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2010 Light Work Subscription Program: Prints, Books, and Contact Sheet

Dear Friend of Light Work,

By now you should have received your issue of the 2010 Subscription brochure in the mail. Light Work is proud to present the new line up in our Print Collectors Offer, featuring Elijah Gowin, Doug DuBois, Stanley Greenberg, and Suzanne Opton. The Light Work Subscription Program is an excellent way to make a difference in the arts while expanding your art or book collection. Sales from our subscription program helps Light Work fund the many services we provide to artists, including our international Artist-in-Residence Program, exhibitions, publications, a collection of over 3,400 works that are all viewable online, a public access workspace for artists, and other services. Most imporantly, the subscription program places great art on your walls.

All book and print purchases from the Light Work Subscription Program include a complimentary, one-year subscription to Contact Sheet, one of the longest-running art photography publications in the world and recent recipient of an Award of Excellence from American Graphic Design Awards.

Please note that some of this year's prints are issued in very small editions. We suggest that you place your order soon to ensure the availability of the print of your choice.

SPECIAL DISCOUNT: Please remember to include the promotional code DEL10 for a ten percent discount on your complete order.

Many thanks for your continued support,

Hannah Frieser
Director

Quick Links to LW store: Subscription Program | Prints | Books | Benefactor | Contact Sheet Only

THE PRINTS

We are thrilled to present you with an exceptionally exciting selection of prints this year. It is the generosity of each artist that makes it possible for Light Work to offer these original photographs to our subscribers at exceptionally low prices.

Elijah Gowin - Master Print Edition, $450 each

Cup, 2002 (image on right)
Pigmented inkjet print, 12 x 12"

Maggie and Orbs, 2001 (image above)
Pigmented inkjet print, 12 x 15"

This year's Master Print Editions category features two prints by Elijah Gowin. The images Cup and Maggie and Orbs are part of Gowin's series Hymnal of Dreams (1994-2004), in which his beloved aunt Margaret Cooper is featured prominently in dreamlike and whimsically constructed scenes. Gowin uses photography to speak about ritual, landscape, and memory. Only twenty-five prints are available for each image. The prints are shipped in 20 x 16" mats ready for framing or for archival storage. Both images were included in the recently published book Maggie, available through Light Work's 2010 Book Collectors Offer.

Doug DuBois - Fine Print Program, $275

My mother in the backyard, Oldwick, NJ, 2000
Pigmented inkjet print, 12 x 9.5"

Doug DuBois has photographed his family for over twenty-five years, following the seasons of happy and sorrowful moments. His work examines the complexities of family life within the fragility of daily emotions. The edition is limited to 50 individually numbered prints, matted in 18 x 14" mats, and ready for framing or archival storage. Aperture recently published his book ...all the days and nights featuring this and sixty-one other images in the series. The book is available through Light Work's 2010 Book Collectors Offer.

Suzanne Opton - Fine Print Program, $275

Soldier Conklin: 272 days in Iraq, 2006
Pigmented inkjet print, 8 x 10"

Suzanne Opton's series Soldier examines the humanity of soldiers who have fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. Describing the intentions of her work, she says, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. After all, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone who'd seen something unforgettable." The edition is limited to 50 individually numbered prints, matted in 14 x 18" mats, and ready for framing or archival storage.

Stanley Greenberg - Fine Print Program, $275

Untitled, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002
Pigmented inkjet print, 10 x 8"

Stanley Greenberg's photographs of architectural sites contemplate form and content in the context of contemporary urban existence. He describes his approach as follows: "I look at photographs for the information they contain. I know that their record is not necessarily a mandate for truth, but I want them to tell me what they can beyond the act of the creation of the image and the production of the resulting prints. It's an old fashioned way of looking, for what has happened in the visual arts generally has also happened specifically in photography, style and attitude have supplanted the photographers' first call to record and document the world before them." The edition is limited to 50 individually numbered prints, matted in 18 x 14" mats, and ready for framing or archival storage.

A limited number of prints from previous subscription programs remain available at low prices starting at $275, including the Eatonville Portfolio, a boxed set of images by Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis for $1,200. To view our full selection, please visit our website.

