Known for her quiet portraits of American cultural movements, Kristin Bedford’s new work, 'Cruise Night', is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Mexican American lowrider car culture in Los Angeles. From 2014 to 2019 she attended hundreds of lowrider cruise nights, car shows, quinceañeras, weddings and funerals. Bedford’s images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite us to question prevalent societal stereotypes.

Located at the intersection of aesthetics and social realism, her photographs explore the nuance of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. With the bold language of color photography and the female vantage point, Cruise Night is an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape.

Looking at Photography

Stephen Frailey

Inspired by John Szarkowski’s 1973 'Looking at Photographs', and paying homage to the concept of the one hundred images and a page of text for each, Stephen Frailey now updates this classic with significant works of photography from mid-70s to the present.

'Looking at Photography' covers all genres of photography, and through discussing the significance of the individual works Frailey – as photographer, editor and educator - articlulates the themes and sensibilities of contemporary photography.

The book is illustrated with major works by acclaimed artists such as Tina Barney, Jeff Wall, Steven Meisel, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Tim Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, among others.


Stephen Frailey, the Chair of the Photography and Video Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1998 to 2018, is now Chair Emeritus. In 2012 he co-founded the Graduate MPS Fashion Photography program at SVA, and is currently the Director of Education for Red Hook Labs in Brooklyn. He has had solo exhibitions at 303 Gallery and the Julie Saul Gallery and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center for Photography, New York; and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. His work has been reviewed in the 'New York Times', 'Arts Magazine', 'ARTnews', 'Artforum', the 'Village Voice', and the 'New Yorker', portfolios have appeared in 'Artforum' and the 'Paris Review'.

language: english
pages: 200
illustrations: 100
binding: hardbound
release: March 2020

Do Not Feed Alligators

David Shama

David Shama captures his subjects in moments of repose, set against the grit and grain of the sun-drenched South. Shama documents a road trip across an often-overlooked America of swamps, reptiles, scrapyards and cheap motels. 

Specifitcations

136 Pages
8" x 11.5
Published by Damiani in 2018
Printed in Italy