Fall 2017
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Collector’s Editions
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Toiletpaper
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Backlist
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Photography Fashion & Lifestyle Contemporary Art Music Urban Art Architecture & Design Antiques & Collectibles
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New Titles
Photography
Martin Parr Think of Scotland
For more than 25 years Martin Parr has been taking photographs in Scotland. From the streets of Glasgow to an island agricultural show in Orkney, Parr has built a huge archive of photographs. Now for the first time these images are to be published in this upcoming book to coincide with his Think of Scotland exhibition at the newly opened Aberdeen Art Gallery. This body of work—Parr’s largest previously unpublished archive—weaves together some of the expected visual iconography of Scotland, such as highland games and stunning landscapes, but all with the Parr twist that makes the expected look so unfamiliar.
23 x 31.5 cm | 9 x 12 ½ inches 144 pages, 100 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-549-6 September 2017 $40 | £30
Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. The author of more than 90 books and the editor of 30 others, he has firmly established his photographic legacy. He has also curated two photography festivals: Arles in 2004 and the Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently he curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar. He has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and is currently its President. In 2013 he was appointed visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster. Parr’s work has been collected by many of the major museums, including the Tate, the Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Joel Meyerowitz Cézanne's Objects
Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett 25.4 x 32 cm | 10 x 12 ⅝ inches 116 pages, 50 color, clothbound ISBN 978-88-6208-564-9 October 2017 $50 | £35
Some years ago, while working on a book commission about Provence, Joel Meyerowitz visited Cézanne’s studio in Aix-en-Provence. While there, he experienced a flash of understanding about Cézanne’s art. Cézanne had painted the studio walls a dark grey, mixing the color himself. Consequently, every object in the studio seemed to be absorbed into the grey of the background. There were no telltale reflections around the edges of the objects, so there was nothing that could separate them from the background itself. Meyerowitz suddenly saw how Cézanne, making his small, patch-like brush marks, moved from the object to the background, and back again to the objects, without the illusion of perspective. After all, Cézanne was the original voice of “flatness.” Meyerowitz decided to take each of the objects in Cézanne’s studio and view them against the grey wall (managing to obtain permission from the Director of the Atelier—no-one had touched these objects in ages). His impulse was to place each one in the exact same spot on his marble-topped table and simply make a “dumb” record of it. He then decided to arrange them in rows, almost as if they were back on his shelf above the table, and made a grid of five rows with five objects on each row, with Cézanne’s hat as the centerpiece. This beautifully designed volume presents these photographs, which are at once marvelous photographic still lifes and an incredible revelation of Cézanne’s methods. Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is one of the most influential modern photographers and representatives of the New Color Photography of the 1960s and ’70s. His work has appeared in more than 350 exhibitions around the world and is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and many other museums worldwide.
