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Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila
Nadia Sablin
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Description for Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila
Hardback. Nadia Sablin's lyrical and evocative photographs in Aunties capture the small details and daily rituals of her septuagenarian aunts in a small Russian village. Series: Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. Num Pages: 88 pages, 54 color photographs. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 287 x 16. Weight in Grams: 794.
In northwest Russia, in a small village called Alekhovshchina, Nadia Sablin’s aunts spend the warmer months together in the family home and live as the family has always lived—chopping wood to heat the house, bringing water from the well, planting potatoes, and making their own clothes. Sablin’s lyrical and evocative photographs, taken over seven summers, capture the small details and daily rituals of her aunts’ surprisingly colorful and dreamlike days, taking us not only to another country but to another time. Alevtina and Ludmila, now in their seventies, seem both old and young, as if time itself was as seamless ... Read more
In northwest Russia, in a small village called Alekhovshchina, Nadia Sablin’s aunts spend the warmer months together in the family home and live as the family has always lived—chopping wood to heat the house, bringing water from the well, planting potatoes, and making their own clothes. Sablin’s lyrical and evocative photographs, taken over seven summers, capture the small details and daily rituals of her aunts’ surprisingly colorful and dreamlike days, taking us not only to another country but to another time. Alevtina and Ludmila, now in their seventies, seem both old and young, as if time itself was as seamless ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Series
Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360476
SKU
V9780822360476
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About Nadia Sablin
Nadia Sablin, a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, earned a B.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 and an M.F.A. from Arizona State University in 2011. Her work has been featured in such publications as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Moscow Times,Slate,American Photo, the Calvert Journal, and WPO’s The Magazine. Sablin, who has received ... Read more
Reviews for Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila
"What shines through most strongly in the book is [Sablin's] admiration for these indomitable women. The book moves effortlessly from close observation of objects–two bowls of borscht on a faded tabletop, sheets drying in a shed– to intimate documentary–an aunt bent in concentration over a crossword–and from dark interiors to almost other-worldly daylight. ... Aunties is an elegy for a ... Read more