📚 Buy the new book See Also: Making Friends in the New York Public Library Picture Collection
See Also responds to the New York Public Library Picture Collection as a social environment and place for sharing knowledge and learning from each other. Working on-site at the Collection, I watched as researchers looked at pictures and talked with them about what they saw. These conversations became a way to meet people, with project participants letting me into their research in the Collection and most importantly, their lives outside the library. The resulting photography book See Also: Making Friends at the NYPL Picture Collection documents the relationships that emerged from looking at pictures together.
I created this project and book as part of the 2022 Picture Collection Artist Fellowship which supports artists or scholars engaged in the research, development, and/or execution of a new creative or scholarly work based on the Collection’s holdings.
Project by:
Laura Glazer
Participants:
Aferdita Bardhi, Yolande Heijnen, Chantal Lee, Seunjin Lee, Sally Lesser, Gregory Newson, Anthony Troncale, Jay Vissers
Essays by:
Jessica Cline and Jean Karotkin
Copy editor:
Marty Brown
Advisor:
Harrell Fletcher
Photographer:
Laura Glazer
Graphic Designer:
Laura Glazer
Publisher:
Independently published
Very special thanks to:
Harrell Fletcher, Lisa Jarrett, John Cox, Rita Glazer, Aferdita Bardhi, Yolande Heijnen, Chantal Lee, Seunjin Lee, Sally Lesser, Gregory Newson, Anthony Troncale, Jay Vissers, Miriam Latzer, Laura Flynn, Theodora Vamvounakis, Yolanda Hawkins, William Niederkorn, Kate Bingaman Burt, Evan Roberts, Jennifer Jones, Polly Hatfield, Martine Arenella, Elaine Wolff, Marlene Cohen, Annie Muir, Kelly Braich, Diana Marcela Cuartas, Becca Kauffman, Marissa Perez, Jordan Rosenblum, Adrian Ruth Williams, Michelle Illuminato, the New York Public Library, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, and the Art and Social Practice MFA Program at Portland State University
Location:
New York, NY
Years:
2022—2023