Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers‘ essays about failed attempts to make a picture.
Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph—camera, lens, film—and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it through the lens. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind the image.
This collection provides a unique and original interpretation of the experience of photographing, and allows the reader access to a world rarely encountered: the image making process itself.
Photographs Not Taken features contributions by many of today’s most important photographers:
Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D’Amato, TIm Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, TIm Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schumann, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter Van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb.
Book Details:
5 ½ x 8 inches
232 pages
Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-983231-61-5
$14.95 US/$14.95 Canadian
International distribution via Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.)
Available as eBook download in March 2012
☞ Photographs Not Taken is available for purchase at Daylight
UPCOMING BOOK SIGNINGS:
March 19, 2012 – 7-8pm, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
March 23, 2012 – 6-7pm, ICP Bookstore, New York, New York
