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BOOK INFO Paperback, 5.5 X 8 In. / 136 Pages ISBN 9780983231615 List Price: $14.95 Featured by The New Yorker Edited by Will Steacy Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about moments that never became a picture. Conceived and edited by Will Steacy, each photographer was asked to abandon the camera and, instead, use words to recreate the image that never made it through their lens.Featuring contributions from over sixty photographers! Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D'Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schuman, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter Van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris WebbFeatured in the New York Times, New Yorker, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, La Repubblica, Wired, Photograph, and Artnet View Details

Photographs Not Taken

Various Photographers

$ 14.95

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a nationwide conversation about toxic masculinity sparked by the #Metoo movement...", - Time, September 17, 2018 "...a historical document of a powerful—and aggressive—American subculture.", - Vice, October 4, 2018"This is a naked look inside the American frat house.", - The New York Post,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

$ 45.00

BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 6.5 X 8.5 In. / 96 Pages / 50 ColorISBN 9781942084228List Price: $30.00"These are not your average Christmas cards.", - The Week, December 7, 2016"...a brilliant new book reveals the festive correspondence of some of modern art’s greatest pioneers...”, - AnOther Magazine, December 20, 2016Edited by Vincent Cianni Foreword by Joseph Scott IV Contributions by Allen EllenzweigSeason's Greetings includes reproductions of handmade art objects or limited printings that come from the Estate of Monroe Wheeler.As Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Museum of Modern Art from 1939 to 1967, Monroe Wheeler heavily influenced typography, book design, and the development of the museum exhibition catalog. During his tenure at MoMA, Wheeler developed close relationships with many of the artists whose works he exhibited and published. Season's Greetings is a volume of over fifty handmade art objects and limited printings that were sent to Wheeler from artists, many of whom he knew intimately, including never-before-seen work by such luminaries as André Kertész, Marc Chagall, Ben Shahn, Robert Parker, Roberto Montenegro, Herbert Bayer, Max Weber, Alexander Calder and more!Essays by Allen Ellenzweig, Joseph Scott IV and Vincent Cianni establish the importance of this vast archive of art, letters, and ephemera, and highlight Wheeler's wide influence within his field. Season's Greetings is a fitting tribute to a man whose life's work centered on and celebrated fine art publications.Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer and archivist for the Estate of Anatole Pohorilenko and the Monroe Wheeler Archive. He teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City, and has authored two books, including Gays in the Military, published by Daylight Books in 2014.Joseph Scott IV, Philadelphia, PA, became caretaker of the Manhattan apartment of Monroe Wheeler in 1990 to assist with organizing and preserving this important archive. His work continues today, as executor for Anatole Pohorienko, to help finish cataloging the remaining material for Mr. Wheeler, Glenway Wescott and George Platt Lynes.Allen Ellenzweig, New york, NY, is an arts critic and cultural commentator currently preparing a biography of twentieth-century photographer George Platt Lynes for Oxford University Press. He is a contributing writer to the Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide and has published in Art in America, PASSION: the Magazine of Paris, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and the online magazine Tablet. He has also published works of short fiction. His landmark 1992 illustrated history, The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe, was reissued in paperback by Columbia University Press in 2012. He teaches in the Writing Program at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a founding board member of The Robert Giard Foundation which offers an annual fellowship to photographers, videographers, or filmmakers. View Details

Season's Greetings: Holiday Cards by Celebrated Artists from the Monroe Wheeler Archive

Various Artists

$ 30.00

BOOK INFOFaux leather over board 7 x 10 1⁄2 / 104 pages / 50 B&W photographsISBN 9781942084471 List Price: US $45.00 “... recognized as an epochal and historically important record of the growth of corporate America which still resonates today.”, - Artdaily, December 19, 2018“You can almost smell the polish and the cigarette smoke in her images, offering peeks inside board rooms, private offices and lobbies; and in doing so, opening doors into the world of the booming businesses of corporate America.”,- Creative Review, April 23, 2018"As Executive Order proceeds, the book becomes increasingly surreal. ", - Fraction Magazine, October 2018Also featured by The New York Times Lens Blog Photographs by Susan Ressler Contributions by Mark Rice Executive Order is a trenchant look at corporate America, featuring portraits and office interiors shot during the 1970s in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. A daring critique of wealth and power, Ressler wields photography with humor and insight, and her work is especially relevant today.Susan Ressler is an internationally renowned photographer, author and educator. An NEA fellow, her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library Archives of Canada, among other important collections.Mark Rice is an award-winning author and the founding chair of the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College near Rochester, New York. View Details

Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate America

Susan Ressler

$ 45.00

Book Details: Trade PaperISBN-13: 978-1942084617200 pages; Black and White Drawings throughout 4 x 6 inches$11.95 US; $17.50CAN “Hiro’s notebook quickly became a series of notebooks, and Hiro studied their contents tirelessly until his command of American slang was beyond that of anyone else I knew. His conversational English was still limited, but as a slang speaker, he had no equal.", - Brendan Kelly, vocalist of The Lawrence Arms"This collection of curiosities and depravity is like an updated 'Decline of Western Civilization'. Enjoy/cringe at your own risk!" - Tim Kasher, vocalist of Cursive While on tour as a photographer for numerous punk, hardcore, and indie bands (including Jeff Rosenstock, Minus the Bear, Cursive, Alkaline Trio, Har Mar Superstar, Lawrence Arms, Selby Tigers, Mike Park, and more), Japanese photographer Hiro Tanaka spent ten years compiling a naughty notebook filled with NSFW slang words and crude drawings. Tanaka was known to have a pen and notebook with him at all times that he filled from cover to cover with English colloquialisms, dirty phrases, slang, jokes, and drawings that he would learn from the bands, fans and other people he met traveling.Hiro Tanaka is a Japanese-born photographer who captures ironic and humorous commentaries on various aspects of the American lifestyle.Jeff Rosenstock is an American musician and songwriter from Long Island, United States. He was the lead singer of the ska punk band The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, the musical collective Bomb the Music Industry! and the indie rock band Kudrow. After the breakup of Bomb the Music Industry!, he began a solo career. View Details

DIRTY BIRDY BIBLE: Notes From the Road

Hiro Tanaka

$ 11.95

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 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

$ 45.00