Alice Schoolcraft, SCHOOLCRAFT

SCHOOLCRAFT

Alice Schoolcraft

Publisher
Bemojake
Year
2019
ISBN
9780995523838
Specifications
Hard cover
88pp + 4 throwouts
270mm x 235mm
55 colour
Text in English

Schoolcraft is an unrestricted chronicle of a rural American hunting family, capturing intimate snapshots of an unconventional way of living set within the rolling hills of the north west. The pictures drift smoothly between unmitigated portrayals of controversial pastimes and depictions of a meditative Twin Peaks landscape, conflictingly both beautiful and uncomfortable to look at.

When Swedish born Alice Schoolcraft discovered a picture of her father's American cousin, she was intrigued to see that half way around the world lives a family whose life is completely opposite to her own, yet ineluctably bound to her through blood. She decided to explore what would turn out to be a seemingly sliding doors life, one full of interests and beliefs altogether foreign to her own.

Many of the pictures track the ebb and flow of family life — baking, blowing bubbles in the yard, dressing up the pet dog — as well as the lush, mountainous region where the Schoolcrafts live. But there is a strong, unavoidable emphasis on her relatives' weapon collections, and the role guns play in their lives goes far back.

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