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Foggy Notion Books

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Clth, 10 x 10.5 in. / 152 pgs / 102 duotone.

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 41   

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ISBN 9780983587040 TRADE
List Price: $49.95 CAD $60.00

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La Jolla, CA
Joseph Bellows Gallery November 2013

“Natali has such a particular talent for tracing a frame around scenes that, however incidental, they suddenly become fraught with mystery.” -Mark Binelli, excerpted from Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968

  

FOGGY NOTION BOOKS

Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968

Edited by Jane Brown. Introduction by Mark Binelli.

Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, and was the subject of Enrico Natali’s 1969 solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. In his introduction to the 1972 edition, Hugh Edwards, former Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, wrote: “All the photographs in the present collection were taken in 1967–1970 in Detroit, which in no way restricts their presentation as a brief of how Americans look and live today. These scenes and incidents might have occurred anywhere in the United States in this time when regional characteristics are disappearing ... this is a view of a situation and condition, not a localization.” Forty years later, we can now also appreciate the specificity of Natali’s subject, as this body of work presents an insightful exploration of Detroit when it was on the cusp of losing half of its inhabitants, along with its status as America’s industrial capital. We witness Detroit just before the auto industry began its decade-long decline, as race riots and the Vietnam War raged on. Here Natali captures the everyday activity of 60s-era storefronts, art openings, sporting events, the celebrated high school prom, secretaries enjoying an afternoon cigarette, computer main-frame operators and machinists, waitresses and beauticians, family portraits, and much more--these images capture the now-vanished spirit of this largely abandoned city during a critical, spirited moment in its history. This new edition includes an introduction by Mark Binelli, author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.
Enrico Natali was born in 1933 in Utica, New York. From the 1960s on he lived and photographed in various parts of the country, including New Orleans, Chicago and Detroit. In the late 1960s he began a meditation practice that eventually became his primary focus and culminated in his abandoning photography and devoting himself to that practice while raising a family and building a home in California’s Los Padres National Forest. In 1990 he and his wife started a Zen meditation center, the Blue Heron Center for Integral Studies.

Featured image is reproduced from Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Mtero Detroit

Lee DeVito

The stark black-and-white images in Detroit 1968 are as representative of that decade in America as any. Fans of shows like the period piece Mad Men will appreciate Natali’s stylish subjects, from office workers with gravity-defying bouffants to hippies in groovy attire. Natali’s gift for capturing slightly mysterious, immediate compositions lends further appeal to the images here. The result is a coherent body of work that captures ground zero of one of the most pivotal decades in American history and a city still at the apex of its power.

The Huffington Post

Kate Abbey-Lambertz

Photographer Enrico Natali's 'Detroit 1968' collection, released this year by Foggy Notion Books, shows a city at a pivotal moment after the 1967 riot.

Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968

STAFF REVIEW

In his brilliant introduction to this book, Mark Benilli, author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be, explains that locals have grown weary of photographers immortalizing the city's 70,000 or so abandoned homes, factories, storefronts, warehouses and downtown pre-war skyscrapers. What's probably most disturbing is that what these images are missing are people-what happened to them?
In the 1960s Detroit had a population of 1.5 million, almost evenly divided between black and white. It's barely half that number today. Enrico Natali's wonderful portraits of Detroit's residents are like a transparency projected on an old-fashioned overhead projector--an overlay populating the abandoned ruins with real people. His black-and-white photographs foreshadow what's to come: they present the city just as the auto industry was beginning its decades-long decline, as race riots and the Vietnam War raged on, and as the city experienced a major population shift to the suburbs. Bennelli writes: "Detroit 1968 resounds as sharply as Moscow 1918, Berlin 1990 or Baghdad 2004--the year Everything Changed."
This book is a complete reinterpretation and reprint of Natali's 1972 Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalogue, New American People. His portraits and street photos of late 60s Detroit were intended to suggest any place in the U.S. Now that Detroit has been cast as a modern-day Acropolis, these images offer a corrective and capture a singular and vital moment in Detroit's history.
As for Enrico Natali, everything changed for him as well. By the early 70s Natali's photos were gaining momentum and popularity, and had attracted the attention of the Art Institute's photo curator. Instead of pursuing photography, however, he became a serious practitioner of Zen Buddhism, founded a retreat in Ojai, and left photography behind.
His photographs remind me of Thomas Struth's portraits of families posed on their living room sofas. And his street photographs and portraits of partygoers, prom couples, men working on room-size main-frame computers and women sorting nuts and bolts, Buicks parked by the Detroit river, secretaries enjoying a cigarette, young people celebrating the Tigers' 1968 World Series victory on a littered sidewalk are reminiscent of classic Winogrand. Natali's 1968 Detroit series is an exciting and timely new discovery.
--Jane Brown

 

FROM THE BOOK
This is "a coherent body of work that captures ground zero of one of the most pivotal decades in American history and a city still at the apex of its power... The stark black-and-white images in Detroit 1968 are as representative of that decade in America as any. Fans of shows like the period piece Mad Men will appreciate Natali's stylish subjects, from office workers with gravity-defying bouffants to hippies in groovy attire. Natali's gift for capturing slightly mysterious, immediate compositions lends further appeal to the images here." - Detroit Metrotimes

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/1/2013

Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968
Young boy on the north side of Detroit

Enrico Natali's Detroit 1968: Young boy on the north side of Detroit

"Young boy on the north side of Detroit" is reproduced from Detroit 1968, Foggy Notion's exceptional new book of black-and-white photographs by Enrico Natali. Essayist Mark Binelli writes, "Viewed in a contemporary photographic context, in which Detroit is so often cast as a modern Acropolis, Natali's open-hearted portraiture positively gleams, and feels like a bracing and welcome corrective. But on its own terms, his work captures a singular moment in the city's history. For an area native, the title Detroit 1968 resounds as sharply as Moscow 1918, Berlin 1990, or Baghdad 2004—the year after everything changed." continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/2/2013

Enrico Natali's Detroit 1968 Reviewed by Laura Berman

Enrico Natali's Detroit 1968 Reviewed by Laura Berman

Featured image is reproduced from Enrico Natali: Detroit 1968, one of our favorite books of the year, and a ubiquitous critic's choice. Time magazine's Laura Berman writes, "Looking at the photographs in 2013, it's impossible not to see a city clearly on the cusp. The faces are optimistic–and just a little bit wary. The people of Natali's Detroit are young, mostly white, and–in those pre-high fructose syrup days—noticeably thinner than their modern counterparts. From the ossified society matrons in their ball gowns, to the young career women in their bouffant hairdos and nylon stockings, there's a sense of unease in each frame, a feeling you can't quite name." continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/18/2013

Photographer Enrico Natali Launches 'Detroit 1968' at MoCAD

Photographer Enrico Natali Launches 'Detroit 1968' at MoCAD

MOCAD, ARTBOOK | D.A.P. and FOGGY NOTION BOOKS present a book release talk and reception with photographer Enrico Natali, in celebration of his new book, Detroit 1968.

Friday, November 22, 7-9pm
Admission: Free
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
4454 Woodward Ave

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