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Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait with Cows Going Home

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 208
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781931788434
  • Genres
  • photography, art
  • Release date
  • 2005