Body Land

by Arno Rafael Minkkinen

"In this collection of self-portraits Arno Rafael Minkkinen incorporates his own nude body into a range of isolated settings, emphasizing its bond to the natural world. Whether rooted to the ground like an aspen or emerging from a smooth bank of snow, he contorts himself to merge with the contours of the landscape."--Jacket. "In single negative exposures with single negative prints, Minkkinen captures himself and sometimes his son in photographs taken between 1971 and 1996 in New England, Arizona, Paris, southwestern France, and Finland. In an essay that explores his relationship to the camera as both photographer and subject, Minkkinen discusses how photography can merge past and future as well as individual bodies with the earth, sea, and even air."--Jacket.