Coral Press Arts is the new offshoot of Coral Press, set up exclusively to publish photobooks.

Lately we’ve gotten deeply fascinated by photobooks, where a series of photos, arranged in an ideal order, can be “read” much like a novel. We believe that Robert Frank’s classic The Americans, for instance, tells a story every bit as complex and essential to America as The Great Gatsby or Freedom. We’re also very excited that through the efforts of writer/photographers such as Jeffrey Ladd and the team of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, photobooks are being seen not simply as collections of pictures but works of collectible art in their own right. In Lincoln Kirstein’s words (on Walker Evans): “Intention, logic, continuity, climax, sense and perfection.”

With Coral Press Arts, we’re publishing photobooks that use photographs to tell their story much as we’ve heretofore brought music to fiction.

Check out our first book, OWS. It’s being carried at independent bookstores throughout New York City, and has been deemed by art book sellers “an instant collectible, a classic.”

Here’s a link to purchase OWS from Dashwood Books, the great independent photobook store in Lower Manhattan. And another to get the book at the fantastic Strand Books.

We keep adding new books, including: WILLYOUPLEASEJUSTBEMYFUCKINGVALENTINE by David Fratkin, Meeting Robert Frank, and Robert Dunn’s Angel Parade series—now up to Book 6.