Appropriation Le Plac'Art Photo 11/2015
The material I appropriate is available to anyone who cares to use it. The fact that the material has possibly been observed or unconsciously collected by person’s other than myself, in effect defines its desires and threats. It’s this ‘prior availability’ that verifies the fictional transformation and helps cool down any reference to an observable reality. To de-referentialize the material is not to take it out of context. The great thing about an appropriation is that even though the transformation reads as fiction, everybody knows that the source of the appropriation was at some point non-fiction, (magazine, movie, etc.), and it’s these sources, or elements of non-fiction, that gives the picture, no matter how questionable, its believable edge. Appropriation is a theoretical procedure, and like any other procedure, interesting only to a point. (The point being that we’re all pretty intelligent, but are we smart enough to stop paying attention to how intelligent we are?) I’m wondering if appropriation as procedure will become the supplementary sweetheart for gallery toughs. I have a funny feeling it’s the stuff of which art/writing is made of. Personally, I think it would be far more entertaining to continue to customize the built-in elements that appropriation provides, and concentrate on why certain records sound better when someone on the radio station plays them, then when we’re home alone, and play the same records ourselves. (Richard Prince) Copyright by The shadow of HRMD in 2015 Run edition: 100 copies
1 [Laurent DAVID]
2 [Michalis PICHLER]
3 [Fabio MAURI]
4 [HALIL (ed)]
5 [Bertold BRECHT]
6 [Olivier CHANARIN & Adam BLOOMERG]
7 [Sophie RISTELHUEBER]
8 [Giorgio DI NOTO]
9 [Antoine D’AGATA]
10 [Ezra NAHMAD]
11 [Joan FONTCUBERTA]
12 [Alec SOTH]
13 [Olivier CHANARIN & Adam BROOMBERG]
14 [Cristina DE MIDDEL]
15 [Kuang HUIMIN]
16 [COLLECTIF]
17 [Hans-Peter FELDMANN]
18 [Miyazaki KOICHI]
19 [Fabio MAURI]
20 [Klaus STAECK]
21 [Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK]
22 [Daniel MAYRIT]
23 [Kurt CAVIEZEL]
24 [Michael WOLF]
25 [Doug RICKARD]
26 [Hiroshi NOMURA]
27 [Eduardo SERAFIM]
28 [Doug RICKARD]
29 [Grégoire PUJADE-LAURAINE]
30 [Francesco SCAMPINATO]
31 [Tiane Doan Na CHAMPASSAK]
32 [Dimitri Bruni & Manuel Krebs]
33 [Miguel CALDERÓN]
34 [Larry CLARK]
35 [Nicolas GIRAUD]
36 [Sophie CALLE]
37 [Bruno LOCCI]
38 [Nicole DELMES & Susanne ZANDER (ed.)]
39 [Thomas MAILAENDER]
40 [Anouk KRUITHOF]
41 [Andrea BOTTO]
42 [Kasuma OBARA]
43 [Ariana ARCARA & Luca SANTESE]
44 [Tacita DEAN]
45 [Christoph BÜCHEL]
46 [Timothy PRUS & Donovan WYLIE]
47 [Georges HUGNET]
48 [Rémi NOEL]
49 [Nicolas SIMARIK]
50 [Joachim SCHMID]
51 [Mishka HENNER]
52 [Ulrich Tillmann & Wolfgang Vollmer]
53 [Christian PATTERSON]
54 [Martin PARR]
55 [Mark POWER]
56 [Sophie CALLE]
57 [Brad FEUERHELM]
58 [Michael SCHMIDT]
59 [G端nther SELICHAR]
60 [Inakoshi KOICHI]
61 [Thomas RUFF]
62 [Katja STUKE]
63 [MAKI]
64 [Sébastien GIRARD]
65 [Richard PRINCE]
66 [Adam BROOMBERG & Olivier CHANARIN]
67 [Tiane Doan Na CHAMPASSAK]
68 [Erik KESSELS]
69 [Juli達o SARMENTO]
70 [Charles JOHNSTONE]
71 [Benoît GRIMBERT et Hannah DARABI]
72 [David WOJNAROWICZ]
73 [Ed RUSCHA]
74 [Antony CAIRNS]
75 [Olafur ELIASSON]
76 [Mishka HENNER]
77 [Christian PATTERSON]
78 [Valerio SPADA]
79 [Larry SULTAN & Mike MANDEL]
80 [Brian GRIFFIN]
81 [Bruno LOCCI]
82 [John STEZAKER]
83 [Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS]
84 [Paul GRAHAM]
85 [Yakumasa MORIMURA]
86 [Cindy SHERMAN]
87 [Robert HEINECKEN]
88 [Robert HEINECKEN]
89 [Jean-Charles BLANC]
90 [Gilbert & George]
91 [Liz COHEN]
92 [Luciano RIGOLINI]
93 [Christian BOLTANSKI]
94 [Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS]
95 [Christian LANGE]
96 [Christian BOLTANSKI]
97 [Hans-Peter Feldmann]
98 [Ferdinand KRIWET]
99 [Emma SOUHARCE]
100 [Hans-Peter Feldmann]
101 [Max REGENBERG]
102 [Richard PRINCE]
1 [Laurent DAVID]
BOPB: Best of Photobooks Self-published, 2012. First edition. Softcover, 280 X 210 mm, 250 p. Few copies of this photobook exist. A synthesis of the literature devoted to the best photobooks published throughout the world since the origins of photography with more than 1100 references included in photobooks such as : “ Photobooks ”, 802 photobooks from M+M Auer collection ; “ The Book of 101 Books ”, Andrew Roth ; “ The Open Book ”, Hasselblad Center ; “ The Photobook, vol.1 & vol. 2 ”, M. Parr & G. Badger. Copy in very good condition.
