MARK LAITA (Detroit, 1960).
"Young Man with Boom Box, Billy Monroe", Venice, California, April 26, 1999. "Sunbather, Joey Caveseno", Coney Island, New York, August 3, 2002.
B&W photographs on photographic paper mounted on aluminium. Copy nº 20.
Measures: 50 x 40 cm (each); 65,5 x 96 cm (frame).
Mark Laita is an American photographer who, after several years dedicated to commercial photography, has presented in recent years a series of books with his personal work. Of these, I have selected a sample of two of the most interesting: "Created Equal", from 2010 and "Serpentine", from this year. He has produced award-winning commercial work for clients such as Adidas, Apple and Mercedes-Benz. Laita's first book of non-commercial work, Created Equal, is the result of an eight-year cross-country project featuring 8×10 black-and-white portraits of Americans from a wide range of cultures, occupations and backgrounds. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in the United States and Europe.