First edition of JML: NYC 02-23 by Joseph Michael Lopez (2024)

First impression

Large format hardback in fine condition. Cloth boards and spine have picked up some minor dust and scuff markings. Pages clean, binding firm. 

Signed by Joesph Michael Lopez to title page. 

Also includes a article feature from Black + White Photography magazine of the book, courtesy of the pervious owner.

215 x 290mm
112 pages, 55 images

About

The photographs in JML NYC 02-23 were made over two decades as Joseph Michael Lopez traversed the streets of the boroughs of New York by foot. Devoid of the visual tropes associated with the city, the images instead present a vision of New York as it was experienced.

Each picture is carefully composed of an untold story, happening before and continuing after the frame. They show details of the city: a man sprawled on the floor of a train, the spray from a city fountain, a bird in flight, a shard of light on park railings, a crying child being carried down subway steps and couples lost in each other. The people in the photographs appear constantly in motion, moving in and out of frame against the static backdrop of angular city details and architectural canyons. Collectively the photographs in JML NYC 02-23 impart not how the city looks, but how it feels.

'Lopez sees and uses light as a liberator .... to liberate darkness from death to give light the mystery it commands as a force of nature.. and to illuminate his vast emotive and profound concerns about being alive and about seeing itself. He is one of the best.'  - Larry Fink