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]
Themes
- urban life
- intellectual milestones
- documentary
Books
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Promised Land / Land Van Belofte (kwijt)photographer
Works by Ken Schles
- Promised Land / Land Van Belofte 2004 · Aurora Borealis · book · Dutch, English ISBN 9076703221 Co-authored with other photographers documenting the city of Groningen.
- Invisible City 1988 · Twelvetrees Press · book Seminal work documenting the Lower East Side.
- The Geometry of Innocence 2001 · Hatje Cantz · book
- A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures In Our Heads 2007 · White Press · book
- Oculus 2011 · Noorderlicht · book
- Night Walk 2014 · Steidl Verlag · book Narrative of lost youth.