I’m very happy to announce that Lay Flat 02: Meta is now available!

Lay Flat 02: Meta
104 pages, perfect bound
7.75 x 10 in. / 19.7 x 25.4 cm.
Edition of 2,000
$30 + S&H

Edited by Shane Lavalette and Guest Editor Michael Bühler-Rose, Lay Flat 02: Meta brings together the works of contemporary photographers whose images are conceptually engaged with the history, process and conventions of the medium itself. Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Stephen Gill, Daniel Gordon, David Haxton, Matt Keegan, Elad Lassry, Katja Mater, Laurel Nakadate, Lisa Oppenheim, Torbjørn Rødland, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Useful Photography, Charlie White, Ann Woo and Mark Wyse are accompanied by the textual contributions of Adam Bell (Co-editor, The Education of a Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Publisher/Editor, Aperture Foundation), Alex Klein (Editor, Words Without Pictures), artists Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Arthur Ou, as well as an interview with James Welling by Lyle Rexer (Author, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography).

A few sample spreads:

Order online at www.layflat.org.

I’ve always enjoyed Jocelyn Lee’s very tender collection of Portraits.

Chad Muthard’s recently updated website includes an intriguing body of work called No Mistake. Also check out his new three-part artist book titled Any Fool Can Take A Picture With A Camera Like That.

Mark your calendars:

Livia Corona
Monday, March 1st at 2pm
Kennedy Building, Room 406
MassArt

Aziz + Cucher
Thursday, March 11th at 12:30pm
Viz/Crit Room (B311)
SMFA

Julie Blackmon
Thursday, March 11th at 7pm
B.U. Photonics Building, Room 206
8 St. Mary’s Street (B.U. Central T Stop)
Hosted by the PRC

Emmet Gowin
“A Talk in Honor of Harry and Eleanor Callahan”
Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm
Remis Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Penelope Umbrico (Lay Flat 02: Meta contributor!)
Monday, March 29th at 2pm
Kennedy Building, Room 406
MassArt

Deborah Willis
Thursday, April 1st at 12:30pm
Viz/Crit Room (B311)
SMFA

Lizi Brown, Michael Bühler-Rose and Wendy Jean Hyde
“SMFA Traveling Scholars” Gallery Talk
Wednesday, April 21 at 6pm
Sharf Visitor Center
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Katy Grannan
Monday, April 12th at 2pm
Tower Auditorium
MassArt

Kenro Izu
Thursday, April 15th at 7pm
B.U. Sargent College, AUD-101
635 Commonwealth Ave. (B.U. East T Stop)
Hosted by the PRC

Walead Beshty (Lay Flat 02: Meta contributor!)
Monday, April 26th at 2pm
Tower Auditorium
MassArt

Abelardo Morell
Monday, May 10th at 6pm
Tower Auditorium
MassArt

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.

Daniel Shea just updated his website with a new body of work titled Plume, a follow-up to his Removing Mountains series. The project of course calls to mind Mitch Epstein’s American Power, but takes a more specific approach.

Pete Halupka has some new photographs on his new website.

Ryan McGinley’s NYTimes Magazine photographs of the 2010 Winter Olympics can now be viewed on his website.

Untitled, 2010 [from "Any Color You Like"]
© Matthew Gamber

Untitled, 2010 [from "Any Color You Like"]
© Matthew Gamber

Untitled, 2010 [from "Any Color You Like"]
© Matthew Gamber

See more on Matt’s website.

From David La Spina’s Architectural Renderings.