CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/18/2015

An Uncommon Archive

Our new beach house favorite, An Uncommon Archive, presents a satisfyingly summery collection of photographs paired by Tom Adler, former creative director, surfer and publisher of T. Adler Books. In a recent feature in the New York Times, Su Wu describes the images as "united by an eye for off-kilter composition and unadulterated joy, the kind that lasts only as long as a wave or a summer. Featured image, of Rancho San Julian, Lompoc, California, is by Bruce Weber. Its pairing in the book: a Dorothea Lange photograph of a plowed field. "The two images share a formal rigor — the spines of the periodicals as rhythmic as the rows of planted crops — but also other proximities and readings: the ranch where the Weber photo was taken is about 10 miles from where Lange took her photo more than 40 years earlier, of lines carved by migrant laborers."