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Photography
Gian Butturini London
Text by Martin Parr, Allen Ginsberg, Gian Butturini, Luciano Mondini 25,4 x 30.5 cm | 10 x 12 inches 104 pages, 78 b&w, hardbound with jacket ISBN 978-88-6208-558-8 October 2017 $45 | £34
London is the new edition of Gian Butturini’s 1969 original of the same title. In June 1969, Butturini traveled to London and was instantly captivated by the dynamics of the “Swinging City” in a decade defined by social revolution, freedom of expression, and political controversy. Picking up a camera for the first time, he was drawn to the immediacy of the photographic medium that allowed him to create images through direct encounters with the world, without the need for preliminary drawings or predetermined parameters—a way of working that was radically different from his design work. The resulting black-and-white photographs testify to Butturini’s fascination with the darker side of London—the “true, bare” version of the city of the disenfranchised, destitute, and marginalized rather than the bowler hats and the changing of the guards that belonged to the realm of tourism. Disillusionment prevails in the gritty images, which evoke not only the atmosphere in the capital in the late 1960s but also Butturini’s own disenchantment with social injustice and discrimination. It all began in Victoria Station when he saw a young man staggering by with a syringe embedded in a vein. The Tube, pubs, and streets were the stage of a frenzied humanity unseen by the tourists, who were wooed by Piccadilly and Carnaby Street. Butturini recorded shots of everyday life full of pain and sarcasm, but also of joy and lyricism. There was nothing stereotyped, but plenty of irony, a focus on authenticity, and a careful selection of images. Gian Butturini (1935–2006) was a respected graphic designer before he became a photographer at the age of 34. In 1969 he spent one month in London and then published his masterpiece photographic work London. In 2016 Martin Parr selected some of that collection for an exhibition he curated at the Barbican Centre in London. Along with Butturini, the sole Italian, were presented works of 22 other top photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tina Barney, and Bruce Gilden. Butturini’s archive is administered by his children, Marta and Tiziano, who are also the founders of the Association Gian Butturini. New Titles
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Photography
Jack Pierson The Hungry Years
The Hungry Years collects Jack Pierson’s 1980s’ photographs, which have increasingly captured the attention of the art world since they were first published as a collection in 1990. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour. Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson’s work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian. Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession, and absence, Pierson’s subject is ultimately, as he states, “hope.”
Text by Eileen Myles. Quote by Stephen Shore 20.3 x 24.1 cm | 8 x 9 ½ inches 104 pages, 70 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-562-5 October 2017 $40 | £30
For more than two decades, New York-based artist Jack Pierson has been using the visual languages of photography, painting, sculpture, and drawing to examine intimate and emotional aspects of everyday life. Gaining recognition alongside a group of photographers known as the Boston School, Pierson explores the cultural construction of identity, including how we see and, ultimately, how others see us. Pierson has had numerous recent solo exhibitions, and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other museums worldwide.
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Photography
Deborah Goodman Davis PhotoRx: Pharmacy in Photography Since 1850
From the sixth century BCE to modern times, pharmacology has been esteemed, both for the pragmatic purpose of healing the body and for its more mystical, alchemical aspects. The physical setting of the pharmacy has long been intrinsic to the fabric of the largest cities and the smallest villages, but it is easy to equate its contemporary pervasiveness with banality, and even easier to discount it as a fertile subject for art. PhotoRx refutes such notions by highlighting a surprising collection of one hundred works, mostly photographs, dating from 1850 to the present. The diverse range of artists includes Berenice Abbott, Eugène Atget, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Damien Hirst, Irving Penn, Gordon Parks, Taryn Simon, and Zoe Strauss, among others. A critical text by photography scholar and curator David Campany connects the works while framing them within a broader historical context.
Edited by Shawn Waldron. Text by David Campany 24 x 29 cm | 9 ½ x 11 ½ inches 160 pages, 100 color and b&w, clothbound ISBN 978-88-6208-554-0 October 2017 $45 | £35
Deborah Goodman Davis has been the curator of the Pharmascience, Inc., collection since 2003 and is the president of Deborah G. Davis Fine Art, an art advisory services company. Her 2012 children’s book, Speeding Down the Spiral, about a family’s trip to the Guggenheim Museum, received the Mom’s Choice Silver Medal Prize. Shawn Waldron is an archivist and curator for Getty Images, managing its online print offerings as well as the curatorial program for the Getty Images Gallery, London.
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Toiletpaper
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari Toiletpaper 15
Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited internationally in leading institutions, and has participated numerous times in the Venice Biennale. He curated the 4th Berlin Biennale with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. He collaborated on No Soul for Sale—A Festival of Independents, which took place in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in 2010. Cattelan also conceived the art magazines Permanent Food and Charley. Since retiring from art, after the acclaimed 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, he has committed himself to publishing Toiletpaper magazine.
