During a most difficult year, as we have battled a deadly pandemic while pushing back against the forces of bigotry and patriarchal oppression, photographer Donna Ferrato shows us, with the release of her compilation monograph Holy, what it means to embrace diversity and to find community in the unlikeliest of places. With Holy, she seeks to shift the Catholic paradigm from a male-dominated trinity to one centered on woman: “the mother, the daughter, and the others who believe in women” (10). From her nearly five-decade career, Ferrato brings together a collection of photographs that focus on women, choosing to organize the images not in any chronological order, or by subject matter, but rather into compositional or emotional relationship, intersecting across time and content. What results is an energetic reimagining of her body of work, which happens to be full of bodies.
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University of California Press