Quarter plate daguerreotype.

Jerry Spagnoli lives and works in New York City.

He is currently working on a series of historical documentation projects. The preoccupation of these projects is how the personal experience of history and the "objective" document of it are enmeshed. Within this series is a continuing exploration of the daguerreotype and the collotype and their potential as contemporary photographic mediums.

His most recent book Regard was published by Steidl. His other monographs include American Dreaming and Daguerreotypes published by Steidl, and Heirloom Harvest Published in 2015 by Bloomsbury.

His collaborations with Chuck Close have resulted in two monographs, A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, published by Aperture, and Daguerreotypes published by Gabrius. A collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld has produced a monograph and show entitled The Glory of Water.

His work has appeared in many books and publications, among them are Watching the World Change, by David Friend, Photography's Antiquarian Avant Garde, by Lyle Rexer, 21st: A Journal of Contemporary Photography Volume VI: Flesh and Spirit, Vanity Fair, DoubleTake Magazine, Adbusters, Metropolis and Graphis.

His work is held in the collections of

• The Whitney Museum of American Art
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• The National Portrait Gallery
• The Nelson Atkins Museum
• Musee d'Elysee
• Musee Carnevalet
• The Fogg Museum
• The Museum of Modern Art
• The Chrystler Museum
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The High Museum
• The New York Historical Society
• ...and other major collections

NO RESERVE

This lot is a GENEROUS DONATION from Jerry Spagnoli. 100% of the proceeds from its sale benefit The Daguerreian Society.