“Revisiting this work forty years later from my perspective as an older photographer has been a great pleasure. It has been an unexpected surprise to find images on my contact sheets that interest me now but that I failed to print then. Evaluating recently made photographs is so much more difficult because preconceptions of what you hoped to capture cloud your judgment. Images also gain a historical perspective over time that adds to their interest. These pictures describe a long-ago time, and yet in looking at them I become once again the young photographer who took them on a hot summer day, sweat and dust pungent on the breeze; in the distance, I can hear the laughter of children who are now middle-aged.”

Sage Sohier’s Easy Days is the third book in a trilogy of her photographs from the 1980s published by Nazraeli Press. The accompanying exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA) was reviewed by Musée Magazine.

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