Cancelled: Alessandra Sanguinetti And Jim Goldberg Book Signing

Please note this event has been cancelled

Join The Polygon Gallery for a book signing with acclaimed photographers Alessandra Sanguinetti and Jim Goldberg. Copies of Sanguinetti’s newly re-released edition of On the Sixth Day and Goldberg’s latest book Coming and Going (both from MACK Books) will be available for purchase and signing.

About the Artists
Alessandra Sanguinetti is an Argentine/American photographer, based in California. Her monographs include On the Sixth Day, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic meaning of their Dreams, The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer, Le Gendarme Sur la Colline; Sorry, Welcome, and Some Say Ice. She’s a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation Grant, Sundance development grant, Robert Gardner Peabody Fellowship, and a Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award. Her photographs are in various public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is a member of Magnum Photos since 2007.
@alessandra_sanguinetti

Jim Goldberg’s innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times. His long-term projects include Rich and Poor (1977-85), Raised by Wolves (1985-95), and Open See (2003-2011), for which he was awarded the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011. Goldberg’s works are in numerous collections including the: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty, LACMA, National Gallery of Art, Alinari National Museum of Photography in Florence, Le Musee de la Photographie, Belgium, and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany. Goldberg is represented by Casemore Kirkeby Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos.
@goldbergjim

Image: Alessandra Sanguinetti, from the series and book The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams (Nazraeli Press, 2010).

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