Publisher’s Description:
LE STYLE BOOK + 2 EDITION PRINTS
2011 / 100 Signed copies / 20,7 x 28,7 cm / 96 pages / Linnen bound with dust jacket / Black & white / English / 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)
• 23 February 2012
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Lumi : Snow
by Tero Niskanen
76 pages, softcover, 15 cm * 21 cm
Black and white, perfect bound
A original inkjet print is pasted on the cover
Self published
Printed in Estonia, edition of 500
Released in April 2011
ISBN 978-952-92-8647-8
Snow was shot between 2010 and 2011 in Helsinki, Finland. It was inspired by the snowiest winter in 100 years. The book aims to approach snow as a sensitive, independent and reflecting entity.
• 9 January 2012
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Coney Island Malibu Beach
Coney Island Malibu Beach
by Benjamin Acree, Jackson Eaton & Robert S. Johnson
Published August 2011 by Big City Press, Perth, Australia
64pgs, full colour offset, 29.7 x 21 cm
Debossed and infolded softcover
Essay by Matthew Hall & conversation with Benjamin Acree
Limited edition of 500
ISBN (Australia): 978-0-9807878-3-2
Order online: http://www.bigcitypress.com.au/coney.html
This book gathers together a series of photographs taken by Benjamin Acree, Jackson Eaton and Robert S. Johnson, as they collectively passed through the United States in 2009. What is initially striking in these images is the very absence of the cultivated, dominant images, we all, as everyday consumers of imagery and photography, have as archetypes of Malibu Beach: there are no glimmering building facades, no sun-baked, oil-glistening skin, no lines of palm trees in crepuscular light. It is this absence that defines the collection; an absence which does not attempt to signify the sanctity of the condition, but provides, determinedly, its own portrait of the Real …. The photographers never presume the unfamiliar, they reveal it, they have passed through the catastrophe, have borne witness to violence of everyday life and have amassed it before us. They have given this to us, through their experiences, through their habit of seeing, they have experienced it and have laid out their attendant figures in this book.
- Matthew Hall
• 9 January 2012
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Donovan Wylie, One Day Taking Photographs in Belfast
Donovan Wylie One Day Taking Photographs In Belfast
by Peter Mann
Printed in an edition of 200 copies, each with a unique cover.
This is a book about watching a photographer at work.The Photographs were taken one afternoon in 2005 during a walk around north Belfast. At the time Peter Mann and Donovan Wylie were in Belfast working on a film about the Maze prison. As well as the ongoing Maze project Magnum photographer Wylie was also making a photographic record of the military architecture in the city of Belfast itself.
Peter Mann has collaborated on film and photography projects with Donovan Wylie since they met in 2000. As well as working on the documentary films Wylie made in the early 2000’s he has edited Wylie’s last three books ‘British Watchtowers’ 2007 (Consultant editor), ‘Maze 2’, 2009 and ‘Outposts’ 2011.
The book is printed digitally and every one of the 200 copies has a completely unique cover and is numbered on the reverse, something that simply cannot be done with litho.
• 9 January 2012
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Exhibition on view:
Monday, November 7–Saturday, November 12, 2011
PRINTING SHOW is a recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name. Following the format of the original performance as closely as possible, in lieu of prints mounted on the gallery walls, visitors to the gallery will find the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine duplicating his photographic prints. As was done forty years ago, these photocopied sheets will be assembled and staple-bound with a silk-screened cover printed in the gallery space during the performance.
In 1974, the ad hoc photobook that resulted from this process, Another Country—New York, featured images from a trip Moriyama had made to New York in 1971. The photobook, which was produced as ephemera for the performance, has since become a rare collector’s item. In the 2011 recreation, the work featured will include a selection of images made in Tokyo over the last fifteen years.
