MY BIRTH BY CARMEN WINANT

A book of text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children w ith foundimages of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience. As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor through delivery, the women's postures increasingly blend into one another,creating a collective body that strains and releases in u nison.In addition to the photographic sequence, My Birtha facsimile of Winant's own journalincludes an original text by the artist exploring ...[Read more]