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I Know a Horse When I See One

At the first meeting of the Photobook Club Amsterdam, last April, I presented Michael Lesy’s book Wisconsin Death Trip (1973) and jokingly stated: “A good photobook begins with an image of a horse.” In Lesy’s brilliant and mesmerizing photobook the first seven (!) photos show a horse. Encountering many fascinating and often weird “horse photographs” since, prompted me to open a Tumblr dedicated to the horse in photography: I Know a Horse When I See One. (Thanks to Rein Jelle Terpstra for suggesting the title).