Nice interview with Doug Stockdale from his site The Photobook.
Copyright 2014 Ken Schles
Photographer: Ken Schles (born & resides in Brooklyn, NY)
Publisher: Steidl (Germany)
Excerpts: Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorges Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Jean Baudrillard
Text: English
Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany
Photobook designer: Ken Schles and Jack Woody
Notes: This is a new Steidl version of Schles photobook Invisible City, which was first published by Jack Woody and his Twelvetrees Press in 1988. In an interview with Ken, he states:
Long story on the prints. I’ll go back to when I first made the work and the struggles I had with the material. I always saw myself as a fairly accomplished printer. I built a dry darkroom in a boarded up room in my old tenement from cobbled parts and pieces of old Omega D2 enlargers. I worked as a custom printer for the likes of Magnum photographers Gilles Peress, Eliott Erwitt…
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