•  31 August 2012

Album, Magazin für Fotografie
Issue 3
2012

Publisher’s Description:

The white, the erased, the disap­pearing, the disin­te­gra­ting, the scat­tered, the neboulsly shape­less, the dissol­ving, the outs­hined, the invi­sible, the not yet visible, the minimal, the rudi­men­tary, the dimi­nished, the disguised, the inde­pic­table, the long forgotten, the lost.

Photo­graphy is the ever­las­ting fight against disap­pearance. It serves as evidence, as a recourse and reminder; a trace of the past, a chemical inscrip­tion of brief moments. Through an inci­dent of light, a juxt­a­po­si­tion of light and dark emerg– es on the film-stock’s coating. The very light which makes ever­y­thing visible is like­wise capable of anni­hil­ating it’s own traces. Where are the limits of the depic­table? Where does the depicted image begin to dissolve?

The artists of issue #3 are Ben Alper , Viktoria Binschtok , Adam Broom­berg and Oliver Chanarin , Ezio D’Agostino , Goekhan Erdogan, Altan Eskin , Nicolai Howalt , Daniel Müller-Jansen , Jim Reed, Simone Schulz, Eva Stenram , andStephan Till­mans .

The texts have been written by Jon Fein­stein, Sandra Groll, Kris­tina Lykke Hansen, Jule Hill­gärtner, Chris­tian Janecke, Christof Maul, Lars Mextorf, Walter Benn Michaels, Marc Ries, and Phil­ippa Snow.

(via Issue #3 “The White Album” | Album, Magazin für Fotografie)

•  14 August 2012

Volume 1: A Fieldguide For The International Survivalist; Expanding The Network

by: Gerald Edwards III

2006
37 pages,
8.26” x 11.69”
perfect binding, black and white interior ink
Unlimited Edition

Publisher’s Description:

This Anthology presents picture of what it takes for the global citizen to thrive on the larger board of life. From harnessing free energy to self defense, The Fieldguide equips the reader with knowledge and techniques in order to take it to the next level in the years to come.

(via Books : Gerald Edwards III)

•  13 August 2012

Cars Fixed by Adam Smith

5.5” x 8.5”

26 pages

Saddle-stitched

Edition of 50

$7.50

click to buy

•  8 August 2012

Justin James Reed
2013
Horses Think Press 

(via 2013)

•  6 August 2012

oneyearofbooks:

Self-published 2012

there is a poster inside

•  2 August 2012

Michela Palermo
“As I Was Following You”

Publisher’s Description:

Coming to grips with a shattered reality, I tried to make an excursion into the uncertainties of urban life, playing with the echo of imaginary world. My subjects accept the failure of order; they sense their own inability to control the world and yet, they keep trying.

(Source: vimeo.com)

•  21 July 2012

“cbm: chopped liver press
july 19, 2012, 6 p.m. - july 19, 2012, 9 p.m.

For the launch of the Copeland Book Market Chopped Liver Press (Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin) will set up a screenprinting facility producing hand-made ‘Chopped Liver’ posters printed on random pages of the International Herald Tribune. They will also screen the film Black Market. 

Black Market takes its name from the eponymous film Al Suq al Soda, or Black Market. Directed by the surrealist painter-turned-filmmaker Kamel el-Telmissany, the film was banned shortly after its release in Egypt in 1945, and has since all but disappeared. What is more, this rare copy of the film, a recording from television, has been partially erased by another film – an unknown porno probably made in the 1970s or 80s. The two films share the same strip of magnetic tape, but sit uncomfortably together and transmit inverse aesthetic, moral and political positions. www.choppedliver.info “

•  19 July 2012

A Part
Stepanka Peterka and Zachary Allen

52 colour pages
5.25″ x 6.75″
variable covers, hand bound and sewn
edition of 10
publication date: June 2012

Publisher’s Description:

A Part is inspired by a relationship experienced primarily through photography, crystals, and digital communication. Regardless of an uncertain future, two people battled to connect over space, time zones and sporadic meetings. Represented as a selection from an ongoing archive of text messages, photographs and screen grabs, this book aims to reconcile with the intra and interpersonal experiences of magic, time, change, expectations and the idea of being together.

