David Sokosh is a photographer based in Claverack, NY. He creates images using the 19th Century processes of cyanotype and wet-plate collodion (tintype) and works with letterpress.
His Photographic Artist Book: Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon), {show above} is included in PhotoBookWorks 2023, on view through March 26, 2023. Hosted by Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado. Curated by Alicia Bailey, Abecedarian Artists’ Books.
For more info about Spark Gallery click HERE.
A link to the PhotoBookWorks catalog and Abecedarian Artists’ Books is HERE
To find out more about Things That Look Like the MOON click HERE
Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon) includes a hand-made, limited edition, photographic artist book and exhibition prints. All printed with cyanotype (no ink involved).
CLICK HERE FOR MOON Book PDF
Ongoing projects include:
Curiosities Photographic records created as a celebration of American Material Culture during an exploration of still-life as self-portrait; John Rogers in the 21st Century: Contemporary Issues Seen Through a 19th Century Lens and Objectified: Exploitation, Appropriation and Self-Objectification (of the male figure) on the Internet #allphotosusedwithoutpermission (these also include cyanotype books)
Sokosh is represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY.
Image: Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon), Book Installation Image .
All images and text © 2020-2023 by David Sokosh.