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Mass

Mass

by Mark Power

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MASS, by award-winning Magnum photographer Mark Power, examines the dominance and influence of the Catholic Church in Poland.

During the autumn and winters of 2010 and 2011 Power documented over fifty Catholic Church services in Krakow. A lapsed Catholic, Power became fascinated with the huge numbers attending local churches whilst working in Poland. With the help of a local ‘fixer’ he gained access to a number of churches and permission to photograph from the ‘choir’ or ‘organista’ in Polish, high up at the back of the church.

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Power documented the services using a long exposure time of 1-15 seconds, depending on the available light. Relying on his own memory from childhood church attendance he attempted to photograph when the congregation was still, which is three times during every Mass. He soon learnt how to follow the service in Polish and anticipate when these precious moments would occur.

Each image of a ‘Mass’ in the book, of which there are 18, is paired with a close-up of a collection slot. The innovatively designed book incorporates all 36 images as double page spreads folding out to four-page single images, linking each collection slots with the corresponding church.

Published January 2012
202 x 250 mm
18 four-page fold-out spreads to 404 x 510 mm
118 pages printed four colour
Hardback, foil stamped real cloth
ISBN 978-0-9574272-1-1

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The author

  • Mark Power’s complex, meticulously crafted images—usually made with large format cameras—have earned him a reputation as one of the forerunners of British photography. His work has been seen in numerous galleries and museums across the world, and is held in several collections, including the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum. However, he considers himself to be a bookmaker first and foremost, and 'Fashion' is his 17th monograph. Power joined Magnum Photos in 2002, and continues to live in Brighton, on the south coast of England, his home for the last 47 years.