We released the luscious photograph above, Rincon Artificial Island and Pipeline, Ventura, California by 2006 Hot Shot Ian Baguskas on 20x200 today. The edition's been a long time coming. We were all taken by the photograph way back when Ian exhibited his series Sweet Water at Jen Bekman Gallery after becoming a HHS! Ne Plus Ultra and earning representation. The photo made its second appearance at 6 Spring Street recently as part of the winter group show, Mixtape.

Even after spending many hours with the photograph, over the course of a couple years, I didn't place the image with one of my favorites by Robert Adams (below) until writing about the work today.

Adams' books top my list of most-oft-thumbed-through reads. This morning I reached for Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values and pulled this: "The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope."