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John Gossage

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John Gossage: I Love You So Much!!!!!!!!!

STEIDL
Text by John Gossage.

The fourth in John Gossage’s ongoing photobook series displaying his unique knack for the poetry of pattern and of place

Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 97 bw. | 6/24/2025 | Awaiting stock
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John Gossage: The Nicknames of Citizens

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The third volume in John Gossage’s ongoing exploration of America and its people

Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 70 bw. | 3/25/2020 | Out of stock
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John Gossage: Jack Wilson’s Waltz

STEIDL
Text by John Gossage.

Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 69 bw. | 12/3/2019 | Out of stock
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John Gossage: Should Nature Change

STEIDL
Text by John Gossage.

Clth, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 68 bw. | 10/29/2019 | Out of stock
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John Gossage: Looking Up Ben James, A Fable

STEIDL

Clth, 13 x 16.5 in. / 192 / 18 color / 115 bw. | 8/28/2018 | In stock
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John Gossage: The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler/Map of Babylon

STEIDL/ICP
Essays by John Gossage, Gerhard Steidl.

Clth, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 216 color. | 6/30/2010 | In stock
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John Gossage: I Love You So Much!!!!!!!!!John Gossage: I Love You So Much!!!!!!!!!

Published by Steidl.
Text by John Gossage.

“Things, people and events harbor within them more than we can know or understand, until looked at with slight inflection. If you get it right, you don’t have to explain.” With this characteristic off-kilter curiosity, John Gossage (born 1946) continues his loving yet critical, generous yet ironic vision of America; Gossage is as always open to the wonders of the everyday and he relishes the poetry of pattern in his subjects—the ripples of a tablecloth, a grid of tiles, the serpentine curls of an electrical cord.

The title of the book is taken from a handwritten inscription Gossage found on an old but beloved car in Rochester, Minnesota, for him a moment of gritty glory: “It read like an afterlife, a murmur of its inhabitants long after they had parked the car and left.”



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John Gossage: The Nicknames of CitizensJohn Gossage: The Nicknames of Citizens

Published by Steidl.

This clothbound volume continues Washington, DC–based photographer John Gossage’s (born 1946) astute, critical and witty look at his native America, following Should Nature Change (2019) and the upcoming Jack Wilson’s Waltz. Whether in California, Indiana or New York, whether his subjects are young artists, nondescript suburbia or a dirt road, Gossage’s approach is the same.

“Nicknames,” he writes, “are mostly a second naming of a person after their true character is known. When a child is born the parents choose a name, if it fits all the way though life it is a lucky guess. Picture-making (mine at least) seems to me like trying to find the correct nickname for something I’ve found existing in the world and photographed. This book and these pictures make that attempt with the country of my birth and its citizens.”



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John Gossage: Should Nature ChangeJohn Gossage: Should Nature Change

Published by Steidl.
Text by John Gossage.

In John Gossage's words, this is a book "with a particular context, of photographs to settle the feeling that I did not understand my home. To do that I set out, starting in 2003, to see what clarity my pictures might bring." And so came into being these photos of scenes, things, minor events and the look in the eyes of the young, all taken in everyday non iconic places throughout his travels across America. "Should Nature Change," taken from the Book of Isaiah, is for Gossage both a declaration and a warning: "I am a humanist, like most of us are, I can't really step back to see the beauty and order of all this; closeness brings chaos and dread in this case. We have done harm to the place we live, I'm told, but it seems to me that we have done the most harm to ourselves and our best-laid plans. The planet has a plan to fix this, if we don't."



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John Gossage: Jack Wilson’s WaltzJohn Gossage: Jack Wilson’s Waltz

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Text by John Gossage.

Jack Wilson’s Waltz is, in the words of its author, a book “with a particular context, of photographs to settle the feeling that I did not understand about my home. To do that I set out, starting in 2003, to see what clarity my pictures might bring.”

And so came into being these photos of scenes, things, minor events and the look in the eyes of the young, all taken in everyday non-iconic places throughout John Gossage’s (born 1946) travels across America. Gossage’s ongoing look at his country within these pages is like a dance: rhythmic, redeeming, restorative, intuitive; but tentatively hopeful. “I would like to believe all of it,” he writes, “that we will be saved, but on Connecticut Avenue there is graffiti that says ‘Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when we need him?’ All I can hear is the faint echoing gun shots coming from Wounded Knee.”



