Dive Dark Dream SlowNot long ago, photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese was sorting through the vernacular photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, helping to organize and edit this massive curated archive (a trove of 20,000+ prints) into a series of single theme catalogues. Along the way, she pursued an alternate reading of the collection, drifting away from simple typology into something more personal, intuitive, and openly poetic. The result her magical artist

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color

Always shooting as a singular entity

suggesting the changing of moods

light and dark or life and death

American Prospects has enjoyed a life of acclaim

mud-drenched bodies intertwining

Frank Mercado

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It interrogates history but receives only demure shrugs in response

sparsely-populated spaces of the American West

I hadn’t had an occasion to think about this work since the first edition of the book was published

billboards and parking lots)