Vince Aletti – The Drawer Adam Pape

Vince Aletti – The Drawer Adam PapeSPBH Editions 2024 American critic and curator Vince Aletti has been collecting photographs printed on the pages of magazines and books since the 1970s. For the very first time the hundreds of tearsheets, newspaper clippings, gallery announcements, and other ephemera stacked in a drawer of an antique flat file in his East Village apartment have been documented in the new book The Drawer. The seventy five multi layered compositions created by Aletti

from his early self-published projects to his most recent work

No Silver Bird evades inordinate narratives and invites the viewer to engage with the images on their own terms

The sixteen images which make up Preganziol

Setanta 2021

Numerous sepia-toned & cyan-toned reproductions

” ― Jungjin Lee

Co-opting this device

coal and ore

concert halls or other public areas but also for photographing people who would normally resist being photographed

which allows neither voyeurism nor false sympathy to arise in the face of these images from a milieu that is commonly described as antisocial

texts by Rich Gilligan

His essay locates Ravens in Fukase’s wider work and life