WORKSHOP: The Book as Medium with Tanya Marcuse
WORKSHOP: The Book as Medium with Tanya Marcuse
An Immersive, Collaborative Workshop
Have you ever experienced making a photobook?
Inspired by the tradition of live bookmaking performances (like Daido Moriyama’s 1974 Printing Show), this four-hour workshop offers the unique, unusual, immersive opportunity for participants to work in close dialogue with the artist as together they translate her photographic project into book form.
Centered on Marcuse’s very newest body of work, Canto XIII—inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy—this hands-on workshop invites participants to engage directly in key editorial and conceptual decisions.
Working with Tanya Marcuse, participants explore how the book functions as a unique expressive medium, shaping meaning through sequencing, scale, layout, and the relationship between image and text. Through collective editing and discussion, the group considers how book form can articulate the underlying conceptual and expressive foundations of a project.
The book will be published in Summer 2026 by Nazraeli Press in a very limited edition of 500 copies. Each participant will receive a copy of the special edition with print (value: $500 / only 20 available).
The workshop is limited to only 8 participants.
cost: $350 – includes a copy of the special edition and access to SHOW LA
participants will receive material prior to the workshop
when: Saturday, February 28, from 10am to 2pm
where: Daido Star Space, The Reef, 12th floor
Biography
Tanya Marcuse (b. 1964) is an American photographer most known for her large-scale photographs that explore the imperiled natural world. Her projects use increasingly fantastical imagery and elaborate methods of construction to explore cycles of growth and decay and the dynamic tension between the passage of time and the photographic medium.
Marcuse began making photographs as an early college student at Bard College at Simon’s Rock before studying Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin College. She earned her MFA from Yale University, where she was awarded the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography.
Her work is held in public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Marcuse is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter S. Reed Grant, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, and two MacDowell Fellowships.
Marcuse’s photography has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the George Eastman Museum, Julie Saul Gallery, Hemphill Artworks, Galerie Miranda (Paris), Yoshii Gallery, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Yale Art Gallery, Belfast Exposed Photography (Northern Ireland), and Las Palmas II Art Exhibition Centre (Rotterdam). Her recent solo exhibition Tanya Marcuse: Laws of Nature at the Denver Botanic Garden Art Gallery received critical attention in Hyperallergic.
Her work has been included in notable group shows, such as Dress Codes: The Third Triennial of Photography and Video at the International Center of Photography, and Heroines at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, curated by Guillermo Solana. Her monumental piece Woven Nº 30 was featured in Actual Size, curated by David Campany.
The book form plays a significant role in Marcuse’s practice. Her published books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Press, 2019), Ink (Fall Line Press, 2021), and Portent (Nazraeli Press, 2024).
She is a dedicated student of martial arts and boxing as methods of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline. Marcuse is based in the Hudson Valley, in New York State and teaches Photography at Bard College.
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