Peter Kayafas
Peter Kayafas is a photographer, publisher, curator and teacher who lives in New York City where he is the Director of the Eakins Press Foundation. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2019), and his photographs have been widely exhibited, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He has taught photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn since 2000, and is the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo. He has published five monographs of his photographs—The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (2007); O Public Road! Photographs of America (2009); Totems (2012); The Way West (2020) with an essay by Rick Bass; and Coney Island Waterdance (2021). Kayafas has had three solo shows with Sasha Wolf Gallery.
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The Way West
Test by Rick Bass
Published by Purple Martin Press
Hardcover, 104 pages, English, 2020
ISBN: 978-0979776830
$50.00
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Totems
Text by Jed Perl
Published by Purple Martin Press
Hardcover, 104 pages, English, 2012
ISBN 978-0979776823
$55
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O Public Road!
Text by Allan Gurganus
Published by Purple Martin Press
Hardcover, 160 pages, English, 2009
ISBN 978-0979776816
$55