Jerry Spagnoli
Photographer
Photo Book Projects
"Each of Spagnoli’s three main projects (the landscapes, the negative fragments, and the daguerreotypes) examines the act of photographic description and the way in which a given combination of tool, material, and process shapes the data embedded in a photographic image. Each yields dramatically different results. So, taken together, they constitute a demonstration of the inherent subjectivity of photography as a descriptive system, by revealing the biases built into the various versions of the technology."
Memory’s Mirror: The Photographs of Jerry Spagnoli, A.D. Coleman, On Photography, 2009
I consider a photo book the same as a novel in many ways, an author engaging a subject (however vague) documenting the resulting outcome within the timeframe of the initial insight, and then preserving it in permanent form.
Daguerreotypes
Steidl, Gottingen, 2006
56pp.,112 color illustrations. 11 1/2 x 11 1/2
ISBN 13: 9783865212009
American Dreaming
Steidl, Gottingen, 2011
96 pp., 88 black & white illustrations, 9x9"
ISBN 978-3-86930-307-9
Regard
Steidl, Gottingen, 2019
736 pages, 467 images, 8.1 x 6.3 x 2.3 in
ISBN 978-3-95829-239-0
Local Stories
Steidl, Gottingen, Not Yet Published
152 pages, 72 images, 12 x 15 in
ISBN 978-3-95829-759-3
Situations Seen From a Considerable Distance
Steidl, Gottingen, Not yet published
114pp, 64 black and white illustrations, 5.5 x 8.5
Other Projects
Firecrackers and Related Boxes
Monographs:
Situations Seen From a Considerable Distance, Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2026
Local Stories, Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2026
Regard, Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2019
Heirloom Harvest, Bloomsbury, England, 2015
American Dreaming, Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2011
Daguerreotypes, Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2006
in collaboration with Chuck Close:
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, Chuck Close and Bob Holman, Aperture, New York, 2006
Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes, Demetrio Paparoni, Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore,I taly, 2002
in collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld
The Glory of Water, Karl Lagerfeld, Steidl Verlag, Germany, 2013
Collections:
Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
The High Museum, Atlanta , GA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Orientalist Museum, Doha, Qatar
Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France
The National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
The National Museum of American History, Washington DC
Le Musee Adrien Mentiene, Bry Sur Marne, France
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The New York Historical Society
The Museum of the City of New York
