Winner of the Paris Photo PhotoBook of the Year Award, 2023 American critic and
curator Vince Aletti has been collecting photographs printed on the pages of
magazines and books since the 1970s. For the very first time the hundreds of
tearsheets, newspaper clippings, gallery announcements, and other ephemera
stacked in a drawer of an antique flat file in his East Village apartment have
been documented in the new book The Drawer. The seventy-five multi-layered
compositions created by Aletti are a celebration of the beauty of photography
and the printed page, as well as testimony of the author's unique ability to
voice the complexity and variety of desire, personal and collective histories,
and the power of art to reflect and shape who we are.
