Doug Keyes, Collective Memory is a must have for all those smart obsessed photobook collectors.
It just came out a few days ago from Decode Books, and is already selling out. It's a small book, but packs an powerful punch. We just got our copy in the mail yesterday, and it's already one we've gone back to several times. Amazon was already sold out.. but you can get a copy here.
It's Doug's first monograph with an essay by Sheryl Conkelton. Here's the description from Amazon..
Doug Keyes's photographs investigate the ways that knowledge stacks upon itself over time, leaving an impression or "collective memory.' In his first monograph, Collective 
Memory, Keyes's luminous color images of books literally reveal and sometimes conceal this stacking by capturing through multiple exposure the experience of reading the book. The resulting single image is a condensed document of the experience, the ideas contained within, and the physical identity of the book itself. The books Keyes chooses to photograph from art books and works of fiction, to poetry books and books on scientific theory hold personal meaning or remembrance for him and become sites to revisit. Keyes's photographs in fact make visible the pleasure of leafing through a text and the memory of that experience.
(photo #2, Doug Keyes, Bernd and Hilla Becher Water Towers, dye coupler print)
We first saw his work at The Foley Gallery in Chelsea.. but this book project is his best work to date.
(photo #3, Doug Keyes, Donald Judd Colorist, 2001, dye coupler print, 15 x 25")
A must have for any photobook library.
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