Bread in Snow by Mark Cohen. Limited edition of 1000. Medium format hardback in new condition. Please see pictures.
About
This book shows a range of color images at the edges of a whole work.
Pictures that emerge from the basic half unconscious framing learned on the street.
In the case of the picture of the womans clasped hands- it was this fragment -suddenly in the frame- at the bus stop, not composed, but quickly centered, that was the start of the picture. One hand is bare and one is gloved and the fact of the color film in the camera is almost incidental. After developing the film the glove she is wearing is distinctly red-but at the time of the exposure-putting the camera lens so close to the clasped hands – was a much more intense experience-then the trespass into her personal space.
Color added additional voice to pictures.I felt they gained energy, and accidental social, meaning as I walked through the city attracted by almost anything. Any eye contact was a factor. A wire, or a step. There is still no plan or theory about this work. It just developed and expanded for fifty years.
