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Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781954119383132 pages; 72 Photographs8 x 8 inches$40 US*Books will begin shipping October / NovemberUnable to find imagery that was relatable and authentic about a young family navigating cancer, photographers Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turned the camera on each other and themselves after Anna's diagnosis at the age of 37 with an aggressive form of breast cancer. HER2 is an ongoing visual conversation told through the utterly unique dual perspective of the experience as a husband- and-wife team, showing both the ways in which there is a deep bond in shared survival while also highlighting their parallel, isolated traumas amidst layers of grief and joy.The Rathkopfs' project includes intimate photographs taken at home, in hospital settings, and with their son, providing a raw look at how a chronic serious diagnosis impacts every aspect of life - relationships, parenting, marriage, work and childhood. These images offer a fuller picture of the emotional and daily realities of illness, from the perspective of the diagnosed, the caregiver and the child, inviting viewers to witness and understand the complexity of survivorship, vulnerability, and resilience.Anna and Jordan Rathkopf, are an award-winning multicultural photography and video duo known for their focus on themes such as empathy, health, community, and identity. Their lenses often focus on the world of health, capturing the perspectives of both the diagnosed and caregivers, inspired by their own lived experiences. Their mission is to ignite real connections, inviting viewers to delve into universal themes portrayed with deep intimacy and unwavering authenticity. The Rathkopfs have been recognized for their work as cancer advocates, including recognition from the International Photographic Council at The United Nations for 2024 Photographic Achievement.
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HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son
Anna + Jordan Rathkopf
$ 40.00
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.
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Traces
John Singletary
$ 50.00
Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 978195411941396 pages; 55 Color Photographs10 x 10 inches$50 USForeword by Elin SpringMis[s]Understood explores the pivotal role of women in the Irish Traveller community, highlighting their importance as the cornerstone of family life. In this close-knit, culturally rich community, these women not only uphold traditions but also navigate the challenges of preserving their way of life in a radically changing world. Through their stories, Michele Zousmer aims to shed light on their strength, resilience, and beauty. Michele Zousmer amplifies the voices of individuals and communities often marginalized by society. Her photographic work expresses the essence of human existence and emotion, capturing moments that resonate with life's profound experiences – love, loss, vulnerability, strength and resilience.Elin Spring is Founder and Editor of What Will You Remember? as well as a contributing writer to many online and print magazines. Erin has also provided essays for various exhibition catalogs.
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Mis[s]Understood
Michele Zousmer
$ 50.00
Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119352124 pages; 100 Color Photographs6 x 9 inches$50 USEssay by TK SmithIn the Summer of 1981, an international assortment of young people gathered at a public park on the banks of the Missouri River just outside Kansas City. In ten days, they built a 16x24-foot raft from assorted lumber, a telephone pole and thirty-two 55-gallon oil drums. Propelled only by the river current and four 10-foot-long deck-mounted oars, in two months the crew of the “Eulenspiegel" floated 1,420 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. This documentary monograph is the story of that walking-pace journey down the backbone of America.Wayne Thomas has been making photographs since 1978. Now an attorney practicing in Nashville, his photographs have been exhibited in galleries across the country, including the SE Center for Photography, the A Smith Gallery and PhotoPlace Gallery.TK Smith is an Atlanta-based curator, writer, and cultural historian.
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The River Will Be a Part of Us
Justus Wayne Thomas
$ 50.00
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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
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Photographs Not Taken
Various Photographers
$ 14.95
BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 7 x 9 in | 128 pages / 50 ColorISBN 9781954119017List Price: $45.00Hanford Reach is a look at lives and landscapes in the long shadow of the atomic/ nuclear era. Located in Washington State, Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced plutonium for four decades, initially for the Trinity Test and the atomic bomb in the Second World War. Glenna Cole Allee is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the shifting relationships between place, myth and memory. Mark Auslander is an historical anthropologist who has directed museums of science and culture.
