Love

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Ferdinand Protzman is an award-winning writer, culture critic and contributing editor to ARTnews magazine. He is the author of LANDSCAPE: Photographs of Time and Place (2003), WIDE ANGLE: National Geographic Greatest Places (2005) and WORK: The World in Photographs (2006). His essays, reviews and features have appearted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and the Harvard Review

Love is a journey across many cultures and places. It is a voyage that takes us back to the past as well as into the 21st century. This book is divided into four sections, each with a 2,000-word essay, celebrating the different phases and circumstances of love: Yesterday; Public; Private; Tomorrow. Love is a journey across many cultures and places. It is a voyage that takes us back to the past as well as into the 21st century. Yet very little separates young lovers glowing under Shanghais futuristic skyline and an Eskimo couple in Greenland posing for the camera a century ago. Pictures span the globe, from Niger where seduction dances are performed by young men, to Kyoto where a modern couple on a scooter races past three geishas in traditional dress, to Rome where a father and daughter share a tender moment in a very public space, St. Peters Square. The book is divided into four sections, each with a 2,000-word essay, celebrating the different phases and circumstances of love: Yesterday; Public; Private; Tomorrow. Love is a tribute to photography.

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