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Lucy Sante

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Lucy Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium, and is the author of seven books, her first being Low Life (FSG, 1991). Sante’s other books include EvidenceThe Factory of FactsKill All Your DarlingsThe Other ParisFolk Photography, and, most recently, Maybe the People Would Be the Times. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography. Sante has contributed to the New York Review of Books since 1981 and to many other publications. She teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College and lives in Ulster County, New York.

Tim Davis studied photography at Bard College, graduating in 1991. He pursued a career as a poet and editor in New York before returning to photography, receiving an MFA from Yale University in 2001. He has since had solo shows in Brussels, Geneva, Whitecube in London, Milan, and New York, including a recent exhibition at the Bohen Foundation. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, Brooklyn, and Metropolitan Museums in New York; the Milwaukee Museum of Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Baltimore Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and numerous others. His fourth book of photographs and essays, I’m Looking Through You, was published by Aperture in May 2021. He teaches photography at Bard College.
 

Lucy Sante Books

Thrilled to Death book cover

Thrilled to Death

Lynne Tillman
I Heard Her Call My Name book cover

I Heard Her Call My Name

Lucy Sante
The Right to Be Lazy book cover

The Right to Be Lazy

Paul Lafargue
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City book cover

Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

Lucy Sante
Against Nature book cover

Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans
Maybe the People Would Be the Times book cover

Maybe the People Would Be the Times

Lucy Sante
Nada book cover

Nada

Jean-Patrick Manchette
Paris Vagabond book cover

Paris Vagabond

Jean-Paul Clebert
Low Life book cover

Low Life

Lucy Sante
Evidence book cover

Evidence

Lucy Sante
The Other Paris book cover

The Other Paris

Lucy Sante
The Factory of Facts book cover

The Factory of Facts

Lucy Sante
Novels in Three Lines book cover

Novels in Three Lines

Félix Fénéon
Kill All Your Darlings book cover

Kill All Your Darlings

Lucy Sante
How the Other Half Lives book cover

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis
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