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Bilderbuch by Joachim Schmid

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:36:31 +0000

Price: £21.00
Edition size: 250
Book Location: Germany

Description of book: What do Elizabeth Taylor, a bicycle seat, Carlos the Jackal, a lobster, Silvio Berlusconi and a toilet brush have in common? Nothing, except that they all ended up in my archive of scanned printed matter gathered from around the world over four decades. Removed from their original news context and presented without any comment, this apparent random, unrelated series of images turns out to be a miscellaneous reflection of popular obsessions, fears and fantasies.

Title of publication: Bilderbuch
Name of artist: Joachim Schmid
Design: JS
Editor:  JS
Publication date: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany
Format:  Softcover
Size:  23 x 16 cm
Number of pages: 120
Type of printing:  digital print
Name of printer: Bookfactory, Bad Münder
Number of pictures: 116
The best thing about self-publishing: no meetings, no all-knowing editor, no reckless designer

Capricious Magazine

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:43:47 +0000

Price: £12.00
Book Location: NYC

Description of book: A study of protest through photography and essay

Title of publication: Capricious Magazine
Name of artist: Various
Additional contributor/s: Alice O’Malley, Dread Scott, Michelle Dízon, Alessandro Gagliardo, David Horvitz & Ed Steck, Loulou d’Aki, Kuba Ryniewicz, Angela S. Beallor, Ruti Sela, Will Steacy, Elaine Angelopoulos, fierce pussy, and Devin Kenny
Design: Jiminie Ha
Editor: Emily Roysdon
Series name: Capricious Magazine #12
Press: Capricious Publishing
Publication date: 12/13/11
Place of publication: New York
Format: Softcover
Size: 21.3 x 25.9 cm
Number of pages: 96
Type of printing: Digital
Name of printer: Oddi
Number of pictures: 96
Description of book: A study of protest through photography and essay
The best thing about self-publishing: Helping to get artists we love out there!
Press website: www.becapricious.com

Mossless Issue 1

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +0000

Price: £28
Edition size: 500
Book Location: USA

Description of book: A box with a book for each featured photographer, amongst other things.

Title of publication: Mossless Issue 1
Name of artist: Alana Celii, Bobby Doherty, Brea Souders, Sean Vegezzi
Additional contributor/s: Susan Bright, Veronica Rafael, Erin Jane Nelson, Winslow Laroche, Ryan McGinley
Design: Jesse Hlebo
Editor: Romke Hoogwaerts
Press: Self Published (printed in Hong Kong, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens)
Publication date: December 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Box
Size: 20.5 x 30 x 6.6 cm
Number of pages: 148
Type of printing: Off-set (full colour [booklets], spot [posters]), Risograph (leaflet), screenprint (box)
Type of paper: Varied
Name of printer:Magnum Offset Printing
The best thing about self-publishing: Learning to love rice and beans
Artist website: mosslessmagazine.com

Dora Fobert by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:35:07 +0000

Price: £100
Edition: 50
Book Location: UK

Description of book: Dora Fobert, b. 1925, Warsaw, daughter of family of studio photographers. Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–42, assisted Jakub Boim, official ghetto photographer. August 1942. Began her own series of portraits of women in the ghetto. Deported to Treblinka, August 1942. d. January 1943.These photographs were saved by Adela K., a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. They were taken in a studio in the ghetto on Chlodna Street in June 1942. Because of the limited supply of photographic chemicals, they were never properly fixed and remain unstable under natural light. For this reason they are displayed behind red glass. Dora Fobert was Adela’s best friend.

Commission for ALIAS / KRAKÓW PHOTOMONTH 2011, Curated by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

Title of publication: Dora Fobert
Name of artist: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Artist website: www.choppedliver.info

No Thoughts Magazine by Michael J DeMeo

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:54:45 +0000

Price: £9
Edition size: 220
Book Location: USA

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Description of book: A special edition photo zine of nude photography from around the world.

Title of publication: No Thoughts Magazine
Name of artist: Various
Additional contributor/s:
Alexander Bergström
Alexey Dubinsky
Yura Kurnosov
Albert Rasyulis
Aaron Feaver
Jesse Untracht-Oakner
David Richardson
Alyssa Noches
Corrado Dalco
Lauren Max
Johannes Gierlinger
Danno Watts
Rich Burroughs
Michael Barolet
Matt Fry
Michael J Demeo
Jessica Milan
Andrew Kuykendall
Mr. Story
Olya Ivanova
Maurizio Di Lorio
Sisilia Iring
Insuh Yoon
Editor: Michael J DeMeo + Alyssa Noches
Series name: No Thoughts
Press: Independent
Publication date: August 2011
Place of publication: Boston, MA USA
Format: Softcover
Size: 5.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59 in cm)
Number of pages: 48 pages
Type of printing: Digital
Type of paper: Laserjet Glossy
Name of printer: Independent
Number of pictures: 38
The best thing about self-publishing: Getting your work out to the world.
Artist website: www.nothoughtszine.com
Book Soundtrack: Heavy D & The Boyz – Is It Good To You? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RZUuw5m6UM

Hans by Martin Borst & Johannes Tolk

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:05:50 +0000

Price: £9.00
Edition size: 100
Book Location: Germany

Description of book: Hans sneaks off to an abandoned city and leaves a note.

