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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 160 pages. Norwegian & English. Stranger in Motherland is a photo book about the origin and identity of Maya Økland. The book collects photographs from four of Økland's travels to her mother's homeland, Brazil, made between 1999 and 2013. Through portraits and landscapes, Økland depicts encounters with relatives of all ages in their everyday surroundings. The people that Økland portrays pose freely, alone or in small groups and are most often near their homes. They are practically dressed and naturally lit. The pictures are unpretentious and almost consistently frontal. A group of children smile at the lens, an elderly woman hangs her arms out to dry. A young couple holds each other close. Like role models in the portrait genre such as Thomas Struth and Rineke Dijkstra, Økland clarifies the social affiliation of the people she portrays. The pictures use a naturalistic, documentary look that appears as an undisguised and authentic insight into the everyday life and living conditions of the people who are portrayed. The documentary approach, however, is complicated by Økland's family connections to the people and places in the book. The images demonstrate a distance between photographer and portrayed through the documentary image form that clarifies Økland's experience of being «foreign in the motherland». The approach means that Stranger in Motherland carries a paradoxical tension between distance and closeness that gives the book similarities with both family albums and social anthropological photo projects. For each picture, the name, place and year are meticulously noted, but the pictures reveal little about the relationship between the portrayed and the photographer. The book can be experienced as deeply personal, but also as a study of family life in Brazil. …

7 unpaginierte Blatt, 66 Tafeln und 1 Blatt. Original Leinwand im original Schuber (tadelloses Exemplar). Quer-4° (25 x 31 cm). First edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BITTE BEACHTEN: Auf Grund der absurden und irrsinnig teuren staatlichen Regelungen für die Entsorgung der Versandpappen in den nachfolgenden Ländern, kann ich leider nicht mehr liefern nach: Österreich, Griechenland, Polen. Kunden in ÖSTERREICH können sich aber an die einheimische Post wenden, dort unter Alles Post Deutschland. --- PLEASE NOTE: Due to the absurd and insanely expensive government regulations for the disposal of shipping cartons in the following countries, I can unfortunately no longer deliver to: Austria, Greece, Poland. However, customers in AUSTRIA can contact their local post office, there under Alles Post Deutschland.…