A tender, lighthearted homage to a father's "beautiful legs"
Croatian-born photographer and architect Sara Perovic's mother once told
her, I fell in love with your father because of his beautiful legs. With
this small paperback photobook, Perovic (born 1984) has created a
tender, humorous study of her boyfriend's legs, as a stand-in for her
father's, depicting them in color against various backdrops--aboard a
boat, indoors, standing on a bed, or on the tennis court--isolated from
the rest of his body. She laments that her father's love of tennis kept
his attentions away from her when she was a child, and a short series of
full-figure portraits of him delivering a backhand shot in flipbook
style concludes the volume, along with a coda from the photographer: And
now my daughter's father has beautiful legs.