Portraits from the Belly of the Whale Hardcover – January 1, 2005

100 disturbing portraits that sardonically reveal the darker edges of the human personality -- Jonah, the pariah, the marked man, the renegade. Garlington’s eye is unsparing, and he captures the glittering madness in a face, the pretense in a look. Yet his images also convey a wry compassion for the outcast or the emotionally stricken. His images of those who have been "in the belly" -- the circus contortionist, the convict, the cripple -- are more than mere portraits of the bizarre. Garlington dissects his subjects while simultaneously embracing them, with a wink and a smile, as fellow pilgrims. 
 
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