Ken Schles: A New History of Photography (signed)

Ken Schles examines the photographic work he’s made over the last 25 years and recognizes within it a slew of antecedents and influences.

…from the preface:

When first asked by Markus Schaden to create a project based on a printed photographic publication that had influenced my artistic development, many possibilities came to mind. His question reminded me that there was, and is, a long line of progenitors I could easily pay homage to. When it came time to scrutinized my work more closely, I realized influences ran much deeper than I previously imagined or wanted to believe. There wasn’t a “hand of influence” touching my work a little bit here and a little bit there. No, I saw many lines of influence criss crossing throughout my work. This became quite evident.