Lost Venice

published by Damiani, spring, 2020

About the book:

In Lost Venice (Damiani, April 2020) photographer Sarah Hadley presents an alluring and haunting portrayal of this majestic city as distilled through her personal lens of loss and nostalgia. By contemplating the temporal beauty of Venice, Hadley examines our own impermanence and the uncertain future of this unique city.  

Hadley's love of Venice was nurtured by her childhood spent living in an apartment above the Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, where her father served as the Museum's Director. Designed to look like a Venetian palazzo, the building reflected her father's passion for Italian Renaissance art and architecture, which Hadley would later embrace. Her father introduced her to Venice, and they made many trips there from her childhood through early young adult years. Tragically, these trips ended abruptly following her father's sudden premature death from a heart attack when she was in her mid-twenties. 

Hadley studied Art History and Italian at Georgetown University and Photography at the Corcoran College of Art and has been a photographer for over 25 years. Her award winning work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and institutions in the US, as well as in international fairs and festivals in Europe and Asia. 

 In Lost Venice, Hadley's photographs guide us on a journey through foggy days and veiled nights through the mysterious hidden corners of the city and outlying islands, all the while examining her deep connection with this opulent and mythic place.

In her foreword, Karen E. Hass, Lane Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, writes about Hadley's emotional journey that culminated in the publication of Lost Venice:

" ... Sarah searched for and ultimately found, solace and inspiration. Walking its narrow passageway and out-of-the-way neighborhoods, she was drawn to record such things as the shadowy silhouettes of figures disappearing into the mist, cloudy skies and birds reeling above tall dark buildings, and softly lit interiors creating reflections on water at night. All of these details the artist transformed into evocative sepia-toned images that seem to glow from within as though permanently captured in amber."

Lost Venice includes an illuminating conversation between Sarah Hadley and Susan Burnstine, an award-winning fine art photographer, accomplished educator, and the author of two monographs as well as a monthly column for Black and White Photography Magazine (UK).

Lost Venice Awards:
2nd place, Fine Art books, International Photography Awards
Silver, Tokyo International Photo Awards 2020
What Will You Remember? Favorite Photo Books of 2020 List
The PhotoBook Journal - List of Interesting Artist and Photographic Books 2020
Elizabeth Avedon’s - Best Books of 2019, December, 2019

Collections:
Bibliotheque Nationale de France
The Getty Research Institute library
The Huntington Library
The US Library of Congress
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Griffin Museum Library
Baltimore Museum of Art
Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
Columbia University Library

Signings/Speaking Engagements:
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Feb 17, 2022 PST
Perspective Gallery, Evanston, December 5th, 2021 4pm CT
Florida Museum of Photography, November 29, 2020
Los Angeles Public Library, Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 3pm PST
Filter Photo Festival in Chicago, Sunday, September 13, 2020 4 - 5 pm PST
B&H photo, NY in August 10th, 2020 at 7pm ET/4pm PST
Fabrik Projects, December 22, 2019, 1-4pm

Book Details:

Damiani Editore
Hardbound 
ISBN 978-88-6208-706-3 
18.3 x 23.3 cm / 7/15 x 9/16 inches
56 pages, 25 color and b&w
April 2020 $35 | €29 | £30 
Foreward by Karen E. Hass, Lane Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts
Interview with Susan Burnstine

Media Contact:

Andrea Smith / Andrea Smith Public Relations
Cell: + 1 646-220-5950
Email: andreasmith202@gmail.com

For press copies, please contact Andrea Smith

Book Reviews, Press and Interviews:

Black and White Magazine (US), December, 2021
Professional Photographer Magazine, September, 2021
Shadow & Light Magazine, May/June 2021
Black and White Magazine UK, September, 2020
Shades of Grey Magazine, July 2020
L’Oeil de la Photographie, April, 2020
Bird in Flight Magazine, April 2020
F-Stop Magazine, February, 2020
The Candid Frame podcast (interview), January, 2020
The PhotoBook Journal, January, 2020
Catalyst Interviews, October, 2019
Lenscratch, October, 2019
Under the Dark Cloth, November 2019
Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Issue 13, September 2019