Wednesday, February 29, 2012

"My Suffolk Downs" by Melissa Shook















Congratulations to Melissa Shook on the publication of My Suffolk Downs (http://pressed-wafer.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-suffolk-downs-by-melissa-shook.html), about which George Kalogeris writes:

"Melissa Shook's gift combines a documentary-photographer's eye and and ear perfectly pitched for vernacular. Her subject is the backside workers of the Suffolk Downs racetrack: the all too often broken down, troubled, bleak yet enduring lives of the hot-walkers, stall-muckers, horse-shoers, grooms and trainers . . . . Her book is a thrilling integration of common idiom, stoic clarity, and generous energy."

To this I would add: these are masterful photos with wonderful grays; Shook presents the clear, unsentimental voices of workers for whom the track is a mixed fate, voices gritty and gallant.

6 comments:

  1. Congratulations to wonderful Melissa. What a triumph. And it's good to drop in on you again Mim. I seem to miss your posts these days but you stay alive for me in between visits.

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  2. Thank you for stopping by!

    Melissa's book is notable for its lack of ego. She lets others speak! The photos speak too.

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  3. Thank you, Mim...that's very nice of you...

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  4. A pleasure, Melissa. Looking forward to celebrating with you up North in the spring!

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