Annual Series No. 3 — Four Book Set

Mark Steinmetz | Elaine Stocki | Dru Donovan | Katy Grannan

Edition of 800 
6 x 8 in. / 152 x 203 mm
2010
ISBN 978-1-942953-07-4

Philip & Micheline by Mark Steinmetz

Perhaps some of the most personal images Mark Steinmetz has published, the photographer lovingly follows his parents over the course of ten years as they age, love and eventually leave. This book acts as much as loving memorial and tribute as it does artist book.

Balcony by Elaine Stocki

Balcony is a unique exploration of uncertainty and poetic tensions. Stocki’s images pose questions about psychological limitations as well as the chaos of human interactions. All the while a cast of character's assembled through model-wanted ads on Craigslist stubbornly provide the viewer no real answers. 

Lifting Water by Dru Donovan

The artist investigates via reenactment the loss of a loved one. Through hired actors the artist would work rapidly in a confined space, in this case a hotel room, relying on memory, intuition and instinct to create a grouping of images that reads equal parts film noir, Broadway play and cinéma vérité at once.  

N. by Katy Grannan

One of the great portraitists of our time, here we find Grannan giving all power up to a muse she has developed a close working relationship with throughout the years. In this case the artist simply shoots the images while the subject, Nicole, directs herself telling Grannan it's time they make some "real pictures.” The notions of subject-as-artist, exhibitionism, sexuality, power dynamics and the gaze all come into play at once.