The Holiday Print Sale is back, and this year with a 25% discount due to possible shipping delays. Orders will be filled asap after December 18, 2022. All prints are produced with archival pigment inks and printed up to 18" wide, depending on image format. Email me for questions or to inquire about framing options.

"New Year's Day" is a limited edition artist's book edition of 100, signed and numbered. 24 image pages. Rice paper fly sheets. Hand sewn binding. 8 inches square. Info on prints here: https://robbiemcclaran.photoshelter.com/gallery/New-Years-Day-Fine-Prints/G0000CSNsRcoHieI

Selections from my "New Year's Day" artist's book project. Prints are 15" x 15", Archival Pigment Prints on Hot Press Natural, in an edition of 10. Unframed. Info for the book here: https://robbiemcclaran.photoshelter.com/gallery/New-Years-Day-Artists-Book/G0000_CffrpPrfrM

In 1979, twenty four years old and fresh out of art school, I moved to New Orleans with little more than a backpack and a camera bag. Within a few days I found a slave quarters apartment in the French Quarter and began spending most waking hours photographing on the streets. • By a quirk of history, that same year the New Orleans Police Department staged a strike during Mardi Gras and most of the public events were cancelled. Many tourists stayed home, yet to this day some locals recall it as one the best Mardi Gras ever.• This was also a time before the arrival of AIDS, and the final days of the sexual revolution. Public nudity and sexual display were pervasive and revelers eagerly performed for my camera. Please be advised several of the following images are NSFW.

Angry White Men takes it’s title from a phrase used to describe the 1994 mid-term electorate that put Newt Gingrich’s Republican House in power, said to have been motivated by “God, Guns and Gays”. This became the starting point for an investigation of the shifting of the political center point as well as a look into the darker side of extremists and their motivations. In 2004 the entire body of photographs was purchased for the permanent collection of the University Of Oregon Special Collections Library. About this book: "A powerful documentary, employing compelling photography and quotes from the various subjects to explore the shifting of the political center. Cutting edge typography and graphic design by Johnson Wolverton and an introduction by Rene Denfeld."

Atget's Gardens, Signed. Limited edition of 499 featuring photographs of the Gardens of Versailles, with original text on vellum between photo pages. Hand bound in Japanese style binding. Limited edition, Printed at the Visual Studies Workshop in 1980. Offset

Elegantly produced, "Barrow" is 34 pages, and features twelve black and white and four color images. Printed in my studio each page is archival pigment printing on 100% cotten rag, Moab Entrada Bright, Hardbound in slipcase. Edition of ten with two artist's proofs. Signed and numbered. First copy $450, with price increases as edition is sold.

The alluvial plain south of Memphis on either side of the Mississippi River, in Mississippi and Arkansas is a cruel and brutal landscape of flat dusty cotton fields, blackwater bayous and heartbreaking poverty; a land with a mystique of mythical proportions. The Delta was the birthplace of the blues, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green, Levon Helm and Muddy Waters. History shows everywhere one looks and it seems sometimes as if history has ended here. This is where I was born and raised, and although I could not wait to get out, leaving home in 1973 upon graduation from high school, I have since been drawn back to re-discover it in pictures. The images were made using an antique 8 x 10 camera and lens. A selection of 16 x 20 archival pigment prints are available in a boxed edition of twenty copies. Selected prints are also available as gelatin silver contact prints.

Selections for the series "From here Selections from the project From Here On, photographhs of the American Heartland"Archival Pigment Prints, on Cansons Baryta Fotographique, edition of ten at this size, signed and numbered. From the Statement: As a child my family would take long trips each summer to visit relatives, either in Texas for my Father’s side or the Mid-west for my Mom’s. I’d sit in that back seat staring out the window as we rolled down the two lane, watching out the window as the world unfolded before my eyes, always curious for what was around the next bend. The America a cross-country traveler encounters today is as changed as that young boy in that back seat. • Having worked in the documentary tradition for most of my career, I began this project with the intention of telling a story about America’s heartland. As the country underwent the transition from the boom of the late nineties to the post 9-11 years, and the economic collapse to follow, I too was going through my own personal period of transition. The photographs reflect a search for my own soul as well a search for the soul of the heartland. Over time I came to realize the story I was telling was as much my own as it was the heartland’s. • The earliest pictures in this body of work were made near my hometown in Arkansas. Over the course of several years I began visiting places throughout the country that have deeply personal connections for me; my mother’s birthplace in Ohio, the lake cabin I spent summers in my youth. Some locations were chosen for their iconic American names such as Dodge City and Paris Texas. Others were discovered randomly, in the course of travel. • I’ve always believed in the power of photography as a rich and robust language, in the poetry of images. I began to think of this work as a visual folk song, a folk lament. I borrowed the title from a Woody Guthrie song that seemed to fit. From Here On.