PUBLISHING AT CANDELA

Reenchantment
Photographs by Justin James Reed

6.33 × 9.33 x .91 inches,
204 pages

ABOUT THE BOOK

Creating delicate black-and-white photographs of encounters with the natural world, Justin James Reed discovers that reenchantment is indeed a gift. A gift that is offered by acknowledging the true reality of one’s past and the guides who have been there all along. Reed’s photographs show the beauty and fragility of beings that we share this planet with, exploring the quiet ways in which nonhuman entities communicate with us. Essays by Jo Hickey-Hall, Brother Richard Hendrick, Timothy Grieve-Carlson, Kim Philley, and the author himself are intertwined throughout the book, connecting a broader dialogue around the phenomena to Reed’s photographic practice. This book is ultimately about the authors own journey of connecting anomalous experiences from his childhood to a deep, lifelong relationship with the natural world.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Author

Justin James Reed
Justin James Reed’s artistic practice explores ecological and supernatural realms through the mediums of photography and experimental book making. His work is included in numerous collections, notably the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections, Rice University (as part of the Center for the Impossible), Yale University Art Gallery, Foam Fotografiemuseum Collection, The New York Public Library, MoMA Library, and Stanford University Libraries. He has been published in Foam Magazine, Aperture’s The PhotoBook Review, Harper’s Magazine, and The Wire Magazine. He is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts and taught in the Department of Art & Art History at The University of Richmond. Justin is the Founder & Director of Lights in the Sky, a fine art gallery for and by experiencers of anomalous phenomena in Richmond, Virginia.

Contributors

Jo Hickey-Hall
Author and Folklore researcher, Jo Hickey-Hall, is the host of The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast, which collects and preserves contemporary experiences. Jo undertook her History Master's with Professor Ronald Hutton at the University of Bristol and later contributed to Dr. Simon Young’s book, Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies 500AD to the Present. She created the Modern Fairy Sightings Project in 2016 to challenge the cultural taboo surrounding disclosure and aid further understanding about this mysterious universe. Her Podcast launched in 2020 and now sits within the highly esteemed SpectreVision Radio platform. She has appeared on Sky History’s Britain’s X-Files, has assistant-produced the forthcoming documentary film, Fae Folk: A Search for Connection, and her first book, Modern Fairy Sightings: Personal Encounters in Extraordinary Times, was released in November 2026. 

Brother Richard Hendrick
Brother Richard Hendrick is a priest-friar of the Irish branch of the Capuchin Franciscan Order and the author of the viral poem Lockdown and the bestseller Still Points: A Guide to Living the Mindful, Meditative Way. His second book, Calming the Storms: Meditation as a Path to Inner Peace and Happiness, was recently published. For over 20 years, he has worked to bring the insights of the Christian Contemplative tradition to wider public awareness, particularly in relation to modern mindfulness theory. 

Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Timothy Grieve-Carlson is an Assistant Professor and the Gibson-Drinko Chair in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2022. His book American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford University Press, 2024) explores environmental knowledge and apocalyptic thought in the religion of the early modern mid-Atlantic world. His academic writing has appeared in journals like Preternature, American Religion, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Correspondences: A Journal of Esotericism, and Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft.

Kim Philley
Kim Philley is a writer, photographer, and spiritual teacher. Her writing across genres has appeared in The New York Times, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, AGNI, and The Caravan, among other publications. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. In 2022, Kim encountered a blue orb in her home for an extended period. Since her evening with the orb, she has developed the ability to consistently photograph spiritual and cosmic phenomena such as energy fields, beings, and UFOs. She is currently working with a team of researchers she met at the Archives of the Impossible conference at Rice University to better understand her photographic mediumship and the discipline she calls Energy Photography.

Illustrator

Peter Hall
Peter studied art & design at Central St Martens and Chelsea art schools in London before training as an architect. His interest comes from a love of comics and classic illustration styles and the imaginative potential of drawing.

