Transience

Description

In 2017, personal upheaval through separation and divorce transformed the project’s meaning. The earlier images, impersonal and carefully composed, reflected the order and surface perfection of her life then, while later photographs captured her palpable pain. In the years following her divorce, joy returned to her work, revealing how this collection had unconsciously documented her midlife journey through turbulence and rebirth.

Transience is a beautiful and truly original testimony of conquering despair. Goldstein’s exquisite book, supplemented with thought-provoking and intimate essays written by her daughter Caroline, will offer joy, solace, and hope to anyone who is feeling challenged by their circumstances.

Danielle L Goldstein is a New York City-based photographer. She holds an A.B. in history from Cornell University, and a J.D from Emory University. She discovered her passion for photography in midlife and has never looked back. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries in the USA, Europe and Asia, has been featured in numerous photography publications, and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. It is also featured in the book Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021). 

Caroline Goldstein is a writer and editor. She holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from New York University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from NYU, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing. She is the author of The Wayside, under the name Caroline Wolff. She lives in downtown Manhattan.

Essay by Caroline Goldstein
ISBN 978-90-5330-962-9
Design: Victor Levie (levievandermeer.nl), Amsterdam
Size: 19 x 24 cm landscape (7.48 x 9.45 inch landscape)
138 pages with 62 photos in full color and including 10 hand glued text pages on special light blue paper
Hardcover with special linen, inlaid photograph on front cover, debossed text on front cover and spine
Loose cover sheet (under shrink-wrap) with back cover text and barcode