
Bertha Alyce
Mother Exposed
Gay Block(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Published on 1. August 2003
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-0-8263-3094-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gay Block began photographing her mother, Bertha Alyce, in 1973 and continued until Bertha Alyce's death resulting from a stroke in 1991. This collection of Block's photographs (sections of which involve nudity) presents her complicated, and at times difficult, relationship with her mother and a mother-daughter quest for healing. This intensely personal and intimate account could easily be a reflection of any family today. Essays by Eugenia Parry, author of Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902, and Kathleen Stewart Howe, curator of the University of New Mexico Museum, accompany the photographs. To complete the presentation, the award-winning DVD 'Bertha Alyce' is included (28 minutes in length).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
colour photos
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
1197 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-3094-9 (9780826330949)
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