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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 126   

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John Gossage: Looking Up Ben James, A FableJohn Gossage: Looking Up Ben James, A Fable

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It is spring 2008 and my friend, photographer and book collector John Gossage is coming to the UK. We have planned to embark upon a minor road trip together. All John requests is that I drive and that we visit some 'typical Parr seaside locations'. No problem. --Martin Parr

Martin Parr and John Gossage's British coastal trip covered spots like Georgian Clifton (Bristol), Severn Bridge (Wales) and Caerau, the mining village near Cardiff where photographer Robert Frank had made his famous report and met the miner Ben James in 1953. The road took them further north to reach Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, ending in Liverpool, Morecambe and smaller towns in the Lake District. The outcome are shots of street scenes, backyards, gardens, sceneries and very few people on the way, silent testimonies of small, unexpected details of everyday life in a world that is not visited by many, let alone photographed. As Parr concludes in his introductory text: "I am amazed that the collective vision of this volume is so familiar, but entirely alien. It restores my faith in photography to know that a mature and original photographer like John Gossage can see the things I just did not notice."

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Clth, 13 x 16.5 in. / 192 / 18 color / 115 bw.

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John Gossage: The PondJohn Gossage: The Pond

Published by Aperture.
Text by Gerry Badger, Toby Jurovics.

Considered a groundbreaking book when first published in 1985, John Gossage's The Pond remains one of the most important photobooks of the medium. As Gerry Badger, coauthor of The Photobook: A History, Volumes I and II, asserts, "Adams, Shore, Baltz--all the New Topographics photographers made great books, but none are better than The Pond." Consisting of photographs taken around and away from a pond situated in an unkempt wooded area at the edge of a city, the volume presents a considered foil to Henry Thoreau's stay at Walden. The photographs in The Pond do not aspire to the "beauty" of classical landscapes in the tradition of Ansel Adams. Instead, they reveal a subtle vision of reality on the border between man and nature. Gossage depicts nature in full splendor, yet at odds with both itself and man, but his tone is ambiguous and evocative rather than didactic. Robert Adams described the work as "believable because it includes evidence of man's darkness of spirit, memorable because of the intense fondness [Gossage] shows for the remains of the natural world." Aperture now reissues this exquisitely produced and highly collectible classic monograph. With the addition of three images and two essays, this second edition offers new audiences the opportunity to celebrate this notable work by a master photographer and bookmaker.
John Gossage (born 1946) is well known for his artist's books and photographic publications, and has produced 17 books and boxes on specific bodies of work. In the 1960s, he studied briefly with Lisette Model and Alexey Brodovitch. Since then, his work has been exhibited worldwide. His photographs are held in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gossage lives in Washington, D.C.

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John Gossage: The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler/Map of BabylonJohn Gossage: The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler/Map of Babylon

Published by Steidl/ICP.
Essays by John Gossage, Gerhard Steidl.

John Gossage, the renowned American photographer and photo book artist, here presents two companion volumes bound together, as well as his first-ever books in color. Engaged in a dance, neither book comes first, and there is no hierarchy or sequence to the pair. Gossage is one of the most literary of photographic book authors and in The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler, the narrative, while not autobiographical, is about a neighborhood in which he lives; one that is singular in the United States. At the same time provincial and international, it is a neighborhood populated by ambassadorial residences, embassies and the lavish private homes of those who are in positions of power and influence in Washington, D.C. Gossage began this project with the arrival of a new neighbor, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and made more than a year's cycle of seasons. The streets, cars, homes and yards of this neighborhood are photographed on perfect spring or autumn days, with sparklingly clear blue skies and flowers or foliage accenting the order. During that same year, Gossage made The Map of Babylon, photographing digitally from Washington, D.C. to Germany, China and places in-between. This look away, to places beyond the immediate and local, is a classic exploration of the particulars of the outside world.

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Clth, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 216 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 196   

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