Broken Spine

The Last Road North
by Ben Huff

http://www.huffphoto.com/

• 4 December 2012

War Primer 2
E-book optimised for iPad

Publisher’s Description:

War Primer 2 originated as a book published by MACK in 2011 and sold out immediately. It is a sequel to Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer (1955), which was concerned with images of the Second World War, whereas War Primer 2 updates Brecht’s piece with images of conflict generated by both sides of the so-called “War on Terror”.

War Primer 2 was produced in the artists’ studio in a limited edition of 100 copies, applying silkscreen and offset printed images to 100 copies of a 1998 edition (Libris, London) of Bertolt Brecht’s 1955 War Primer. This digital version combines critical and academic essays about War Primer with a screen based rendition of the artist’s book.

(via War Primer 2)

• 27 November 2012

Singular Beauty.
Photographs by Cara Phillips.

2012.
208 pp., color illustraitons throughout,
8½x10¼”.

Publisher’s Description:

Beauty stalks us with a condescending eye. From television screens to magazines, shop windows to billboards, there is hardly a face or figure that hasn’t been trimmed, polished, or reinvented to beleaguer us with an increasingly unattainable paradigm of physical beauty. Here Cara Phillips explores the reassuring environments and ominous implements of cosmetic surgery. The book provides a voyeuristic view into the pristine temples of physical transformation while simultaneously offering an insightful critique of our culture of narcissism.

(via CARA PHILLIPS)

• 24 November 2012

Leer - Nico Baumgarten

Leer by Nico Baumgarten

Title: Leer
Author: Nico Baumgarten
Language: german / english
Number of pages: 220
Size: 15 cm x 20 cm
Edition size: 150
Printing: digital offset
Binding: handsewed french link stitch, naked spine
Cover: hardcover made of recycled corrugated cardboard
Price: 36 € + shipping

ISBN: ISBN-free book

Leer is an ordinary town somewhere in Germany. You can find ordinary people here, just like everywhere else.
From the ex-junkie to the conservative head of a family everybody strives to pursue his own life according to his agenda. But the predominant normality in Leer makes one question how much room there really is for individuality. For one’s own dreams, hopes and expectations.

• 23 November 2012

Veronesi Rose,
by Camille Vivier

20 pages / 23 x 34 cm / full color offset / 2012 / first edition of 500 copies / handnumbered / soft cover
Available in the store

Publisher’s Description:

“These girls? Their curves sketch infinity; their hollows end in, wisps of flesh, dark at times; their eyes pierce the image when they reach you. Waxy bodies drawing the image towards a less synthetic century. Artificial?

Bodies are framed, embedded and enclosed in a photograph. Caught in between limited
spaces: in the depths of a boulder, on a rocky edge, on the top of a shelf. Impossible to escape. Bodies and curios end their way here: still lives aiming at anthropomorphic shapes. In a haze of orange, green, yellow or blue—everything surfaces and evokes the colors of ancient masters.

Another fact: these images are noisy. Noise, a misguiding word that silences light, and
nourishes black and white for a richer silver print. These selfish pictures, pose, freeze out of a storyline. But they take everything they can from the present: urban oddities, the wanderings of a contempary eye, and fragments of a no longer ostentatious luxury. These images, they steal everything: remnants of forgotten French films, some Garrel, some Rivette—but there is no Amour Fou, only an imposed distance. Are they found images? They don’t care about their times, because they curl up—in the city, in wilderness, in a studio or in a forsaken interior. They become a new kind of daguerreotype. It takes us the past to progress.
Light as feathers, round as breasts, these images are voluptuous, straightforward, they
swallow everything. A sentence by Henry Michaux fits them well: “In the warm mist of a
young girl’s breath I found a place…”.

Fabrice Paineau

‘(via Shelter Press » 012)

• 22 November 2012

THINSPIRATION

Author & Concept: Laia Abril
Art Direction: Ramon Pez & Guillermo Brotons
Edition Consulting: Cristina de Middel, Silvia Omedes
Photo Book
46 Unfolded Pages
500 copies
Full Color Offset
22€ shipping cost included

“Thinspiration is a book about the Pro-ana community who has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma. They venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian “lifestyle”. The project is a personal and introspective journey across the nature of obsessive desire and the limits of auto-destruction, denouncing disease’s new risk factors: social networks and photography.”

