Petrochemical America
Photographs by Richard Misrach
Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
240 pages (plus 24-page insert), 150 four-color images
Hardcover
978-1-59711-191-1
Spring 2012
Designed by Bob Aufuldish, Aufuldish & Warinner

Publisher’s Description:

Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach’s haunting photographic record of Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas—a series of “throughlines,” speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention as “Cancer Alley” when unusual occurrences of cancer were discovered in the region.

This collaboration has resulted in an unprecedented, multilayered document presenting a unique narrative of visual information. Petrochemical America offers in-depth analysis of the causes of decades of environmental abuse along the largest river system in North America. Even more critically, the project offers an extensively researched guidebook to the way in which the petrochemical industry has permeated every facet of contemporary life. What is revealed over the course of the book is that Cancer Alley—although complicated by its own regional histories and particularities—may well be an apt metaphor for the global impact of petrochemicals on the human landscape as a whole.

(via Aperture Foundation :: Petrochemical America)

•  20 September 2012

Blackout. 
Photographs by Dan Holdsworth. 
Steidlville, 2012.
80 pp., 33 color illustrations,
11¼x13”. 

Publisher’s Description:
Occupying a space between the documentary and the make-believe, Dan Holdsworth’s photographs transform Icelandic glaciers into a strange and futuristic landscape. In Blackout the landscape is present only as a brooding, eerie image of itself: the blue of the sky has become the deep black of space, while the earth appears in pale negative. This lunar- like terrain humbles the viewer before a foreign, awe-inspiring nature and repositions the notion of the romantic sublime. 

Steidl(via photo-eye Bookstore | Dan Holdsworth: Blackout | photobook)

•  17 September 2012

huffphoto:

The inaugural issue of the physical Problemata physica has just been released. 

The zine is as self-made as possible, with embossing and thread stitching. The edition is 200, each numbered.

Collin Avery, Jordan Baumgarten, Miklos Boros, Karianne Bueno, Ricardo Cases,André Cepeda, Andres Gonzalez, Gregory Halpern, Cosima Hanebeck, Ani Kington, You Li, Eamon Mac Mahon, Nina Poppe, William Rugen, Andy Sewell,Maurice Van

 With an essay by Andy Adams.

Problemata physica One is available through Ohja Books. 

•  14 September 2012

Looking for Love, 1996.
Photographs by Alec Soth.
Kominek Books, 2012.
56 pp., 43 duotone illustrations,
8x8½”.

Publisher’s Description:

Alec Soth‘s photobook ‘Looking for Love, 1996’, including his photo series of the same name, looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently falls into place. It‘s the phase of the beginning, that forms the basis not only of a new love, but also of each new photographic project. It‘s a book about searching, about the curious and intuitive approach to people and their stories. About falling in love to a medium that opens insights to worlds that would otherwise stay hidden – intensive and haunting like an interminable night at the bar.

(via photo-eye Bookstore | Alec Soth: Looking for Love, 1996 | photobook)

•  13 September 2012

Blisner, Ill. 
Daniel Shea 
First Edition 
50 + 10 A.P. 
Hand Numbered 
120 Pages 

Design - Morgan Brill
Essay - John Friel
Project Coordination - Jennifer Keats
Assembly & Production - April Wilkins

Printed on Red River and Canson archival papers

Publisher’s Description:

About the project and pre-order (please read before purchasing):

Blisner, Ill. is a book project that provides an account of what happened in and what remains of a single Rust Belt town during the process of deindustrialization. Every page is being printed individually, using fully archival media and every book is assembled, cut, and bound by hand. The cover features an image inlay and text inlaid on the spine (photos are currently unavailable of this for the pre-order). The pre-order edition is being offered at cost - each of these books cost me and Columbia College roughly $150 to make (material and labor costs strictly for the production). Later edition copies will cost more. All shipping will go through Fedex to minimize delivery problems. This book was published with the gracious support of Columbia College Chicago Photography Department’s Digital Artist in Residence Program, Red River Paper, and Moab Paper. For more information about the project, download this text that was used as an exhibition proposal.

All buyers will receive the newsprint edition (48 pages, black and white, different edit) for free when it is released in early October!

(via BOOK PREORDER! : Daniel Shea)

•  11 September 2012

Hide & Seek. 
Photographs by Beata Szparagowska. 
Le Caillou Bleu, 2012.
64 pp., color illustraitons throughout,
9x10½”

Publisher’s Description:

Addressing the relationship between the photographic subject and performance, and by extension, the presentation of realities as produced representations, photographer Beata Szparagowska shows how theatrical device plays an essential role in the making of images. “She emphasises that what is shown to the public draws meaning from what is obliterated.” Collected here are a number of intriguing photographs, from masked human subjects to empty landscapes and interior spaces, all speaking to a distinct avoidance of the habitual tropes of representation.

(via photo-eye Bookstore | Beata Szparagowska: Hide & Seek | photo book)

•  8 September 2012

Punch The Camera
Issue 02 

PAGES:  104

COVER TYPE:  Soft Cover

MEASUREMENTS:  14 in. x 9.5 in. spreads

PUBLICATION DATE: August 2012

HIGH QUALITY PRINT ON HEAVY PAPER

Featured photographers and locations:

Spencer Davis- Northwest USA / Southern Utah

Eric Fernandez- Nairobi Kenya / East Coast Africa

Gary Mcleod- Portland, Oregon

Sam Woolf- Middle America

Jennilee Marigomen- Tofino, British Columbia / Washington State

Peter Sutherland- Outer Space

Justin Parkhurst- Oregon Coast / Southern Utah

Jim Mangan- Wyoming

Full issue now available in the store.

