Candidates
Pascal Fellonneau
A5 format,
80 gr,
24 pages, full color.
Publisher’s Description:
From March to June 2012,the french photographer Pascal Fellonneau has been regularly wandering the streets of Paris seeking for posters of French presidential elections. This publication is a selection from his photo work.
For more information about Pascal Fellonneau –
http://pascal.fellonneau.free.fr/
(via Candidates | BOLO)
Tags | Photobook | Zine | Bolo Paper | 2012 |
// EUROPEAN EYES ON JAPAN VOL.14 //
Bojan Radovic / José Pedro Cortes
Published by EU-Japan Fest
2 books, 32 pages (each one), 21x23 cm
Publisher’s Description:
Since 1999, the European Eyes on Japan project has been inviting European photographers to portray and explore contemporary Japan through their work and their camera. So far, thirty-three of the forty-seven Japanese prefectures have been depicted through the works of fifty European photographers. This year the commissioned photographers were Bojan Radovic and José Pedro Cortes.
Tags | photobook | 2012 | eu-japan fest |
Down These Mean Streets
Will Steacy
9.6 x 12.1 inches
Hardcover, 112 pages,108 full page collages
ISBN 978-3-936300-80-2
b.frank books, 2012
First Edition of 400
Publisher’s Description:
With two weeks to Election Day we approach this critical juncture in our nation’s history at a time when the majority of Americans no longer believe the American Dream is attainable. As we ponder our path forward I share with you my first monograph Down These Mean Streets published by b.frank books. In a collage composed of photographs from the Mean Streets series, newspaper and magazine clippings, journal entries, and various material referencing American society, I present the story of the American Dream told through the eyes of the forgotten, those who have been left behind in the ashes of the Great Recession. This visual narrative offers a close examination of the past 4 years and events from the past century that led us here: the post-WWII manufacturing prosperity from 1947-1973, economic policies of the Reagan administration, and how September 11th changed a nation forever. With this work it is my intention to hold a mirror to America as our future will be determined by well we are able to look at ourselves and accept the truth. It is vital that we do not repeat the failures of our past and that we acknowledge and take responsibility for the consequences of the actions and decisions that lead us where we are today.
(via b.frank books)
Tags | b.frank books | Will Steacy | photobook | 2012 |
Texts by Hans Irrek, Beat Wismer and John Yau
Book design by Adeline Morlon
12 large-format Bangkok plates, 12 specially prepared details on translucent paper, and 40 illustrations
112 pages
22 cm x 29 cm
Clothbound hardcover with a cut out hole in the cover
Steidl & Partners
ISBN: 978-3-86930-554-7
Publication date: October 2012
Publisher’s Description:
Andreas Gursky’s new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gursky’s photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailand’s Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans Arp, but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on the first glance, it is only in time that the rubbish of civilisation becomes recognisable floating on the surface of the river – the flotsam of a threatening reality moving upon colourful reflections. Gursky alludes to the ecological problems that jeopardise Bangkok, and which shortly after these images were made, culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated great parts of Thailand.
Exhibition: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 23 September 2012 to 13 January 2013
Co-published with Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
(via Steidl)
Tags | Steidl | Steidlville | Andreas Gursky | 2012 | photobook |
Tags | LBM |Congrats to LBM friends Jason Polan, Charlie B. Ward and Jenny Tondera on the publication of their terrific new book The Land Can Handle It.
View a New York Times profile of the book here
If you can’t join the crew for a pizza party at the International Center of Photography this Thursday evening, buy the book on the Parts & Labor website.
96 pages
59 tritone plates
14 cm x 21 cm
Embossed hardcover
Publication date: October 2012
ISBN 9781907946301
Publisher’s Description:
A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.
Alexander von Humboldt (1845)
The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality of things are recurring themes in Mårten Lange’s work and in Another Language, his first major publication, Lange delves even deeper with this fascination for the natural world.
Combining images of flora, fauna and natural phenomena in an intimate and beautifully crafted book, Lange teases out a subtle narrative - a meteor crashes, a landmass is visible and a distant planet occupies the final page - but the book is more akin to the workings of a scientist collecting specimens. Together the photographs create a cryptic and heterogeneous index of nature, with recurring shapes, patterns and texture, where the clarity and simplicity of the individual photographs contrasts with the enigmatic whole.
Shot in his signature black and white style, his subjects are isolated from their environments, taking on sculptural qualities. Ranging from the sublime (lightning, mountains, a star) to the commonplace (ducks, rocks, a fish), these phenomena all attain equal importance through the democracy of Lange’s photographic treatment.
(via MACK - Mårten Lange - Another Language)
Tags | mack books | 2012 | marten lange | photobook |WALD MICHAEL LANGE
Text Wolfgang Denkel | Christoph Schaden
English, German
80 pages 32 images
34 x 26 cm, hardcover
Hatje Cantz 2012
ISBN 978-3-7757-3355-7
Publisher’s Description:
The forest is the setting for myths and fairy tales and has been a favorite subject in art and literature from time immemorial. Over a period of three years, Michael Lange wandered through Germany’s vast deciduous and coniferous forests, taking pictures with a sure sense of the places where childhood memories and sober documentations of nature blur. The mysterious photographs were taken off the beaten path, in the thickets and underbrush, at dusk or twilight. What was decisive for the cycle was the question of how the nature of stillness can be depicted in an image. The finest of nuances, shadows, and color gradients create thickly atmospheric compositions of concentrated clarity, conveying an experience characterized by the German Romantic word Waldeinsamkeit (woodland solitude). This publication traces the artist’s photographic tracks.
