Sam Contis: Deep Springs
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65,00€
About
The copy we are selling is a display copy. The cover and the inside of the book show signs of wear (the colour of the cover is a little dirty and faded, the book is a little loose).
The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn.
The college and its surroundings provide a stage on which Contis explores the construction of myth, place, and masculine identity. Bringing together new photographs with pictures made by the first students at the college a century ago, Deep Springs engages with the enduring image of the American West––one that Hollywood, mass media, and the history of American photography have imprinted into the collective psyche.
About the photographer:
Sam Contis (b.1982) lives and works in California. Her work is represented in the collections of LACMA and the Yale University Art Gallery, and has recently been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Antwerp, Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from New York University. Deep Springs is her first book.
The copy we are selling is a display copy. The cover and the inside of the book show signs of wear (the colour of the cover is a little dirty and faded, the book is a little loose).
Published in May 2017 by Mack Books
152 pages
48 colour plates, 51 duotone plates
24 cm x 28.8 cm
