Books - Real Still

bq-intro

In 1978 i began shooting industry and accompanying toxic waste sites. Generally speaking, I’ve shot the some of the most forgotten landscapes within American cities. Through much of this my base of operations has been in north Brooklyn, which, conveniently, borders one of these noxious desolate factory zones that lie in the midst of populous urban….

Butte

A proper written introduction is in the works. This town deserves it. In the meantime i’ll state, i love this town. Not much of an intro, but the city of Butte is so damn interesting beyond its fascinating history as an industrial boom town set on the continental divide in Montana. Probably more characters per capita than any place i’ve come across…..

DIRTY OLD TOWN

Like, Fall Town, this book is more archive, than book, particularly with so many shots. One day i’ll do a dynamite coffee table edit of under 200 images. It’s the same introduction for all three books of the trilogy. First of all, the book, as seen here, is fat with pictures. An actual “coffee table book”….

FALL TOWN (2003-2024)

PREFACE TO FALL TOWN It’s more archive than book, in fact, it’s an archive in book form. My preference is a tight edit, no fat, and leaden picks, but Fall Town is fat with pictures, and it’s because it’s probably more of an archive. If I have enough time, in the future, I’ll put a….

ICE

Dying at home, pulchritudinous mixture of splendor and desolation. And now that i got that out of the way: It’s not just the ice, but the dynamo that generated it. It’s a type of localized weather/atmospheric phenomenon endemic to specific geographies. Like Santa Anna Winds, the Ninas, or Tornado Alley, Lake Effect is peculiar to its….

jersey-run-intro

I never walked, when i could run. JERSEY RUN (1995-2006) is a trenchant large-scale and thorough frame on the industrial corridor of North Jersey centered along the New Jersey Turnpike. In that flat open expanse of mud called the Meadowlands, from the garbage hills of the upper Hackensack and the industrial valley of the Passaic, into….

NIGHT FALLS (2001-2021)

INTRODUCTION The work of waterfalls illuminated by full moons began in 1998, when I photographed Calf Creek Falls in Utah under a full moon with Ektar 25 film in a 90 minute time exposure, deciding thatt, although it’s bounced sunlight, it didn’t look that way, and the light source would move during the shot. Confirming this, after printing samples,….

STEEL

(The introduction was written in 2008. The shooting slowed after 2011, but did continue and is ongoing. Since then the mills in Warren, Mingo juction, Steubenville, Weirton and Ashland have ceased and their blast furnaces demolished. More years of work will eventually be added to this existing book.) Steel. Photography. What more needs to be….

the-deuce-introduction

“…It was Saturday night and the jungle was bright And the game was stalking its prey The code was crime in the neon line And the weak were doomed to pay…” – Verse from the toast, The Fall INTRODUCTION Last days of THE DEUCE (1988-1994) peeks into the old capitol of American street culture. That….

this-bad-land

This Bad Land is a view on a distinct geography. Mostly we know the eroded sod tables of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, but there is a large varied collection of American badlands, all of which are also preserved in parks and reserves. Even Badlands National Park itself has a much broader collection….

TWILIGHT TOWN (1988-2003)

This book, from 1988 to 2023, is a mix of Twilight Town and Fall Town. Twilight Town, that are the last two books in a trilogy about this city, which is purposely anonymous, representing the dozens of cities and towns of the Rust Belt. The Intro’s Intro It’s same introduction for all three books of….

TWILIGHT/FALL TOWN MIX (1988-2023)

This book, from 1988 to 2023, is a mix of Twilight Town and Fall Town, that are the last two books in a trilogy about this city, which is purposely anonymous, representing the dozens of cities and towns of the Rust Belt. It’s also what a coffee table photography book edit might look like, instead of….