Bertien van Manen - I Will Be Wolf punkMACK 2017 December 1975 Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen made a series of black and white photographs capturing daily life in metropolitan Hungary. I will be Wolf brings together many of these beautiful and never before seen images with the editorial direction of renowned British photographer Stephen Gill. Her snapshots of commuters, grocers, chemists, caf workers, and street vendors contain all the hallmarks of a bygone era, before the grip of
Puklus deconstructs and questions the dynamics of the pre-established female and male roles: motherhood as an alleged heroic activity and the supposed duty of the father to build and protect the home
and documentation
and the series takes its title from the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo
which connects and separates everything
The scratches and dust left on the negatives reflect the marks of lived life and simultaneously suggest the fragility of these documents and the corresponding precarity of the fabrics of social life they often depict
The Canary and The Hammer strives to connect these disparate stories—from the mania of the gold rush and the brutal world of modern mining
But in day to day life hardly anybody speaks German any more
fast food and sun-strewn parking lots
and to question the relationship between photographer and subject
she gave each of them a camera and interviewed them about their childhood in the mountains
and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s
where honest tradition demanded easily understood documentation
