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Ken Schles (born 1960) is an American photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.

Schles is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Schles has been making books for over 25 years, his five published monographs: Invisible City, 1988. The Geometry of Innocence, 2001. A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads, 2007. Oculus, 2011. Night Walk, 2014, have all been critically acclaimed and have won notable awards. According to Harper Levine (Harper’s Books, and Jury Member for Le Prix du Livre Paris Photo 2011) on Oculus: “quite simply it’s one of the best new photobooks I have seen in years: a towering accomplishment filled with aesthetic beauty and emotional depth. I can assure you this book will be a classic…it gave me chills from beginning to end.”

Schles is currently a foreign correspondent for the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam which is a photography museum located at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His work can be seen in many private and public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, LACMA and is held in more than 100 library and museum collections throughout the world. Schles earned his BFA from Cooper Union in 1982, where he studied with Len Jenshel, William Gedney and Larry Fink. After continuing his studies with renowned photographer Lisette Model at the New School for Social Research and participating in a study group run by Martha Rosler, he worked as a printer for a number of Magnum photographers, including Gilles Peress, Elliot Erwitt and Burt Glinn. In addition, since 1992, Schles has artistically contributed to over a hundred albums, CD's, and videos. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ken-schles-mn0001276645/credits

Major works and projects
After experiencing the terror attacks of 9/11 on New York City, Schles recorded, The Consequences for Daily Life in New York. For HOMELAND SECURITY (2004-2005) he photographed quiet, loving and ominous moments and mixed these with photographs of places that are considered likely targets for terrorist attacks, creating a reflection on safe places that from one day to the next change into dangerous territory.

CD/Album Covers, photography and Video Contributions
Alicia Keys 2005 - Alicia Keys: Unplugged.(Photography)

Alicia Keys 2005 - Unplugged DVD.(Photography)

Anderson & Roe Piano Duo 2011 - When Words Fade.(Photography)

Billy Bragg and Wilco 2012 - Mermaid Avenue.(Photography)

Biohazard 1994 - State of the World Address.(Photography)

Biohazard 1994 - Tales from the Hard Side.(Photography)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 2005 - BRMC: Howl.(Photography)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 2005 - Aint' No Easy Way.(Photography)

Bootleg 1999 - Death Before Dishonesty.(Photography)

Boz Scaggs 2001 - dig.(Photography) Cowboy Mouth 1998 - Mercyland.(Photography)

Cypress Hill 2004 - Temple of Boom.(Photography)

Dar Williams 2010 - Many Great Companions.(Photography)

Dexter Gordon 2005 - Jazz Moods: 'Round Midnight.(Cover Photo)

Dream Theater 2008 - Greatest Hit...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs.(Photography)

Dream Theater 2002 - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.(Photography)

The Dwellers 1995 - Whatever Makes You Happy.(Photography)

Eve to Adam 2001 - Auburn Slip.(Photography)

Fall Out Boy 2012 - Icon.(Back cover photo)

Fingertight 2003 - In the Name of Progress.(Photography)

Freedy Johnston 1999 - Blue Days Black Nights.(Photography)

Funky Poets 1993 - True to Life.(Photography)

Green Day 1994 - ''dookie".(Photography)

Green Day 2000 - Take 2.(Photography)

Handsome 1997 - Handsome.(Photography)

Hoarse 1997 - Happens Twice.(Photography)

If I Had a Song: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2 2001 - (Photography)

Ingram Hill 2004 June's Picture Show.(Photography)

Jennyanykind 1996 - Revelater.(Photography)

Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos 2003 - The Secret Sun

Jimmy Eat World 2010 - Invented.(Photography)

Jimmy Scott 1994 - Dream

John Scofield 2001 - Works For Me

Johnny Winter 2004 - I'm A Bluesman.(Photography)

Jonny Lang 1998 - Wander This World

Latin Playboys 1994 - Latin Playboys Lennon - Lennon

Lennon 2001 - 5:30 Saturday Morning.(Photography)

Lifehouse 2000 - No Name Face.(Inlay Photography)

Linda Thompson 2002 - Fashionably Late.(Photography)

Lori Lieberman 1996 - Home of Whispers.(Photography)

Lou Reed 2000 - Ecstasy.(Photography)

Lou Reed 1998 - Perfect Night: Live in London.(Photography)

Lucky Boys of Confusion 2001 - Throwing the Game

Martha Wainwright 2005 - Martha Wainwright.(Photography)

Martha Wainwright 2005 - I Will Internalize.(Cover Photo, Photography)

Method Man 2006 - 4:21. (Photography)

Michael Franks 1995 - Abandoned Garden.(Photography)

Murray Perahia 1999 - Songs Without Words.(Photography)

Murray Perahia 2001 - ''Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4''.(Photography)

Naked City 2002 - Naked City Live, Vol. 1: Knitting Factory 1989.(Photography)

Natalie Merchant 1999 - live in concert new York city june 13, 1999.(Photography)

Naum Starkman 1997 - Chopin: Piano Works.(Photography)

Naum Starkman 1998 - Tchaikovsky.(Photography)

Papa Roach 2010 - The Best of Papa Roach: To Be Loved.(Photography)

Papa Roach 2002 - Lovehatetragedy.(Cover Photo, Photography, Contributor role)

Patrick Park 2003 - Loneliness Knows My Name.(Photography)

Patty Griffin 1998 - flaming red.(Photography)

Peter Wolf 1998 - Fool's Parade.(Photography)

Philippe Saisse 1999 - Halfway 'til Dawn.(Photography)

Regis Philbin 2004 - When You're Smiling.(Photography)