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22.5 x 29 cm | 8 ⅞ x 11 ½ inches 40 pages, 22 color, softcover ISBN 978-6208-88-556-4 September 2017 $16 | £10
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Toiletpaper is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari and born out of a shared passion for images. The magazine contains no text. Each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010, Toiletpaper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art which, through its accessible form as a widely distributed magazine, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.
Pierpaolo Ferrari is a fashion and advertising photographer and creative researcher. In 2007 he began a collaboration with L’Uomo Vogue that offered him the chance to explore the portrait’s potential and radically change its codes. In 2009, he teamed with Maurizio Cattelan to create Toiletpaper. When he is not shooting, he can be found surfing in Costa Rica. Limited edition of 650 copies with a surprise... ISBN 978-6208-88-557-1 $45 | £35
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Toiletpaper
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari Toiletpaper Calendar 2018
The upcoming Toiletpaper wall calendar 2018 features photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari taken from their magazine Toiletpaper, an imageonly publication devoted to the combination of the height of attractiveness with that of ugliness. Maurizio Cattelan has exhibited internationally in leading institutions, and has participated numerous times in the Venice Biennale. He curated the 4th Berlin Biennale with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. He collaborated on No Soul for Sale—A Festival of Independents, which took place in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in 2010. Cattelan also conceived the art magazines Permanent Food and Charley. Since retiring from art, after the acclaimed 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, he has committed himself to publishing Toiletpaper magazine.
21 x 28 cm | 8 ¼ x 11 inches 13 pages, 13 color, wire-o ISBN 978-6208-88-555-7 September 2017 $20 | £16,99
Pierpaolo Ferrari is a fashion and advertising photographer and creative researcher. In 2007 he began a collaboration with L’Uomo Vogue that offered him the chance to explore the portrait’s potential and radically change its codes. In 2009, he teamed with Maurizio Cattelan to create Toiletpaper. When he is not shooting, he can be found surfing in Costa Rica.
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Luca Campigotto Iconic China
Text by William M. Hunt 34 x 26 cm | 13 ⅜ x 10 inches 84 pages, 40 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-566-3 October 2017 $45 | £35
Luca Campigotto’s journey in China begins with a search for a mythical past and arrives at the chaotic present of the megacities. The photographs collected in Iconic China present an image of the soul of a country in which extraordinary futuristic skylines of cities projected into the future blend with traditions and atmospheres that stretch back thousands of years: the silences and the remoteness of the Great Wall; the archaeological miracle of the unearthed terracotta army; the ancient quietness of the rivers in the south; the dazzling whirlwind of unstoppable urbanisation. Campigotto’s large-format images transform themselves from view to vision: the classic and contemplative look borrowed from great nineteenth-century photography comes to terms with the contemporary world, immersing itself in the colours of the urban night. The precision of the compositions—always imbued with references to paintings and the cinema—and a skilful use of light, bring order to the vastness and complexity of the scene. Luca Campigotto was born in Venice in 1962, and divides his time between Milan and New York. Several books of his work have been published, and one of the most recent, Gotham City, features pictures of New York. Campigotto has exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale; Mois de la Photo and MEP, Paris; Somerset House, London; IVAM, Valencia; The Art Museum and The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami; CCA, Montreal; MOCA, Shanghai. His works are held in prestigious private and public collections.
