Delahaye, Luc & Engstrom, J H & Sasse, Jorg & Shore, Stephen   Deutsche Borse Prize 2005 Exhibition Catalogue.    Published by Photographers Gallery 2005     This soft cover catalogue came in a choice of four different dust wraps.    This copy is in the Delahaye cover and has been signed by Delahaye who won the Deutsche Borse Prize 2005.

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2005:  Exhibition Catalogue

Nudare   Published by Nazraeli Press   Signed by the author   Nudare is Nazraeli Press' third publication on the botanical still lifes of Ron van Dongen. Like the first two books in this trilogy  Alba Nero (1999) and Vulgaris (2000) Nudare confirms van Dongen's position as the most innovative and exciting artist working in the genre today. This large format book '14 x 17 inches' contains 32 duotone plates printed on matt art paper, hand-bound in gray cloth with a tipped-in cover plate. Ron van Dongen's work has been exhibited throughout the country, and is housed in important collections throughout the United States and Europe.   'I think of slender Japanese bowls, porcelain pinched to ultimate thinness, unbearably fragile. The purest shapes, drawn, pushed, picked by the artist's hands, and then isolated, edited down. This elegant poise is remarkably captured in the tulip Blushing Beauty.© The softness frozen in time tricks those who think it may not break into thousands of pieces. The magnolias are carved from thick wax: heavy, scented, floating, laden, and glowing. They are the corsage dressing the light box, invited to the modernist party, pulling you in, innocently tempting you to open the petals, or cup the shape in your hands, stroking the blush colour strained into the form.'  from the Introduction by Carolyn Quartermaine   Hardcover (cloth with tipped-in cover plate), 14 x 17, 56 pages, 32 duotone plates.   ISBN 1-59005-000-2

Nudare

Review   The Blues is the roots of all music. It's the roots . . . Blues has been here since the world was born. Once there was women and men loving each other and breaking up, that's the blues.  -John Lee Hooker, from the Preface

State of the Blues: The Living Legacy of the Delta

A Photographic Pilgrims Process   Published by Focal Press, 1954    Stiff plastic cover wirh dustwrapper, in excellent condition except for a little foxing along the top edge.   'Being the adventures of an itinerant photographer among cameras, cabbages and Kings'

Photographic Pilgrims Progress

American Pictures   Published by Konemann   Hardcover    New    Charcoal-black storm clouds bear down on a strip of beachfront houses in Texas. A young family poses in front of their mobile home. A pint-sized Huck Finn stands on the tailgate of a pickup truck, fishing rod in hand. These are some of the views photographer Jeff Dunas captured over several trips across the country. He was searching for signs of America from the mid-century 'remnants of the childhood he remembers' before it vanishes from the landscape. In stark contrast to the wretchedness often portrayed in photographs of people on the fringes of society, these faces are hopeful, proud, almost heroic. Grain elevators, rusty cars, even a rundown corner bar takes on a mythic quality in Dunas' full page sepiatone portraits.     ISBN 3829060807

American Pictures

A. angustatum by Ron van Dongen     Adding a subtle twist to his first One Picture Book, Rosa Ferreus, Ron van Dongen follows up with A. angustatum, a frame-by-frame recording of ?Arisaema Angustatum, 2001? in its transition from a tender, unassuming shoot photographed in black-and-white to the mature arisaema shown right in all its glory. Van Dongen is the subject of 5 monographs by Nazraeli Press, the first 4 of which featured his black-and-white work, while the most recent, Effusus, documents the artist?s own transition to color work.     Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages, 13 four-color plates, 1 original print. ISBN 1-59005-161-0

(OPB#037) A. angustatum (OPB)

Based in Carlisle, John Darwell is one of the UK?s leading contemporary photographers. His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including in London, Amsterdam, the USA, Mexico, South America and the Canary Islands. He is represented in a number of important collections, including those of the National Media Museum, Bradford, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.    2007 marks the 25th anniversary of John Darwell?s first exhibition. In celebration, the photographer and Director of Redeye (the photography network for the North West), Paul Herrmann, has curated this important retrospective for Tullie House, using his experience and insight as a photographer to make very personal connections with Darwell?s back catalogue of projects. Working closely with Darwell, Herrmann will concentrate on images that singly, and in combination, both redraw the impression we have of John Darwell as a photographer, and present us with a view of the world as fresh and compelling as the day the work was made.   Each of John Darwell?s projects takes us on both an internal and external journey. Early projects, such as Working Lives, Legacy and The Big Ditch, focused particularly on political and social themes, but resonated because of their intensely personal perspective. Meanwhile, later work such as Black Dog Came Calling and The Garden of Earthly Delights is overtly personal, but gives us images that can be taken as universal metaphors. When presenting his images to an audience, Darwell often describes himself as an ?explorer? and elaborates that this is an internal as well as external process. Also important is the trajectory of recent social history, from 70s activism to 90s hedonism and beyond. John Darwell?s work both grows from that and challenges it.    The exhibition will be accompanied by a luscious 80 page colour illustrated book reviewing the work of John Darwell. The book includes essays from the exhibition curator, Paul Harrmann and from Simon Grennan.

