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Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119567 Hardcover (two books in slipcase) Book 1: 168 pagesBook 2: 200 pages9in x 12inEssays by: Miss Rosen and Theodore ZinnBooks will ship in JulyDuring the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, Vincent Cianni revisited over one hundred rolls of film from NYC Pride marches photographed between 1985 and 1995. For three months, he spent 6 to 8 hours a day, 5 to 6 days a week in the darkroom, editing and printing more than 140 photographs, many of which had never been printed before. The images documented Pride marches that took place during the height of another health crisis, the AIDS epidemic, the insidious and devastating disease that ravaged the LGBTQ+ community. The parallels between the two health crises became clear as news reports on the pandemic unfolded, revealing the same failures of government repeating themselves yet again. The marches also affirmed that healthcare, including treatment for people with HIV/AIDS, is a right. They demanded an end to the stigma and criminalization of HIV, as well as a more effective response from medical and government agencies and officials who fail to provide funding for research on medical treatment or offer legal, housing, and medical services to people with limited access. This demonstration of solidarity strengthened the sense of community and helped protect the rights earned from the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969 and the first NYC Pride March, also known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, which took place on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Rebellion."Archive/Journal: 1985-1995/2001" is a two-volume title in a slipcase bringing together two related bodies of work: Volume 1, "Archive 1985-1995," reproduces approximately 80 black-and-white photographs made of the NYC Pride marches during the height of the AIDS epidemic from 1985 to 1995. The photographs are accompanied by timelines, ephemera, newspaper articles, etc., and essays by Miss Rosen and Theodore Zinn, to expand the political, social, and historical understanding of the culture, activism, and milieu of the LGBTQ+ community. Volume 2: "Journal: 1985-2001" focuses on personal narratives culled from Cianni's journals, and visual stories of lovers and friends who were living with or who died from AIDS, reflecting on his journey with HIV and his experience with activism surrounding HIV/AIDS from the same period as the Pride photographs.Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer, educator, and activist who explores social justice through image, text, and audio. He was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Parsons School of Design for 30 years and the founder and director of the Newburgh Community Photo Project, a grassroots community photo workshop in Newburgh, NY. We Skate Hardcore was published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, and a major survey was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Gays in the Military (GITM) was published by Daylight Books in May 2014 and was featured in the New York Times Sunday Review and The Katie Couric Show.Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer focusing on art, photography, and cultural history. Her work has been published in books by Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, Martha Cooper, and Arlene Gottfried, as well as publications including The New Yorker, The Village Voice, i-D, Dazed, and AnOther.Theo Zinn (they/them) is a graduate of Drexel University (2025), with degrees in art history and photography. Their research focuses on contemporary art and the history of queer photography. As a photographer, Theo primarily shoots live concerts and theater performances, as well as BTS for film sets. View Details

Archive / Journal: 1985 - 1995/2001

Vincent Cianni

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119574160 pages; 100 Photographs12 x 13 inches Foreword by Jamling Tenzing NorgayBooks will ship in JuneMidnight Sun is a photographic exploration of the polar regions, created during expeditions to Antarctica, Svalbard, and East Greenland. The project reflects both the beauty and fragility of these ecosystems while examining the human forces that are reshaping them. In Midnight Sun, Joseph Seif merges fine art aesthetics with a journalistic sensibility, crafting images that balance awe with urgency while documenting ecological and cultural change. The work invites viewers into a dialogue about humanity’s relationship with the planet and the choices that will determine our collective future.Joseph Seif is a California-based photographer, filmmaker, and composer whose work explores the intersection of art, science, and environmental storytelling. His previous fine art photobook, ONWARD, features images created over twelve years across multiple countries, tracing his photographic journey and the evolution of his visual style. With a background in both commercial and fine art photography, his career has taken him from major brand campaigns to personal projects in remote corners of the world.Jamling Tenzing Norgay is an Indian-Nepali Sherpa mountaineer, guide, author, and motivational speaker. The son of Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, Jamling retraced his father’s path to the summit in 1996. His climb was featured in David Breashears’ landmark IMAX documentary Everest, which captured the grandeur of the mountain and the courage of climbers facing life-threatening challenges. For his heroism during that expedition, he received the Dalai Lama’s Award for Compassion and the National Citizen’s Award from the President of India View Details

