Hudson Cantos

In the city … everything comes out of the human gut. It has the new and old, the beautiful, the ugly, the juxtaposition of it all. You’re photographing people when you’re photographing a city. It is an immensely human subject.     Berenice Abbott

Hudson Cantos is a collection of thematic portraits of Hudson, a small city in upstate New York. Under 6000 in population, two square miles in area, it is eminently walkable. My home for fifteen years 2009 to 2024, I meandered—camera in hand—along its streets and alleys.  

Each Canto, while thematically different, still reflects what I love about Hudson—the diversity of the built environment and its multiplicity of class, culture, and identity. 

TO VIEW FULL PREVIEW OF EACH BOOK
and TO PURCHASE BOOKS

Click on a book title link beneath photo to see a full preview. You will also be able to purchase book from the printer, blurb, on that page.

Seven books are $40 each. The eighth book, Shoes, is $25.

EXTRA: If you purchase all eight books in the collection, email me (yesthatkarendavis AT gmail.com) and  I will send you a labeled black clamshell portfolio box to hold the set.

 TREES

WARREN STREET THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

ALLEYS

BUILDINGS AND PARKED CARS, MOSTLY

TWO DOORS OR MORE

SHOES, MOSTLY FOR SALE, MOSTLY VINTAGE

Signs and GraffitiSIGNS OF OUR TIME

BUSHES VINES, FLOWERS AND WEEDS