Dorothea Lange-Sam Contis - Day Sleeper Ukrainian Photography

Dorothea Lange-Sam Contis - Day Sleeper Ukrainian PhotographyMACK 2020 In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Langes extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Langes ways of seeing. It reveals a largely

a sort of gem from the beginnings of the “Subjektive Fotografie” as a remembrance of the times when the smell of soot and of smoke intensified the magic between black and white

the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson

that Groebli’s images were met with rejection

or among other things – acts as an historical moment of transition in Guidi's visual thinking

With essays by Brian Dillon and Iain Sinclair

a web of fissures in the asphalt

20 x 26 cm

Over a thirty-year period

Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory

Each page compiles years' worth of shots

and deepening his understanding of its subtle terrain

Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes