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Alessandra Sanguinetti's On the Sixth Day, set in the Buenos Aires province Partido de Guido, explores the interdependent relationship between local farmers and the animals they raise for food. This setting offers an insight into Argentina's socio-cultural landscape, especially regarding class and the divide between rural and urban life.
'I can safely say the book begun when I was 9 years old at the farm where we spent our summers. I'd wander the corrals and fields, watching the various animals we had there, trying to get close, imagining how they saw things, how they saw me and longing to have some connection with them... Sixteen years later, in 1996, I went back with an unclear idea of photographing farm life, and a vague vision of color and animals, I slowly found myself lower and lower on my knees in front of many ordinary animals and ordinary acts, which become extraordinary when paid attention to.'

First edition, signed in black ink on title-page; (320 × 298 mm / 12 ½ x 11 ¾ in); colour photographs, text by Robert Blake, design by Martin Weber; black endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped to spine and front in gold, photographic reproduction mounted on upper panel, top outer corners very lightly tapped, minor wear, near-fine; [80]pp.

Martin Parr's Best books of the Decade pp28-29, p78; The Photobook: A History III, p138.