Mumbling Beauty: Louise Bourgeois

This book is a portrait of the artist Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life (2008–2010). Bourgeois allowed artist Van Gelder into her private realm, her studio and home, and indulged his lens, while working, resting, waiting, mischievous or lost in thought, weary, raging, defiant to the end. She does not merely pose, she performs, she fills the camera with her presence. She is the photographer's full and essential collaborator. It is a profound portrait of an artist of the utmost consequence and a piercing study of great age.