Midnight Sun

Joseph Seif

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119529140 pages; 98 Photographs6.75 x 9.5 inches$50 US Afterword by Kendell Pinkney Books will ship in JuneA Peoplehood | Amiut Yehudit is an intimate and layered exploration of contemporary Jewish identity. Through a conceptual documentary lens, Marnie Salsky weaves together present-day photographs, archival imagery, interview excerpts, and fragments from social media and print news. These elements serve as artifacts that mirror the various facets through which Jewish identity is witnessed, refracted, and archived. The result is a textured portrait of a community navigating belonging, diversity, and the lived experience of antisemitism.Marnie Salsky is a Toronto-based photographer and documentary media artist whose work explores contemporary Jewish identity, collective memory, and the lived experience of antisemitism. Through a conceptual documentary approach, she combines photographs, archival materials, interviews and fragments of digital life to build layered narratives that extend the boundaries of traditional documentary practice. She earned an MFA in documentary media from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work spans installation, print, and film; an earlier iteration of this project was screened at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.Kendell Pinkney is a Brooklyn-based playwright, arts & culture advocate, educator and rabbi. His work has been commissioned, developed, and presented at venues across the US and Canada. In addition to his creative work, Kendell is the Director of Jewish Learning and Artist-in-Residence at the arts and culture organization Reboot. Additionally, he serves as the founding Artistic Director of The Workshop, one of Reboot's signature programs providing an arts and culture fellowship for emerging creatives of BIPOC-Jewish heritage. View Details

A Peoplehood | Amiut Yehudit

Marnie Salsky

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119543132 pages; 100 Photographs13 x 10.5 inches Preface by: Rosalind Williams and Martina NgyuenEssays by: Captain Kenneth J. Boda and Lauren W. JuranekBooks will ship in JuneFrom Brooklyn to the North Pole follows Leonard Sussman’s 52-day NSF sponsored trip in September and October 2022 on the USCGC icebreaker Healy from Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands to the North Pole. The landscape images, combined with the text and images of the science work on the ship give an honest and sobering view of the growing effects of climate change on these ephemeral landscapes.Leonard Sussman has been a photographer for over 60 years and has participated in numerous individual and group exhibits in the United States and Europe. Sussman was represented by the Witkin Gallery in New York for many years until its closure.Captain Kenneth J. Boda is U.S. Coast Guard Chair and Assistant Professor at the National War College.Lauren W. Juranek is an Associate Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, at Oregon State University.Rosalind Williams is Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Martina Ngyuen is an Associate Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY. View Details

From Brooklyn to the North Pole

Leonard Sussman

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119512112 pages; 58 Photographs9 x 11 inches$50 US Foreword by Zsolt BátoriBooks will ship in JuneCipher City illustrates the boundary between the real and virtual worlds. Through candid street scenes, photographer StreetMax captures surreal moments of everyday people within uncanny compositions, often appearing fictitious and constructed; these images are nonetheless shot in real time.StreetMax’s work has been exhibited in galleries in the UK, US, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain and Germany. StreetMax was a top 50 photographer in Photolucida Critical Mass 2023, and a Talent in Fresh Eyes 2024.Zsolt Bátori is a philosopher of art, a photography theorist, a photographer, and a curator. View Details

Cipher City

StreetMax

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119536112 pages; 40 Photographs9.5 x 10.5 inchesBooks will ship in JuneThrough the poetic use of light and shadow, When Light Falls evokes the dualities of light itself, both radiating and disappearing, ephemeral and elemental, inviting one to meditate on the transient beauty, disruption, and mystery of light.Jon Plasse focuses his work on memorializing a special time, place or experience - often represented by personal loss, solitude, excitement or mystery. View Details

