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Specializing in photography and photobooks for 36 years
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Spina Americana — Richard Sharum“This term, flyover country, was one I’d heard my entire life but had never really thoug...
02/06/2025

Spina Americana — Richard Sharum

“This term, flyover country, was one I’d heard my entire life but had never really thought about when it came to the condescension it implied. I felt that this part of our country had been ignored politically, socially and culturally for decades, with its obscurity creating a subtle but consequential vacuum that had implicitly added fuel to our national divisions. I knew that in order for me to find out what America is, I needed to travel its central corridor and see it for myself.“ —

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My America — Diana MatarReviewed by Arturo Soto“How did it come to be that so many citizens in the United States distrus...
02/03/2025

My America — Diana Matar
Reviewed by Arturo Soto

“How did it come to be that so many citizens in the United States distrust the keepers of public order? Diana Matar’s photobook My America, about police brutality in the United States, doesn’t explain why this problem has persisted to the point of becoming representative of its society, nor does it attempt to disentangle its systemic nature. This is a painful subject to broach, so instead of showing the violent acts that enrage and leave us feeling powerless, it gathers facts that condemn the police’s betrayal of confidence against the very people it’s supposed to protect...” —

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Berlin on a Dog’s Night — Gundula Schulze EldowyReviewed by Blake Andrews“It’s been over thirty years since the reunific...
01/28/2025

Berlin on a Dog’s Night — Gundula Schulze Eldowy
Reviewed by Blake Andrews

“It’s been over thirty years since the reunification of East and West Germany. But some major GDR photographers are still woefully under-recognized in the West. Gundula Schulze Eldowy is a prime example. Born in Erfurt in 1954, her career roughly straddled the forty-year lifespan of East Germany, before continuing into the present via Japan, Moscow, Turkey, New York, Bolivia, and other destinations. Even today as a septuagenarian, she remains a globetrotting whirlwind who has never stopped moving. Wiki lists her current residence as ‘Berlin and Peru’. Did I mention she once discovered an unknown shaft in the Great Pyramid of Egypt? Or that she is an accomplished poet? Or befriended Robert Frank in the 1980s?” —

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The Sleepers — Sophie CalleReviewed by Britland Tracy“It’s 5:00pm on Sunday, April 1st, 1979, and Sophie Calle has one r...
01/26/2025

The Sleepers — Sophie Calle
Reviewed by Britland Tracy

“It’s 5:00pm on Sunday, April 1st, 1979, and Sophie Calle has one rule: her bed must be occupied at all times, between now and 10:00am next Monday. She has a plan, or so she thinks, because she has meticulously scheduled twenty-seven friends, friends-of-friends, and curious or bored strangers to come over to her apartment and sleep in her bed with the chronological synchronicity of a relay race. Logistically, she has prepared a menu to offer upon arrival or departure, fresh sheets if desired, a voice recorder, a camera, and a questionnaire through which these volunteers will divulge everything from their dreams to their occupations to their histories of bed-wetting. Symbolically, she has purchased a goldfish which will stand watch in her bedroom to demarcate this week of…art? labor? slumber exchange? espionage? That is for the ‘sleepers’ to define.” —

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Homeland — Harry GruyaertIn this book, Harry Gruyaert invites us to discover his homeland, Belgium, a country he has bee...
01/23/2025

Homeland — Harry Gruyaert

In this book, Harry Gruyaert invites us to discover his homeland, Belgium, a country he has been crisscrossing for over sixty years. Flemish by birth, Gruyaert has long known that his native land is “a visually interesting place where incongruous things happen”. His subtle intuition for color, combined with his ability to capture the essence of places, is evident in this large body of images that are both “historical and epicurean”, as writer Brice Matthieussent puts it. A sense of the grotesque, of sarcasm, banality, but also emotion and a certain tenderness are sketched out in images of carnivals, religious processions, café-concerts, small towns bristling with brick houses...

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The Levee — Sohrab HuraThe images The Levee trace Hura’s travels along the Mississippi River from its confluence with th...
01/18/2025

The Levee — Sohrab Hura

The images The Levee trace Hura’s travels along the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Ohio to the far reaches of the delta in Louisiana. Hura, who lives and works primarily in India, made the pictures road trip while road tripping with other magnum photographers in 2016.

This moment coincided with a contentious moment in American politics, yet The Levee is not a documentary account of political events or a particular social issue. Rather, it is a photographic response to being in a specific time and place, which embraces the complex effects of human perspective. Building on metaphor and personal themes of longing and connection, Hura finds a world that looks him in the eye, holds him at the threshold, and buoys up with unlikely tenderness and hope.

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Sally Mann — At Twelve: Portraits of Young WomenTo mark the book’s thirtieth anniversary, Aperture is reoriginating it i...
01/16/2025

Sally Mann — At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

To mark the book’s thirtieth anniversary, Aperture is reoriginating it in a masterful facsimile edition that retains the purity of the original.

At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood.

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Sons of the Living — Bryan SchutmaatReviewed by Brian Arnold“There are some things about this man that I feel that I kno...
01/15/2025

Sons of the Living — Bryan Schutmaat
Reviewed by Brian Arnold

“There are some things about this man that I feel that I know, but it’s hard to say since I’m not given much context for the photograph. There is no date, location or name. It shows a white(ish) man seated on a sidewalk, his sandaled feet spilling out into the gutter. He leans back against a shuttered building, plywood and corrugated tin covering the windows. His body sits effortlessly, looking both powerful and relaxed. He’s a hardworking man with rich golden skin, and it feels clear he’s earned his living in the desert landscape of the American Southwest — a deep, dark complexion cultivated under a relentless sun and layers of red sand. Despite his obvious strength, he also looks very awkward. His crown is a pale, A***n complexion, kept white and clean by the Stetson he wore out in the field. He reminds me of John Grady Cole, the protagonist in the brilliant Cormac McCarthy novel All the Pretty Horses. To be clear, I remember American landscape painter Richard Thompson once telling me what the film adaptation got wrong; Richard was convinced that John Grady Cole, the handsome and romantic hero, would have a tan line from his hat around the circumference of his head on account of him riding the southwest deserts for weeks, always wearing his dirty and sweat-stained hat. It’s a little less picturesque than Matt Damon’s portrayal of the character, but it might also provide an important metaphor for understanding John Grady, crowned with a halo made from the unforgiving desert sands...” —

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Sealskin — Jeff DworskyJeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Ma...
01/10/2025

Sealskin — Jeff Dworsky

Jeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Maine at 16.
He became a fisherman.
He met a girl, got married, and moved to an even smaller island.

He built a life.

He dug a well. Built a boat. Planted a garden. Set foundation stones. Built a house. Built traps. Raised sheep. He fathered three children.
His wife left the island and the life they had built.
He stayed and raised the children.

He fished for 40 years.
He is there still, on a small island in Penobscot Bay.

Signed copies are now in stock, link in bio ✨

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Founded in 1979, photo-eye, located in Santa Fe, NM is one of the world's foremost resources for fine-art photography.

Our internationally renowned photography bookstore houses thousands of volumes of photobooks including signed, limited edition, and out-of-print titles, as well as a Project Space showcasing works by emerging and established photographers.

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