Nicotine — TR Ericsson. Published by TBW Books.
A family album, Nicotine feels like an artist’s book. Ericsson’s mother, who died by suicide in 2003, was a heavy smoker. Her home was stained by nicotine. The tipped-in photographs presented in this book are scans of family snapshots converted to film positives that are then passed through nicotine in a silkscreen printing process. There is a ghostly aura to this book that meditates on life and mourning.
Russet Lederman is a writer, editor, and photobook collector who lives in New York City. She has taught art writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and writes on photobooks for print and online journals, including FOAM, The Eyes, IMA, Aperture, and the International Center of Photography. She is a co-founder of the 10×10 Photobooks project, co-edits The Gould Collection, and has edited over twelve photography publications. Lederman regularly contributes essays to anthologies on photography, most recently I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from 1950s to Now (2024). Her published editorial work has received awards from Paris Photo-Aperture, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, AIGA, Walter Tiemann, Art Directors Club, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Prix Ars Electronica, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her most recent publications are What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 (2021) and Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present (2024).