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About Love
”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.”
— Gay Block
Gay Block’s career as a portraitist beginning in 1973 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 US and internationally. About Love is a retrospective of her most intimate and moving portraits, organized chronologically in an oversized book that reads similar to a family album.
Also important to Block’s artistic process has been filmmaking. Several of her major bodies of still photographic work are accompanied by a film that further explores the subject and allows us to hear her subjects’ voices. Five films are included on two DVDs including Bertha Alyce (23:38), 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).
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