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Hanford Reach: In the Atomic Field
Glenna Cole Allee
$ 45.00
Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084921128 pages; 75 Black and white Photographs10 x 8 inches$45 US; $58.99 CAN "There is a warmth and humanity to everyone documented within the pages of this beautiful world printed in stunning black and white." - Analog Forever Magazine, January 17, 2021"Kicking Sawdust: Running Away with the Circus and Carnival, doesn't glamorize, it humanizes. While not the everyday experience for most, the collection of images normalizes the day to day existence of life on the road." - Art Daily"When daily life is shared-with anyone, in any context—this intimate kind of knowing facilitates the forming of a kind of family. Perhaps existing in just that one dimension, perhaps for only that specific time and space in one's life; but seeing people first thing in the morning, trading chores, witnessing the range of emotions humans navigate in daily life, familiarizes and connects."- All-About-PhotoAlso featured in:The Guardian, Newsbreak.com, and Photobook Journal.Photographs by Clayton AndersonForeword by Jack PiersonContributions by Katharine Kavanagh Kicking Sawdust is a series of photos taken from 1988-1992 while on the road with the circus, carnival, and various sideshows. It is a personal documentation of friends and people that photographer Clayton Anderson encountered in his daily life during that time. Clayton Anderson is a photographer and advertising art director who lives and works in New York City. In 1988 Clayton went out on the road to work in the circus, carnival and fair circuit with the family’s traveling cinnamon roll food concession. He brought along a camera and photographed his experiences there. This year his circus work was shown at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) in Tampa, FL. and the SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC. Some of his newer work will be shown at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. Clayton worked for and was mentored by some noted photographers that include Jack Pierson, David Seidner, Josef Astor and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Kicking Sawdust, published by Daylight Books, is his first monograph.Jack Pierson is an internationally exhibiting artist who has had recent solo exhibitions at the CAC Malaga, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and the Aspen Art Museum.Katharine Kavanagh has been writing about circus since 2013 when she launched The Circus Diaries—a multi-platform hub for critical discourse centered on the circus arts.
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Kicking Sawdust: Running Away with the Circus and Carnival
Clayton Anderson
$ 45.00
Book Details: Paper over boardISBN-13: 9781942084747148 pages; 70 Black and White and Color Photographs12 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Mark ParascandolaEssay by Michael Berry China, poised to become the world's largest film market, is home to an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. On an unparalleled scale, entire towns have been built around making movies. Given film censorship codes in China, period films provide a safe and familiar format to tell stories based around “official” narratives. The movie sets, rivaling real-world cities and monuments in their scale, have themselves become destinations for domestic and international tourists. Despite the fiction, they bear witness to a dynamic and changing China. Mark Parascandola is an award winning photographer based in DC. His book Once Upon a Time in Almería was published by Daylight in 2017Michael Berry is a professor in the department of Asian languages and culture at UCLA
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Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Mark Parascandola
$ 45.00
Book Details: FlexiboundISBN-13: 9781954119154128 pages; 74 Color Photographs8 x 8 inches$45 USFeatured by: “Smart Shot” - Saturday Guardian in print, The Guardian Online, Eye of Photography, Huck magazine, LensCulture, Exibart Street, and Ink. New York City subways – the century-old transit system has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and Hurricane Sandy. It and the millions of citizens that rely on it as their daily lifeline will also survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Subwaygram captures mobile phone street portraits of the diverse community of riders two years before and two years after the first case was confirmed in New York City and the commonalities in the fleeting moments of their journeys.Chris Maliwat has been photographing the subway for many years and sharing the images on his Subwaygram Instagram feed. Daylight is pleased to offer this selection of favorites collected in the artist's first monograph. Chris Maliwat is a