THE BAREFOOT PROMISE Viviane Sassen 175 x 245 mm

175 x 245 mm

his first book of photographs

Elephant is a book of portraits done all over the world in the last twenty years combined with abstract light images and a Tibetan prayer for protection

in which we are witnesses

and was nominated by Robert Adams as a “Best Book of 2010” at the Kassel Photobook Festival in Germany

THE BAREFOOT PROMISE Viviane Sassen 175 x 245 mmIn Stock Softcover with dust jacket, 200 x 240 mm 196 pages, 171 images Edition of 1000 * The Barefoot Promise is a study on foot fetishism trough set photographs of Western films. From Hollywood Golden Age to French Nouvelle Vague, the motif of the foot reveals the hidden fantasies and gender norms conveyed by European and American filmmakers. Structured as a film itself, the book is the first printed version of the Promise of the Screen, a screening