Daylight is pleased to announce the release of Photographs Not Taken , a project conceived and edited by Will Steacy with an introduction by Lyle Rexer. A really curious and innovative book. This is the third book in Daylight’s burgeoning book program. Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers’ essays focused on failed attempts to make a picture. Conceived and edited by Will Steacy, each photographer was asked to abandon the camera and, instead, use words to recreate the image that never made it through their lens. Featuring contributions from over seventy photographers: Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D’Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schuman, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter Van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb. The editor Will Steacy is an American photographer and writer. He worked as a Union Laborer before becoming a photographer. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, FotoFest Biennial, African American Museum of Art, among others, and represented in major collections, including The Haggerty Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Library of Congress. Steacy was named 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers by The Center for Documentary Studies and one of Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers of 2011. He is a recipient of The Aperture Foundation Green Cart Photography Commission and Tierney Fellowship. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Aperture, Newsweek, Metropolis, New York Magazine, and featured on HBO and CNN. Steacy is represented by Michael Mazzeo Gallery in New York and Christophe Guye Gallery in Zurich. He lives in New York For more information, to get in touch with Steacy or to buy the book we invite you to visit the links below.
www.thephotographsnottaken.com