Bill Dane Pictures
…it's not pretty
ISBN: 978-0-578-66395-1
Pages: 328
Cover: Hardcover
Size: 245mm x 245mm
Edition of 500 copies
Printed by KOPA
Containing 222 photographs mixed with 100 texts, this self-published, no-frills monograph shows us the world as seen and experienced through Bill Dane's being.
Availability:
At this point the book can only be purchased directly from Bill Dane and me—or via the second-hand market.
Bill will take care of potential customers inside of USA.
billdane1938@gmail.com / www.billdane.com
For any other country, please get in touch and we will discuss shipping options and pricing.
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For several years now, I’ve been jonesing for someone to put together a proper catalog of Bill Dane’s strange and wonderful photographs. That someone turned out to be the man himself (with the help of Dan Skjæveland), which is a real treat because this book is just as wild and unruly and generous as the pictures it contains.
-Tim Carpenter
Bill Dane’s pictures stump me, casting a spell that is enigmatic, bizarre and mysterious. His penetrating vision has powerfully pushed the snapshot aesthetic into new places revealing an America we would have not seen otherwise and begin to understand..
Thank you Bill.
-Jeff Mermelstein
I read, re-read, and re-re-read every word and tried to absorb the pictures…it felt like experiences, words, memories and dreams pulled through my mind-eye with no way to stop it
- just organic pulsing resonances with my own experiences….and then on again….
-Gus Kayafas
Five decades in the making, we are finally delivered a worthy book of words and images by the great American iconoclast, Bill Dane. On this wintry day, I raise a warm glass to our playful destroyer of conditioned seeing. There is kindness in his rage.
-Mark Steinmetz
Dane’s work reminds us of something very basic about this medium. At this point, nearly 200 years after photography’s invention, some might assume that it is “safe,” fully understood, with no remaining surprises. With its almost feral energy and intensity, Dane’s work proves otherwise.
-Keith F. Davis
Bill Dane proves in unsuspecting times that he understood that we would end up replacing reality with its projection. He had caught the "spectaculative" drift of the world in art, in communication, in politics, and thus in image-making.
-Steve Bisson
[This is] a remarkable piece of work, and could only have been self-produced because no trade book publisher would have touched it in its present form. That’s okay, and more than okay. It’s been done the way [Bill] wanted it to be.
-Tom Garver
The double blackmail of psychological torment and industrialized consumerism, of prejudice and democracy, is the motif of Bill Dane’s adventures in funk photography, mail art and social media. This existential no exit participates in an American variant of social realism, from Edith Wharton to Lee Friedlander, and in the poetic bathos of everyday life, from William Faulkner and Robert Rauschenberg to Alice Walker and Boots Riley.
-Marc James Léger
By simply glancing at the pictures and scanning the accompanying texts, you can generally ‘get’ the subject matter of most photo books, even if you return to them at a later date and discover unexpected hidden depths. Not so with the recent publication of Bill Dane’s work. For this is no ordinary photo book.
-Karin Bareman
This book offers great insight into the maturation of America throughout a very difficult time period. Miles Davis, who appears in here, blew his shivers through the universe. Bill Dane does too.
-William B. Keckler
Its multifaceted form conveys a strong sense of Bill Dane as artist and wonderfully eccentric personality. Dense with information, chaotic, peculiar, and beautiful, the book hews closely to its subject.
-Blake Andrews
Bill Dane will be noticed by the powers that be in the gallery/museum world by many curators and they will wonder how he slipped from their view.
-Jack Fischer
Finally, this wonderful new book shows that Bill prompted the great John Szarkowski to write some of his very best sentences.
-Mark Haworth-Booth