Ken Schles: The Geometry of Innocence

Twelve years after the legendary success of his first book of photographs, Invisible City, Ken Schles returns with his long-awaited sophomore effort, The Geometry of Innocence. Schles's focus is on the relentless shifting of social structures and spaces that mark the urban landscape of today. His images form a kind of visual roller coaster, sending the viewer onto city streets and playgrounds, into pubs and bars, putting the viewer inside a police helicopter and taking them to death row, hospital rooms, and police interventions. While there is no "story" per se, this breathless sequence of pictures is condensed into thematic clusters, providing a spellbinding and almost physically palpable experience. The works in The Geometry of Innocence address and play upon the immediacy and relativity of meaning in the photographic image, creating a bold and highly nuanced artistic statement.

Award-winning photographer, writer, and film director Ken Schles lives and works in New York. His work has appeared in most major national and international magazines, and on numerous CD jackets. His work is represented in the collections of such museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.