A while back I did a print sale of an image of mine in an effort to raise funds for a new photo project. I recently came across the ones that didn’t sell and thought I’d offer them for sale again, at an affordable price. Like last time, a portion of each sale will go to a related charity (info about that below).

Boy on Bike, Vrindavan, India, 2009
From “Waking Vrindavan”
8 x 10 in. (20 x 25 cm.), Inkjet print
Edition of 30, signed and numbered
$75 + S&H

*20% of every sale will be donated to Food For Life Vrindavan, a wonderful organization that offers food and education to residents of Vrindavan.

There are only a few left.

If you’re interested, send an e-mail with your mailing address and I will send an invoice via Paypal or we can work out another method of payment.

It’s a rainy day, so I’m spending some time with a few recent acquisitions…

HERE, a large-scale (22.5 x 12.5 in.) newsprint “book” that accompanies John Gossage’s exhibition “Here… Half Blind,” on view through April 11th, 2010 at the Rochester Art Center.
Edition of 500, available for $50.

The Great Unreal by Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs.
First edition, available for $76.

From Adam Murray and Robert Parkinson, a Preston is My Paris zine with a 4×6 color photograph on the cover (Edition of 150), Adam’s book Your Negatives (Edition of 30), and a nice letter written on a typewriter.
Your Negatives is available for £4 ($6) here.

From Medium Rare, Cally Robertson’s zine If You Can Keep.
Edition of 60, available for $6.

From Seth Fluker, his self-published book Before Things Change.
Edition of 500, available for $17.50.

Two from Raymond Taudin Chabot: Cast (Part 2) and Cast (Part 4), made in collaboration with editor/designer Roger Willems.
Edition of 600 each, available for €5 ($7) and €15 ($20) respectively.

A signed, first edition copy of Alec Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi. I had a second printing of it, but thanks to a trade I acquired the original… long overdue.
Available for a pretty penny.

Continuing where the first installment left off:

Estate, a set of two books encompassing works (including one of my own) curated by Triangle Triangle’s Jake Dow-Smith. This edition was hand printed/sewn by Jake himself to help fund a larger run of these books.
Edition of 10, SOLD OUT.

Life Geos On (yes, that misspelling is on purpose) by Per Englund. Thanks Per!
Edition of 1,000, available for 198 kronor ($26).

Also from Per, two books titled But What Are You Running From? by Erik Wåhlström. Published by Museum Studio, both with original 4×6 prints on the covers.
Edition of 200 each, soon to be available here.

Lester B. Morrison’s Lost Boy Mountain from Little Brown Mushroom. I’m still not sure what’s up with all of the “LBM”s (anyone?) but this is a great little book.
Edition of 1,000, available for $8.75.

Underscore Quarterly’s fourth issue, SEA, was guest edited by Grant Willing. The issue is printed on newsprint and folds out to a poster of sorts. Features the work of Ruth van Beek, Noel Boyt, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Mårten Lange, and David Schoerner. The other side also has the entirety of Moby Dick; Or The Whale by Herman Melville written out really tiny. Thanks, Jesse.
Edition of 1,000, available for $8.

My good friend Greg Halpern published a nice limited-edition book of color laser prints with letterpressed cover through J&L. Thanks Jason!
Edition of 30, available for $50.

Also from J&L, David La Spina’s Mamaroneck. A hand-made Xerox copy of the original book, with tipped-in color photographs. Thanks David!
1st Edition of 15, SOLD OUT
2nd Edition of 15, available for $50.

From Sébastien Girard, his new self-published book titled Nothing But Home. Look out for a short review of this soon. Thank you, Sébastien.
Edition of 500, available for €39 ($53).
Special edition of 100, available for €120 ($164).

Stephen DiRado sent me a beautiful handmade book, which I felt compelled to share here. The book, titled With Dad, came to me in a cloth-covered slip case with a photograph glued to the cover. The images inside are a documentation of Stephen’s relationship with his father Gene, who was affected by Alzheimer’s before he passed away in December 2009. Going back to 1985, the black and white photographs are deeply personal and extremely moving, and to view them in such a lovingly made book (the first, in fact, since his father’s death) was really special.

Thank you, Stephen.

Visit Stephen’s website to see more photographs from With Dad.

Untitled, 2007 [from "Northeast"]
© Shane Lavalette

I’m honored to have a selection of my photographs included in America Now, an exhibition opening this week at Montserrat Gallery. From the press release:

America as seen through the eyes of six American photographers: Daniel Cheek, Ben Huff, Shane Lavalette, Laura McPhee, Alec Soth and Zoe Strauss. The work is based in five regions of the US, including Alaska, the West, the Mid-West, the Northeast and the Southeast.

An opening reception for will be held this Thursday, February 4th from 6-8pm and the exhibition will be on view from February 5th – April 10th, 2010.

More information can be found here.

Traum #5, 2009
© Alexander Binder

There are only two days left to bid on the works in Daniel Cooney’s latest Emerging Artists Auction. Again, some of the highlights from the photography section include Alexander Binder, Alison Malone, Grant Willing, Aaron McElroy, Bob O’Connor, Jake Stangel, Lyndsy Welgos, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen as well as one of my own.

Browse all of the works here.

The auction ends on February 4th.

