CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/8/2016

Happy Mother's Day!

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.'"