Photography / Street Photo / New York City
Hardcover, 9.5 x 8.5 inches, 128 pages, 75 four-color photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-437-0
$35.00
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Jackpot
Photographs by: Kevin Landers
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MTV Press distributed by powerHouse Books
“Kevin Landers may be the best artist you’ve never heard of.
For 17 years, the New York photographer has been scouring
the Lower East Side, locating beauty and humor in the
humblest spots…”
—Time Out New York
In a remarkable debut from a rapidly rising photographer,
Kevin Landers intimately connects us with the quotidian
objects and moments that make up the topography of New
York City. Jackpot is a 17-year retrospective of his candid
and unvarnished encounters with entities and artifacts
that capture the grittiness, incongruity, and simplicity of a
metropolis that harbors relics of all proportions.
“…the images function as a kind of survey of New York
during an era in which downtown transformed itself from an
immigrant and artist district to one with Whole Foods on
major cross-streets and luxury high-rises on unlikely avenues
like the Bowery. Mr. Landers ignores the new arrivals and
focuses on the old guard…. And while [the images] owe
plenty to color photography pioneers like William Eggleston
and Stephen Shore—saturated prints, lingering on the odd,
quirky object—they are grounded in a locale and moment of
their own.”
—The New York Times
“A survey of the color photographs that Landers made
between 1990 and 2007 showcases a slacker sensibility too
amused and blasé to be seriously cynical. Like a grungier
Martin Parr or Tony Feher with a camera, Landers makes
pictures of people and products that tease Pop mercilessly.
Studio still-lifes of panhandlers’ cups, three-card-monte
cardboard totems, and plastic bags snagged on broken
branches rescue their subjects as found sculpture…. Call it
photography of the absurd, but nobody does it better.”
—The New Yorker
Kevin Landers has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and
Paris. He lives and works in New York City.
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