- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Trolley; illustrated edition edition (30 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904563643
- ISBN-13: 978-1904563648
- Product Dimensions: 34.3 x 23.6 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 607,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Twelve years ago Norwegian photographer Margaret de Lange was at home looking after her two young daughters. She soon picked up her camera and began to photograph what came as a natural subject matter - her daughters. Since then it has developed into a beautiful and highly regarded photographic series. Capturing them in carefree imaginary days of play in the garden, to voyages of discovery in local rivers and streams, she also brings us moments of aggression and tension, dressing up as wild fantastic creatures in animal furs. The photographs have only been exhibited since 2007, as Margaret explains, 'I wanted to wait until the girls were old enough to decide for themselves whether to exhibit or not. In fact they have been the most eager.' Since then the pictures have received major critical recognition as the runner up in the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack award in 2007: 'For an excellent picture story expressing the relationship of man to his environment and positively reflecting the idea of humanity in society,' awarded at the Rencontres Arles festival, France. This book brings together for the first time the complete collection of images, which have also been exhibited in Norway and Belgium.
About the Author
Margaret M. de Lange has received many prizes from the annual competition for Norwegian advertising photographers, Utsnitt. She works as a freelance photographer for advertising, interior design and fashion. 'Daughters' is her first book.
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"Daughters" carries a hefty price tag, and the purchaser will almost certainly wonder, at least for a moment, about the value for money received. The photographs do not disappoint: this is a selection of stunning monochrome prints, grain and high contrast adding to the psychological depth of each image. De Lange is not sentimental in her photographs. Jannicke and Catherine's beauty is forcing its way through mud, or set against dead animals. The girls are blurred figures in dark landscapes, or covered in grass like cuts. If anything - more so than when viewing Sally Mann's similarly themed work - what strikes is a coldness or detachment in the images. Emotions evoked are shock, fear, and fascination, even disgust, and in that respect it is a far more genuine portrait of childhood than many. Excellent workThe VFM questions arise with the construction of the book itself. The pictures are presented in a nice large size on good quality paper. Each photo is presented on its own. After that, most observations tend to be negative. Far too frequently Trolley Books present the images spread across two pages, and the quality of the binding is not strong enough to support that approach without being intrusive. To get across the effect this has, I should really repeat the observation fifteen or twenty times. So then you start thinking about the fact that there seem to be very few photos (its a collection of twenty-nine) in what feels more like an expensive magazine than a book. By way of comparison, the similarly-priced Misty Dawn:Portrait of a Muse by Jock Sturges published by Aperture contains four times the number of photographs in a hardback cover and with more respect to the photos themselves. It isn't fair that De Lange's work should evoke such resentment.
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