self-portrait by the house wall by Anastasia Davis 68 pages 6 x 8.75 in. / open-sewn binding 34 b&w and color illustrations Silk screened cover Spaces Corners, 2018 published with the support of Silver Eye Center for Photography Self-portrait by the house wall is an expressionistic portrait of a state of being that exists somewhere on the fringes of consciousness. In her debut book, Anastasia Davis depicts the sometimes-alien qualities of a claustrophobic internal existence and its blurred boundary with the outside world. A theater of muted domestic details are contrasted with anonymous exterior surroundings. A disembodied staircase or the undulating light pattern against a bedroom door are experienced with the same fragmented scrutiny as an outcrop of exposed rocks in the forest, the sharp pitch of a rooftop or the shifting texture of ocean waves. Within this dreamy body of ongoing work, Davis evokes a sensorial experience that taps into memory, displacement and the mysteries of our perception. Anastasia Davis was born in 1987 in the Ukraine and grew up in Israel and the United States. She studied psychology at Northwestern University in Chicago and photography at The International Center of Photography in New York. She lives and works in Pittsburgh and is the winner of the Silver Eye Center for Photography 2018 Publication Prize. http://spacescorners.com/shop/self-portrait-by-the-house-wall-by-anastasia-davis

208 pages Embossed softcover / 5.25 x 6.5 in B&W and color throughout offset printed in Pittsburgh Spaces Corners, 2015 Launched in April 2014, A People’s History of Pittsburgh invited the local community to share their personal photographs and stories online and at scanning events throughout the city. A wide range of photographic processes were submitted from large format black-and-white portraits dating as far back as the 1880’s to color polaroids of the 1970’s to camera phone photographs in the 2010’s. From 2014 to 2015, the project grew into a digital archive of over 1,500 images, illustrating the ways in which the conventions of snapshot photography are used to document ordinary, everyday lives while more broadly, attempting to unearth a city’s cultural history through the photographs of it’s inhabitants. In the accompanying print publication, A People’s History of Pittsburgh: Volume One, editors Melissa Catanese and Ed Panar selected over two hundred images from the collective album, reinterpreting the collection into a seamless flow of images that cycle through common and often sentimental themes of domestic life - summer picnics, family suppers, sports outings, first kisses, and dance recitals. Generations of families and friends pose casually with their children, infants, and automobiles while steelworkers, miners, and business owners formally and proudly stand in front of their respective trades. Children read comics and ride bicycles while teenagers take to the streets or cruise along the rivers on a hot summer afternoon. The photographs, stripped of their original captions, take on new meaning. The book invites the reader to enter into these shared stories without knowledge of the who, what, when, and where -- to reimagine their own histories, and to consider that any history begins with what is revealed and what is hidden. http://spacescorners.com/shop/a-peoples-history-of-pittsburgh

Hells Hollow Fallen Monarch by Melissa Catanese Hells Hollow Fallen Monarch by Melissa Catanese with snapshots from the collection of Peter J. Cohen 82 pages Perfect bound / foil stamped cover 19 color and 50 Black & white reproductions 5.25 x 7.5 in Offset printed in Pittsburgh, PA Spaces Corners, 2015 Hells Hollow Fallen Monarch is a classic tale of American deer hunters compiled of snapshot photographs spanning the early 20th century to the late 1970s and set in the forests of Western Pennsylvania. http://spacescorners.com/shop/hells-hollow-fallen-monarch-by-melissa-catanese

Dangerous Women photographs from the collection of Peter J. Cohen edited by Melissa Catanese 74 pages Black & white Softcover / 5.75 x 7.5 in Foil stamp cover / includes 3x4.25 inch print Offset printed in Pittsburgh, PA Spaces Corners, 2013

Fate Shifts Shapes by Nicholas Muellner, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Sasha Rudensky and Clemens von Wedemeyer 48 pages / 6 foldouts 6 x8.75 in. / saddle-stitched 21 color illustrations Luminaire cloth / foil stamped cover Design by Elana Schlenker Spaces Corners, 2016 published in collaboration with Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Fate Shifts Shapes folds the viewer into a darkly obscure, emotionally charged encounter with contemporary Russian experience. This catalog-as-artist’s book adapts works by Nicholas Muellner, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Sasha Rudensky and Clemens von Wedemeyer into a fluid sequence of images and poems that obscure and reveal one another. Collectively, they dramatize the ways some vulnerable individuals – particularly women, gay men and economic migrants – must shape their identities around the inexorable social and cultural forces of a conservative society. Fate excludes rationalism in favor of destiny. Accordingly, this book rejects documentary realism to theatrically present individuals acting on and submitting to the demands of providence. Fate Shifts Shapes embraces extravagance, glamour, melancholy and tragedy to relay these quintessentially Russian dramas. Fate Shifts Shapes was inspired by the 2016 exhibition curated by Nicholas Muellner for the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, with work produced in Russia, Ukraine and Russian-occupied Crimea, as well as works that imagine or stage that universe. http://spacescorners.com/shop/fate-shifts-shapes-by-nicholas-muellner-anzhelina-polonskaya-sasha-rudensky-and-clemens-von-wedemeyer

April Flowers photographs by Ricardo Cases, Ed Panar and Mike Slack 44 pages stich-bound with waxed linen thread 36 color images / 5 x 6 in edition of 400 Spaces Corners, 2015 A colorful mix tape of photographs taken in Los Angeles by Ricardo Cases (Valencia, Spain), Ed Panar (Pittsburgh), and Mike Slack (Los Angeles) - April Flowers is the fruit of a spontaneous journey taken together on one bright day in May. spacescorners.com/shop/april-flowers

photographs by Gregory Halpern, Darin Mickey, Corine Vermuelen, Andrew Borowiec, David La Spina,Suzanna Zak, Daniel Shea, Susan Lipper, Andrew Moore, John Lehr, Nicholas Gottlund, Jacob Koestler, Ross Mantle, Zoe Strauss, Sean Stewart, and Todd Hido. edited by Melissa Catanese & Ed Panar 80 pages Soft Cover / 7x8.5 in Color and Black & white Offset printed in Pittsburgh, PA Spaces Corners, 2013 Publisher’s Description: Selections from 16 photographers who have been working in 'The Foundry' - a region that stretches from Illinois to Brooklyn, southern Ontario to northern West Virginia - presenting a contemporary portrait of North America's historic industrial heartland. http://spacescorners.com/shop/notes-from-the-foundry

Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes by Ed Panar 24 pages Saddle stitched / 5x8 in 24 b&w photographs includes 3.25x4 in archival print signed & numbered edition of 500 Spaces Corners & The Ice Plant, 2013