Beautiful, Still. Rare Books air and time

air and time

Petrarch took great delight in the twin meaning of cultivation: cultivation of selfhood and of the land

this time with the collective amnesia of Beirut and its inhabitants…

Marcel Broodthaers

control and surveillance

Beautiful, Still. Rare Books air and timeBeautiful, Still. is the first monograph from photographer Colby Deal, documenting the people, objects, and environments of everyday life in the Third Ward neighbourhood in Houston, Texas, where the artist grew up. In this ongoing project, currently consisting of over a thousand negatives, Deal sets out to provide a visual record of overlooked communities and the cultural characteristics gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as a depiction