To the manor born

by Mary Lloyd Estrin

Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Some light general wear to dj and edges. Else, overall, clean and sound. Near Fine. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821207466
• ISBN13: 9780821207468
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: New York Graphic Society
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.4" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Social Documentary from the other side

Its a pity this book is out of print. I've been using it as a discussion trigger for my tertiary photography students since I bought a remaindered copy (and that was about twenty years ago). Before the days of rampant litigation and ethics committees, Mary Lloyd Estrin turned her camera, not on the poor and underprivileged and powerless, the usual target of doco photographers (the archetype becomes a cliche in "Blow-Up"), but on the rich. She gives them the apparent last word - allowing them a space on each print under the image to write a statement. The interaction between image and text is the big surprise here - with remarkable candour the subjects often write the most revealing and sometimes damning comments on themselves and thier priviliged lives. Compare this with Bill Owens's similar strategy applied to the middle class in the 70's and you will wonder how this book has come to 'disappear'!