Ithaca College

The Image Text Ithaca Press, edited and published by Nicholas Muellner (Photography) and Catherine Taylor (Writing), recently co-published My Birth by Carmen Winant. The book and Winant's associated exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, were featured in Vogue and The New Yorker.  The book was launched on March 12, 2018 at Printed Matter book store in New York City, where the advance run sold out to a large crowd with many Ithaca College students and alumni in attendance.

My Birth was co-published as a collaboration between Image Text Ithaca and the London-based press SPBH Editions, run by frequent IC in London instructor, Bruno Ceschel. 

A book of text and image, My Birth interweaves photographs of the artist Carmen Winant's mother giving birth to her three children with found images of other, anonymous, women undergoing the same bodily experience. 

In addition to the photographic sequence, My Birth—a facsimile of Winant's own journal—includes an original essay by the artist exploring the shared, yet solitary, ownership of the experience of birth. My Birth asks: What if birth, long shrouded and parodied by popular culture, was made visible? What if a comfortable and dynamic language existed to describe it? What if, in picturing the process so many times over and insisting on its very subjectivity, we understood childbirth, and its representation, to be a political act?  My Birth, coincides with Winant's on-site installation at the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018.