This book presents Alessandra Sanguinetti’s return to rural Argentina to continue her intimate collaboration with Belinda and Guillermina, two cousins who, as girls, were the subjects of the first book in her ongoing series, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams.
In this second volume, The Illusion of An Everlasting Summer, we follow Guillermina and Belinda from ages 14 to 24 as they negotiate the fluid territory between adolescence and young adulthood. Still surrounded by the animals and rural settings of their childhood, Everlasting Summer depicts the two cousins’ everyday lives as they experience young love, pregnancy, and motherhood – all of which, perhaps inevitably, results in an ever-increasing independence from their families and each other. Similarly, we can sense a shift in Sanguinetti’s relationship to the cousins and the work they make: from insular childhood collaborators to three women with lives branching in different directions. Though the passage of time is one of the most palpable tensions at work in these photographs, An Everlasting Summer deepens Sanguinetti’s exploration of the timeless, universal language of female intimacy and friendship.
Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York City in 1968 where she lived for two years before moving to Buenos Aires with her family, where she lived and worked until 2002. She is currently based in the San Francisco Bay area and Buenos Aires. She is an ICP graduate, a member of Magnum Photos since 2007, and recipient of numerous fellowships and awards for her photography (including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation Grant, the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and many other).
Embossed linen hardcover with tipped-in image
28 x 28cm
Texts in english
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