Dead Ringer, Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber, 2024

Softcover with exposed binding and dust jacket
Essay by Clément Chéroux
120 pages, 95 color plates

Working together for the past seven years, Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber have collected the pairs of vernacular photographs found in Dead Ringer in thrift stores, antique markets and on eBay. Either sold as pairs or found separately from different sources, the fruits of the artists’ search highlights the slight variations of the photographic prints and the individual history each has taken. The images’ origins might have begun identically but almost immediately the trajectory of their printed lives veered into distinctly separate directions. Who carried one of these sacred prints in their wallet or kept one framed beside their bed? All to be heaped into a pile of countless other photographs at an estate sale after their passing. Who are these lovers and companions? What are these cherished places? What occasions (momentous or banal) necessitated this documentation? Dead Ringer presents a closer look at the individual journeys of these prints and inspires profound questions about the very object-ness of photography’s earlier life. An essay by historian and curator Clément Chéroux further reveals the mystery of these twin images.

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New

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9" x 12"

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