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Contemporary Art
David Goldes Electricities
ELECTRICITIES
David Goldes
24.75 x 30.5 cm | 9 ¾ x 12 inches 160 pages, 100 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-553-3 October 2017 $50 | £35
Electricity is the energy that runs nearly everything. We are dependent on it for light, heat, and communications as well as powering the innumerable devices and machines that shape and support our lives. To investigate and build on our historical understanding into the nature of electricity, David Goldes constructs and photographs what he calls, “performing still lifes.” Electrical phenomena including electrostatics, high-voltage arcing, Faraday’s first transformer, water conductivity, electrified graphite drawings, and other inventions and experiments form the basis of the photographs in Electricities. Elegant and playful, Goldes uses commonplace materials such as string, pins, wire, pencil lines, and brightly colored backgrounds in his ingenious investigations while also being sensitive to the visual transformations introduced by the photographic act itself. The images reveal how electricity behaves; how it jumps gaps, repels, attracts, arcs, destroys, and often confounds our expectations. Uniting the strategies of art and science, his visually rigorous images reveal a mechanistic understanding of electricity in dialogue with the viewer’s subjectivities that can expand, build upon, and seemingly contradict such explanations. Texts include a conversation with noted writer, curator and artist David Campany, and a commentary by Kay Ryan, former U.S. Poet Laureate. David Goldes is a visual artist working primarily in photography, with forays into drawing, sculpture, and video. His work is included in collections at MOMA, Walker Art Center, Bibliothèque Nationale, Centre Pompidou, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Goldes has received numerous fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Educated in the sciences and arts, Goldes received an M.A. from Harvard University in Molecular Genetics and an M.F.A. from the Visual Studies Workshop. His work is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
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Photography
Lionel Koretzky 1000 Cars of NYC
For 3 years, from 2013 to 2016, still-life photographer Lionel Koretzky fed his Instagram account @soloparkingnyc with square photographs of NYC cars he took on a daily basis, on his iPhone, systematically cropping them at the wheels. The repetition of the graphic formula spread over time, designs, and seasons produced a body of work he first approached as a side project but eventually recognized as worthy of publication. This is Koretzky’s first book, an homage to his beloved adoption town and country through his inner child and passion for cars.
15.9 x 15.9 cm | 6 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches 288 pages, 1000 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-546-5 October 2017 $35 | £25
Lionel Koretzky was born in France and grew up drawing, sculpting, and taking photographs of things he built. Fascinated by cars and speed from a very young age, he started racing go-karts and cars before moving back to his creative world in 1996. A week before entering art school, he met still-life photographer JJ Liegeois, and later became his first assistant. He moved to New York as Nathaniel Goldberg’s first assistant in 2002, working lights on a bigger scale, incorporating locations and daylight in his own work. In late 2014, Lionel became Associate Editor of the third issue of Lollipop, a lifestyle magazine covering the Formula 1 World Championship. Since Spring 2016, he has been Car Editor for Solar magazine. Lionel is a regular contributor to Man of the World, Intersection, Air France Magazine, Out Of Order, and Bad to the Bone. His work has been featured in major publications such as Numero, GQ, M Le Monde, Vogue, V, and V-Man, among others. Lionel Koretzky now divides his time between Paris and NYC.
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Tria Giovan The Cuba Archive Photography from 1990s Cuba
Essay by Silvana Paternostro 29.3 x 21 cm | 11 ½ x 8 1⁄4 inches 168 pages, 125 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-545-8 September 2017 $40 | £30
Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. Over the next six years she took twelve month-long trips, traversing the island numerous times, and making more than 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba’s history, literature, and politics, she photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, rural landscapes, signs and billboards, and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captures the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day Cuba born from complete engagement and informed perspective. Cuba: The Elusive Island, published by Harry N. Abrams in 1996—a collector’s item—first brought together 100 of these images, along with a selection of writings by some of Cuba’s most important writers. Twenty years later, Giovan re-edited the images, while working to preserve the original 6 x 9 color negatives. Through this intensive re-examination, a new, more complex view of the historical significance of this work has emerged. Images previously disregarded or missed now stand out as a record of elements that no longer exist, and of a Cuba poised on the brink of change. The selected images featured in The Cuba Archive, many of which have never previously been shown, reveal Cuba at a pivotal point in its fascinating history, and bear witness to an inimitable, resilient, and complex country and people. Raised in the Caribbean, Giovan has traveled the world on photography assignments, and her work has been published in Aperture, Esquire, Harpers, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, and many other publications. The most recent monograph of her work, Sand, Sea, Sky: The Beaches of Sagaponack, was published by Damiani in 2012. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and the NY Public Library, among others. Photographs from The Cuba Archive will be featured in a 2017/2018 exhibition on Cuba at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California.
