Waterline. By Arno Rafael Minkkinen with an essay by Michel Tournier. Winner of the 1994 Arles International Photography Festival Book of the Year Award. Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing himself in the nude since 1971, an exploration that unfolds in Waterline as a timeless study of the human figure amid the forces of nature. The element of waterupon which his feet race, below which his torso dives, and above which he soarsprovides the common ground for his surrealistic vision. Michel Tournier, the renowned French novelist of the Academie Goncourt and cofounder of the Rencontres d'Arles, provides an invigorating essay. 65 black and white duotone photographs, 9 5/8 X 12, 112 pages. paperback. "Minkkinen draws his lanky, sinuous form into a personal hieroglyphics of emotive power. He thrusts his body into snow encrusted drifts, stretches it between trees, bends it over rocks, balances it on boats, dips it into lakes, and walks it upon water making magic in the process, something rare in recent photography."