If you haven’t checked it out yet, this winter’s issue of 1000 words photography magazine is excellent. Work by Craig Mammano, Robert Bergman, Nikita Pirogov, Taryn Simon, Tereza Zelenkova, and Antoine d’Agata.

•  3 February 2011

causeicare:

Aged #1 - Avaliable to buy via http://aged.bigcartel.com/

I have 4 free issues for the first 4 people who reblog this…

•  30 January 2011

photo-eye Bookstore | Yann Gross: Kitintale 

Photographs by Yann Gross. 
Yann Gross, 2010. 48 pp., Color illustrations throughout, 9¼x12½”.

Publisher’s Description:
Kampala area & the first East African skatepark constructed by local youngsters. 

The first Uganda skateboarders were inspired by the television, but hadn’t any concrete to practice on in their neighborhood. They built the only skatepark of East Africa with their own hand in Kitintale, a working class suburb of Kampala. With no assistance from government or large NGO’s, kids from Uganda took significant steps to overcome boredom and poverty through skateboarding. Skateboarding keeps the youth busy, combats the development of negative habits and develops a sense of belonging to a community. The elder skateboarders became also kind of educators. They talk about the problems that many Ugandan families are facing like HIV or malaria and try to inculcate values such as respect and solidarity among the younger ones. 

•  28 January 2011

humble arts foundation | the collector’s guide to new art photography vol. 2

Publishers Description:

The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2
Edited by amani olu & Jon Feinstein
Preface by Jon Feinstein | Introduction by Vanessa Kramer

The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 is a 216-page biennial sourcebook that highlights some of the most challenging and innovative new photographic work from 100 photographers internationally. Edited by Humble Arts Foundation’s founders, amani olu and Jon Feinstein, with an introduction by Vanessa Kramer, Director of Photographs, Phillips de Pury & Company, The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 is a resource for collectors, gallerists, curators, art professionals, educators, and the public. This new volume continues Humble’s mission of introducing new talent to people of influence in contemporary art.

The Collector’s Guide Vol. 2 will debut with a book launch party and exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum on Friday, March 4, 2011, 8PM. Click here for details.

Book Details
Photographers: 100
Trim Size: 9 x 10.5 in.
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Illustrations: 174 color, 26 black-and-white
ISBN: 978-0-9796425-1-7

Retail: $49.95 plus S+H.

The Collector’s Guide V2 includes full contact information for each artist and gallery representation information if applicable.

PRE-ORDER A COPY

•  27 January 2011

I Heart Boy

by J Yatrofsky

Book Launch and Exhibition Opening

Thursday, February 10, 7–9 PM
Exhibition: February 10–March 6

The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
For more information, please call 718.666.3049 
Please RSVP: iheartboy@powerHouseArena.com

Publishers Description:

Posing in the intimacy of their own homes, often in studio apartments in Manhattan’s East Village, Lower East Side, or Brooklyn, lanky, hairless bodies are posed sensually against the minimalist backgrounds of naturally lit rooms with sparse furnishings.

Sporting the occasional tattoo and a bit of punk swagger to match their youthful naiveté, with nods to Larry Clark and the ’80s underground music scene, their aesthetic is appreciated by the likes of designer Hedi Slimane, American Apparel, and the most popular indie bands from New York, L.A., London, Paris, and Berlin. This is the undressed and carefree look of today’s urban trendsetter—whose style trickles out of the young, creative circles in cities, only to be copied elsewhere tomorrow.

With each photograph, these sexually charged images of male bodies invite the viewer to dwell upon the welcome tenderness of warm skin. Ultimately I Heart Boy is a series of nudity in the purest sense; of being simply bared as human before the world.

Click here for more information about the book.