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Jean Pigozzi ME + CO The Selfies: 1972-2016
“We live in the age of the selfie,” Jerry Saltz wrote in 2014. A few short years ago, people were still primarily interested in recording what was in front of them. Then, all of a sudden, hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people were turning their cameras around and taking pictures of themselves. “It’s possible that the selfie is the most prevalent popular genre ever,” Saltz ventured. Most of us would therefore be surprised to learn that Jean Pigozzi—neither an American nor a millennial—has been taking selfies for more than forty years. ME + CO brings this unique body of work together for the first time. There are dozens of famous faces, including those of Mick Jagger, Faye Dunaway, Mel Brooks, Andy Warhol, and Lady Gaga, pressed against Pigozzi’s, as well as the belly of a Turkish belly dancer, a busload of Japanese tourists, and a stuffed dog. Pigozzi’s collected selfies are fascinating and fun, both for their strangely contemporary quality and for their old-school innocence.
14 x 19.7cm | 5 ½ x 7 ¾ inches 168 pages, 160 illustrations, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-550-2 October 2017 $40 | £25
Johnny Pigozzi was born in Paris in 1952. He attended Harvard University, where he studied film and photography. After graduating, he worked in film and television. He began keeping a visual journal of his friends, family, travels, and surroundings in the 1960s. His first solo exhibition of photography was at Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, and his photographs have since been exhibited worldwide.
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Dan Ziskie Cloud Chamber
Each moment lived on the streets of New York charges the next; our actions reflect off each other as we’re squeezed by the crowds and the sirens and the traffic into evolving life. Street life. And yet, even as we bounce off each other, sometimes literally, amid the jackhammers and the horns and semi-constant state of emergency, you may find that it can all be a kind of shield, a protection that allows you to feel as if you were for a moment alone - alone in the cloud chamber of New York.
30 x 24 x cm | 11 ¾ x 9 ½ inches 108 pages, 65 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-547-2 October 2017 $35 | £25
Cloud Chamber is the first monograph by American actor and photographer Dan Ziskie, including unique and contemporary photographs taken in New York between 2013 and 2016. Dan Ziskie grew up in Detroit, then eventually moved to Chicago to work as a journalist and later as a photo assistant for a commercial photographer. He began to work as an actor in improvisational theater in Chicago, and later moved to New York. He started shooting on black-and-white film in a 35-mm camera. Once in New York, inspired by the stories of Gary Winogrand, he hit the streets every day, winter, and summer, for several years, to take what pictures he could. He continues to work most often with a digital 35-mm camera. He is working on several other projects: the one closest to completion is about the East Broadway area in Manhattan’s Chinatown. He has exhibited in shows at the Pacific Center Northwest in Seattle, the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Barrett Art Gallery in upstate New York, Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York City, and others. His East Broadway project has been featured in The New York Times.
