PhotoBookWeekly: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sage Sohier, Fumi Nagasaka, Joan Fontcuberta, Deborah Roberts (signed), and more!

Plus this week Brian Arnold reviews Anu Kumar's new monograph Ghar! [View this email in your browser]( [photo-eye] PHOTOBOOK WEEKLY November 18, 2023 BESTSELLER --------------------------------------------------------------- Marking Time Chris McCaw [Read photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly's interview with Chris McCaw!]( Chris McCaw works with a manually modified large format camera, loading vintage photo paper in place of film, and letting the sun come through the lens to physically burn the paper. This analog photographic method holds the unique documentary aspects of photography, as it captures the day and night of a distinct time and place. Chris McCaw is represented by photo-eye Gallery, for prints please inquire [here](. [Pre-Order Marking Time or read more]( [View the full list of best sellers]( PRE-ORDERS --------------------------------------------------------------- Time Machine Hiroshi Sugimoto Through his expansive exploration of the possibilities of still images, Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time — pictures that are meticulously crafted and deeply thought-provoking, familiar yet tantalizingly ambiguous. Time Machine is a comprehensive survey of work produced over the past five decades, featuring selections from all of Sugimoto’s major series, as well as lesser-known works that illuminate his innovative, conceptually driven approach to making pictures. [Order Time Machine or read more]( Passing Time Sage Sohier "During the isolation of the pandemic, I had the opportunity to revisit my archive of negatives and contact sheets from the 1980s, and discovered a number of interesting images that I had never printed. These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely un-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly; restlessness led to spontaneous play. Young people back then were fit and lean from running around outside with their friends and neighbors." — Sage Sohier [Pre-Order Passing Time or read more]( Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama Fumi Nagasaka During the 2016 US Presidential elections Japanese photographer, Fumi Nagasaka, became intrigued by the rural and southern USA. She had lived in New York City for a decade but despite travelling the world, had yet to visit the rest of the US. All this changed when her friend, Tanya Rouse, invited her to her hometown of Dora, Alabama. Nagasaka continued to visit Dora over several years, gradually building a photographic archive of her visits. A selection of these photographs are included in her new book Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama. [Order Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama or read more]( BOOK REVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------- Ghar Anu Kumar Reviewed by Brian Arnold “The Hindi word ghar (or in its traditional Devanagari script घर), is derived from Sanskrit and means home, and can refer to both a physical dwelling and a region. This is a lovely idea, connecting the micro and macro understanding of home in one word. The notion of home feels so much more complicated to me today — with wars in raging in Gaza and Ukraine over the rights to a homeland — but always a notion deeply connected to our personal and cultural identities. The ancient Sanskrit word घर exists unchanged today in Hindi, perhaps because it is such an essential part of the human experience, constantly ebbing and flowing between nurture and trauma, providing us with our deepest sense of self but are also often sites of our greatest tragedies...” — Brian Arnold [Read the full review]( [Order copies of Ghar]( NEW ARRIVALS --------------------------------------------------------------- Cultura Di Povere Joan Fontcuberta Conceptual artist and photographer Joan Fontcuberta presents Cultura di Polvere (Culture of Dust), an enigmatic collection poetically situated along the scale from microcosm to macrocosm and back again. Born from his residency at the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD) in Rome, which holds one of the most sizeable collections of historical images in Italy, the project allowed him to engage with the historical collections and produce a surreal work that raises questions about the immortality of photography. [Order Cultura Di Povere or read more]( Twenty Years of Art/Work Deborah Roberts Signed copies available! Printed with a choice of two covers! Since the beginning of her artistic career, otherness has been at the center of Roberts’ consciousness. Her early ideals of race and beauty were shaped by and linked through Renaissance art and fashion magazines — mythical, heroic, beautiful, and powerful images that embodied a particular status not afforded equally to anyone Roberts knew. Having one’s identity dismantled, marginalized and regulated to non-human status demanded action. This led Roberts to critically engage image-making in art history and pop-culture, and ultimately grapple with whatever power and authority these images have over the female figure. [Order Signed copies of Twenty Years of Art/Work with the "America" Cover]( [Order Signed copies with the "Red Crosses" Cover]( RECENTLY FEATURED --------------------------------------------------------------- The Story We Used to Tell Photographs by Chris Marker with a Story by Shirley Jackson English Landscapes Jean-Pierre Gilson Next A Visual Biography Josef Koudelka Hakanai Sonzai Pierre-Elie de Pibrac The New Tide Early Work 1940–1950 Gordon Parks Impermanence Kenro Izu High & Lonesome Nathan Pearce Haiti Bruce Gilden Small Trades Irving Penn Body Language The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa Land of Black Milk Stefanie Moshammer The North American Cowboy A Portrait Jay Dusard Tamasha Abhishek Khedekar The Missing Eye Mattia Parodi & Piergiorgio Sorgetti CHRISTY Christy Turlington & Kurt Markus Animals Sage Sohier Signed Copies! A Perfect Sentence Oliver Frank Chanarin New England Days Paul Caponigro Signed Copies! 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