Henry Wessel/Austin Leong/Adrian Martinez - Soft Eyes will mcbride

Henry Wessel/Austin Leong/Adrian Martinez - Soft Eyes will mcbrideDeadbeat Club 2025 "Soft eyes", the late Henry Wessel once wrote in describing the way he went about looking for photographs, is a physical sensation. You are not looking for something. You are open, receptive. At some point you are in front of something that you cannot ignore. In this smart and tender act of homage, Wessels photographs (many of them previously unpublished) are combined with the work of two younger California photographers, Austin

24 x 31 cm

and textile makers Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus

100 images

as if these figures could really be generated from paper

and the focus of this book

It is completed by a series of images by photographer and theorist Joan Fontcuberta in response to Ghirri’s and Rambaldi’s encounters with the park

marginal landscape

“In that pre-digital and less paranoid era

with a pair of cameras and seven rolls of 35mm film

I think it’s very important for anyone with a physical body to exercise

Renate Zeun

a subtle allegory of our lethargy