Broken Spine

Directory
Ari Marcopoulos (New York, USA)

1200 Pages
Soft Cover
21.6 x 27.6 cm
b/w Offset
First Edition
2011

Publisher Description:

Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends. Since his days printing photographs for Andy Warhol, he has amassed a huge body of work marked by its arresting and unsentimental intimacy that has been influential to the worlds of art, fashion, and photography.Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marcopoulos: Directory presents a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos’s singular images. Copublished withRizzoli, each book in this limited-edition series includes a print signed by the artist.

Check out the book preview here

• 6 April 2011

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Here and There- The Blue Issue

Here and There 10also see Vol.1
Nakako Hayashi

4 Pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, Color Offset, Bilingual, First Edition, 2010

with Aki Goto, Susan Cianciolo, Bless, Laetitia Benat, Aoi Nagae, Yukinori Maeda, Akira Onozuka, Takashi Homma, Akira Minagawa, Nobuya Hitsuda, Shimabuku, Katsumi Omori, Mark Borthwick, Takehito Koganezaw

Publisher’s Description:

“A year ago, I visited Aichi prefecture in the end of summer. It was to reflect on the work of Nobuya Hitsuda, as well as to see the exhibition “In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students” that reflects on the time, in his 40 years of teaching experience, he spent with his students, such as Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Kyoko Murase, Mika Kato and many more.

Although having visited on an assignment, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Even for people who are actively recognized, there are still moments, numerous times in your life, where one needs to spend those blue hours alone. The process, to be alone, to suffer with unsettled emotion, is necessary to move forward.

Around the same time, I was asked by chance to write an essay, and decided to write on raising children. Raising children is also about continuous time that cannot be controlled. In the end of that summer, those were the two things that were on my mind, so I decided to put together an issue for Here and There, focusing on the blue hour that can make our lives colorful, as well as the color blue itself.

I looked up at the blue sky. Blue is a color that represents the beauty of nature, but at the same time, it exists in many things manmade. Blue can be found in clothing you wear against your skin, somewhere near you, and far away. The aim is to seek for a blue in personal emotions and in the growing process of people and to find it scattered in the world. This, hoping that it will be an attempt to sprout something in people’s hearts.”

Nakako Hayash

• 13 October 2010

Georg Gatsas new book from Nieves: Five Points

48 Pages
Softcover
19.5 x 25.5 cm
Color b/w Offset
First Edition
2010

• 16 February 2010

Spike Jonze

New book from Nieves, by Spike Jonze that accompanies his new film I’m Here

• 26 January 2010

::here and there::

New zine out by nakako books. you can also find it through nieves- http://www.nieves.ch/catalogue/here9.html

• 13 October 2009

Tags | here and there | nakako books | Nieves |

Other Scenes

I got this zine/catalog in Livingston Montana of all places. It was a very good find considering I almost walked past the store that was selling it. Its a publication which coincides with an exhibition “Other Scenes” at the Robert and Tilton gallery in L.A in 2007. It was published by Nieves books and supportd by the ANP and RVCA. I just went to the Nieves website and loved their selection of catalogs, magazines, and zines. A really great company that all modern book lovers should be aware of. What really caught my attention was that it had Ryan McGinley’s work in it. He just released a new book titled Moonshine through Morel Publishing, which is a series of photographs taken this summer, following him and his models exploring caves and caverns. I love his use of colour in the series. He has some very notable images especially the one of the girl used on the cover of “Photography After Frank” by Phillip Gefter.

• 19 September 2009