Edited by Will Steacy
Introduction by Lyle Rexer
Paperback, 232 pages
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 Webb
AUDIO EXCERPTS:
UPCOMING BOOK SIGNINGS AND PANELS:
April 22 - 2-4pm, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY with: Nina Berman, Gregory Halpern, Will Steacy, Amy Stein
May 11 - 7:30-9pm, Ampersand, Portland, OR with: Amy Elkins, Eirik Johnson
June 29 - 6:30-8pm, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
|
Daylight Books and Charta Editions are proud to present Sunder a monograph by Bruce Haley
Featured by the New Yorker and New York Times
144 pages
55 black + white photographs
Introduction by Kirsten Rian
Foreword by Dina and Clint Eastwood
Essay by Andrei Codrescu
Produced between 1994 and 2002, the images in SUNDER sweep the viewer along on a far-reaching journey through numerous former USSR and Iron Curtain countries, stopping at landscapes of ruin and moments of grace in equal measure. Haley's explorations were intuitive, responding to a deep curiosity to taste the last drops of the would-be Utopian ideology that dominated global politics during the first thirty years of his life. Using black and white film, the notion of remnants and transition would sustain Haley's photographic investigation for some eight years. The resulting images present a stark perspective of the collapse of the communist empire. Haley’s photographs are bleak and brimming with the realism that only a photographer as seasoned as he could achieve. Given the contrast with Haley’s conflict-based coverage, which was dominated by lush color imagery depicting the most horrific acts of violence imaginable, it seems as though this personal project is as much a portrait of the photographer himself as it is an invaluable historical archive. Co-published with Charta Editions.
|
Daylight Books and Photolucida are proud to present Suburbia Mexicana a monograph by Alejandro Cartagena
108 pages
36 color photographs
Introduction by Karen Irvine
Essay by Gerardo Montiel Klint
Interview by Lisa Uddin
Alejandro Cartagena photographs the particularities of the suburbs of Monterrey, Mexico which are relatively new and often hastily built, reflecting a general disregard for planning. Over the years, various governmental policies resulted in new, decentralized cities with limited infrastructures where the pursuit of immediate financial gain trumped any interest in sustainability.Cartagena captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing. He takes pictures of dried-up river beds that attest to the water misallocation and depletion brought about by the construction, and he depicts perpetual rows of tiny houses slicing directly into the foothills of the picturesque mountains that surround Monterrey. Only the landscape appears capable of limiting their proliferation, the mountains and rivers the only forces able to contain their sprawl. Ultimately Cartagena documents the chaos and destruction that result from scant or misguided urban planning. He lives in downtown Monterrey, and he cares deeply about its land, its people, and its future. Understanding that overdevelopment is not just a local problem, he works hard as an artist to share his photographs as one clear plea for responsible, sustainable development in a rapidly changing world.Text adapted from the Introduction by Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. Co-published with Photolucida.
UPCOMING BOOK SIGNINGS:
April 11th at GIMNASIO DE ARTE http://www.gimnasiodearte.com/sitio/
April 19th at LA FOTOTECA DE GUATEMALA http://lafototeca.org/
|
The celestial bodies have inspired humans for as long as history has been recorded. From sun and moon worship to endless stories of life on other planets, the night sky has reflected all of the mysteries and terrors of the world back to us. This edition of Daylight features portfolios by: Adam Bartos | Robert Canali | Linda Connor | Vincent Fournier | Stan Gaz | Sharon Harper | Jason Lazarus | Charles Lindsay | Noel Rodo-Vankeulen | Phillip Scott Andrews | Greg Stimac | Neilson Tam
|
Issue #1 Family Matters:
Chris Verene, Family | Hee Jin Kang, Sandy's Deli | Mami Kiyoshi, Tropical Family | Elizabeth Clark Libert, Libert & Company Download from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/50pm/id401552986?mt=8
Issue #2 Sports:
Tomasz Gudzowaty, Synchronized Swimming | Adam Dean, Red Games | David Klammer, World Cup 2006 | Thomas Hoeffgen, African Arenas | Michael Itkoff, Cigarettes and Candy | Alexander Taran, Sambo | Andy Day, Parcours | Josh Birnbaum, Uphill Battle | Michael Crouser, Los Toros Download from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/50pm-sports-issue/id417131302?mt=8
Daylight Magazine and Bite! Magazine are pleased to present "50PM", a monthly collection of fine art photography portfolios with themes that are close to us all. 50PM is the first fine are and documentary photography magazine developed especially for the iPad. All images can be used as your iPad's background and shared for personal use by email (do read our copyrights notice first). 50pm does not require an internet connection, you can enjoy the magazine anywhere, anytime, and share wonderful photography with your family and friends! For more information, visit http://www.50pm.net
|
Featuring portfolios by: Eren Aytuğ, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Teru Kuwayama & Balazs Gardi, Tim Hetherington, Aaron Huey, Yannis Kontos, Seamus Murphy, Moises Saman, Lana Slezic, Veronique de Viguerie, Farzana Wahidy, Beth Wald. Together these photographers depict Afghanistan with a focused intimacy not typically presented in mainstream media coverage.
|
Featuring portfolios by: Michael Ableman, Wout Berger, Tessa Bunney, Jason Houston, Raoul Kramer, Eduardo Martino, Peter Menzel, Brad Phalin, Heinrich Riebesehl, Munem Wasif
Studies now confirm what many traditional farmers have always known: small crops of vegetables grown in mixed plots can be produced without chemicals, more efficiently and with richer supplies of nutrients than industrially grown crops. This edition of Daylight features a diverse range of photographic representations of agricultural practice from around the world.
