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Leah Sobsey: Collections

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-07-29

SPRING 2016 BOOK RELEASE Collections is a volume of images that intersect nineteenth century photographic processes and twenty-first century digital technology. Sobsey photographs bird skins, bleached bones, clipped ferns, and tattered shoes that she unearths from the dark drawers of national park museum collections. Plucked from their original context, she illuminates them with sun and light, giving them new definition. The subject matter of each series she creates is dictated by her discoveries, bridging past to present, honoring both the specimens she works with and the medium of photography. Her project is particularly timely during this centennial year of national parks service, and...

Bill McDowell: Ground

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-07-28

In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of rejected photographs, originally commissioned by the Farm Security Administration, bearing the dramatically representative punched holes through the negatives. Ground includes images by Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, John Vachon, Paul Carter, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, and Arthur Rothstein many of which have never before been published. Interview by DJ Hellerman.Bill McDowell is the 2013 recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, and has received the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, the New York Foundation on the Arts Photography Fellowship, as well as many other artist grants. He is a professor...

Gary Harwood: Tiger Legacy

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-07-28

SPRING 2016 BOOK RELEASE Tiger Legacy: Stories of Massillon Football is a community storytelling project that includes images and first-person narratives of all those who contribute to the Massillon, Ohio, high school football experience: the players, the coaches and staff, the principal, members of the Tiger Swing Band, the cheerleaders, the Pep Club, the Orangeman, the Sideliners, the Touchdown Club, the Tiger Moms, the mayor, the season ticket holders, the orange and black-clad fans, and the beloved mascot, Obie, the live tiger cub. While football was not created in Massillon, it took root there in ways that popularized the game. The...

Daylight's Metro and Tiger Legacy named as Best Photography Books Summer 2016

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-07-27

American Photo Magazine has named Metro and Tiger Legacy two of the best photography books for summer 2016. Metro, by Stan Raucher, features a volume of people within metro systems in over a dozen cities across four continents, all photographed within an eight-year time span. Tiger Legacy, by Gary Harwood, examines the tremendous popularity of high school football in Massillon, Ohio through photographs and essays featuring all involved. Get the books, Metro and Tiger Legacy.

Frank Gohlke: Coordinates and the Lines Between

Posted by Brianna Kusilek on 2016-07-26

“Anything that interested me in the area between 42.30N and 42.31N was a potential subject,” Gohlke says. “I had a very loose notion that I was creating a synecdochal portrait of Massachusetts as a whole, but I was also, and perhaps mainly, interested in the way an idea affects the way we look at a rather random group of photographs. Well, sort of. This is where it gets complicated." Photographs by Frank Gohlke. Text by Kirsten Rian. Before his immersion into photography, Frank Gohlke studied English Literature. At Yale University (M.A. in English,1966), Gohlke met Walker Evans and then studied privately with Paul...

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