The Reluctant Father by Phillip Toledano

The Reluctant Father by Phillip Toledano

Phillip Toledano became a father at the age of forty. He fell in love with his daughter about a year and a half later, when he realized she was the most bewitching human being he'd ever seen. Initially, though, things were different. The Reluctant Father follows Phillip's journey at the beginning of fatherhood. The first eighteen months were a time of torment, dismay, and confusion. The blinding light of unalloyed love came later. It's a surprisingly frank, funny, and moving account, and he hopes his daughter won't hold it against him when she's grown up.

In many ways, The Reluctant Father is a sequel to the best-selling Days With My Father, which documented the three years Phillip spent taking care of his father, who suffered from dementia.

Phillip Toledano is an Englishman living in New York. With an established international reputation, he has been a photographer and artist for the last twelve years. In that time, he has published four books, ranging in subject from plastic surgery, phone sex, and failing businesses through to the last years he spent with his father. His work combines great poignancy with a rich vein of humor.

Phillip Toledano: Phillip Toledano was born in 1968. His work is primarily socio-political, and varies in medium, from photography to installation. His installation project, 'America, the gift shop', was shown at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The premise: If George Bush's foreign policy had a souvenir shop, what would it sell?
Toledano has published three previous books: Bankrupt (Twin Palms, 2005), Phonesex (Twin Palms, 2008), and Days With My Father (Chronicle, 2010).
His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, The London Times, The Independent Magazine, Le Monde, and Interview magazine, amongst others.
W.M. Hunt: W.M. Hunt is a photography collector, curator and consultant. Hunt has been collecting photography for over 35 years. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts and serves on the boards of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, AIPAD, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

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ISBN 13	9781905928095
ISBN 10	1905928092
Title	The Reluctant Father
Author	Phillip Toledano
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Dewi Lewis Media Ltd
Year published	2023-08-01
Number of pages	64
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