(Source: powerhousebooks.com)

•  26 January 2011

errata editions

Books on Books #9
Paul Graham: Beyond Caring
Essays by David Chandler, Jeffrey Ladd
Hardcover w/ Dustjacket
104 pp, 9.5 x 7 in.
50 Color illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-935004-16-5
$39.95
Release date: February 2011
Limited Edition Set also available

Publishers Description:

published in 1986 is now considered one of the key works from Britain’s wave of “New Color” photography that was gaining momentum in the 1980s. While commissioned to present his view of “Britain in 1984,” Graham turned his attention towards the waiting rooms, queues and poor conditions of overburdened Social Security and Unemployment offices across the United Kingdom. Photographing surreptitiously, his camera is both witness and protagonist within a bureaucratic system that speaks to the humiliation and indignity aimed towards the most vulnerable end of society. Books on Books #9 presents every page spread of Graham’s controversial book along with a contemporary essay by writer and curator David Chandler.

•  24 January 2011

photo-eye Bookstore | Alexandra Schwartz: Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles

Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles.
By Alexandra Schwartz.
Mit Press, Cambridge, 2010. 336 pp., 74 illustrations, 4¼x7”

Publisher’s Description:
Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, but he belongs to Los Angeles in a way few other artists do. Since the 1960s, Ruscha’s iconic images of the cityscape and culture of L.A.—freeway gas stations, parking lots, palm trees, motels, swimming pools, and billboards—have both reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Hollywood and the city that surrounds it. In Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles, Alexandra Schwartz views Ruscha’s groundbreaking early work as a window onto the radically shifting cultural and political landscape in which it was produced.

Schwartz examines Ruscha’s diverse body of work, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, books, and films, and discusses his relationship with other artists—including John Altoon, Ed Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston, and Dennis Hopper, all of them associated with the famous Ferus Gallery—with whom he sparked the movement known as West Coast pop. She also explores his links to the mainstream film industry, then evolving into the experimental New Hollywood of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his association with emerging discourse on L.A. architecture and urbanism; and his participation in the politics of the L.A. art world, where his presentation and self-marketing reflected contemporary attitudes toward gender, race, and class.

Despite Ruscha’s fame, this is the first comprehensive critical consideration of his art, and the first to consider it in the context of L.A.’s tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. It shows how Ruscha, borrowing from and critiquing the methods and myths of Hollywood, forged a new paradigm of the artist as a popular culture scribe—a soothsayer for the entertainment age.

•  22 January 2011

minusmanhattan:

In NYC tonight? Get out of the crappy weather and into some art and free cocktails at Milk. Pro-snowboarder Travis Rice and artist Mike Parillo collaborated on this project. RSVP information included above and is still open as of now.

•  18 January 2011

Check out photo-eye’s list of this years best photography books, selected by some big names in the industry.

•  7 January 2011

FINDS has been a project in production over the last year living in Brighton (UK). These selected images have been picked from a large number to document the items left in the streets by the residents of Brighton. 

FINDS was printed in 5000 newspapers for the Brighton Photo Fringe (2010) The selected images can be see here, http://www.harry-watts.co.uk/finds/. 

There are still a few newspapers left and if you wish to get your hands on one please contact me here, studio@harry-watts.co.uk

•  6 January 2011

nothoughtsmagazine:

NO THOUGHTS #4 has been released!!! 

fuckyoudraculas:

i have been featured on NO THOUGHTS zine (portland), you can buy the limited edition here

•  19 December 2010

littlebrownmushroom:

Book Launch:  Tuesday, 6-9pm Partners & Spade  www.partnersandspade.com 

•  29 November 2010

1/2: ZINE:

1/2 is a project of artistic exchange
between four french graphic
designers/illustrators, who live
in four european capitals.

1/2 is an online space to share
and discuss each others work.
1/2 is a biannual original
self-published hand-made zine.
1/2 is around the corner
.
/
1/2 is Laure Boer, Anne-Pauline Mabire,
Lucie Pindat and Chloé Thomas.
1/2 lives in Amsterdam, Berlin,
Paris and Vienna.
1/2 is anywhere anyway

(found via Karamboo)

•  20 November 2010