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Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 9781942084891144 pages; 60 Color Photographs10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches$50 US"Over 2,000 years ago, one of humanity's most profound thinkers, Aristotle, stated that the whole of our parts is greater than the sum. Collectively, the bits and pieces of all our differences can, theoretically, combine to reveal a better, more complex, "us"." - Creative Boom, October 21, 2020"In difficult times, we find strength from the aspects of life and those around us who help us recognize how interconnected we truly are." - F-Stop Magazine, November 7, 2020Also featured in:Art Omi, and Edge of Humanity Magazine.Photographs by Richard BeavenForeword by Kira PollackEssay by Tom LewisIn 2018 Ghent, New York celebrated its bicentennial anniversary. To mark the occasion photographer Richard Beaven set out to create individual portraits which collectively would represent a “snapshot” and form an archive of the current community. Ultimately 276 portraits were made comprising a clear-eyed and earnest depiction of this unique Hudson Valley town. Richard Beaven is a British freelance editorial and documentary photographer based in The Hudson Valley of New York.Kira Pollack is Creative Director of Vanity Fair magazine, Former Director of Photography Visual Enterprise at TIME magazine, and Deputy Photo Editor at The New York Times Magazine.Tom Lewis is Professor Emeritus of English at Skidmore College. The author of five books, including The Hudson, he lives in Scarborough, Maine. View Details

All Of Us: Portraits of an American Bicentennial

Richard Beaven

BOOK INFO Flexi, 10 X 9 In. / 90 Pages / 44 Color ISBN 9780988983120 List Price: $39.95 “...a unique and moving document of gender, history and place.”, - Time Lightbox, November 18, 2013...you feel grateful for that Katie Murray took us inside these places...", - Fototazo, March 6, 2014Photographs by Katie Murray Text by Maria Antonella Pelizzari All The Queens Men is a decades-long photographic project that explores the rites, rituals, and relationships of men. Straddling the fine line between fiction and non-fiction, Murray creates a hauntingly beautiful narrative book that navigates the psychology of men through exploration of portraiture and place. Intimate portraits and enigmatic landscapes deliberately mix fact and fiction, past and present, myth and reality. Made in the New York City borough of Queens with the men of Murray’s family and community, All The Queens Men reveals intergenerational patterns of behavior, simultaneously submissive and antagonistic, played out over the course of many years in both domestic and urban settings. Featured in Time and Artdaily. View Details

All the Queens Men

Katie Murray

BOOK INFO Hardcover, 10.5 X 8.25 In. / 164 Pages / 80 Color ISBN 9780989798167 List Price: $45.00 “At once a historical archive, a moving portrait and a call to action, the photographic series captures the beauty of the human spirit even in the most nightmarish of circumstances.”, - The Huffington Post, April 7, 2015 “Maj affords dignity to her subjects.”, - American Photo Magazine, Best Photobooks of the Year, December 11, 2015Also featured by: Time Magazine, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Vice, HyperallergicPhotographs by Gabriela Maj Over the course of four years (2010 – 2014), Polish-Canadian photographer Gabriela Maj travelled throughout Afghanistan to collect portraits and stories from inside the country’s women’s prisons, including the most notorious penitentiary for women, Badam Bagh, located on the outskirts of Kabul. Maj’s project is the largest record documenting the experiences of incarcerated women in Afghanistan produced to date. Her hauntingly beautiful, compassionate photographs, along with the accompanying personal stories of the inmates, are gathered together in her first monograph. The majority of the prisoners Maj documented were incarcerated for what are known in Afghanistan as “moral crimes,” accused of running away from forced marriages, being sold into prostitution, domestic slavery, physical violence generally conducted by their husbands, and rape and involuntary pregnancy. Being an independent female photographer enabled Maj to gain extraordinary access to her subjects with whom she established rapport and trust, visiting with many of the incarcerated women featured in the book over the course of multiple visits. Together, the voices in Almond Garden are a testimony to the human rights abuses many Afghan women continue to endure, and a call to action for the much-needed support in the battle for women’s rights in Afghanistan from the international community. Prison Photography.orgL'Oeil de la Photographie View Details

