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!

Mark Klett The Half-Life of History
Photographs by Mark Klett. Text by William L. Fox
Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2011.

Hardbound. 160 pp., 40 color and 30 duotone illustrations, 9-1/2x11-3/4”.

Publisher’s Description:

There is a twisted steel dome in Hiroshima that stands as a grim reminder of the city’s destruction by the first atomic bomb. Halfway around the globe, on the border of Utah and Nevada, stands another ruin. The site that housed the bomber that carried “Little Boy,” Wendover Army Air Base, now crumbles from neglect. The stories and relics of Wendover describe more than just the past; they point to a historic cycle, a present increasingly filled with new threats of devastating nuclear and chemical warfare. For this book, American photographer Mark Klett (born 1952) has teamed up with William L. Fox, a celebrated science and art writer whose work focuses on human cognition and memory. Together, the two have created a fascinating visual and textual portrait of Wendover Army Air Base, examining the experience of memory in relation to the great tragedy of America’s atomic age.

(via KLETT, MARK : The Half-Life of History.)

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// White Noise by António Júlio Duarte

Hardcover | 78 pages, color | 300x300 mm
Coming out in December 2011

Publisher’s Description:

António Júlio Duarte has been photographing Casino’s lobbies in Macau for the last 10 years.
Shot at night, with a medium format camera and a flash, often in jetlagged mode, the lobbies became Duarte’s personal territory.
The absurd luxury of the places combined with the strangeness of the objects, and the absence of human presence, creates a strong dreamlike feeling. 
We are led through a labyrinth, as if floating. The work is, both an important document about the little seen reality of Casino’s in Macau today, 
and a very personal reflection about East and West, about how to relate to the world through photography.

(via Pierre von Kleist Edtions)

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)

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.

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:

(via Charles Lane Press | Interior Relations)

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

Publisher’s Description: 

(via MACK BOOKS)

“In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry”
David Rathman

12.75” x 17.25”
case bound archival pigment ink prints 
20 pages 

Publisher’s Description:

“In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry” is an artist’s book that reproduces David Rathman’s recent war-themed watercolors. The paintings depict tanks, planes, warships and helicopters. As with Rathman’s cowboy and car pieces, the imagery is paired with hand-written texts and legends.

Using “language in a paradoxical way to confront the imagery,” Rathman avoids a head-on collision with the “heaviness” of his subject. According to the artist, “There’s a lot of indirection and evasion going on; to see these aggressive menacing subjects twisting with uncertainty struck me as humorous and—in a sideways, minor way—profound.”

Like a series of memento mori greeting cards, Rathman’s book is sometimes morose, sometimes playful, with the artist addressing “serious and ordinary issues: death, fracture, joy, compulsion, testosterone and deliverance.” 

signed edition of 200

(via Location Books In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry)

conscientious:

Currently in transit from the printer to my house: The first book of what is going to be a series, Conversations with Photographers. Each book is based on interviews/conversations that were published on Conscientious before. But there is more: There are exclusive follow-up interviews, which will only appear in the book.

This first book features the 2006 conversation with Brian Ulrich, plus an extended, new interview with him, talking about the upcoming release of his book. Hellen van Meene has a brand-new body of work coming out, a deviation from the portraits of adolescents she is well known for. The (new) interview in the book delves into all the details. Lastly, in addition to the 2009 interview with Chris Anderson you also get a new, follow-up one.

The book is a small paperback, printed locally (Massachusetts). You can fit it into your pocket and take it anywhere.

Conversations with Photographers will be sold online, with sales starting around August 15th (I’ll be busy teaching at the MFA program I’m part of until then).  I’ll announce all the details on Conscientious - so stay tuned.

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)

Sun Feels Honest Todae
Terence Koh (New York, USA)

40 Pages, Soft Cover, 22.5 x 30.5 cm, b/w Offset, First Edition, 2011

Issue #8 of THE international with Terence Koh features deep monochrome prints of his haunting photography layered with drawings that form collages evoking avant-garde Japanese underground scenes from the ’70s.

co-published with Radical Silence Production

see also THE international #7

www.asianpunkboy.com

(via Terence Koh)

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
People In Trouble Laughing Pushed To The Ground

Hardcover, 20.3 x 23 cm portrait, 416 pp, 212 plates

Publisher’s Description:

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
People In Trouble Laughing Pushed To The Ground

(via MACK BOOKS)