LACY SOTO | DATE 12/11/2021

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore & Aperture present a book launch and signing with photographer Philip Montgomery for 'American Mirror'

Saturday, December 11 at 3 PM PST | 6 PM EST, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore and Aperture present the launch of American Mirror, both inside the Bookstore and live-streamed on Instagram @artbookhwla. Photographer Philip Montgomery will present the book in discussion with actor, producer, director, inventor and author Jamie Lee Curtis, followed by a signing. Visit artbookstores.com/American-Mirror to pre-order signed copies and to register for the free event. COVID-19 vaccination (age 12+) and face masks (age 2+) are required for all visitors.

American Mirror is an unflinching testament of the United States in the twenty-first century by award-winning photographer Philip Montgomery. One of the most accomplished photographers of this generation, Montgomery has chronicled dramatic transformations of American lives and society through intimate and powerful reporting and a signature black-and-white style. Montgomery’s first book brings together iconic images from 2013–21—from the protest movements following Michael Brown’s 2014 murder by police in Ferguson, Missouri, and the 2017 aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, to the opioid addiction crisis in Ohio, and the epicenter of the COVID-19 global pandemic fought by frontline healthcare workers in New York’s hospitals.

Philip Montgomery (born in California, 1988) has published photography covering American politics, culture, and society in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, Zeit Magazine, TIME, Harper’s, Guardian, Aperture, and Foam Magazine. In 2018, he received a National Magazine Award for his reporting on the opioid epidemic in the US.