Sleep by Ted Spagna
In 2013, Rizzoli New York published “Sleep” by Ted Spagna – a beautiful, 142 page, coffee-table style, photography book. It includes editorial contributions from the renowned photographer, Mary Ellen Mark, and former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Allan Hobson.
It’s an intimate, voyeuristic exploration into the private landscape of the unconscious, exposing the secrets of human sleep behavior. The intimate narratives of sleeping figures told through the series of images reads like a silent film. From the erotic to the domestic, men and women alone, tender intertwined couples, and children are all psychologically and often literally naked as they dance within their sheets.
Designed by Delia Bonfilio and edited with Ron Eldridge, yellow was a conscious choice to use on the cover, as a nod to “Kodak” film.
It’s fabulous that “SLEEP” has been published...Spagna’s work is fantastic! It deserves to be seen and I’m thrilled that it has new life.
– Mary Ellen Mark photographer, filmmaker, author
Nobody explores those private worlds quite like Ted Spagna, whose pioneering work is collected in Sleep…”
– Laura Regensdorf, Vogue
PDN (Photo District News) named “SLEEP” one of 2013’s Best Photography Books.
Presented in brilliantly colored exposures, these sensual, cinematic images of dressed or undressed sleeping subjects depict the inherent beauty, rhythm, and organization of natural behavior.
