8 x 24cm
A book of photographs taken throughout the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 90s. In contrast to many portrayals of the collapsing empire presented to the western world at the time, these belong to the intimacies and loneliness of the moments they capture. Van Manen’s accompanying diary details the hospitality she received, the warmth and food provided for her, and delicately touches on the reality of who these persons are to themselves and to each other amidst the decay of social and ideological structures. She attains a language at once elegiac and constitutive of surviving and emergent kinships.