Publisher's description
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.
Specifications
| Book title | Self portrait with cows going home |
|---|---|
| Photographer | Sylvia Plachy |
| ISBN 10 | 193178843X / 1-931788-43-X |
| ISBN 13 | 9781931788434 / 978-1-931788-43-4 |
| Publisher | Aperture |
| Publish date | Jun 2005 |
| Publish year | 2004 |
| Book format | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 208 pages |
| Number of photographs | 22 four-color and 98 duotone |
| Color or b/w photographs | colbw |
| Dimensions | 25 x 28,5 cm / 9.7 x 11.3 inches |
| Weight | 1,5 kg |
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