Loli Kantor. Call me Lola

A hardcover book titled Call Me Lola: In Search of Mother by Loli Kantor, standing upright and slightly open on a light gray surface. The cover features black-and-white photographs of women on a city street, with a bright orange-red spine displaying the title in black text.

A black hardcover book rests open on a light grey surface. A white page is partially turned, revealing a vibrant orange endpaper. The facing page is solid black with an ornate, silver, cursive letter L embossed in the center.

A high-angle photo of an open book lying on a flat grey surface. The left page is a title page reading, Becoming Lola, Loli Kantor's Journey in Search of Mother by Nissan N. Perez. The right page contains paragraphs of text, starting with a quote from Walter Benjamin.

An overhead shot of an open book on a gray surface. The left page is mostly white with a faint, faded print. The right page displays a square, sepia-toned pinhole photograph of a street scene with a caption printed underneath.

An open book laid flat on a gray surface. The left page displays a vintage black-and-white photograph of a woman in a striped shirt and dark skirt standing outdoors. The right page serves as a title page, reading, Paris 12:05. Same Name, Different Story. A conversation between Loli Kantor and Danna Heller.

An open book is laid flat, showing pages 30 and 31. The left page features a black-and-white photograph of a wedding party from 1946. The right page displays a color photograph of a simple gold wedding band, engraved on the inside, set against a plain white background.

An open book on a gray surface, displaying a two-page spread with vintage black-and-white photographs. On the left page, a woman named Lola sits at a table on a balcony. On the right page, a man named Zwi sits at a similar table on a balcony. Both pages have captions in English.

An overhead shot of an open book on a gray surface. The book displays a two-page spread, with a vintage black-and-white photograph on the right page. The photo shows a woman in a summer dress, seen from behind, bending over in a lush, sunlit garden. The left page is mostly blank, with a small caption at the bottom.

An open book on a grey background. The left page displays a vintage black-and-white photograph of a man and two children sitting at a cafe table. The right page has a blurry, dreamlike color photograph of an empty cafe with rows of red wicker chairs.

An overhead shot of an open book on a grey surface. The left page displays a color photograph from 1961 of a young boy and girl holding hands outside a modern building. The right page shows a black-and-white photograph from 1956 of the same two children standing by a bush in front of a brick building.

An overhead shot of an open photobook on a gray surface. The two-page spread displays two grainy, black-and-white photographs. The left photo is a dark interior showing the shadow of a railing. The right photo shows a blurry, sunlit window with sheer curtains and a small silhouette on the sill.

The book cover for Call Me Lola shows a vintage black-and-white photograph of a woman smiling in front of the Argentine Metro station in Paris.

Loli Kantor. Call me Lola

In Search of Mother

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Author: Loli Kantor

September 2024, 232 Pages, 199 Photos

Hardcover

207mm x 288mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5774-4

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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A contribution to shared memories

Call Me Lola is a moving photo essay by the acclaimed Israeli-American lens-based artist and documentarian Loli Kantor. For over twenty years, she combed through the family archives of her Polish-born father, a doctor and political activist. The focus is on her mother, Lola, who died in childbirth: a woman who manifests herself principally through images and stories rather than direct memories. The family documents and photographs that retrace the artist's personal history are shown in combination with new camera-based works, making the project a profoundly subjective reflection on the most significant upheavals of the twentieth century, on war and displacement, love and loss, trauma and grief.

LOLI KANTOR (*1952) is an Israeli-American photographer whose work centers on personal and cultural memory. She lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.

»... a powerful and poignant monograph«

Aline Smithson

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