2022 Featured Member Books
Available to Library level members and above. Please note that we cannot accommodate special requests for specific books due to quantities. Renewing members who did not receive a copy of Sage Sohier, “American Seen” are welcome to email us if they prefer to receive that in lieu of “Janus”.
Renewing Library Level Members
Birthe Piontek - Janus
2021, Gnomic Press - First Edition Printing
Janus is another iteration of Birthe Piontek's ongoing inquiry into the topics of memory and change.
The photographs in Janus were made in the same corner of Piontek's studio as she explores how an artist can find inspiration in the limitations of a specific space. The notion of transformation is depicted by focusing on objects like fruits, vegetables and flowers – items that are commonly associated with the traditional still life genre.
Birth Piontek’s solo exhibition, Abendlied, will be on view at Blue Sky in March 2022.
New Members & Renewing Print/ Collector
Sage Sohier - American Seen
2017, Nazareli Press, Blue Sky Special Edition
“These photographs were made between 1979-1986 when I was a young photographer living in Boston. In that pre-digital and less paranoid era, families––and especially children and teenagers––used to hang out in their neighborhoods. A kind of theater of the streets emerged from the boredom of hot summer days and it was a great time to photograph people outside. Undoubtedly my own childhood afternoons, often spent in my neighbor’s basement creating theatrical productions with the four kids who lived there, helped to form my vision of the play of children as a kind of rite or performance."
