SPBH Vol III Snap Fingers and Whistle

Cristina de Middel
SPBH Vol III Snap Fingers and Whistle

Photographs: Cristina de Middel

Publisher: Self Publish Be Happy Book Club

60 pages

Year: 2013

Price: 120 €

Comments: Hardcover, first edition copy with two inserts (playing card and U.S. customs form), 15 x 20 cm. Perfect condition.

From the artist's website: "Seven minutes of changing colors and music. Then silence and a zenithal view of Manhattan. Some whistle blow starts before the dizzying zoom in into a West End basketball yard. Then, fingers snapping. Two gangs coming from different extremes of the world and pecking what remains of the American dream, have to share the streets and fight with violent dancing. They sing, they kill and they fall in love. They like to live in America, tonight, the Jets, Toni, The Sharks, Maria, etc. I decided to document New York just according to what I expected from these over-reported streets. I was looking for that real part in the movies, if any, exploring again the fluid border between fact and fiction through the very respectable street photography."