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 Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119338112 pages; 100 Photographs7 x 9 inches$50 USThe imagery and vignettes in this ongoing multimedia work use video, digital and stop motion animation, historical footage, and audio to depict the extraordinary light and darkness in the human condition and life events such as the genesis of our existence, and the purpose we serve to each other and ourselves.The familiar and unpredictable illustrate the cycles of life across cultural barriers. Surveying the myriad and disjointed experiences that make up a life, Traces explores the way we construct our internal narratives and create meaning from experience. The audio component consists of a series of anonymously conducted interviews with a range of participants. The perspectives chosen reveal the universality and individuality of values, the intersectionality of symbolism across cultures, our lineages, and the perpetual cycles of life.John Singletary is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of the Arts. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography as well as other institutional and private collections. Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing since 1976, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He is also the editor of The Daguerreian Society Quarterly and The Daguerreian Annual.Amie Potsic is the CEO and Principal Curator of Amie Potsic Art Advisory as well as an accomplished photographer and installation artist. She has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute and been a guest lecturer at the International Center of Photography, Tyler School of Art, and the Delaware Contemporary.Harris Fogel is a photographer, gallerist, curator, independent scholar, and journalist. He directed, curated, and organized more than 275 photography exhibitions over the past thirty years. Previously Fogel was an Associate Professor of Photography, & served as director & curator of the two photo galleries (The Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401 of Photography – the latter of which he founded in 1999), and was the Program Director and Coordinator of the Photography Program, & Chair of the Media Arts Department (Photo/Film/Animation) at UArts in Philadelphia.   View Details
BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 9 X 13 In. / 142 Pages / 75 Color PhotographsISBN 9781942084433List Price: $45.00“Compassionate without being sentimental, Allen’s photographs challenge our conceptualization of gender, and serve as a counternarrative to the often sensational and exploitative depictions of transgender lives in the media.”, - Aperture, December 15, 2017 "...a study of liminal spaces; between genders, between countries, between past and present, and even between this world and the next.",- Musee Magazine, December 13, 2017Also featured by Smithsonian Magazine Hyperallergic International Business Times Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen Foreword by Zackary Drucker Contributions by Eli Coleman In collaboration with Dr. Eli Coleman, professor and director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, Transcendents studies the phenomenon of gender variance among the spirit cults of Burma and Thailand. This book combines a raw, personal, photographic standpoint with an anthropological and sexological perspective on the genderfluid spirit mediums in Thailand and Burma.Mariette Pathy Allen has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness, contributing to numerous cultural and academic publications about gender variance and lecturing worldwide. A published author and photographer, her other titles include:Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them (1990), The Gender Frontier(2003), and Transcuba (2014).Dr. Eli Coleman is a founding editor of the International Journal of Transgenderism and past president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.Zackary Drucker is an award-winning cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender. View Details
BOOK INFO Hardcover, 9 X 13 In. / 142 Pages / 67 Color ISBN 9780988983137 List Price: $45.00 "As the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba continues to evolve, Allen is ahead of the curve in documenting and comparing how both societies represent transgender people. ", - The Huffington Post, December 6, 2017“The transgender subjects in Allen’s portrait series blend bravery and beauty...", - American Photo Magazine, July 2014“...a far cry from the media's sensationalistic portrayals of trans lives.”, - The Advocate, November 15, 2014Photographs by Mariette Pathy AllenText by Mariela Castro Espín, Allen Frame, and Wendy Watriss For more than 30 years, New York based photographer and painter Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting transgender culture worldwide; in 2004 she won the Lambda Literary Award for her monograph The Gender Frontier. In her new publication, TransCuba, Allen focuses on the transgender community of Cuba, especially its growing visibility and acceptance in a country whose government is transitioning into a more relaxed model of communism under Raúl Castro's presidency. This publication therefore records a cultural watershed within Cuba. In addition to color photographs and interviews by Allen, the book also includes a contribution from Raúl Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro, who is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana. In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender. Featured in Mother Jones, Slate, Out, and Huffpo.Text by Mariela Castro, Allen Frame, Wendy Watriss View Details
Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084907166 pages; 60 Color Photographs13 x 8 1/2  inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN "The first thing that strikes you while looking at the book is the beauty of the photographs. But as you drill down into them, you start to see that they are also documents of loss." - The Washington Post, December 9, 2020"The images document abandoned industrial and residential sites, as well as the toxic side effects of urban growth. They shine a light on the consequences of past planning decisions, institutional racism, environmental disregard, and America’s unchecked manifest destiny." - Photobook JournalAlso featured in:DiggPhotographs by Travis FoxForeword by Philip KennicottRemains To Be Seen explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape, from the rust-belt towns of the Midwest to the borscht-belt resorts of the Catskill mountains. Using aerial photography with documentary candor and precision, Travis Fox creates a visually sumptuous record of former industrial sites and abandoned neighborhoods that persist as incisions on the landscape, scars in the memory, and traces of healing. Fox finds patterns that would be undetectable from the ground, uncovering a new visual record of old and debilitating problems, from institutionalized racism to environmental destruction. Remains to be Seen offers a bracing vision of an America that has become so familiar that it is, paradoxically, invisible to many Americans. Through a view from above, detached but vulnerable, his camera counters that disappearance and connects old landscapes to contemporary conscience.Travis Fox is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Director of Visual Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Senior Art and Architecture Critic of the Washington Post.  View Details
Book Details:Hardcover; 84 pages, 11x9 inches33 color photographsISBN-13: 978-1942084594Price: $45.00 US     Featured by Photo District News Photographs by Tema Stauffer Foreword by Xhenet AliuContributions by Alison Nordström Upstate looks at the lingering legacy of American industrial and agricultural history in and around Hudson, New York. Combining poetic landscapes and interiors with portraiture, the images in Upstate express a quiet mystery and beauty while they revel in the vernacular. Like the Hudson River School painters who worked in the area in the 19th Century, Stauffer captures sublime elements while also revealing the shifting economic realities of the region.Tema Stauffer is a photographer whose work examining the social, economic, and cultural landscape of American spaces has been exhibited internationally.Alison Nordström is the former Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography, (Florida) and Senior Curator of Photographs/Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House, (New York) she is the author of over 100 published books and essays on photographic topics, and has curated over 100 photographic exhibitions in nine countries.Xhenet Aliu is the author of the novel Brass (Random House, 2018) and the story collection Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Lenny, LitHub, Buzzfeed, Hobart, and elsewhere. View Details
 BOOK INFO Paper over Board, 9 x 10 in / 96 pages / 50 Color ImagesISBN 9781954119031List Price: $45.00Featured in: The Library of Congress, Financial Times (Print), Veteran’s Today, Polka, Art Daily Viewing Distance compiles and transforms declassified material from United States government archives to examine photography as a tool of the military-industrial complex for reconnaissance, surveillance, and documentation of advanced technologies. While many of the source images date back to the mid-twentieth century, they have only recently been declassified and much information remains secret. These images represent the decades-long time delay from when knowledge comes into being and when it becomes publicly accessible. Some are deliberately concealed while others have been altered by repeated reproduction during their time in the archives. Evan Hume is an artist and educator living in Ames, Iowa, where he is Assistant Professor of Photography at Iowa State University. He earned his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and MFA  from George Washington Univeristy. Raised in the Washington, DC area, Hume's approach to photography is informed by the experience of living in the nation’s political center for much of his life and focuses on the medium’s use as an instrument of the military-industrial complex. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and his work has been featured by publications such as Aperture, Der Greif, Financial Times, and Fisheye. Hume’s first monograph, Viewing Distance, was published by Daylight Books in 2021.                                          Lily Brewer holds a Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh specializing in modern and contemporary portrait and landscape photography in the United States southwest. Studying the concurrent development between photographic and weapon technologies, Brewer traces the contours of visual culture and history as it relates to war operations, military preparedness, conflict, and weapons testing during and after the Second World War and its visual articulations today. View Details