Naarashauki: The Female Pike
MÄNNIKKÖ, Esko
ISBN 10: 9529235003 / ISBN 13: 9789529235001
Published by Esko Männikkö, Oulu, Finland, 2008
Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards with a tipped-in four-color plate on the cover and title stamped in gray on cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (in Finnish and English) by Esko Männikkö. 144 pp., with approximately 200 four-color plates. 9-5/8 x 10-1/4 inches. Out of print. Scarce.
[Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).].
Revolving around the experience of fishing for pike in midwinter, Female Pike is a native son's "directed" study of rural Finnish people and their culture. then again, not really! Carefully posed and constructed by Männikkö, these portraits also challenge the notions of the "photograph as document" using subject matter that is easy bait for the viewer.
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