MARK LAITA (Detroit, 1960). "Young Man with Boom... Lot 25

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.