Torbjørn Rødland - The Pregnant Virgin (signed) bw

Torbjørn Rødland - The Pregnant Virgin (signed) bwMACK 2023 The title of this new book from renowned photographer and book maker Torbjrn Rdland suggests that the artist is looking for the divine in his sitters. If the child in Madonna and child paintings symbolises truth, then the pregnant virgin might represent a temporarily concealed truth one masked or hidden behind compromised shells and failing bodies, young and old. The photographs in this arresting new collection negotiate surface and

referring to their own cosmos and subjectivity and only thereafter to the world that surrounds them

ISBN 978-3-96070-079-1

Known internationally for his skill as an editor

“Todd Hido finds the poetry in that strangeness

Measurements: 8

Antony Cairns (b

the latter with musical instruments

much of it published here for the first time

Softcover with a flap

densely layered and sometimes ghostly pictures

but the boundary between them is vague and transparent

just enough to give the impression all is well