Blue Sky Gallery Annual 04/05.

Blue Sky Gallery, 2005.  Edited by Kirsten Rian.  Stiff illustrated wraps, like new.  Not issued in hardcover. Includes statements by the photographers. Unpaginated. Portfolios by Nina Berman; Adrain Chesser; Charles Cohen; Jim Cooke; Critical Mass; Gregory Gorfkle; German Herrera; Douglas Levere (photographs of New York City juxtaposed with Berenice Abbott’s of the same location); Allen Maertz; Annu Palakunnathu Matthew; Jeffrey Milstein; Martina Mullaney; Simon Norfolk; Magali Nougarede; Thomas Roma; Paul Seawright; Soody Sharifi; Jindrich Streit; Bob Thall; and Charles Traub.  About the book: “The inaugural Blue Sky Gallery Annual Yearbook for 2004-2005, featuring artists throughout the U.S. and Europe, tackling a wide array of subjects and concepts. From Ann Palakunnathu Matthew's striking exploration of cultural and historical stereotypes, to Thomas Roma's masterful portraits of the people and landscape of Sicily, Italy, to German Herrera’s view of the interior of self, to Simon Norfolk and Paul Seawright's troubling yet poetic portrayals of complex issues surrounding two countries, Bosnia and Afghanistan) grappling with the effects of war. These are all personal images with universal messages.”