Editor
Justin James Reed

Designer
Justin James Reed

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Photographers’ Images of Their Own Families

Edited by Gordon Stettinius
Essays by Rebecca Senf and Andy Grundberg

First Edition Hardcover
9 1/2” (w) x 10 5/8” (h)
224 pp

Designer Jeff Louviere, New Orleans

Printing in Barcelona. Production coordinator is Matt Harvey, formerly of Aperture.

ABOUT THE BOOK

We find it easy to relate to family photographs, even when those depicted are strangers. In part, because photography suggests the truth of a situation, we are lured into believing we are learning about the subjects, and, possibly, something about the photographers as well. But photos of family also vibrate at a universal frequency. We see vulnerable children or affectionate partners, and we can see ourselves and our loved ones there. It is the same for those images of aging relatives. Because those aging relatives are also our relatives, or even, ourselves.

Memory Orchards presents a broad survey of family experience, through highs and lows, through lust and loss, creating a survey of work which reflects our understanding of ‘family’ in this moment. The work is derived from long term documentary projects, from archive based explorations, from mundane interactions to moments of intimacy, from family snapshots to artful portraits. While the motivations of any given photographer are always distinctly individual, there are some foundational ideas which persist and are shared widely. Some artists write of their desire to remember, to document their own peculiar and beautiful realities. Others write of their desire to share their experience in hopes of adding to larger conversations about representation or identity. Taken as a whole, this engaging collection of work is complex and personal but deeply relatable.

Featuring 186 photos from 61 photographers, including Thomas Alleman, Hannah Altman, Debe Arlook, Niki Boon, Nancy Borowick , Tommy Bruce, Emily Buckley, Edgar Cardenas, Justin A. Carney, Velianna Catalano, Adrain Chesser, Daniel Coburn, Jess Dugan, Matt Eich, Kristen Joy Emack, Kev Filmore, Amy Friend, Riley Goodman, Elijah Gowin, Karla Guerrero, Rashed Haq, Jessica Todd Harper, Kate Izor, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Rachel Jump, Priya Kambli, Takako Kido, Gillian Laub, Judith G. Levy, Pixy Liao, Louviere + Vanessa, Monika Merva, Linda Moses, Nadiya Nacorda, Lydia Panas, Toni Pepe, Greta Pratt, Lissa Rivera, Emily Schiffer, Betsy Schneider, Maria Jose Sesma, Safi Alia Shabaik, Jennifer Shaw, Sarah Stellino, Zachary Stephens, Gordon Stettinius, Jerry Takigawa, Ron Tarver, Rashod Taylor, Rachel Elise Thomas, Al J. Thompson, Stephanie Thulin, Paul Thulin-Jimenez, Anne Vetter, Melanie Walker, Becky Wilkes, John Willis, Susan Worsham, Megan Wynne, and Arin Yoon

Among the 61 photographers whose work is included in Memory Orchards are Priya Kambli, Elijah Gowin, Rashod Taylor, Lissa Rivera, Gillian Laub, Edgar Cardnas, Pixie Liao, Jess Dugan, Betsy Schneider, Takako Kido, Karla Guerrero, Lydia Panas, Nadiya Nacorda, Susan Worsham and more. These photographers and photographic artists are innovative, and introspective, in their widely varied approaches to such a familiar and well-loved subject.

Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. In 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press; in 2017, her book To Be Thirteen, showcasing the work of Betsy Schneider, was published by Radius Press and Phoenix Art Museum. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, and in 2020 released a book on Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, copublished by the CCP and Yale University Press, now in a second printing.

Andy Grundberg is an art critic and curator who holds the position of Professor, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University. He is the author of Crisis of the Real, a selection of his essays for The New York Times and other publications. Grundberg has also authored numerous books such as Mike and Doug Starn and Alexey Brodovitch. Exhibitions he has organized include Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Ansel Adams: A Legacy, and In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places. Awards include an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography and a Leica Medal of Excellence for writing. He holds a BA from Cornell University and a MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Gordon Stettinius founded, in 2010, an independent publishing company, Candela Books, which has published monographs from Gita Lenz, Chris McCaw, Willie Anne Wright, Kahn & Selesnick, Shelby Lee Adams, Paul Thulin, as well as other collections and catalogs. In 2011, Stettinius founded Candela Gallery with the mission being to bring notable photographers to Richmond, Virginia, in hopes of elevating the discourse around contemporary photography. As an artist Stettiniius has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is represented by Robin Rice Gallery (New York) and Page Bond Gallery in (Richmond). His work is in the permanent collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Longwood University (Farmville, VA), the Telfair Museums (Savannah), Capital One, and many other private and public collections. He is also an emeritus member of 1708 Gallery (Richmond).

