Includes DVD (28 minutes). Gay Block began photographing her mother, Bertha Alyce, in 1973 and continued until Bertha Alyce's death resulting from a stroke in 1991. This collection of Block's photographs (sections of which involve nudity) presents her complicated, and at times difficult, relationship with her mother and a mother-daughter quest for healing. This intensely personal and intimate account could easily be a reflection of any family today. Essays by Eugenia Parry, author of Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902, and Kathleen Stewart Howe, curator of the University of New Mexico Museum, accompany the photographs. To complete the presentation, the award-winning DVD 'Bertha Alyce' is included (28 minutes in length).
- ISBN10 0826330932
- ISBN13 9780826330932
- Publish Date 1 August 2003
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of New Mexico Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 290
- Language English