My Birth Archive The book collects unpublished photographs

The book collects unpublished photographs that the American artist Zoe Leonard has taken along the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo) in 2017 and texts commissioned for this project from Dolores Dorantes

1973) and Runo Lagomarsino (b

imágenes (la mayoría grabados de enciclopedias del siglo XIX)

una publicación en línea en la que buscaron explorar alternativas a la idea del fin de la historia

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My Birth Archive The book collects unpublished photographsA book of text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience. As the pictorial narrative progresses, from labor through delivery, the women's postures increasingly blend into one another, creating a collective body that strains and releases in unison.