Renate Aller: Oceanscapes
Laura Letinsky: After All
One View. Ten Years.
Text by Mark Strand The setup is classic and familiar: a table draped with a white cloth, a dish of fruit, a sugar bowl. Yet instead of the meal awaiting an unseen viewer’s consumption, as in a classic still life, Laura Letinsky photographs what remains on the table after the food has been eaten, leaving only crumbs, melon rinds, a cantaloupe pocked with rot and a half-finished lollipop. Letinsky explores the inextricable relationship between ripeness and decay, delicacy and clumsiness, waste and plenitude, pleasure and sustenance. The influence of Dutch-Flemish and Italian still-life paintings— whose exacting beauty documented shifting social attitudes resulting from exploration, colonization, economics and ideas about seeing as a kind of truth—can be seen here as well. In After All, Letinsky explores photography’s transformative quality, changing what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience. Poet Mark Strand contributes an essay to this marvelous volume.
Text by Richard B. Woodward, Petra Roettig, Jasmin Seck. German-born photographer Renate Aller has been photographing the Atlantic Ocean for over a decade, from a single point on the Long Island coastline. Her images capture the shifting colors and textures of the sky and water, and the grandeur of the ocean, and connect the sublime beauty of this Atlantic view to the nineteenth-century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, her static viewpoint likewise allowing for images that provoke infinite reverie. Renate Aller: Oceanscapes ISBN 978-1-934435-23-6 Clth, 13 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 47 color. U.S. $50.00 CDN $60.00 August/Photography Exhibition Schedule Santa Fe, NM: Chiaroscuro Gallery, 06/01/10–07/30/10 New York: Klompching Gallery, 09/15/10–10/30/10
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Laura Letinsky: After All ISBN 978-88-6208-132-0 Hbk, 11 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 55 color. U.S. $50.00 CDN $60.00 October/Photography
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Dayanita Singh: House of Love
John Gossage & Alec Soth: The Auckland Project
Michael Light: LA Day, LA Night
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collector
Stephen Gill: Coming up for Air
Stephen Gill: B Sides
In the spring of 2009, John Gossage and Alec Soth were invited to photograph in Auckland, New Zealand. For both, it was a trip of departures. Gossage has been working in black and white for over 40 years, and this trip yielded some of his first work in color. Soth’s work with the 8x10 view camera has inspired a more recent generation, and leaving it behind was key to attaining a fresh visual perspective. This publication presents the results of that trip. Essentially two books in one, The Auckland Project evinces the attention to book form that characterizes the publications of both photographers.
The greater Los Angeles area covers 4,850 square miles and is home to almost 18 million people. Perhaps America’s largest human creation, it has been vilified and celebrated in equal measure since its inception. With LA Day/LA Night, photographer Michael Light continues his aerial examination of the arid American West by bringing together two opposing views of the city in a double-volume set. LA Day stares directly into the sun, blasting the metropolis in a relentless blaze. LA Night drifts over the city as it grows darker, then begins to resemble the starry sky vaulted above.
Dubbed by Martin Parr “the new whiz kid of British documentary,” Stephen Gill (born 1971) records the immediacies of city sights with airy specificity and lightness of touch. Gill’s latest volume, Coming Up for Air, collects work made in Japan in 2008 and 2009. Unlike previous volumes such as Hackney Flowers, these images minimize local information in favor of achieving what Gill calls “a kind of fictional aquatic world…. muffled chaos seen through squinted eyes.” A superb work of bookmaking, this volume consists of 100 color photographs that linger and pivot upon the lightest of effects.
John Gossage & Alec Soth: The Auckland Project ISBN 978-1-934435-26-7 Slip, Hbk, 2 Volumes, 9 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 84 color. U.S. $50.00 CDN $60.00 September/Photography
Michael Light: LA Day, LA Night ISBN 978-1-934435-30-4 Clth, 10.5 x 16 in. / 72 pgs / 34 duotone. U.S. $60.00 CDN $72.00 October/Photography
Edited by Lorenzo de Rita. As photographer Jason Fulford recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford’s gave him a box, bought at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms—modest snaps taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer, apparently as notes for mycological studies. These mushroom images stuck in Fulford’s mind, and started to grow in his own work. The Mushroom Collector combines some of the original flea-market mushroom pictures with his own images and text by the artist about the project.
Text by Aveek Sen. Dayanita Singh’s House of Love is a work of photographic fiction that takes the form of 13 short stories. The “House of Love” itself is the Taj Mahal, but the Taj Mahal as a recurring motif that stands for the truths and lies of night and day, love and illusion, attachment and detachment, humor and treachery. Through images of her native India, Singh creates her own mysterious and ineffable, strange yet familiar language, using her trademark black-and-white photography and her newer investigations of nocturnal color. Working closely with writer Aveek Sen, whose prose pursues its own parallel journey, Singh explores the relationship between photography and writing. Dayanita Singh: House of Love ISBN 978-1-934435-27-4 Clth, 7 x 9.25 in. / 180 pgs / 47 color / 44 b&w. U.S. $45.00 CDN $54.00 October/Photography/Asian Art & Culture
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collector ISBN 978-90-810584-2-1 Clth, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 196 pgs / 115 color. U.S. $65.00 CDN $78.00 October/Photography
Stephen Gill: Coming up for Air ISBN 978-0-9556577-2-6 Clth, 9.75 x 13 in. / 106 pgs / 97 color. U.S. $65.00 CDN $78.00 August/Photography
Just as a collection of a musician’s B-side cuts and outtakes, or the scenes that didn’t quite make it into a movie, speak volumes about the project as a whole, and offer their own kind of magic by their very excision, so too does B Sides, the companion volume to British photographer Stephen Gill’s latest book of photos Coming Up for Air, likewise illuminate the fringes of his latest project. In B Sides, Gill records minute effects of texture and trace. Please note that only a limited number of copies are available. Stephen Gill: B Sides ISBN 978-0-9556577-4-0 Clth, 9.75 x 13 in. / 72 pgs / 34 color. U.S. $65.00 CDN $78.00 November/Photography
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