Comitted to Memory

John Darwell     Working Lives     An exploration of the many clothing industries working in and around Manchester, England. The images concentrate on the traditional and endangered areas of hatting, clog making and leather tanneries, capturing not only the startling 'Dickensian' environments but also the people who spend their working lives using processes that have essentially remained unaltered for the last one hundred years. Since this work was completed the majority of the locations visited have subsequently closed down.     Published as a catalogue by Stockport Art Gallery in 1986.

Working Lives

Jimmy Jock, Albert & the Six Sided Clock     John Darwell     Commissioned by the Merseyside Maritime Museum this work looks at the changes affecting the Port of Liverpool during a period of major transition. The workforce was reduced from many thousands to a few hundred dock employees, whilst the traditional warehouses were being demolished to make way for container depots. My aim was to capture this process and the people caught up in these changes.     Published by Cornerhouse Publications in 1993.

Jimmy Jock, Albert & the Six Sided Clock

Dark Days     John Darwell     Hardcover,    New     Published by Dewi Lewis     This work produced around my home on the north side of the English Lake District looks at the Foot and Mouth epidemic that swept through the UK in 2001 and became one of the most devastating and significant events to affect the British countryside within living memory, the aftershock of which will continue to shape the future of the countryside for decades to come. The images look to all affected areas from the Lake District fells closed to walkers to the measures farmers went to in order to keep people away from their farms for fear of infection, to the destruction of millions of farm animals and onto the now notorious pyres. The work then continues by recording the extraordinary efforts undertaken by farmers to eradicate the virus from their buildings; and finally the third part of the work looks at the aftermath of the disease and the gradual reopening of the countryside whilst asking questions about the future of the agricultural economy as more and more farms were put up for sale.

Dark Days

This first in-depth publication of photographer Tim Davis's work dissects the disenchantment and dissociation that have come to dominate American civil life.  It is Davis's treatise on the state of contemporary politics, politics as an aestheticized banality abstracted from real issues of power.  He finds freedom of expression exhibited at its most casual and cursory, with political, commercial and populist signage jostling for space and attention in the social landscape: His documentation of that landscape, as Peter Eeley of Frieze magazine interprets it, asks,  What if campaign signs, badges, bumper stickers and flags aren't simply the ephemera of Americans' political lives, but their substance as well?   My Life in Politics represents photographic seeing at its finest and most subtle. Davis continues Stephen Shore's colorist tradition, meshing the careful management of a quotidian palette with an incisive eye for those points at which light bends and refracts, becoming something other than mere illumination.

Tim Davis: My Life in Politics

This album offers a substantive survey of fine art photography in America throughout the 20th century, featuring 250 photographic works?superb images from acknowledged masters and iconic moments captured by little-known yet insightful photographers. The mini-portfolio series of photography books presents noteworthy albums previously published by Assouline and reduces from their original formats to pleasingly chunky miniature versions, dressed in simple white-on-black covers.

American Photographs

Perhaps the most recognized and widely-collected photographer of botanical studies working today, Ron van Dongen?s recent shift to color work was documented in our previous monograph, Effusus, which was published in 2005 and has since sold out.    His follow-up book, Aurora, presenting 33 gorgeous new plates printed ? as with all of his Nazraeli Press monographs ? in an oversized format bound in Japanese cloth. This new work adds to the Dutch photographer?s long and skilled study of flora in its many incarnations. Ron van Dongen?s work has been the subject of ten monographs, and is widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. It has been featured in such publications as Provacateur, Foto Nederland, Martha Steward Living, and Bloom. ?This is superb formal photography, a melding of elegant observation with attention to form and fragility, and yielding the deep beauty that arises from such single-minded observation: a precise observation of the physical world, whose precision invokes both the sensual and the spiritual.? ? Katherine R. Lieber, ArtScope    Hardcover, 14 x 17, 52 pages, 33 four-color plates.