(via petersutherland)

•  6 September 2012

A Manual for the Immaterial Worker

Bureau for Open Culture
16 pages; 2011
8.4 x 5.75 inches

(via BOC-MANUAL.indd)

•  5 September 2012

GOSSAGE, John

The Code

Publisher’s Description:

East Hampton: Harper’s Books, 2012.Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Limited to 26 SIGNED and numbered copies, and issued with an original color inkjet print, 8 1/2 X 11 inches, SIGNED by Gossage and housed in a custom cloth folder and slipcase. Published on the occasion of Gossage’s exhibition at Harper’s Books, East Hampton, August 18 - October 1, 2012. A collection of color photographs shot in and around Tokyo. While Gossage’s trademark celebration of the banal is certainly on display here, the photographer charts new territory with shots of Tokyo street scenes, skyscapes and tissue boxes. Fine in a fine jacket, custom folder, gray slipcase. 

(via Harper’s Books | John GOSSAGE | The Code)

•  5 September 2012

jsbj:

etudes-studio:

/ Upcoming title 

STANDARD EDITION
Daniel Everett
Études Books N°1
ISBN 978-2-9533506-5-4

Photography by Daniel Everett
Text by Jill Dawsey
Edited and designed by Études Studio
Published by Études Books, Paris
Image post production by Janvier
First edition, 300 copies
September 2012, printed in EU

Book Signing
Friday, September 28, 1:00 pm
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
MoMA PS1

/ Soon Available online

•  4 September 2012

HIRED HAND, 2012
Athena Torri
Bea Fremderman
Ingo Mittelstaedt
Stuart Bailes

To be released Friday September 7th in Møllegades Boghandel, Copenhagen

Attend: Facebook event

64 pages, 34 plates
Edition of 300 (+50 Special Edition)
Perfect bound with perforated dust cover
Offset printed on Munken Polar Rough 170gsm at Narayana Press
ISBN 978-87-994373-7-5
Published by Vandret Publications

Publisher’s Description:

Preview: Video

Vandret Publications is proud to announce our latest book, Hired Hand, containing photographic works of young artists Stuart Bailes (UK), Bea Fremderman (US), Ingo Mittelstaedt (DE) and Athena Torri (US).

Their elegant landscapes and still lifes are re-appropreated – collaged, juxtaposed and presented alongside internet stock photographs to make up a softspoken picture poem in which brute force and a slight caress suggest an undefined plot.

Also available as special edition with a signed and numbed archival pigment print made by Flemming Ove Bech and Johan Rosenmunthe (designers / editors / publishers).

(via Hired Hand : Lodret Vandret)

•  2 September 2012

J Carrier 
Elementary Calculus

128 pages
74 colour plates
23.5 cm x 19.5 cm
Embossed hardcover

Publication date: September 2012

ISBN 978-1-907946-23-3

Publisher’s Description:

“And your visions 
are your exile in a world where a shadow has no identity, no gravity. 
You walk as if you were someone else.”
Mahmoud Darwish

J Carrier has had a nomadic lifestyle, moving from Washington D.C. to Ecuador, and then to Africa and the Middle East, every move taking him further from his friends and family. During his time in Israel, Carrier began to feel an affinity with the migrants who had landed in the dusty city of Tel Aviv, relating to their experience as an outsider, someone far from home.

Elementary Calculus, through a series of portraits, landscapes and still life photographs, observes the publicly private moments of these peregrine foreigners as they attempt to connect back to their homes. In his documentation of migrants and refugees in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Carrier explores the distance between reality and desire – the want for what was and the hope for what will be – and traces the manner in which we navigate the points between the unknowns. His photographs resonate with the sense that in a foreign country geographical distance loses its physical measure and home feels like a hazy memory, a half-remembered dream.

Carrier’s subtle yet striking images of Israel and the West Bank throw up more questions than they answer. What does this influx of foreigners mean in a nation that is defined by ethnicity and competing claims of ownership?  And how does this complex situation affect these new varieties of refugees?  Is there promise in this land for them?

After graduating with a degree in biological sciences, J. Carrier became a drummer in a punk-rock band. He spent most of the past decade living and working in Africa and Israel and now lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife. He won the fine art award in the New York Photo Awards in 2010, was the Grand Prize Winner at the National Geographic Traveller / PDN “World in Focus” awards in 2010, and was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography in 2011.

(via MACK - J Carrier - Elementary Calculus)

•  2 September 2012

Real Live Germans
Jim Reed

Easter Trouble Press

- set of 41 playing cards with color photographs and text
- encased in hand made, hand stamped boxes
- edition size 100
- 6.6cm x 10cm

With a release video here:

https://vimeo.com/48296412

This project explores questions of identity, nationality, and insider/outsider politics. Limited edition copies are available, send order requests to:

eastertroublepress@gmail.com

Easter Trouble Press is also proud to announce that we will have a table at this year’s offprint Paris, from November 15th-18th, 2012. 

•  1 September 2012