Portrait d’une jeune femme,
by Thomas Boivin;
November 2012,
500 copies signed & numbered.
Portrait d’une jeune femme - (portrait of a young lady) : A selection of portraits, made during a 2 years relationship.
Tags | photobook | self published | 2012 | submission |
«Know More» –
by Norbert Bayer,
32 pages,
18,5 cm x 23,7 cm,
Risography print by Ourpress,
1st edition 300 copies,
2012
Publisher’s Description:
«Know More» is the name of an artist book by Norbert Bayer. Know What? No More? It reads like a Surrealist novel minus the text, which is to say it does not read like a novel exactly but like a mysterious fictionalization of life, or like an unveiling of the wondrous qualities that life actually has — if you are able to access them. A series of photographs present an odd succession of images that compel one to string them together in a sort of rhyme: plant fronds, feathered metallic ground, the edge of nothingness, the edge of a cornice, a battered coffee table, the people at the party… plants in a window, plants in a market… a curtain curled up with its shadow, two bananas spooning, a pair of shoes with their tongues hanging out. From beginning to end, each image is framed in Masonic mystery by a diamond that seems to zero in on something. But on what? And why? It’s a game Bayer has played himself, and each viewer must play it in turn, uniquely. It will never end the same way twice.
—Lori Waxman 6/9/12 3:52 PM
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Tags | photobook | artists book | self published | 2012 | submission |
Diffusion: Unconventional Photography, Volume IV
Hardbound with foil & dust jacket
8.5”x11”
96 pages, full color, offset press
English language
Published 2012
limited edition of 100
Softbound
96 pages, full color, offset press, perfect bound
Cover: UV coated
8.25 in. × 10.75 in.
English language
Published 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9844432-2-2
limited edition of 1,000
FEATURED ARTISTS
Jennifer B Hudson
John Chervinsky
Leah McDonald
Jim Leisy
ARTICLES
Exploring the Muse: Susan kae Grant, Ken Rosenthal and Polly Chandler by Susan Burnstine
Transient Reflections and Fixed Impressions: Thoughts on the Physical Photograph in a Digital Age by Jeffrey Baker
Abstract Photography by Ryan Nabulsi
Tags | photobook | zine | 2012 | submission |
Title: Leer
Author: Nico Baumgarten
Language: german / english
Number of pages: 220
Size: 15 cm x 20 cm
Edition size: 150
Printing: digital offset
Binding: handsewed french link stitch, naked spine
Cover: hardcover made of recycled corrugated cardboard
Price: 36 € + shipping
ISBN: ISBN-free book
Leer is an ordinary town somewhere in Germany. You can find ordinary people here, just like everywhere else.
From the ex-junkie to the conservative head of a family everybody strives to pursue his own life according to his agenda. But the predominant normality in Leer makes one question how much room there really is for individuality. For one’s own dreams, hopes and expectations.
Author & Concept: Laia Abril
Art Direction: Ramon Pez & Guillermo Brotons
Edition Consulting: Cristina de Middel, Silvia Omedes
Photo Book
46 Unfolded Pages
500 copies
Full Color Offset
22€ shipping cost included
“Thinspiration is a book about the Pro-ana community who has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma. They venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian “lifestyle”. The project is a personal and introspective journey across the nature of obsessive desire and the limits of auto-destruction, denouncing disease’s new risk factors: social networks and photography.”
Order@ www.laiaabril.com/project/thinspiration
Cars Fixed by Adam Smith
5.5” x 8.5”
26 pages
Saddle-stitched
Edition of 50
$7.50
Tags | zine | self published | submission |
Unordinary Lives, Afghanistan 2003 - 2009
Manca Juvan
afterwords by Clare Lockhart and Karim Merchant, design by Bostjan Pavletic
196 pages
21 x 26 cm
Offset printing
Edition size: 700 copies
Price: 50 Euros + shipping
“More than ten years after 9/11 and the international community’s intervention against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the promises of bringing democracy and rebuilding this war-torn nation have proved elusive. The ongoing war and instability in Afghanistan - justified in the name of international security yet sweetened with fleeting glimpses of domestic peace, development and prosperity - continues to diminish the hope of the Afghan people, who have been caught up in this endless conflict of interests and struggles for money, power, and control. Stories of ordinary Afghans deserve to be both told and seen in order to remind us what the real images of war and poverty - of lives far from ordinary - look like.”
