Four decades of superb American Street Photography by Leica photographer James Carroll
Captured over the course of more than forty years on streets across the USA, James Carroll's photographs present a unique collection of historic Americana
Driven by a need to preserve memory--of his own experiences and those of others--and what curator and contributing writer Sean Corcoran describes as "his yearning to see, know, and understand," Carroll explores the impermanence of human lives and relationships.
The images take us back and forth from a documentary approach to a more subjective realm, in which the author imagines new scenarios in chance encounters, while still commenting on the American scene.
The majority of the black-and-white photographs in The Lives of Others were made with a Leica M3. Most of the images are published here for the first time.
Carroll, James: -
James Carroll was born in Salt Lake City, UT in 1940. He spent his
early years in Nevada, California, and Long Island and since then has
lived in NYC.
His work has been published by media like the New York Times, American Prospect, Venture, the Fresh Air Fund, the Ford
Foundation, and by numerous college textbook publishers.
It is in public collections including those of the University
of Rochester, the Richard Dry Library of Buffalo, NY, the New York
Public Library, and the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris.
A past recipient of a CAPS grant (NYSCA) to photograph Westchester Co.
teenagers, he was also a finalist for the Honickman First Book Prize
(5th Avenue essay).
Monfort, Régina: - Régina Monfort is an independent photography and visual book editor experienced with long-form narratives and based in France.
Spending the last 35 years in the United States, she worked for cultural institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University and legendary photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. She has taught photography at CUNY La Guardia Community College, Pratt Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2015 to 2018, she served as co-curator of the Eyes on Main Street Outdoor Photo Festival. Her photographic work has been exhibited widely and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Yale Art Gallery among others.
Richer, Francesca: - In addition to running her design studio since 2002, Francesca Richer has served as art director at Interview magazine and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,
design director for the Aperture Foundation, and creative director for
powerHouse Books. She has designed visual identities, installations,
social media campaigns, and more than 70 illustrated books, and has
guest lectured at ICP, SVA, NYU, and The New School.
