Touching Strangers (Signed First Edition)

RENALDI, Richard and Teju Cole

ISBN 10: 1597112496 / ISBN 13: 9781597112499

Published by Aperture, New York, 2017

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 119 pages. Features an introduction by Teju Cole. A collection of 71 four-color illustrations. A near fine with a slight tap to the bottom of the spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Renaldi on the title page. Seller Inventory # 193145

Synopsis:

Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones. Renaldi creates spontaneous and fleeting relationships between strangers for the camera, often pushing his subjects beyond their comfort levels. These relationships may only last for the moment the shutter is released, but the resulting photographs are moving and provocative, and raise profound questions about the possibilities for positive human connection in a diverse society.

About the Author: Richard Renaldi graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. Renaldi is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York, and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin. Other books by Renaldi include Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016), Fall River Boys (2009), and Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006). In 2015, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Touching Strangers (Signed First Edition)
Publisher: Aperture, New York
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition