Gay Block: 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
Photographs and films by Gay Block
Interview by Anne Wilkes Tucker and the artist
Hardbound / 11 x 13 inches
219 color and duotone illustrations
312 pages
ISBN: 9781934435328
Trade: $65
Now Rare: $150
Limited edition of this book available HERE
GAY BLOCK’s thirty-plus-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.
Equally important to Block’s 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).
