Tearing Images From Pictures
In any given week there are so many beautiful print publications released. Individuals, small print runs, specialty publishers and even large publishing houses all proving that print is far from dead. We are most certainly hitting the golden age of photography.
The below books and periodicals added to Mediaeater Archive in the final week of February 2015.
(-editors note still adding to this ‘till the end of the week; some books may have been published earlier and have either just became available or new to me. For the most part publications are from this week)
Books
SPBH Lucas Blalock Vol VII of the Book Club.
Membership has it’s privileges.
Last Stop (signed) by George Georgiou
The work is shot across the whole of London through the windows of buses
Topographies (signed) by Monica Ursina Jäger (slipcased)
Her first publication with Kodoji Press.
Disguise and Deception (signed) by Anika Schwarzlose
“a mimetic exchange of strategies for make believe”
Things Left Unsaid (signed) by Paul Seawright
Tokyo Parrots by Yoshinori Mizutani
Shocked by my encounter of the parakeets, I chased them for about a year afterwards. They broke up into groups and flew back to their respective nests. I discovered that the biggest nest was in a ginkgo tree on the Tokyo institute of Technology campus in Ookayama, Meguro.
AMS Trip Zine 02 by Daisuke Yokota | Hiroshi Takizawa
148mm x 210mm, Softcover, Limited Edition of 200 (Total) , 2014
Nude Animal Cigar by Paul Kooiker
Created at the invitation of the Hague Museum of Photography, Kooiker looks back over his twenty-year career in the visual arts. The result is a bewildering array of two hundred photographic works, in which images of nudes and of animals are interspersed with close-ups of the countless cigars he has smoked in his studio over the years.
Mise Au Jour by Johan Van Der Keuken
Edited and designed by Willem van Zoetendaal consists of 45 photographs made by Johan van der Keuken (1938–2001) during the period 1956–1982 with his Leica M3 camera. Mainly unknown photographs are selected from France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and USA completed with a bibliography. Mise au jour means to bring to light, to dig up or to update.
Juan Diego Valera
Diente De Chucho (signed) by Juan Diego Valera
23,0 cm x 32,1 cm
146 páginas, 101 imágenes
Impressión Offset
Edición total de 500 ejemplares
4 cubiertas distintas
Edición numerada de 125 ejemplares para esta cubierta
ISBN 978–84–941484–2–2
Publicado en noviembre de 2014
Modoru Okinawa by Keizo Kitajima
1975. Okinawa, Japan. The Vietnam War has just ended. Koza City is where the Kadena U.S. Air Force base is located. The B-52s that attacked North Vietnam took off from here.
With the end of the war the city becomes the epicenter of a celebrative rush that lasts for a few years. The city experiences a momentary crazed and raucous time.
A cacophonic spell where Japanese culture collides and becomes intimate with African-American trends and culture.
Ultimately it became a successful, popular shock wave.It all dies off with the advent of the 1980s.
Keizo Kitajima visits Koza city regularly during those years and he executes a vital work, a crucial and important piece of documentary photography.
During those years Keizo realizes that the photographic exploration of reality is everything but small talk or commentary: it is an observation detached from any sentimentalism, a way to go further than what meets the eye and to document what is beyond the simple appearance.
Hong Kong — Martin Parr
Limited edition of 1,800 copies — only 800 on general release through GOST Books
112 pages + 24 page booklet
200 x 260mm Vinyl flexi-cover
Hong Kong Parr is a new publication by award winning photographer Martin Parr, to coincide with his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Blindspot Gallery. Parr’s photographs of the city, taken in 2013, capture the barrage of fashion, food and colour in Hong Kong, one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
Girl Friend Boy Friend — Richard Kern
“the late ‘80s to early ‘90s were the theme for the girls hair style and the grungy hair was the theme of boys hair style,” “richard used an amazing light for this shoot which was popular for the porn shooting on ‘80s and punk rock shooting on ‘90s,”
The Space Age Poster Book — Aleksandra Mir and Gerard Herman.
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin; nd M-Museum Leuven, Belgium
The Space Age is an exhibition by Aleksandra Mir (b. 1967, Lubin) concentrating on a body of work about space exploration the artist has developed over the past 15 years. Based on a number of historical events, such as the discovery of the laws of physics, the early experimental spaceship launches, and the first successful moon landing, Mir’s public events, films and works on paper investigate the complex relationship between science and religion — an ambivalence underscored by her interplay of facts and fiction.
Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYC — Lee Friedlander and Kathy Ryan
The photographs, commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows.
TIGER — Christian Gfeller
Printed in August 2014
First Edition PogoBooks #077
36 Pages Softcover
17 x 24 cm Full Color Offset Print “What’s up in that commune ?” (Claudio Pogo)
Christian Gfeller’s Polaroid photography series “Tiger” chronicles the artist’s raucous life, from the mid 90's to the early 2000's, taking place in between Strasbourg and Berlin. It is a “#no filter” punk account of Gfeller’s life, friendship, sex and hard partying, shot at unrehearsed intimate moments, revealing them in all their imperfection, excess and vulnerability. Using the aesthetics of still life photography and juxtaposing it with explicit content, Gfeller intensifies the powerful subversive and poignant element of his autobiographical work
West Street — Emily Roysdon
w/photography by Alvin Baltrop
West Street is an accordion fold artist’s book that combines Emily Roysdon’s recent photographic work with images from the estate of Alvin Baltrop. The setting for both sets of photographs is the deteriorating industrial architecture of the Hudson River piers.
Toying with Pleasure — Lindsy Filowitz
MICHAEL WILLIAMS, PAINTINGS (signed)
TEXT BY JACK HANLEY
KARMA, NEW YORK, 2014
56 PAGES 12.5 X 11.75 (31.75 X 29.85 CM) EDITION OF 500
Michael Williams
MICHAEL WERNER GALLERY, LONDON 2014
11.75 X 8.25 INCHES (30 X 21 CM)
Periodicals:
Mosless, Issue Three: The United States (2003–2013), a composition of new American photographs taken over the last 10 years. Features the work of photographers like Bryan Schutmaat, Ilona Szwarc, Daniel Shea, Vanessa Winship, Lucas Foglia, and over 100 more. Printed at Shapco, Minneapolis 216 full-colour pages Perfect bound
The Coven Magazine | Issue No. 3 Winter 2015
The Coven Magazine is a bi-annual creative arts publication produced by WITCHES. Its purpose is to introduce its readership to the people that are creating groundbreaking and unique projects. Each issue contains 13 features, in addition to contributing photographers, artists and writers that comprise the dynamic framework of our cultural movement.
Blink No 39
COLOR OFFSET PRINT
ON PREMIUM PAPER 300GSM (COVER)
ON MATTE COATED PAPER 180GSM
LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES
STH No.68 (Straight To Hell)
Straight To Hell (a/k/a The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts) is a living legend. Conceived and founded by cult writer Boyd McDonald in the early 1970s, it quickly gained a large following and underground notoriety due to a combination of graphic sexual content, radical politics and stinging wit
POSSE — Alexis Gross
Standard weekly diet includes…
Daily papers delivered: NY Post, NYT, WSJ, Variety, WWD, Hollywood Reporter, FT
Weekly: NY Magazine, Barrons, The Observer, Time Out NY, East Hampton Star, The Suffolk Times.
Free: The Village Voice and The Rail
Paperback: for a book a week reading challange — This week “Dust” by Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo
Not including other weekly media consumption like music etc this is focused on print, books and mainly photo books. /m
