Ockenga, Starr — Mirror After Mirror : Reflections on Woman

Garden City, NY, Amphoto, 1976. Hardcover. White boards with blue text on spine. 127 unnumbered pages. Chiefly bw illustrations. "This series of photographs is an expression of the female experience from the vantage point of a woman between the ages of thirty and fifty. There are many pictures of little girls, adolescents, and young women, as the experiences and relationships at those periods of a woman's life play a vital role in making her what she is in her maturity. She is constantly brought back to her sources, which are sometimes distorted, as in a dream. The unifying themes are: the awakening of sexuality; an intuitive awareness of sexuality as both bondage and freedom, both vulnerability and assertion; the acceptance of the limitations of sexuality, which brings an enlightened freedom and a subsequent urge to participate in life's pleasure and pain. From this experience a new consciousness emerges. Good (Light foxing and wear on boards, some light foxing on top textblock, pages generally good with perhaps very minor foxing/staining) .