Henry Wessel

This book features the great retrospective of the American photographer Henry Wessel which is exhibited in February at the Centro Jose Guerrero de Granada and which includes a selection of his most representative photographs. A journey to the American West throughout the lens of this photographer in whose photographs light and forms take center stage.

Wessel's visual sensibility captures spontaneous and everyday pictures with a strong attention to quiet and simple scenes, sometimes adding touches of irony and humor. Wessel is known mainly for his black-and-white images that he took traveling around several American states in search of motifs to photograph. His parking lots and beach-goers photos are remarkable.

The book also includes illustrative images by authors contemporary to Henry Wessel, such as Ed Ruscha, Lee Friedlander, Diane Airbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Nicholas Nixon, Robert Adams and Walker Evans.