When Light Falls

Jon Plasse

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Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 978195411941396 pages; 55 Color Photographs10 x 10 inches$50 USForeword by Elin SpringMis[s]Understood explores the pivotal role of women in the Irish Traveller community, highlighting their importance as the cornerstone of family life. In this close-knit, culturally rich community, these women not only uphold traditions but also navigate the challenges of preserving their way of life in a radically changing world. Through their stories, Michele Zousmer aims to shed light on their strength, resilience, and beauty. Michele Zousmer amplifies the voices of individuals and communities often marginalized by society. Her photographic work expresses the essence of human existence and emotion, capturing moments that resonate with life's profound experiences – love, loss, vulnerability, strength and resilience.Elin Spring is Founder and Editor of What Will You Remember? as well as a contributing writer to many online and print magazines. Erin has also provided essays for various exhibition catalogs. View Details

Mis[s]Understood

Michele Zousmer

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119284144 pages; 80 Photographs11 x 12.5 inches$50 USFeatured in: Frames, Art Daily, and All About Photo.Winter gives a glimpse into the earliest traces of winter, the height of the snow season, and the melt-time within the western Great Basin region. Devoid of people and interiors, Winter provides seemingly calm and quiet photographs of the reality of winter on a modern day frontier. Bruce Haley is a recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal, and his work has been published and exhibited internationally for over thirty years. View Details

Winter

Bruce Haley

Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781954119383132 pages; 72 Photographs8 x 8 inches$40 USUnable to find imagery that was relatable and authentic about a young family navigating cancer, photographers Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turned the camera on each other and themselves after Anna's diagnosis at the age of 37 with an aggressive form of breast cancer. HER2 is an ongoing visual conversation told through the utterly unique dual perspective of the experience as a husband- and-wife team, showing both the ways in which there is a deep bond in shared survival while also highlighting their parallel, isolated traumas amidst layers of grief and joy.The Rathkopfs' project includes intimate photographs taken at home, in hospital settings, and with their son, providing a raw look at how a chronic serious diagnosis impacts every aspect of life - relationships, parenting, marriage, work and childhood. These images offer a fuller picture of the emotional and daily realities of illness, from the perspective of the diagnosed, the caregiver and the child, inviting viewers to witness and understand the complexity of survivorship, vulnerability, and resilience.Anna and Jordan Rathkopf, are an award-winning multicultural photography and video duo known for their focus on themes such as empathy, health, community, and identity. Their lenses often focus on the world of health, capturing the perspectives of both the diagnosed and caregivers, inspired by their own lived experiences. Their mission is to ignite real connections, inviting viewers to delve into universal themes portrayed with deep intimacy and unwavering authenticity. The Rathkopfs have been recognized for their work as cancer advocates, including recognition from the International Photographic Council at The United Nations for 2024 Photographic Achievement. View Details

HER2

Anna + Jordan Rathkopf

BOOK INFO Paperback, 5.5 X 8 In. / 136 Pages ISBN 9780983231615 List Price: $14.95 Featured by The New Yorker Edited by Will Steacy Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about moments that never became a picture. Conceived and edited by Will Steacy, each photographer was asked to abandon the camera and, instead, use words to recreate the image that never made it through their lens.Featuring contributions from over sixty photographers! Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D'Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schuman, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter Van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris WebbFeatured in the New York Times, New Yorker, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, La Repubblica, Wired, Photograph, and Artnet View Details