Order@ www.laiaabril.com/project/thinspiration

• 22 November 2012

Greg Stimac
Empire
Oakland, CA: Land and Sea. 2012

Category: Book
Pages: 280 p.
Cover: Softcover - Other
Binding: glue bound
Process: offset-printed
Color: color
Edition 50
Signed: Unsigned and Unnumbered

Publisher’s Description:

PROJECTS-
OLD FAITHFUL INVERSION AND EMPIRE.
FLIP THE BOOK ONE WAY YOU GET EMPIRE, THE OTHER, OLD FAITHFUL INVERSION.
INTRODUCTION ESSAY BY KARSTEN LUND/ASSISTANT CURATOR OF THE MCA CHICAGO.
REGULAR EDITION OF 50 AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON THE SIDE BAR.
ARTIST EDITION OF 5 COMES IN A RECLAIMED FILM REEL CANISTER WITH A SLIVER OF ORIGINAL FILM FROM OLD FAITHFUL INVERSION USED AS A WAY TO LIFT THE BOOK FROM ITS CASE. THE EDITION IS HAND STAMPED AND NUMBERED. NONE ARE IDENTICAL. CONTACT US FOR ARTIST EDITION.

(via PrintedMatter.org & Land and Sea )

• 16 November 2012

mattaustinphoto:

SLOW DANCE 2012: FORWARD SLASH,

second edition is now available for purchase!

Check out the new look!

Edition of 30 published by there’s just no telling.

$40

If interested, contact me through my website.

• 13 November 2012

eastertroublepress:

sneak peak at a new publication: Working Memory, 2012
will be released at Offprint Paris 2012 on November 15th

Publisher’s Description: Working Memory photobook, 35 x 23.5 cm, handmade special bound cover, includes four custom laser-cut folders with hand-tipped ink jet prints on the front, 56 pages of color photographs divided into four sections, plus a 35mm slide duplicate encased in a translucent, sealed envelope with text hand-typed onto the envelope, edition size 25 Working Memory is a portrait of Shirley Jorjorian, an artist and friend who was living with Dementia when we met. The project combines photographs with scans of papers and other items found in her apartment as well as reproduced pages from a standard test given to assess the various stages of Dementia. The project examines identity’s relationship to memory and the absurdity of attempting photographic preservation of reality. It is presented as an archive in book form, referencing Shirley’s own archive of hug lists she made after being diagnosed with Dementia.

(Source: eastertroublepress.com)

• 13 November 2012

Problems with Decomposition:
Sam Falls
60 Pages
20.3 X 25.4 cm
5 colour screen printed cover tip-in
edition of 1000

Publisher’s description:

Sam Falls explores the intersection of color, perception, digital imagery and natural processes - and in the case of Problems with Decomposition - Sam Falls also brings into context the element of temporal existence.

This series consisting of organic matter juxtaposed against car tires takes on all of these concepts. Moving between the photographic image and their subjects imprint via “stamping” via paints on the print.

(via Sam Falls)

• 13 November 2012

Jem Southam
The River Winter

Text by Richard Hamblyn

96 pages
40 colour plates
33 cm x 27.7 cm
Embossed hardcover

Publication date: November 2012

ISBN 9781907946288

Publisher’s Description:

“Winters, like ice ages, are Janus faced, for after the freeze comes thaw and flood, as water is returned to life and movement. Freeze, thaw, flood: the great climatic cycles that created the topography of the northern hemisphere, and which continue to shape the idea of winter that lies deep in our cultural imagination.”
Richard Hamblyn

In November 2010, after a photographic lull of half a year, Jem Southam took a photograph which became the first in this series, The River Winter and which spurred him to make one of the most concentrated bodies of work in his career. From late autumn through to the earliest signs of spring, along the banks of the river Exe in Devon, Southam chose locations and took photographs, returning at regular intervals. This pattern continued for the next five months with Southam documenting the subtle agencies of change transforming the landscape. By the end of January 2011 he realized this had become a new work, one that caught the effects of the Earth’s turn on film, one which followed the passage of a single winter.

The shift in seasons is presented through a sequence of ten by eight colour contact prints, with which an essay by Richard Hamblyn explores how, since the last ice-age, winter has embedded itself into our cultural psyche.

(via MACK - Jem Southam - The River Winter)

• 11 November 2012

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)

• 8 November 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.

• 6 November 2012

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Veronesi Rose,by Camille Vivier

Veronesi Rose,
by Camille Vivier