About the Book
Marseille is a love letter from an American to France’s oldest and second largest city. Joan Liftin’s photographs of Marseille, Europe’s most ethnically diverse city, show us a place where much of life still unfolds on the street. The city’s spirit and raffish glamour is in its people, not its monuments, and Liftin captures day and nighttime encounters, moments of quiet beauty, allusions to corrosive crime and poverty, and the diverse heartbeat of this soulful port city on the Mediterranean. Her photographs offer us an honest, intimate vision of Marseille, at once timeless and passionately alive.
Book Design by Yolanda Cuomo
About the Photographer
Joan Liftin's photographs are in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Addison Gallery of American Art, among others. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Aperture, Der Spiegel, and Creative Photograpy. Her earlier book, Drive Ins, a look at the culture of American outdoor movies, was published in 2004. She was Chairperson of the Documentary and Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography and is a former director of the library at Magnum Photos.
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12 x 9 1/4 inches
112 pages, 64 b&w, hardbound
Published by Damiani, Bologna
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Signed copy. $50.00
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