Photographs Not Taken

Various Photographers

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119444112 pages; 45 Photographs7 x 10 inches$50 USFamily Amnesia is a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist's Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The art book explores her family's multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, her own captured images and archival material.The book project honors the past and current lives of Asian Americans and immigrants in the U.S. by examining the incalculable and traumatic impact that historical events like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act continue to have on the Asian American experience. This is a painful part of our American history. Betty Yu is reclaiming that narrative through her own personal family’s story. The book will feature her grandfather’s role as a founding member of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of NY, her mother’s plight as a garment worker who became a labor organizer, as well as her sister’s legacy as a community activist. Yu knows that her family's story is not unique. It is part of the larger collective Asian-American immigration experience.This book project reminds us that the rise of COVID-related anti-Asian violence is part of a larger history of systemic racism. As the U.S. government and corporate-run media continue to vilify China as a global threat, Family Amnesia recalls the anti-China and anti-Asian paranoia and hysteria that created the policies like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1942 Executive Order that placed Japanese-Americans into internment camps. The book will also draw visually on geo-political history, recalling narratives that mocked China as the "sick man of Asia '' and that demonized Chinese as “Yellow Peril”. Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu integrates documentary film, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice. Betty’s films and multimedia work has focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality among other issues. View Details

Family Amnesia

Betty Yu

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119451180 pages; 79 Photographs12.6 x 10.5 inches$50 USEssay by Christina BartonThe Afterglow of Industry brings together photographs from a ten-year project in which artist Chris Corson-Scott repeatedly travelled the extent of Aotearoa New Zealand, seeking out unknown, or remote sites which illuminate our dysfunctional present. Following this, several years were spent researching and writing on each of the 79 photographs featured in this book. In these texts, colonial and industrial histories weave in and out of geology, pre- European Māori history, outside forces from the United States and Europe, and contemporary issues like privatisation, asset sales, the New Zealand housing crisis, and the country’s rebranding as a ‘clean & green’ tourist destination.Similar to the collapse of America’s industrial Midwest, New Zealand has also experienced the whiplash of industry vanishing. Here though, this has been complicated by much of this industry first emerging in conjunction with European colonization. Corson-Scott’s work focuses on these tensions, particularly in Te Waipounamu South Island, where the regions of the West Coast and Otago see industrial remnants contrasted with vast and complex landscapes. From these areas come images of freezing works on sacred rivers, contested mining projects, dwellings of 19 th century Chinese miners, gold processing plants still contaminated more than a century later, floods of acid mine drainage, and the demolition of factories which once built the country’s modern infrastructure. Elsewhere, on a remote sandspit is one of history’s largest whale strandings, industrial spaces are repurposed by artists, controversial hydroelectric schemes divert rivers, ancient forest remnants become tourism, and city fringe orchards are bulldozed for development.Chris Corson-Scott is an artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. His photography has been exhibited in over 40 museum and private gallery exhibitions in Aotearoa, and his work is held in permanent collections including: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, and Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection. His previous publications include Evanescent Monuments (2018), and Dreaming in the Anthropocene (2017), both on Compound Press.Christina Barton is a writer, curator, editor and educator based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the former director of Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University, Wellington, and was previously a curator at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. View Details

The Afterglow of Industry

Chris Corson-Scott

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BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 10 X 10 In. / 112 Pages / 50 ColorISBN 9781942084198List Price: $45.00"Carroll’s elaborate mise-en-scènes explore the mysteries and complexities of femininity and domestic life.", - American Photo Magazine, February 10, 2017"Despite the seriousness of the subject, the photos are attractive and whimsical, and take a lighthearted approach to the macabre.", - The New York Times Lens Blog, March 30, 2017"...startling images in which a woman is replaced by the material world...", - Photo District News, January 18, 2017Photographs by Patty CarrollAnonymous Women is a series of photographs with models using household objects and drapery to comment on women and domesticity. For over twenty years, Patty Carroll has staged photographs using models, drapery, and household objects to add to the dialogue surrounding femininity and the domestic sphere. Anonymous Women presents images that symbolize the psychological states of women around the world by showing them hidden behind, and intertwined with, visually stunning domestic scenes. These not-so-still-lives are colorful, beautiful, mysterious, and humorous, articulating the many complex relationships—both personal and cultural—that exist between women and the home.Patty Carroll is a photographer and educator who has previously published four books. This body of work has been featured in over thirty online blogs, magazines, and news sources. Carroll was a Photolucida Top 50 in 2014, and has received numerous awards for this project View Details

