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BOOK INFO Hardcover, 12 X 7.5 In. / 144 Pages / 55 Duotone ISBN 9788881587902 List Price: $49.95 Photographs by Bruce HaleyWriting by Andrei CodrescuProduced between 1994 and 2002, the images in Sunder sweep the viewer along on a far-reaching journey through numerous former USSR and Iron Curtain countries, stopping at landscapes of ruin and moments of grace in equal measure. Haley's explorations were intuitive, responding to a deep curiosity to taste the last drops of the would-be utopian ideology that dominated global politics during the first thirty years of his life. Using black and white film, the notion of remnants and transition would sustain Haley's photographic investigation for some eight years. The resulting images present a stark perspective of the collapse of the communist empire. Haley’s photographs are bleak and brimming with the realism that only a photographer as seasoned as he is could achieve. Given the contrast with Haley’s conflict-based coverage, which was dominated by lush color imagery depicting the most horrific acts of violence imaginable, this personal project seems as much a portrait of the photographer himself as it is an invaluable historical archive.Featured by the New Yorker and New York TimesIntroduction by Kirsten RianForeword by Dina and Clint EastwoodEssay by Andrei Codrescu View Details

Sunder

Bruce Haley

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119369284 pages; 238 Photographs10.5 x 11.25 inches$60 US*Books will ship June 2025Covering more than a half century of dramatic social and political change, Ressler’s Photographs is an important document that, through vivid images and an engaging narrative, provides insight and meaning to the complex world we live in today. Global in scope, but with a focus on the Americas, the book begins in the tumultuous 1960s just one year after the Summer of Love (1967), when the author was a young college student who photographed the counterculture, street life on New York City’s gritty Lower East Side, and icons such as Andy Warhol and later Nina Simone, among others. The book then catapults us into a First Nation reserve in Quebec, Canada, as we follow Ressler’s trajectory from novice ethnographic image-maker to mature photographic artist––a career that parallels and comments on the growth of financial empires and consumerism as well as shifting trends in photography itself.Susan Ressler Photographs: 50 Years, No End In Sight is an impressive retrospective that traces over fifty years of artistic development. It includes six major bodies of photographic work introduced in her own words, complemented by two interpretive essays: one by Eve Schillo on Ressler’s California work, and the other an afterword by Mark Rice. Although some of the images appear in Ressler’s previous Daylight monographs (Executive Order and Dreaming California), many are published here for the first time. These include “At Owner’s Risk” (her Canadian First Nation photographs), “From Analog to Digital” (an account of photography’s transition from analog film to digital media), and “Beyond Borders” (work from Europe, Asia, and Israel). The book ends with “American Stories,” including South America and the export of US culture abroad, before Ressler comes home to Taos, New Mexico, where she lives and continues to make photographs today.Susan Ressler is a renowned artist, author, and educator who has been making social documentary photographs for more than fifty years. Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and many other important collections. A recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowships, Ressler is internationally exhibited and published. She has published two previous monographs with Daylight Books: Executive Order (2018) and Dreaming California (2023).Eve Schillo is Associate Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She has curated many notable and diverse exhibitions featured in LACMA's galleries dedicated to American, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Japanese, modern, and contemporary art, as well as those devoted to photography.Mark Rice is an award-winning author and professor of American Studies at St. John Fisher University near Rochester, New York. He has published several books and contributed essays on photography and visual culture to numerous scholarly journals. Rice contributed the afterword to Susan Ressler’s two previous Daylight monographs, Executive Order (2018) and Dreaming California (2023). View Details

Susan Ressler Photographs

Susan Ressler

BOOK INFO Hardcover, 7 X 10 In. / 132 Pgs / 60 Color ISBN 9781942084051 List Price: $45.00 “Her images evoke a connection with forest life as emotional as it is aesthetic...", - American Photo Magazine, Best Photo Books of the Year, December 11, 2015“Beeke makes the primal, remote forms these woods once defined seem very close, very tenuous, and highly endangered.”, - Photo-Eye Books, December 31, 2015Across cultures and centuries, the forest has occupied a unique place in our collective imagination. Sylvania, by Brooklyn-based photographer Anna Beeke (born 1984), explores the intersection of nature, imagination and myth in the American woodlands, from Washington to Vermont to Louisiana. View Details

Sylvania

Anna Beeke

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119451180 pages; 79 Photographs12.6 x 10.5 inches$50 USEssay by Christina Barton*Books will ship June 2025The 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

Book Details: Soft cover, leather boundISBN-13: 978-1942084556144 pages; 96 images6 x 8 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN "...released amid a nationwide conversation about toxic masculinity sparked by the #Metoo movement...", - Time, September 17, 2018 "...a historical document of a powerful—and aggressive—American subculture.", - Vice, October 4, 2018"This is a naked look inside the American frat house.", - The New York Post, September 27, 2018Also featured by: Photo District News - Notable Photo Books of 2018The GuardianBritish Journal of Photography Photographs by Andrew MoiseyContributions by Cynthia Robinson and Nicholas L. Syrett The American Fraternity is a photobook that provides an intimate and provocative look at Greek culture on college campuses by combining contemporary photographs with scanned pages from a wax-stained 60 year old ritual manual. This book will shed new light on the peculiarities of the fraternal orders which count seventy-five percent of modern U.S. presidents, senators, justices, and executives among their members. These mysterious campus organizations are filled with arcane oaths and ceremonies and this book attempts to capture within its pages some of this dark power. Andrew Moisey is an award-winning photographer and educator. He is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, a Rosevear Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies (May 2014) at the University of California, Berkeley. Cynthia Robinson is Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University, where she also serves as Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the History of Art.Nicholas L. Syrett is professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas and author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States. View Details