Aurora

This is an autobiography in images, from seven decades of the legendary photographer David Duncan's career. Duncan began taking pictures for newspapers in the mid-1930s, exploring the broad range of human nature - from the most quiet notes of life to the crashing crescendos of war. Then he joined the American Marinesm where he produced some of the most moving images of WWII. With "Life" magazine, he documented the end of British rule in India and covered conflicts in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Korea with clarity and compassion. Returning to the battlefield with the escalation of war in Vietnam, he produced two more book that became icons of the American soldiers' experience. Since then, he has produced books on such diverse subjects as Picasso's making of a painting to the sunflowers of France, with forays into the world of tragic personal loss. Still exuberant in his eighth decade, Duncan's keen eye and heart continue to illuminate the human experience.   Hardcover: 464 pages    Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 2003)    Language: English    ISBN-10: 0393058611    ISBN-13: 978-0393058611    Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 1.4 inches

Photo Nomad

Signed and Numbered   Limited to 500 copies with small original print   In 1983, as the inland basin of southern California was being subdivided by developers and filled in with new waves of residents, a sign at its outskirts appeared that was unusual both in meaning and appearance. The sign, 'Indian Bingo,' came into view as you emerged from the basin traveling east through the San Gorgonio Pass into the Coachella Valley headed for Palm Springs...    Nazraeli Press, 2009.    16 pp., 4 duotone illustrations,    one original print,    5 x 7".

(OPB#053) Indian Bingo (OPB)

Drum Circle by Jesse Diamond  Best known for his editorial work, which has included assignments for Sony Records and Harper/Collins, Jesse Diamond has more recently begun exhibiting and publishing his personal work. For the latter, he was selected as one of eight ?Photographers of the Year? at the International Photography Awards.    In his One Picture Book, Diamond presents photographs of the Venice Beach Drum Circle.     Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages, 10 duotone plates, 1 original print.    ISBN 978-1-59005-204-4

(OPB#044) Drum Circle (OPB)

Seven Dogs   John Divola   Signed by the Photographer   Signed and Numbered edition of 500 with print     The logic of 'seven dogs' is based on two assumptions. First, if one makes a group of photographs in an environment based on the simple rule that a dog and man must be in each frame, a casual description of the surrounding environment will result. And second, if we accept that one year in a dog?s life is the equivalent of seven for a human, a man might reasonably expect a life seven dogs long.     Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2008.    16 pp., 7 four-color plates, one original print., 5 x 7".

(OPB#045) Seven Dogs (OPB)

This gorgeous, limited edition artist's book by Nicola Dill is a 48-page "installation" of the artist's elegant and meditative photographs of surf grasses. Unstaged and recorded in-camera, the photographs comprising this series are gestures in patience and time. The individual pieces leave the narrative aspect of photography behind, focusing on constantly changing structures and lines, preserving on film the temporary etchings created by the surf and sandy shores of the Pacific. Nicola Dill's photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States and in Germany. "Sea Etchings", her first monograph, is printed in an oversized format on matt Japanese art paper. This first printing is limited to 500 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-311-9   Hardcover, 13 x 16,   48 pages, 27 duotone plates.

sea Etchings

Signed by the Photographer   This gorgeous, limited edition artist's book by Nicola Dill is a 48-page "installation" of the artist's elegant and meditative photographs of surf grasses. Unstaged and recorded in-camera, the photographs comprising this series are gestures in patience and time. The individual pieces leave the narrative aspect of photography behind, focusing on constantly changing structures and lines, preserving on film the temporary etchings created by the surf and sandy shores of the Pacific. Nicola Dill's photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States and in Germany. "Sea Etchings", her first monograph, is printed in an oversized format on matt Japanese art paper. This first printing is limited to 500 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-311-9   Hardcover, 13 x 16,   48 pages, 27 duotone plates.

Sea Etchings

Limited Edition of 250 copies   Signed and numbered by the Photographer   This self Published photography book by Hungarian photographer is getting good revue's and selling well in Europe and I can understand why. This well put together book is now available in the UK.      Bela Doka, in his series titled "Sundays of Life", charts a challenging path for himself.   'How do you photograph the quotidian moments that, while not dramatic, form the core of life's pleasures and satisfactions. The answer for him is found in a country house owned by the family of his girlfriend. The world that he reveals to us is one of sun-warmed lunch tables, cool afternoon river swims, lazy walks in pathless fields, and tasks that are met with no timetable in mind. If we view these pictures from a hurried, urban mindset, we see nothing. Literally. Nothing is happening. But if we shift our sensibilities  as I believe he is asking us to do along with him - then we see the timeless, daily activities that create a Zen of satisfaction.'  -  Evan Mirapaul   There is also a deluxe boxed edition limited to 50 copies also available with a print.   Self Published photography   Title of publication: The Sundays of Life       Photographer: Bela Doka   Text by: Evan Mirapaul   Published, Budapest, Hungary, 2010   Edition Size: 250 copies   Format: Hardcover , Canvas Bound, Size: 24cm x 30.5cm   Pages: 80, Pictures: 60   Offset printing

