New Releases – Daylight Books

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119307150 pages; 100 Photographs7 x 9.5 inches$50 US *Books will ship in JuneA Poor Imitation of Death is a complex and collaborative narrative about youth in prison: meshing photographs with the youth’s handwritten letters, poems, and artwork to create a unique and authentic voice that speaks about the realities of life in prison. It tells a harsh story: full of despair, raw emotion and injustice but also of incredible resilience, inner strength and huge potential for change. It indicts an inhumane and broken California prison system that has changed little over two decades. Ara Oshagan is a diasporic transdisciplinary artist, curator and cultural worker whose practice explores collective and personal histories of marginalization, displacement, identity, legacies of violence and (un)imagined futures. A descendant of communities uprooted from their indigenous land by the Armenian Genocide, he was born in Lebanon and displaced by war as a youth to the US. Oshagan has published three books of photography and has exhibited his artwork and public art internationally. World renowned for “radical kinship” and “boundless compassion,” Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang re-entry program in the US and a national model. He is the author of three books, including the 2010 New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. View Details

A Poor Imitation of Death

Ara Oshagan

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119277116 pages; 94 Photographs10 x 8 inches$50 US *Books will ship in JuneForeword by: Sam AbellCulminating during the Coronavirus pandemic, Relative Strangers highlights the unseen similarities of the everyday. Through her street photographs, Vershel weaves a narrative through feeling, subtle gestures, and color. Ultimately these diptychs tell a story of a shared humanity. Teri Vershel is a fine art street photographer based in the San Francisco Bay area.Sam Abell was a staff photographer at National Geographic for 33 years. He has published multiple monographs of his work, and is a writer, teacher, and lecturer on photography. View Details

Relative Strangers

Teri Vershel

Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119345102 pages; 44 Duotone Photographs8 x 10 inches$50 US*Books will ship in JunePhotographs by Heather PillarEssays by Rob Schwartz, Dr. Stanley H. Appel, Richard Harris, and Anita Hannig In 1995, photographer Heather Pillar collaborated with Morrie Schwartz during the last six months of Morrie's struggle with ALS. The project illustrated Morrie's philosophies through photographs made of family, friends, caregivers, reaching out to community and self-care. Over a quarter-century later, Morrie's wisdom resonates with many people around the world due to the best-selling memoir to date: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Morrie's warmth and vitality comes through in each photograph to illustrate love and loss; caregiving and self-care; family, friends and always community. Morrie taught people, including Heather - how to live fulfilling lives with love. It is by facing fears of death that we learn how to live. Heather Pillar, photographer and teacher, has lived, taught and photographed in seven countries over four continents during the past 25 years. Her personal and collaborative photographic projects reveal her ongoing interest in women, girls, education and aging.Rob Schwartz is an entrepreneur, writer, music and film producer, and son of Morrie Schwartz. Schwartz is editor of The Wisdom of Morrie (Blackstone Press, 2023) and is a producer of Onetopia, a benefit festival for mental health.Stanley H. Appel, MD is a neurologist and internationally renowned researcher. Dr. Appel is creator and director of the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute’s MDA/ALSA ALS Research and Clinical Center in Texas, the Peggy and Gary Edwards Distinguished Chair for the Treatment and Research of ALS at the Houston Methodist Research Institute.Richard Harris is an award-winning television, radio, print, digital, andfilm journalist Harris is a consultant to the nonprofit iCivics, former producer of NPR’s All Things Considered, and former senior producer of ABC News’s Nightline with Ted Koppel.Anita Hannig is a leading voice on death literacy and a former Brandeis University associate professor whose book My Death Diary: A Guided Journal for Mortals will be published in 2024. Hanning also authored The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America, a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards View Details

Memento Morrie: Images of Love and Loss

Heather Pillar

Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781954119406125 pages; 77 Photographs9 x 9 inches$50 US *Books will ship in JuneThe 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