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.
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
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.
“Ein Magazin über Orte” (a magazine about places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts. Previous issues have been dedicated to themes like the kitchen, the desk, the crime scene, and the sea. Issue no.8 is about the paradise. It shows works of artists like Luc Tuymans, Raymond Pettibon, Ryan McGinley, Jeff Wall and Lidwien van de Ven and texts by authors such as Günter Kunert and Miranda July.
“Ein Magazin über Orte” was founded by Elmar Bambach, Julia Marquardt and Birgit Vogel. More information can be found on www.orte-magazin.de.
Now available on simpleposie!
FINDS has been a project in production over the last year living in Brighton (UK). These selected images have been picked from a large number to document the items left in the streets by the residents of Brighton.
FINDS was printed in 5000 newspapers for the Brighton Photo Fringe (2010) The selected images can be see here, http://www.harry-watts.co.uk/finds/.
There are still a few newspapers left and if you wish to get your hands on one please contact me here, studio@harry-watts.co.uk
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Following an intense period of time spent as a studio assistant, in London. I observed the repetitive re-use of the objects and equipment integral to the photographic studio. The monochrome space and items presente would be reconstructed on a daily basis to create colorful sets of magical lighting; alterer worlds resulting in sleek images of fantasy and desires, which are so readily and hungrily consumed.
This stark body of work literally strips away the glamorous and illusional. The studio space is potentially, yet invisibly occupied by objects which exist only as a aid to the visual creation, rather than meant to be seen as themselves. Created and coated in grey light absorbing materials these objects stand mono-chromic in a empty person-less studio.
By revealing these devices, out from the darkness, come the stains and marks of the make shift, covered with human alterations and adaptations. The studio space becomes a place for theatricality of recorded life.
I have now self-published this work. The book is available at http://www.blackboxpress.co.uk/shop.php
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