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Ruth Kaplan Bathers
24.7 x 30,5 cm | 9 ¾ x 12 inches 112 pages, 70 b&w, clothbound ISBN 978-88-6208-548-9 September 2017 $50 | £35
Bathers explores the social theater of communal bathing, a ritual that is both private and public. Ruth Kaplan’s journey began in the nudist hot springs of California in 1991. By participating in the baths, Kaplan gradually became accepted, and was able to make photographs of her fellow bathers, occupying the dual role of voyeur and participant. From California she then traveled to Eastern Europe, seeking a more traditional form of the practice in the spa towns of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. The unique display of individual body types and ages became a component of the work, as did the decaying architecture of the interiors. She then traveled to higher-tech spas in Germany, France, Italy, and Denmark, completing the series in 2002 in Moroccan hamams and Icelandic hot springs. Hedonism, decadence, sensuality, innocence, and social bonding were some of the underlying themes that emerged, but what drew Kaplan to the baths was the powerful physicality, the way in which people manifested themselves through their bodies, and the psychological presence they evoked. The waters became a backdrop to this exploration. With the migration from analog to digital that took hold during the 1990s, and escalating concerns surrounding individual privacy, these photographs have come to stand as a unique document of a subject difficult to photograph at the best of times, but nearly impossible to achieve currently without staging them. Along with the bizarre juxtapositions of body and place that sometimes occurred, these images reveal and celebrate the experience of immersion into water— physicality and transcendence. Ruth Kaplan is a Canadian documentary-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as the social behavior of bathers in communal hot springs, congregants participating in rituals of spirituality within Pentecostal and Baptist churches, and, most recently, refugees living in shelters along the U.S.–Canada border as they await decisions on their status. Kaplan’s work integrates still photographs and video. She has exhibited internationally over the past 25 years, and is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery. Her editorial work can be found in Canadian and international publications. Kaplan has received numerous grants and awards. Currently, she is a photography professor in Toronto, Canada. New Titles
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Contemporary Art
Andy Denzler Fragmented Identity
28 x 32 cm | 11 x 12 ⅝ inches 216 pages, 105 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-559-5 October 2017 $55 | £40
Andy Denzler combines a variety of media in his art practice, including painting, sculpture, and drawing. His works respond to traditional portrait painting through an expressive and multilayered application of impasto oil paint and the subsequent removal thereof, resulting in the morphing of the image. He explains: “I’m using distortion and interference to depict surreal imagery, transience, and the influence of the media on today’s society. In this age of digital overstimulation, I am interested in people’s sensitivities and their search for their own identity. In both the form and content of my paintings, I take a conscious stand against today’s artificial, fleeting imagery, away from perfectionism and high-gloss aesthetics….” Just like in one of Luis Buñuel’s surrealistic films, Denzler transfers his scenes to deserted places, rooms caught between dream and reality. As if watching a VHS movie, the observer’s attention is directed to the architecture of the room, the figures, the interior, the incidence of light, and the depth of field. Yet the scenes have no outcome, like puzzles deliberately left unsolved. Fragmented Identity examines Denzler’s works from the past seven years: interiors, zone paintings, photo frame paintings, portraits and works on paper. Born in 1965, Andy Denzler is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Zurich. In his art, Denzler integrates knowledge acquired from a background in new media and computer graphics with a color palette inspired by dusty old photographs. Denzler expresses realism and immobility through photographs that he has taken himself. He uses landscapes and portraits of people he knows to mirror simple sequences of everyday life. Through this procedure, he shows a wish to control, using these photos as a guide to his paintings and their storytelling. He adds a dramatic character to his works with the use of the impasto technique, and then softens the effect in certain places of the canvas by delicately manipulating the image from a flowing figurative form into a more abstract vocabulary. His creations are full of motion, passion, violence, and beautiful visual balance. He follows a similar path and concept to create his bronze sculptures. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe, the United States, and Asia, and form parts of private and public collections such as those of the Denver Art Museum, the Museum Würth, the Moscow Museum of Art, the Kunsthalle Rostock, and the White Cube Collection. New Titles
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José Parlá Roots
24.4 x 29.3 cm | 9 ⅝ x 11 ½ inches 96 pages, 101 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-563-2 October 2017 $45 | £35
