Ground RulesGround Rules is the first comprehensive, fully bilingual survey charting the career of the prolific photographer Alejandro Cartagena. Celebrated for his photobooks Carpoolers (2014) and A Small Guide to Homeownership (2020), Cartagena is known for his formally engaging and socially incisive images that span the politics of the US Mexico border, suburban sprawl, and the increasing wealth disparities in North America. Ground Rules deploys a diverse

with its many stages of tenderness

Social and political upheaval

appearing at times suspicious

signifying the bewilderment it causes – a modern expression of the incomprehension and discomfort of the “voyeur” who looks at these images

sartorial politics

It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange

teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass

by dividing the film in two

with select scenes running full-bleed across double-page spreads

this volume of about 1200 pictures presents a wide history of the cultural and artistic impact of the Leica

But the gradual steps by which he transformed from an unknown into a leading artist are less well known

At Twelve is Sally Mann’s illuminating