The Sundays of Life

This is the Deluxe Boxed Edition limited to 50 copies   and contains print 1 - Boy in Stream   Signed and numbered by the Photographer   This self Published photography book by Hungarian photographer is getting good revue's and selling well in Europe and I can understand why. This well put together book is now available in the UK.      Bela Doka, in his series titled "Sundays of Life", charts a challenging path for himself.    How do you photograph the quotidian moments that, while not dramatic, form the core of life?s pleasures and satisfactions? The answer for him is found in a country house owned by the family of his girlfriend. The world that he reveals to us is one of sun-warmed lunch tables, cool afternoon river swims, lazy walks in pathless fields, and tasks that are met with no timetable in mind. If we view these pictures from a hurried, urban mindset, we see nothing. Literally. Nothing is happening. But if we shift our sensibilities ? as I believe he is asking us to do along with him ? then we see the timeless, daily activities that create a Zen of satisfaction.  -  Evan Mirapaul   There is also a trade edition limited to 250 copies also available.   Self Published photography   Title of publication: The Sundays of Life       Photographer: Bela Doka   Text by: Evan Mirapaul   Published, Budapest, Hungary, 2010   Edition Size: 250 copies   Format: Hardcover , Canvas Bound, Size: 24cm x 30.5cm   Pages: 80, Pictures: 60   Offset printing

The Sundays of Life Print 1 (Deluxe Edition)

This is the Deluxe Boxed Edition limited to 50 copies   and contains print 2 - Women in Kitchen   Signed and numbered by the Photographer   This self Published photography book by Hungarian photographer is getting good revue's and selling well in Europe and I can understand why. This well put together book is now available in the UK.      Bela Doka, in his series titled "Sundays of Life", charts a challenging path for himself.   'How do you photograph the quotidian moments that, while not dramatic, form the core of life's pleasures and satisfactions' The answer for him is found in a country house owned by the family of his girlfriend. The world that he reveals to us is one of sun-warmed lunch tables, cool afternoon river swims, lazy walks in pathless fields, and tasks that are met with no timetable in mind. If we view these pictures from a hurried, urban mindset, we see nothing. Literally. Nothing is happening. But if we shift our sensibilities - as I believe he is asking us to do along with him - then we see the timeless, daily activities that create a Zen of satisfaction.' -  Evan Mirapaul   There is also a trade edition limited to 250 copies also available.   Self Published photography   Title of publication: The Sundays of Life       Photographer: Bela Doka   Text by: Evan Mirapaul   Published, Budapest, Hungary, 2010   Edition Size: 250 copies   Format: Hardcover , Canvas Bound, Size: 24cm x 30.5cm   Pages: 80, Pictures: 60   Offset printing

The Sundays of Life Print 2 (Deluxe Edition)

Signed and Numbered with an original print tipped in   Nazraeli One Picture Book   One Picture Book 81: Snow Letter   John Divola   'Supermarket' by artist John Divola comprises a group of photographs of middle-aged women shopping for groceries in the early 1970s. The black-and-white photographs were made in the San Fernando Valley where Divola grew up. Made at the outset of Divola's career, these images are at once melancholy - an element that runs through most of his subsequent work - and by their nature, humorously touching. They also provide a glimpse into Divola?s upcoming monograph, 'San Fernando Valley', which will be published by Nazraeli Press in 2014 as part of our forthcoming NZ Library series. "Supermarket" is limited to 500 numbered copies, and includes an original signed photograph by John Divola.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-380-5   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 7 duo tone plates,   1 original photograph.