2021
Unbound w/ Slip Case
Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches
84 pages

ABOUT THE BOOK

Kahn & Selesnick’s latest book project “Dr. Falke's Oraculum” continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. During these journeys to such far flung places as the coastal cliffs of Ireland, the remote island of Fogo off the coast of Newfoundland, the sandy wastes of Cape Cod, and the muddy, muddy banks of the swollen Delaware, the artists considered circular structure of time and our attempts to make sense of the present by projecting our minds into the future, then mapped these various methods of prognostication onto the distant landscapes in which they sojourned. The results of these meditations were then transcribed onto the images of the Truppe's performances to produce a sort of personal Oraculum. As a result, this volume does not purport to be an instruction manual so much as a mindset that one might adopt while attempting to think about Augury.

That being said, the book is presented unbound so that it may be used as a bibliomancy oracle where pages can be shuffled and selected at random to receive messages and prophecy, much as one uses the tarot and other cartomancy decks. To this end, the artists found inspiration in "Napoleon's Book of Fate", an oracle purportedly unearthed in Egypt during a French military expedition in 1801 and supposedly consulted by the Emperor "before every important occasion". The fact that the upheavals of that time seem in many ways to echo our own only strengthened the desire to produce an Oraculum updated for this current, turbulent age.  

In addition to being a sort of augury engine, viewers of the book will also get a glimpse of the real life adventures that inspired the artists to create their Carnival at the End of the World Tarot deck. Many of the characters and mummers included in that deck come to life in the book, dancing on the ice floes and mountain tops while being battered by the elements in their improvised costumes. These journeys, most particularly to Fogo Island with the Nomadic School of Wonder, allowed the artists to fully inhabit the notion of the carnivalesque. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kahn & Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who have been making narrative card decks, staged narrative photographs, figurative paintings, handmade books, and sculptural installations since the early 1980s. They specialize in alternative historical narratives that may also be futures. The artists have participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions worldwide, have work in the collections of over 20 museums and public institutions in addition to numerous private collections, and have been the recipients of grants from NASA and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Their work has been featured in well known publications such as the New York Times and Huffington Post, and has been the subject of documentaries by PBS and Voom; they have published monographs and projects with Aperture and Candela Books.

2019
Hardcover
Dimensions: 9.75 x 9.75 inches
198 pages, 100 plates
ISBN 978-0-9845739-7-4

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the early 1900s, artist Paul Thulin's great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Over a century later, his family returns to the same area, Gray's Point, each summer.

Throughout his life, Thulin's great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of early settlers at the New England apple orchard; Such characters include a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled the imagination and, on occasion, had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits.

Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist’s daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story. Pine Tree Ballads is fueled by both truth and imagination, which, in many instances are the fundamental ingredients of our personal history. The "docu-literary" structure of this monograph celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. At the surface, this project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore.

Pine Tree Ballads is Thulin’s first book.  With an afterword, by poet Dora Malech.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paul Thulin’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally at United Photo Industries, NYC; Candela Gallery, Richmond Va.; Chicago Art Fair; PPAC, Philadelphia; AAC, Washington DC; Toronto Art Fair, Foto Gallery, Barcelona; Grand Prix Fotofestival Lodz, Poland; the Athens Photo Festival, Greece; the Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado; Mt. Rokko Photography Festival, Japan; the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Nera di Verzasca Photo Festival, Switzerland, FIF_BH - International Festival of Photography, Brazil; and the Noordelicht Photo Festival, The Netherlands.