Altered State, 2009
© Noel Rodo-Vankeulen

Daniel Cooney’s latest Emerging Artists Auction is now online and works are open for bidding. Some of the highlights from the photography section include Alexander Binder, Alison Malone, Grant Willing, Aaron McElroy, Bob O’Connor, Jake Stangel, Lyndsy Welgos, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and one of my own prints can be found here.

The auction ends on February 4th.

To kick things off after the holiday lull, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of the great books/mail/gifts that I’ve acquired in the last few weeks…

From Mr. Jason Lazarus, a new motivational poster to go in the office. I absolutely love this. Thank you Jason!

A gorgeous set of silver gelatin prints from Timothy Briner. Can’t wait to frame these! Speaking of which, those of you in New York should go see Tim’s “Boonville” show, on display until February 27th at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

Chris Killip’s Isle of Man, a rare booklet of photographs that can be torn into six 2×3 in. postcards, published by Side Gallery in 1980 to accompany his “Isle of Man” exhibition. I had a nice lunch with Chris today and he was happy to sign it for me.

Two titles from Farewell Books: Kalle Sanner’s Gravity and Mårten Lange’s Crows. These are beautiful, thanks Mårten!
Both in an edition of 500, available for $10 each.

Henry Roy’s Spirit, published by Gottlund Verlag. Thanks Nicholas!
Edition of 1,000, available for $55.

Erik van der Weijde’s FOTO.ZINE NR.3, a set of four books: “Accidents,” “Hand Guns,” “Palm Trees” and the “Pink Issue.” Thanks Erik!
Edition of 300, available for €15 ($22).

Grant Willing’s Fils de la Liberté, put out by JSBJ.
Edition of 50, SOLD OUT.

Alexander Martinez’s Old Glory, a zine put out by Kaugummi Books. Thanks Alex!
Edition of 100, SOLD OUT.

From Café Royale, four of their recently published zines: Zeroten’s Welcome To Prison, Lin Yi-Hsuan’s The Shaved Guy, Justin Waldron’s Seven Days and Paul Paper’s Sofa-trip Around Europe. Thanks Craig!
All in an edition of 100, available for £3 ($5) each.

Photographers Adam Golfer, Daniel Shea, Joe Leavenworth and TJ Proechel put together this limited-edition envelope of 4×5 in. prints, which they offered for free through their Dream Boats Collective website. Thanks guys!
Edition of 50, available for FREE GONE.

Jacob Koestler’s New York State, a collection of 10 postcards in manila envelope, signed and numbered. Thanks Jacob!
Edition of 100, available for $20.

Also from Jacob Koestler, Roll Series publishes complete rolls of 35mm film. Pictured along with a nice handmade slipcase are three from Roll Series 001: Ed Panar’s “Newfoundland, September 2009,” Emmy Volkar’s “Stable Road/Christmas 2008″ and Ian Rummell’s “10/29.”
Available for $32

Joachim Schmid’s Joachim Schmid is Martin Parr · Martin Parr is Joachim Schmid, a print on demand book with an interesting concept. Thanks Joachim!
Available in softcover for $20 or in hardcover for $30.

Photographic Works, a box of over 200 5×7 in. black and white postcards available for purchase to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Check out the list of participating artists… this thing is packed full of great stuff.
Available for $45.

J&L’s Paper Placemats (ATL), a very kind gift from Michael David Murphy who I had the pleasure of meeting up and chatting with during a recent visit to Atlanta. Thanks again Michael!
Edition of 2,000, NFS.

Roe Ethridge’s Farewell Horse. Look out for a review of this soon.
Edition of 1,000, available for $89.

Last but not least, a stack of great books from my mother (aka Santa Claus):

Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip
Emmet Gowin’s Photographs
Lar Tunbjörk’s Vinter
Paul Graham’s A Shimmer of Possiblity
Taryn Simon’s An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Jake Dow-Smith of Triangle Triangle (and the collective blog MANY) just released a limited edition of 10 copies of Estate, a new book of photographs – a set of two, actually – that he curated, printed and hand bound himself. The sales of these books are to support the funding of a larger and more affordable edition, aimed to be published early in 2010.

Estate features work by an eclectic mix of photographers, including myself:

Daniel Augschoell, Alexander Paul Brandes, Alexi Hobbs, Marlon Kowalski, Jake Dow-Smith, Sean Stewart, Will Govus, Carlo Van De Roer, Pete Halupka, Justin James Reed, Matthew Genitempo, Hin Chua, Pedro Alfacinha, Frankie Pike, Andrew Nemiroski, Bryan Schutmaat, Julia Grassi, Katharina Schumacher, Maximilian Haidacher, Hannah Whitaker, Grant Willing, Keith Davis Young, Austin Irving, Jessica Williams, Ernest Protasiewicz, Felicia Honkasalo, Shane Lavalette and Sam Williams

A preview:

See more spreads or purchase a copy here.

I assure you these won’t last long.

UPDATE: Sold out in less than two hours! Hear about the release of the larger edition by signing up for the mailing list.

Easily one of my favorite magazines, Blind Spot has been doing great things for photography for over 15 years now. A nice way to say “thanks” to them and get something back in return is to bid on some fantastic photographs (including one of my own!) in their 2009 Benefit Auction. The auction ends on Tuesday, December 15th with a live event in NYC.

You can preview the works online and tickets for the event can be purchased here.