Title: The Mennonites
Artist: Larry Towell
GOST
25 x 18.5 cm
112 pages
288 images
131 duotone images
Hardback clothbound, in slipcase with black ribbon
Design by GOST
Original layout by Larry Towell
Text by Larry Towell
English
May 2022
ISBN: 978-1-910401-53-8
โIn 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, landhungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of Lambton, Essex, Kent and Haldimand-Norfolk Counties. I liked them a lot because they seemed otherworldly and therefore completely vulnerable in a society in which they did not belong and for which they were not prepared. Because I liked them, they liked me, and although photography was forbidden, they let me photograph them. Thatโs all there was to it.โ
Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999. The resulting black and white photographsโaccompanied by an extensive text drawn from diary notes and โthe silt of the memoryโโformed Towellโs landmark book, โThe Mennonitesโ, first published in 2000. This revised and updated second edition revisits the project and includes 40 previously unpublished photographs.
- From the publisherโs website
โIn 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, landhungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of Lambton, Essex, Kent and Haldimand-Norfolk Counties. I liked them a lot because they seemed otherworldly and therefore completely vulnerable in a society in which they did not belong and for which they were not prepared. Because I liked them, they liked me, and although photography was forbidden, they let me photograph them. Thatโs all there was to it.โ
Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999. The resulting black and white photographsโaccompanied by an extensive text drawn from diary notes and โthe silt of the memoryโโformed Towellโs landmark book, โThe Mennonitesโ, first published in 2000. This revised and updated second edition revisits the project and includes 40 previously unpublished photographs.
- From the publisherโs website
