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“Holding on so tightly to what I believed was sanity and being consumed by fear of depression and schizophrenia prevented me from being fully present to my mother’s reality. The past few years, as she slipped away from the aggressive paranoia and depression of my youth to an almost calming sense of delusion, made it much easier for me to rid the anger that veiled my life and to attempt to find a place of empathy and compassion as I managed her care. In making this work and simultaneously falling deeper into her psychosis, I tried to imagine a time when the past present and future collided; a place where the weight of memory is heavier than reality.”
Joshua Lutz
Joshua Lutz is an artist and educator working with photographs. He has an MFA from Bard College/ICP and a BFA from Bard College. His first book – Meadowlands, 2008 – was followed by solo shows at Clamp Art (NY) and Koch Gallery (SF). In 2010 Lutz was commissioned by Foam Museum to respond to the idea of borders within the city of Amsterdam. The resulting work was part of a museum exhibition at Stadsarchief, Amsterdam.
He has been presented awards and fellowships including American Photography 25, Hudson Year, Tierney Fellowship, Communication Arts, PDN 30, and American Photography 20. Featured work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harper’s. Lutz is currently on the faculty of the MFA programme at Bard College, The International Center of Photography, and Pratt Institute.
Reviews & Features:
Selected by TIME as one of the Best Photobooks of 2013
The New Yorker
Lenscratch
This is the what
The Brooklyn Rail
Visual Culture Blog
Ahorn Magazine
17 x 24 cm
Hardbound
96 pages with 42 photos in full colour
Signed, one print included
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