Portraits.

BURKE, Bill; Essay by Raymond Carver; Preface by Andy Grundberg.

Item Number: 1438

New York: Ecco Press, 1987.

First edition. Folio, original cloth. Signed by Bill Burke on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Bill Burke’s Portraits provides an intimate look into the lives of a cast of down-trodden characters photographed throughout the late 1970’s as a part of The Kentucky Bicentennial Documentary Photography Project. The project brought Burke across Kentucky and the deep south. In the book’s preface, Andy Grundberg says of the work: “Burke’s subjects look at the camera differently than urbanites, more naively and more expectantly, as if the lens were capable of transforming them into something glamorous, something larger than their own lives.”