Daniel Shea is an American artist
Episode 523: Daniel Shea is an American artist with an incredible new book, Distribution, published recently by eminent publisher MACK. This conversation has been a long time in the making, and I am very happy that we finally had a chance to sit down.
Daniel’s work, at its heart, concerns the contemporary world and its dynamic fallacies regarding architecture, capitalism, and the built environment, and their effects on people. Starting with the proposal “How to Photograph a Forest,” Distribution outlines this notion through an examination of architecture and nature. Whereas the copious number of images in the book do not present this proposition cynically, they instead leave these questions littered throughout, without being hermetic, and ask the viewer to work through the process of distilling the potential symbolism of the images and, specifically, how they function in aggregate on the page.
Like Aglaia Conrad, Daniel uses a surplus of images across the pages to suggest momentum beyond typology and, in doing so, creates an adjacent survey that asks questions about our living conditions in an urban environment. The sequence and edit, along with the production of the book, make it certainly one of the most thoughtful photobooks created in some time. In my opinion, it is an exceptional level of artistry. During the conversation, we discussed this and other biographical details. Please Tune In.
