Snow and Rose & Other Tales

Snow and Rose & Other Tales stages women in domestic interiors, bedrooms, windows, mirrors, as figures pulled from fairy tale and 1970s film stills, in the saturated, cinematic color that has defined Marianna Rothen's photography since her breakthrough series Blonde.

The book gathers a body of staged tableaux built around female mythology, memory and performance. It continues Rothen's practice of directing models as characters in an ambiguous, half-remembered narrative rather than documenting them straight. The artist issued it herself in a linen-bound edition, now out of print through her own site, and it sits closer to a small-press artist's book than a trade photobook. That reflects the intimate, self-authored quality of the project itself.

Rothen (b. Stockholm, based in New York) works across photography and video, and her books, including Snow and Rose & Other Tales, Shadows in Paradise and Beauty and Decay, have built a consistent visual world of staged femininity drawn from cinema, fairy tale and personal history. Hudson Street Library holds two physical copies of this title.