"The Photographing of America is a large order - read at all literally, the phrase would be an absurdity," wrote Robert Frank in his application for a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1954.
Six contemporary photographers following in Robert Frank's footsteps, are well aware of the inherent absurdity of photographing the entire United States. Instead of taking on the task alone, they are going at it together, working in collaboration while honing their individual perspectives. And in the process, they are forming a new wave in American photography.
This limited-edition, seven-book set brings together photographers Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O'Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins - through the books' editor, Joseph Maida, their mentor and fellow artist, who taught them as undergraduate students at New York's School of Visual Arts from 2010-2014.
Included in the set is a monographic volume by each photographer edited by Maida as well as a compilation book in which Maida constellates their work in a dynamic visual conversation through a thought-provoking edit and sequence.
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-7340180-1-1 (9781734018011)
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Joseph Maida is an artist, writer, and educator, who chairs the BFA Photography and Video Department at New York's School of Visual Arts. Maida has exhibited his work extensively in the United States, Europe, Japan and China in solo exhibitions at Wallspace, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, the Nikon Salons, Tokyo and Osaka, and 403 International Art Center, Wuhan, among others. Maida's work has also been included in group exhibitions in New York at the International Center for Photography (ICP); Yancey Richardson Gallery; Art in General; Artists Space; the Queens Museum; and the Bronx Museum and internationally at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Kunsthalle Wien; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; C/O Berlin; and the Photographers' Gallery, London, among others. Maida's commissioned work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, W, Wallpaper*, and Vice, and Maida's monographs New Natives and Born Free and Equal were published by L'Artiere (Bologna, Italy) in 2015 and CONVOKE (New York, NY) in 2018 respectively. Maida earned his BA summa cum laude in architecture and art history from Columbia University and his MFA in photography from Yale University.
Zak Krevitt's work lives within his commitment to queer advocacy and represents his lived experiences both public and private. Their work also deals heavily in concepts of transformation, post-humanism, power-exchange, anthropology, and the ability to create authenticity through photographic crystallization of reified desire. For over a decade, they have been working with, marching for, and fundraising alongside his queer community for a variety of related causes. Most recently they began long distance cycling while making their photographs, in conjunction with fundraising efforts for HIV/AIDS. Krevitt is also a professor in the School of Visual Arts BFA Photography and Video Department in NYC under the guidance of Joseph Maida. He hopes to impart a spirit of activism, adventure, community and creative expansion to his students.
Molly Matalon is a photographer born and raised in South Florida. She received her BFA in Photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work deals with desire, idealization, and power dynamics, fixing a gaze that empowers and provides a rarely seen female photographic viewpoint. This sincere and personal language is carried through into her editorial work, which has been published in The New York Times, M, Le Monde, Interview Magazine, and Wallpaper*, among others. Vuu studio has published two monographs of her work, which has also been exhibited in the United States and internationally. Matalon currently lives and works in New York.
Corey Olsen is a photographer from Maine currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2014. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City, following his first monograph, "Garage Still Lifes," published by Silent Sound Books. Olsen also shoots commissions for clients including Nike, Alexander Wang, Kenzo, and Helmut Lang.
Pat O'Malley (b. 1989) is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2014, he received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been shown in group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, as well as featured in various print and web publications. He released his first book, Cruiser (self-published), in 2018. Whether shooting organically or in the studio, he uses flattened images to reveal the many layers of beauty and irony in our contemporary landscape and everyday objects. He is originally from Omaha, Nebraska.
Tim Schutsky (Born 1986, Philadelphia, Pa.), lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he works as a photographer for hire. His work has been published in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wallpaper* and Interview Magazine and has been exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally.
Originating from Cincinnati, Ohio, Caroline Tompkins received a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with her work featured on the BBC, Vogue, and The New York Times among many others. Caroline worked as a photo editor at Bloomberg Businessweek for five years before leaving to pursue her own practice in 2019. She is currently a professor at the School of Visual Arts as well as a freelance photographer for editorial and commercial clients. Caroline's photographs explore issues of female sexuality, localism, and the sincerity within them. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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