Almond Garden

Gabriela Maj

Book Details: Soft cover, FlexiboundISBN-13: 978-1942084686188 pages; 140 Color Photographs8 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN “...helping to expand our perceptions of the trans-masculine community…”,- i-D, June 22, 2018"...beautiful and profound...",- The Daily Beast, April 6, 2019“...an intimate look into the lives and stories of transmasculine Americans, whose very identities are often put up for debate by those far outside their daily lives.”,- Out, March 31, 2019Also featured by MTV, Buzzfeed News, and The Guardian Photographs by Soraya ZamanIntroduction by Buck Angel American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States. The young Americans featured in these pages are united through their proud embrace of gender identity. Both tender and exciting these portraits are evidence of the rapidly expanding conceptions of gender sweeping the country. Soraya Zaman is an Australian photographer based in New York. Their work primarily explores notions of sexuality and gender. View Details

American Boys

Soraya Zaman

Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084839116 pages; 4 drawings / 9 B&W Photographs / 67 Color Photographs 10 x 9 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN"Elsasser had been long affected by Carl Jung’s concepts of synchronicity and the unconscious. His story points towards inner journeys, clarity and healing." - The Guardian, July 8, 2020"It is clear that, considering the saturation and contrasts of the selection of images, this is a much more complex work." - F-Stop MagazineAlso featured in:We Heart, Art Daily, and Abstract Magazine.Photographs by George ElsasserEssay by Deborah McLeodAfterword by George ElsasserAmerican Psyche: The Unlit Cave is a conceptual arrangement of photographs made in the United States from 2005 to 2019. The story begins with four of George Elsasser's drawings made in 1999. The photographs are visual metaphors mirroring the artist's reactions to America's colonialism, the current moment and our inability to live up to American ideals. Long affected by Carl Jung's concepts of synchronicity and the unconscious, Elsasser's story ultimately points towards inner journeys, clarity and healing.George Elsasser, who had been drawing since childhood, discovered photography at twenty-one and found that, unmoored from traditional uses, it was perfect for his artistic intuitions. He's been included in shows at the Chrysler Museum of Art and New York University (NYU). In 1997 he received a 20-year Retrospective at the Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, VA. Elsasser received his degree in art in 1984, has taught various photography classes at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). He has done both advertising and institutional photography in addition to 12 years of journalistic style weddings.Deborah McLeod is a longtime curator and the owner of Chroma Projects Art Laboratory in Charlottesville, VA. View Details

American Psyche: The Unlit Cave

George Elsasser

Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 9781942084754144 pages; 55 Duo-tone Photographs12 x 8 inches$50 US; $72.50 CAN Photographs by Bil Zelman Foreword by E.O. WilsonThis collection of noir-ish photographs presents numerous elements of the natural world imperiled by humanity’s havoc. Bil Zelman highlights the impacts of non-native and invasive species, the current Holocene Extinction and the fragile places where man and nature collide. The series consists of a series of specimens and landscapes, shot at night, accompanied by researched and in-depth captions that seem to walk the line between visual evidence and photographic art.Bil Zelman is a photographer and filmmaker based outside of Los Angeles, CA.E. O. Wilson is a two-time Pulitzer-winning author and biologist. View Details

And Here We Are: Stories from The Sixth Extinction

Bil Zelman

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 INFOPaper over Board, 13 X 11 in. / 196 Pages / 152 Color Photographs / 18 InsertsISBN 9781942084365List Price: $50.00“While the book is undoubtedly documentary, Ms. Malik’s account is first and foremost a personal investigation of her own memory.”,- The New York Times, June 20, 2017“Here, cultures that usually clash blend together, and identity outgrows simple, nationalistic terms.”,- Aperture, September 14, 2017...a strangely personal, honest, and childlike view of a place that, to most, seems bizarre.”,- Vice, September 13, 2017Photographs by Ayesha MalikContributions by Elizabeth Renstrom In ARAMCO: Above the Oil Fields, Ayesha Malik delivers a personalized account of life within Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a gated community originally created as a home for American employees of the Arabian American Oil Company (now known as Saudi Aramco). This small town houses the world's wealthiest company, which also owns the world's largest crude oil reserves. In 2018, as part of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 plan, the public sale of a percentage of the company is expected to be the biggest IPO in history, valued at around $2 trillion. Malik shares the surprising warmth, familiarity, and timelessness of this 22-and-a-half square-mile place that so many Aramcons call home. Malik's photographs provoke conversation about the perception of and preconceived ideas about a home that is neither fully Saudi nor fully American -- a home unlike any other.Ayesha Malik divides her time between New York City and Saudi Arabia working on self-directed photo projects. Her work has been featured in Time Lightbox, VICE Magazine, Le Monde's M Magazine, The New York Times, Refinery29, and Offset, amongst others. View Details

