Ken Schles
photographer
Ken Schles is an American photographer based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. A native New Yorker, he began documenting his life in the Lower East Side in the late 1970s. He has published five monographs over 25 years, including 'Invisible City' and 'Oculus'. His work is held in major collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a NYFA Fellow and a foreign correspondent for the FOAM museum blog.[1,2,3]
- urban life
- intellectual milestones
- documentary
Works by Ken Schles
- 2004 Promised Land / Land Van Belofte Co-authored with other photographers documenting the city of Groningen.
- 1988 Invisible City Seminal work documenting the Lower East Side.
- 2001 The Geometry of Innocence
- 2007 A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures In Our Heads
- 2011 Oculus
- 2014 Night Walk Narrative of lost youth.