street-portrait photographer who captures surreptitious moments of everyday people on their journeys in the cities where they live. Aaron L. Morrison is a New York City-based journalist whose work on race, criminal justice and grassroots social movements has been published by The Associated Press, the global nonprofit news wire. "Chris Maliwat describes the New York subway as the first slot in a pinball machine. “Whenever I head down there, I know it’s going to be a mini adventure, like I’m about to be launched into the world,” he says. “I saw this woman waiting at Metropolitan Avenue/Grand Street station and wondered which world she was about to shoot out into. Are there people like her where she’s going? Is she headed to her tribe? I think so. Everyone finds their tribe in New York – that’s why people come here.”"-The Guardian, December 3, 2022. "I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens through which he recorded his subjects. "-Lenscratch, November 18, 2022
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Subwaygram
Chris Maliwat
$ 45.00
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 DailyViewing Distance compiles and transforms rarely seen images of declassified material from US government archives to examine photography’s role as an instrument of the military-industrial complex.Evan Hume is an artist based in South Bend, Indiana where he is the Visiting Lecturer of Photography at the University of Notre Dame. Lily Brewer holds a PhD in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Viewing Distance: Remixing the Archives of the Military-Industrial Complex
Evan Hume
$ 45.00
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BOOK INFO Hardcover, 8 X 8 In. / 96 Pages / 94 Color ISBN 9780988983175List Price: $39.95 “The breathtaking power of nature is captured in “#Sandy: Seen Through the iPhones of Acclaimed Photographers...",- The New York Times, November 14, 2014“...a collection of stunning, harrowing, and humbling images…”, - The Week, October 28, 2014Edited by Wyatt Gallery Text by Sean Corcoran and Eddie Brannan #SANDY is a book of iPhone photos of Hurricane Sandy by acclaimed photographers, including: Benjamin Lowy • Stephen Wilkes • Ed Kashi/VII • Hank Willis Thomas • Richard Renaldi • Lyle Owerko • Wyatt Gallery • Michael Christopher Brown • Ruddy Roye • Craig Wetherby • 13th Witness • Sam Horine • Andrew Quilty • Giles Clarke • Erica Simone • Yosra El-Essawy • Duffy Higgins • Brent A. Bartley • Dylan Chandler • Nicole Sweet In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated communities in the New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut areas. In response, Foley Gallery and photographer Wyatt Gallery organized an exhibition of iPhone photographs of the storm by the photographers listed above. Hundreds of people attended the one-night event, and almost 400 photographs were purchased. Over a year later, many residents are still struggling to regain normal living conditions. Pre-purchase this groundbreaking book today and help us remind the public that many people are still in need of assistance.
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#SANDY
Various Photographers
$ 39.95
BOOK INFO Paper Over Board, 11 X 9 In. / 96 Pages / 45 ColorISBN 9781942084204 List Price: $45.00“...these fresh, layered and technically complex images examine the possibilities in the un-sensed and unimagined...”, - Artdaily, September 4, 2016“Kyne uses light and perspective to create a mysterious world that otherwise would go undiscovered.”, - Musee Magazine, November 8, 2016“...the photographs in A Crack in the World shift human vision into an extraordinary terrain, one where Kyne and her camera revel.”, - KQED Arts (NPR), November 16, 2016Photographs by Barbara Kyne Contributions by Susan Griffin A Crack In The World presents Barbara Kyne's photographs of the five acres which she and her partner share in Mariposa, California. Kyne photographs as a means understanding so-called reality, wondering what lies outside of the environment that she can detect with her own limited human biology. Ultimately, Kyne produces a photography of nature that does not rely on the nature genre, or even on the subject matter of nature for engagement or visual enjoyment, but instead examines the possibilities in the not-sensed and the imagined. A Crack In The World contains fresh and elegant, yet layered and technically complex photographs that inspire empathy for all beings, and the planet that sustains them. An accompanying essay by Susan Griffin examines the artistic and theoretical implications of this deceptively simple body of work.Barbara Kyne is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been shown at SF Camerawork, Photo Center NW, the Trition Museum of Art, The Kala Institute, and the Bedford Gallery, and is featured in many contemporary photography books and publications.
