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Sigur Rós

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

It documents the creation of this album-whose title translates loosely as �with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly�-through Eva Vermandel�s informal and intimate photographs, and Nicholas Abrahams� two DVD films of the band: one a feature-length portrait of the complete recording of the song �Ara Batur� at Abbey Road with full choir and orchestra...the filming of the famous �Gobbledigook� video (made in collaboration with Ryan McGinley)

You and Me or the Art of Give and Take

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) came of age as an artist in late-1960s Los Angeles, where he was part of the burgeoning L.A. Conceptual movement�that unique band of artists that included Bas Jan Ader, Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, Allan McColllum and William Wegman. Like these artists and other L.A. Conceptual pioneers such as Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, Ruppersberg used photographs (both made and found) in combination with text and narrative strategies to mingle, blend and upend both fiction and fact�most famously in �Where's Al?� (1972) and �Between the Scenes� (1973).

Memory Traces

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Memory Traces is an uncoventional photo-book which relates to notions about landscape(photography), culture, history and memory. The publication consists of a large format (41 x 30,5 cm - 16 x 12 inch) main photo-book and two smaller booklets (Dark Star & Höffding Step) housed in a printed carton box.

Playing Borders

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

The scenery of my fictitious photographic image-essay Playing borders is an office building from the eighties in Rotterdam. One floor of the building was my studio during the first three months of 2008. The floor consists of cold dreary voids, wherein decay and destruction are clearly visible. All traces of human activity have perished from the floor and there is nothing left but an atmosphere of desolation. This atmosphere embodies the 'state of mind' of Western man in my opinion, as I describe it in my prologue. Playing Borders is an experimental journey with the camera through the abandoned floor, wherein many temporary installations and interferences have playfully been constructed.

Becoming Blue

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

ed. by Anouk Kruithof and Roel Arkesteijn on the occasion of the exhibition "Becoming Blue, Anouk Kruithof" at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin from February 19 - March 8, 2009, and at Museum Het Domein, Sittard, June 13 - August 2, 2009, with text by Christoph Tannert (german, english, dutch).

Retrospective

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, shines new light on the work of the English photographer Michael Kenna.

Cover

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Never formally trained as a photographer, Cohen has nevertheless managed to produce a stunning body of work that is deceptively neutral at the same time. In her own words she describes her pictures as having �a cool, dispassionate edge. It makes them seem immaculately conceived while camouflaging the all-butincomprehensible stories they seem to convey.�

Thomas Demand

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Thomas Demand provokes confrontations between photography�s poles of fact and fiction. True-to-size paper models are photographed and then scaled down, while traces of event and person are systematically removed, leaving phantom images of the proposed �crime scene� that seem at once familiar and dreamlike. Demand�s 2009 Nationalgalerie (Berlin) exhibition and catalogue bring together his work on German history since 1945�a scrutiny of the �Deutschlandbild,� the �German image.

Case Study Homes

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

After slumbering in a digital archive until the fall of 2008 and following six months of research in Asia, the time came for the artist to view the material. This happened to coincide with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers Bank and the outbreak of media paranoia about a second global economic crisis. Although even before all of this occurred a connection could be established between these images and the photographs of impoverished rural Americans commissioned by the Farm Security Administration in the thirties, current events give Bialobrzeski�s works yet another dimension.

Unintended Sculptures

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

The title of his series Unintended Sculptures, which he has been working on since 2001, says it all: in nature and the environment, Saxgren discovers relational forms, structures, and optical illusions that seem to have been deliberately placed there by the artist�s hand. To anyone whose eyes are open, it is obvious that those greenhouse-covered fields must have been wrapped by Christo and Jean-Claude�or that these geometrical basalt-rock formations

The Helsinki School

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

The new third volume continues in this vein, introducing great young photographers from that talent forge way up north, the University of Art und Design in Helsinki. The school teaches a very special approach to photography: not just particular ways of thinking about it, but also the notion of the camera as a conceptual tool�and all of this allows each generation a chance to re-invent it self. Once again, in this new volume, Timothy Persons introduces thirty young artists and their incredibly multifaceted, experimental works of great technical perfection.

Guardians

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

The �Guardians� are former economists and dentists, engineers and singers, teachers and clerks � a corps of grandmothers perched on chairs throughout Russia�s finest museums, forming a kind of latter-day addition to artistic landscape. They are the guardians of the country�s masterpieces, but also of much more. This series of photographs reflects the singular role that these women play in both the Russian art world and society as a whole.

Puppy Love

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Using images taken from an old photo-album, �Puppy Love� absorbs the viewer in a journey through highs and lows, the moments of truth searching and first (and second) love. It�s a story about girly things, growing up and puberty, being seen and loved. This image filled story, comes bound in a red cover and features predominantly colour photographs.

Gaza Photo Album

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Disturbingly beautiful images and gripping interviews show the annihilating effects of war through personal stories preserved on the pages of Gaza Photo Album. From the homely details: billowing, shredded curtains, chandeliers glittering in the rubble, a child�s bed in a bullet-pocketed alcove, an elegant upholstered chair standing alone in an emptied room, spring shadows of the relative peace before deadly hostilities tore apart the social fabric�yet again.

I Have a Room With Everything

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

I Have A Room With Everything is a book of stunningly intimate photographs by Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo. Taken between 1998 and 2005, the images in this exquisitely printed volume present anti-journalistic, documentary style photographs, some real, and some staged. They are at once moving, whimsical, goofy, dark, haunting, romantic and revelatory.

Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Very Soon

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

"This book (Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon) is important" - Lil' Wayne

Tennis Courts

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

"I started photographing empty tennis courts in southern Switzerland in 1999, on the border to Italy. The work came about by chance. Some time after I'd moved to Paris, I was back in Switzerland, walking in the woods near were I grew up and I came across an abandoned tennis court. I photographed that one, then courts around the neighbourhood where I grew up, and have continued to photogragraph deserted tennis courts ever since. In general I think about images from my adolescence and also think of the visual experiences I've had with film as an experience of real life." Giasco Bertoli, Spring 2009

Furniture Bondage

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

In order to illustrate the complex and often oppressive relationship that exists human beings and our material things, Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo contorts, binds, balances, and burdens her female models with the objects of everyday life: chairs, bookshelves, aerosol cans, food, empty containers, and cleaning supplies. Her living sculptures evoke a visceral response; as a viewer, you can't help but identify with the human body laden with a weighty suitcase or struggling to balance a tray full of objects and garbage that might be needed again someday. Furniture Bondage presents 22 full-page photographs of such pieces, followed by a list of participating models and an essay by the artist entitled "Floccinaucinihilipilification."

Wald

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Gerhard Richter has been taking photographs in the dense forest near his Cologne home since 2005. This complex artist's book features 285 of these stunning, almost abstract images, sorted loosely into groups-delicate branches, horizontal logs, diagonally growing trees-and interspersed with German text from a forestry magazine, all the words of which have been shuffled by means of a random generator and then edited to remove any overly explicit names or passages-although the resulting absurd text can still be recognized as a commentary on forest issues.

Lost Boy Mountain

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Lester B. Morrison's first book is a combination of collage and Haiku.

Suits vs. Facts & Fiction

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Katja Stuke´s self-produced maquette focuses on one single theme, suits and how they are worn. The artist combines advertisements and screen shots and vortexes right into a pictorial world of masculinity, power and style.

Fools on Hills

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Fools on Hills is a selection of black-and-white images spanning a number of decades and geographic locations, compiled and arranged by artist Till Gerhard. The images are loosely predicated on the human need for magic and our incessant search for universal truth, focusing on historically recurring motifs of the isolated figure in the natural world, the bearded sage, the use of masks and costumes in performative rituals, the phallic and crystalline forms in religious architecture,

Not Natasha

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova is one of the main trafficking source countries for women and children. It is estimated that between 200,000 and 400,000 women have been sold into prostitution abroad - up to 10% of the female population. In Moldova, Popa worked with the International Organisation for Migration Shelters and Winlock International where she was given access to photograph and document the experiences of 17 women who had been trafficked.

Lisboa

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

According to Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, who included this book in their The Photobook: A History, vol. 1, "Lisboa is particularly notable for using many of the book-making ideas developed by William Klein, and Dutch Photographers like Ed van der Elsken and Joan van der Keuken, and has a vibrant, cinematic feeling."

Long out of print, this new edition will be done exactly as the first edition.

Riley and His Story

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Monica Haller�s project Riley and His Story presents the daily life of the Iraq war, as lived and photographed by Riley Sharbonno, an army nurse who served at Abu Ghraib prison from 2004�2005. Riley used his camera as an almost prosthetic device to record the events his memory suppressed; on other occasions he used the camera to �store� overwhelming experiences with the aim of processing them later. Many of these images are indeed overwhelming��these aren�t the photos we�re likely to find in grandma�s photo album 50 years from now,�

Privilege

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

According to Glenn O�Brien, Jessica Craig-Martin is the �master (or perhaps we can still say mistress in this context) of the dark side of the glamour world and society pages.� However, this claim is not for her charming images of socialites but rather the devilish details that normally escape the tidy veneer of these elevated worlds.

In Portugal

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Portugal�s monasteries and churches, universities and libraries, palaces and opera houses recall the small country�s history as the leading sea and colonial power. Candida Höfer�s pictures, as usual devoid of people, invoke Portugal�s past glories, complemented by an essay by Portuguese 1998 Nobel Prize winning author José Saramago.

I Love Here Now

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

I love here now is a portrait of Yoshiko, de Forest's Japanese-born mother whose marriage brought her to Winnipeg, a small Canadian city known for its big skies and long harsh winters.

After the Wall

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Empire also began to crumble. At its heart had been a military system that exerted huge control and influence. Eric Lusito was fascinated by the remains the military left behind. He found extraordinary sites: military bases that were simply abandoned�from East Germany to Mongolia and from Poland to Kazakhstan. He also discovered a rich collection of objects and ephemera, including gas masks, propaganda posters, books, magazines, instruction manuals, and personal photographs.

Live, Love, Look, Last

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Nixon brings a moving candor to his sense of portraiture, and takes care to strike a balance between �on the one hand, getting the picture I want, and on the other, having (his subjects) like the experience. I don�t want them to feel like I�ve taken anything they don�t want to give me.�Unflinchingly honest in his approach, Nixon explores the relationships between individuals and their environment, and how these bonds are affected by birth and death.

The Floating World: Ukiyo-e

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:05 EST

Inspired by ancient Japanese ukiyo-e artists and a polymath's myriad references, John Warwicker has for over 10 years been one of the most original thinkers in the design and creative industries. A founding member of Tomato, the innovative London design collective, he established an international reputation in the 1990s and has been formative in shaping popular media.