THE AMERICAN FRATERNITY: An Illustrated Ritual Manual

Andrew Moisey

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 Cloth, 12 X 11 In. / 124 Pages / 50 Color ISBN 9780989798105 List Price: $49.95 “...(images) not just capturing rebirth but the final waking moments of a culture in Afghanistan that may be disappearing forever under the prodding pressure of the West.”, - Photo - Eye, May 22, 2014“...a book that captures the rebirth of a once vibrant cinematic culture, bridging the past and the future.”, - ARTINFO, May 25, 2014Also featured by Time Lightbox: The Best Photobooks of 2014Photographs by Jonathan Saruk In a nondescript concrete building along a busy street in the old city of Kabul, young men file into a dark, smoke-filled theater and take their seats. Soon, the projector roars to life, and the audience begins to laugh, whistle, and even dance as the latest Pakistani cinematic drama illuminates the big screen before them. In his new book, The Forbidden Reel, American-born photographer Jonathan Saruk documents the cinemas of Kabul-entertainment venues that were banned under the Taliban but have sputtered back to life since the US invasion 12 years ago. The Forbidden Reel provides an alternative narrative to life in this violence-plagued city, where going to the movies is, for many, an escape from the harsh reality that lies outside. View Details

The Forbidden Reel

Jonathan Saruk

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

BOOK INFO Paper over Board, 8 x 10 in / 144 pages / 85 ColorISBN 9781942084976List Price: $50.00Featured in: All-About-Photo, PhotoBook Journal, Bildersturm, Art Daily, and Veteran’s TodayThe Light at the End of History: Reacting to Nuclear Impact presents photo- graphs from artist Abbey Hepner’s decade-long examination of nuclear energy, the atomic bomb, and radioactive waste. By capturing distinct marks in time, Hepner makes visible the ongoing, often invisible, relationships with nuclear technologies.Abbey Hepner is Assistant Professor of Photography at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds a BFA in Art and a BA in Psychology from the University of Utah and an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally.Kirsten Pai Buick is Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the David C. Driskell Prize for excellence in African American Art. Her second book, In Authenticity: ‘Kara Walker’ and the Eidetics of Racism is in progress. View Details

The Light at the End of History

Abbey Hepner

BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 6 X 9 In. / 80 Pages / 30 ColorISBN 9781942084242List Price: $45.00Photographs by Judith Crispin Foreword by Juno Gemes The Lumen Seed contains photographs, drawings and poems about the indigenous Warlpiri people of Australia's Northern Tanami Desert.The Lumen Seed sensitively depicts a cultural dialogue taking place before a backdrop of offenses against the Australian continent, as well as a history of systematic discrimination against indigenous peoples on the part of the country's white population. The images, created by Australia-based artist Judith Crispin in close consultation with indigenous people, document an attempt by the Warlpiri group to share sacred information with white people; the poems convey the artist's interpretation of those ideas, alongside her development of personal relationships with community elders.Judith Crispin returned to Australia in 2011 after living and working in Germany for several years. Since that time she has driven the 8000km round trip from her home in Canberra to the remote community of Lajamanu many times and established a close relationship with the Warlpiri community there. Crispin has a background in music composition, poetry and photography. View Details

The Lumen Seed: Records of a Search in the Australian Desert

Judith Crispin

Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781954119406125 pages; 77 Photographs9 x 9 inches$50 US The Many Pleasures: Found Art in New York City celebrates the City’s rich visual tapestry through photographs of street and subway surfaces transformed by human hand and organic decay. The book’s images of torn posters on buildings, construction fences, subway panels, and doors and mailboxes covered with stickers and graffiti remind us that art is all around us, as much a way of seeing as objects to behold.Barton Lewis is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer whose work centers around features and fixtures of the street and subway transformed by street artists and organic decay. His work has been featured in the The Harvard Business Review, and exhibited in spaces such as Gallery 85, in the lobby of Google’s New York headquarters. His work has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Szczecin, Poland and elsewhere in the US and Europe. View Details

The Many Pleasures: Found Art in New York City

Barton Lewis

BOOK INFO Hardcover, 9 X 9 In. / 88 Pages / 51 B+W ISBN 9781942084006 List Price: $50.00 “Vrba creates enigmatic images that grab the eye with their artistry and tease the mind with their inscrutability.”, - American Photo Magazine, Best Photobooks of the Year, December 11, 2015“...a photographic narrative about memory, loss, providence, and revival.”, - Lenscratch, March 24, 2015 “...a culmination of the artist’s unapologetic, on-going explorations of femininity and the Southern landscape.”, - Houston Press, June 15, 2015Photographs by Lori Vrba The Moth Wing Diaries is a photographic narrative addressing themes of memory, providence, revival and dreams, by native Texan photographer Lori Vrba (born 1964). Vrba's surreal landscapes and portraiture explore the artist's sense of conflict and ultimate peace with the Southern terrain. View Details

The Moth Wing Diaries

Lori Vrba

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