(OPB#081) - Supermarket (OPB)

There is a bump in one corner of this book    Ops Opis   Published by Nazraeli Press    Signed by the Photographer   Following the success of our previous three oversized monographs by Ron van Dongen, we are delighted to announce this fourth publication of his gorgeous, large-scale botanical still lifes. Superbly printed in duotone, hardbound, and covered in Japanese green cloth, Ops Opis presents a new selection of the artist's utterly seductive images. The focal point of van Dongen's lens ranges from the mouth-wateringly perfect bunch of grapes, to the glorious exuberance of flowers in full bloom and the daintier, more demure floral specimens. He shows us that plants are delicate and resourceful, decorative and essential, and temptingly tactile while commanding respect. But perhaps above all, he presents them as things of great beauty to linger over and enjoy. Born in Venezuela, Ron van Dongen grew up in Holland, where he studied Health Science and Biology before moving on to study Photography in San Francisco. He now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he grows and nurtures the plants that he so elegantly portrays. Van Dongen's work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia, and is housed in many important collections worldwide. Introduction and interview with the artist by Jane Jackson.    Hardcover, slipcased, 14 x 17, 56 pages, 32 duotone plates. ISBN 1-59005-096-7

(BUMPED) Ops Opis

?If you follow the river north from Mora, you will reach a community with a dark, insular spirit?. Embedded in this historical enigma of a place and its people, Elf Dalia by Maja Daniels weaves together a narrative born out of the Swedish valley of Älvdalen. Daniels combines photographs taken from 2011 to 2017 with curious pictures from an archive amassed by a man named Tenn Lars Persson (1878 ?1938), a local inventor, mechanic and photographer. These two artists come together across centuries to create a coherent narrative; in doing so, Elf Dalia naturally draws attention to possible fictions of documentary photography. Layered with the relics of this remote region, which to this day speaks the near-extinct ancient language of Elfdalian, this book explores how the myth and ritual of its past is compromised by contemporary living.   The region?s geographical isolation, delineated by forest, mountains and lakes, sits at the core of Daniels? and Persson?s work. A snow-covered landscape creates an eerie setting that calls to mind the witch trials that originated in the region in 1668. Persson?s early photographic experimentation results in strange, uncanny photographs: in one, two men seem to hover mid air, in another, two women sit together on a crescent moon. Woven within these works, Daniels photographs preside in a similar territory, spanning the mystical and vernacular with a kindred symbolic language. Like Persson, she depicts the day-to-day life of this community: in their homes, by the lake, with their families. Yet emerging from this sense of the community are portraits illustrating a younger generation as it tries to negotiate the friction between tradition and modernity in Älvdalen. In Elf Dalia, Daniels enters into dialogue with Persson in order to reinforce the community?s unique eccentricity and to question when an historical continuity and pride becomes insularity, when rituals of myth and storytelling might evoke a dark spirit.   OTA bound paperback with flaps    136 pages   22 x 29 cm   ISBN: 978-1-912339-37-2

Elf Dalia

A Civil Rights Journey presents the astonishing archive of Dr Doris Derby: photographer, activist, and professor of anthropology. Active throughout the Civil Rights Movements of the mid twentieth century in the southern United States, particularly Mississippi, Derby acted as a photographer, organiser and teacher, making photographs of the intimate and human side of the everyday struggle for survival and human rights. She photographed both the organisation of political events, meetings, and funerals, alongside the literacy, co-operative and community theatre programmes, many of which she founded, and encountered much danger and tragedy along the way.\n\nHere we see the speeches and protests that gave the movement its defining moments, as well as vital figures including Muhammad Ali, Alice Walker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Jesse Jackson. We also see classrooms and church halls, doctors and secretaries: everyday scenes of joy, frustration, curiosity, and connection, in which the determination and collective actions and resolve and actions of the movement are equally expressed.\n\nThis extensive volume presents Derby’s images in sequences that between them document rural and urban poverty, offer lucid ethnographies of particular streets and families, track the day-to-day lives of African American children growing up in the Mississippi Delta, and bear witness to such pivotal events as the Jackson State University shooting, the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., and the 1968 Democratic Convention. Derby’s photographs offer us an invaluably rich portrait of a historical moment whose effects have defined today’s world and issues a vital reassertion of the work that remains to be done. Derby recounts the events photographed in extensive texts which accompany the images.\n\nEdited by Doris Derby, in collaboration with Hannah Collins and Gregory Harris\nEdited recordings of conversations between Doris Derby and Hannah Collins\n\n“The story behind Derby’s wonderful, intimate pictures is enmeshed with the rest of her extraordinary life … Her experience also provides a revealing snapshot of the rupture that America went through in the 1960s and 70s.” \n– The Guardian\n\n“Many of [Derby’s] photographs from this time feel very joyful – full of positive energy and activity – or otherwise depict everyday scenes, quite removed from the Civil Rights protests and all the violence the black community was experiencing” \n– Apollo\n\n“Derby’s photographs capture small, private moments but carry the weight of the momentous groundswell of change for a people who wanted and deserved better.” – Storied\n\n Paperback with flaps\n21.5 x 28.5cm, 168 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-44-8

