Max: Sam Penn and Max Battle

Please join us Monday, December 15 for a conversation with Sam Penn and Max Battle about their new book, Max. The book accompanies Penn's solo exhibition at New York Life Gallery, which is on view through December 20.

Max focuses on Penn's collaboration with Battle, using trust to expose the entanglement between her private sexual life and her photographic practice. The exhibition comprises 19 self-portraits, portraits, landscapes, nudes, and close-ups of bodies on four free standing walls that frame her largest-scale prints to date.

In addition to Penn's photographs, the book additionally includes an essay by Battle that gives interiority and narrative to the subject through a series of thirteen vignettes.

Copies of Max and Penn's 2024 book, Bad Behavior, will be available for purchase.