Past Lives: Photographs by Martha Casanave

Martha Casanave's first book of photographs features her mysterious and exotic images in carefully executed tritone reproduction. Casanave's works include a pinhole study of Leningrad, and hand-colored photographs of Russian themes and locations. Also included in this volume are her portraits, nudes and a series entitled Narratives. "In her quiet, understated way, Martha Casanave penetrates her chosen surroundings: the biographical and the formal, the situational and the abstract."--the publisher.