‘Women in Trees’ Celebrates a Quirky Assortment of Nameless Snapshots — Colossal

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a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree
All photos courtesy of Hatje Cantz, shared with permission

As collector Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and vintage stalls for the higher a part of three a long time for snapshots, he started to note a operating theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of images by nameless photographers with an unusually excessive variety of portraits of girls posing in bushes. Swiss newspaper Züricher Tagesanzeiger requested, “What are they all doing up there?” And German paper Der Spiegel posited that the arbor-climbing may be a “forgotten popular sport.” Whatever the rationale, the thriller is sort of as enjoyable because the images.

A hardcover version of Women in Trees from Hatje Cantz, revealed in German and English, follows two titles revealed in 2016 and 2017 that remember these quirky photos. Find your copy on the writer’s website.

a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree
a black-and-white snapshot of two women in a tree
a spread from a book featuring two black-and-white snapshots of women in trees
a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree
a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree
a black-and-white snapshot of five women in a tree
a spread from a book featuring two black-and-white snapshots of women in trees
a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree
the cover of the book 'Women in Trees' with a black-and-white snapshot of a woman posing in a tree




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