Anonymous Women

Patty Carroll

BOOK INFO Hardcover, 11 X 13 In. / 144 Pages / 28 Color / 63 Duotone ISBN 9781942084020 List Price: $50.00 Struggle, grief, and yet the dream of normalcy — these are just some in a complex mix of emotions pictured in a new book by Afghan-born photographer Zalmaï.”, - Time Lightbox, June 29, 2015“Zalmaï returns to his homeland and brings a sympathetic eye to the survivors of battle crossfire and of impoverished conditions…”, - American Photo Magazine, Best Photobooks of the Year, December 11, 2015Photographs by Zalmaï Afghan-born photographer Zalmaï was forced to flee to Switzerland at the age of 15 after the 1980 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As a freelance photographer, Zalmaï has spent years capturing the human cost of war around the world and in his home country, Afghanistan, where he also sees signs of hope. Dread and Dreams brings together photographs Zalmaï made between 2008 and 2013 against the backdrop of the 14-year U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that culminated in 2014 with the withdrawal of American troops.The book presents two contrasting bodies of work: Zalmaï’s epic duotone photographs reveal the stark reality of life in Afghanistan for the millions of Afghan refugees who have returned to their country since 2002, only to find they cannot go back to their homes. Instead, they are forced to live in squalid conditions in makeshift refugee camps and urban slums, where most live on the brink of survival and many take refuge in drugs. In counterpoint to this, Zalmaï then presents a second series of sun-tinged color photographs that reflect the hopes and dreams of the Afghan people. Here, Zalmaï takes us away from the monumental humanitarian crisis wrought by war to reveal signs of the positive life force that permeates his country.Empathetic, indignant, and still hopeful, Zalmaï’s photographs draw attention to Afghanistan’s ongoing struggle, which has largely left the headlines, by focusing on the Afghan people and their lived experience of war, insecurity, chronic governmental mismanagement, corruption on a huge scale and international negligence. View Details

Dread and Dreams

Zalmaï

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BOOK INFO Hardcover, 7.5 X 9.5 In. / 88 Pages / 66 Color ISBN 9780989798112 List Price: $45.00 “...a beautiful photographic poem about being human and accepting our mortality.”, - Lenscratch, September 5, 2014"...both ominous and touching...", - Hyperallergic, November 1, 2014Photographs by Hiroshi Watanabe Text by Kristen Rian The latest body of work from California-based Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe (born 1951), The Day the Dam Collapses consists-- unusually, for this artist--of digital photographs taken over the past five years since the birth of his son. Ranging in content from details of quotidian life to poetic visual metaphors, The Day the Dam Collapses paints the cycles of life as fleeting, fragile, and devastatingly ephemeral. In his introduction to the book, Watanabe writes: "the truth is, we are all living like the characters in a disaster movie. We know we may someday face a disaster or a terrible event, but we keep living calmly as we do not know what and when that might occur. But a disaster will surely come to us. And the largest disaster must be our death that we all have to face sometime in the future." Despite these looming intimations of mortality, Watanabe persists in recording and sharing a life fully felt.Text by Kirsten Rian. View Details

The Day the Dam Collapses

Hiroshi Watanabe

BOOK INFO Paper over Board, 10 x 10 in / 112 pages / 60 ColorISBN 9781942084983List Price: $45.00Featured by The New York Times Design Section, The Los Angeles Times, Sierra Club, Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, L’Oeil de la Photographie, and Newsweek JapanFauxliage documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers in the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, our landscapes now contain a quirky mosaic of masquerading palms, evergreens, flagpoles, crosses, and cacti. Technology is modifying our environment with idiosyncratic results. The often-whimsical tower disguises belie the equipment’s covert ability to collect valuable personal data.Annette LeMay Burke is an award-winning photographic artist and Northern California native who lives in the heart of Silicon Valley. She is a longtime observer of the evolution of the Western landscape. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally.Ann M. Jastrab is currently the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. View Details

Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West

Annette LeMay Burke

BOOK INFO Hardcover, 9 X 8 In. / 116 Pages / 50 Color ISBN 9780983231677 List Price: $39.95 “These images reflect longing, and gratitude, amid glimpses of beauty.”, - American Photo Magazine, Best Photobooks of the Year, November 2013"...an introspective collection of images shot over the last eight years through a period of personal crisis.", - Photo District News, April 2013"Jacobson’s photos convey the sensation of opening your eyes for the first, and perhaps the last, time.", - Publishers Weekly, April 1, 2013Also featured by:The New York Times Lens BlogThe GuardianCNNPhoto BlogPhotographs by Jeff Jacobson Photographing with only Kodachrome, photographer Jeff Jacobson has created a seductive portfolio of images reflecting on beauty and mortality. From his opening statement: “A few days before Christmas, 2004, I was diagnosed with lymphoma. Some present. After each chemotherapy session I retreated to our home in the Catskills to recuperate. I began photographing around the house as I was too sick to go anywhere else. As my strength returned, my photographic universe slowly expanded. Shortly thereafter, Kodak discontinued production of Kodachrome. I loved Kodachrome, it helped shape my photographic vision. I filled my refrigerator and wine cooler with the stuff and kept shooting. I have outlived my film. A few days before Christmas, 2010, I exposed my last roll.” This compelling body of photographs provides a nuanced, first-person depiction of a cancer patient’s changing perspectives on life, death, art and the world at large.Featured in Mother Jones, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Photo District News, CNN Photo Blog, and Slate.com. View Details

The Last Roll

Jeff Jacobson

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BOOK INFO Cloth, 11 X 9 In. / 108 Pages / 36 Color ISBN 9780983231608 List Price: $29.95 Photographs by Alejandro Cartagena Introduction by Karen Irvine Contributions by Lisa Uddin Alejandro Cartagena photographs the particularities of the suburbs of Monterrey, Mexico, which are relatively new and often hastily built, reflecting a general disregard for planning. Over the years, various governmental policies have resulted in new, decentralized cities with limited infrastructures, where the pursuit of immediate financial gain trumps any interest in sustainability. Cartagena captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing. Pictures of dried-up riverbeds attest to the water misallocation and depletion brought about by the construction, and Cartagena depicts perpetual rows of tiny houses slicing directly into the foothills of the picturesque mountains that surround Monterrey. Only the landscape appears capable of limiting their proliferation: the mountains and rivers seem the only forces able of containing the suburban sprawl. Ultimately, Cartagena documents the chaos and destruction that result from scant or misguided urban planning. He lives in downtown Monterrey, and he cares deeply about its land, its people, and its future. Understanding that overdevelopment is not just a local problem, he works hard as an artist to share his photographs as one clear plea for responsible, sustainable development in a rapidly changing world. Text adapted from the Introduction by Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. Co-published with Photolucida. View Details

Suburbia Mexicana

Alejandro Cartagena

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119307150 pages; 100 Photographs7 x 9.5 inches$50 US A Poor Imitation of Death is a complex and collaborative narrative about youth in prison: meshing photographs with the youth’s handwritten letters, poems, and artwork to create a unique and authentic voice that speaks about the realities of life in prison. It tells a harsh story: full of despair, raw emotion and injustice but also of incredible resilience, inner strength and huge potential for change. It indicts an inhumane and broken California prison system that has changed little over two decades. Ara Oshagan is a diasporic transdisciplinary artist, curator and cultural worker whose practice explores collective and personal histories of marginalization, displacement, identity, legacies of violence and (un)imagined futures. A descendant of communities uprooted from their indigenous land by the Armenian Genocide, he was born in Lebanon and displaced by war as a youth to the US. Oshagan has published three books of photography and has exhibited his artwork and public art internationally. World renowned for “radical kinship” and “boundless compassion,” Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang re-entry program in the US and a national model. He is the author of three books, including the 2010 New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. View Details

