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

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

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

Tags | Vandret Publications | 2012 | photobook |

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

“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

Anne Sophie Merryman
Mrs. Merryman’s Collection

112 pages
86 colour plates
24.5 cm x 27 cm
Hardback

Publication date: June 2012

ISBN 978-1-907946-25-7

Publisher’s Description:

Anne-Marie Merryman collected postcards between 1937 and 1980, a collection inherited by her granddaughter, Anne Sophie Merryman.

The book, Mrs. Merryman’s Collection, presents the postcards which together form the story of two intertwined lives - one life lived travelling the world through the postcard images, the other a child and then adult whose life and relationship to her own history and her future were influenced by the collection.

While Anne-Marie and Anne Sophie never met, both their lives were inspired by the postcard collection - a relationship that was born, and continues to flourish, in the realms of the imagination.

Mrs. Merryman’s Collection is the winner of the First Book Award 2012, an award by the National Media Museum and MACK to support the publication of a book by a previously unpublished photographer.

(via MACK - Anne Sophie Merryman - Mrs. Merryman’s Collection)

• 18 June 2012

Lester B. Morrison, House of Coates

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