Broken Spine

John Gossage's The Pond @ Smithsonian American Art Museum - DCist

(via IPL)

• 16 September 2010

Tags | John Gossage | Smithsonian | Interview |

Stephen Shore and the New Düsseldorf Photography

HC, 22,5 x 21,5 cm.,
260 pp., engl./dt. Ausgabe
2010 - Subskriptionspreis! Ab 01.
October 2010

Photography By: Stephen Shore, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Volker Döhne, Axel Hütte, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Tata Ronkholz, Wendelin Bottländer, Andreas Gursky, Martin Rosswog, Andi Brenner, Simone Nieweg, Boris Becker, Kris Scholz, Stefan Schneider, Claudia Fährenkemper, Claus Goedicke, Matthias Koch, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Miles Coolidge, Bernhard Fuchs

There is a lot circulating around the internet about this exhibition and catalogue. Check out a video with Stephen Shore here; and an article at American Suburb X; and another at Phaidon.

• 15 September 2010

Bookstore - Photography Book Now Winners 2010 | Blurb

Blurb has just announced the winners of this years Photography Book Now competition, make sure to check them out.

• 15 September 2010

| Jodi Bieber | Soweto

Jodi Bieber | Soweto

ISBN: 978-1-77009-806-0
Format: Paperback
Size: 246 x 194mm
Pages: 160pp
Published by Jacana Media in partnership with
the Goethe-Institut South Africa in May 2010

Publisher’s Description:

Acclaimed home-grown photographer Jodi
Bieber has created an open-ended essay which is a celebration and a portrait of life in Soweto today.

The importance of Soweto in the collective consciousness is hard to overstate. It registers as a place born of resistance, perhaps even embodying the South African struggle for freedom.

But the birth of Kwaito is attributed to Soweto too. And beyond the grand narratives, there is, and always was, a proliferation of dancing, art and fashion in this place defined by its energy and cosmopolitan nature. Labelling and unlabelling, claiming and discarding, Sowetans have created Soweto anew - a phenomenon that is celebrated in this photographic publication which contemplates daily lived realities, where here, as elsewhere, South Africans are continually reinventing themselves and their urban space.

J Jodi Bieber’s instinctive wandering throughout
Soweto, and her astonishing yet careful study of
the people, the place and the time, offers us an
opportunity to reflect on the mystery of this
changing space.

Soweto can be purchased through all leading
bookstores in South Africa and through
Amazon.com and Amazon UK from June 2010

• 13 September 2010

Indie Photobook Library

Larrisa Leclair has done an excellent job organizing the Indie Photobook Library. The website just went live, check it out and submit if you can.

• 9 September 2010

PrintedMatter.org : William E. Jones– Killed : Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration

Publisher’s Description:

In this simple and insightful project, Jones presents a collection of cast-off photographs from the Farm Security Administration project as a lens through which to look at an encounter between socially committed documentary photography and the ideological and bureaucratic forces of the state, looking at one depression from the perspective of another. The book presents those photos “killed” by FSA director Roy Stryker, a poetic term for his editorial process of marking those negatives that he deemed unfit for developing with a hole punch, which appear in this book as matte-black voids in the surface of the glossy, black-and-white photos. Jones frames Stryker’s intervention as an act that opens a space for reconsideration of the individual photographs and the FSA project as a whole, speculating on the ideological, aesthetic, and political motivations and implications, a compelling investigation that sits alongside the strange beauty of the images themselves.

• 8 September 2010

Steidl

Broken Manual - Special Edition

by Alec Soth, Lester B. Morrison

Steidl

Limited to 300 copies
Price will increase after the sale of the first 50 copies
Softcover housed in its own unique book-safe, with a signed and numbered Soth photograph
Steidl
Publication date: October 2010

Publisher’s Description:

Created over four years (2006-10), Alec Soth’s newest book represents a significant departure from his three previous Steidl publications. Entitled Broken Manual, Soth investigates the places in which people retreat to escape civilization. Soth photographs monks, survivalist, hermits and runaways, but this isn’t a conventional documentary book on life “off the grid.” Instead, working with the writer Lester B. Morrison, the authors have created an underground instruction manual for those looking to escape their lives.

