In the summer of 1971 Frank Gohlke moved with his wife and young daughter from Middlebury, Vermont to Minneapolis, Minnesota. His vocation as a photographer had begun four years prior, but he had yet
Though born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917, Noah Purifoy lived most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, where he died in 2004. The exhibition of his work, Junk Dada, at LACMA in 201
If Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment” reflects a situation perfectly in tune with the photographer’s intuition, flawlessly combining the elements of composition and timing, then Ed Kashi’s “abandoned
Between 2014 and 2016, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre visited 400 of the more than 4,000 internal courtyards in Budapest. Their large number and variety of styles incorporating different facets of cl
This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Od
This book contains more than 400 pictures of Gunnar Smoliansky’s hands, each a spontaneous composition crafted by the photographer in his traditional darkroom. The inspiration for this series was unex
Promenade Pictures collects a suite of humble yet profound pictures taken by Gunnar Smoliansky in the 1970s and ’80s during long walks throughout Stockholm and its surrounds. The figure of the flâneur
In recent years, ageing has become a major concern in literary studies, as critics engage with the implications of our radically changing demography. This path-breaking exploration of ageing in contem
Pilgrim is a visual journey into one woman’s life through the eyes of her parents, husband and son. In her last years, Marq Sutherland returned home to help his mother through this time during which t
“Remembered Words” is the title of a series of watercolors Roni Horn created in 2013 and 2014. An important part of Horn’s work revolves around language. In this series she literally engages in rememb
This book presents little-known photos by the legendary Christer Strömholm selected by Gunnar Smoliansky. In the late eighties gallerist Kim Klein proposed a small exhibition of Strömholm’s pictures
Abstrakt is a collection of photographs selected by Ernst Haas for a two-projector 25-minute film he worked on until his death in 1986. The photographs span his entire career in color from 1952 to
+ - 0 (“plus minus null”) is a facsimile of a unique, handmade artist’s book crafted by Volker Heinze in 1986. Its photos are the result of the young Heinze’s decision to radically capture the world a
After nearly 30 years working with large-format photography, Massimo Vitali brings together his twelve “best” photographs in this volume. The selection of just a handful of works was made following ma
In 2003, as David Freund was driving to Missouri to see a 102-year-old friend, she died. Refl ecting on their meeting when he was a child, he stopped in Illinois to photograph an old playground. Be
This book is the evocative four-year journey of Paul Drake and Helen File into one of the most secretive and heavily fortifi ed borders in the world. For 37 years over 800 watchtowers monitored the su
With his colorful residential buildings, Bruno Taut was a decisive influence on Berlin settlement construction in the modern age. The seizure of power by the National Socialists forced the archi -
In the capstone volume of his epic series “The Human Clay,” Lee Friedlander has created an ode to people who work. Drawn from his incomparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on the st
In this compendium Lee Friedlander examines the ordinary pickup truck, a quintessentially American mode of transportation. Unadorned in form as well as function, pickups have long been the vehicle of
