Elad Lassry: On Onions
Artist Book of the Year; This photographic study mixes pictures of the allium in its many forms-red, Spanish, white, scallion-with eerily similar images of contact lenses, prosthetic eyes and X-rays of retinas. Artist Angie Keefer supplies short texts interspersed throughout the book, examining not only onions but also Euripedes, the term "lacrimal" and the act of crying, described by Keefer as "ongoing, automatic, silent, and possibly worth dwelling on in those moments when you feel like you can't do anything right." (EditorsArt in America2013-12-01)