25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming
American Photographers, Volume 2
Selected and with an introduction by Sylvia Plachy
Edited by Iris Tillman Hill
To be published by powerHouse
Books and CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies in
May 2008
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Description
The Photographers
Events and Exhibitions
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A CDS Book
Published by powerHouse Books and the Center for Documentary Studies
176 pages, 9 x 11
200 color and black-and-white photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-439-4
$24.95
25 Under 25, Volume 2, is available from your local bookseller or by ordering directly from powerHouse Books
To order from powerHouse Books
www.powerhousebooks.com
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Description
"We search for that secret, which like a pearl in the ocean, is not easily found or given up. Our search is about an elusive, slippery moment that . . . comes once, and it is so intense that, when it works, what is visible and what is just sensed merge, and an image comes to life on a piece of paper. . . .
Too often, in the service of politics and commerce, photographs are inadequate or false. But here, we project ourselves into these images filled with insight and compassion and enter their collective memory as a continuation in the history of photography. Each of these photographers, in their own perceptive way, surprise us with their finds."—Sylvia Plachy
In October 2005, the Center for Documentary Studies announced an open call for submissions in the third 25 Under 25 competition. Every five years, CDS publishes a collection of work showcasing the talent of twenty-five of America's most promising photographers, twenty-five years old and younger. The first volume that CDS copublished with powerHouse Books was selected a Best Book of 2003 by Photo District News.
This new volume of 25 Under 25 features photographs selected by renowned photographer Sylvia Plachy that explore the theme "transitions": what it means to be in-between, in flux, at odds, in a new state of being—personally, locally, nationally, or internationally. The photographers, who must have been born on or after April 28, 1980, were drawn from a widely publicized, nationwide competition run by CDS.
25 Under 25 presents a wide array of photographs reflecting the world as seen through young but sophisticated eyes—the devastation from Katrina; the battle-weary soldiers and civilian casualties of the Iraq War; explicit explorations of sexuality; urban and suburban landscapes. These images, whether of people or of what people leave behind, show us that the human imprint is everywhere, moving, altering, desiring, aspiring to permanence. The camera for these 25 photographers "is a license to explore," as Lauren Greenfield wrote in an earlier 25 Under 25. "It provides a shield of protection, a mandate, a reason for being at a place, for looking, for participating. . . . The camera affords freedom from social prohibitions, and is a passport for the journey." This collection includes a wide range of approaches to photography: straight photography; documentary essays; highly personal and expressionistic stories; staged, spontaneous, or experimental images; and surreal tableaux.
SYLVIA PLACHY has received a Guggenheim fellowship as well as the Women in Photography International Distinguished Photographer Award. For over eight years the Village Voice published a weekly photograph of Plachy's; the book of this work, Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour (Aperture), won the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for the Best Publication in 1990. Among Plachy's other books include Red Light (powerHouse), Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home (Aperture), and Goings on about Town: Photographs for The New Yorker (Aperture/The New Yorker).
IRIS TILLMAN HILL edited the first 25 Under 25 copublished by powerHouse and CDS Books and co-edited Beyond the Barricades: Photographs by Twenty South African Photographers (Aperture). She has edited books by Larry Towell, Mitch Epstein, and Wendy Ewald, among others.
The
Photographers
Kathryn Parker Almanas
www.kathrynparkeralmanas.com
Kim Badawi
www.kimbadawi.com
Gina Brocker
www.ginabrockerphotography.com
Kitra Cahana
www.kitracahana.com
Rose Cromwell
www.rosecromwell.com
Cary Dolan
www.carydolan.com
Sean Donnelly
www.seandonnellyphotography.com
Nick Freeman
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~nmf227
Rick Gershon
www.rickgershon.com
Ami Howard
www.amihoward.com
Adam Kuehl
www.adamkuehl.com
Brian Lesteberg
www.brianlesteberg.com
Elizabeth Looke-Stewart
www.elizabethlookestewart.com
Futoshi Miyagi
www.fmiyagi.com
Greg Mrotek
www.gregmrotek.com
Eleanor G. Oakes
www.eleanoroakes.com
Ashley Poole
www.ashleypoole.net
Lissa Rivera
www.lissarivera.com
Elizabeth Claire Rose
www.eroseportfolio.com
Tamara Rosenblum
www.tamararosenblum.com
Irina Rozovsky
www.irinar.com
Will Steacy
www.willsteacy.com
Michael Harlan Turkell
www.harlanturk.com
Peter van Agtmael
www.petervanagtmael.com
Beatriz Wallace
Events and Exhibitions
Thursday, May 22, 6–8 p.m.
Book Launch and Signing
With a conversation between Sylvia Plachy and the 25 Under 25 Photographers
powerHouse Books
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Directions: http://www.powerhousebooks.com/contact.php
Thursday, May 29, 6–8 p.m.
Exhibition Opening, Reception
Gulf and Western Gallery
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
721 Broadway
New York, New York 10003
banner image:
Photograph by Christopher Sims
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