Thulin has been the recipient of a variety of photographic prizes and awards including a 2001 TPI National Graduate Fellowship, a 2006 Virginia Commission for the Arts Artist Fellowship, 2013 Conveyor Magazine Exhibition Grant, 2015 Hariban Award Honorable Mention, 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and the 2015 Lensculture Emerging Talent Grant. Pine Tree Ballads was highlighted in the May 2016 British Journal of Photography, and awarded the 2016 Renaissance Prize London for Best Series. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Dora Malech is the author of three books of poetry: Shore Ordered Ocean, published by The Waywiser Press in 2009; Say So, published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011; and, most recently, Stet, selected by Susan Stewart for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and published by Princeton University Press in 2018. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Tin House, Lana Turner, The New England Review, and The Kenyon Review. She is the recipient of awards that include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award from the Amy Clampitt Foundation, a Writer's Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is an assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

2017
Unbound w/ Slip Case
Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches
208 pages
ISBN 978-0-9845739-6-7

ABOUT THE BOOK

Against a backdrop of ecological decline, this memoir/travelogue follows Dr. Falke (the narrator), Count Orlofsky, and Madame Lulu, three members of an itinerant theatrical troupe known as the Truppe Fledermaus, as they stage absurdist performances in various locations including Europe, England, America, and Japan. In these performances, often staged in nature with no audience, the Truppe are as apt to commemorate the passing of an unusual cloud as they are to be found documenting their own attempts to flee the rising waters of a warming planet, or using black humor to comment upon the extinction of bats or other animals.

The book, whose physical design format is modeled on Ukiyo-e series such as Hiroshige’s One Hundred Views of Edo, contains photographs of the Truppe, their travels, and their performances with corresponding text narrating the images. It is the author’s preference to have the pages of the book be loose and non-linear so that readers can explore the images and story in any order they prefer. As the incidents related in the book are frequently based on the artist’s personal experiences and travels, the reader is led to speculate about the somewhat arbitrary manner in which we build narratives out of our own experiences.

The beautiful images and corresponding text vignettes represent an enormous effort by these artists and rewards repeated visits, as even one reading is a commitment and with each visit to this collection, the story will have been again re-imagined.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who have been working together since they met while attending art school at Washington University in St. Louis in the early 1980s. Both were born in 1964, in New York City and London respectively. They work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future. Kahn & Selesnick have participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions worldwide and have work in over 20 collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

In addition, they have published 3 books with Aperture Books, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, and Apollo Prophecies.

Edited by Russell Joslin

2014
Hardcover

Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/2 inches

128 pages, 72 color & bw plates

ISBN 978-0-9845739-3-6

ABOUT THE BOOK

Black Forest is an arcane collection featuring the works of over 50 contemporary photographers, including Roger Ballen, Arthur Tress, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Elijah Gowin, Louviere and Vanessa, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Irina Ionesco, Julie Blackmon, Gilles Berquet and many other internationally known photographers.

In this volume, editor Russell Joslin–long-time publisher of SHOTS magazine–follows in the steps of André Breton (from whom he borrows his title), exploring what he calls “subterranean beauty.” Darkly atmospheric sequences of surrealistic photographs become a metaphor for the unconscious and the mysterious corners of the psyche. Suggesting loose, intuitive relationships between the works of contemporary artists, Joslin creates four visual narratives associated in tone, emotion and formal structure, but allows room for his readers and viewers to render for themselves the hidden, connective layers of meaning.

This compelling collection of unconventional narratives is complimented by the strange and beautiful design of Jeff Louviere, who, along with his wife and collaborator Vanessa Brown, is one of the contributing artists to this dark and engaging photography book.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Russell Joslin has been the Editor & Publisher of SHOTS Magazine the past fourteen years. SHOTS is an independent, reader-supported quarterly journal of fine art photography that reaches an international audience. Black Forestdemonstrates his distinct editing style, with a special emphasis on sequence and narrative tone.

In addition to his publishing background, Joslin has exhibited his photographs in many galleries and publications worldwide for some twenty years. Most recently, his photographs were featured in EYEMAZING (2012) and at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (2013).

