Penny Publishing is a book project of 14 narrative photo postcard sequences in 370 cards.
Read moreShow: Gas Stop: Culture, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University
Monday, November 5 - Friday, December 14, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, November 8, 5-8 pm
Read moreArticle: Life Force magazine
Press: Blake Andrews Review, Gas Stop
Perhaps their most American trait is the sense of possibility left in the frame. … They exude a sense of optimism, …
Read moreVideo: David Freund Gas Stop Lensculture Interview
Video interview by Walker Dawson and Nick Neumann for Lensculture.
Read moreShow: Gas Stop: Culture, Pascal Gallery, Ramapo College, NJ
…this exhibition highlights men, women, girls and boys engaging with gas stations’ offerings, spaces and each other,…
Read moreGas Station Stories: Jeffrey Ladd
My excitement was with things like the release of suction from the twist of the gas cap,...
Read moreBook Signing: Antipodean Books
Antipodean Books will host a book signing and artist talk for Gas Stop, a four volume set of photographs by David Freund
Read moreShow: Gas Stop: Culture, Pascal Gallery, Ramapo College, NJ
Gas Stop: Culture is an exhibition of photographs drawn from Gas Stop, published in 2016 by Steidl Verlag.
Read moreTalk: Haverford College
Distinguished Visitors Program
Thursday, February 16, 2017
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (ET)
CHS CHS 104 Chase Auditorium
Talk: Photo Books Now Symposium II
This symposium addressed several issues of value to photographers, and to anyone interested in photo books, as photographers, designers, publishers, curators. I spoke of my experience producing Gas Stop with Steidl.
Read moreArticle: Modern Magazine
Photographer David Freund writes on his fascination with a humble, yet ubiquitous fixture in American architecture: the gas station.
Read morePress: Spectrum Culture
Freund lends a compositional elegance to quotidian locations, pulling together elements that on their own would be the height of banality… happening upon a modest drama on the local and national level as the mobile populace converged to refuel.
Read moreWorkshop: Chrome Book
A project I have been thinking about longer than I wish to admit is a book of chrome postcards that can be sequenced to tell a larger story about America...
Read morePress: New York Journal of Books
This single black and white photograph reveals both the program and technique for David Freund’s epic undertaking.
Read moreresponse: gas stop - thomas roma
I suppose it goes without saying that Steidl did a great job, but they did. The work certainly deserves the deluxe treatment (in every way) that it received.
Read morethe photographer's cookbook
...the cookbook grew from the idea that photographers’ talent in the darkroom must also translate into special skills in the kitchen. (Aperture)
Read moreresponse: gas stop - John Vernon
But opening the volumes this morning and just sampling the pictures made it clear that there's so much really there at the center of it all.
Read morepress: Gas Stop, The Guardian
From 1978 to 1981, David Freund photographed petrol stations in more than 40 US states – adding up to an everyman portrait of America...
Read moreresponse: gas stop - carol duncan, andrew hemmingway
"The photos present such a range of themes and effects, from the aesthetically minimalist to everything else."
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