Quick Links to LW store: Elijah Gowin | Doug DuBois | Suzanne Opton | Stanley Greenberg

THE BOOKS

Add to your library with a book from Light Work's Book Collectors Offer. The Basic Plus Subscription includes a signed, limited edition copy of Maggie by Emmet and Elijah Gowin for only $75. Or choose the Basic Extra Subscription with a signed copy of ...all the days and nights by Doug DuBois for only $60. This offer includes a complementary, one-year subscription to Contact Sheet.

Important: If you are also purchasing a print, you can add the book Maggie for $35, or the book ...all the days and nights for $25.

Emmet and Elijah Gowin - Book Collectors Offer, $75

Maggie (Tin Roof Press, 2009)

Signed book, limited edition of 2,000
56 pages with 24 tritone and color reproductions
Introduction by Edith Gowin

The images of renowned photographers Emmet and Elijah Gowin weave a gentle portrait of 98-year-old Margaret Cooper. The photographs bear witness to her unique personality and warmth as seen from the view of two different generations. Edith Gowin describes in her introduction, "Maggie is an interesting and unpredictable person, so it is not a surprise that both Emmet and Elijah saw something universal and magical in her." The book is signed by both photographers.

Doug DuBois - Book Collectors Offer, $60

...all the days and nights (Aperture, 2009)

Signed book
128 pages, clothbound
Introduction by Donald Antrim

Doug DuBois examines the complexities of family life within the fragility of daily emotions. His book is the result of decades-long observation, during which he followed his family through joyous celebrations and devastating losses. ...all the days and nights is signed by the artist.

Other signed books available through Light Work include On the Sixth Day by Alessandra Sanguinetti, South Central by Mark Steinmetz, Times Squared by Toby Old, We Skate Hardcore by Vincent Cianni, Genetic Self-Portrait by Gary Schneider, Brothel by Zana Briski, and more.

CONTACT SHEET

Contact Sheet has become the place where lovers of photography, from museum professionals to avid amateurs to collectors, turn to see the latest work by important emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. You will receive a complimentary, one-year subscription with any book or print purchase above. Or renew your basic subscription for $40.

A one-year subscription to Contact Sheet includes five issues, including four monographs and The Light Work Annual. All subscriptions are by calendar year.

Save 10%	Save ten percent on your print, book or subscription purchases by using the promotional code DEL10 when placing your order. All orders, including gift purchases, are eligible. Place your order any time through our online store at www.lightwork.org. Orders can also be placed by phone during business hours (9-5 EST, M-F). Call 315.443.1300.
Offer Expires: December 31, 2009

GIFT PURCHASES Make your gift go farther by placing your order now. The first fifty new or gift subscribers will receive all five 2009 issues of Contact Sheet, plus the one-year subscription that is part of the print, book or subscription purchase, for ten issues total. No special promotional code needed.
Limited Offer: First 50 new subscriptions only

BENEFACTORS ONLY SIGNED ISSUES OF CONTACT SHEET

The Benefactor Offer represents an excellent value and an intuitive way to further your collection. Contributors of $1,000 will receive all three prints in our Print Collectors category (Doug DuBois, Suzanne Opton, and Stanley Greenberg), one print by Elijah Gowin from the Master Print Edition (please indicate your choice), and a signed copy of the book Maggie by Emmet and Elijah Gowin. By participating in this category you will save $300 on the cost of the prints and book, and receive a one-year subscription to Contact Sheet. As a bonus, benefactors receive signed copies of their Contact Sheet monographs, not available otherwise.

Use the promotional code DEL10 and save an additional $100, making this an offer hard to resist.

Offer Expires: December 31, 2009

About Light Work:

Light Work's mission is to provide direct support through exhibitions, artist residencies, special projects, and publications to emerging and under-recognized visual artists working in photography and related digital and electronic media.

Light Work is dedicated to the support of the creation of new work and the promotion of photography as a medium. The state-of-the-art darkrooms and digital facilities are designed to make it easy for artists to produce museum-quality work. All services are geared toward the needs of artists.

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