It is common for artists to follow up the publication of their books with ‘Special Editions.’ But in the case of Broken Manual, this edition is being presented first. Made in an edition of 300, Soth calls this the ‘Ideal Edition’ of Broken Manual. Each copy of this edition is housed inside of another, one-of-a-kind book. These signed and numbered ‘shell’ books are unique and cut by hand. Inside the shell, there is also a small booklet entitled ‘Liberation Billfold Manifest’ and an 8x10” print signed and numbered by Alec Soth and Lester B. Morrison.

• 7 September 2010

Jörg M Colberg ♥ Amwell, Continuum by Raymond Meeks

Love Raymond Meeks’ Books!

• 6 September 2010

Tags | Raymond Meeks | photobook | SPBH |

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts ‘em inna pens…

wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock…

one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest…

O-U-T spells out…goose swoops down and plucks you out.

• 4 September 2010

Tags | Novel | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |

BOOK/PRINT

“ODE TO STREET HASSLE (THE BOYS ARE KEEPING SECRETS) / untitled, nevada 2007”

first edition series of 999 stamped, hand numbered & signed

printed on140g matte coated “Xper” (ODE TO STREET HASSLE) &120g uncoated “Arcoprint” (untitled, nevada 2007)
format: A5 (folded) > 148 × 210 mm / 5.8 × 8.3 inches
cover on 260 g cardboard “Sirio Black”, screenprinted 1 color.
86 pages printed in lithography, 4+4 colors.
perfect binding

wrapped and packaged with sealing wax

$20 (includes shipping). ship internationally as well.

for more info email : sam@samanthacasolari.com

• 2 September 2010

jennilee:

happy to be a part of the publish it yourself exhibition, which features self-published photography books, zines, and posters at the maison d’art bernard anthonioz in nogent-sur-marne, france. curated by laurence vecten & laurent champoussin.

september 11 & 12, 2010
maison d’art bernard anthonioz,
16 rue charles vii, 94130 nogent-sur-marne

Participating artists: Patricia Almeida, Maxwell Anderson, Michelle Arcila, Craig Atkinson, Noah Beil, Beierle + Keijser, Harvey Benge, Simon Berg, Justin Bland, Joscha Bruckert & Andreas Till, Dani Cardona, Laurent Champoussin, David Crespo, Jean Dolhats, Charlotte Dumas, Geoffrey Ellis, Roe Ethridge, Jason Evans, Sam Falls, Stephen Gill, Sébastien Girard, Yann Gross, T. Reilly Hodgson, Ana Kras, Seiji Kumagai, Mathieu Lambert, Marten Lange, Pierre Le Hors, Frank Loriou, Henrik Malmström, Jennilee Marigomen, Ye Rin Mok, Jim Newitt, Keith NG, Conor O’Brien, Andrew Phelps, David Potes, Preston is my Paris, Pedro Ramos, Justin James Reed, Denise Schatz, David Schoerner, Anne Schwalbe, RJ Shaughnessy, Theo Simpson & Tom Common & Ben Mclaughlin, Stéphanie Solinas, Alec Soth, Bert Teunissen, Graeme Vaughan, Wassink Lundgren, Jessica Williams, Grant Willing, Ofer Wolberger, Stuart Woodman.

• 2 September 2010

Please, Take Photographs

Poems by Sindiwe Magona, published by Modjaji Books.

Look for Sindiwe Magona words with Ian van Coller’s photographs in his upcoming book Interior Relations, going to be published by Charles Lane Press next year

• 2 September 2010

Alec Soth, One Mississippi

ahrens-editions:

oneyearofbooks:

Published 2010 by Nazraeli, I also bought it there ($250)

I couldn’t order just one book at Nazraeli !

These are pictures taken during a trip from Minnesota to Memphis.

It is published in the One Picture Book series, so there is a small print - signed - included.

• 2 September 2010