Lise Sarfati: Oh Man

In her new monograph, acclaimed French photographer Lise Safarti (born 1958) transports readers to the oddly deserted—or, rather, almost deserted—streets of Los Angeles. Lonesome men stand or walk through each of the images, passing by as if on a mission. As Sean O’Hagan writes in the Observer, “Safarti’s photographs, though deceptively simple on first viewing, have a mysterious quality that is to do, in part, with her deft merging of portraiture, snapshot and arranged tableau.” With an accompanying text by David Campany, this new monograph is a thoughtful, quiet but moving tribute to an outsider’s Los Angeles.