When Bulgarian photographer Eugenia Maximova (born 1979) started working on the design for Kitchen Stories from the Balkans, her self-published photobook, she began to think about how to include "some of those incredible plastic tablecloth patterns so beloved in these latitudes." Then came the discovery that the garish tablecloths have been manufactured in her hometown for many years--all the serendipity she needed to forge a new project, Associated Nostalgia.
From plastic cats to brightly patterned wallpaper, nothing is too brash or clashes too much to be included in her still lifes. This monograph compiles the highly staged scenes of the kitsch so beloved in Maximova's pocket of Eastern Europe, creating both a splash of a photobook and an authentic glimpse into the Bulgarian home aesthetic.
Featured image is reproduced from Eugenia Maximova: Associated Nostalgia.
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Featured image is reproduced from Associated Nostalgia, Bulgarian photographer Eugenia Maximova's delightful new photobook from La Fabrica. Gatefolds, a jacketed, raw stamped board cover and vivid floral endpapers based on the iconic plastic tablecloths of Maximova's Iron Curtain childhood are just a few of its charms. The photographs themselves present kitschy "vases and figurines in crystal or fretted glass and in colorful ceramic, plastic flowers and fruit, proud possessions of those who in times of deprivation projected onto these modest trinkets precisely laid out on a cloth or displayed in a cabinet, their dreams and desire for a little modest 'luxury.'" continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 80 pgs / illustrated throughout. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 GBP £34.00 ISBN: 9788416248155 PUBLISHER: La Fábrica AVAILABLE: 5/26/2015 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD Excl LA Spain
When Bulgarian photographer Eugenia Maximova (born 1979) started working on the design for Kitchen Stories from the Balkans, her self-published photobook, she began to think about how to include "some of those incredible plastic tablecloth patterns so beloved in these latitudes." Then came the discovery that the garish tablecloths have been manufactured in her hometown for many years--all the serendipity she needed to forge a new project, Associated Nostalgia.
From plastic cats to brightly patterned wallpaper, nothing is too brash or clashes too much to be included in her still lifes. This monograph compiles the highly staged scenes of the kitsch so beloved in Maximova's pocket of Eastern Europe, creating both a splash of a photobook and an authentic glimpse into the Bulgarian home aesthetic.
