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Photographs and films by Gay Block. Interview with Anne Wilkes Tucker and the artist.
Gay Block’s 30+ year career as a portraitist is both well-known and respected. Her two previous books—Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust and Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed—garnered much critical acclaim and have been exhibited widely both in the U.S. and abroad. About Love is a career survey of her most intimate and moving portraits, organized chronologically in an oversized book that reads similar to a family album.
Block explains that, “Through photography, I have learned about love. I hadn’t learned about love at home or in school. Photography formed and shaped me. I couldn’t have learned about love without photography, and I’m still learning.”
Equally important to her artistic process has been filmmaking. Several of her major bodies of still photographic work are also accompanied by a film that explores the subject. Five films are included on two DVDs: the entirety of Bertha Alyce (23:38), as well as A Big Gesunt (As Long as You’re Well)—South Miami Beach (28:56), Camp Girls (55:46), A Tribute to Spirit: The Beth Israel Experience (34:25), and They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust (23:44).
ISBN: 978-1-934435-32-8
Trade Edition
Hardbound
11 x 13 inches
312 pages
219 color and duotone illustrations