Winter 2023/24 Book Release: MOURNING

On sale now.
Minor Matters
Includes an essay by Marvin Heiferman.
$100

In early 2018 Kereszi’s father died suddenly, less than a year after her grandmother passed away. Managing grief from these dual and significant losses was made more difficult amid contentious family strife. When her father’s newly-erected headstone was toppled and had to be re-mounted, Kereszi was further distraught, and asked family members nearby to rig an off-the-shelf trail camera within view of the plot. Through that device and its auto-generated photographs, she could “visit” her father’s grave daily, though she was hundreds of miles away.

Kereszi amassed thousands of images over a seven-month period in 2019 that culminated in the trail camera’s disappearance. With the forced isolation created by the pandemic a year later, her life as a human, a mother, and a photographer radically changed. Seeking order and control when the world provided little of either, she began organizing grids of the visual visits to her father’s grave. This album of her efforts to manage mourning is presented at scale to the hand-created book she lovingly compiled as a record of her grief.

Released after a successful crowd-sourcing initiative in early 2024.
12 × 18.5 inches horizontal; 112 photographs; 32 pages.
Hardcover with stab binding.

To order your copy, visit Minor Matters

Book event at Printed Matter March 21, 2024, 6-8 p.m.

Interview on zingmagazine.

Posted on 13 March 2024

Winter 2023/24 Book Release: IN, a Collaborative Family Photobook

On sale now, IN,by Benjamin Donaldson, Ottilie Leete, and Lisa Kereszi, with an essay by Robert Storr and afterword by Cindy House. Designed by Yve Ludwig.

ROMAN NVMERALS VOL. LIV
$75

The photographs in this volume were made with a variety of cameras by two parents and one child in, around, and near their home from early 2020 through the end of 2021, while living, working, teaching, and learning all under one roof, inside four walls.

Here is a book of images that are both familiar and strange. Everything is recognizable and nothing is. I know the bubble, the isolation, but this is not exactly my bubble. This book makes me feel like we were all lost at sea in our own boats, none of us in sight of each other out there on the open water, just trusting that the other ships were sailing in the same ocean somewhere.
—from the afterword by Cindy House

Available at ROMAN NVMERALS
Limited-time online special, only $65 plus S&H

Our young collaborator was chosen to be featured in Matte Editions Exciting Photography Now , and profiled in An(other) Magazine

Posted on 26 December 2023

Group Shows in Modena, Italy and in Texas

On view in Modena, Italy through February 16, 2024, the exhibition Il sesso nelle camere d’albergo (or, Sex in hotel rooms) at Metronom contains several pieces by Kereszi. From the gallery’s website: The title of the exhibition is inspired by Geoff Dyer’s book Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, Selected Essays and Reviews, a collection of essays which was published in Italian by Einaudi under the title Il sesso nelle camere d’albergo… The exhibition includes artworks by different artists: … Lisa Kereszi documents the magnetism and seductive elegance of New Burlesque performances for six years, providing a narrative of fantasy and freedom…

Metronom
via Carteria 10
Modena, Italy

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In 2021, a piece from the Governors Island series was on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art . Also included is the work of Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, Gordon Parks,Justine Kurland, Andre Kertesz, and Sharon Core. From the museum’s website Three centuries of photography shows the remarkable artfulness of photography in this exhibition. Amon Carter Museum of American Art is one of the major repositories of American photography; as well as other bodies of work. Photography is Art offers the viewer a wide and thoughtfully curated experience, not only from the originating suggestion that photography is art, but also the opportunity to meet the original curator of this presentation John Rohrbach. The exhibition can be seen online as a virtual tour here.

Posted on 26 December 2023