{"product_id":"women-in-trees","title":"Women in Trees","description":"Product Description\n\n\n“You know, I don’t know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it?” writes Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Idiot. Perhaps this sentence could also be used to explain the theme of women in trees that was so popular between the twenties and fifties and has, until now, never before been assembled in a book. The enthusiastic collector, Jochen Raiß, discovered this subject during his flea market excursions. He pulled black-and-white photographs out of boxes in which he found numerous snapshots of other’s lives wildly thrown together. They feature young women at dizzying heights who, at times, smile into the camera as if they were in love. The publication assembles the finds from this charming genre that Raiß compiled over a period of twenty-five years. Whether cheerfully dangling their legs, casually nestling in the forks of branches, or athletically climbing to the treetop―each picture has its very own story to discover. A book full of nostalgia.\n\n\nReview\n\n\n...all these women, nearly a century ago, sitting in trees like the boys they never were are riveting.--Idra Novey \"The Paris Review\"\n\nIt all began at a flea market in Frankfurt, when photo collector Jochen Raib came across a picture of a woman wearing a summer dress and high heels. While she looked ready for a Sunday stroll, her delicate footwear was odd for what her photographer caught her in the midst of doing: climbing a tree....he has since amassed 91 such photographs, now collected in an endearing photo book simply titled Women in Trees--Thomas Voon \"Hyperallergic\"\n\nThe very best [photographs] are those where the knowledge that she is doing something mischievous is written all over the climber's face. She is giddy with it. Who knows what became of these women? But I like to think that, even if they were fettered by propriety every other day of their lives, just this once, they felt free.--Lucy Davies \"The Telegraph\"\n\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\n\n»Ich verstehe nicht, wie man an einem Baum vorübergehen kann, ohne glücklich zu sein«, heißt es in Fjodor Dostojewskis Roman Der Idiot. Und vielleicht erklärt dieser Ausspruch auch ein wenig das zwischen den 1920er- und 1950er-Jahren beliebte, aber bislang in keinem Buch thematisierte Motiv von Frauen auf Bäumen, die der begeisterte Sammler Jochen Raiß (*1969) auf seinen Flohmarktstreifzügen entdeckt hat. Aus Kisten, in denen sich zahlreiche Momentaufnahmen aus fremden Leben wild zusammengewürfelt befanden, zog er Schwarz-Weiß-Aufnahmen junger Frauen heraus, die in schwindelerregender Höhe ihrem Gegenüber manchmal fast verliebt zulächeln. Die Publikation versammelt die Bildfunde dieses charmanten Genres, die Raiß über die Dauer von 25 Jahren zusammengetragen hat. Ob keck die Beine baumeln lassend, lässig in die Astgabelungen geschmiegt oder sportlich die Baumwipfel erklimmend – jedes Bild hat seine ganz eigene Geschichte, die es zu entdecken gilt. Ein Buch voller Nostalgie.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39656659026005,"sku":"9783775741675N","price":8.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/505cafe3-3ff0-44ce-b4fb-8edddb5ab4da.jpg?v=1638540417","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/women-in-trees","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}