The Indie Photobook Library is honored to be part of the Peabody Essex Museum’s “year of photography” initiative for 2012. As one of the world’s oldest photography collections totaling nearly one million individual objects, the PEM is celebrating photography all year with exhibitions by Ansel Adams, Jerry Uelsmann, and Barbara Bosworth, and public programming dedicated to the photographic image. June kicks off a monthly series of evening programs for adults, each featuring late-night gallery openings, music and food, artist demonstrations, film and talks, and on Thursday, June 21, 2012, a pop-up exhibition from the Indie Photobook Library.

Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970-3783 USA (MAP)
South Spine-Atrium
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012, 6:30–9:30 pm
Members and Salem residents, $5; nonmembers $7
Current Threads: Contemporary Photobooks from the Indie Photobook Library

Selected from the Indie Photobook Library’s permanent collection, the books presented in this pop-up exhibition feature photographic work with underlying elements of water and celebrate the strength in self-publishing and small collaborative presses.

16 Bilder, Rebekka Seubert / 1%ofONE Verlag
Autre Eden, Philippe Lopparelli / Poursuite Editions
Before Things Change, Seth Fluker / Schnauzer
Black Scabbard Research Centre, Pedro Ramos
Deep & Cold Puddle!, Tuomas Korpijaakko
Dive, Marco Onofri / Senape
Dry Heat, Emi Okabe
Fiume, Guido Guidi / FantomBooks
Forest Coast, Ben Grieme and Clarke Tolton / artbookclub
Freo Beach, event no. 1-5, Chiara Terraneo
Hose Variations, Bjarne Bare / Cornerkiosk Press
Hurricane Story, Jennifer Shaw / Broken Levee Books
Mill River, Joseph Gerhard
Monochromia Botanica, Benny Asrul / 6by6press
Northern Shore, David J. Eisenlord / North Light Press
Oceanus, Elisabeth Tonnard
Of Falling and Floating, Elijah Gowin / Tin Roof Press
Road Ends in Water, Eliot Dudik / Saga Publishing
Shoreline, Fábio Silva and Carlos C. Pinto
Strawberry Snow, Yves Suter / Hakuin Verlag
Svalbard, Greg White
Thank God That’s Over, Emiliano Granado
The Lightness of Being, Alinka Echeverria
The Salton Sea, Clay Lipsky
The Sea Vol 1, Gu Fan / good morning light
The Sundays of Life, Bela Doka
Transformer, Sevim Sancaktar / Reccollective
Water’s Edge, Open To Interpretation / Taylor & O’Neill
Watershed: The French Broad River, Jeff Rich / photolucida