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featured by GoSee ART : GoSee Book Tip : Michael Joseph 'Lost & Found' - the story of American wanderlust, told through portraits of travelers, appearing at Kehrer Publishing

Lost & Found’ documents a contemporary American subculture of young travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These travelers, as they are referred to, abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. On their personal journey, driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends. The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence.

Like graffiti on the walls of the city streets they inhabit and the trains they ride, their bodies and faces become the visual storybook of their lives. Their clothing is often a mismatch of found items. Jackets, pants and vests are self-made like a patchwork quilt, using fabric pieces of a fellow traveler’s clothing embellished by metal bottle caps, buttons, safety pins, lighter parts, syringe caps, and patches.

Joseph’s black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. His portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

Michael Joseph is a photographer who documents subculture through street portraiture. Raised just outside of New York City, his inspirations are drawn from interactions with strangers on city streets and aims to afford his audience the same experience through his photographs. His portraits are made unplanned and up close to allow the viewer to explore the immediate and unseen.

Michael’s work has been shown online on CNN, Vice, AnotherMan and PaperMag and published in international magazines, including Elle, Inked, 1814, and SHOTS. He has held solo exhibitions at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (New York, NY), in Soho Photo Gallery (New York, NY) and at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (Rochester, NH).

Linen hardcover with title shield 26 x 33 cm,
168 pages, 93 duplex illustrations,
English, ISBN 978-3-96900-138-7 2023
Texts: Michael Joseph, Paige Stevens
Design: Benjamin Wolbergs
07.02.2024 show complete article

 

‘This Is the Time’ – a photographic experiment in 21 chapters by Danish artist Absalon Kirkeby, appearing at Kehrer Publishing

This Is Doubt, Neglecting Death, This Is Magic, This Is the Garden … are a few of the names of the 21 chapters in ‘This Is the Time’, each divided into fourteen images, describing life stages and emotions vis-à-vis the spiritual and material aspects of human existence.

Absalon Kirkeby’s photography is like an engine, intensifying and experimenting with the connection between the photographic world and that outside to develop ever-new visual registers, continuously challenging and pushing the boundaries of phenomenology and ethics of the medium.

“The artist’s creative process entails in part keeping himself awake for several days at a time when he is photographing. This induces a trance-like state of consciousness, similar to that between waking and sleep. Focus and sensibility become distorted, colors and reality intertwined,” Peter Amby Gallery tells us, which has just presented the artist’s second solo exhibition.

Absalon Kirkeby (* 1983) is a Danish artist, who lives and works in Copenhagen. Kirkeby is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, the Goldsmiths College and the Zurich University of the Arts.

Published by Morten Bo, designed by Louis Montes
Large-format softcover, 26 x 37 cm, 640 pages, 294 color photos
English, ISBN 978-3-96900-142-4, € 89.00
13.12.2023 show complete article

 

featured by GoSee SHOP : GoSee Book Tip : ‘American Bedroom - Reflections on the Nature of Life’ - photographic insights into American bedrooms by Barbara Peacock – as a photo book at Kehrer Publishing

‘American Bedroom’ is a poetic photographic journey, viewing Americans in their most intimate dwelling: the bedroom. The nature of the project: unguarded portraits of individuals, couples, and families that reveal the depth of their unique character, truth, and spirit.

The photos are full of subtle details which invite us to contemplate the idiosyncrasies of each enigmatic life – paired with quotes from each subject. My life has been dramatic, and it could not have been better, says, for instance, 97-year-old Doris from Overland Park, Kansas.

Barbara Peacock is a photographer and director living in Portland, Maine. Since the time ‘American Bedroom’ was started in 2016, she has won the Getty Editorial Grant, the Women Photograph/Getty Grant, three LensCulture Awards, four Top 50 Critical Mass Awards, and was named one of the Top 100 Photographers in America in 2020.

An introductory quote from Larry Fink : “Barbara Peacock’s American Bedroom photographs are a testimony to emotional innocence playing footsie with the devil. With a subject matter such as this, one could almost instantly go toward lurid, voyeuristic admonitions; she does not. Often her subjects are without clothing, in the bed, frolicking around, neutralizing any conventional identity. What is it within her that so magnetizes her subjects in the bed in front of her, that she as an imposing presence, ‘the photographer’, no longer exists?

Barbara Peacock sees the bedroom as the shrine of life : “I believe the bedroom is not just a private place, but a sacred place. We build it as a shrine to our lives (even if houseless) and spend nearly one third of our lives in it. It exemplifies our being; it is a place to rest, to love, to comfort, to be, to give life, to restore, to recover, to grieve, to lay sick and to die. The one thing I know for certain is that all lives are important, and everyone has a story to tell. This is not a look at our differences – although there may be many – it is about our likenesses, our loves, our dreams, and all the threads of commonality that connect us as human beings.”

Barbara Peacock ‘American Bedroom – Reflections on the Nature of Life’
Texts written by Barbara Peacock, quotes from the subjects
Designed by Kehrer Design (Lisa Drechsel)
Hardcover, 31.5 x 23 cm, 208 pages, 91 color images
English, ISBN 978-3-96900-129-5

GoSee kehrerverlag.com & barbpeacock.com
21.11.2023 show complete article