Michael Lange is an autodidact who has been doing reportage photography and portraits for magazines and companies since the late seventies; since the end of the nineties he has devoted himself to his own projects. WALD is his first book. Lange lives in Hamburg. All images in this volume where photographed in Germany between 2009 and 2011 as single images, diptychons and triptychons.
http://www.michaellange.de/
http://www.hatjecantz.de/en_index.php
In conversation: Merry Foresta, Wendy Ewald, Marvin Heiferman, and Carol Squiers
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore547 West 27th StreetNew York, NY
FREE
Join Marvin Heiferman, leading photography curator and editor of Photography Changes Everything, for a conversation with photographer Wendy Ewald, Merry Foresta, former Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, and Carol Squiers, Curator at the International Museum of Photography. They will explore photography’s central role is shaping our public and private, rational and fantasy lives. A book signing will follow the discussion.
OVERVIEW:
In 2011 artist Christian Patterson’s monograph Redheaded Peckerwood was published by MACK to great critical acclaim, being named one of the best books of the year by Art in America, The New York Times, TIME and The Guardianand selling out the first print run. In this talk, Christian Patterson is joined by writer Luc Sante and publisher Michael Mack to discuss photography, narrative and the book. Presented by the BFA Photography Department andDear Dave, magazine.
More information can be found on facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/events/106781052811449/
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel - German
Walther König
2012
LARRY SULTAN AND MIKE MANDEL.
Edited by Thomas Zander. Texts by Charlotte Cotton, Jonathan Lethem, Connie Lewallen, Carter Ratcliff and Thomas Wagner. Cologne 2012
250pp (190 color) some full-page.
Text in German language.
ISBN: 978-3-86560-744-7
Publisher’s Description:
The common “Artists’ Books” “How to Read Music in One Evening” (1974) and “Evidence “(1977) and a Seie twelve billboards, consisting of hand-painted pictures, screen prints, oil paintings and digital prints (1973-1983) heue have a status like the work of Ed Ruscha. The large-format, illustrated with 250 illustrations, long overdue monograph sets in 1973 as students at the San Francisco Art Institute and documented the beginning of a twelve-year collaboration, which in the radical new works in opposition to the then beat and cafe-society era California state. The art historian Carter Ratcliff, born in 1941 in Seattle, presented the work of this eminent influence on subsequent generations of artists. Larry Sultan, born in 1946 in New York, died 2009 in Greenbrae, California. From 1989 - 2009 Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Mike Mandel, born in 1950 in Los Angeles. Lives and works in Watertown, USA. *****This richly illustrated publication chronicles for the first time the collaborative artwork by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. Their prolific artistic collaboration began in 1973 when they were both graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. During the course of the next twelve years, they created nineteen projects together. Their bond as West Coast artists was further strengthened as together they Confronted San Francisco’s post-beat, post-Cafe Society art community that seemed alien to their southern California sensibilities. Mandel and Sultan’s projects during this period took the forms of artists’ books, How To Read Music In One Evening, 1974, and Evidence, 1977, a series of a dozen outdoor billboards in the form of hand painted photographs, silkscreen posters, oil paintings and digitally printed posters, 1973-1983, a film, JPL, 1980, and on installation, Newsroom, 1983.Although they both Pursued individual projects during this twelve year span they nurtured and developed to intense and focused artist collaboration.
(via Walther-King - Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel - dt)
Tags | photobook | 2012 | Walther König |
352 pages
176 duotone plates
17 cm x 24 cm
Cloth cover with two tipped-in prints
Publication date: October 2012
ISBN 978-1-907946-35-6
Publisher’s Description:
Following the phenomenal success of Gerry Johansson’s 2011 publication Pontiac, this October MACK will release Deutschland.Deutschland completes an eighteen-year series of books for which Johansson travelled through America, Sweden, Germany and Mongolia.
In Deutschland, Johansson has produced a visual encyclopedia, cataloging the rural and urban landscapes of Germany. Presented in alphabetical order, the book is devoid of human presence. Johansson’s images traditionally lack a human element but here it is reduced. Discouraging the speculation reserved for reading photography books, the wonder if the order follows a geographical path, is it telling a story? Johansson’s regimentation of the works asks us to look, very simply, at their content.
In carefully structured greyscale images, Johansson sensitively explores German history through its landscape, picking out the industrial scenes, industrial buildings, residential roads and shop fronts. Johansson’s quiet photographs are carefully constructed, grid patterns recur constantly and each frame is packed with information.
(via MACK - Gerry Johansson - Deutschland)
Tags | Mack Books | Photobook | 2012 | Gerry Johansson |
Le Style
Scheltens & Abbenes
2012
100 Signed copies
20,7 x 28,7 cm
96 pages
Linnen bound with dust jacket / Black & white
Designed by Thomas Buxó
Edited by Yannick Bouillis and Thomas Buxó
Published by Off Print
Printed & hand bounded by DDMC, Raalte
Includes 2 signed 21 x 29,7 cm Baryt prints (including 5mm white border)
(via Scheltens & Abbenes Store - Product)
Tags | off print | 2012 | photobook | catalogue |Tags | photobook | 2012 | alessandro roma |A new artist book, titled Flaneur, has been published in a limited edition of 110 copies, 10 of which with a screen print, edited by blisterZine m’eat art.
