200 Days, 200 Photo Books

Cass Bird: Rewilding

Cass Bird: Rewilding (2012). Damiani editore, Bologna, Italy.

“‘I don’t think there is anyone working right now in photography who has the same ease with their subjects, the same youthful, seductive energy, the same mix of spontaneity and aesthetic rigour’, schreibt die Modejournalistin Sally Singer über Cass Bird. Und den Arbeiten in ‘Rewilding’, ‘the return of habitats to a natural state’ (Wikipedia), ist das anzusehen. Und quasi nebenbei schafft Bird es, dem Begriff der ‘Wildnis’ ganz neue Nuancen abzugewinnen. Und sie zeichnet ein befreites – in diesem Sinne wildes – Frauenbild, über das Jack Halberstam schreibt: ‘Cass Bird’s world does not seek to place women in the wild, to make women wild, to represent women as wild: instead her images draw upon the long racialized traditions of wildness to try to make something new out of the collision between masculine, female bodies and a wild landscape.’ Wunderschön.”

Sven Cichowicz, Fotograf, Stuttgart