My Father When Young Photographs by Jerry Tisserand

Description: If Robert Frank and Diane Arbus had a kid brother, and they set him up with a little camera and all the rolls of film he wanted, the result might be a lot like My Father When Young. Jerry Tisserands photos from the late 50s hit us with a startling power, like a Kodachrome time capsule dropping on our front step. These pictures have beauty and comedy and mystery the most puzzling thing of all being why Tisserand put away his camera at such a young age. Too bad, but at least we have these images documenting a time and some places long since vanished. Ben Yagoda, author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made My Father When Young Photographs by Jerry Tisserand The Sager Group, 2021. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black boards with title stamped in silver to spine. Filled with full-page color photos. VG. Crisp, clean, and square. Light brushes to boards. Ding to fore board edge. Dust jacket shows mild edge wrinkles. Pages are bright. Free of markings. In the late 1950s, Jerry Tisserand roamed from Barcelona to Paris to Kentucky to New Orleans, keeping his camera close at hand. With the goal of taking photographs that no one else has taken, Tisserand captured, over a four-year period, a series of unique and vibrant scenes of everyday life: ancient cobblestone vistas, hidden backcountry roads, classic cars, young love, and brilliant revelers at Mardi Gras. Then one day, he stopped as abruptly as he started. He put away both his camera and his photographs, never to return to them. Sixty years later, his son, Michael Tisserand, keeping close to home due to COVID, began pulling out dusty boxes of forgotten family mementos. Inside one box, he found two grey steel cases, each containing tidy rows of Kodachrome slides. He pulled a few at random and held them, one at a time, to the light. At first, he didnt understand what he was seeing. Here was the work of a photographer with a curious eye and a unique perspective. An artist. Then he realized the photos had been taken by someone he never knewhis father when young. Today, Jerry Tisserands remarkable work adds a brief but vivid chapter to the history of American street photography, introducing an artist who documented sights seen, strangers encountered, friends loved, passions felt, as Michael Tisserand writes in his intimate introduction to My Father When Young. For fans of both photography and Southern culture, My Father When Young is also a book for anyone who has pondered the nagging question: What did my parents lives look like before I was born?

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Location: Charleston, South Carolina

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