20 December 2013

Guido Gazzilli - Fisnik


Fisnik
Guido Gazzilli
printed in limited edition of 100 copies
32 pages
digital print of 150 gr
15 cm X 21cm

"This work simply tries to break down the linguistic barriers and those ones that don't let us open to someone stranger. So, the project becomes not only knowing something, but know something about each other through the sharing of time and getting in touch deeply with the subject."

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19 December 2013

MFG Paltrinieri - Part of an Archipelago

Part of an Archipelago
MFG Paltrinieri
40 pages – 15 x 21 cm + 36 pages – 12.5 x 17.5 cm
(comes with a jacket/poster)
Offset / Indigo - Digital offset
Edition size: 250
Price: £16

"Consisting of two interconnected books, Part of Archipelago is an elliptical and mysterious account of a short visit to a Mediterranean island. Through the use of different narrative strategies and intertextual references, the work combines and plays with different layers of interpretation while blurring the lines between personal experience, memory and imagination."

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Ruth van Beek - Morning Ritual (The Manuals #1)

Morning Ritual (The Manuals #1)

Ruth van Beek

Poster, cased in envelope

Number of pages: —

Size: 87 x 60 cm/ 34.2 x 23.6 inches

Edition: 40 + 3APs

Type of printing: Silkscreen

Price: 30€ + shipping

'The Manuals' is an ongoing series; an attempt to showcase the work methodology behind the Ruth van Beek's practice. 'Morning Ritual' serves as the start for this series.

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18 December 2013

Jane Fulton Alt - Between Fire/Smoke


between fire/smoke
Jane Fulton Alt – images, text and unique mixed media encaustic
Teresa Pankratz – structure and design
Handmade limited edition artist book/object, containing unique mixed media artwork mounted within the internal frame. The book is housed in a slip-case constructed of an archival pigment print on pearl gray Murillo by Fabriano.
Archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle photo rag; double-page sections are archival pigment prints on Niyodo Japanese paper.
Edition of 18
$1800.00 

"'between fire/smoke' is an unfolding visual and textual journey through a landscape of liminality – leading to a place where all that is unresolved is imaginable…"

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Tammy Mercure - Some Long Hotels


Some Long Hotels
Tammy Mercure
12 pages
6 in x 12 in/ 15.24 cm x 30.48 cm
Edition: 50 Digital- Indigo, Japanese Stab Bound
Price: $12 plus $4 shipping

"Some Long Hotels showcases some of the elongated temporary residences of the Pigeon Forge/ Gatlinburg/ Cherokee tourist area. The photographs are printed on an Indigo printer and Japanese Stab Bound."

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Joseph Wilcox - Getting to Know My Neighbors


Getting to Know My Neighbors
Joseph Wilcox
40 pages
20.3 x 13.3cm, 8 x 5.25 in
Black & White Laser
$8 US / $15 International (shipping included)

"Sometimes it can be hard to get to know your neighbors in such a large city. But with a telephoto lens and a bit of ingenuity, you can find out a lot."

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Juliette Gaudino & Michel Nguie - Jeune & Poli


Jeune & Poli
Juliette Gaudino & Michel Nguie
24 pages
148x210mm/5.8x8.3"
Edition of 100
Digital printing
£6 plus shipping

"Juliette Gaudino and Michel Nguie combine their vision of the world in order to create a poem that celebrates light - the major theme of their discussion. These images offer a vision of materials, situations, details which is at the same time personal and shared; and they express a relentless call for for freedom and independence. The book is about the union of a simplicity which is both simultaneously complex and analytical."

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Laura Braun - Métier, Small Businesses in London


Métier, Small Businesses in London
Laura Braun
Afterword by Dawn Lyon
132 pages
16 x 22 cm / 6.29 x 8.66 in
Edition of 500, numbered
Four colour offset with duotone offset dust cover
Naked bound with dust cover
£18 (plus shipping)

"Photographed over 6 years, Métier, Small Businesses in London, is a book about small-scale independent and specialist businesses in the capital and the people who run them. In a time when the high streets of London are taking on a more and more corporate character, this book offers an unusual and interesting perspective on the city and an insight into the working lives of people who strongly identify with their occupation."

