Grim Street

First edition of Grim Street by Mark Cohen

First impression. 

Medium format hardback in fine condition. No internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, please see pictures for reference.

About

Cohen's photography confronts the viewer with a startling beauty, rapidly shifting from rough and confrontational to quiet, respectful, and serene. In "Grim Street," filled with what Cohen calls "grab shots," you can easily imagine the photographer guilefully patrolling the streets of Wilkes-Barre, the Pennsylvania mine-town he calls home. His camera, often prefocused and shot from the hip, scrolls around its subjects searching for tidbits of delectable detail. Then suddenly thrusting out towards its subjects, a strobe bursts, capturing a violently cropped spot of stockinged legs creeping around a corner, or a woman's bared teeth and stretched lips. In these images emerges a cluttered world of visceral encounters with the human body.