John Chiara: California Limited-Edition Box Set

Coinciding with the release of California, Aperture is pleased to present this limited-edition box set by John Chiara. The set includes a signed, limited edition copy of California, accompanied by a unique direct Ilfochrome print, presented in a specially-designed clamshell box. John Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes to make unique photographs that direct light exposure onto reversal film and paper. Each resulting photograph is a singular, luminous object. This highly anticipated first book includes the surreal and thrilling landscape and architectural images for which the artist has come to be known. John Chiara: California features images taken in the artist’s hometown of San Francisco and other locations along the Pacific Coast. An essay by Virginia Heckert situates Chiara’s work in the landscape tradition of the American West and discusses this process-driven work. Please email  prints@aperture.org  to learn more about the available images for this Box Set. Note: Orders will not ship until a print is chosen.

Special edition copy of California, accompanied by a unique Direct Ilfochrome Print, presented in a clamshell box
Print: Untitled
Image Size: 4 x 5 inches
Paper Size: 4 x 5 inches
Edition of 20
Book Title: California
Book Size: 11 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches
Book Format: Limited edition clothbound book
Book and print signed by the artist

John Chiara (b. 1971, San Francisco, California) received a BFA in photography from the University of Utah in 1995 and an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. He was an artist in residence at Budapest Art Factory (2017) and Crown Point Press, San Francisco (2006, 2016); Porch Society, Clarksdale, Mississippi (2013–14); Gallery Four, Baltimore (2010); and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2010). In 2011 and 2013, the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco commissioned work included in group exhibitions at Pier 24 Photography: HERE and A Sense of Place.