Close To Home
What People Are Saying
“The book has a wonderful feel of time and place and your words inform the pictures with a personal grace and unique insight…”
“I like the pictures”
“Close To Home is an improbable and engaging exploration of the metaphysics of portraiture. I expected photographs by a master image-maker, beautifully reproduced; I found an enigma – a synergy of words and images that force one to ponder why we care so much about seeing ourselves as a species. Clearly this is not territory for the faint of heart.”
“A surprising and unconventional collaboration of text and photographs which reveal two parallel mythologies, one autobiographical and the other an artistic vision of the sacred feminine.”
“The strength of John Spence’s photographs lies in his on going dialogue between the eye, the heart and the mind. Their compositional elegance, his eye for space and form, and his great affection of women is undeniable.
These photographs . . . are from the real world. What is inescapable . . . is the sense of the individuality of each personality. These images are not about unattainable female creatures invented and doctored by the professional media. They are looking back at us in their strengths, their longing, elation and sadness.”
“Powerfully silent, intimate, self-contained. Sensual feminine longing, beauty in private corners enclosed in your Nebraska emptiness opens the space to deeper emotions.”
