« An unassuming functional snapshot may be as visually interesting, as eloquent, as beautiful as the most acclaimed fine-art photographs. » If Susan Sontag’s statement still needed proof, one would only have to leaf through the new collection of Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs to be convinced.
Four years after Encampment, Wyoming, the excellent Amsterdam-based publisher FW:Books continues to bring out the enchanted images of this American photographer (1883–1962), who documented the ordinary lives of the people in her village.
Jump rope, playful poses before the camera, fleeting moments of joy… these snapshots capture the quiet humility of rural American life in the first half of the 20th century. A raw gem!
