The Lovers by Fleishman, Lauren

The Lovers

Lauren Fleishman The Lovers The Lovers is a photographic series of couples that have shared their lives...
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Author: Lauren Fleishman
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Language: English
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The Lovers by Fleishman, Lauren

The Lovers

$100.80

The Lovers

$100.80
Author: Lauren Fleishman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Lauren Fleishman The Lovers The Lovers is a photographic series of couples that have shared their lives for more than 50 years. Inspired by a love letter written by Lauren Fleishman's grandfather to her grandmother early in their marriage, Lauren was moved to find more intertwined souls like theirs. Through colour photographs, voice recordings and text, she documents the stories of intimacy and commitment of elderly couples across the United States and Europe. As a photographer, Lauren Fleishman has always been attracted to the beauty of love and lovers. Her project extends this attraction to a domain that is largely unexplored, and more importantly, not well documented visually. Like her other work, this project addresses both artistic and documentary angles: sociology and the human geography of emotions, as well as the aesthetics of the body. In this work, colour photographs are combined with interviews where the subjects, elderly couples intimately involved for over five decades, describe their love and relationship. Couples from different backgrounds provide a look at the realities of love: how the previous generation experienced it, survived it, and, more importantly, how it appears in their lives. The body politics of the project become especially clear when gay and lesbian couples or couples with ill spouses are considered. In this respect, Fleishman's pictures play a central role in addressing homophobia and increasing awareness of age-related issues. The visual aspect of the project is complimented with the very personal interviews with the couples. Lauren Fleishman considers these an indispensable part of the work, always conducted before she makes the photograph. It is this process of remembering that can bring out a deep tenderness in the couples. As they speak, it is as if they are weaving their own love stories. For Fleishman, working with these couples often feels like a last chance to do this together. Her personal relationship to this project is based in personal experience; after her grandfather's death, she found a series of love letters written to her grandmother during the Second World War. The letters connected her to her grandfather and his sixty-three year long marriage in a way that she had not been able to connect with him in life. By witnessing his youth through his love of her grandmother, Lauren was able to more clearly see him. Finding these letters set her off on a long journey of research, starting with couples in the neighbourhood in New York where she then lived and continuing throughout the United States and Europe.

Author: Lauren Fleishman
Publisher: Schilt Publishing
Published: 04/15/2015
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 6.60h x 8.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9789053308363

About the Author
Fleishman, Lauren: - Lauren Fleishman is a photographer based in New York and Paris. Born and raised in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, she attended the School of Visual Arts with a Vice Presidential Academic Scholarship. In 2000, she was awarded a full scholarship to study at the prestigious Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2003, Lauren was named one of PDN's 30 young photographers to watch. Lauren's clients include Esquire, The Fader, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and Time Magazine. She was included in American Photography for four consecutive years and was an award recipient in the 2007 PDN Annual for her Time magazine work entitled "Sixteen Candles". Lauren has exhibited her personal project on love and aging at the main branch of The Brooklyn Public Library and is a 2010 Camera Club of New York Residency recipient. She is a 2011 award recipient in the PDN Annual for her Time magazine multimedia piece that focuses on the use of photography as an aid to amnesia.

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