Nettles, Bea — Complexities [Complex-I-Ties]
Urbana, Illinois, Inky Press Productions, 1992. Softcover. Black & illus. wraps, [ca 50 pp.], many BW illus. A selection of photographs rendered by American photographer Bea Nettles (b. 1946). "This is a book that untangles and examines the complex ties that bind many mothers. In her photographs and short stories, Nettles blends her experiences of childhood, education, pregnancy, childbirth, housework, and professional life. She demonstrates how she uses intrusions, improvization, and balancing as the basis for her art, an art that is tightly woven with her life." (back cover) With a running narrative by the photographer herself. Uncommon. VG .