Landing Lights Park (ROMAN NVMERALS, 2018) was recently written about in It’s Nice That, C 41 Magazine and Esquire (Russia).
TIME's 25 Best Photobooks of 2018
TIME Magazine’s Photo Department selected Landing Lights Park as one of TIME’s 25 Best Photobooks of 2018.
TIME writes: “Works like Landing Lights Park (ROMAN NVMERALS) by David Rothenberg were more illusive; its untethered sense of reality makes what may otherwise seem mundane — the area around LaGuardia Airport in Queens, N.Y. — into an incredible exercise in mindful seeing.”
Photo by Danny Kim for TIME
Photo-Eye Favorite Photobooks of 2018
Writer, curator and artist David Campany selected Landing Lights Park as his favorite photography book from 2018 for Photo-Eye’s Favorite Photobooks of 2018.
Campany writes:
“Photographs shot from the ground of passengers looking out from the windows of planes in the air. But a book isn’t its description. These are remarkable and surprisingly moving photographs by David Rothenberg, full of alienation, pathos and good humor.”
Hyperallergic Article
The book Landing Lights Park was reviewed in an article for Hyperallergic.
Allison Meier writes in the article:
“In Landing Lights Park, those bombastic architectural touches — such as stone lions and colorful ornate fences — are interrupted by the planes. Yet despite the incredible noise, and blasts of air, these planes bring to the neighborhood, Rothenberg’s photographs have a surprising stillness. Whether in the soaring aircrafts, or the expressions of the people onboard, his compositions find quiet moments in this daily contrast between cacophonous flight and the lives below.”
'Landing Lights Park' available soon at NYABF
My new book Landing Lights Park is now available for preorder on the ROMAN NVMERALS website. You can order online or pickup a copy in person at Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 September 21-23, 2018.
from romannvmerals.com:
Rothenberg focuses on the neighborhood that lies beneath the whining roar and shadows of inbound jetliners landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in Queens. Rothenberg’s photographs explore this extraordinary intrusion within a landscape of the ordinary.
‘Landing Lights Park’ offers a sequence of disorienting photographic collisions. Neighborhood details and intruding airplanes are interspersed with portraits of passengers in midair as they gaze out their windows moments before landing, taken from the ground with a telephoto lens. Includes short essays by Gideon Jacobs.
Gideon Jacobs is a writer who has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Bomb Magazine, among others. Previously, he was creative director at the photo cooperative Magnum Photos. For more: gideon.works