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Contemporary American Photography<br />
Sharon Core:<br />
Early American<br />
rAdIus books<br />
Text by brian sholis.<br />
In 2007, american photographer Sharon Core<br />
(born 1965) encountered the work of the early<br />
nineteenth-century american still-life painter<br />
raphael peale (1774–1825). peale’s images of fruit,<br />
cakes and vegetables are famed for their uncanny<br />
realism, and they inspired Core to undertake a series<br />
of photographs titled Early American, a brilliant<br />
exploration of trompe l’oeil’s relationship to<br />
photography, and of photography’s relationship<br />
to the past. Core replicates as closely as possible<br />
the subject matter, lighting and compositional<br />
characteristics of peale’s paintings. She describes an<br />
extraordinarily intensive preparation for the project,<br />
researching and acquiring period porcelain and glass<br />
and growing, from heirloom seeds, varieties of fruits<br />
and vegetables that were in existence in the early<br />
nineteenth century. “through these efforts,” she<br />
writes, “I hoped to achieve a mirroring of peale’s<br />
painstaking painting process, and the themes that lie<br />
under their surfaces.” this volume reproduces the 31<br />
images comprising this ambitious enterprise.<br />
978-1-934435-46-5<br />
Clth, 11 x 12.5 in. / 84 pgs / 31 color.<br />
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00<br />
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Terry Evans:<br />
Prairie Stories<br />
rAdIus books<br />
the small Kansas town of matfield green and the<br />
surrounding prairie hills are the focus of the latest<br />
extended project from acclaimed photographer and<br />
Kansas native terry evans (born 1944). a small town<br />
in Chase County with a population of just dozens,<br />
matfield green was once a cattle shipping railhead.<br />
today, only one commercial establishment—a<br />
bar/café—remains in business, but people continue<br />
to call the town home and work the land. evans first<br />
began visiting matfield green in 1990 and regularly<br />
photographed the town over the next eight years. She<br />
returned ten years later, in 2008, and photographed<br />
the residents and their land through 2010. eloquent<br />
yet resolutely unsentimental, her images span<br />
20 years in the life of this town, and capture the<br />
beauty and endurance of the prairie and its dedicated<br />
inhabitants.<br />
978-1-934435-48-9<br />
Hbk, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / 69 color / 31 duotone.<br />
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00<br />
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Aaron Huey:<br />
In the Shadow of<br />
Wounded Knee<br />
rAdIus books<br />
pine ridge Indian reservation is a sprawling area of<br />
land that encompasses parts of the Lakota Sioux<br />
tribe’s traditional homeland, the Black Hills of South<br />
Dakota. Sadly, pine ridge continues to be the setting<br />
for an ongoing massacre within the tribe. gangs on<br />
the reservation are out of control, and the violence<br />
they live by affects even the smallest villages. pine<br />
ridge is the quintessential example of the failure of<br />
the reservation system, with staggeringly depressing<br />
statistics on everything from violent crime (the average<br />
life expectancy for men is 48) to education. In this<br />
powerful new book, Seattle-based photographer<br />
aaron Huey (born 1975) portrays the broken social<br />
landscape and desperate living situation that permeates<br />
pine ridge today. Huey, a photographer who has<br />
covered war and poverty in some of the most far-flung<br />
places on the planet, stumbled upon pine ridge several<br />
years ago and has spent the last few years trying<br />
to unravel its complexities. His color photographs<br />
stand as chilling testaments to the incredible difficulties<br />
facing the tribe as a whole, and the reparations<br />
yet to be made to them.<br />
978-1-934435-51-9<br />
pbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 144 pgs / 88 color.<br />
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00<br />
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Culture<br />
The Sam Abell Library: Life and Still Life<br />
rAdIus books<br />
Text by Leah bendavid-val.<br />
Sam abell (born 1945) is one of america’s most influential documentary photographers,<br />
celebrated in particular for his in-depth color photo-essays for National Geographic<br />
magazine. He has also made a considerable impact as a teacher and author. abell’s career is<br />
now the subject of The Sam Abell Library, a new publication project from radius inaugurated<br />
with this volume—the first in a series of four multi-volume sets. each of these sets is themed<br />
around a particular genre: the photography of places; the photography of nature; the photography<br />
of the past; and the photography of ideas. essays by abell appear in all of the books.<br />
In Life and Still Life, abell explores three different cultures: newfoundland; Hagi, Japan;<br />
and northern australia. this first boxed set also includes a fourth book with an illustrated<br />
essay by writer and curator Leah Bendavid-val examining abell’s evolution as an artist.<br />
978-1-934435-45-8<br />
Slip, Hbk, 4 vols, 9.5 x 10 in. / 312 pgs / 140 color.<br />
U.S. $75.00 CDn $75.00<br />
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Dive Dark Dream Slow<br />
The ICe PLAnT<br />
PhoToGrAPhY hIGhLIGhTs<br />
edited by Melissa Catanese.<br />
photographer and bookseller melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of<br />
peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs<br />
from the early to mid-twentieth century. gathered from flea markets, dealers and ebay, these prints<br />
have been acquired, exhibited and included in a range of major museum publications. In organizing<br />
the archive into a series of thematic catalogues, she has pursued an alternate reading of the collection,<br />
drifting away from simple typology into something more personal, intuitive and openly poetic. Her<br />
magical new artist’s book, Dive Dark Dream Slow, is rooted in the mystery and delight of the “found”<br />
image and the “snapshot” aesthetic, but pushes beyond the nostalgic surface of these pictures and<br />
reimagines them as luminous transmissions of anxious sensuality. through a series of abandoned<br />
visual clues, from the sepia-infused shadow of a little girl running along a beach to silhouettes of a<br />
group of distant figures pausing upon a steep and snowy hill, a dreamlike journey is evoked. Like<br />
an album of pop songs about a girl (or a civilization) hovering on the verge of transformation,<br />
the book cycles through overlapping themes and counter-themes—moon and ocean; violence and<br />
tenderness; innocence and experience; masks and nakedness—that sparkle with deep psychic longing<br />
and apocalyptic comedy.<br />
978-0-9823653-7-3<br />
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 88 pgs / 4 color / 55 b&w.<br />
U.S. $29.95 CDn $29.95<br />
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