Reading Raymond Carver by Mary Frey. First edition. Second impression (2018). Medium format hardback in new condition. No markings. This is a new book. Please see picturess. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. About Reading Raymond Carver Firstly, when Mary Frey began photographing family for Reading Raymond Carver, friends and strangers in her immediate environment in 1979, she was in a state of transition. Studies finished, first teaching assignment, pregnant - responsibilities, duties, worries - and the need to look for meaning in everyday life. As a result, after a childhood in the sense of an imminent nuclear catastrophe, in an America where lifestyle magazines and television give directions how the BRAVE NEW WORLD should look and function. Therefore, Mary Frey has made strange pictures. Technically perfect, between snapshot and enactment, intimacy and distance. Charged banalities with children, adolescents and adults, middle class, USA, 35 years ago. So, no reportage, a psychogram. Stockphotos that no magazine would have printed, no agency would have used for a campaign. Weird. Artist Bio Mary Frey is a photographer who currently lives and works in western Massachusetts. The artist earned her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1979 and subsequently taught photography at the Hartford Art School, retiring from the undergraduate program in the Spring of 2015. Related Links So, more books by Mary Frey you can find here. Also, more books by Peperoni here.
