Curran Hatleberg: Lost Coast
TBW Books is delighted to present the long-anticipated new printing of Lost Coast, the debut monograph by Curran Hatleberg. Originally released in 2016 and unavailable for nearly ten years, Lost Coast has become one of the most coveted books in contemporary photography—virtually absent from the resale market. This edition, fully faithful to the first in sequencing and structure, benefits from a comprehensive technical renewal: freshly remastered files, superior print fidelity, deeper color rendering, and refined materials, all produced with the meticulous attention to detail characteristic of Hatleberg’s work.
In Lost Coast, Hatleberg unfolds a fragmentary narrative rooted in Eureka, California. His images move seamlessly between close human encounters and the surrounding environment, between fleeting intimacy and moments of estrangement. Each photograph carries the weight of a story—dense with nuance and open to interpretation—offering a complex portrait of a landscape shaped as much by its striking natural beauty as by the slow decline of its economic prospects.
The title evokes the rugged northern stretch of California’s shoreline, while also hinting at broader themes of disappearance—lives lived in obscurity, aspirations left behind, and beauty overlooked.
Lost Coast inaugurated Hatleberg’s celebrated engagement with the textures of American life. This new printing restores that milestone with heightened clarity and renewed vitality.
About the Author
Curran Hatleberg is a photographer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. His photographs have been presented in both national and international venues, with recent exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, the International Center of Photography, and Higher Pictures. In 2019, he was included in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
His work is part of numerous permanent collections, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the High Museum of Art. Hatleberg has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), a Maryland State Arts Council Grant (2020), the Magnum Emergency Fund grant (2015), and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship (2014).
His debut monograph, Lost Coast, was published by TBW Books in 2016, followed by his second book, River’s Dream, in 2022. Alongside his practice, Hatleberg has taught photography at a number of institutions, including Cooper Union and Yale University, where he currently serves as a visiting critic in photography. He earned a BA in Painting from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MFA in Photography from Yale University.
