Thomas Roma

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PICTURES FOR BOOKS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS ROMA
Text by Susan Kismaric.
MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH ART GALLERY
ISBN: 9781884919251 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2010
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COME SUNDAY
Essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870701221 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2002
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THOMAS ROMA: HIGHER GROUND
Photographs by Thomas Roma. Contributions by Ian Frazier. Text by Ellen Handy.
D.A.P./INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781891024016 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 12/2/1998
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THOMAS ROMA: HIGHER GROUND
Photographs by Thomas Roma.
D.A.P./INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781891024009 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 12/2/1998
Out of print | Not available

Thomas Roma

Pictures for Books: Photographs by Thomas Roma

Text by Susan Kismaric.
Published by Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

Like so many of the best photographers, Thomas Roma has a flair for thinking in book form. His first book, the limited-edition and handbound volume Brooklyn Gardens (1980), affirmed this flair from the outset of his career, and over the past 30 years Roma has published 13 volumes, always composing and sequencing his classical and modernist vision of contemporary life with care and thought. Roma’s concern for bookmaking accords with his general autodidacticism: he is self-taught to the degree that he even designs and builds his own cameras and lighting equipment. Pictures for Books is the first retrospective volume on Roma. It gathers selections from four previous publications: Found in Brooklyn (1996), Come Sunday (1996), Sicilian Passage (2003) and On Three Pillars: Torah, Worship and the Practice of Loving Kindness, The Synagogues of Brooklyn (2007). Shot in black and white, the sequences included here display two signature Roma traits: a quietly steady and penetrative observation of the close-at-hand, and a fondness for the diverse neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the borough in which Roma was born and continues to reside. Pictures for Books is full of images that capture daily life (both in Brooklyn and abroad) as it opens out into moments of capacious quietude.

Come Sunday

Photographs by Thomas Roma

Essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

In 1990, Thomas Roma began photographing the exterior of houses of worship in his native Brooklyn, which features more churches per square mile than any other place in the United States. One morning, the pastor of an African-American Christian church housed in a former Jewish temple invited Roma to join the congregation with his camera, explaining that God's work was not in the buildings, but in what went on inside. Roma eventually photographed more than 150 services in 52 African-American churches, richly fulfilling his desire "to make religious pictures for modern times." Only 100 copies of Come Sunday remain available, and each of these has been signed by the photographer himself.

Thomas Roma: Higher Ground

Photographs by Thomas Roma. Contributions by Ian Frazier. Text by Ellen Handy.
Published by D.A.P./International Center for Photography

Thomas Roma: Higher Ground

Photographs by Thomas Roma.
Published by D.A.P./International Center for Photography