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
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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
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Pull My Daisy box set
Robert Frank
Publisher’s Description:
Pull My Daisy is a collectable object containing Robert Frank’s famous film of 1959 on DVD; a text booklet with an introduction, the transcript of the film and lyrics to the opening song; and a photo-magazine of on-set documentary photos by John Cohen.
Pull My Daisy typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Pull My Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It stars Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bel- lamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo, Frank’s then infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, the movie tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman’s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy was praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in 1968 that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank.
Book and object design by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl
DVD, text booklet and photo-magazine
Text booklet: 32 pages, 1 photograph
Photo-magazine: 56 pages, 36 photographs
14.2 cm x 19.2 cm
(via Steidl)
• 2 June 2012
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Steidl-Concentric Circles, A Chronicle of Steidl Publishers
by Monte Packham
- Cover art by Jim Dine
- 160 pages
- 17 cm x 24 cm
- Clothbound hardcover
- Steidl
- ISBN: 978-3-86930-024-5
- Publication date: December 2010
Publishers Description:
“Gerhard’s like a Communist. You have to go into the salt mines with him. If you’re willing to go there then you’re like brothers in arms and he’ll do what needs be.” Robert Polidori
Concentric Circles chronicles the time between 26 August 2008 and 27 January 2009 at Steidl Publishers. The book is the first to document the printing and publishing house, and is a window into the processes, experiences and bustle of Düstere Strasse 4, Göttingen.
Comprising a log of hundreds of entries, Concentric Circles retells and records events as they unfolded in their unpredictability and urgency – Günter Grass tapping tobacco into his pipe while refining the typography of his book Die Box, Gerhard Steidl deciphering the arabesque faxes of Karl Lagerfeld, the sudden breakdown of the printing press. These daily entries are enriched by interviews with, and original texts by, some of Steidl’s most important collaborators including Lewis Baltz, Jim Dine, David Bailey, Roni Horn, Karl Lagerfeld, Juergen Teller, Tacita Dean, and Joel Sternfeld. A circle owes its symmetry to its centre, from which every point on the circumference is equidistant. What, then, is the centre of Steidl’s concentric circles, in all their different guises? Perhaps the initial idea from which a book grows; Göttingen, where every Steidl book is crafted; or Gerhard Steidl himself, who founded the company 41 years ago and continues to determine the substance of its creations – the nature of its circles?
Steidl’s concentric circles are in flux: new circles of progress and difficulty constantly emerge, while others dissolve. Look closely and the seemingly empty rings of space between circles are actually imbued with traces of past activities – the memory of circles that once were.
• 16 November 2010
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Steidl– Contraband by Taryn Simon
Contraband
by Taryn Simon
Steidl & Partners
- Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Co-published with Gagosian Gallery
- 480 pages, 1075 colour plates
- 24.5 cm x 16.5 cm
- Softcover in one of three colours, selected for shipping at random.
- Steidl & Partners
- ISBN: 978-3-86930-134-1
- Publication date: September 2010
Co-published with Gagosian Gallery
Taryn Simon lived in John F Kennedy International Airport from November 16 through November 20, 2009. JFK processes more international passengers than any other airport in the United States. Contraband includes photographs taken 24 hours a day of over 1000 items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the U.S. from abroad. Over five days, in both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility, Simon documented items including counterfeit American Express travelers checks, overproof Jamaican rum, heroin, a dead hawk, an illegal Mexican passport, deer penis, purses made from endangered species, Cuban cigars, counterfeit Disney DVDs, khat, gold dust, GHB concealed as house cleaner, cow manure tooth powder, counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags, prohibited sausage, undeclared jewelry, steroids and an ostrich egg.
• 15 October 2010
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Broken Manual - Special Edition
by Alec Soth, Lester B. Morrison
Steidl
- Limited to 300 copies
Price will increase after the sale of the first 50 copies
- Softcover housed in its own unique book-safe, with a signed and numbered Soth photograph
- Steidl
- Publication date: October 2010
Publisher’s Description:
Created over four years (2006-10), Alec Soth’s newest book represents a significant departure from his three previous Steidl publications. Entitled Broken Manual, Soth investigates the places in which people retreat to escape civilization. Soth photographs monks, survivalist, hermits and runaways, but this isn’t a conventional documentary book on life “off the grid.” Instead, working with the writer Lester B. Morrison, the authors have created an underground instruction manual for those looking to escape their lives.
It is common for artists to follow up the publication of their books with ‘Special Editions.’ But in the case of Broken Manual, this edition is being presented first. Made in an edition of 300, Soth calls this the ‘Ideal Edition’ of Broken Manual. Each copy of this edition is housed inside of another, one-of-a-kind book. These signed and numbered ‘shell’ books are unique and cut by hand. Inside the shell, there is also a small booklet entitled ‘Liberation Billfold Manifest’ and an 8x10” print signed and numbered by Alec Soth and Lester B. Morrison.
• 7 September 2010
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Past Present Peru
by John Cohen
Steidl
- Vol. 1: 200 pages
Vol. 2: 84 pages
- 284 pages
- 27.5 cm x 28 cm
- Two clothbound hardcover books, one album with 3 music CDs, and another album with 5 film DVDs housed in a slipcase
- Steidl
- ISBN: 978-3-86930-103-7
- Publication date: October 2010
• 1 September 2010
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Steidl presents Lewis Baltz – Works
Lewis Baltz – Works
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A limited Edition of 1,100 copies,
including a numbered certificate, signed by Lewis Baltz
Nine volumes printed quadratone; Sites of Technology printed quadratone and four colour
The Prototype Works 1967–76. Text by Matthew S. Witkovsky. 188 pages
The Tract Houses 1971. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg. Text by Sheryl Conkelton. 60 pages
The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California 1974. 108 pages
Maryland 1976. Text by Jane Livingston. 56 pages
Nevada 1977. Text by Robert Sobieszek. 44 pages
Park City 1980. Text by Hubertus von Amelunxen. 216 pages
San Quentin Point 1986. 120 pages
Near Reno 1986. 32 pages
Continuous Fire Polar Circle 1986. 20 pages
Sites of Technology 1989–91. Text by Antonello Frongia. 120 pages
- 10 volumes
- 27.9 cm x 26.8 cm
- Clothbound hardcovers housed in an embossed clothbound slipcase
- Steidl
- ISBN: 978-3-86930-114-3
- Publication date: August 2010
• 22 August 2010
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Steidl- New book containing three series of photographs by Larry Sultan
- 132 pages, 80 colour plates
- 27.4 cm x 26.9 cm
- Hardcover with a dust jacket
- Steidl & Partners
- ISBN: 978-3-86930-135-8
- Publication date: June 2010
• 16 July 2010
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HUH. Magazine - Robert Frank
An interview with Robert Frank while discussing a book project with Gerhard Steidl. An amazing insight into how ideas are formulated into books and some important words of wisdom by the masters.
• 26 April 2010
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Steidl– Dog Days, Bogotá - Special Edition by Alec Soth
- Hardcover
- A signed first edition book and a signed and numbered original c-type print housed in an embossed clothbound slipcase
- Steidl Editions
- ISBN: No (SD/SE)
- Publication date: January 2008
• 19 April 2010
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- Book design by Juergen Teller and Peter Miles
- 56 pages
- 23.5 cm x 29 cm
- Clothbound hardcover, housed in a slipcase
- Steidl
- ISBN: 978-3-86521-996-1
- Publication date: April 2010
• 1 April 2010
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