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Coney Island Ink

 Portraits of the Coney Island Tattoo Festival

Starting in the mid 1980s, Sideshows by the Seashor e on the legendary Coney Island Boardwalk hosted an event distinct from its usual fare of sword-swallowers, contortionists, and other marvels: the Annual Coney Island Tattoo Festival, which gathered together tattoo enthusiasts of every walk of life from all over the city, the country, and eventually, the world. It also drew a photographer from the Bronx with a fascination for tattooing, at a time when the art form was illegal in NYC and widely condemned as par t of a dangerous fringe culture. For several years, Thomas Santelli served as the festival’s “unofficial official photographer,” documenting this lively, colorful event and the remarkable people who attended it. In this book, he shar es approximately 200 of his black-and-white and color portraits from the festival, to celebrate the tattooing community and this slice of Coney Island hist ory and to honor all of the people who graciously sat for his camera. 

Paris from Behind

A Flaneur’s Guide To The Erotic Backside of Paris 

This book is a photo essay of all the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-centur y statues of nude men in the squares, parks and museums of Paris. The pictures concentrate on the rarely photographed backsides of these statues. It is a celebr ation of the beauty of the male nude from the back with a par ticular focus on the muscular strength, sensual curves and erotic power of the derriere. It also celebrates the sculptors who have created these statues. Almost half were recipients of the Grand Prix de Rome, an award for exceptional young artists to go to Rome to study the art of the antiquities and the Renaissance. The majority of the artists had works shown in the Salons of P aris and most received major awards and commissions. The text features literary quotes about the beauty of the male, often particularly the derriere, by authors from ancient times to the present. The book is the product of a flaneur who had the time and leisur e to walk the streets of Paris for the last six years collecting these images always from behind. 

Jewelry on the Wild Side

Elena Agostinis

This second Wild Side book continues to explore Elena Agostinis’s fascination with artists using the ordinary in extraordinary ways. In this book, the focus is on artists who make jewelry using materials not commonly associated with traditional jewelry-making.

Iron Harvest

The World’s Great War Journey in Postcard Images

Iron Harvest employs contemporary picture postcard images to take the reader on a graphic journey through the cataclysm recalled by history as the “Great War.”

Before there was Twitter, Snapchat, or Instagram there were picture postcards. World War I—the Great War—was fought at the height of an international love affair with those postcards. Soldiers at the front and their loved ones behind the lines did not exchange emails, tweets, or Snaps: they exchanged picture postcards—millions of them.

Lost Nepal

This book describes the authors’ experiences living in Kathmandu between May 1984 and May 1985. It is about a country and a culture that has undergone significant changes driven largely by growing economic inequality and turmoil, in large part caused by governmental mismanagement and corruption and punctuated by the disastrous earthquake of 2012. It is a country that anyone, who lived there forty years ago, may perhaps no longer recognize, a Nepal that is lost forever.

Signs and Visions

This book of photographs, documenting urban and suburban architecture from the seventies and eighties, uncovers the hidden, abstract, even painterly beauty found in America’s often-overlooked, seedy industrial back alleys and passageways. The book is also a record of a time and of real—though now mostly redeveloped—places, provoking an inevitable sense of nostalgia.

Mother Goddess

 The Vietnamese Ceremony of Fire

Mother Goddess worship took shape in the 16th century as an alternative to Confucian ideals that cast women in passive, subordinate roles. In this religion, female deities and their spirit mediums stand at the center of vivid ceremonies filled with fire, music, trance, and offerings. Women needed a symbol and found it in the goddess Lieu Hanh, who represents their desire for freedom, independence, and happiness.

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