NEW PUBLICATION

Stephen Hilger: In the Alley

Edited by Peter Kayafas. Text by Matthew Specktor. Conversation with Stephen Hilger, James Welling.

This leporello publication presents Brooklyn-based photographer Stephen Hilger’s (born 1975) color photographs of service alleys and the backside of houses separating the public from the private in the affluent suburb of Beverly Hills, California—a more anomalous view of the place by depicting the physical and symbolic spaces behind the homes of the area’s wealthy residents. Eva Díaz has written that Hilger’s emphasis suggests that Beverly Hills is actually two cities, a front’ city of impeccably maintained homes and a back’ city that covertly services the front illusion. Hilger photographed their graffiti, security signage, crammed garbage cans, unaesthetic car parks and . . . .go to book page >>