Each year, as part of the Book Collectors Offer, Light Work offers new beautiful photography books for purchase. Each book is signed by the author and available either individually or as part of a subscription to Contact Sheet. Along with this year’s current book for sale, Light Work also offers more than fifteen books and publications that have been available in the past.     Pitch Blackness Hank Willis Thomas Willis Thomas has been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries across the country, including at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT; Light Factory in Charlotte, NC; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, NY; and the African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA, among many others. His photographs have been published in numerous books and publications, including Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers (W.W. Norton, 2000) and Winter in America (self-published in 2006 with Kambui Olujimi). Thomas participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2005. Pitch Blackness $35.00   On the Sixth Day with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50   South Central with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50   Times Squared with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50   We Skate Hardcore with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50   Genetic Self-Portrait with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50       On the Sixth Day Alessandra Sanguinetti On the Sixth Day is a signed, eighty-page cloth-bound book that includes sixty-one color reproductions. Sanguinetti’s vivid photographs depict the coexistence of people and animals in an arrestingly honest portrayal. Her photographs reveal and describe with clarity the rituals and traditions of the local farmers whose lives interweave with a host of domestic animals caught in the cycle that is life and death. On the Sixth Day $35.00   On the Sixth Day with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50       South Central Mark Steinmetz South Central is a seventy-two-page cloth-bound monograph that includes fifty-seven duotone reproductions. Steinmetz’s photographs vividly capture human condition, incorporating both aggression and tenderness at the same time, while also depicting the isolation and displacement felt by young Americans. Created in the Knoxville, TN area, the images illustrate the socioeconomic condition of the region. The book’s title comes from the local telephone company, South Central Bell telephone company. One recurring theme throughout the work is South Central’s public payphones. South Central $65.00   South Central with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50       Times Squared Toby Old This 120-page cloth-bound book includes 114 duotone reproductions. The photographs in the book represent four bodies of work, Times Square, Boxing, Fashion, and Disco—or simply put, the street, the arena, fiction, and sex. Toby Old is looking through the viewfinder in the tradition of Weegee, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. He is not simply interested in capturing the bizarre or the grotesque; the underlying draw for him is the action. The New York Times said, “He is unflinching, his pictures not always easy to look at but always entertaining.” Times Squared $35.00   Times Squared with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50       We Skate Hardcore Vincent Cianni This 150-page cloth-bound book includes hundreds of duotone and four-color reproductions. The book is the culmination of a decade-long project that looks at a group of Latino boys in Williamsburg, Brooklyn whose passion is in-line skating. For the project Cianni documented them on and off their skates to provide a vivid portrait of their lives through photographs, video stills, and commentary from the skaters themselves. A DVD with footage of the skaters and an interview with Cianni is also included. We Skate Hardcore $25.00   We Skate Hardcore with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50       Genetic Self-Portrait Gary Schneider (1999) Limited edition artist book, 64 four color and 55 halftone reproductions, hard cover, published by Light Work and printed at The Stinehour Press. Genetic Self-Portrait $35.00   Genetic Self-Portrait with subscription and Pitch Blackness $75.00 $67.50       Brothel Zana Briski Brothel is a 130-page, cloth-bound book that includes fifty-four tritone photographic reproductions. The book comes housed in a special handmade clamshell box, which is covered with red silk from India. The photographs were created in Calcutta’s red light district. This is the photographic series that led to Briski’s Academy Award-winning documentary Born into Brothels, which features her work with the children of prostitutes. Please note: Only the book in the Collector's Edition with print ($1,200) is signed by the artist. Brothel $250.00   Zana Briski - Collector’s Edition $1,200.00       Snowbound $60.00 Lisa M. Robinson Snowbound is a signed, one hundred twelve page cloth-bound book that includes fifty four-color photo reproductions. Lisa M. Robinson has spent the past five years photographing this series, seeking out snowstorms to capture images of man-made objects sunken in snow. The snowscapes look beyond the obvious photographs of snow, depicting different forms of this primary element—ice, snow, fog and water.       Referencing Art Jerry N. Uelsmann This sixty-four page, cloth-bound book, published by Nazraeli Press, includes fifty-three duotone reproductions. The photographs in Referencing Art, taken from the mid-fifties to the present, reveal a relatively unknown facet of Jerry Uelsmann’s working process: an on-going dialogue with the history of art. Referencing Art $40.00   Referencing Art with subscription $60.00       All My Life For Sale John D. Freyer All My Life for Sale combines classic American passion for the road with the current obsession with Internet consumption. One day John Freyer decided to sell everything he owned on the Internet, from an unopened box of taco shells, to a half bottle of mouthwash, to almost all of his clothes. After surprisingly finding buyers for nearly all of his possessions on eBay, he set out on a journey to visit his one-time possessions in their new homes. All My Life For Sale $20.00   All My Life For Sale with subscription $40.00       After 9/11 $0.00 Nathan Lyons Limited edition signed book printed by the Yale University Press. Sorry, this item is currently SOLD OUT       Good and Bad Hair Bill Gaskins Limited edition book signed by the artist. Rutgers University Press Good and Bad Hair $30.00   Good and Bad Hair with subscription $50.00       Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! Nathan Lyons Limited edition book signed by the artist. Printed by MIT press. Sorry, this item is currently SOLD OUT Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! $0.00   Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! with subscription $0.00       Stranger Than Fiction (Hard cover) Jim Stone (1993) Limited edition artist book 40 duotone photographs Stranger Than Fiction (Hard cover) $35.00   Stranger Than Fiction (Hard cover) with subscription $55.00       Fazal Sheikh Ramadan Moon and A Camel for the Son Fazal Sheikh $45.00   Fazal Sheikh with subscription $65.00       Todd Hido $0.00 SORRY, THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.   Alternate Book Selections are available. 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