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Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 9781942084785220 pages; 140 color photographs13 x 10 1⁄2 $50 US; $64.99 CAN Photographs by Phil BergersonForeword by Robert BurleyEssays by Don Snyder and Peter HigdonPhil Bergerson’s photographs are poetic statements full of irony and pathos encapsulating this empathetic neighbor’s Canadian insight into the mysteries of our complex American nation. Using the traditions of Evans, Frank, and Lyons, Bergerson constructs found, poetic fragments into powerful sequential ensembles that metaphorically express something genuine and meaningful.Phil Bergerson has been showing his work internationally for fifty years, and his work can be found in many prestigious collections including the National Gallery National Gallery of Canada, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, and the Creative Center for Photography Collections, Tucson.Don Snyder, is a writer and teacher who studied with Walker Evans at Yale and Minor White at MIT. Peter Higdon, is the Founding Collections Curator at Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University. Robert Burley, is an internationally exhibiting photographer, represented in the George Eastman Museum, National Gallery of Canada, and Musée Niepce collections. View Details

Phil Bergerson: A Retrospective

Phil Bergerson

Book Details: Cloth over boardISBN-13: 978194208477896 pages; 36 Color Photographs10 x 9 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN Photographs by Diane DurantEssay by Dr. Sheree GallagherStories, 1986–88 is a collaborative project between the artist, Diane Durant, and her daughter, Andie. Pairing deadpan portraits with handwritten texts, Durant conceptualizes scenes from a pivotal period in her childhood and poses her daughter in authentic 80s ensembles to reinterpret the memory. Together, mother and daughter relive and rewrite childhood stories through this restorative approach to image-making and storytelling. Diane Durant is a Carter Community Artist at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas, where she is Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of the Comer Collection of Photography.Dr. Sheree Gallagher is a Clinical Psychologist.Andie McGurren is a fifth grader at the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts. View Details

Diane Durant: Stories, 1986–88

Diane Durant

Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781942084815148 pages; 120 Color Photographs9 x 9 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN Photographs by Eric MuellerEssay by Ann Fessler Family Resemblance is a multi-year photo project which documents and celebrates people who are genetically related and bear a strong resemblance to each other. As an adopted person, photographer Eric Mueller always wondered what it would be like to look like someone else. At age forty-five, when he saw a photo of his birth mother for the first time it triggered the idea to photograph family members with shared physical characteristics. Over a three-year period he photographed around 700 people—from newborns to nonagenarians—asking them about their own experiences with family resemblance. Eric Mueller is a Minneapolis-based artist, photographer, and teacher. His photographs have been exhibited in dozens of group shows, including at the Plains Art Museum, the Devos Art Museum, the Midwest Center for Photography, Head On Photo Festival, the Southeast Center for Photography, and the Columbus Museum of Art.Ann Fessler is the author of The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, The Penguin Press, 2006. View Details

Eric Mueller: Family Resemblance

Eric Mueller

Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084822128 pages; 55 Color Photographs8 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN Photographs by Debbie BentleyIntroduction by Mark MurrmannPhotographs documenting the Salton Sea as it existed in 2018—the first year after California water transfers ended. The lake will never be as it was at that moment in time, nor will State remediation efforts woefully behind schedule to control dust. From this point forward, the Sea will recede at an unprecedented rate, releasing ever-increasing levels of toxic dust into the air.Debbie Bentley is a documentary photographer currently living and working in Vacaville, California.Mark Murrmann is a photographer, curator, and photography instructor. He serves as Photo Editor at Mother Jones magazine. View Details

Salton Sea: Beautiful Desolation

Debbie Bentley

Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084846128 pages; 50 B&W photographs10 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN Photographs by Ken DreyfackIntroduction by David A. Ross The photographs in Silent Stages set the scene for dramatic urban narratives, like theatrical stages or movie sets. At the same time, they constitute artifacts from various stages of the artist’s life, visual traces of the sedimentary layers that have quietly accumulated atop one another over time. Dreyfack sees them almost as relics from a personal archeological dig—a layered visual memoir that emerges from the artist’s dual Franco-American identity. All of the images, shot over the past five years around New York or Paris, establish visual and thematic parallels and equivalencies between the two seemingly disparate poles of the artist’s life. Ken Dreyfack is a nationally exhibiting artist. Ken was awarded second prize for The Photo Review’s 2018 competition, juried by MOMA photography curator Sarah Meister. His work was selected for Photography Now 2018 at CPW and was awarded a silver prize at the 2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition. David A. Ross is former director of the Whitney Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is currently the Chair of the MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts. View Details

Silent Stages

Ken Dreyfack

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 CANPhotographs 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.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: 9781942084792128 pages; 55 B&W photographs11 x 9 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN 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