Join me in the Bay Area on January 7 for an Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography artist talk and book signing. Hope to see you there! -Ed
Ed Kashi’s latest book release, Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography, illustrates the concept of momentary surrender in photography — the abandoned moment. In contrast to the orchestration of the decisive moment, this volume honors the intuition Kashi has gained over his 40-year career, and is a tribute to the electricity captured when he has yielded his camera to the experiences of reality around him.
“In a field that offers little time or encouragement for self reflection, Kashi’s deeply personal selection of photographs and commentary offers a rare insight into the cultural and psychological implications of the life he has lived, the things he has seen, and the work he has accomplished. By enabling a reconsideration of his remarkable archive, removed from the usual exigencies of addressing current events, this book allows Kashi to demonstrate some core truths about the nature of photographs and the ways they work. It challenges some of our basic ideas of what photographs can do, and puts forward a way of thinking about the photographs that surround us all, a notion that is of particular significance to practitioners and consumers of photography since the digital turn. Perhaps most importantly, this book demonstrates an innovative and nuanced form for autobiography from someone whose entire working life has been predicated on his own invisibility.”
— Alison Nordstöm
Ed Kashi received multiple awards for Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography, including the 2022 International Photography Awards Best Monograph of the Year and Book Photographer of the Year. Kashi also won PX3 2022 Gold.