The Transverse PathClouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slacks vaguely sci fi photographs envision a sun blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms,

without concern for cohesion or retrospection

rescuing the medium from the pre-existing modes of documentary and realism and positioning it at a new nexus of art

And where do people figure into this balance

As we danced to the sound of joy division and the clash in my bedroom during the six week period that schools were closed I saw this collapse as only a positive thing

an uncertain sage in their midst

Lawson’s photographs are made in collaboration with her subjects

Geoff Weston

Far from frightening

This book emerges after a span of 15 years that Rodríguez spent with The Mountain's communities

The book features an introductory essay offering an objective view of Pittman’s work and importance as a chronicle of the music

Earlier images of storefronts and domestic interiors contrast poignantly with those of their demolition from the late 1970s onwards

Unlike Robert Frank’s iconic Guggenheim-funded road trip 30 years earlier