Joslin lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Black Forest is his first book.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Jeff Louviere has been a graphic designer for about 20 years. He concentrates his skills on posters, books, and music packaging. He’s recently won two gold ADDY’s (best book design and best in show) for Louviere+Vanessa’s latest museum catalog, Coincidence. He’s been inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s largest painting (1996), earned two AIGA awards of excellence in poster design and four international design awards for exhibition design.

He lives with his wife and artistic collaborator, Vanessa, in their German Shepherd’s house in New Orleans. Louviere+Vanessa have been in over 50 exhibits and film festivals in America and abroad. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Art | Houston, the Photomedia Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the George Eastman House, as well as the film archive for Globians International Film, in Potsdam Germany, and Microcinema, in San Francisco. L+V were recently invited to exhibit for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

2015
Hardcover
Dimensions: 9.75 x 11.25 inches
96 pages, 45 plates
ISBN 978-0-9845739-5-0

ABOUT THE BOOK

Willie Anne Wright began her career as a painter. Beginning in the 1970s, her focus shifted to pinhole photography as her primary medium. Direct Positive explores Wright’s innovative use of Cibachrome color material and her production of unique direct positive images. Strangely saturated color, visual distortion and vibrant ideas gave rise to these beautiful and insistent objects.

The artist embraced the unexpected while blending older techniques with diverse contemporary motifs. This one-of-a-kind collection portrays Wright’s mystic journey through pinhole photography. Darkly beautiful in one photograph and then startlingly emotional in the next, each image is unexpected and impactful.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Willie Anne Wright, a Richmond, Virginia native, holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She also studied photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine and the Visual Studies Workshops in Rochester, New York. Her paintings, serigraphs and drawings were exhibited widely until 1972 when pinhole photography became her primary creative medium.

Among the institutions that have acquired her photography are the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, Virginia; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia; University of Maine, Bangor, Maine; University of Mary Washington, Fredricksburg, Virginia; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; and the New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ABOUT THE WRITERS

Denise Bethel, formerly Chairman of the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s, Inc., spent over three decades in the photographs auction business in New York, where she set world records for artists ranging from Southworth & Hawes and Alfred Stieglitz to

Edward Weston and Diane Arbus. A Richmond native, she holds a B. A. from Hollins College, Virginia, and an M. A. from London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, where her second year was funded by a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts graduate fellowship. She is now an independent advisor, writer, and lecturer based in New York City.

Dr. Sarah Eckhardt is the Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her department is responsible for the museum’s early twentieth century European holdings as well as the mid-to-late twentieth-century and twenty-first century collections, including photography and the sculpture garden. She received her B.A. from Valparaiso University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was awarded a Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship.

Susan Hankla is a poet and short storywriter from southwest Virginia. Her published works have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, New Virginia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and in numerous chapbooks and poetry collections. She has been a recipient of the Virginia Prize for Fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and at the Robert Frost Poetry Festival in Franconia, N.H.. She has taught at the Virginia Museum Studio School, University of Richmond’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies, and at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Jeff Louviere has been a graphic designer for about 20 years. He concentrates his skills on posters, books, and music packaging. He’s recently won two gold ADDY’s (best book design and best in show) for Louviere+Vanessa’s museum catalog, Coincidence. He’s been inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s largest painting (1996), earned two AIGA awards of excellence in poster design and four international design awards for exhibition design.

He lives with his wife and artistic collaborator, Vanessa, in their German Shepherd’s house in New Orleans. Louviere+Vanessa have been in over 50 exhibits and film festivals in America and abroad. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Art | Houston, the Photomedia Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the George Eastman House, as well as the film archive for Globians International Film, in Potsdam Germany, and Microcinema, in San Francisco. L+V were recently invited to exhibit for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

2013
Hardcover
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
96 pages, 43 plates
ISBN 978-0-9845739-2-9

ABOUT THE BOOK

Sunburn isa collection of forty-three extraordinary images from American photographer Chris McCaw, with essays by Katherine Ware of the New Mexico Museum of Art and Allie Haeusslein of Pier 24 Photography. By constructing his own cameras – one camera weighing in at 125 pounds and large enough that it needs to be mounted on a garden cart – and exposing directly onto large expired gelatin silver papers for extended exposures, from several hours up to 24 hours, McCaw manages to coax highly controlled and delicate depictions of primeval landscapes and seascapes while at the same time allowing the sun, throughout its trajectory, to graphically sear its path across the surface of his prints, often cutting completely through the prints when the sun is at its strongest points.

