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James Carroll's photographs, taken on the streets of the United States over the course of more than forty years, form a unique compilation of historical Americana. Driven by a need to preserve memories of his own and others' experiences, and by what curator and author Sean Corcoran describes as 'his longing to see, to know and to understand', Carroll explores the transience of human life and relationships. A quiet and keen observer, Carroll knows how to distil, through his lens, the profound in ordinary moments. His photographs speak of loneliness and friendship, sadness and joy, as well as childhood and adulthood in all their complexity. The images lead us from a documentary approach to a more subjective sphere in which the author imagines new scenarios in chance encounters, while at the same time commenting on the American setting. A political dimension also unfolds through some of his images, telling of economic and racial disparities in both metropolitan and suburban areas. Most of the photographs in The Lives of Others were taken with the Leica M3. The majority of the images are published here for the first time.

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Régina Monfort is an independent photography and visual book editor experienced with long-form narratives. She has recently relocated from New York City to her native Brittany, France.During the 35 years spent in the United States, she worked in various capacities for cultural institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University and legendary photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. From 1997 to 2002, she was the U.S. based assistant to documentary film director Jean-Pierre Krief on the series Contacts co-produced by Arte and Le Centre National de la Photographie in Paris. She has taught photography at CUNY La Guardia Community College and Pratt Institute and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2015 to 2018, she served as co-curator of the Eyes on Main Street Outdoor Photo Festival. In 2011, she began to work as a visual book editor and had the opportunity to edit and sequence a number of monographs by award-winning photographers including Marcus Bleasdale, Tanya Habjouqa, Fausto Podavini, Stephen Shames, Danielle Villasana and Daniella Zalcman. Her own photographic work focusing on issues pertaining to youth, cultural identity and social stigmas has been exhibited widely and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and the Yale Art Gallery among others. Régina Monfort is a member of the American Photography Archives Group and on the Advisory Board of the FotoEvidence Association.

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