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A Crack in the World
Barbara Kyne
$ 45.00
BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 11 X 10 In. / 148 Pages / 60 Color PhotographsISBN 9781942084488List Price: $45.00“Photographer Nish Nalbandian gives some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees a face, a body, a voice. He invites us to identify, to feel compassion.”, - F-Stop Magazine, May 23, 2018“What makes his work different is its focus not simply on Syrian refugees as victims but on the diversity of their experiences.”,- Royal Photographic Society, July 2018Also featured by: Artdaily L'Oeil de la Photographie Professional Photographer MagazinePhotographs by Nish Nalbandian Foreword by Greg Campbell Contributions by Javier Manzano, Carmen Gentile, and Karam Shoumali A Handful of Dust is an essential collection of reportage for those following the conflict in Syria and its impact on the rest of the world.A Handful of Dust gives a glimpse into the approximately 3 million Syrians who have fled war in their home country and are living in Turkey. Nish has been following this story for several years, chronicling the circumstances of many whose lives have been upended and forced to flee. Most registered refugees don't live in camps, they live in Turkish towns and cities, alongside their new Turkish neighbors. While many refugees are very poor, and most find themselves in a precarious position, there are also working class, middle class, and wealthy Syrians who have made this exodus.Nish Nalbandian has photographed in more than thirty-five countries worldwide in a variety of environments and continues to cover Syrian Refugee issues. Nalbandian's awards include First Prize for Conflict photography in the 2014 IPA, the Gold Medal for War Photography in the 2014 PX3, and many more.
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A Handful of Dust: Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Nish Nalbandian
$ 45.00
Book Details: Hardcover with Dust JacketISBN-13: 978-1-954119-11-692 pages; 45 Black & White Photographs11 x 9 inches$45 US“A Long & Echoing Light takes us on a deep and meditative journey, reframing the artist’s familiar interiors, routines and objects into softening abstraction, breaking their lines and finding solace in their presence during a long period of isolation during the pandemic.” - Michael FoleyFeatured in: LF Magazine.Over the course of the pandemic, Jon Plasse photographed familiar objects around his home. The resulting series, in turns subtle and startling, evokes the intensity, monotony and disorientation of life in isolation. Jon Plasse focuses his work on memorializing a special time, place or experience - often represented by personal loss, solitude, excitement or mystery.Chuck Kelton is a photographer who makes chemograms and photograms transforming light, chemistry and paper into abstract landscapes. He is also a master printer, for over 35 years handling the work of a wide variety of highly regarded photographers.
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A Long and Echoing Light: Notes from a Pandemic
Jon Plasse
$ 45.00
Book Details: HardcoverISBN-13: 9781954119307150 pages; 100 Photographs7 x 9.5 inches$50 US A 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.
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A Poor Imitation of Death: Youth in the California Prison System
Ara Oshagan
$ 50.00
Book Details: Trade ClothISBN-13: 978194208470996 pages; 36 Color Photographs10 x 10 inches$45 US; $65.50 CAN Photographs by Charlotta María HauksdóttirForeword by David RosenbergEssay by Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir. Sense of Place consists of assembled and layered photographs of the artists homeland Iceland. The composite, textured landscapes are a re-creation of places and scenes that suggest the imperfections of memory as well as the interplay of effects between man and nature. Utilizing human fingerprint patterns in the work also evokes the uniqueness of our connection with nature and our impressions upon it.Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic artist based in California. Her work has been exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions in the USA, Russia, and Iceland. She has received a number of awards and has been published in several magazines and books. Her work is part of numerous public and private collections all over the world.Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir is a doctor of Environmental Philosophy and an associate professor in Iceland.
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A Sense of Place: Imprints of Iceland
Charlotta María Hauksdóttir
$ 45.00
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