McCaw has taken this notion of simultaneous creation / destruction and harnessed the resulting tension, working with the unpredictable process so elegantly that he manages a polished and highly crafted style but one which remains dependent upon the brute and visceral contribution of chance and light and the spin of the earth. And because he works directly with paper negatives, which are solarized by the prolonged exposures, each resulting image is unique, less like a photograph and more a three-dimensional object rendered using the sun as a reductive tool.

A significant aspect of what McCaw has done with this body of work is to create an intellectual bridge back to a time when astronomy was first being explored, when mystery was commonplace and it seemed primally essential to find our place in the greater cosmos. The message that McCaw has rendered here so beautifully is a fragile one, where the flattened dimensions we have come to expect from photography have been torn, revealing a fresh photographic understanding of energy which ignites an alchemical transformation of the traditional landscape.

ABOUT THE SPECIAL EDITION

Special Edition of Sunburn by Chris McCaw With Unique Paper Negative

Candela Books is excited to present twenty-one special edition Sunburn books, each in a custom clamshell case with laser burned baltic birch covers, and each with a 4 x 5 inch unique paper negative by McCaw. All together these twenty-one images, each one burned through the paper, comprise a single unique work which captures a sunrise over San Francisco Bay on August 10th, 2012. Included with the signed copy of Sunburn and special edition paper negative is a handmade accordion-fold booklet which depicts all the images from the complete work.

This beautiful piece was specially created to celebrate the release of Sunburn, Chris McCaw’s first monograph and Candela Books’ third book release.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chris McCaw’s photography is represented in many notable public and private collections including: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas; The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. McCaw has also received a New Works Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in 2008.

McCaw lives and works in San Francisco.

2014
Hardcover
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
96 pages, 54 color plates
ISBN 978-0-9845739-4-3

ABOUT THE BOOK

For a period spanning eight years or so, Gordon Stettinius, a photographer and a man of average appearance, sporadically visited the Mangini Studio in Richmond, Virginia, to have his portrait taken. Terry Brown, a fine art photographer as well as a commercial portraitist, happened, at that time, to be Mangini’s principal studio photographer.  The first of the styled portraits Brown recorded came about as the result of Stettinius’ disquieting need to experiment with the proud but oft-maligned hairstyle known to some as the permanent wave.

Not long after this initial effort, Stettinius began to sense a sea change in people’s general attitude toward him. After a little social experimentation around town and an abundance of hard-core introspection, the conclusion he drew was indisputable. His friends, he felt certain, had begun to crave his attention.  His loved ones, it seemed, were loving him even more than before. And, more impressive yet, colleagues even had begun to defer to his opinions and wishes on matters of every description.  In the fall of that year, his love life even turned around for the better.

To date, Brown and Stettinius have produced over fifty of these studio portraits.  Taken individually, the images run from believable to the slightly ridiculous. Taken collectively, one has to wonder if these two might have found something more productive to do with their time.

ABOUT TERRY BROWN

Terry Brown, is a commercial photographer and fine artist, out of Richmond, Virginia.  She was part of the artist collaborative FEAST and has been shown widely as a member of that collective and as a fine artist.  Her work is in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as well as many private collections.

ABOUT GORDON STETTINIUS

Gordon Stettinius has been exhibited nationally and internationally as a photographer over the last twenty-five years and his work can be found in numerous private and public collections. Stettinius is represented by Robin Rice Gallery in New York and Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Stettinius is also an emeritus member of 1708 Gallery and an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.

