DAY SLEEPER

In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Langes extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Langes ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from...[Read more]