THE SHAPE OF SURVIVAL by JOHN COHEN PHOTOGRAPHY 2002 Peru

Description: 34 pages with wrap-around cover (dust cover). It was no whim that made John Cohen decide to go to Peru, to live with the Indians, and to document his Involvement with them and their lives in a photographic essay.The decision might have come from an initial curiosity, deep-rooted, which springs from the most profound depth of our beings. Or it might come from a dream-like longing for the extraordinary, for adventure with difficult and tense situations. Or it might have come from the need for deeper roots in the past.Whatever it was, I have no intention of clarifying the subterranean urge. I only want to point out that it was there; that this urge is crucial for a choice of action, that it is a primary condition for any artist.Once John Cohen was absorbed by and involved in the life of the Indians, their lives ceased to be a matter of indifference to him. They started to occupy more space in his mind, while gradually dislodging other things from his consciousness. They entered his orbit and became part of him. Such intensity is likely to produce a state of elation which helped him to capture a sustained collection of "decisive moments," expressions and moods that would have been Invisible without itBecause I am convinced that these pictures have their own visual impact and language— and need no explanation had to talk about some of the conditions which were necessary for John Cohen to be able to produce these pictures, and which are necessary today for deeper penetration into the field of photography, so as to be able to extricate new images.And John Cohen is well on his way to make an impact with his pictures, which are permeated with his own intense personal beliefs and saturated with his own poetic visual language.Herbert Matter, 1957

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