Never a Pal Like Mother

Never a Pal Like Mother

Vintage Songs & Photographs of the One Who's Always True

Published by Dust-to-Digital.
Foreword by Rosanne Cash. Text by Sarah Bryan.

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, separation from loved ones was an accepted fact of life, for several generations of Americans. Westward migration had cleaved many families along generational lines, as young people left their elders in the east, rarely if ever to see them again. Immigrants from Ireland and Germany and Italy said goodbye to their mothers as they prepared to cross the ocean to America, while African Americans in the South did the same as they boarded northbound trains. Another wave of young soldiers left home, headed for the hills of Cuba and the Philippine boondocks, and their sons would write home from the trenches of Europe. This generational nostalgia became a mainstay of pop culture: in early country music, the mother song was a staple, from the heartbreaking to the maudlin; blues and black gospel singers missed their mamas too, from Jaybird Coleman to the Pilgrim Travelers. Gathering vintage photographs of mothers and children and a two-CD compilation of 78 rpm recordings of motherly love, Never a Pal Like Mother is the ultimate homage to--and gift for--mothers everywhere. Rosanne Cash captures the Americana flavor of this book in her foreword to the volume: "Those of us who treasure American roots music are listening to the very center of its essence in this anthology: the nearly century-old collection of songs about the most important person in the entire lexicon."

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Dust-to-Digital

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 68 duotone / 2 Audio CDs.

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Pub Date 7/31/2011
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Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 38   

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Making Pictures

Three for a Dime

Published by Dust-to-Digital.
Edited with introduction by Maxine Payne. Foreword by Phillip March Jones.

In the 1930s the Massengill family of rural Arkansas built three portable photography studios on old truck frames, attached each to the back of any car that would run, and started a mobile photo booth business that would last for a decade. Without formal training they invented ways to mimic the popular photo booth and brought their business to the dirt roads and open fields. Making Pictures, featuring Massengill family prints and photo albums collected by the artist Maxine Payne, illuminates a Depression-era South previously unseen by the public. Unlike the hardscrabble lives captured by WPA photographers, the Massengill photographs often show folks working to look their best. Hand-painted backdrops, colorized prints and the occasional prop add a playful edge to these scenes. Not unlike photographs by Vivian Maier or Mike Disfarmer, the Massengill photographs invite us to reconsider a time and place from a new perspective.

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Dust-to-Digital

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 180 pgs / 271 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/24/2015
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 62   

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Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood

Published by Art / Books/Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Edited by Susan Bright. Text by Susan Bright, Stephanie Chapman, Nick Johnstone, Simon Watney.

Published to accompany a highly anticipated traveling exhibition, Home Truths examines contemporary interpretations of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on the work of 12 international photographers, it challenges the stereotypical or sentimental views of motherhood handed down by traditional depictions, and explores how photography can be used to address changing conditions of power, gender, domesticity, the maternal body and female identity. The work featured here is highly personal, often documentary in approach and with the individual at its center. The featured artists--among them Janine Antoni, Elina Brotherus, Elinor Carucci, Ana Casas Broda, Tierney Gearon, Fred Hüning, Leigh Ledare, Miyako Ishiuchi, Ann Fessler, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Katie Murray and Hanna Putz--offer very different views of contemporary motherhood, from the devoted to the dysfunctional. The book’s essays explore the historical and contemporary context of the mother figure, illustrated with dozens of comparative images from antiquity to the present day. Curator and editor Susan Bright traces the history of photographs of motherhood from the nineteenth century to the present; Simon Watney discusses the Madonna; Nick Johnstone looks at the presentation of the mother from the perspective of the father; Stephanie Chapman explores issues of motherhood and loss as expressed through photography.

PUBLISHER
Art / Books/Photographers’ Gallery, London

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color / 20 bw.

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Pub Date 11/30/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 107   

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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family

Published by Aperture.
Interview by Dawoud Bey. Text by Laura Wexler, Dennis C. Dickerson.

