LAY FLAT 02 Meta  Shane Lavelette, (Editor) and Michael Bühler-Rose (Editor)

10″ x 8″,  103 pages, Lay Flat, layflat.org

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Lay Flat 02: Meta brings together a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself. Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Stephen Gill, Daniel Gordon, David Haxton, Matt Keegan, Elad Lassry, Katja Mater, Laurel Nakadate, Lisa Oppenheim, Torbjørn Rødland, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Useful Photography, Charlie White, Ann Woo and Mark Wyse are accompanied by the textual contributions of Adam Bell (Co-editor, The Education of a Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Publisher/Editor, Aperture Foundation), Alex Klein (Editor, Words Without Pictures), artists Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Arthur Ou, as well a conversation between Lyle Rexer (Author, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography) and James Welling, an artist who is seminal to this dialogue.

Les mystères de Paris / Paris Mysteries by Ellen Feldman

8.5″ x 8.5″,  70 pages,  viovio.com

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Street photographer Ellen Feldman finds mystery and wonders in both popular and little visited corners of Paris.  Her sense of adventure is infectious. Without text, the rhythmic sequence of Feldman’s images guides us through an unexpected and joyful tour of an amazing city.

Overheard at the Museum by Judith Henry

5.25″ x 6.5″, 80 pages.  Universe Publishing, A Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

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Henry captures the humor, irreverence and under the breath critiques of Fine Art that museum-goers display.  Quotes are paired with candid black and white photographs of museum patrons. “Soul-baring, intimate, sordid, chock full of wit and wisdom…. a book sure to become an icon of popular culture.”

SX-70 Polaroids 1981 – 2011 by Franc Palaia

8.5″ x 8.5″, offset, self-published, netpub

$25 plus shipping

53 images of Palaia’s hand colored Polaroids with oil based crayons. Palaia covers, blends, eradicates and heightens the Polaroid’s colors and adds texture to the images, making them look like miniature oil paintings.

urmonumental New Museum opens on Warren Streetby Howard Saunders

7.5″ x 7.5″, offset, self published

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Howard Saunder’s personal reflections on curating high and low art. Here Saunders documents his one day installation/intervention on Warren St. in Hudson NY when readymades, teeshirts,  junkyard treasures and antiques stood together and took on the art establishment.

100 Images by Moira Barrett

8.5″ x 11″, Blurb, 2010

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Moira Barrett’s intimate photographs of family and the quotidian of daily life add an important voice to the canon of family portraiture.

Stations of the Scale by Andrea Rosenthal

11″ x 8.5″, Lulu, 2009

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A photographic memoir that deals in an insightful yet humorous way with the author’s love of food, particularly sugar, and the consequences. The author uses herself as a subject in these very funny images about a serious topic.

Corn Dogs, Blue Ribbons and the American Pastoral by Meg Birnbaum

8.5″ x 8.5″  viovio, 2009

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Selections from a portfolio of black and white photographs taken with a toy plastic camera of fourteen summer fairs in New England over a two year period.  An emotional and wistful visual record of this long-standing American tradition.

Absolution of the Wind by Emily Corbato

7″ x 7″  blurb, 2009

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Selections from a portfolio of black and white landscape photographs – water, sky, woods – Plum Island, MA, recently exhibited at Boston University. Includes text by artist and quotes from Book of Psalms and poem by Philip Booth.

The McCann Family by Karen Davis

7″ x 7″   blurb, 2008

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Family Memoir:  When we were small, my younger sister, Cheryl, had a set of four mechanical dolls. She called them the McCann Family. They were a thinly disguised version of the Davis family. Cheryl decided that she was “Tom McCann,” the boy doll. I think she liked the idea of being the spunky and adventurous child. At first Tom could stand on his own. Later he lost his balance all the time. Cheryl diagnosed Tom with Polio. She fitted him with crutches and braces just like hers. (Cheryl was born with spina bifida.)

Pretension: All About Us by Karen Davis and Mark Orton

7″ x 7″  blurb, 2008

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A satirical look at contemporary art criticism through the authors’ double portrait.

Central Square, volume 1 – almost home  by Karen Davis

8.5″ x 5.5″  O.L.D. Press, 2004, photocopied

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Photographs and personal essays of life changes in Central Square, Cambridge, MA

Its Not Art ’til You Bite It – another adventure to the quotidian by Mark Orton

8.25″ x 10.75″ magcloud.com 2009

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One Sunday, in the midst of capturing another brunch icon, Mike Beach, one of the regulars, said, ““It’s not art ’til you bite it.”” In one stroke of genius, or perhaps just a brain burp, the series took on a life of its own. I have now been taking shots of half- eaten food for several years in hundreds of venues on two continents. You could say it’s my ““artistic practice”.” – Mark Orton