Blue Sky Books is a special publishing initiative promoting work by photographers who have exhibited previously at Blue Sky. Available only online as print-on-demand publications, each catalog features a previously unpublished series of photographs seen on Blue Sky’s walls.
There are over 116 exhibition catalogs to choose from: ‘preview’ each title to look inside any of the current Blue Sky Books and to make a purchase through Mag Cloud. These catalogues are not available in any store or other online retailer—only through Blue Sky.
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Blue Sky Books: Women of the African Diaspora
Photographs by Widline Cadet, Jasmine Clarke, and Nadiya I. Nacorda - curated by Aaron Turner - three artists reflect upon their experiences navigating contemporary life in the United States and beyond as women of the African Diaspora, while also contributing to the larger conversation surrounding…
Blue Sky Books: At Table - Glenna Jennings
At Table (2005–ongoing) documents everyday spaces of expression and connection—dining rooms, kitchens, restaurants, bars, and coffee tables around the world. In locations including the USA, Mexico, Canada, China and Europe, I use my lens to navigate from a perspective that is local in depth but…
Blue Sky Books: Nights As Inexorable As The Sea - Diana Nicholette Jeon
The “Nights as Inexorable as the Sea" series considers the quirky and unpredictable nature of dreams and memories. Asleep - existing in that liminal space - I am confronted with situations that I can’t quite explain, often fraught with absurdities and illogical occurrences. I’ve always been amazed…
Blue Sky Books: O Tempo Não Para - Geralyn Shukwit
For the past nine years, Brooklyn-based photographer Geralyn Shukwit has traveled the backroads of Bahia, Brazil, returning to communities year after year forming relationships with the families who reside there. O Tempo Não Para, Portuguese for “time does not stop,” is a personal documentation…
Blue Sky Books: Kavana - Hannah Altman
The bloodline of a folktale, a tradition, a song, pulses through interpretation and enactment. Treating photographs in Kavana as such, I explore notions of Jewish memory, narrative heirlooms, and interpretive image making; the works are positioning themselves in the past as memories, in the present…
Blue Sky Books: An Inward Gaze
An Inward Gaze is an abstraction of control and self representation. Rather than offering a salve for the many complex problems tied to the male gaze, we’ve paired the work of Arielle Bobb-Willis and Brittney Cathey-Adams in an attempt to reframe looking: how two artists use photography to process…
Blue Sky Books: Sweet Things – Ashley Miller
The still life, as a type of representation, nods toward product and food photography, but I try to complicate the subtext of desire with elements of violence and disgust and humor. In this way, the familiar becomes something strange. Colors and textures and clichés play off each other. Everyday…
Blue Sky Books: In Transit
Focusing on the tentative, limbo-like experience of living between different cultures, these five artists explore narratives of immigrants who traverse the no-man’s land existing between home and hope. The lives of those fleeing unsafe, economically depressed homelands toward dreams of a more…
Blue Sky Books: Ultra Vivid Dreaming
Artists Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and Shikeith are ultra vivid dreamers in their construction of barely possible worlds. These worlds, neatly aestheticized but built on the fringes of agonizingly banal environments, at once affirm the private dreams of Blackness and the power in withholding the…
Blue Sky Books: Between Sheets and Seamless - Nakeya Brown
I use everyday objects such as the hair dryer, vinyl record, and various domestic objects to recall America’s lengthy and complex history through the construct of black womanhood. Each body of work systematically combines social experiences with personal memories to create a standpoint outside of…
Blue Sky Books: Abuelas - Cinthya Santos-Briones
This project focuses on undocumented Mexican immigrant women who came to New Yorkdecades ago in search of opportunity for their families. Overtime they have built lives here andhave become the elders of their community: the abuelas. Many have children and grandchildrenliving on either side of…
Blue Sky Books: Touch
Touch is likely to to be the last sense you think of when you're asked to name the five senses. Yet it is a vital human need. Children that are deprived of enough human touch are scarred by that lack. This book brings together 68 photographs by 58 photographers, exploring this complex subject.
Blue Sky Books: The Eclipse Show
In 1979 there was a total solar eclipse in the Portland area. Too late, I realized that Blue Sky had missed a great chance to “educate the public about photography” by having an Eclipse Show that had no photographs of the sun and moon. If you picture a photographer at work, you are likely to…
Blue Sky Books: BORDERLAND - Alia Ali
The term “borderland” is most commonly referred to as the crossroads where nations collide. It is a porous zone that diffuses outward from an artificially imposed human made punctuation called a border. Borders enact violence on the geography and identity of those living in borderlands. They are…
Blue Sky Books: Lethe - Sylwia Kowalczyk
Lethe is the river that cleanses Dante in Purgatory, the one that wipes memories of the dead as they drink from it or bathe in it. The poet Sylvia Plath steps up from ‘the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby’. It is an escape, a relief from our own physical limitations. ‘The soul that has been rash…