In this, her first book, LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America's small towns, as embodied by Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier's hometown. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political--an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region that are dominated by stories of Andrew Carnegie and Pittsburgh's industrial past, but largely ignore those of black families and the working classes. Frazier has set her story of three generations--her Grandma Ruby, her mother and herself--against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work also documents the demise of Braddock's only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the history of a place is frequently written on the body as well as the landscape. With The Notion of Family, Frazier knowingly acknowledges and expands upon the traditions of classic black-and-white documentary photography, enlisting the participation of her family, and her mother in particular. As Frazier says, her mother is "co-author, artist, photographer and subject. Our relationship primarily exists through a process of making images together. I see beauty in all her imperfections and abuse." Frazier's work reinforces the idea of image-making as a transformative act, a means of resetting traditional power dynamics and narratives, both those of her family and those of the community at large. Frazier is a 2014 Guggenheim fellow.

PUBLISHER
Aperture

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 156 pgs / 32 color / 100 duotone.

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Pub Date 11/30/2014
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Grey Gardens

Published by Free News Projects.
Edited by Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles. Introduction by Albert Maysles. Illustrations by Rebekah Maysles, Dan Murphy.

"I like anything that is even near show business. I don't feel well unless I'm near it." –Little Edie Beale

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BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color / 25 bw / Audio CD.

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Pub Date 6/30/2009
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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 8   

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Loredana Nemes: Beautiful

Sibiu 2002-2013

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Loredana Nemes.

Beautiful explores the beauty of the Romanian photographer Loredana Nemes’ (born 1972) hometown of Sibiu. Intimate writings by the artist accompany images of barefooted children in the street, of her mother’s home, an old rug or a pot of burned milk.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10.75 x 9.5 in. / 136 pgs / 81 color.

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Pub Date 2/28/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 198   

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Tierney Gearon: Alphabet Book

Published by Damiani.

Acclaimed Los Angeles–based photographer Tierney Gearon (born 1963) has gained both critical and commercial recognition for her intense and colorful photographs, which have often taken her children as their subject. After an early career as a model and commercial photographer, Gearon began to train her camera on her own family. She was thrust into the spotlight in 2001, when two nude portraits of her sons were included in the acclaimed I Am a Camera exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London, leading to outcry in the conservative press. Since her controversial debut, Gearon has been pushing the envelope of contemporary photography. Her new book takes the form of a children’s alphabet book. Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated with a photograph by Gearon that animates the letter: A is "Airplane Adventure," B is "Bear Boy," C becomes "Clown Car," etc. At once an inventive photo book and an enchanting take on the children’s alphabet book, this volume contains Gearon’s most charming and lighthearted work to date.

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Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 7.20 in. / 56 pgs / 26 color.

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Pub Date 11/30/2013
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 95   

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Fazal Sheikh: Ladli

Published by Steidl/Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.

In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees to hire a midwife to oversee the birth of a child. For an additional 10 rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage, in which Fazal Sheikh's work on the predicament of the girl-child in India begins--and 99 percent of that orphanage's population are girls. Girl Child follows on the heels of Sheik's 2005 Moksha, which documented the plight of the Indian widow, and for which, in combination with this companion volume, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson granted Sheikh its 2005 HCB Award. Sheikh's previous books include A Sense of Common Ground, The Victor Weeps, A Camel for the Son and Ramadan Moon. He was born in New York in 1965, and studied at Princeton University; he has received Fulbright and NEA fellowships, and presented his work at the Tate Modern, London, the International Center of Photography in New York and the United Nations. Sheikh is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York City.

PUBLISHER
Steidl/Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 180 pgs / 100 tritone.

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Pub Date 7/1/2007
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Joanna Kirk

Published by Other Criteria Books/Murderme.

Joanna Kirk's pastel paintings relate her experience of motherhood in which beauty is marked out against everyday reality to provide a new perspective on her work and life. Using her fingers to blend colours and build surface, much of Kirk's inspiration is drawn from the Impressionist painters Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt for whom domesticity was their given sphere, as well as later artists such as Louise Bourgeois for her ongoing revision of childhood experience. Many of Kirk's works isolate her children in natural landscapes, exposing their vulnerability and something of the dread and magic of fairytales in which children carry the weight of apprehension and that of their parents. In a frank interview with novelist Rachel Cusk, the artist discusses her fear of self-dissolution, and through the competition set up between creative work and maternal duty, the potential for self- identification in motherhood.

PUBLISHER
Other Criteria Books/Murderme

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 32 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2010
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 208   

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ISBN 9781906957087 TRADE
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