A Cival Rights Journey

Signed by the Photographer, this signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by the artist and gluesd into the inside back cover.\n\n“There is so much I can’t say in my photographs, though it’s all there, just below the surface, if you know what to look for.”\n\nIn Look at me like you love me, Jess T. Dugan reflects on desire, intimacy, companionship, and the ways our identities are shaped by these experiences. In this highly personal collection of work, Dugan brings together self-portraits, portraits of individuals and couples, and still lifes, interwoven with diaristic writings reflecting on relationships, solitude, family, loss, healing, and the transformations that define a life. Dugan has long used photography to understand their own identity and to connect with others on a deeper level. Their process of working slowly and collaboratively discloses moments of heightened psychological intensity in images that transcend the specifics of a particular person or place, engaging with what it means to know oneself alongside and through others. Using medium-format cameras and natural lighting, Dugan employs traditional photographic practices to depict these contemporary subjects, resulting in images that both evoke and reimagine the conventional dynamics of art-historical portraiture. Brought together here, these photographs function as an extended, oblique self-portrait as much as a catalogue of friends and loved ones. Through a diffuse but studied sequence of image and text, Look at me like you love me brings our attention to one of the most powerful and complex forms of intimacy – that of seeing and been seen.\n\n \nEmbossed printed linen hardcover\n23.5 x 29.5 cm, 108 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-54-7

Look at me like you love me

Signed by the photographer.\n\nCapturing the spirit of protest and parade, Public Matters brings together photographs made by Janet Delaney in Reagan-era San Francisco. At this turbulent time in the mid eighties, Delaney was living in the primarily Latino neighbourhood of the Mission District. She would spend the weekends photographing public gatherings, from the annual Cinco de Mayo parade, to the Peace, Jobs and Justice marches, which rallied against the U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. If political governance was regressing, the West Coast city was a place where, as Delaney remembers, ‘progressive ideas would always be upheld.’ Celebrating multiculturalism and collective struggles for social justice, Public Matters surfaces at a juncture when the message of building bridges is needed now more than ever.\n\nIn the vintage glow of her sun-drenched images, Delaney leads us in and out of crowds – among demonstrators, fair-goers, cross-dressers, union organisers, beauty pageants, dancers, salesmen, mothers, kids, and market punters – searching for as many intimate moments as she found collective voices. Fearlessly upbeat, her photographs nevertheless intimate a time when, as Delaney recollects, people ‘were reeling from the shift to a conservative government. The demands of the 1960s were addressed in the 70s: the end of the Vietnam war, women’s rights, environmental issues, gay rights, to name a few. Then when Reagan was elected all this came to a halt.’ And as soon as the streets were filled with placards – ‘babies are for loving, not for bombing’; ‘Hatred can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that’ – Delaney was there, in the middle of the maelstrom, making pictures of public matters.\n\n\nOTA bound paperback with jacket\n96 pages\n21.5 x 28 cm\nISBN: 978-1-912339-02-0

Public Matters

Signed by the Photographer\n\nBeautiful, Still. is the first monograph from photographer Colby Deal, documenting the people, objects, and environments of everyday life in the Third Ward neighbourhood in Houston, Texas, where the artist grew up. In this ongoing project, currently consisting of over a thousand negatives, Deal sets out to provide a visual record of overlooked communities and the cultural characteristics gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as a depiction of communities of colour whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations. Through these instinctive black-and-white photographs, Deal’s down-to-earth approach to his subjects is made apparent; at times candid and blurred, other times poised and sharply focussed, the series builds to convey the dynamism and vibrancy of family, community, and individual life in the Third Ward. The scratches and dust left on the negatives reflect the marks of lived life and simultaneously suggest the fragility of these documents and the corresponding precarity of the fabrics of social life they often depict. Deal’s almost conversational tone — the antithesis of media portrayals of the neighbourhood — invites his viewers in with a sense of joy and intuitive playfulness. From these alternately staged and documentary images, a new narrative emerges about a reductively and oppressively narrativized place, celebrating the agency and freedom that the photographic medium can offer.\n\n\nIncludes an extended essay by Houston-based fiction writer, art critic and essayist, Garry Reece.\n\n \nFaux leather embossed hardcover\n24 x 28 cm, 160 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-61-5

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