LA-based Ellison’s work broadly investigates the language of privilege through meticulously researched images, often executed through staged settings and performative interventions.
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Keliy Anderson-Staley: On a Wet Bough (Waltz Books, 2014)
Keliy Anderson-Staley was raised off the grid in Maine, studied photography in New York City and currently lives and teaches photography at the University of Houston in Texas. Her series of tintype portraits was published in 2014 under the title On A Wet Bough by Waltz Books.
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Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (Thames and Hudson, 1997)
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation.
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Dorothea Lange; Sam Contis: Day Sleeper (Mack Books, 2020)
In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper.
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Jeff L. Rosenheim: diane arbus: in the beginning (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016)
Diane Arbus, original name Diane Nemerov, (born March 14, 1923, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 26, 1971, New York City), was an American photographer, best known for her compelling, often disturbing, portraits of people from the edges of society.
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Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply (University of Texas Press, 2018)
With images ranging from street photography in Harlem to a commemoration of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, this volume offers a forty-year career retrospective of the award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey.
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Ed Ruscha: Twentysix Gasoline Stations (Self-Published, 1963)
Ed Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937 and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from 1941 to 1956. He moved to Los Angeles, California, and attended Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 to 1960. Twentysix Gasoline Stations, a publication consisting of 26 black and white photographs of gasoline stations, is his first iconic artist book.
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Duane Michals: Empty New York (Enitharmon Editions, 2018)
Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. In 1964, he began to document New York City in an unfamiliar guise, virtually empty of inhabitants at dawn or dusk.
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Stephen Shore: The Gardens At Giverny: A View of Monet’s World (Aperture, 1983)
Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.
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Abigail Heyman: Growing up female: A personal photojournal (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1974)
Abigail Heyman (August 1, 1942 – August 28, 2013) was an American photographer and feminist. Her 1974 book Growing Up Female became an important text for the feminist movement.
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Wright Morris: L’essence du visible (Editions Xavier Barral, 2019)
This first monograph of Wright Morris in French coincides with the first important exhibition in France at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris (June 18 – September 29, 2019).
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Lee Friedlander: Signs // The Mind and the Hand (Fraenkel Gallery // Eakins Press Foundation, 2019)
Lee Friedlander (born 1934) began photographing in 1948. From 1953 to 1955, Friedlander studied photography with Edward Kaminski at the Art Center School, Los Angeles, California. He has been a freelance photographer since 1955. His work was included in the influential 1967 exhibition New Documents at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by John Szarkowski.…
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