Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis
Pictures for Charis offers a groundbreaking new work by artist Kelli Connell, synthesizing text and image, while raising vital questions about photography, gender, and portraiture in the twenty-first century. Pictures for Charis is a project driven by photographer Kelli Connell’s obsession with the writer Charis Wilson, Edward Weston’s partner, model, and collaborator during one of the most productive segments of his historic career. Connell focuses on Wilson and Weston’s shared legacy, traveling with her previous partner, Betsy Odom, to locales where the latter couple made photographs together more than eighty years ago. Wilson wrote extensively about her travels and about her, and Weston’s, photographic concerns. In chasing Charis Wilson’s ghost, Connell tells her own story, one that finds a kinship with Wilson and, to her surprise, Weston, too, as she navigates her own life and struggles as an artist against a cultural landscape that has changed and yet remains mired in the many of the same thorny issues regarding the nature of desire and inspiration, and the relationship of artist and landscape. This rich weave of narrative and images complicates and breathes new life into a well-known set of photos, while also presenting an entirely new and mesmerizing body of work by Connell, her first work combining image and text as a mode of visual research and storytelling. Co-published by Aperture and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.
Aperture and Center for Creative Photography
Hardback, 9.1 x 7.85 inches
280 pages, 109 images
ISBN 9781597115599
Kelli Connell: Double Life
Connell has been at the forefront of artists using digital technologies for the past decade, but her art is not about Photoshop. The photographs in Double Life extend far beyond their duplicity into larger and more complex issues of identity and visual rhetoric. As she tells Dawoud Bey in the accompanying interview, 'For the most part, I’m not actually thinking so much about representing two females in a relationship. I’m more so thinking about the multiple sides of the self in the overall human experience.'"
Essay by Susan Bright, Interview with Dawoud Bey
DECODE Books
Hardcover, 12.25 x 9.5 inches
80 pages, 36 four-color plates
ISBN 9780979337390
Photo Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice
PhotoWork, published by Aperture, is a collection of interviews by forty photographers about their approach to making photographs and, more importantly, a sustained body of work. Sasha Wolf was inspired to seek out and assemble responses to these questions after hearing from countless young photographers about how they often feel adrift in their own practice, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. The responses, from both established and newly emerging photographers, reveal there is no single path. The book is structured through a Proust-like questionnaire, in which individuals are each asked the same set of questions, creating a typology of responses that allows for an intriguing compare and contrast.
Editor: Sasha Wolf
Aperture
Paperback, 6x9 inches
256 pages
ISBN 9781597114592
Keeper of the Hearth
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph features hundreds of images and texts, supported by three essays. Essayists include Douglas Nickel, Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University; Lucy Gallun, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art; and Phillip Prodger, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Center for British Art. Foreword by Charlotte Cotton, independent curator and writer.
Editor: Odette England Designer: Cara Buzzell
Schilt Publishing
Hardcover, 24x28.5 cm
320 pages, 210 images
ISBN 9789053309377
Theories in Digital Composite Photographs: 12 Artists and Their Work
Theories in Digital Composite Photographs: 12 Artists and Their Work presents a theoretical investigation of digital composite photographs through philosophical exploration of artists’ concepts of reality. With an international cohort of contemporary digital composite artists, this book presents twelve cases studies on artists’ motivation, production process, and the relation of their worldview to theoretical interpretation. Author Yihui Huang situates each artists’ work in the context of photographic theory and western aesthetics, including realism, expressionism, formalism and postmodernism. Artists include Thomas Kellner, Koya Abe, Nurat Germen, Jaime Kennedy, Xiao Hui Wang, Tom Chambers, Maggie Taylor, Kelli Connell, Alessandro Bavari, Leigh Merrill and Matt Siber.
Author: Yihui Huang
Routledge
Paperback
168 Pages, 60 Color Illustrations
ISBN 9781138719187
The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography
This compendium examines the choices, construction, inclusions and exemptions, and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years, this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces, Constructing Places, Performing Space, Building Images, and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and a scholar, each section features contemporary artists in conversation with curators, critics, gallerists, artists, and art historians. The writings include narratives by the artist, writings on their work, and examinations of studio practices. This pioneering book is the first of its kind to explore this topic beyond those artists building sets to photograph.
Editors: Marni Shindelman and Anne Massoni
Routledge
Paperback
318 Pages
ISBN 9780367580537
Collect Contemporary Photography
Where does one begin when assembling a collection of contemporary photography? How can one identify prints of lasting appeal? From discovering photographers to determining editions and displaying prints, Collect Contemporary Photography accompanies collectors through the whole process of acquiring photographic works. It also provides guidance on practical matters, including information about different photographic techniques.
Editor: Jocelyn Phillips
Thames and Hudson
Paperback, 21.5 x 14.5 cm
208 pages, 153 Illustrations
ISBN 9780500288542
Photographs Not Taken
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.
Editor: Will Steacy
Daylight
Paperback, 5.5 x 8 inches
136 pages
ISBN 9780983231615
Auto Focus
Auto Focus features a dazzling array of self-portraits by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how issues of identity—whether national, sexual, racial, personal, or artistic—are key to understanding the work of many of today’s leading photographers. From intimate images of introspection and those that consciously challenge notions of ethnicity and sexuality to dramatic, stylized photographs of dreamlike scenarios, Auto Focus shows how one of the longest-established artistic genres continues to fascinate artists today.
Editor: Susan Bright
Monacelli Press
Hardcover, 9 x 11 inches
224 pages
ISBN 9781580933001
PHOTOart
More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, "Photo Art" is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying essays. Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the globe, this luscious compendium reads like an international art fair between covers, with the work of artists to watch now and in the future, from established figures to representatives of the newest generation.
Editors: Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig
Aperture
Paperback 8.5 x 10.5 inches
519 pages
ISBN 9781597110624
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography
A survey of current international developments in contemporary photography looks at the work of 121 established and emerging artists.
Editor: T.J. Demos and editors of Phaidon Press
Phaidon
Paperback 10.25 x 11.75 inches
352 pages
ISBN 0714846562
MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project
The Midwest Photographers Publication Project (MP3) three-volume series, produced in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, presents an affordable, beautifully produced introduction to three young artists poised on the brink of stardom: Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich.
Essays by Rod Slemmons, Natasha Egan and Karen Irvine
Aperture
Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
56 pages, 25 four-color images
ISBN 9781597110228