Vanessa Winship: she dances on Jackson (Special Edition)

Limited edition of 50 copies, each comprising a signed copy of the first printing of the MACK edition of the book, housed in a printed linen slipcase with a signed and numbered print. [signed and numbered in pencil on back, 1/50 - 50/50]

In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances on Jackson presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States and attempting to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship this relationship is inextricable; places accrue particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she sees, and by what's happening to her personally. Each human encounter, sound and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.

she dances on Jackson marks a progression. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving but this body of work reveals her to also be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship photography is a process of literacy, a path by which she understands life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.

About the Photographer: 

Vanessa Winship (b. 1960 in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) is a photographer whose work explores concepts of borders, land, memory, desire, identity and history. Her projects have received numerous awards including the World Press Photo, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Sony World Photography Awards, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson prize. she dances on Jackson (MACK, 2013) was Winship’s third book, following Schwarzes Meer (2007) and Sweet Nothings (2008).

Published by MACK Books, UK, in June 2018

Special Edition of 50 copies

Signed copy of the first printing of the book

Signed and numbered print

144 pages

64 tritone plates

24 cm x 27 cm

Housed in a printed linen slipcase