Strangely familiar
Subtitle: acrobats, athletes, and other traveling troupes
By: Michal Chelbin ; essay by Leah Ollman.
Contributors: Ollman, Leah.; Aperture Foundation.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Aperture; Available in North America through, D.A.P.; Thames & Hudson [distributor outside North America]; Thames & Hudson [distributor outside North America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; New York, N.Y; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781597110563
Subjects: Chelbin, Michal, -- 1974-; Acrobats -- Portraits; Entertainers -- Portraits; Portrait photography
Genres: Portraits
Description: In her sympathetic pictures of contortionists, dwarves, ballroom dancers and wrestlers from small towns in Israel, Ukraine, Eastern Europe and England, Michal Chelbin offers a glimpse into worlds both strange and familiar. Her subjects tend to be portrayed offstage, at home or on the street or in a park, and in a disarmingly direct engagement with the viewer.