|
Featuring portfolios by: Harold Edgerton, Robert Del Tredici, Carole Gallagher, Chris McCaw, Pierpaolo Mittica, Jürgen Nefzger, Simon Roberts, Richard Ross, Paul Shambroom, Ramin Talaie, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Yosuke Yamahata. Considering the danger posed by thousands of active nuclear weapons spread around the world, it is not surprising that the specter of nuclear-induced destruction remains at the back of our minds. Indeed, atomic disaster may be the single largest threat to human existence. In this edition of Daylight Magazine we have compiled the work of several photographers concerned by the use of atomic technology and its implications for the future.
|
Featuring portfolios by: Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Ali Chraibi, Kadir van Lohuizen, Ivor Prickett, Heidi Schumann, Allan Sekula, elin o’Hara slavick, Ian Teh, Heinrich Voelkel, and Michael Wolf. THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT!!
Although it is individual effort that makes the international marketplace possible, the human aspect of global trade is often overlooked. To address this cultural myopia, this edition of Daylight examines the people involved with the production and trade of a number of global commodities.
|
Featuring portfolios by: Simon Norfolk, Luc Delahaye, Kai Wiedenhofer, Paolo Pellegrin, Ahikam Seri, Ori Gersht, Gilad Ophir, Noel Jabbour, Noa Ben Shalom. This issue of Daylight Magazine, one year in the making, compiles a number of photographers examining the situation in Israel and Palestine. The nuances of this highly complex and volatile relationship could only be conveyed by a number of photographers examining parts of the whole. From the dwindling nomadic Bedouin population to the interiors of homes in the West Bank, we hope that this issue provides a unique perspective on a small, contested area of land fraught with religious, social, and economic tension.
|
Featuring portfolios by: David Maisel, Edgar Martins, Leonie Purchas, Joel Sternfeld, Bo Thomassen, and Jeff Whetstone In exploring issues of “Sustainability,” this edition of Daylight suggests that the dualistic representation of humans and nature can change, and that documentary photography’s role in this transformation can range in scope from the immense landscape—as seen in David Maisel’s stunning aerials of a breathing, living Los Angeles; to the intimate images of people embodying lifestyles of low environmental and economic impact, as seen through the work Joel Sternfeld and Leonie Purchas; to the Daylight-initiated self-representative documentary work of domestic renewable fuel producers.
|
Featuring portfolios by: Samantha Appleton, Sean Hemmerle, Roger Hutchings, Bruno Stevens, Susan Meiselas, Sheryl Mendez, Daniel Pepper and an essay by Amir Hassanpour. In this issue of Daylight Magazine, Iraq is presented from a number of perspectives. As individuals living far from the front lines, images we foreigners see on television and in newspapers define our perception of the current situation in Iraq. For many of us, this is an armchair war consisting of images released by corporate-controlled media conglomerates and government censors with undeniable agendas. This issue of Daylight presents the work of photographers who have spent time in Iraq working to present their audience with an individual perspective of the region. What a photographer chooses to capture reflects a personal interest or desire to share a very specific moment with the universal spectrum of potential viewers. Susan Meiselas' images of the Kurdish mass graves in southern Iraq came to light ten years ago when the burial sites were exposed to the world. These images have gained contemporary relevance as they are once again being reproduced and reviewed as evidence in the current legal case against Saddam Hussein. Sean Hemmerle's photographs concentrate on landscapes of war-damaged Baghdad. Also featured in the issue is the first appearance of the self-representative photographic project 'Iraq from Within' which later became the travelling exhibition 'Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004'.
|
Featuring portfolios by: Sara Gomez, Tom Rankin, Alec Soth, Jen Szymaszek THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT!! Alec Soth's photographic narrative follows his journey along the Mississippi river; each image offering insight into the timeless traditions and ever-changing cultural and physical landscapes of the Mississippi. Soth is currently displaying this work in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jen Szymaszek brings us the faces and words of surviving family members of forgotten World Trade Center employees. Szymaszek's photographs communicate the universality of human love and loss while simultaneously illuminating the tragedy of 'undocumented' W.T.C. workers and their remaining families. The individuals missing from each of these family portraits represent a much larger population of migrants lost in the disaster of September 11, 2001.
Unlike the families of lost U.S. citizen W.T.C workers, none of the here-represented families have received financial support from the United States government. Szymaszek has recently formed a non-profit organization that seeks to uncover this tragedy and bring support to all of the families of "Los Olvidados". Tom Rankin is Director of the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, North Carolina. His photographs herein, explore the relationship of man and wilderness as represented through the lives and surroundings of several individuals living in the Mississippi Delta. While much of Rankin's work depicts the communities of this region, his photographs in this issue are yet unpublished. Sara Gomez is a young artist living and working in central North Carolina. She recently returned to the United States from an extended stay in Northern India. There, Gomez lived and worked as a resident of Ahmedabad. Her photographs and words from this experience bring us breathtakingly delicate imagery of the children with whom she worked. Gomez is currently working on her book of these photographs which is expected to be printed within the next year.
|
Fundacion Imaginer (Daylight Latin America) has released a limited edition booklet to be distributed with the DVD of the film ‘Curundu’. From the introduction by Gil Carmichael “Behind the tattered cement walls and along the roads of Curundu in Panama City, Kenneth Pearch captures life where poverty, crime, and oppression takes many souls. Kenneth uses the camera to transcend the depression that hovers around him and finds beauty where most see only pain and strife.” The printed booklet (sample pages below) is available for $5 or $3 for a downloadable PDF version of the project. For more on the film Curundu see: www.curundu.org
|
