VANESSA WINSHIP She Dances On Jackson

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VANESSA WINSHIP She Dances On Jackson

VANESSA WINSHIP She Dances On Jackson presents a conversation between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States. It is an attempt to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship, places accrue particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she sees, and by what’s happening to her. Each human encounter, sound and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.

This is a reprint of the hugely successful 2013 book. It coincides with a retrospective of the work of Vanessa Winship at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The show runs from June to September 2018.

Back in 2011, she was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award. It funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year she travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’.

She Dances On Jackson marked a progression for Winship. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving but this body of work reveals her to also be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship photography is a process of literacy, a path by which she understands life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.

This is a limited edition.

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