Jeffrey Ladd

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Jeffrey Ladd (born 1968) [1] is an American photographer and writer on photography. He is a co-founder of Errata Editions.

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Life and work

Ladd gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, in 1991. [2]

He is a co-founder of the publisher Errata Editions and its Books on Books series is his concept, publishing affordable facsimile editions of rare and out of print photo books. From 2007 to 2012 he wrote the 5B4 Photography and Books blog, discussing and reviewing photography and art-related books. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. [2] [3] [4]

Ladd's street photography was included in 10 – 10 Years of In-Public, published by Nick Turpin in 2010. His book The Awful German Language (2020) contains "lists of interesting German vocabulary words which he juxtaposes next to his black and white photographs". [5] His book, A Field Measure Survey of America Architecture (2021), according to Kyra Ho writing in the Financial Times, contains photographs of houses from the Historic American Buildings Survey's archive of buildings of the 19th- and 20th-century United States, following the Mason–Dixon line, "to create a documentary-style architectural portrait". [6]

Since 2011 he has lived in Cologne, Germany. [5] [6]

Publications

Books by Ladd

Books with contributions by Ladd

Collections

Ladd's work is held in the following permanent collection:

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References

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  2. 1 2 "CV". Jeffrey Ladd. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  3. Jobey, Liz (2009-03-16). "Errata Editions: reviving out-of-print photography books". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  4. Turpin, Nick (2010). 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin. ISBN   978-0-9563322-1-9.
  5. 1 2 "Art Initiatives Cologne | THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE".
  6. 1 2 Barbakadze, Nini; Simons, Baya; Semic, Sara; Ho, Kyra (2021-12-22). "Six of the best new art and photography books". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  7. Aletti, Vince (2021-11-18). "An Architectural Survey in Search of America". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2024-05-03.