CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/29/2021

🌴 The time is right for 'Godlis: Miami' 🌴

As the art world prepares to resume the exuberant in-person eruption that is Art Basel Miami—taking place December 2–4, 2021, after a somber 2020 pandemic hiatus—and in recognition of Hanukkah, which ends this year on the evening of Monday, December 6, we can think of no better book to feature than Godlis: Miami, collecting the cult NYC photographer’s pictures made during a 1974 trip to Miami Beach, Florida. Godlis writes, “Things have changed. Photographs are a testament to that.… In 2017, when I last returned to Miami Beach, I stayed in the little Century Hotel, looking pretty close to how it looked in 1974 when I first came upon it. I walked around to see where most of these pictures had been taken. To dream the dream I had photographed 40 years earlier. And I could still see it all. Even my cover girl in her cool Oliver Goldsmith sunglasses. The ocean and palm trees have a way of making those dreams come true. If only for a 1/125th of a second.” Featured photograph is “Ladies with Hairdos in the Sun, Lummus Park" (1974).