Carmen Winant — My Birth
(SPBH Editions & Image Text Ithaca)
Publisher Bruno Ceschel
Co-Publishers Nicholas Muellner & Catherine Taylor
Description
Combining text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience.
As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor through delivery, the women's postures increasingly blend into one another, creating a collective body that strains and releases in unison.
In addition to the photographic sequence, My Birth—a facsimile of Winant's own journal—includes an original text by the artist exploring the shared, yet solitary, ownership of the experience of birth.
My Birth asks: What if birth, long shrouded and parodied by popular culture, was made visible? What if a comfortable and dynamic language existed to describe it? What if, in picturing the process so many times over and insisting on its very subjectivity, we understood childbirth and its representation to be a political act?
My Birth, coincided with Winant's on-site installation at the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018.
Combining text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience.
As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor through delivery, the women's postures increasingly blend into one another, creating a collective body that strains and releases in unison.
In addition to the photographic sequence, My Birth—a facsimile of Winant's own journal—includes an original text by the artist exploring the shared, yet solitary, ownership of the experience of birth.
My Birth asks: What if birth, long shrouded and parodied by popular culture, was made visible? What if a comfortable and dynamic language existed to describe it? What if, in picturing the process so many times over and insisting on its very subjectivity, we understood childbirth and its representation to be a political act?
My Birth, coincided with Winant's on-site installation at the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018.
Specifications
22 x 30.5 cm
120 Pages
Printing
4-Color Offset
at Grafiche Veneziane (IT)
Paper
Munken Lynx Rough
Binding
Exposed Softbound with Poster Dust Jacket
Font
Glossy Display by Bold Decisions
Published by SPBH Editions
& Image Text Ithaca
First Edition of 750
ISBN 978-1-999814-44-1
22 x 30.5 cm
120 Pages
Printing
4-Color Offset
at Grafiche Veneziane (IT)
Paper
Munken Lynx Rough
Binding
Exposed Softbound with Poster Dust Jacket
Font
Glossy Display by Bold Decisions
Published by SPBH Editions
& Image Text Ithaca
First Edition of 750
ISBN 978-1-999814-44-1
Lists
• Photobookstore Magazine Best Books of 2018: Brad Feuerhelm, Esther Teichmann and Christopher Stewart and Sarah Allen
• 1000 Words
(Photo Books of 2018 - Tim Clark)
• Lens Culture
(Favorite Photobooks of 2018 - Daria Tuminas)
• Time
(Best Photobooks of 2018)
Process
Select process and installation images courtesy of Carmen Winant
Select process images courtesy of Bruno Ceschel
Book images courtesy of Self Publish, Be Happy
Select process images courtesy of Bruno Ceschel
Book images courtesy of Self Publish, Be Happy