{"title":"PREORDER","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hitchhike","title":"Hitchhike","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-info__block-item\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-info__block-item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prose\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile attending Penn State University in the early 1960s, Henry Wessel spent his weekends hitchhiking west and back again. Each Friday afternoon, he packed a knapsack, took his camera, and waited for the next ride. By Monday morning he was back for classes, only to leave again the following weekend - a compelling habit for a kid from New Jersey who, until college, had never ventured west of Philadelphia. Somewhere along the way, the desire to explore the medium became inseparable from the search for what lay beyond the life he had known. Photography was no longer simply accompanying the journey; it had become the way he understood it. Wessel would later describe the experience simply:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It’s thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat openness defines\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHitchhike.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eIntuitively working while driving or at the roadside, Wessel transformed the overlooked details of the American landscape into photographs of remarkable precision, economy, and wit, allowing chance encounters and fleeting alignments to shape a body of work that remains one of the most distinctive visions of the American road.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA long-anticipated publication spanning more than four decades of work,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHitchhike\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas edited and sequenced by Henry Wessel himself, making it one of the last books he completed before his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry Wessel (1942-2018) is an iconic American photographer who tirelessly photographed the vernacular architecture and social scapes of California after he moved from the East Coast to the Bay Area in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the exhibited photographers in the legendary New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House’s International Museum of Photography in 1975, he was part of a generation of photographers who disrupted the representation of the American landscape and environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a snapshot, low-key aesthetic, Wessel’s photographs combine a deadpan quality and irresistible humor focused on the everyday. Over the course of his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work was the subject of a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2007 and is in the collections of museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. For more than forty years, Wessel taught in the photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute. 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Each photograph is a one-liner—comic, precisely framed, and quietly devastating. A master of the decisive moment, Graves pushed further: people caught mid-air, two sets of action unfolding simultaneously in foreground and background, gestures and body language deployed like props in a production his subjects never quite knew they were part of. The photographic plane becomes a stage, its unsuspecting subjects his actors—piecing together different elements within a single frame with the instincts of a collagist, a medium he would take up formally later in his career. What emerges are images that reveal more about America's true nature than words ever could: a landscape and its people that are funny, menacing, awkward, aggressive, joyful, and dubious—all at once. Together these early images form a collective portrait of a nation whose disillusionment with its own mythology was just beginning to show.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eGraves is one of the unsung photographers of his generation. Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand achieved lasting recognition working in a broadly similar register, but Graves cast a shorter shadow—despite producing work no less striking or memorable. This is the third book of his work published by TBW Books, and his most essential.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eEmily Keegin contributes an afterword contextualizing Graves within the era in which he began working.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eClothbound hardcover with printed edges\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e164 pages, 85 plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e11 x 11 in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ePublished by TBW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThis title is a preorder, shipping October 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44170502570071,"sku":"TBW-Graves","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1781\/2331\/files\/ken.jpg?v=1786810234"},{"product_id":"california-anonymous-1976-1978","title":"California Anonymous: 1976–1978","description":"\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eIn the mid-1970s, a young Ken Light set up a hand-painted canvas backdrop on street corners and in vacant storefronts across California in Stockton, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Fairfax, inviting passersby to have their portrait made. In return, each subject received a Polaroid of themselves. The resulting photographs, made between 1976 and 1978, are the product of a photographer growing into a new instrument—a Hasselblad, a camera that gave the images a luminous, large-format quality unlike anything in his previous documentary practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eWhat Light assembled over those two years is an extraordinary cast of characters that would be impossible to replicate today: a beauty queen, a mechanic, neighborhood kids, a taxi driver, the young and the old, the straight-laced and the remnants of a fading counterculture. Brought together by a simple canvas stage, they reflect a California in transition—different cultures, different values, an undiscriminating view. Light's backdrop welcomed everyone equally, lifting each subject into the frame and preserving them there, specific and irreplaceable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThe book is also a memento of the early part of a remarkable career. Original notes from the start of the project are included, offering a rare glimpse of an artist beginning to inhabit his medium and find his voice—exploring that unique and charged relationship between subject and photographer, made all the more deliberate by the formality of the large-format camera and backdrop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eEach copy of this book contains a four-by-four-inch square cut from that original canvas—the very backdrop Light painted with a sponge mop and carried with him throughout the making of the series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eHardcover with original cloth backdrop tip-in and printed edges\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e140 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e73 plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e8.25 x 10.5 in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eEdition of 748\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ePublished by TBW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThis title is a preorder, shipping October 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44170527539287,"sku":"TBW-Anonymous","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1781\/2331\/files\/cali.jpg?v=1786810695"},{"product_id":"sheila","title":"Sheila","description":"\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eEvery artist's life and work are entangled. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eSheila\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emakes that entanglement visible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eNamed for Divola's wife at the time, the book brings together rarely seen, striking portraits of her made between 1976 and 1984—intimate images of a woman he describes as having inspired the kind of love \"you read about in books but assume is an exaggeration.\" These portraits, most of which were never exhibited and never intended to be, are among the most personal work Divola has ever made. Threaded throughout them, appearing and disappearing like thoughts during a long conversation, are images from the major series he was developing during those same years—among them his celebrated Zuma, Vandalism, and Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement Zone series—bodies of work that would come to define his place in the photographic canon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThe effect is quietly revelatory. The career-making work and the deeply personal exist on equal footing, interrupting and illuminating each other the way life and work always do, whether an artist intends it or not. Her presence, Divola notes, was woven into the fabric of his work during those years—and seeing the portraits of Sheila alongside the work for which he is best known reframes both. The personal and the conceptual revealed as two sides of the same practice, rooted, as he writes, in the artifacts of a lived life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e86 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e51 plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e10.5 x 9 in\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ePublished by TBW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\" style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThis title is a preorder, shipping October 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"TBW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44170657661015,"sku":"TBW-Sheila","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1781\/2331\/files\/sheila.jpg?v=1786811973"},{"product_id":"bell-pond","title":"Bell Pond","description":"\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eBell Pond\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edocuments the summer of 1983 at a public swimming pond in Worcester, Massachusetts, where DiRado spent months photographing the community that gathered there. Arriving one afternoon on a whim during an early heat wave, he introduced himself to anyone willing to pay attention—and kept coming back. Working with a large-format camera on a tripod, he distributed prints, and slowly became part of the community's fabric, earning the trust of those who might otherwise have had little reason to give it. That trust was hard won and freely returned—by summer's end, DiRado had become a fixture, his daily arrival an event in itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThe resulting portraits are unparalleled in their intimacy—and together they build a vivid portrait of the place and its inhabitants. DiRado moved between families, friends, couples, and individuals—capturing the textures of a working-class community that claimed Bell Pond as its own. The work is a timestamp of a world before the internet and the endless digital reproduction of likenesses. Through DiRado's lens, these lives are given weight and permanence—crystallized on film in a way the world around them rarely afforded. Whole stories exist within each frame, and the mystery of what we'll never fully know pushes to the foreground. DiRado stayed close to many of his subjects long after that summer ended, invested in them as people, not just as photographs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eWhat runs through every image is DiRado's deep humanism. 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Cyrus arrived in New York in 1990 to attend graduate school at the School of Visual Arts, and spent the years that followed roaming the streets with his camera, attuned to the rhythms of everyday life. The work moves in a lyrical arc: from the street, with its children, families, characters and storefronts, down into the subway and that unique state of in-between, and back up again into the electric atmosphere of the nightclub, where music—the life force Harlem was so celebrated for—fills the room.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThese are not documents of spectacle. Cyrus turned his lens on the people who gave Harlem its soul, finding in ordinary moments an extraordinary depth of feeling. His photographs carry the influence of Roy DeCarava and the tradition of the Kamoinge Workshop, the legendary Black photography collective of which he was a member—images that hold their subjects with care and without distance, in an era when people moved through public space with less wariness of a camera turned their way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eCentral to the book is Gioncarlo Valentine's account of the year he spent with Cyrus in his Philadelphia studio, poring over silver gelatin prints and printing alongside him in his darkroom—a whole row house given over to decades of work. Many of the subway photographs collected here were placed in a box more than thirty years ago after being dismissed as too familiar. 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In 1919, hundreds of Black sharecroppers organizing against peonage were massacred by white mobs aided by federal troops—events covered up, distorted, and only classified as lynchings in 2015. Today the town remains deeply abandoned and underfunded, a place where that history never fully receded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eDuring the Covid pandemic, Bozeman began making regular trips to Elaine, walking around, meeting people, and building relationships over time. Working with a large-format camera, he made portraits of the people who remain—children in particular—that are at once intimate and monumental. These are images of kids on basketball courts and empty streets, of neighbors posing in front of their homes, of young people standing in cemeteries with their backs to the camera. Bozeman returned again and again, bringing prints, bringing photography books, eventually running a summer photography camp for the kids he'd been photographing. The resulting images are interspersed throughout the book with historical photographs made in the aftermath of the 1919 massacre, pulling the past and present into uncomfortable proximity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eBozeman's practice, as Zora J Murff writes in the accompanying essay, is one of study in the deepest sense—not scholarly consumption but the living alongside others that demolishes the ivory tower as a monopoly of knowledge. The book's title comes from local vernacular—\"out the E\" meaning out of Elaine—a phrase that captures the limited horizons the town's history has imposed on its people. Bozeman puts the spotlight on this easy-to-miss town not to romanticize or aestheticize its conditions, but to insist that its people and its history be seen clearly, and on their own terms. 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