Madison Carroll
Fair Catch

Published by Pharmacy Books (NYC) 
8" x 10" 
60 pages
First edition of 200

Named after a routine truce in (american) football, Fair Catch is a book of photographs mediating disorder and formality. Anxiety permeates humor and affection in sculpted clutter and casually distorted bodies, in a dog growing grayer, in horses tethered to dwarfing landscapes. While sequence from one image to the next—organized around a recurrent set of figures, subjects, and environments—plays at the suggestion of narrative, what results, frame against frame, tends toward a diversion from the ordinary. Not just toying with sensibility, these photographs sensitize us to the errancy of detail—of color, texture, and visual rhythm—of what the familiar too often dismisses or fails to accommodate.

Madison Carroll was born in Philadelphia. She currently lives in New York City where she is a freelance photographer.