(via Broken Editions)

•  30 June 2012

“Aperture is pleased to present the digital edition of The PhotoBook Review Issue 002. This issue’s guest editor,Marcus Schaden, introduces The Dummy Shop; Gerry Badgerand Tate Shaw on sequencing photographs; plus the usual profiles and book reviews of the good, the bad, and the beautiful:Ivan Vartanian on Katsumi Omori; Susan Bright on the POV Female series; Joachim Brohm on Michael Schmidt; James Crump on Ryan McGinley, and many more.”

Publisher’s Description:

The PhotoBook Review is a publication dedicated to the consideration of the photobook—focusing on the best photography books being published, from the coffee-table book to the handmade artist’s edition, and on creating a better understanding of the ecosystem of the photobook as a whole.

(via The PhotoBook Review Magazine Subscription, 1 Digital Issue | Zinio - The World’s Largest Newsstand)

•  28 June 2012

“Lime” 
Josef Koudelka 
Éditions Xavier Barral 
248 pages - 24 x 33 cm

“Josef Koudelka’s latest book, “Lime” (Xavier Barral), follows up on the photographer’s work on Limestone (La Martinière, 2001). That work featuring 36 panoramic photographs was published in a limited edition of 500 copies and is today out-of-print. 
 
In the 245-page “Lime”, we find those same previously published photographs plus more recent ones on the same subject. In the text that accompanies the pictures, “Nature and Man: Josef Koudelka, The Freedom to Observe,” Jacqueline de Ponton d’Amécourt emphasizes the interest a number of painters since the 19th century have taken in rock quarries, from Gustave Courbet in 1850 and, later, Paul Cezanne at the Montagne Saint Victoire, to Pablo Picasso and the old quarries near the Chateau de Vauvenargues. 
Like these great painters of the 19th century, Koudelka chose quarries as his subject. At the invitation of the largest global mining group, the photographer regularly visits quarries across the world. From 1999 to 2010, he visited 51 quarries in 11 countries, sometimes spending days on location. He brought back panoramic black-and-white photographs showing apocalyptic landscapes that show traces of mankind, even though the pictures lack human presence to provide a sense of scale. 
It is for this reason that Koudelka does not consider this series as a commission, but rather a mission related to the “current concerns about man’s harmful effect on landscapes.” With this book, Koudelka touches on something timely and universal: human activity that permanently changes the landscape. ”
Others will see in this book an instance of Land Art.

Bernard Perrine 
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr 

(via Josef Koudelka’s latest book: Lime | La Lettre de la Photographie)

•  26 June 2012

Night & Day:

David Armstrong

150+ pages | 21 X 28 cm 
Casebound with Blue cloth  

Cover Designed by Rene Ricard - Conversation Jack Pierson

Publisher’s Description:

Night & Day brings together a selection of iconic Kodachrome pictures from David Armstrong’s archive of the late 70’s and early 80’s New York scene.

The images illuminate an intimate and carefree epoch of innocent-bohemian wilderness -a time just before the tumultuos 80’s.

Dispersed through out the series are images of generation of youngsters which changed culture - including Rene Ricard, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jean-Michel Basquait, John Waters to mention a few.

Vernacular yet with a undeniable ability to capture and create timeless images, David Armstrong’s Night & Day tells tales of a bygone era.

The book contains 110 images, including a facsimile of an  original poem typed out in 1979 by Rene Ricard.

(via Mörel David Armstrong)

•  25 June 2012

5on1:

Issue 1 
5/1 - Portraits

Issue 1 focuses on portraits and features work from Barnaby Kent, Paul John Nelson, Jake Krushell, Stephanie Mill and Daniel Navarrete. 

It is a 40 page zine printed on uncoated 160gsm paper, saddle stitched and self published in an edition of 25.

£5 + postage (£1.50 UK / £2.50 Europe / £3.00 Rest of the World)
(please use the link to the left and feel free to reblog, thanks again guys) 

•  23 June 2012