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17 December 2013

Salvatore Santoro - Verbrannte Erde

Title: Verbrannte Erde
Photographs: Salvatore Santoro
Texts: Massimo Zamboni
Format: softcover, Singer-sewn binding
Pages: 60
Size: 16x23 cm
Book project: Akina Factory
Paper: Munken Lynx, Fedrigoni Tintoretto, Fedrigoni Sirio Cherry
Publisher: Akina Books
First published: November 2013
Edition size: 300 copies
Price: £22 standard edition, £50 handmade limited edition + signed print

"Fifteen days have passed since I’ve cut the big cherry tree at the bottom of the field. I had to cut the tree, it was casting too much shadow on the potato plot. Yesterday I glanced down to the stacked branches and I noticed they carried on living, swelling buds, pushing out bunches of flowers. Regardless. Life never stops. Presumptuous deity of my eyes, I see the cherry branches will dry out soon, cut off from the roots. This predictiveness bothers me." Marzabotto teaches us the embarrassment of looking at each other as of today. The only relief is to gaze, without presuming, without knowing."

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Marco Lachi - How does it feel to be leaving the most beautiful city in the world ?

Title: How does it feel to be leaving the most beautiful city in the world ?
Photographer: Marco Lachi
Text : Olufemi Terry
Graphic Design: Alessandro Cavallini
Book, 25 pictures, 48 pp, 20x26,5 cm / 7,87x10,43 in
Edition: 250 copies
Printing : Offset on Munken Lynx and Favini Burano (cover)
Documentary Platform Editions
ISBN 978-88-905304-1-8
Price 24€ + shipping

“…a strange breed. It’s the mountain and the sea. People down here don’t need human interaction so much.”

And even as a Eurocentric aesthetic continues to predominate, a frantic, rearguard mood has become apparent among the city’s whites. With every passing summer, Cape Town’s non-whites become more and more visible, assertive and numerous. It’s not difficult to envision the city as it appears through feverish eyes: a citadel under siege, a dwindling outpost of civilization. And there’s no doubt where the ultimate stand in defense of the old life will—must—be made: the slopes of Table Mountain. As one local told a newspaper reporter, “People have come to accept that you can be mugged in town or on the road but the mountain is somehow seen as sacrosanct. For me as a Buddhist it’s my temple, my soul food.”

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16 December 2013

Lotte Reimann - Guffaw

Guffaw
Lotte Reimann
Karoline Swiezynski (graphic design)
booklet (softcover / saddle-stiched), 54 pages
20,5 x 28,4 cm  /  8,07 x 11,18 in
Edition: 120
Printing: stencil print / mimeography
Price: 20 EUR

"Guffaw (a hearty, boisterous burst of laughter) is an autobiographical photo novel, spiked with fiction. In a crossing between Richard Prince and Thelma & Louise, Lotte Reimann gives an intimate insight in her world, which sometimes lets us wonder whether we are actually allowed to read and see all this!"

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Kris Vervaeke - Ad Infinitum

Ad Infinitum
Kris Vervaeke
Design: Hugo Puttaert – visionandfactory.com
Photobook , hardcover, 14 x 20 cm (5 ½ x 8 inch)
264 pages
133 color photos
Edition of 500
Offset printing
Self published 2013
Price: 45 euro + shipping

"The images in this book are of small porcelain portraits affixed to headstones in cemeteries in China, worn away by the passage of time and the ravages of weather. Vince Aletti says that, in aggregate, Ad Infinitum “is about the fugitive nature of portraiture, the impossibility of creating a final likeness. I just love looking at anonymous faces. Most of them are less here than gone, evoking thoughts of how we try, unsuccessfully, to fix people’s images in our minds. The book is beautifully and very simply designed, with the images given generous borders on pages that are evenly divided between black and white. It’s a simple yet lovely book.”

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Piergiorgio Casotti - Sometimes I cannot smile

Sometimes I cannot smile
Piergiorgio Casotti
Book, 168 pp, 17,5x24 cm / 6.9x9.4 in
Edition: 450 + 50 Limited edition
Printing: DUOTONE OFFSET
Pricee 37€ + shipping

"I often ponder life and death. I decompose the pieces, dismantle elements in an attempt to rationally analyse them and then recompose and reconstruct the fragments, only to end up with a different equation each time. You need the right place to reflect and Greenland was that place for me. Life and death, black and white, opposing dichotomies revealing all their ruthlessness. In Greenland nature takes possession of rationality and gives a meaning to daily life. Greenland narrates a deafening silence. A voice whispering indefinable and inscrutable emotions. In Greenland one doesn’t live, at best one survives."

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Rein Jelle Terpstra - Retracing 

Title: Retracing
Photographer: Rein Jelle Terpstra
Additional contributors: Hanne Hagenaars, Arjen Mulder (essays), Joost Grootens (layout)
Book, cloth, hard cover
Number of pages, size: 88 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Edition: 1000
Type of printing: offset
Price: € 30,-

"Rein Jelle Terpstra collaborates with people who are slowly losing their sight. He asked them about their most valuable visual memory and photographed these scenes on Kodachrome diapositive, thereby promising them to - years later - read out loud precise descriptions of the images, in an attempt to retrace these images in their minds."