Grounded in Parlá’s personal first-generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever-evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future. Parlá produces a gestural landscape with juxtaposed characters, hieroglyphs, and words within paintings and sculptures that are deliberately created to serve as carriers of meaning. The titles of his works often create playful connotations as signifiers to specific places or times, thus becoming clues to decoding the work. Parlá’s grandfather was an aviation pioneer who flew between Key West and Mariel, Cuba, on a biplane made of sugarcane and bamboo, which he named Caña Brava. The Cuban aviator’s legacy continues to serve as an inspiration to the artist and his family. José Parlá spent his formative years immersed in the thriving underground art scenes of Miami, while frequently traveling to other cities, including Beijing, Havana, Istanbul, New York, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, and San Juan, as well as to many other countries in which the multicultural environment and social processes deeply impacted his perception of urban space. In his practice, like his grandfather’s flight between the United States and Cuba in 1912, José Parlá highlights the cultural bonds between communities and the expression thereof. José Parlá (born 1973) is a multidisciplinary artist who has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing, and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. He has held solo exhibitions at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York, Haunch of Venison in London, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in Tokyo, and the High Museum of Atlanta, Georgia. In 2013, Parlá was added to the collection of the British Museum in London and the Albright Knox in Buffalo, New York. Parlá lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Collaborative projects include the Wrinkles of the City: Havana, Cuba project, which was completed in 2012 with French artist JR. New Titles
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Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light Havana Buzz
Text by Abel Fernández-Larrea 10.2 x 15.5 cm | 4 x 6 ⅛ inches 224 pages, 170 color, softcover with jacket ISBN 978-88-6208-560-1 October 2017 $30 | £25
Havana Buzz was shot in 2015 in Havana, Cuba. Once a majestic and cosmopolitan city at the heart of the Spanish colonial empire, then a playground for rich and powerful Americans in the first half of the 20th century, since the late 1950s Havana has been the capital of one of the last remaining socialist regimes in the world. This historical U-turn is at the core of Havana’s unique identity. The anti-urban character of Cuba’s communist rule, and the inflexible embargo imposed by the United States cast a paralyzing spell on the lavish metropolis, freezing it in time. Havana Buzz explores Cuba’s capital at this time of long-awaited historical transition. Here caught in fleeting glimpses from its public buses, Havana’s features are dispassionately laid bare, and the truth is revealed beyond the myth. Behind the romantic languidness of urban decay, the daily struggles for survival of an impoverished but resourceful population are displayed against a backdrop of anachronistic propaganda billboards, decrepit housing estates, crumbling infrastructures, and a lush tropical nature that reclaims its territory after human neglect. Yet signs of change are visible throughout the city, and the new appears to seep relentlessly through the cracks of the past, creating a unique blend of antique and nouveau, nostalgia and hope, disillusionment and elation. Alessandro Cosmelli is a documentary photographer born in Livorno, Italy. His images have been extensively exhibited internationally, featured in leading international newspapers and magazines, and received prestigious prizes and awards. Alessandro lives and works between New York and Miami. Born and raised in Rome, Gaia Light is a visual artist and documentary photographer who depicts the interactions between the singular human psyche and the world at large with socially driven photo-reportages. She works primarily as a visual artist and, since the launch in 2010 of the Light TV project, as a filmmaker. Gaia Light’s photographs and artworks have been extensively published and exhibited internationally. She lives and works between New York and Miami.
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Elizabeth Heyert The Outsider
Text by Madeleine Thien 29.85 x 30.48 cm | 11 ¾ x 12 inches 96 pages, 43 b&w, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-544-1 October 2017 $30 | £25
Known for her unconventional approach to portrait photography, most notably her classic trilogy The Sleepers, The Travelers, and The Narcissists, Elizabeth Heyert again assumes her role as observer and voyeur in her latest book, The Outsider, photographed during four trips to China. Fascinated by the rituals of Chinese amateur photographers, who seem to shoot incessantly, often with family members looking on and directing, and with an intimacy with their environment that borders on stagecraft, Heyert embarked on a project to photograph the Chinese taking photographs of each other. Unable to speak their language, she worked, in her words “like an unseen ghost wandering around with a vintage Leica and Tri-X in a country where film is no longer even sold.” Few Chinese possess family photographs from the past, because so much was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, which may explain the intensity of the photography she witnessed. She calls the project The Outsider because, as a Westerner in the East, and a stranger in a foreign culture searching for authenticity, she allowed herself to be a spectator to the photographer/ subject relationship. These are portraits of the Chinese, by the Chinese, scrupulously observed by Heyert, a dedicated witness to the birth of a new collective visual memory. World-renowned architectural photographer Elizabeth Heyert established her reputation in the art world with her groundbreaking experimental portraits. Her works are now in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and in numerous private collections. In addition to her celebrated trilogy, her books include Metropolitan Places, one of the classic anthologies of 20th-century interior design, and The Glasshouse Years, a history of 19thcentury portrait photography. Heyert lives and works in downtown Manhattan.