Rod Stewart 1996 - If We Fall In Love Tonight.(Photography)

Rufus Wainwright 2001 - Poses.(Photography)

Seis Del Solar 1995 - Alternate Roots.(Photography)

Semisonic 1998 - Feeling Strangely Fine

Sixteen Horsepower 1998 - Low Estate.(Photography)

Sonny Simmons 1992 - Ancient Ritual.(Photography)

Spin Doctors 2000 - Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective.(Photography)

Spirit Gum 1995 - If I Had a Hi Fi.(Photography)

Stone Sour 2002 - Stone Sour.(Photography)

Stripmind 1993 - What's In Your Mouth.(Photography)

Subrosa 1997 - Never Bet the Devil Your Head.(Photography)

Superdrag 1996 - Regretfully Yours.(Photography)

Talib Kweli 2004 - The Beautiful Struggle.(Photography)

The East Village Opera Company 2005 - The East Village Opera Company.(Photography)

The Jayhawks 2000 - Smile.(Band Photo, Photography)

They Might Be Giants 1998 - Severe Tire Damage.(Photography)

Three Score & Ten: A Voice To The People.2009 - (Photography)

Thursday 2006 - Thursday.(Photography)

Val Emmich 2004 - Slow Down Kid.(Photography)

Verbena 1999 - into the pink.(Photography)

The Wallflowers 2009 - The Wallflowers collected:1996-2005

Walt Mink 1996 - El Producto.(Photography)

Yolanda Adams 2001 - I believe I can fly

Monographs, Publications edited by Schles, Contributions to publications
1988 Invisible City: Photographs By Ken Schles, Twelvetrees Press In 1983, Ken Schles moved into an apartment on Avenue B in the East Village of New York City. The sites around Schles’s old apartment provide the backdrop for "Invisible City," his windows were boarded up because his landlord said that junkies could steal the gates with a crowbar. This worked to Schles's advantage - he set up a darkroom. Life moved at a tumultuous pace. Downstairs, a woman with three kids was a heroin addict and dealers used her apartment as a shooting gallery. The city shut down the boiler in the building, which was spewing carbon monoxide. With scenes like this playing out daily right outside his doorstep, Schles found gripping subject matter in and around the neighborhood. Some of the black-and-white pictures portray abandoned buildings and rubble in what looks like a war-torn country. Others focus on social life and parties in 1980s neighborhood institutions like Limbo Lounge, 8BC and ABC No Rio Mr. Schles lived among the boarded-up buildings and heroin addicts for a decade. The images of this disturbing and dangerous Manhattan (pre-gentrification and during the spread of the AIDS epidemic)Crime in New York City were taken over a period of ten years and which recorded a gritty, jittery black and white version of New York, populated by its inhabitants, in what at times looks like a war zone.

2001 The Geometry of Innocence, Hatje Cantz In The Geometry of Innocence, Ken Schles’ focus is on the shifting of social structures and spaces that mark the urban landscape. The works in The Geometry of Innocence address the immediacy and relativity of meaning in the photographic image and how they shape societies perception of the world around them. Schles's images include images from, Death Row, hospital rooms, playgrounds, militarized zones, city streets, and bars and clubs.

2008 A New History Of Photography: The World Outside And The Pictures In Our Heads, White Press. Schles uses this book to examine the influence and our relationship to the history of photography and of photo book making itself.

2011 Oculus, Noorderlicht. Oculus explores how we use images to understand and construct meaning from the world around us. The book is divided into four chapters. The first segment is a series of nighttime images of waves crashing on a beach. Shot from above and dissolving into darkness, the waves become abstract lines and shimmers of light that hover on the verge of visibility. At first the shore is illuminated, but by the end of the sequence the white crest of a single wave is all that remains streaked across the frame like a smear of paint. The second chapter contains a series of portraits of sleeping children and begins with the first lines of Nabokov’s memoir Speak, Memory: "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." Schles argues in the text, we all exist "astride two eternities of darkness." Like sleeping children, we live in a state of "sleeping awareness" where "seeing is not knowing. Recognition is not knowledge." In the third and final chapter with photographs, Schles uses the images and shapes of the world like the moon, trees and the stars, as dissolving forms. During the creation of Oculus, Schles' parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer's and his wife was ill at the time he made the book.

2014 Invisible City: Photographs by Ken Schles, Steidl (reprint)

Awards, grants, Solo exhibitions, exhibitions with others
Schles’ work has received the following awards and citations:

5b4 “Best of year” Photobook 2008. Time magazine Top 27 photobook 2014. New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Photo Book Store Magazine Best Photo books 2014. Solo exhibitions 2015 Noorderlict Gallery, Groningen, NL. Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC. 2014 Photoistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Only Photography, Berlin, Germany. 2013 Center for Photography, University of California Berkeley, CA. 2011 Noorderlict Gallery, Groningen, NL. 1st International Bursa Photo Festival, Bursa, Turkey. 2009 Noorderlict Gallery, Groningen, NL. 2005 Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NYC 2002 C/O Gallery, Berlin. Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany. New School for Social Research, NYC. 1996 Jan Kesner Gallery, LA. 1989 The Photography Center, NYC. 1987 Greathouse Gallery, NYC. 1985 Greathouse Gallery, NYC.

Collections
Public collections

Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at The New York Public Library, NYC. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. The Brooklyn Museum, NYC. Art Institute of Chicago, CHI. The Cleveland Museum Of Art, OH. Permanent Collection of the US Embassy, Sana'a, Yemen. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Permanent Collection, CA. The Manfred Heiting Collection, Los Angeles, CA.