Life Time de Sturges, Jock (Text by), and Keller, Walter (Editor) - 2008

Steidl. Collectible - Fine. Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. 1st edition. Folio. 187pp. Photographs. This is an oversized book and International orders will require an extra shipping cost due to the size and weight of the book, which will be protected in packaging due to the condition and value of this volume.

Long known for his radiant black-and-white naturist portraiture, Jock Sturges has also been quietly working in color for more than two decades. Life Time presents a broad range of this color work for the first time and carries forward Sturges' extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities and on French naturist beaches. Working with the same models and their families in his long-term studies of growth, change and relationship, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. The large color plates in Life Time represent almost perfect one to one translations of the original transparencies and are rich with detail and physical and psychological nuance. Sturges describes his work as "identity driven" because his portraits represent collaborations that stretch over entire lifetimes. The confident ease with which all of his subjects present themselves to his camera evidences a rare level of trust and friendship.

This is a very well preserved copy with all defects in dust jacket and binding cloth as shown in photos. The folio is in Fine condition as it has been kept closed and in storage since purchase, protected from dust and humidity.