Steven Kasher Gallery to Display New Photos by Joel Grey, Begin. 9/12

Steven Kasher Gallery will present The Billboard Papers: Photographs by Joel Grey. With The Billboard Papers, Joel Grey further explores his signature theme: the ephemeral and overlooked evidence of urban development and decay. Focusing on exterior city billboards, covered and re-covered over time and transformed by the elements, these works capture the ever-changing layers of faded iconography that New Yorkers live amongst but rarely notice. The Billboard Papers represents Grey's first large-format exhibit.

The exhibition will be on display at Steven Kasher Gallery (521 West 23rd Street) from September 12 through October 19, 2013. There will be an opening reception (and book signing) on Thursday, September 12 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Coinciding with the exhibition, Pointed Leaf Press will release The Billboard Papers as a limited edition hardcover. It will be Grey's fourth book of photographs, and his fourth collaboration with acclaimed book designer Sam Shahid.

Pictures I Had To Take, Grey's first monograph, published by powerHouse Books in 2003, showed work created over a 30 year period. His second book,Looking Hard at Unexamined Things, published by Steidl in 2006, featured all new work and highlighted industrial sites, abandoned buildings, graffiti, wall art, detritus and public works from Los Angeles and New York to Berlin and Venice. Grey's third book, 1.3 - Images from My Phone, published by powerHouse Books in 2010, is a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed collection of mobile phone photography.

Grey's work has been the subject of solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and Berlin. His photographs are part of the Permanent Collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library. In 2010, Steven Kasher Gallery presented 1.3: New Color Images by Joel Grey, an exhibition of Grey's mobile phone photography.