The 32 hand-colored, toned gelatin silver photographs featured in Rver Dans le Dsert demonstrate her disparate styles: the voyeurism of Eugene Atget, the inexplicability of Man Ray, and the furtive aimlessness of the French New Wave. These images capture both fleeting French cultural references and timeless desert topographical references, each paying homage to the surrealists of the 1930s.

Rver Dans le Dsert is bound in coffee-colored silk boards with contrasting linen spine, and beautifully printed on natural textured art paper. A stunning first monograph, it is published to coincide with solo exhibitions of the artists work in Milan and Tokyo.

French-born artist Valerie Galloway graduated from the University of Arizona in 1987 with a B.F.A. in photography, living in New York for many years before settling in Tucson, Arizona. Galloways practice includes photography, painting and mixed media, with a focus on nudes, street photography in New York and Paris, and Tucsons Sonoran Desert.

This first edition is limited to 500 copies.

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First Edition / 2020
ISBN: 978-1-59005-520-5
Details: Hardcover , 9 x 11 inches