size:225 x 265mm
hardcover
144 pages
This is a collection of works by Angela Hill, a British photographer and one of the founders of the London-based publisher and bookstore IDEA. This book is a book that records the process of a girl named Sylvia Mann growing from a child to a young woman. This work pursues simplicity, featuring a subject called Sylvia Mann and a photographer called Angela Hill. This photo was taken from the late 1990s to the early 2000s as fashion photos for fashion and culture magazines EXIT, Purple, and Dazed, but even when you look at this film, fashion is hard to imagine. When the author first met Sylvia, she was only 11 years old. This book records her until she was 18 years old, and the resulting film is a documentary photograph, depicting the worldview of a certain individual.
The book features a preface by the author's friend, the British photographer Nadia Lee Cohen.
"Angela Hill doesn't dress like a punk, but he does take pictures like a punk. Her filming team doesn't exist, no makeup, no lighting, no styling, no regular tools. Angela just shows up with her camera, puts on a hat, puts on jeans, and has something Hermes over her shoulder. She probably also has a ton of film and tea bags in plastic bags from a Waitrose (UK supermarket) (I'm not sure if this is true or not). Anyway, what I mean is, Angela Hill isn't very planned, and for me this is a mysterious fairy and I'm jealous of forever."
Sylvia herself also has attractive properties in both appearance and behavior.
This film shows the author's delicate movements between fashion and documentary photography. It also includes photos taken at Sylvia's childhood home and still life paintings of her bedroom, with the lighting and color palette belonging to Sylvia herself. This is how she grew up here.
"When I first met Sylvia, she was talking about playing with her mother on Pooh Sticks. When she came to take the final photo of the series, she was a cool college girl with shaved and multiple earrings. Her teenagers start as a child and eventually end up as a child-bearing woman." - Angela Hill
Note: A game based on a stick cut invented by the main character, Pooh, who appears in the sequel to the children's novel Winnie the Pooh, by British author A.A. Milne. This is a game in which multiple people stand on a bridge, throw twigs all at once from the upper side of the river, and the person who appears first on the other side of the bridge (downstream side) wins.
*Due to transportation issues, there may be some scratches and dirt.