American
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Pia-Paulina Guilmoth: Flowers Drink the River
Flowers Drink the River spans the first two years of Pia’s gender transition, as she photographs her small community in rural Maine, and the beauty and terror of living as a trans woman in a small right-wing town.
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Jamey Stillings: ATACAMA
With ATACAMA, Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations and the stark beauty of the Atacama Desert.
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Francesco Anselmi: Borderlands
Borderlands is a documentary essay shot along the US side of the border with Mexico between 2017 and 2019, at the height of the Trump era.
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Richard Sharum: Spina Americana
Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current divisions in the US, photographer Richard Sharum embarked on a journey through the central ‘spine’ of America. He was in search of the unifying elements of contemporary American ‘national character’.
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Mary Ellen Mark / Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81: Voices
Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark’s first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state.
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
First published in 1987 to critical acclaim, the seminal American Prospects has been likened to Walker Evans’ American Photographs and Robert Frank’s The Americans in both its ability to visually summarize the zeitgeist of a decade and to influence the course of photography following its publication.
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Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring
Having lived in Southern California during his university years, Robert Adams returned to photograph the Los Angeles Basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s, concentrating on what was left of the citrus groves, eucalyptus and palm trees that once flourished in the area. The pictures, while foreboding, testify to a verdancy against the odds.
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Stephen Shore: American Surfaces
American Surfaces is a collection of works by Stephen Shore (1947-), one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. The book is comprised of a chronological sequence of photographs of vernacular America taken in the early 1970s and styled as a photo-diary of Shore’s travels across America.
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Lee Friedlander: Workers
In the capstone volume of his epic series The Human Clay, Lee Friedlander has created an ode to people who work. Drawn from his incomparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on the street and on stage, as well as in the field, in factories and in fluorescent-lit offices.
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Margit Erb; Michael Parillo (Eds.): Unseen Saul Leiter
The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter’s abundant archive of colour slides.
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Michael Lesy: Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories
In this unconventional, lyrical biography, Lesy traces Evans’s intimate, idiosyncratic relationships with men and women—the circle of friends who made Walker Evans who he was.
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Crystal Bennes: Klara and the Bomb
Klara and the Bomb is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved.