In 2010, Gordon founded Candela Books, a publishing company, and, to date, they have produced six fine art photography books. In 2011, Gordon founded a fine art photography gallery dedicated to featuring the work of nationally respected photographers. Candela Books + Gallery now inhabits a renovated 3,800 square foot building in the downtown arts district of Richmond, Virginia and is one of the leading advocates for fine art photography in the mid-Atlantic region.

2012
Hardcover
Dimensions: 12 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
128 pages, 80 plates
ISBN 978-0-9845739-1-2

ABOUT THE BOOK

Salt & Truth is the fourth book from American photographer Shelby Lee Adams (1950-present). This collection of 80 new photographs, taken over the past eight years, continues a project the artist has been working on now for over 30 years. Together these powerful images of the hollow dwellers of eastern Kentucky, represent a singular access to a world that is historically not very trusting of outsiders, by a photographer who is widely recognized as a master of the medium.

Since the release of his last book, Appalachian Lives (2003), Adams has continued to add to his extraordinary body of work. Born in Hazard, Kentucky and raised in a hollow similar to those in the book, Adams’ connection to the people in his photographs is evident in the way that he has been openly welcomed into their homes and lives. Adams, along with his 4×5 view camera, is allowed into the personal space of his subjects, a witness in times of celebration as well as times of hardship. The photographs in this collection are of children and animals, of older folks, of working people, and the various details as seen through Adams camera, speak eloquently to the larger issues of faith and respect and compassion when many others might have seen only poverty and desperation. Adams knows what it means to be from this place, of this place.

ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION

Limited Edition of Salt & Truth With Print:

Candela Books is proud to be working directly with Shelby Lee Adams on a limited edition of Salt & Truth. The first 70 copies of the book come in a clothbound clamshell case, with a choice of one of two 8″x10″ gelatin silver prints by the artist. The two available prints are Frankie with Shucky Beans, 2002 and Billy and Bethany with Coonskins, 2004 (shown above).

The price of the limited editions will increase in cost as the edition sells. The Candela store price reflects the current selling price for each version of the limited edition. Please inquire for more information about tiered pricing.

ABOUT SHELBY LEE ADAMS

Shelby Lee Adams is renowned for his environmental portraiture, primarily from the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky. Adams’ work has been featured in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), and Appalachian Lives (2003) and has received numerous grants and awards. Most recently, Adams was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.

Adams’ work is represented in many major permanent collections; including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.

2011
Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches
100 pages, 52 plates
ISBN 978-0-9845739-0-5

ABOUT THE BOOK

Gita Lenz: Photographs is the result of the efforts of two individuals, Timothy Bartling and Gordon Stettinius. Back in 2002, when Timothy, Gita’s friend and neighbor, was helping her move into an assisted living facility in West Greenwich Village, he was not sure what should be done with all of the photographic work that she had asked him to take care of. So, he contacted Stettinius, a friend and photographer, to explore what could be done with Gita’s photography. Together, they decided that by producing a book from the work and by mounting an exhibition as well, they could generate some interest in Gita and her photography. From there, Stettinius established Candela Books in order to publish Gita’s monograph and then arranged with Gitterman Gallery, in New York, to mount a solo exhibition, and ultimately to represent Gita’s photography. This book, along with the concurrent exhibition, are meant as a tribute to honor Gita’s beautiful photography.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Gita Lenz is an American born photographer. Most active from the 1940s through the early 1960s, Lenz earned considerable recognition during her career, notably she was included in two photography exhibitions curated by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art . She was also included in a three-person show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and had numerous articles and features in photography magazines to her credit. Though initially she might have been described as a social documentarian, Lenz quickly embraced elements of Abstract Impressionism, possibly influenced by Aaron Siskind, a prominent photographer and good friend as well. Abstract compositions, surreal subject matter, and intimate portraits all attracted Lenz’ attention and each subject was carefully considered and beautifully printed.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gordon Stettinius, a photographer and educator, has compiled and edited the photographs for this monograph of Gita Lenz’ photographic work and written an introduction to the work and the story behind the book. Stettinius lives and works in Richmond, Virginia and shows his own photography nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the 2009 Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts.