アメリカ人フォトグラファー、ディヴィッド・ベンジャミン・シェリー（David Benjamin Sherry）の作品集。カメラを使わず、印画紙などの感光材料の上に物を直接置き、感光させて像を作る「フォトグラム」を用いたシリーズ作品29点を収録。作者は、暗室で厚紙のマスクを用いて魅惑的な幾何学模様を浮かび上がらせ、自らの身体にイメージを取り込む。そこには、写真史やヨゼフ・アルバース（Josef Albers）、ロバート・ラウシェンバーグ（Robert Rauschenberg）などのアーティストを積極的に引用している。これらの作品は、アメリカ人映画監督、ジェームズ・ビドグッド（James Bidgood）による1971年のカルト映画『ピンク・ナルキッソス』に触発され、ほぼ全ての作品をビドグッドのニューヨークのアパートで撮影。いかに「小さな室内空間、特にクイアを想起させるスペースは、幻想と可能性の場となりうるか」を追い求めている。

Pink Genesis is a limited-edition artist’s book of unique photograms by celebrated photographer David Benjamin Sherry.

Sherry is a magician of the darkroom. Celebrated for his use of vivid color and his skill with traditional analog photographic techniques, he has established himself as a leading voice in contemporary photography. His work has often examined the monumental landscapes of the American West and the environmental challenges the region faces.

Pink Genesis introduces Sherry’s equally intriguing but lesser-known series of striking, large-scale, cameraless color photograms, laboriously made by hand in the darkroom. Using cardboard masks to create mesmerizing geometric forms and incorporating his own body into the images, Sherry actively references histories of photography, as well as artists such as Josef Albers and Robert Rauschenberg, captivating viewers with a fresh way of seeing.

The series, inspired by James Bidgood’s 1971 cult film Pink Narcissus, almost entirely shot within Bidgood’s New York apartment, explores how “a small interior space—specifically, a space of queer imagination—can be a site of fantasy and possibility,” as Lucy Gallun, associate curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, states in her essay for the book. For Sherry, the private, contemplative space of the darkroom serves as a space to think through the intersections of identity, abstraction, and the meditative possibilities of monochrome.

This exquisitely produced book, the first ever dedicated to Sherry’s photograms, comes in an edition of 750 and collects twenty-nine of these one-of-a-kind works that delight in the pleasures of form, color, and coded Queer reference. Each book is individually signed by the artist.