Light Work : Store - Signed Books

Signed Books

Each year, as part of the Book Collectors Offer, Light Work offers new beautiful photography books for purchase. Many of these books feature work by former Artists-in-Residence and make great additions to any shelf in your library.

Each book is signed by the author and available either individually or as part of a subscription to Contact Sheet.

Alternate Book Selections are available.

Book Collectors Offer

$95.00
(SAVE $75)

Take advantage of the Book Collectors Offer and receive two books worth $65 each, plus a subscription to Contact Sheet for only $95 (Save $75!).

Leon Borensztein
American Portraits
Nazraeli Press, 2011
Signed book, limited edition of 2,000
96 pages, clothbound, 13 x 11" with 60 duotone reproductions

Leon Borensztein's American Portraits brings together ten years of portaits by the photographer. Visiting his subjects at home, Borensztein would set up a generic backdrop behind his sitters and then take a step back to reveal a glimpse into their personal spaces. The resulting collection of photographs is a playful and touching look into the lives of the everyday Americans he encountered.

Suzanne Opton
Soldier / Many Wars
DECODE Books, 2011
Signed book, limited edition of 1,500
104 pages, hardbound, 9.5 x 12" with 39 four-color reproductions

Portrait photographer Suzanne Opton's latest monograph Soldier / Many Wars reflects a curiosity about the military at a time of war. Focusing her lens on soldiers who recently returned from their tour of duty in Iraq, her images are both emotionally and politically poignant. "It is not sensationalism I am after. I am after the human being," writes Opton.

Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies

$75.00
(SAVE $30 with a print purchase)

Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies
Hardbound book: 220 pages with 130 duotone and four-color reproductions
The book Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies represents a comprehensive look at the artist's career over the past thirty years. As Carrie Mae Weems describes, "During the past twenty-five years, I have worked toward developing a complex body of art that has at various times employed photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and, most recently, video. My work has led me to investigate family relationships, gender roles, the histories of racism, sexism, class, and various political systems. Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment." The book includes essays by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Annie E. Coombes, and Greg Tate.