“Our setting is Portland, Oregon,” begins Rian Dundon (born 1980), in his foreword to Passenger. The photographer is a 42-year-old divorced American dad. His family and city are splintering, but any feelings of regret are curbed by the thrum of money and capital moving the wheels underneath.” Using his trademark point-and-shoot Fujifilm XF10, Dundon has included here nearly 100 images of Portland and its inhabitants. The XF10 generally takes more time to operate than a single-lens reflex or an iPhone, which, in the artist’s words, slows things down.” The resulting photographs, whether depicting an eerily lit bus interior, a graffiti-laden . . . .go to book page >>

Art books generally depict pieces of art, and art is generally shown in galleries. For his new artist's book, Tod Lippy (born 1963), founder of the nonprofit arts publication ESOPUS, flips the script. Private displays photographs of art galleries that Lippy has taken over the past several years. Crucially, these photographs are not of the art housed in said galleries but of the areas that are marked off-limits to visitors. These areas are indeed private, and the book’s title ripples throughout the 66-page volume to incantatory effect. Without trespassing, Lippy gestures toward the banal, if not insidious, forces behind the . . . .go to book page >>