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Dear Shirley is a first-person saga of love and loss captured over more than four decades. The photographs and text contained in this diaristic account take an unflinching look at the dissolution of two marriages: Schuman’s marriage of 10 years to Jeremy, and of 27 years to Susan. Hinda Schuman an international award-winning photographer was a staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years Magdelena Solé is an award-winning social documentary photographer who also works on films Sunil Gupta is a photographer, artist, educator and curator focused on independent photography as a critical practice for documenting race, migration and queer issues.

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“A fascinating look at coming out in the 80’s.”,
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“...a book that uses photographs, typed letters, and hand-scribbled captions to tell its intimate, harrowing tales of love and loss.”,
- Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 2018

Dear Shirley: A True Story

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    A Hardback by Hinda Schuman, Magdalena Sole, Sunil Gupta

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      Publisher Daylight Books
      Published 17 May 2018
      ISBN-13 9781942084518
      978-1942084518
      ISBN-10 194208451X
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      Individual photographers Photography and photographs Health & Wellbeing Dating and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dear Shirley is a first-person saga of love and loss captured over more than four decades. The photographs and text contained in this diaristic account take an unflinching look at the dissolution of two marriages: Schuman’s marriage of 10 years to Jeremy, and of 27 years to Susan. Hinda Schuman an international award-winning photographer was a staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years Magdelena Solé is an award-winning social documentary photographer who also works on films Sunil Gupta is a photographer, artist, educator and curator focused on independent photography as a critical practice for documenting race, migration and queer issues.

      Trade Review
      “A fascinating look at coming out in the 80’s.”,
      - aPhotoEditor, August 10, 2018
      “...a book that uses photographs, typed letters, and hand-scribbled captions to tell its intimate, harrowing tales of love and loss.”,
      - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 2018

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