Notes on Fundamental Joy by Carmen Winant

A collection of works by Carmen Winant, a photographer based in Ohio, USA.

This book is a collection of archival photographs from "Ovulars," a series of darkroom and photography workshops organized by various feminist and lesbian separatist groups in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1980s, which allows readers to encounter the women and communities that responded to the "Back to the Land Movement."

Winan's essay, which spans the bottom of the book in a horizontal strip, explores the rawness and beauty he sees in these works, as well as what these photographs mean outside of their original subcultural context. An essay by writer and artist Ariel Goldberg is also included.

Limited to 1,000 copies.

*A movement that swept through the United States from the mid-1960s to the 1980s that sought to abandon consumer society and urban life and regain an autonomous life in nature.

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Title: Notes on Fundamental Joy; seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy that otherwise threatens to bury us
Artist: Carmen Winant
Printed Matter Inc., 2019
Softcover, 221 x 305
183 pages
Limited edition of 1000 copies
¥5,000 + tax