Books


 

Looking Forward

Published on the occasion of the exhibition
LOOKING FORWARD: TEN YEARS OF PIER 24 PHOTOGRAPHY
August 1, 2022 –March 31, 2023

Text by Philip Gefter

248 pages | 193 images | 9.5 x 12 in. | Hardcover | 978-1-59711-008-2

Edition of 750
Pier 24 Photography, 2022

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
John Chiara | Erica Deeman | Tania Franco Klein | Daniel Gordon | Fred Herzog | Todd Hido | Veronika Kellndorfer | Richard Learoyd | Austin Leong | Ray K. Metzker | Zanele Muholi | Eva O’Leary | Daniel Postaer | Tabitha Soren | Chanell Stone | Awoiska van der Molen

Looking Forward—the second of two consecutive exhibitions celebrating the tenth anniversary of Pier 24 Photography—highlights a selection of photographers collected by the Pilara Foundation over the past decade. With a focus on single artist galleries, Looking Forward demonstrates our belief that exhibiting photographers’ works in depth is the best way to communicate their visions for a given project or moment in time.

$60


Zyzzyva

ZYZZYVA Art Portfolio within Issue 123 - Spring 2022

Selections from SOME BLOWS ARE HEAVY as well as RUNNING

What do we need from art and poetry during this exhausting period of historic calamity, uncertainty and dread?

What can they offer us?

$15

 

 

LAND

Henry Carroll, the bestselling photography writer unpacks the ideas behind images to reflect on race, gender, faith, inequality, beauty, politics, and our shifting relationship to animals, nature, and the environment.

SURFACE TENSION is included in "Land: Photographs That Make You Think.” Carroll considers humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world, a relationship that has seen us edge further away from real encounters. The photographs explore how the sublime can be commodified, packaged, and distributed, leading to an alarming emotional distancing. 

$17.99


Surface Tension

Tabitha Soren’s project Surface Tension is made by shooting the grime and debris that accumulates on her iPad. The background images are appropriated from her various devices through social media, images texted to her and from her web history. Soren creates the images about digital culture with an analogue large format view camera. The vigorous and expressive gestures on the surface of the image reflect the conflict between reality and fiction and between our embodied lives and our online, mediated lives. The photographs put in sharp focus what we normally try to look past and ignore on our screens. The images show the dystopian outside world swirling with the fingerprints and greasy smears of our embodied selves. The human markings are seemingly at odds with the chilly detachment and objectivity of the information that flows towards us, unrelentingly. In this project, the viewer is forced to see an everyday object in a way they usually don’t.

The book is accompanied by an essay by Jia Tolentino. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork. In 2019, she published an essay collection called Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.

22,4 x 34 cm / 8,82 x 13,49 inches
Hard cover, 64 pages, 41 colour photographs
ISBN 978-2-492175-08-4c
Publication date: September 2021

$34.42

 

 

Fantasy Life

In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of minor league draft picks for the Oakland A’s—young men coming into the major league farm system straight from high school or college. Since then, she has followed the players through their baseball lives, an alternate reality of long bus rides, on-field injuries, friendships and marriages entered and exited, constant motion, and very hard work, often for very little return. Some of the subjects, like Nick Swisher and Joe Blanton, have gone on to become well-known, respected players at the highest level of the game. Some left baseball to pursue other lines of work, such as selling insurance and coal mining. Others have struggled with poverty and even homelessness. 

Fifteen years after that first shoot, FANTASY LIFE, published by the Aperture Foundation, portrays a selection of these stories, gathering together a richly textured series of photographs taken on the field and behind the scenes at games, along with commentaries by each of the players and memorabilia from their lives—from kindergarten-age baseball cards to x-rays of player injuries.

Dave Eggers contributes a five-part short story that compellingly condenses the roller-coaster ride of the minor-league everyman, from the youthful pursuit of stardom through the slog of endless hardscrabble games, to that moment of realization that success may not be just around the corner after all.  Additionally, a number of the featured players add their own real-life experiences of trying to make it to “The Show.” Together, these elements evoke the enduring spirit of this quintessential American fantasy of making it in the major leagues.

 

Running

Running is about our shared instinct to survive. Archetypal figures struggle to escape or arrive – the viewer cannot be sure. Elemental fears like uncertainty, chaos and vulnerability are made visible. Movement provides an opportunity for loss of control, un-self-consciousness. The figures stumble, grimace and lose composure. They are both wounded and heroic. 

Available in hardcover and deluxe editions.

$ 75 / Inquire here for deluxe signed edition

 

 

Panic Beach

The images in Panic Beach are taken in response to the random tumultuousness of the human experience - they serve as  metaphor for the difficult twists and turns of everyday living.  The compelling colors and patterns of the ocean may draw viewers in, but the ferocity and brutality of the water are lurking too.  Each photo blurs the distinctions between earth and sky, flat and deep, which is how unbalanced we feel when a crisis hits.

$55


 

Trace

TRACE is part of Yoffy Press' Triptych series and features artists Kota Ezawa, Tabitha Soren and Penelope Umbrico. In each Triptych, three artists are given a word to inspire the creation of a small book of work. The books are sold as a set, inviting the viewer into the collaboration to make connections between the projects and the overarching theme.

The TRACE artists each experiment with appropriation in their practices to explore how we interact with images in the contemporary world.

Released November 2018

Artists: Kota Ezawa, Tabitha Soren, Penelope Umbrico

Softcover, set of three books
8.75 x 6 inches
each book is 40 pages
Edition of 250

$40