Visitors to the gallery will be active collaborators in the photobook-making process. In 1974, the photographer sequenced and collated the photocopied sheets, leaving the choice of silkscreen cover to the visitor. In 2011, the visitor will select, edit, and sequence the sheets of the ad hoc photobook, titled TKY. Visitors will choose from a menu of fifty-four double-sided photocopied sheets that will be on view in the gallery space. Visitors will also make a choice of cover. All copies made during the performance interval will be signed by the photographer.
PRINTING SHOW—TKY embodies and addresses fundamental issues impacting the landscape of photobook publishing, as well as the communication of ideas in a post-digital era.
(via Aperture Foundation | Aperture Gallery | PRINTING SHOW—TKY)
• 3 November 2011
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hard copy
Hard Copy is an innovative research and publishing platform that aims to reflect on artist books and printmaking, central to emerging artistic and design practices. Initiated in 2010 by artist, curator and tutor Delphine Bedel, this three-year project is conceived for the Master of Fine Arts WORK.MASTER at the Geneva University of Art and Design.
Hard Copy explore the space of a book and formats of display, editorial concepts, extended printing techniques, graphic design and typographic researches. By publishing artist books and multiples and curating exhibitions, workshops and lectures series with keynote speakers (Seth Siegelaub, Daniel McClean, Dexter Sinister, etc), Hard Copy aims to contextualize and expand this research historically and theoretically.
• 1 November 2011
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Interior Relations
Photographs by Ian van Coller
Essay by Sindiwe Magona
11.5 in. x 13.25 in. / 68 pages / 27 full color plates / Casebound in Japanese saifu cloth with French fold dustjacket / Edition of 500 /
ISBN 978-0-9818770-3-7
Publisher’s Description:
While Ian van Coller was growing up in the 1970s, the black women working in his parents’ upper class home in a whites-only suburb of Johannesburg were valued as members of the family. Nannies and maids who helped raise the children and run the household, they were ever-present confidants and friends. And yet they were conspicuously absent from family vacations and photo albums.
Apartheid, though it has been officially consigned to history, continues to live on in nearly a million South African homes where blacks still serve the needs of the white minority. Ian van Coller’s first monograph, Interior Relations, deftly probes this enduring racial fault line with a simple yet elegant premise: he has asked black housekeepers, nannies and maids to wear their finest clothes, and to sit for formal portraits in the homes they care for.
Though the subjects’ white employers are never shown, evidence of their privilege crowds around the women, forever out of reach: every portrait a cameo of apartheid in redux.
For Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most celebrated black writers, working as a domestic in her youth provided a desperately needed but meager income that she was forced to supplement by selling sheep heads on the street. Serving white families represented a constriction of the soul that was broken only by the force of her will to become a writer.
Magona’s introduction channels the voices of van Coller’s subjects through her own years as a domestic worker. Ian van Coller’s delicate and reverential portraits, coupled with Sindiwe Magona’s searing essay, offer a starkly original view of the intersection of race and class in post-apartheid South Africa.
(via Charles Lane Press | Interior Relations)
• 3 October 2011
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Taryn Simon
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters
With numerous gatefolds, 3 different paper stocks and over 1000 full colour images
Texts by Homi K. Bhabha and Geoffrey Batchen
864 pages, 25 cm x 34 cm, Hardcover
Publication date: May 2011
ISBN 978-1-907946-05-9
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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is a significant and extensive book of a major new body of work by the American artist Taryn Simon with texts by Homi K. Bhabha and Geoffrey Batchen, to accompany an exhibition at Tate Modern, London in May 2011 and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin in September 2011.
Over a four-year period, Simon traveled around the world recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each chapter, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood and other components of fate.
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is divided into eighteen chapters. Each chapter is comprised of three segments: an annotation, a large portrait series depicting bloodline members and a second series containing photographic evidence. 817 portraits are systematically arranged within their chapters. Simon includes empty portraits, representing living members of a bloodline who could not be photographed. The reasons for these absences are provided in the captions and include imprisonment, military service, dengue fever and women not granted permission to be photographed. Simon’s presentation explores the struggle to determine codes and patterns embedded in the narratives she documents. These narratives are recognisable as variants (versions, renderings, adaptations) of historical or future episodes. In contrast to the systematic ordering of a bloodline, the seductive elements of these stories - violence, resilience, corruption and survival - disorient the work’s highly structured appearance.
