This beautifully produced hardcover catalog accompanies Pier 24’s landmark exhibition A Sense of Place (July 1, 2013–May 1, 2014), exploring how photographs shape our perception of environments. With 165 pages and 127 richly reproduced images, the volume features original essays by Joshua Chuang (Center for Creative Photography) and Sandra S. Phillips (senior curator at SFMOMA), alongside a powerful conversation between photographers Stephen Shore, Paul Graham, and museum director Christopher McCall.
Spanning works by over 50 major photographers—such as Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall, Lee Friedlander, Rinko Kawauchi, Erik Kessels and more, along with selections from the Sack Photographic Trust—the catalog presents both grand installations and intimate moments that invite reflection on landscape and place. It elevates photography’s power to transform the everyday into meaningful terrain, transporting viewers through emotion, memory, and geography.
