Philip Trager: Photographing Ina

The images are as much about the act of photographing, perception, color and light, as they are about his subject, whose presence is a constant and unifying motif.

Trager photographed his wife Ina during only two distinct periods of time. This book comprises a selection of photographs from these very different bodies of work which comprise color photographs made between 2006 and 2011, after fifty years together, and black-and-white photographs made after twenty-five years together. These intimate, openly theatrical images — made in concentrated sessions rather than as an ongoing diary — embody an enduring love and shared passion for art.