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BLACK / WHITE AND GRAY

Black White and Gray is a series of urban landscape photographs shot along the eighty mile I-78 corridor, beginning in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, traveling through a cross section of both desolate and urbanized New Jersey, and then landing in the core of New York City. These are Images living in the mid tones, which find their origins in the stoic tenets of New Topographics only to wander towards a romantic embrace and animism of our places; qualities often unrecognized in our daily life.  This is a Lewis Baltz industrial park with a Bertolucci perspective, or a Robert Adams trailer topped with a Fragonard Cloud. Here, geometry melds with movement, sometimes contorted. cluttered or even stretched like a rubber band, while still presenting a respect of the classic, formal and academic qualities of our built environment.  There is an overlay of chimerical wonderment which reflects the dreams and concerns of the countless stream of unobservant passersby who traverse these spaces daily. Gray, both in tone and subject matter, this is a study built with tensions which then lay us down in an elegant romance, interacting with both the monumental shapes and structures which move from rural simplicity into the cacophony of our urban landscape.

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Meet the books

The book will be available in three formats, Ebook and softcover available through most major booksellers and a small special edition hardcover - available this December

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the e-book

The eBook is universally accessible and affordable—priced under $10 and available worldwide through Google Books, Apple, Kobo, and most major booksellers. While the format is less formal, using a single-page layout, the image quality remains excellent.

the Softcover

The softcover book contains 156 pages with 65 images and an essay, using two-page spreads to isolate images with titles on the facing page. Printed on demand, these books are available worldwide through local printers, helping to reduce shipping costs.

the Hardcover

The hardcover will be a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. It features a linen cover with foil stamping and a dust jacket. The interior includes 156 pages with an essay, using two-page spreads to isolate images on the right and titles on the left. Printing will be done in true duotone on Indigo presses for the highest quality.

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Easton Nights inc  is a 501c(3) non profit corporation dedicated to the publication and presentation of the several photographic series of Easton resident, Peter Ydeen. The funding is used for the creation of accessible books in both electronic and printed versions, as well as the transportation and presentation of exhibitions to colleges, museums and various institutions.

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