To order: http://unordinarylives.com/buy-the-book/
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Who Dares Wins
By Stephen Wooldridge
Digital Colour print
289mm x 380mm
Edition of 300
Newspaper
28PP
Project Description:
Who dares wins is a fictional portrayal of four young men preparing for a career with the British Army. The series is a comment on both the Armed Forces and society, politically and socially. Using these autonomous characters, the viewer is prompted to consider these young men as individuals and as a representation of the British Army today. The series is at times absurd, dull and melancholic. Such are the lives of these individuals.
Tags | PhotoBook | self published | submission | artist book |
Title: Surfing Hong Kong
Artist: James Feldman
Designer: Elise Inthavixay
40 pages, 37 color plates
24.4 x 16.8 cm / 9 5/8 x 6 5/8 in
edition of 500
offset lithograph
ISBN: 978-988-16222-1-1
In Surfing Hong Kong (2012) James Feldman combines “soulful” surf photographs taken 15 to 20 years ago in California, with more recent photographs taken in Hong Kong (where he has lived since 2005). In these 37 images, the moods and surroundings of two discrete periods of a life are woven digitally together, and resonate in a way that’s as uncomfortable with the label “fiction”, as with the label “documentary”.
book available here: http://hongkongpaintings.com/surfing_hong_kong_order.html
Twentysix Gasoline Cans
Publication date: March, 2012
Perfect-bound, 5.5”x7.25”
Printed by McGreevy Pro Lab
© Joseph Putrock
Edition of 300
available through Small Batch Editions
Twentysix Gasoline Cans by Joseph Putrock is an homage to Ed Ruscha’s 1962 seminal book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations. This book contains 26 color images shot by Putrock over a 3 year period.
Twentysix Gasoline Cans is available for purchase for $20 for the book alone, or for $50 with a choice of one of two 8″x10″ digital c-prints by the artist. The two available prints are Hidden Gas Can (Option One - 20 available) and Hoader’s Can Can #1, Cohoes, NY (Option Two - 20 available).
About the artist
Joseph Putrock’s photographs are simple observations of everyday life. His photographs contain nothing but the objects or scenes that everyone encounters on a daily basis, and often times miss. He merely captures these simplicities, which may have gone unnoticed, and holds them up for further contemplation. Odd Juxtapositions, idiosyncratic colors, and humor are all elements that creep into these sometimes complex, and sometimes pedantic images.
For more information on Joseph Putrock, visit Stafford Contemporary.
Sarah Hobbs: Small Problems in Living
Quote from publisher:
This is a superbly illustrated overview of the work of contemporary artist/photographer Sarah Hobbs. The photographs collected here are the product of an ongoing exploration into our neurotic tendencies. Hobbs’s work explores phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders and how we attempt to deal with them. Set in domestic spaces, the images illustrate the idea that even the most comfortable spaces can house our uneasiness. A compilation of three series, the book allows the viewer to see the work as a whole in order to gain a full understanding of Hobbs’ intent to explore the human psyche and relish the idea that we are all beautifully flawed.
Artists: Sarah Hobbs
Authors: Lisa Kurzner, Winifred Gallagher
Publisher: Charta
Format: 28 x 28 cm
Pages: 72
Binding: hardback
Illustrations: 25 including 24 in color
Year: 2011
Edition: english
ISBN 978-88-8158-831-2
D.A.P. spring 2012 catalogue: p. 172
