Peak Picture Pixel Pile

By James Langdon and Jacob Lindgren Using Ansel Adams’s Zone System—a system developed by the photographer in which the exposure of the negative, its chemical processing, and final printing are numerically calibrated, resulting in a kind of analog metadata—PPPP looks to photographs of mountains, Adams’s quintessential subject, to explore what it means when an image looks like itself in the abstract (in its histogram, or the graph representing the distribution of color values in the image). Designed by James Langdon and Jacob Lindgren Published by Inga, 2019 Softcover, 28 pages, saddle-stitch binding, b&w, 8.25 × 11 inches ISBN: 978-1-73-409430-5