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A career-to-date monograph by Anja Niemi, one of today's most fascinating contemporary photographers, who places herself in front of the lens to create elegant, meticulously staged, and utterly memorable imagery.Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography. Niemi's work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self- portraiture.A photo artist who works alone -- photographing, staging, and acting out the characters in all of her images -- Niemi is a constant presence (in character) in her work, developing complex, nuanced narratives through evocative costume and styling. In her bewitching Darlene & Me series she reconfigures the concept of the Hitchcock blond within a pristine Lynchian landscape for her own visual pleasure -- and ours -- while in She Could Have Been a Cowboy she turns the lens to a life lived under the constraints of conformity.