Title of publications: Hans
Name of artist: Martin Borst & Johannes Tolk
Design: Martin Borst & Johannes Tolk
Editor: Martin Borst & Johannes Tolk
Series name: Garbage Publications
Press: Hands on Papers
Publication dates: 2011
Place of publication: Karlsruhe, Germany
Format: Softcover
Size: 21 x 14.8 cm
Number of pages: 44
Type of printing: Blue stencil printed
Type of paper: Found paper
Name of printers: Risograph RP 3700
Number of pictures: 31
Artist website: www.handsonpapers.com
Press website: www.handsonpapers.com
Book Soundtrack: www.grooveshark.com

Wiess by Anne Schwalbe

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:42:06 +0000

Price: £29.00
Edition size: 500, signed and numbered
Book Location: Germany

Title of publication: Wiese
Name of artist: Anne Schwalbe
Design: Birgit Vogel
Editor: me (and some friends)
Press: - / Oktoberdruck, Berlin
Publication date: September 2011
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany
Format: Softcover with 2 envelopes
Size: 24 x 31,5cm
Number of pages: 48
Type of printing: Offset
Type of paper: Circle Offset white 100g
Name of printer: Oktoberdruck, Berlin
Number of pictures: 20
Description of book: It’s about meadows.
The best thing about self-publishing: Meeting friendly people.
Artist website: http://www.anneschwalbe.de
Press website: http://www.anneschwalbe.de
Book Soundtrack: GRAUZONE – Traume Mit Mir

A Bird In The Hand, #7 by Zhao Renhui

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:52:03 +0000

Price: £19.00
Edition size: 500
Book Location: Japan

Description of book: The book is conceived for the exhibition A Bird In The Hand opening this summer in London.Against the very real environmental drama unfolding across the globe, artist Zhao Renhui curates the exhibition, A Bird In The Hand. A Bird In The Hand invites viewers to step into the world of ‘The Institute of Critical Zoologists’ and looks at its archive, collections and past commissioned works. The exhibition celebrates 150 years of birdwatching and explores the question, “Why look at birds?”
Essays by Zhao Renhui, Ding Li, Kimiya Yui, Naoko Noguchi
The book will be launched during the exhibition in London.
Exhibition opening on 13th July, 6-8pm, at The Arts Gallery, 272 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EY. The exhibition runs from 14th July to 3rd September 2011.

Title of publication: A Bird In The Hand, #7
Name of artist: Zhao Renhui
Additional contributors: Ding Li, Yurisa Nanjio, Naoko Noguchi, Kimiya Yui, Norishige Kanai, Magdalen Ng, Boon Chan
Design: Tan Boon Hau (Art Director)
Editor: Chia Hui Ting, Ding Li, Zhao Renhui
Series name: The Institute of Critical Zoologists Publications
Press: ICZ Press
Publication date: June 2011
Place of publication: Japan
Format: Soft Cover with Poster Insert (42cm x 60cm)
Size: 17x24cm
Number of pages: 42
Type of printing: Offset
Type of paper: Nippon Art Paper HiGloss for Image pages and New Forest Woodfree for Text pages
Name of printer: APE
Number of pictures: 19
The best thing about self-publishing: create/control
Artist website: www.criticalzoologists.org
Press website: www.tanboonhau.com
Book Soundtrack: Africa HiTech – Out In The Streets

The Land Archive #6 by Zhao Renhui

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:44:43 +0000

Price: £19
Edition size: 500
Book Location: Singapore

Description of book:
… The Land Archive, as is stated, ‘houses the collective memory of our landscape’. There is something here that is heterogeneous to the authority of the authorized archive. We might add, this is the stuff of folk tales, myths and stories that often becomes the repository of displaced truths, of experiences that are discarded as no longer relevant to the interests and pragmatic ambitions of today. The consequence of the destruction of a natural environment is always already belated, too late for the annals of a monumental history being written before time has run its course. This is an archive of which there is no evidence. Perhaps, this is an irony that mimics the kind of archive that claims that it is a sufficient authority unto itself. This irony begs the truth of others who make such claims based, as they are, on a wilful absence, if not the erasure of a country‘s history, written in the light of tomorrow, the fictive dream of becoming. – Dr. Charles Merewether, Director, ICAS. (Foreword : The Land Archive)

Title of publication: The Land Archive #6
Name of artist: The Land Archive, Zhao Renhui
Additional contributors: Dr Charles Merewether (The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore), Magdalen Ng, Anthony B. Walker (Archive of Defunct Newspaper), Tan Koon Fah, Dino Isa, Tan Boon Hau (Art Director), Zhao Renhui
Design: Tan Boon Hau
Editor: Chia Hui Ting
Series name: The Land Archive Publications
Press: TLA press
Publication date: April 2011
Place of publication: Singapore
Format: Soft Cover with sleeve
Size: 17 x 24cm
Number of pages: 49
Type of printing: Offset
Type of paper: New Forest
Name of printer: APE
Number of pictures: 26
The best thing about self-publishing: Create/Control
Artist website: www.landarchive.org
Press website: www.tanboonhau.com
Book Soundtrack: UNKLE – Berry Meditation

Automatic Manual by Kevin Malcolm

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:30:46 +0000

Price: £14.00
Edition size: 50
Book Location: Denmark

Description of book: Revisiting my stack of skateboard magazines as a vault of images of contemporary architectural vernacular, the automatic hand movement is isolated and prioritized as a poetic gesture.

Title of publication: Automatic Manual
Name of artist: Kevin Malcolm
Editor: Kevin Malcolm
Publication date: 06/08/2011
Place of publication: Copenhagen, Denmark
Format: Softcover with dustjacket
Size: 14.5x21cm
Number of pages: 70
Type of printing: Photocopy
Type of paper: Matt 120gm
Name of printer: Actum
Number of pictures: 35
The best thing about self-publishing: Making something with your own hands.
Artist website: www.kevinmalcolm.com
Book Soundtrack: A Tribe Called Quest – Electric Relaxation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERQzl4xDpXk&