ARAMCO: Above the Oil Fields

Ayesha Malik

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119567 Hardcover (two books in slipcase) Book 1: 168 pagesBook 2: 200 pages9in x 12inEssays by: Miss Rosen, Nikita Shepard, and Theodore ZinnDuring 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, Nikita Shepard, 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.Nikita Shepard teaches, researches, and writes on LGBTQ communities and social movements in the modern United States. They received their PhD from Columbia University in 2025, work as Assistant Professor of History at Elon University in North Carolina, and serve on the board of directors of the LGBTQ+ History Association. Their dissertation, titled Embodied Politics: A Social Movement History of the Public Bathroom in the Modern United States, explores how toilets have served as sites and symbols of struggles for justice over the past century. Their writings on queer/trans history, politics, and culture have appeared widely in scholarly and popular venues, from the Washington Post and Spectrum South to Journal of the History of Sexuality and SignsTheo 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 INFOHardcover, 10 X 6.5 In. / 112 Pgs / 57 Color ISBN 9780989798143List Price: $39.95"Mostly absent of their owners, the images nonetheless speak to their work, their tastes, their personal lives.", - Washington Post, October 18, 2014“There is something fascinating about seeing the spaces in which creative people work.”, - Hyperallergic, October 21, 2014Photographs by E. Brady Robinson Introduction by Andy GrundbergE. Brady Robinson’s Art Desks features photographs of the desks and working spaces of artists, curators, art dealers and critics throughout the East Coast. Her subjects include collector Mera Rubell, historian David Ward, and photographer William Christenberry. View Details

Art Desks

E. Brady Robinson

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 978-1-942084-53-2$50 US$72.50 CAN132 pages; 75 images; 7.5 x 10.5 inches“The female and femme-presenting figures captured here are free from the restraints and filters imposed upon women by a society that worships beauty and scorns flaws.”,- Musee Magazine, October 30, 2018"Amy Gelb is doing a brave and marvelous service not only for women, but for all people, by showing her deep respect for the emotional complexity and startling beauty of the human form.",- Mayim Bialik Also featured by Photo District News Photographs by Amy Gelb As Is: Women exposed, consists of female nudes made in studio settings without artifice or glamour. Amy Gelb's plain-spoken, yet graceful portraits invite the viewer to engage in a conversation about women, self-image, and how we define true beauty. By cropping closely into her subjects, Gelb literalizes the compartmentalization of the female form and recreates the fragmentation of a woman's identity. Her subjects are anonymous and are free to express themselves fully without fear of consequence. Amy Gelb was born in New York City, and currently resides and works in Miami Beach. She is a graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Gelb’s work has been featured in prominent art galleries in South Florida, and during Art Basel. For more information, visit: http://www.amygelb.com/index View Details

As Is: Women Exposed

Amy Gelb

Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 9781942084792128 pages; 55 B&W photographs11 x 9 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN "Timothy Roberts profiles Atlantic City as it recovers from near bankruptcy to stage another much-anticipated comeback. Steve Hankin, an Atlantic City attorney who Roberts interviewed, commented We've been through so many phases. This is the final one. This is the last hurrah." - All-About_Photo"All shot in black and white, Timothy's photographs have a timeless quality. The people Roberts captures are not the high rollers, but regular folk, both residents and visitors, who are there to enjoy Atlantic City's famous beach and boardwalk, rides at the amusement park, fishing off the jetty, among other attractions." - Creative BoomFeatured in: The Guardian, ASMP Bookshelf and, Plain Magazine.Photographs by Timothy Roberts Atlantic City looms large in the American imagination. Historically the city was a refuge for those fleeing Prohibition. The casinos offered the unsleeping promise of redemption at the pull of a lever or roll of the dice. Timothy Roberts’ photographs profile this iconic American shore resort as it emerges from its latest crisis.Timothy Roberts is a photographer based in Philadelphia. He spent many years as a newspaper reporter working in the South and the West. Now a documentary photographer, Roberts looks for stories about places in transition or people who are struggling with the changes and chances of life. View Details

Atlantic City: The Last Hurrah

Timothy Roberts

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