Deep Springs (signed)
by Sam Contis
Photographs: Sam Contis
Publisher: MACK Books
152 pages
Year: April 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910164-86-0
Comments: Hardback, 24 cm x 28.8 cm
Contis’s photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. – Lawrence Rinder
The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn.
The college and its surroundings provide a stage on which Contis explores the construction of myth, place, and masculine identity. Bringing together new photographs with pictures made by the first students at the college a century ago, Deep Springs engages with the enduring image of the American West––one that Hollywood, mass media, and the history of American photography have imprinted into the collective psyche.
Sam Contis (b.1982) lives and works in California. Her work is represented in the collections of LACMA and the Yale University Art Gallery, and has recently been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Antwerp, Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from New York University. In 2017 she will have her first solo museum show at the Berkeley Art Museum. Deep Springs is her first book.
Exhibitions:
The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley - 3 May to 27 August, 2017
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC - 12 May to 18 June, 2017
More books by Sam Contis
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
MONO VOLUME TWO
by various photographers
sold out -
Museum. 55 Lichtbilder von André Köhler
by André Köhler
sold out -
1973
by Keiichi Tahara
Euro 44 -
Got to Go
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Euro 50 -
Frowst
by Joanna Piotrowska
sold out -
Blind Date (signed)
by Lieko Shiga
sold out
more books tagged »USA« | >> see all
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Deep Springs (signed)
by Sam Contis
Photographs: Sam Contis
Publisher: MACK Books
152 pages
Year: April 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910164-86-0
Comments: Hardback, 24 cm x 28.8 cm
Contis’s photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. – Lawrence Rinder
The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn.
The college and its surroundings provide a stage on which Contis explores the construction of myth, place, and masculine identity. Bringing together new photographs with pictures made by the first students at the college a century ago, Deep Springs engages with the enduring image of the American West––one that Hollywood, mass media, and the history of American photography have imprinted into the collective psyche.
Sam Contis (b.1982) lives and works in California. Her work is represented in the collections of LACMA and the Yale University Art Gallery, and has recently been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Antwerp, Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from New York University. In 2017 she will have her first solo museum show at the Berkeley Art Museum. Deep Springs is her first book.
Exhibitions:
The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley - 3 May to 27 August, 2017
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC - 12 May to 18 June, 2017
More books by Sam Contis
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
MONO VOLUME TWO
by various photographers
sold out -
Museum. 55 Lichtbilder von André Köhler
by André Köhler
sold out -
1973
by Keiichi Tahara
Euro 44 -
Got to Go
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Euro 50 -
Frowst
by Joanna Piotrowska
sold out -
Blind Date (signed)
by Lieko Shiga
sold out
more books tagged »USA« | >> see all
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Deep Springs (signed)
by Sam Contis
Photographs: Sam Contis
Publisher: MACK Books
152 pages
Year: April 2017
ISBN: 978-1-910164-86-0
Comments: Hardback, 24 cm x 28.8 cm
Contis’s photographs capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses. – Lawrence Rinder
The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn.
The college and its surroundings provide a stage on which Contis explores the construction of myth, place, and masculine identity. Bringing together new photographs with pictures made by the first students at the college a century ago, Deep Springs engages with the enduring image of the American West––one that Hollywood, mass media, and the history of American photography have imprinted into the collective psyche.
Sam Contis (b.1982) lives and works in California. Her work is represented in the collections of LACMA and the Yale University Art Gallery, and has recently been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Antwerp, Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from New York University. In 2017 she will have her first solo museum show at the Berkeley Art Museum. Deep Springs is her first book.
Exhibitions:
The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley - 3 May to 27 August, 2017
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC - 12 May to 18 June, 2017
More books by Sam Contis
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
MONO VOLUME TWO
by various photographers
sold out -
Museum. 55 Lichtbilder von André Köhler
by André Köhler
sold out -
1973
by Keiichi Tahara
Euro 44 -
Got to Go
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Euro 50 -
Frowst
by Joanna Piotrowska
sold out -
Blind Date (signed)
by Lieko Shiga
sold out
more books tagged »USA« | >> see all
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com