The Westerns Tapa blanda - 2007

Fraenkel Gallery , 2007. Paperback. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Staple bound folio. Unpaginated with large format color plates. Light edge wear to wrapper with mild soiling and scuffing to rear panel. Text and images unmarked.

Fraenkel Gallery / Greenberg Van Doren Gallery / Salon 94 Freemans, 2007. A fine copy with a few small marks on rear wrapper. Large folio (15 x 12 inches). [50] pages. 23 large-format color plates. Printed wrappers. "Grannan's large format color portraits depict subjects the artist describes as "new pioneers," northern Californians who struggle to define themselves under the scrutiny of relentless sunlight. California serves as both a literal and metaphorical backdrop for Grannan's new photographs. It is a mythical destination and a real end-point where sunshine illuminates both the abject and the joyful. In The Westerns, Grannan explores the uneasy relationship between fixed photographic portraiture and her subjects' mercurial identities. The photographs are replete with ambiguity and contradiction: they are evidence of an invented" (Fraenkel Gallery).

E-355: Fraenkel Gallery. New. 2007. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Published by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2007. 46 pgs. Illustrated. Brand New. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Katy Grannan’s color portraits depict subjects the artist describes as “new pioneers, ” Northern Californians who struggle to define themselves under the scrutiny of relentless sunlight. California serves as both a literal and metaphorical backdrop for Grannan’s new photographs. It is a mythical destination and a real end-point where sunshine illuminates both the abject and the joyful. In The Westerns, Grannan explores the uneasy relationship between fixed photographic portraiture and her subjects’ mercurial identities. The photographs are replete with ambiguity and contradiction: they are evidence of an invented, unknowable self, confronting… Leer más

San Francisco, CA: Fraenkel Gallery, 2007. First edition. Large softcover. Catalog for a show that ran January 3 through February 9, 2007 at Fraenkel Gallery. Includes numerous color photographs. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers in a near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with a small tear to the base of the rear panel. Signed by Grannan on the front free endpaper in 2008. An attractive catalog that is fairly uncommon when signed.