Stranger Lives
Caitlin Teal Price
Capricious
English
Text by Dorothy Moss.
Softcover
Edition 366/500
88 pages
240 x 305 mm
2016
ISBN 9780997444612
Stranger Lives is a vibrant taxonomy of sunbathers developed primarily on the sand between Coney Island and Brighton Beach from 2008 to 2015. Shot with a Mamiya RZ 6×7 camera and Kodak Portra film, the photographs possess a sharp focus and flattened perspective from above, invoking a specimen-like quality. Through this work, Price plays with the legacy of the uncanny — making the familiar strange, and drawing the viewer into an intimate and voyeuristic exploration of object and body. The monograph features over 70 photographs from the series with an essay by Dorothy Moss, the curator of painting, sculpture and performance art at the National Portrait Gallery. A selection of the work was exhibited at Katzen Art Center in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2016 and most recently part of the exhibition “So Hot You Could Fry An Egg” at Cody Gallery.
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About the Artist
Caitlin Teal Price was born in Chicago, IL and grew up in Washington, DC. She earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2002 and her MFA from Yale School of Art 2009. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of The Robert V Fullerton Museum and the American University Katzen Art Museum and promised to both the Phillips Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Notably, her work has been exhibited at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm Sweden and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Her most recent solo exhibitions include, Scratch Drawings at Candela Gallery in Richmond, VA (2021) and Green is the Secret Color to Make Gold at Tephra, Institute of Contemporary Art (2018). Her work has been published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Capricious Publishing NYC published her monograph, Stranger Lives, in 2016 and her work will be featured in the Aperture book Object Lesson, Spring 2022. Price is also a Founder of STABLE, a non-profit artist space located in Washington, DC.
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About the Publisher
Capricious is an arts foundation based in New York focused primarily on book publishing and an annual photo book award, with an emphasis on supporting intersectional, queer perspectives.
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