Brave New Books (3)
From the Life of Witches
Photographs
2024 || Hardcover || Susannah Stracer || Brave New Books
Photography from an Arcadian universe on the other side of reality, inhabited by Sapphic guitar goddesses, dressed in denim, lace and leather, otherwordly breadstick fairies and erotically indefinable witches.
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WHERE THE HEART IS (and where it definitely isn't)
Photographs
2022 || Paperback || Susannah Stracer || Brave New Books
'Where the Heart is (and where it definitely isn’t)' is the expression of a woman’s life and work and aesthetics by means of light and dark.
There may be something appealing about the traditional concept of the poor artist starving in a gloomy little attic from a Spitzweg painting, but in modern times they are more likely to live, work and struggle in a 4 room apartment, ten storeys high somewhere in the outskirts of the city, which doesn’t necessarily have to be worse or less romantic ...
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Another world out there
Photographs
2022 || Paperback || Susannah Stracer || Brave New Books
Susannah Stracer’s 'Another world out there' spans over three decades of outdoors photography. Although her main subject is people, it would be a mistake to call it social. No stories are being told, no deeper context is suggested. A split second of reality is captured and being transported into the universe of aesthetics. Susannah doesn’t participate, she doesn’t interfere - she takes scenes from the everyday outdoors and elevates them into the higher reality of light and shadow, lines...