A Hundred summers, a hundred winters (Signed)

Bertien van Manen
A Hundred summers, a hundred winters (Signed)

Photographs: Bertien van Manen

Text: Bertien van Manen & Ryszard Kapuscinski

Publisher: De Verbeelding Bookstellers

96 pages

Year: 1994

Comments: Softcover, 245 x 265 mm. First edition, 1994. Text in english. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.2. Fine condition. A touch of fading on back cover. Very fresh original edition. Collectible copy signed by Bertien van Manen the year of the publication.

"Through her excellent photographs and her inquiring and humanistic temperament, and with powerful artistic expression, Bertien van Manen shows what historians, writers, sociologists and political scientists argue, that there exist at least two Russias. There is the official, imperial and external Russia, known to us from newspaper headlines, and the one within, the hidden, poor Russia of the anonymous, ordinary people of whose existence Bertien van Manen's moving and revealing album tells."

Ryszard Kapuscinski

"Of the many photobooks documenting (the social and political situation following the collapse of the Soviet empire), Dutch photographer Bertien van Man's A Hundred summers, a hundred winters is one of the finest, a remarkable piece of work by an astute photographer who refuses to take the easy option and go for the cheap shot".

(Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. II)