Photographs by Arthur Elgort. Damiani, 2019. 212 pp. 6½x8¼".
This limited edition of 30 copies is signed and numbered by Arthur Elgort and comes with a gelatin silver print measuring 14 x 11 inches, titled Gia Carangi, Fire Island, 1980.
Jake Bartman selects Aporia Photographs by Andrew Waits published by Dalpine, Madrid, Spain, 2018.
"Faced with new barriers to home ownership and stable employment, people—especially young people— have spent the last decade flocking to cities. Now, more than 82 percent of Americans call urban areas home.
Andrew Waits’ photobook Aporia, which was released last year to plaudits including a 2018 Fiebre Dummy Book Award, dissects the power dynamics that undergird America’s new urbanization. Its black-and-white images move from portraits of soon-to-be-demolished homes and urban homelessness to shots of sleek skyscrapers that reflect stratocumulus clouds. Taken together, these images explore how a changing urban landscape affects its population. Waits’ work also asks how city-dwellers can best understand certain kinds of oppression. In this sense, Aporia’s project is to seek a new urban epistemology."—Jake Bartman Read more
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