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Jess T. Dugan & Charlotte Cotton: Love Pictures (PRE-ORDER)

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My work explores the complexities of personhood, relationships, desire, love, and family.... It is informed by my identity as a queer, nonbinary person and is motivated by an existential need to understand myself and connect with others. Central themes are living authentically and the immense power of seeing—and being seen by—others.

— Jess T. Dugan

Love Pictures, a collaboration between photographer Jess T. Dugan and writer Charlotte Cotton, is centered around a series of conversations between the two focusing on core themes that inform Dugan’s practice, including gender and identity, family and politics, writing and language, the book as object, and the dynamics of the exhibition space.

These initial dialogues then prompted subsequent conversations with others in Dugan’s and Cotton’s respective communities: friends, colleagues, mentors, and subjects of Dugan’s work—including Dawoud Bey, Kelli Connell, and Dorothy Moss, among others. Transcriptions of these intimate and in-depth exchanges are woven with the first comprehensive survey of Dugan’s work in book form.

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My work explores the complexities of personhood, relationships, desire, love, and family.... It is informed by my identity as a queer, nonbinary person and is motivated by an existential need to understand myself and connect with others. Central themes are living authentically and the immense power of seeing—and being seen by—others.

— Jess T. Dugan

Love Pictures, a collaboration between photographer Jess T. Dugan and writer Charlotte Cotton, is centered around a series of conversations between the two focusing on core themes that inform Dugan’s practice, including gender and identity, family and politics, writing and language, the book as object, and the dynamics of the exhibition space.

These initial dialogues then prompted subsequent conversations with others in Dugan’s and Cotton’s respective communities: friends, colleagues, mentors, and subjects of Dugan’s work—including Dawoud Bey, Kelli Connell, and Dorothy Moss, among others. Transcriptions of these intimate and in-depth exchanges are woven with the first comprehensive survey of Dugan’s work in book form.

  • Photography by Jess T. Dugan
    Text by Charlotte Cotton and Jess T. Dugan
    Conversations with Dawoud Bey, Kelli Connell, Dorothy Moss, and others

    Hardcover
    9 x 11.25 inches
    170 pages / 86 images

    Trade ISBN: 9798890181299
    Signed ISBN:

  • Jess T. Dugan (b. 1986, they/them, lives in St. Louis) is an artist whose work explores identity and the complexities of the human condition. While their practice is centered around photography, it also includes writing, video, audio, drawing, and installation. Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over sixty museums. 

    Charlotte Cotton (b. 1970, lives in London) is a curator and writer who explores photographic culture. She has held positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Photographers’ Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Katonah Museum of Art, International Center of Photography, and California Museum of Photography. Her book, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, has been published in ten languages and has been a key text in charting the rise of photography as an undisputed art form in this century.