A Poor Imitation of Death

Ara Oshagan

BOOK INFOFaux leather over board 7 x 10 1⁄2 / 104 pages / 50 B&W photographsISBN 9781942084471 List Price: US $45.00 “... recognized as an epochal and historically important record of the growth of corporate America which still resonates today.”, - Artdaily, December 19, 2018“You can almost smell the polish and the cigarette smoke in her images, offering peeks inside board rooms, private offices and lobbies; and in doing so, opening doors into the world of the booming businesses of corporate America.”,- Creative Review, April 23, 2018"As Executive Order proceeds, the book becomes increasingly surreal. ", - Fraction Magazine, October 2018Also featured by The New York Times Lens Blog Photographs by Susan Ressler Contributions by Mark Rice Executive Order is a trenchant look at corporate America, featuring portraits and office interiors shot during the 1970s in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. A daring critique of wealth and power, Ressler wields photography with humor and insight, and her work is especially relevant today.Susan Ressler is an internationally renowned photographer, author and educator. An NEA fellow, her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library Archives of Canada, among other important collections.Mark Rice is an award-winning author and the founding chair of the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College near Rochester, New York. View Details

Executive Order

Susan Ressler

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BOOK INFO Hardcover; 124 pages, 12 X 12 inches ISBN-13: 978-1942084587 $50 US; $72.50 CAN"..a striking homage to a glorious time in space travel...", - Wired, October 1, 2018“...capturing the magic and majesty of the missions that captivated the nation.”, - My Modern Met, October 29, 2018Also featured by: Photo District NewsBloomberg BusinessweekArtdaily Photographs by John A. Chakeres Foreword by Leland Melvin Introduction by W.M. Hunt/Dancing Bear First Fleet began more than 30 years ago with the launch of the first Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981. With special access to photograph the Shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center, John Chakeres began his multi-year project photographing the five original space shuttles. The images in First Fleet are a never-before-seen look at the sensational launch and landing operations of the space shuttles. In addition the photographs Chakeres managed to capture represent a technical achievement as the photographer invented a special remote trigger device in order to properly capture the action from a safe distance. John A. Chakeres has been an artist working in photography for more than 40 years. He has published three books of his photographs, Traces: An Investigation in Reason, 1977; D’art Objects: A Collaboration, 1978; and Random New York: An Unscripted Walk, 2008. His photographs have been included in numinous exhibitions and publications and are in a number of permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA and Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN. He has taught photography, printmaking, and digital imaging at Ohio University, Columbus College of Art and Design, and Columbus State Community College.W.M. Hunt is a photography collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York City. His book The Unseen Eye (Aperture, Thames & Hudson, Actes Sud) focuses on Collection Dancing Bear, his largest collection of photographs. W.M. Hunt has written essays on or for artists, among them Bill Armstrong, W.A. Bentley, Mark Beard, Luc Delahaye, Larry Gianettino, Manuel Geericnk, Bohnchang Koo, Luis Mallo, Jeff Sheng, Phillip Toledano and Frank Yamrus. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts.Leland Melvin is an engineer and NASA astronaut and former wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. He served on the space shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist and was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010. He also served as the co-chair on the White House’s Federal Coordination in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Task Force, developing the nation’s five-year STEM education plan. He holds four honorary doctorates and has received the NFL Player Association Award of Excellence. He shares his inspirational life story in his memoir Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances (Amistad (May 23, 2017). Leland Melvin lives in Lynchburg, Virginia. View Details

FIRST FLEET

John A. Chakeres