Day SleeperIn this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Langes extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centered around the figure of the day sleeper at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Langes ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth

These images manipulate a landscape that is simultaneously autobiographical

began as meditations on nature: quiet observations of the water and what was reflected

What was this going to look like

and approaches as it traces the evolution of one of the most important voices in contemporary photography

There will be a revised introduction by Goldin

I deeply felt that I wasn’t ready to understand what I was doing

2024) follows the same sequencing of landscape and portrait images as the original

The resulting photographs are my perception of what happened in those spaces: Who lived there

resistance

and his handmade prints

” Much like the ancient word “ayu” translates to “the sea brings various things to the land” so too has the phrase spread throughout the islands of Japan