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plus this week Brian Arnold reviews My Mother, My Son, Mary Frey's new monograph published by TBW Books! [View this email in your browser]( [photo-eye] PHOTOBOOK WEEKLY June 29, 2024 BESTSELLER --------------------------------------------------------------- Advice for Young Artists Alec Soth Signed copies available! Between 2022 and 2024, Alec Soth visited twenty-five undergraduate art programmes across the United States. Advice for Young Artists comprises work he made there. Its title — perhaps like the visits themselves — is misleading: rather than wisdom or guidance, Soth offers an angular and unresolved reflection on artmaking at different stages of life and the relations of photography, time, and ageing. The photographs here range from formal studies evocative of the classroom to more unruly works of self-expression. [Pre-Order Signed copies of Advice for Young Artists or read more]( [View the full list of bestsellers]( PRE-ORDER --------------------------------------------------------------- Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom Paul Pfeiffer This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the first US retrospective of Paul Pfeiffer’s acclaimed multi-disciplinary practice at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Presenting era-defining photo and video works alongside his latest experiments in sculpture and installation, this volume reflects Pfeiffer’s use of a wealth of recent technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. Throughout his work, Pfeiffer interrogates how images might shape the spectators who consume them. [Pre-Order Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom or read more]( BOOK REVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------- My Mother, My Son Mary Frey Reviewed by Brian Arnold "Enter Mary Frey, an artist who again challenges distinctions between fine art and family albums. Frey is an incredibly interesting photographer whose work has come to light late in her career. After completing an MFA at Yale University in 1979 (just missing Walker Evans), Frey spent the next decades teaching at the Hartford Art School and making pictures of her family..." — Brian Arnold [Read the full review]( [Order My Mother, My Son]( NEW ARRIVALS --------------------------------------------------------------- Verdigris / Ambergris Paul Graham Verdigris / Ambergris completes a twelve-year suite of works by Paul Graham focused on life’s transience and our mortality. This pair of sibling books is centered on people scanning the infinite horizon as they look out over land (Verdigris) and sea (Ambergris). Interleaved with these contemplative portraits in the first volume are images of cherry blossoms and in the second images of the setting sun. These photographs are made respectively in a park overlooking post-industrial New Jersey, in which Graham has worked for the past seven years, and along the northern coast of Long Island, where there is a long tradition of watching the setting sun. [Order Verdigris / Ambergris or read more]( Day Jobs Edited by Veronica Roberts Day Jobs examines the overlooked impact of day jobs on the visual arts. Success for artists is often measured by their ability to quit a day job and focus full time on their practice. Yet these jobs can often spur creative growth by providing artists with new materials and methods, hands-on knowledge of a specific industry that becomes an area of artistic investigation, or a predictable paycheck and structure that enable unpredictable ideas. Artworks by Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Vivian Maier, Manuel A. Rodríguez-Delgado, James Rosenquist, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Ricardo Valverde, and Andy Warhol amoung others. [Order Day Jobs or read more]( As the Sun Sets on Me, it Rises on You Hiroshi Watanabe The first printing of the first edition is limited to 250 copies in total, including 200 trade copies and 50 collectors editions. The Limited Edition comes with one of three options of a signed and numbered gelatin silver print, printed by the artist. Hiroshi Watanabe’s latest book of photographs highlights the artist’s early works as a young photographer in Japan, before moving to America and becoming a highly regarded fine art photographer. These images bear the raw, youthful energy of a young artist in his twenties, photographing his surroundings, his friends and moments both poignant and mundane. [Order Trade or Limited Edition copies of As the Sun Sets on Me, it Rises on You or read more]( Little Tim Carpenter Tim Carpenter’s Little completes a trilogy of photobooks rooted in the sensibility and approach to the practice of “camera” he elaborated in the book-length essay To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die (2022). Less formally rigorous than Local Objects (2017), less introspective and linear than Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road (2019), this new installment channels the perspective of a child’s meandering mind, open to possible meanings, absorbing whatever the eyes encounter — marks, buildings, branches, paths, the daylight of a Central Illinois afternoon — nascent symbols everywhere, fleeting images improvised of mind and matter. 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