'Deep Springs' (2017)
'Deep Springs' (2017)
'Deep Springs' (2017)
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'Deep Springs' (2017)

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From the publisher:

"Sam Contis’s photographs, Lawrence Rinder writes, 'capture the strange beauty of macro and microcosmic views in the high desert. The indistinguishableness of earth and body and the sensual echoes of human and animal give her works an Ovidian sense of imminent metamorphoses.'

The images in Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn. 

The college and its surroundings provide a stage on which Contis explores the construction of myth, place, and masculine identity. Bringing together new photographs with pictures made by the first students at the college a century ago, Deep Springs engages with the enduring image of the American West – one that Hollywood, mass media, and the history of American photography have imprinted into the collective psyche."

 29.4 x 24.5 x 1.9 cm | 152 pages | hardcover