Paz de La Huerta: The Birds Didn't Die Over the Winter
Damiani:
Bologna: 2013
First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
144 pp.
Cover artwork by: Alexandra Carr
“Photographer Alexandra Carr met Paz de la Huerta--the actress and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ star - in New York in 2007, shortly before Paz became the celebrity she is today, and they soon agreed to collaborate on a photo project. They began shooting in the fall of 2008, often using Paz's small West Village apartment as a backdrop - which was mercifully well heated throughout that especially cold New York winter. A gorgeous, linen-bound volume, The Birds Didn't Die over the Winter explores themes of love, loneliness and the difficult transition from youth into relative maturity. As Carr recalls, ‘it was made during a turbulent time in Paz's life and her life is a subtext in an otherwise imagined reality. We would discuss a character and direction beforehand and then Paz would play out these roles partly of made up characters and of favorite scenes from films each shoot.’ Paz is a charismatic subject throughout the book, at once fearless, sexual and vividly present, moving fluidly between roleplay and apparent candor.” #51457
Price: $800.00