Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home
Sylvia Plachy • Aperture • ISBN-13 978‑1931788434
Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home
ISBN-10: 193178843X · ISBN-13: 978‑1931788434 · 2005 · First Edition
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In this, Plachy's most complex and personal book to date, we are asked to reconsider ideas of self-portraiture and going home again. In 1956, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution, Plachy and her parents escaped into Austria carrying only a small valise. She returned to Hungary eight years later, this time with a camera in hand. Through the gently subversive images gathered here, her life is revealed via clues, fragments of words and pictures as if by someone looking into a mirror and seeing her life pass before her eyes--not linearly like a film, but rather in layers.
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