Alessandra Sanguinetti: Le Gendarme Sur La Colline

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• A new album of photographs of France at a time of social change
• Magnum member producing some of the most striking contemporary photographs today
• A poetic encounter with the cultural myths and tropes of France
• A great book for Francophiles and followers of contemporary photography

Author Bio

Alessandra Sanguinetti (born in New York, 1968) has lived and worked in Buenos Aires and is currently based in California. She is a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation grant, Robert Gardner Fellowship, and the Arles Discovery Award. Her photographs are in major public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco. Her monographs include On the Sixth Day (2005), The Adventures of Guille and Belinda (2010), and Sorry Welcome (2013). Sanguinetti is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, and Ruth Benzacar Gallery in Buenos Aires. She is a member of Magnum Photos. Susan Bright is a curator and writer. Books she has authored include the popular survey Art Photography Now (Aperture, 2005) and, most recently, Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (Aperture, 2017) and Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013). She cocurated How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007) at Tate Britain and Face of Fashion (2007) at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She served as the mentor to the second edition of the Immersion commission.