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“Some pictures that are just gravel are
now 60-story residential towers.”
Each book will be 48 pages and the
cities included are Beijing, Berlin, Boston,
Chicago, Kolkata, Manhattan, Omaha, San
Francisco and Seattle.
He titled the series “LOST” because he
“realized that even if you’re from a place,
the photographers that photograph the
city streets always feel kind of lost in
the place, trying to find something new.”
The Long Island City book also fea-tures
portraits in addition to cityscapes.
The beloved 5Pointz building is included,
as well as before-and-after photos of
construction sites that make way to
large towers.
Though the book is not completely
chronological, the neighborhood “will go
from looking like a dead neighborhood to
a very constructed glass neighborhood.”
Each book will be published by Kris
Graves Projects, Graves’ publishing com-pany
that he runs out of his house. He
started it about four years ago and aims
to publish photography books by artists
that he admires.
He said the project was surprising
because each book is completely dif-ferent.
Lois Conner, the Beijing-based
photographer, submitted long black-and-white
photos to showcase her city. Zora
J Murff, who is based in Omaha, took
portraits of black people to present her
city to the world.
In Berlin, photographer Andreas Geh-rke
took photographs of buildings that are
no longer standing.
“None of the books are similar in any
way,” he said. “When I said, ‘Photograph
the city,’ I imagined a lot of landscapes of
the city. But everybody took that in their
own way. There are a lot of interiors, very
private portraits.”
The publishing company is a one-man
show. Graves taught himself how
to publish a book and hires freelance
editors and designers to help him with
the process.
The books, which cost $28 each or
$250 for the 10-book bundle, are avail-able
for pre-order on krisgraves.com.
There will be a launch party for the project
at the 57th Street Pier on April 4.
“I love making these books and I have
put money second and I’ll probably al-ways
be that way,” he said.
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