The Marble is a new book by artist David Brandon Geeting that pushes photography to the edge of absurdity and back again.
The publisher, TBW Books, says, ‘Working at the intersection of commercial gloss and fashion fantasy, stock image neutrality, and the strangeness of amateur imagemaking, Geeting builds a visual language that is both highly polished and deeply confounding in its narrative.’ It is a book they is 'as humorous as it is heartfelt – an offering of staged sincerity wrapped in surreal detail.’
After graduating from art school, Geeting’s distinctive aesthetic quickly drew attention and led him into commercial and fashion photography. His art practice would continue to build from these worlds and blur the lines between image distinction, an approach that carries through into The Marble, a book that asks its viewers: What happens when photography lets go of itself – and its ego? The result is something weirdly and beautifully tender.
The Marble opens with a foreword by musician and artist Caroline Polachek, whose own work shares Geeting’s fascination with surface, sensation and the eroding distinction between fact and fiction that defines the current moment.
TBW Books, 180pp, 21.6cm x 28 cm, illustrated hardback, first edition, 2025