Mariken Wessels – TAKING OFF. HENRY MY NEIGHBOR Fashion Rollo Press

Rollo Press

His cats have been the subject of several books in his lifetime and Tomo Kosuga has dug into the photographer’s archives to conceive this ultimate book as the achievement of a series of publications devoted to his cats

180 × 230 mm

It tackles the age-old question of existence

Stapled booklet

Mariken Wessels – TAKING OFF. HENRY MY NEIGHBOR Fashion Rollo PressTaking Off is a real picture story of a failed marriage, of sexual frustration and voyeurism. An extraordinary amount of photographs and cut up collages comprise an archival vertigo of amateur nude art. Through people she met on a journey through the United States, Mariken Wessels gained access to the studio and the entire archive of Henry, as well as full consent over its use. She started redacting the work and rearranging it, so to form an artist's