1. Moral Minority by Sergio Putrell
Sergio Purtell arrived in the USA in the early 1970s, having fled an imminent dictatorship in Chile, by General Augusto Pinochet. Here he glimpsed the American dream and sought to unravel the nation’s mysteries as an outsider who had witnessed the capriciousness of power and the tenacity of the displaced.
Made between 1977 and the early-90s Sergio Purtell’s American photographs are imprints of life in a country fixated on its dueling myths of emancipation and conquest. From collective exuberance to rural serenity, Purtell’s images of fairs, parades, and a life lived outside, display moments both commonplace and distinct. They search out under-swells of feelings that fleck public space with intimacy and interaction. They register the human tenderness that flows from rare moments of rest.
Published by Stanley/Braker, order the book here
2. Carnival by Mark Steinmetz
From 1982-2001 the American photographer Mark Steinmetz traveled to country fairs, urban street carnivals, and small circuses across the United States, to make photographs of the families, teens, and carnies that contain all the warmth and frenetic energy of a day at the Carnival.
“People from all walks of life go to the fair seeking something to transport them from the everyday. Amid the excitement and sounds of the rides and games, I could slip by largely unnoticed and capture gestures and faces.” – Mark Steinmetz
Published by Stanley/Barker, order the book here
3. Silence is a Gift by Ciro Battiloro
Rione Sanità (Naples), Santa Lucia (Cosenza), Torre del Greco. There are places in Southern Italy that carry scars of incurable wounds on the walls and the flesh of its inhabitants. In those wounds lay the historical memory and the real face of people. Their names are Alfonso, Elena, Marco, Stefania, to name a few. Some are from the same districts and know each other, others don’t. But they have one thing in common: they’ve all met Ciro Battiloro, who has followed them into the intimacy of their home, with his camera and with his heart. He portrayed their everyday life by taking part in it. Never an intruder, Ciro Battiloro is a friend, a brother, and a confidant. He doesn’t focus so much on the marginality, but rather on the extraordinary vitality. He has seen new lives being born, children becoming teenagers, and then parents in their turn. He also had to say goodbye. Silence is a Gift is about love and loneliness, life and death, pain and joy — but most importantly, about intimacy and resistance.
Published by Chose Commune, Order the book here
4. JML NYC 02-23 by Joseph Michael Lopez
The photographs in JML NYC 02-23 were made over two decades as Joseph Michael Lopez traversed the streets of the boroughs of New York by foot. Devoid of the visual tropes associated with the city, the images instead present a vision of New York as it was experienced.
Published by GOST, Order the book here
5. Big Sky by Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’—a place central to the identity and development of modern-day Australia. His photographic survey, made over a 10-year period, depicts fading traditional events, shrinking small towns, Aboriginal connection to the Country, the impacts of globalization and the adversity of climate change to illustrate the complex realities of contemporary life in the ‘Outback’.
Published by GOST, order the book here
6. Americans Seen by Sage Sohier
The photographs in American Seen were made between 1979 and 1986, when Sage Sohier was a young photographer living in Boston. Over the next seven years, Sohier made portraits of people living in Boston’s many working class and ethnic neighborhoods, as well as in the towns she visited each summer during her annual road trips. Nazraeli Press first published American Seen in 2017, as part of our limited-edition NZ Library series. We are thrilled to announce a remastered trade edition, making this extraordinary body of work available to a larger audience.
Published by Nazraeli Press, Order the book here.
7. För by Agnieszka Sosnowska
Agnieszka Sosnowska’s debut monograph, För, is an intimate portrait of the artist’s life and community in a remote corner of East Iceland. Sosnowska was born in Poland and raised in Boston. Coming of age between two countries and disparate cultural identities, she felt neither fully Polish nor American during her youth. It wasn’t until adulthood that she moved to Iceland and found the place where she truly belongs. Here, Sosnowska lives a quiet life, residing on a farm with her husband and working as a teacher in a rural k-12 school. In this tight knit world, she uses a large format view camera to photograph the land and people with tenderness and unwavering commitment. Set amidst the harsh elements and rugged beauty of the Nordic landscape, För is a book of gratitude and love – a story about finding home and a chosen family that carry through the seasons of life.
Published by Trespasser, order the book
8. Dogbreath by Matthew Genitempo
Set amid the extreme heat and sprawling concrete of Tucson, Arizona, Dogbreath is a photobook that depicts a series of restless adolescents as they navigate a fraught and changing world. Through photographs of urban decay, sun-faded neighborhoods, scenes of mosh pits, and punk youths alongside their feral dog counterparts, the book paints a sympathetic view of teenagers adrift in what remains of their adolescence. Interspersed with elliptical texts about a mysterious boy named Dove, who speaks of underground pagans, scrap salvaging, and the search for gold, Dogbreath presents an enigmatic, psychologically engaging portrait of youth on the edge.
Published by Trespasser, order the book here.
9. Some Say Ice by Alessandra Sanguinetti
Since 2014, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin, creating the photographs that would come to form the stark and elliptical series Some Say Ice. The same town is the subject of Wisconsin Death Trip, a book of photographs taken by Charles Van Schaick in the late 1800s documenting the bleak hardships of the lives and deaths of its inhabitants.
Published by MACK, order the book here
10. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS by MICHAEL ORMEROD
Previously unseen black & white photographs taken in the United States by Michael Ormerod (1947-1991) will form this new book. Ormerod was a British photographer whose life was tragically cut short in August 1991 following a road accident on his last field trip to the US. For the past decade the photographer’s daughter, Ali Ormerod, has worked alongside photographers Geoff Weston and Alan Thoburn to search through his archives of unprinted negatives to revisit the work and bring it to a new audience.
Published by RRB, order the book here
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