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)

• 25 October 2012

Bangkok

by Andreas Gursky

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)

• 25 October 2012

Mårten Lange
Another Language

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)

• 11 October 2012

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

• 10 October 2012

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.

(via Aperture Foundation :: In conversation: Merry Foresta, Wendy Ewald, Marvin Heiferman, and Carol Squiers)

• 24 September 2012

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)

• 23 September 2012

Tags | photobook | 2012 | Walther König |

Gerry Johansson
Deutschland

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)

• 23 September 2012

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)

Limited edtion artist book of 100 copies including 2 black & white edition prints on Baryt paper.

This is the first publication in the Off Print artist book series. The book shows a selection of Scheltens & Abbenes black & white works made for both art & applied projects edited and designed by Thomas Buxó and Yannick Bouillis.

(via Scheltens & Abbenes Store - Product)

• 22 September 2012

alessandroroma:

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.

• 20 September 2012

Tags | photobook | 2012 | alessandro roma |

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

Tags | photobook | ohja books | 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

Bangkok

Mårten Lange Another Language

Gerry Johansson Deutschland

Mårten Lange
Another Language

Gerry Johansson
Deutschland