About US-american photographer Sam CONTIS

'Deep Springs' was the first book by Sam CONTIS. Her work is represented in the collections of LACMA, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and has recently been exhibited in solo shows at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. In 2018, her work will be on view in 'Being: New Photography'at the Museum of Modern Art. Sam CONTIS lives and works in California.

Photo books by Sam CONTIS

  • 'Deep Springs' (2017)
    'Day Sleeper' (2020, with photographs by Dorothea LANGE)



'Day Sleeper' shows Dorothea LANGE through the eyes of Sam CONTIS, addressing resonances between the two ways of seeing. An unknown side with unseen photos of her family, studio portraits and photos taken in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay.
from 35,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The images in the out-of-print photography book 'Deep Springs' by US photographer Sam CONTIS capture the strange beauty in macro and microcosmic views in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The focus is on a small, college founded in 1917.
198,00 € Weight 1 kg