{"title":"Paul D'Amato Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"damato-book-we-shall","title":"D'Amato, We Shall","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"505\" data-start=\"209\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Shall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—a companion volume to the DePaul Art Museum exhibition of D’Amato’s photographs—D’Amato broadens his scope to include communities on Chicago’s west side. Through emotionally charged portraits and richly layered interior views, the fifty-four color photographs of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Shall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e share with us D’Amato’s genuine and complex perspective on life in some of the most challenging and troubled neighborhoods in the nation. D’Amato’s technique is unique. He works with his subjects to forge a collaborative approach, and the resulting portraits and urban landscapes offer a contemporary take on the complexities of documentary photography and representation, all the more real and evocative for the intimacy between the photographer and the photographed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"505\" data-start=\"209\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes inspiring, sometimes troubling, but always beautiful, the photographs of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Shall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shine light on some of Chicago’s most overlooked communities and are sure to captivate followers of Chicago-based art and urban photography alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSource: \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/W\/bo18019979.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003epress.uchicago.edu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":46677269840102,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/damato_weshall.jpg?v=1760119851"},{"product_id":"damato-book-here-still-now","title":"D'Amato, here \/ still \/ now","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing particularly unique about the west side of Chicago. It’s not the poorest, the oldest, the largest, or the most African-American of African-American communities in the U.S. It is just like every other swath of poverty in and around every single city in the U.S. We are led to believe that the only time these communities are in crisis is when something occurs that lands on a front page. The real crisis, however, is on-going and it’s one of acceptance – acceptance of the conditions, day in day out. Yet, when Paul D’Amato is there, visiting someone he knows, or simply stopping someone he has never met, something besides a concern for poverty takes shape. This is what he photographs. When these subjects agree to be photographed, they stand for the best and only example of who they are. The photographs won’t change these neighborhoods. But they remind us that the individuals in the images aren’t »they« or »them«, they are »he« and »she« and are as important as any one of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul D’Amato teaches photography at Columbia College Chicago. His work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. He is represented by Stephen Daiter Gallery\/Daiter Contemporary, Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kehrerverlag.com\/en\/paul-d-amato-herestillnow-978-3-86828-782-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ekehrerverlag.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":46685738959078,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/damato_herestillnow.jpg?v=1760121262"},{"product_id":"damato-book-rave","title":"D'Amato, Rave","description":"","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":46902695264486,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/D_amato_Rave.jpg?v=1764105794"},{"product_id":"damato-book-barrio","title":"D'Amato, Barrio","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1988 photographer Paul D’Amato was driving around Chicago with his camera when he decided to follow Halsted Street into Pilsen, the city’s largest Mexican neighborhood. Intrigued by the barrio and neighboring Little Village, he began to take photographs and would continue to do so off and on for the next fourteen years. D’Amato started with the public life of the neighborhood: women and children in the streets, open fire hydrants, and graffiti. But later—after he got to know the area’s Mexican residents better—he was allowed to take more intimate photos of people at work, families at weddings and parties, and even gang members.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarrio collects ninety of these striking color images along with D’Amato’s fascinating account of his time photographing Mexican Chicago and his acceptance—often grudging, after threatened violence—into the heart of the city’s Mexican community. Some of the photos here are beautifully composed and startling—visual narratives that are surreal and dreamlike, haunting and mythic. Others, like those D’Amato took while shadowing graffiti artists in the subway, are far more immediate and improvisational. With a foreword by author Stuart Dybek that places D’Amato’s work in the context of the Pilsen and Little Village that Dybek has elsewhere captured so memorably, this book offers a penetrating, evocative, and overall streetwise portrait of two iconic and enduring Hispanic neighborhoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pauldamato.com\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaul D'Amato\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":48272223207654,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/D_Amato_Barrio_1.jpg?v=1788366952"}],"url":"https:\/\/stephendaiter.com\/collections\/damato-books.oembed","provider":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}