More Women in Trees
By (Author) Jochen Raiss
Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz
21st November 2017
Germany
General
Non Fiction
Portraits and self-portraiture in the arts
Photographs: collections
Gender studies: women and girls
779.2
Hardback
112
Width 128mm, Height 178mm
More vintage photographs of women in trees--a quirky and adorable gift book
"What are they all doing up there" wondered the Zrich Tagesanzeiger. "It's probably a forgotten popular sport," suggested Der Spiegel. There was even speculation about the "secret sex life of trees." One thing is certain: Jochen Raiss's Women in Trees, published by Hatje Cantz in 2016, immediately became a bestseller. Perhaps it happened simply because the evident happiness felt by these women (who may have simply been in the mood to climb a tree) is palpable to us all.Women in Trees made us happy--and hungry for more. So Hatje Cantz asked the obsessive collector Raiss if he might have some more of "the goods," and he did. He has, after all, spent 25 years searching for and finding anonymous masterpieces such as these, which is why we now have More Women in Trees: how can you possibly get enough of them
...all these women, nearly a century ago, sitting in trees like the boys they never were are riveting.--Idra Novey "The Paris Review"
The very best are those where the knowledge that she is doing something mischievous is written all over the climber's face. She is giddy with it. Who knows what became of these women But I like to think that, even if they were fettered by propriety every other day of their lives, just this once, they felt free.--Lucy Davies "Telegraph UK"