Jeffrey Ladd

Ladd gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, in 1991.{{Cite web |title=CV |url=https://www.jeffreyladd.com/pagecv |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=Jeffrey Ladd |language=en-US}}

He is a co-founder of the publisher Errata Editions and its Books on Books series is his concept, publishing affordable facsimile editions of rare and out of print photo books. From 2007 to 2012 he wrote the 5B4 Photography and Books blog, discussing and reviewing photography and art-related books. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.{{Cite news |last=Jobey |first=Liz |date=2009-03-16 |title=Errata Editions: reviving out-of-print photography books |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/16/errata-editions-walker-evans-eugene-ateget-sophie-ristelhueber-chris-killip |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{cite book | first = Nick | last = Turpin | title= 10 – 10 Years of In-Public | year= 2010 | publisher= Nick Turpin | location= London | isbn = 978-0-9563322-1-9}}

Ladd's street photography was included in 10 – 10 Years of In-Public, published by Nick Turpin in 2010. His book The Awful German Language (2020) contains "lists of interesting German vocabulary words which he juxtaposes next to his black and white photographs".{{cite web | url=https://aic.cologne/en/current/calendar/exhibition/fotoraum/jeffrey-ladd/ | title=Art Initiatives Cologne | THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE }} His book, A Field Measure Survey of America Architecture (2021), according to Kyra Ho writing in the Financial Times, contains photographs of houses from the Historic American Buildings Survey's archive of buildings of the 19th- and 20th-century United States, following the Mason–Dixon line, "to create a documentary-style architectural portrait".{{Cite news |last1=Barbakadze |first1=Nini |last2=Simons |first2=Baya |last3=Semic |first3=Sara |last4=Ho |first4=Kyra |date=2021-12-22 |title=Six of the best new art and photography books |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c02caf4c-496e-42ed-93ff-caf8151d87c4 |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=Financial Times}}

Since 2011 he has lived in Cologne, Germany.

• The Awful German Language. Leipzig: Spector, 2020. {{ISBN|978-3959053440}}.
• A Field Measure Survey of America Architecture. London: Mack, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1913620417}}.{{Cite magazine |last=Aletti |first=Vince |date=2021-11-18 |title=An Architectural Survey in Search of America |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-architectural-survey-in-search-of-america |access-date=2024-05-03 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}

• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-9563322-1-9}}. Includes an essay by Jonathan Glancey, "Outlandish Harmony"; a foreword by Nick Turpin; and a chapter each by Ladd and various other In-Public members.

Ladd's work is held in the following permanent collection:

• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York: 5 prints (as of May 3, 2023)

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• {{Official website|www.jeffreyladd.com}}

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