43–35 10TH STREET by Daniel Shea (Signed)
A photobook examining urban transformation, modernist ambition and the circulation of capital through a sharply material gaze.
43–35 10TH STREET is a photobook by American photographer Daniel Shea, taking the transformation of his own neighbourhood in Long Island City, New York, as its point of departure. Once an industrial district, Long Island City has undergone a pace of real estate development bordering on the rapacious — a condition mirrored in cities across the world, where accelerated redevelopment continues to serve as one of late capitalism’s limited answers to the perceived problem of housing shortage. In response, Shea juxtaposes views of Long Island City with government architecture in Brasília, the emblematic planned city of modernism, and with the barren terrain of Searles Valley in the American West.
By setting buildings from different places and times against one another, and at moments layering them into a single visual field, Shea brings into focus a structure in which collapse, redevelopment, value and entropy circulate together. His attention to surfaces, forms and design reveals not only the beauty embedded in concrete, but also the ambitions of modernism and their failures. Working within environments shaped by the labour that produces the city, Shea overlays his own mobility with the flows of capital that permeate a globalised world, ultimately turning his inquiry back onto the position of the photographer.
Recipient of the 2018 Foam Paul Huf Award and winner of The Most Beautiful Swiss Books in 2018 and 2022.
Signed by the artist.
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Title: 43–35 10TH STREET
Artist: Daniel Shea
Publisher: Kodoji Press, 2018
Format: Softcover, Swiss binding
Size: 240 × 270 mm
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: First edition, signed by the artist
ISBN: 978-3-03747-086-2
Condition: Mint