Fine

Aperture 2008

112

Hardback, first edition

In her sympathetic pictures of contortionists, dwarves, ballroom dancers and wrestlers from small towns in Israel, Ukraine, Eastern Europe and England, Michal Chelbin offers a glimpse into worlds both strange and familiar. Her subjects— usually individuals on society’s margins—tend to be portrayed offstage, at home, on the street or in a park, and in a disarmingly direct engagement with the viewer:“My aim is to record a scene where there is a mixture of direct information and enigmas and in which there are visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, normal and abnormal,” she writes.

One of the best photobooks of 2008. SIGNED COPY.

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