(via MACK BOOKS)
• 2 October 2011
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Pontiac by Gerry Johansson
Clothbound hardcover with tipped-in photo
17.5 x 24.5 cm portrait
160 pages, 111 plates
ISBN 978-1-907946-09-7
Publishers Description:
Sensitive and subtle, Johansson hints at town life through the occasional car or lone figure but for the most part draws the reader’s eye to the simplistic architecture of a small American town. In singling out Pontiac, Johansson offers comment on more than the landscape, photographing a microcosm of the effects of the decline in the auto industry in Michigan. His images offer us the opportunity to analyze the landscape with a characteristic Swedish melancholy, echoing the new topographical photographers of the 1970s.
Pontiac marks the end of an eighteen year project by Gerry Johansson. In 1993 Johansson visited America, taking photographs on his travels from one small town to the next. He traveled through the states again in 1994 and 1996, repeating this photographic process. This work was compiled in Amerika, published in 1998. It was followed by a collection of photographs from his homeland, Sverige in 2005. Critical response led Johansson to narrow his camera’s eye to a single town, Kvidinge, a portrait of a Swedish town, published in 2007. Johansson revisited America in 2010, traveling to Pontiac, Michigan, and this became the basis for his final piece in this series.
(via MACK BOOKS)
• 30 July 2011
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
People In Trouble Laughing Pushed To The Ground
Hardcover, 20.3 x 23 cm portrait, 416 pp, 212 plates
ISBN 978-1-907946-04-2
Publisher’s Description:
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
People In Trouble Laughing Pushed To The Ground
People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left standing and falling…
The Belfast Exposed Archive occupies a small room on the first floor at 23 Donegal Street and contains over 14,000 black-and-white contact sheets, documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland. These are photographs taken by professional photo-journalists and ‘civilian’ photographers, chronicling protests, funerals and acts of terrorism as well as the more ordinary stuff of life: drinking tea; kissing girls; watching trains.
Belfast Exposed was founded in 1983 as a response to concern over the careful control of images depicting British military activity during the Troubles. Whenever an image in this archive was chosen, approved or selected, a blue, red or yellow dot was placed on the surface of the contact sheet as a marker. The position of the dots provided us with a code; a set of instructions for how to frame the photographs in this book. Each of the circular photographs shown on the previous pages reveals the area beneath these circular stickers; the part of each image that has been obscured from view the moment it was selected. Each of these fragments – composed by the random gesture of the archivist - offers up a self-contained universe all of its own; a small moment of desire or frustration or thwarted communication that is re-animated here after many years in darkness.
The marks on the surface of the contact strips – across the image itself – allude to the presence of many visitors. These include successive archivists, who have ordered, catalogued and re-catalogued this jumble of images. For many years the archive was also made available to members of the public, and sometimes they would deface their own image with a marker pen, ink or scissors. So, in addition to the marks made by generations of archivists, photo editors, legal aides and activists, the traces of these very personal obliterations are also visible. They are the gestures of those who wished to remain anonymous.
(via MACK BOOKS)
• 11 July 2011
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Oliver Chanarin |
Picked this up at the MCA in Chicago… A beautiful book with some haunting photographs
• 13 April 2011
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Erik van der Weijde |
Der Baum |
Lonely Boy Mag
Just Purchased!
Lonely Boy Mag. (No. A-1: Alec Soth’s Midwestern Exotica)
Edition of 1000
Designed by Alec Soth
Publication date, March, 2011
64 pages, 5.4×8.5in, color offset, staple-bound
The first in a series of men’s magazines, this issue features poetry, erotic text, pictures of ex-girlfriends and a photo-story by Soth.
• 6 April 2011
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