ON THE SIXTH DAY (First edt in shrink-wrap)

Alessandra Sanguinetti
ON THE SIXTH DAY (First edt in shrink-wrap)

Photographs: Alessandra Sanguinetti

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

80 pages

Pictures: 61

Year: 2005

Comments: Hardcover with tipped-in image to front cover, 22,5 X 30,5 cm, first edition. Colors photographs, text in English. Like new still in shrink-wrap.

Alessandra Sanguinetti’s On the Sixth Day offers us a glimpse of life on a small Argentine farm from the perspective of its animals. Often photographed close to the earth, the images render the courage, struggles, and adventures of chickens, pigs, horses, and cows. We see them newly born, at play, vying with each other for food, their fate always uncertain as human presences inevitably loom above. With their rich, almost surreal colour, these photographs evoke traditional fables or classic children’s books in which animals enact human behaviours to teach moral lessons. Yet Sanguinetti portrays these animals as individuals in their own right, each with their own mysterious spirit, relating their lives from birth to death with an unsentimental and direct gaze.