A photographic narrative chronicling a turbulent mother-daughter relationship in the serene setting of a beautiful but decrepit Maine home, Frozen in Time is at once beautiful and heart-wrenching. Sarah Butler's gorgeous photographs tell a poignant story of coming to terms with a difficult mother in a way that is both intimately personal and universally relatable. Drawn to reconnect with her mother after a long estrangement, Butler found that taking photographs allowed her the perspective to understand and respect her mother's choices. The images, from a pair of little girls' dresses that her mother kept for decades to a corner of the house with its foundation jacked up on a pile of rocks, reveal a complex and compelling psychological narrative. This is a book about family, distance and reconciliation, and, finally, the beauty found in acceptance. It is also a stunning visual tour de force that will mesmerise photography aficionados and students of family relations alike. AUTHOR: Sarah C. Butler is the author of A Portrait of a Maine Island (Glitterati, 2009.) She spends part of each year on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine, where she creates most of her work. She travels the rest of the year to find inspiration for her work. She attended Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland; Rockport College in Rockport, Maine; and Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. SELLING POINTS: A photographic memoir that will appeal to buyers of Vivian Maier, Francesca Woodman, or Sally Mann's Hold Still and Immediate Family Will appeal to those appreciative of serious photography 100 colour images
Sarah C. Butler is the author of A Portrait of a Maine Island (Glitterati, 2009.) She spends part of each year on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine, where she creates most of her work. She travels the rest of the year to find inspiration for her work. She attended Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland; Rockport College in Rockport, Maine; and Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. She regularly exhibits her work in galleries throughout the northeastern USA. Vicki Goldberg is a photography critic and author based in New Hampshire, USA. She has written for The New York Times and Vanity Fair; her books include The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives; Light Matters (a selection of her essays); and The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History, and the biography Margaret Bourke-White. She has lectured in Belgium, England, France, China, Korea, Norway and Portugal as well as America. Alison Morley is the Chair of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Alison's photographs have been published in several books, including Backstory: Screenwriters of the Golden Age, edited by Patrick McGilligan. She has also previously held the position of Photo Editor for The New York Times, Elle Magazine, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has lectured and led workshops in the U.S., Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia, China, Hungary, Peru, the Philippines, and Uganda.
[Frozen in Time] is about Butler's mother and the dreams and aspirations that drove her until the end of her life. But more importantly, it is a book about how the photographs, and the process of making them, transformed Butler herself. -- David Walker PDN, February, 2017 Elegant dusty rooms, the changing seasons on the land... her mother's rotating collection of chickens... the images added up to more than a description of a place... [there is] beauty in their "emptiness and stark simplicity." PDN, January 10, 2017 When her mother's health began to deteriorate in 2009, American fine art photographer Sarah C. Butler travelled from Boston to her mother's Maine home, where they were reunited after a long estrangement... The project, it turned out, was far more than simply a document of her mother's life... [it captures] their relationship in a way that makes them at once universally relatable. -- Eva Clifford Feature Shoot, January 9, 2017 an intense poignancy The Guardian, January 10, 2017 There is untidiness in photographer Sarah C. Butler's new book Frozen In Time. Clutter and raveled emotions fill its pages. Her pictures are a tangle of unsparing observation and gentleness, and many capture a serene beauty. -- David Schonauer AI-AP, February 7, 2017
