Burden, Shirley. Chairs. Text and photographs by Shirley Burden. Signed book Radical Role-Reversal: The black-and-white plates

Radical Role-Reversal: The black-and-white plates display striking

this volume set a high standard for academic photographic history

documenting various communities and environments along the way

Eaton Lothrop

Stephen Frailey

Burden, Shirley. Chairs. Text and photographs by Shirley Burden. Signed book Radical Role-Reversal: The black-and-white platesAperture, 1985. Hardcover in cloth with protected dust jacket. Near fine fine. Black and white photographs of Paris, mostly of chairs. In the text, Burden tells about going to Paris, noticing the chairs in the Bois, and then switches to the voice of a chair commenting on the other chairs and the people who sit on them. Another charming book by the photographer and filmmaker who had a long association with Aperture. Summary: Chairs (1985) is a poetic,