STIGMA – Antoine D’Agata

Published by Images en Manoeuvres – 2004 – France

23.5 x 31 cm – 64 pages – Hard cover

First edition – Condition: near mint.

Stamped with Stephen Bessac initial.

A dark and brooding photographic investigation into the less glamorous side of prostitution and the people and bodies that occupy this world. In his accompanying text (French and English) Philippe Azoury captures the atmosphere found in these images succinctly; ‘In the obscure darkness where flesh, words and thought disappear in a pool of putrefaction, deviation and excess seem to have granted them special awareness of what it is to exist. Their voiceless cries express the unbearable feeling that their own existence has gone too far. The bare crudity of the human condition fixed on photograph….’