Candy and A Good and Spacious Land
Jim GOLDBERG, Donovan WYLIE
First Edition 2017, Yale University Art Gallery. Hardcover set with two volumes in slipcase.
Oblong quarto, 345 x 280 mm (13 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches)
372 pages, 225 color illustrations
Special and unique copy, created by the photographers at Paris Photo, 2017 :
Jim Goldberg has dedicated, signed and dated his book, pasted two small original photographs to the half-title page, and drawn boxes around them.
Donovan Wylie has dedicated the book and signed twice.
A project about New Haven begun at Yale when both Goldberg and Wylie were artists in residence at Yale University Art Gallery.
With essays by Christopher Klatell and Laura Wexler and an introduction by Pamela Franks
Photo-illustrated laminated boards, slipcase
Very impressive and heavy books in slipcase, all in mint condition
Candy/A Good and Spacious Land features work by Jim Goldberg and Donovan Wylie created beginning in 2013 while they were artists in residence at the Yale University Art Gallery. Both artists have taken New Haven as their subject, exploring the city through photography but from very different points of view. Goldberg, a New Haven native returning to a city he left four decades earlier, focuses on New Haven’s people and their stories, in his signature mode of intimate, informal portraits that he presents alongside the subjects’ own words. Irish-born Wylie examines the reconstruction of the dramatic highway merge between Interstates 95 and 91, approaching the massive structure as a compositional framework for viewing the cityscape and its inhabitants with an outsider’s eye. In the resulting bodies of work—which are also being published by the Gallery as a two-volume set—the artists consider New Haven’s quest to become a “model city,” contrasting its civic aspirations with its citizens’ lived realities.
Goldberg wants New Haven to be both his city and any city, and to accomplish that dual ambition he made pictures large and small, blurry and juicy with detail… . Wylie, a skilled technical photographer, makes striking, memorable images … a variation of Goldberg’s more personal accomplishment. —Nicholas Dawidoff, New Yorker
A handsomely designed box set … In focusing the contrast between soaring engineering structures and the travails of many citizens, these books help us to understand the city as it actually is.—Mick Gidley, Source: The Photographic Review
Goldberg’s “Candy” and Wylie’s “A Good and Spacious Land” bring two internationally renowned photographers together in New Haven … [A] beautiful set. —Michael Lee-Murphy, Connecticut Magazine
In fewer than 60 photographs, artists Jim Goldberg and Donovan Wylie weave a narrative of ambition and disillusion, breathtaking possibilities, astonishing progress and a pervasive sense of missing the mark. —Tracey O’Shaughnessy, Republican-American
Read review of the books by Brad Feuerhelm (American Suburb X)