Sundays are for self-care, as evidenced by this beaming baby alligator cooling off under a water spout. The image features in Floridas, a recent photobook pairing contemporary pictures by Russian American artist Anastasia Samoylova, taken during a road trip through Florida, with Walker Evans’s mid-20th century polaroids of the Sunshine State. “This is a sensitive and almost shockingly beautiful book,” writes Rosalind Jana in a feature for Elephant on the publication. “As editor David Campany writes in his accompanying essay, ‘photography is a medium complicit with Florida’s spectacle, with its endless visual seductions and distractions, yet it contains the possibility of so much more.'” Read the full article here.