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15 December 2013

Michel Mazzoni - White Noise

Title: White Noise
Photographs: Michel Mazzoni
text: Michel  Poivert
Graphic Design: Design Dojo
Edited by ARP2 Editions.
Format 195 x 305 mm
32 images, 64 pages, 12 pages
booklet, self cover + red layer covering 200 Gr
Printing: offset on Munken Lynx
Edition: 500 + 25 signed and numbered copies with an original photograph
ISBN 978-2-930115-22-1
Price : 25 euros

"Optical Soliloquy. Removed from sight but subjected to the intensity of visibility. This paradox could serve as an introduction into Michel Mazzoni’s world. Everything seems to have disappeared there; beings leave only traces of their passage, or when they do appear, the concealment of the—always female—faces in this feigned indifference provides the screen onto which desire can be projected. This is as much a journey of initiation as it is an escape into memory, with its images of transcursion and what is traversed: a path, corridor, footpath, an opening, stairs, gaps and roads. They are always mental images, in black and iridescent, sometimes even blinding white—images which come to us after an effort, such as a race or the search for oneself."

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Liam Tickner
 - Five Days at Frieze

Five Days at Frieze
Liam Tickner

Book, 256 pp

Size: 17 x 22.5 cm/ 6.7 x 8.8 inches
Edition: 800

Type of printing: Offset

Price: 25€ + shipping


"While still an art student, Liam worked as an assistant for Amsterdam gallery Annet Gelink. During his work shifts at Frieze Art Fair, he couldn't help noticing the girl working at the booth right in front of his. The result is a collection of images that reflect the activity taking place at the booths during such an art fair, besides being a voyeuristic self-portrait of the artist himself—a reflection from the booth in front. With a text by gallerist Annet Gelink (Liam's employer back then), titled 'Never ask an artist to be your gallery assistant'."

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05 December 2013

Laura Noel - All's Fair Volume One


All's Fair Volume One
Laura Noel
84mm x 55mm or 3.30" x 2.16"
no edition
Four color digital printing
$40.00 plus shipping

"All's Fair Volume One is an unbound book of 51 photos, made using business cars software, and housed in a customized paper box. All's Fair comes with a small lucite stand a cloth bag to contain the set; the cards can be displayed on the stand one at a time or shuffled through at will. All's Fair is about the simple pleasures of recording life visually."

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03 December 2013

James Duncan Clark - Direction of Travel


Direction of Travel
James Duncan Clark
Accompanying essay by Lewis Bush
64 Pages
299 × 370mm / 11.7 x 14.5 in
Edition of 400, signed and numbered
Traditional colour newsprint
£6 (plus shipping)

"‘Direction of Travel’ documents a landscape still in transition on the periphery of London’s Olympic Park. Using photographs and found ephemera from the streets of east London, the body of work questions the commonly accepted narrative and seeks to distance itself from the communal endorphins supplied by the transitory Olympic spectacle. It attempts to grapple with the everyday and the commonplace, and explores the complex relationship between the landscape and its inhabitants during a time of radical change."

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Yosuke Yajima - Portrait


Portrait
Yosuke Yajima
20 pages
B5
Edition size: 200
type of printing: offset
Price: 1,500 JPY

"The [images in] 'PORTRAIT' are extracted from Yajima's series "A place in the cliff", which he been shooting since 2009. A series of portraits are lined up one after another. The expressions on the subjects' faces tell the viewer nothing about their thoughts or where they are looking."

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Enda Bowe - Kilburn Cherry


Kilburn Cherry
Enda Bowe
Poem by Don Paterson
60 pages
First Edition of 100
£35

"Inspired by the Japanese tradition of the renku poem and the symbolism of the cherry blossom."

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02 December 2013

Nuno Moreira - State of Mind

State of Mind
Nuno Moreira
Format: Softcover
Dimensions: 287 x 200 mm
Pages: 112 (79 photographs)
Publication date: December 2013
Limited edition of 500 copies
Offset high quality print
35 Euros - includes shipping worldwide

"State of Mind is a photographic series, and ultimately a book, about the individual quality of mysterious strangers. The images were captured over a period of several years traveling in countries such as Japan, Portugal, Hungary, Malaysia, Spain, South-Korea, Romania, Russia, Taiwan - and what emerged is a visual narrative on the poetic quality of individuality and what it means to be lost in thoughts.  The State of Mind series is about the “thinking moments” and the uncertain atmosphere surrounding the people and places encountered on the way."

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