In Logan Square, Chicago, 2020. © David Schalliol.
Drawing from two decades of globe-spanning photographic projects, the book Social Landscapes articulates a visual sociological perspective on the evolving but central role of place in contemporary life. Fundamental to Schalliol’s approach is highlighting the tangible consequences of amorphous structural forces and emphasizing the small- and large-scale actors that mediate and define them. The book does so in four distinct sections—The Physical Form of Change; The Landscape of Shifting Production; Displacement by Policy; and Environmental Threat and Adaptation—each of which is anchored by two major projects in dialogue with photographs from around the world. Through this approach, Social Landscapes investigates the connections between such phenomena as how inequality manifests in the vernacular architecture of the Midwestern United States and how social and environmental changes interplay to radically reshape Japan’s Tōhoku coast.
The book will include essays by photographer Dawoud Bey, Muriel Enjalran, and Saskia Sassen. The book will be designed by Renata Graw of Normal.
For a complete list of the 2021 Graham Foundation grantees, please visit their website.
Contributions by David Schalliol featured in MAS Context
Nocturnal Landscapes in Photography | Greg Girard
David Schalliol interviews Greg Girard
Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises
Exhibition Opening
Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises
Exhibition in Chicago
Photography and Place
MAS Context Spring Talks 2016
The Area
MAS Context Fall Talks 2014
David Schalliol
MAS Context : Analog 2011
When the Future was Here
Essay by Paola Aguirre and Michelle Ha Tucker with photographs by David Schalliol
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Essay and photographs by David Schalliol
Reckoning with Vacancy
Bold issue
Exploring the Physicality of the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
Hidden issue
Isolated Building Studies
Work issue