By Ruth Jacobsen
Rescued Images
7" x 9"
96 pages, Color,
US $19.95
uth Jacobson lost her childhood twice. First when she was separated from her parents and hidden from the Nazis in the homes of strangers. Then when she spent the rest of her life trying to forget her terror and loss.One day, she opened the albums of family photographs that had lain in a box, untouched for nearly forty years.
"My fear had always been that I would break down or become hysterical," she writes. Instead, she transformed the images into art, creating a series of vivid collages that pieced together a shattered childhood. As she worked, long suppressed memories came to the surface.
Combining collage and memoir, Rescued Images brings young Ruth Jacobson back to life: frightened and bewildered, buffeted by forces she cannot understand or control, bending but never breaking.