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Simon Eeles Far Far Rockaway
The second book by Simon Eeles spans two summers in Far Rockaway beach and the artist’s idea of happiness and honesty. From his base in a tent perched on the edge of the beach, he works with strangers to paint a picture of the colorful and diverse fantasy of this location. Having worked under renowned British fashion photographer Craig McDean, Eeles creates images with sharp, fashion-world glamour, even when working with a raw beach culture saturated in eccentric New York style. Simon Eeles was born in Tasmania, Australia, in 1983. After studying photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he moved to New York, where he worked for Craig McDean. Now living in London, he focuses on portraiture and modern popular culture. 24.1 x 30.5 cm | 9 ½ x 12 inches 96 pages, 60 color, clothbound ISBN 978-88-6208-543-4 August 2017 $35 | £25
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Collector’s Editions
Martin Parr Think of Scotland
New for fall 2017 Edition of 50 signed and numbered prints Gourock Lido, 2004 Pigment print Image size: 22.9 x 18.4 cm | 9 x 7 inches Sheet size: 25.3 x 20.2 cm | 10 x 8 inches
This stunning limited edition of 50 copies includes a print numbered and signed by Martin Parr. The image is entitled Gourock Lido, 2004, and features the Gourock Outdoor Pool, the oldest heated swimming pool in Scotland. The swimmer in the print of Gorouck lido says about the Martin Parr’s photograph: “It must have been a particularly wild night – there’d obviously just been a rainstorm. The colours work beautifully—that gray against that aquamarine—and the photograph captures something of our Scottish eccentricity: the storm clouds and the rain, and the eccentric local who decided to go swimming when no one else would.”
23 x 31.5 cm | 9 x 12 ½ inches 144 pages, 100 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-551-9 $500 | £400
David Goldes Electricities
This stunning limited edition of 25 copies plus 5 artist proofs includes the book Electricities and a gelatin silver print signed and numbered by the artist. The print is entitled Electricity + Water lll, 1993.
New for fall 2017 Edition of 25 signed and numbered prints Electricity + Water III, 1993 Gelatin silver print Image size: 29.2 x 22.86 cm | 11 ½ x 9 inches Sheet size: 35,6 x 28 cm | 14 x 11 inches 24.75 x 30.5 cm | 9 ¾ x 12 inches 160 pages, 100 color, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-561-8 $900 | £680
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Ricky Adam Belfast Punk. Warzone Centre 1997—2003
Limited edition of 15 copies, each comprising a first edition book housed in a slipcase with a single beautiful print. As a young photographer, Ricky Adam documented the late '90s' punk scene in Belfast, Northern Ireland, inside the infamous punk venue, the Warzone Centre. These images offer a unique fly on the wall snapshot of D.I.Y. punk culture at a certain time and place in the city of Belfast. New for fall 2017 Edition of 15 signed and numbered prints Untitled, 2000 Epson archival inks on Hahnemuhle fine art archival paper (glossy) Image size: 26.9 x 20 cm | 10 ⅝ x 7 ⅞ inches Sheet size: 29.7 x 21 cm | 11 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches 25.5 x 30 cm | 10 x 11 ¾ inches 176 pages, 85 b&w, hardbound ISBN 978-88-6208-552-6 $200 | £150
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