By Jim Goldberg and Donovan Wylie

In this blockbuster two-volume set, two artists and two writers explore the concept of the “model city” through the lens of New Haven, Connecticut.

The collaboration grew out of a 2013 joint residency at the Yale University Art Gallery by photographers Jim Goldberg and Donovan Wylie.

In Candy, Goldberg, a New Haven native, uses Super 8 film stills, images of New Haven’s urban landscape, annotated Polaroid portraits, and collaged archival materials to create a photo-novel about the trajectory of 20th-century American cities.

A Good and Spacious Land, with photographs by Irish-born Wylie, chronicles the changes to New Haven’s topography during the construction of a massive highway interchange, offering connections between a contemporary American interpretation of the “Promised Land” and the underlying biblical narrative.

Each volume includes text by Christopher Klatell woven throughout the images and a concluding essay by writer and scholar Laura Wexler that reflects on the photographs’ symbolism, social import, and historical contexts.

Candy / A Good and Spacious Land showcases two gifted and renowned photographers branching out in new formal, narrative, and conceptual directions.

A photo-illustrated folded card accompanies the two main hardcover volumes. 

Includes an introduction by Pamela Franks

Designed by Christopher Sleboda

Published by the Yale University Art Gallery, 2017
First edition (out of print)

Two hardcover volumes in slipcase, 372 pages, 13.375 × 10.75 inches

ISBN: 978-0-30-022299-9 

This title is currently out of print. Copies for sale are new and shrink-wrapped.