Twirl/Run

Jeff Mermelstein is one of the great snapshot artists ofall time, right up there with Garry Winogrand, Elliott Erwitt, Burk Uzzle, and Lee Friedlander.
-Glenn O'Brien, Artforum

From Helen Levitt to Garry Winogrand to Philip-LorcadiCorcia, the tradition of New York street photography hasattracted the medium's best and brightest. It takes nerveto join their ranks these days, and Mermelstein has plentyof it. Working in color, he's made some of the slyest, funniest street pictures of the past twenty-five years....
-Vince Aletti, The New Yorker

Jeff Mermelstein, I would say, is an absurdist with asense of humor.
-Max Kozloff

Twirl / Run, the second powerHouse artist's book by JeffMermelstein, is a surprising combination of two extensivebodies of work-women twirling their hair and peopleon the run-whose dissonance creates a new way ofobserving our prevailing anxiety and sense of disorder.

Author: Jeff Mermelstein, Robin Hemley
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 12.20h x 8.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781576875186

About the Author
Jeff Mermelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, was born in 1957 in central New Jersey. His books include SideWalk (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999) and No Title Here (powerHouse Books, 2003). He is the recipient of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship and The European Publishers Award For Photography. His work has been published in many magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Artforum, Aperture, and DoubleTake. His photographs are featured in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The International Center of Photography, New York; and others. Mermelstein is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, and lives with his wife and son in New York City.

Robin Hemley is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Do-Over! (Little, Brown and Company,2009). He has won many awards for his prose, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from The Chicago Tribune, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Iowa City with his family.

Greger Ulf Nilson has been working as an art director, graphic designer, and curator since 1980. In 2008 Nilson started GunGallery, a gallery for photography in Stockholm. He has lectured in Sweden and other parts of Europe, and has won many prizes for his art direction and designs.


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