We ran out of Coherence books during our Gallery event in Ashfield. The show will be up until the end of December. The Ashfield Library and Gallery is only open Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 8:00. We are having another Coherence Gallery event at the Meekins Library in Williamsburg, MA this coming April, 2027.

If you want a copy of Coherence before April, 2027, the book is available through Amazon.com Search for “Coherence book by Vivian Leskes and Frank Ward”. It is listed as a paprback, but it is a hardbound book with a dustjacket.

If you do not like Amazon, go to Silver Street Media to order Coherence. https://silverstreetmedia.com/products/coherence

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Coherence

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Coherence pairs the black-and-white photographs of Frank Ward with stories by Vivian Leskes, a lifetime of images gathered from Bodhgaya to Stonehenge to the fields closer to home. The book takes its name from a night in 1969, when Ward, a young photographer with a secondhand Nikon and a single roll of film, exposed the same frames three times over. Developing those overlapping negatives, he found the picture had organized itself into something whole, and understood that his work was less to compose the world than to stay open to the coherence already in it. What follows is that practice across decades and continents: quiet, attentive portraits and landscapes, each set beside a story by Leskes that gives it place and meaning. It is a book about seeing, and about the patience it takes to let a photograph become itself.