Larry Towell - The Mennonites (FIRST PRINT, DJ, SLIPCASE, SUPER FRESH) - 2000

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The famous series about "The Mennonites" - A CLASSIC OF ITS GENRE.
Larry Towell became a nominee of "Magnum" in 1988 and a full member of the famous agency in 1993.

TRUE FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING FROM 2000 (not to mix with the much later reprint from 2022).

COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET AND WITH THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE.

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"If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of landlessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities."
- Larry Towell -

Larry Towell first encountered the Mennonites near his home in Ontario, Canada, and his friendship with them gained him unique access to their communities. Rather than compromise their way of life, Mennonites have continually been forced to migrate around the world to maintain their freedom to live as they choose. Towell photographed Mennonites in Canada and Mexico for over ten years, and his own texts tell in detail his experiences with their communities: the harshness and poverty of their rural existence, the disciplines and contradictions of their religion, their hunger for land and work, and the constant struggle to keep the modern world at bay.

Phaidon Press, New York. 2000. First English edition, first printing.

Hardback with full black cloth, dustjacket and black cloth slipcase. 190 x 250 mm. 292 pages. 119 black and white photographs. Text, concept and photos by Larry Towell. Design by Atelier Works. Text in English.

Condition:
Book, dustjacket and slipcase all in excellent, very fresh and clean condition. Very light trace of use; no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Great, scarce photobook with the original dustjacket and with the original slipcase -
in wonderful fresh condition.

"Larry Towell was born in rural Ontario in 1953. After studying visual arts at York University in Toronto from 1972 to 1976 and a stint of volunteer work in Calcutta, he lived in solitude on a homemade raft for two years in order to write.
In the 1980s, Towell taught folk music at night school and simultaneously documented the Nicaraguan Contra war and the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala, which resulted in two oral histories and a book of poems. He joined Magnum in 1988 and became a freelance photographer.
In 1996, he completed a 10-year reportage on the war in El Salvador, which was followed by two books on the Palestinians. The World from My Front Porch, a project on his family and his philosophy on land and landlessness, was published in 2008, followed by a 10-year project documenting Mennonite migrant workers in Mexico and Canada. The Mennonites, published in 2000 by Phaidon, won many accolades and was re-released by GOST in 2022. His highly original book Afghanistan, a moving and in-depth look at a country crippled by conflict for decades, was published by Aperture in 2014.
Towell’s coverage of historical events, human rights and conflict, complemented by personal projects, has appeared in many leading publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Life magazine, Rolling Stone, Geo, Stern, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and has resulted in 16 books plus several music projects and films.
Honors include World Press Photo of the Year, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the inaugural Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, the W. Eugene Smith Award and the Prix Nadar, among others. In 2020, Towell was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
He is also a gifted musician and songwriter, whose recordings include The Man I Left Behind, a set of three vinyl LPs of original ballads that focus on photography and the international issues he has documented. The collection was released in 2023, along with a feature-length documentary of the same name. That same year, The History War, a book documenting the situation in Ukraine, was published by GOST.
Towell has had numerous international exhibitions throughout his career, and his work is held in collections that include the Getty Center, National Gallery of Canada, George Eastman Museum, National Museum of Qatar, and Archive of Modern Conflict in the UK."
(Magnum's website)