The Image Is You - Robert Coles ed. Donald Erceg
I first came across this through John Gossage’s excellent Instagram account. There’s little other information about it online, but it’s a beautiful book - personally one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years. Published in the late 1960s, it features an essay by Robert Coles alongside a collection of 40 photographs made by African-American children from Boston’s inner city. From the dust jacket:
"The photographs were made with small Polaroid Swinger cameras. Aside from enlargement and sequencing, they appear exactly as the children pulled them from their cameras. The subjects were chosen without adult direction, the compositions are instinctive and natural. The results you see could not have been achieved by outside photographers — amateur or professional. They are the valuable by-product of total acceptance of and by the subjects."
Shipping: US only.
Condition: Good. Some tears and chips on the DJ, but, despite this, seems very rare to find in this good condition.