2 [Michalis PICHLER]
Six hands and a cheese sandwich Self-published, 2011. First edition. Softcover, staple binding. 180 x 140 mm, 20 p. By now the appropriation and paraphrasing of Ed Ruscha constitutes a genre of its own. The first were 1968 Bruce Nauman with ‘Burning Small Fires’ and 1971 ‘Ed Ruscha’ (actually Joel Fisher) with ‘Six Hands and a Cheese Sandwich’, with further appropriations or hommages over the decades, and in the last years it almost became fashionable, the evidence is massive.There is actually none of the books published by Ruscha in the 60ies, which has not been paraphrased yet, be it the Gas Stations (e.g. Jeff Brouws, Toby Mussmann, Eric Tabuchi, Michalis Pichler, Anonymus, Michael Maranda), (…) or the Sunset Strip (J.F. Schnyder, Jonathan Monk, Derek Sullivan, Tom Sowden), even the Palm Trees (Tadej Pogocar, Eric van der Wejde), Colored People (Jonathan Monk, Tanja Lazetic) and Hard Light (Achim Riechers) have been taken up explicitly.The assembly attempts to span a larger arc of tension, integrate Ruscha’s own books and put him into a evolution line in. Copy in very good condition
3 [Fabio MAURI]
Linguaggio è guerra/ Language is war Massimo Marani Editore, Rome, 1975. First edition. Softcover, 230 x 170 mm, 128 p, text by Filiberto Menna & Fabio Mauri. Linguaggio è guerra is made up of reproductions of photographs taken from magazines, journals, and other sources. They include many from World War II and its aftermath, and also more contemporary events such as the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Each image has been cropped by the artist and has been rubber-stamped with the inscription ‘Language is War’ which remains only partly visible on each page.“ Oliver J. Wood ”. Copy in very good condition.
4 [HALIL (ed)]
A Cloud of black smoke – Photographs of Turkey 1968-1972 Focuskop Fotoform, Stockholm, 2007. First edition. Softcover, 280 x 210 mm, 160 p. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. III, p.71. Copy signed by Halil. “ I received these photographs in the 30th anniversary of the 68 movement in Turkey. The photographs were hidden and saved by the members of the 68 movement until that time.... these pictures have created this book. In their raw form without any manipulation ”. Halil (from the introduction). Copy in very good condition.
5 [Bertold BRECHT] ACB de la guerre
PUG, Grenoble, 1985. First french edition. Hardcover with dust jacket as issued, 300 x 240 mm, 239 p. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p.285. For many years, Bertold Brecht collected newspaper photographs from World War Two and wrote poems to accompaign them. He gathered all this in one of his most achieved works first published in 1955 in East Berlin.This book is the first French full version of Brecht’s book. By appropriating all those precious historic archives, the artist created an essential work to give an accurate and vivid understanding of The Second World War. Dust jacket a bit used. Cover fading a little bit but copy in good condition.
6 [Olivier CHANARIN & Adam BLOOMERG] War Primer 2
Mack, London, 2011. First edition. Applying silkscreen and offset printed images of a 1998 edition (Libris, London) of Bertolt Brecht’s 1955 War Primer. Grey hardcover, 305 x 255 mm, 100 p. Limited edition of 100 copies. Copy signed by Olivier Chanarin & Adam Broomberg. War Primer 2 is a book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer. While Brecht’s War Primer was concerned with images of the Second World War, War Primer 2 is concerned with the images of conflict generated by both sides of the so-called “ War on Terror ”. “ Don’t start with the good old things but the bad new ones ” Brecht famously said, and in this spirit Broomberg & Chanarin have gathered their material from the internet - compressed, uploaded, ripped, squeezed, reformatted, re-edited and often anonymous images - rather than sifting through newspapers with a pair of scissors. Very scarce and collectible copy. In great condition.
7 [Sophie RISTELHUEBER] Eleven Blowups
Bookstorming, Paris, 2006. First edition. Hardcover in a cardboard slipcase. 250 x 320 mm. Limited edition of 12 numbered and signed copies presented in a box with an original picture signed and numbered on the back. In these pictures, everything is true and false at the same time. The raw material was video rushes from Iraq taken by local Reuters correspondents, which I viewed at their London office. I was looking for pictures of the craters – the “ tombs ” – that open up in the ground in Iraq several times a week, or even a day. Working on stills taken from the rushes, I put together my own pictures, using computer techniques to reconstruct scenes that were both real and imaginary, and incorporating elements of my own earlier work. This mix of material comes from different territories – Turkmenistan in 1997, Syria in 1999, Iraq in 2000, the West Bank in 2003–04 – and reflects the vision of history as chaos that has haunted me since I worked in Beirut in 1982. Extremely scarce and collectible copy in perfect condition.
8 [Giorgio DI NOTO] The Arab Revolt
Self-published, 2012. First edition. Hardcover, 255 x 200 mm, 56 p. Limited edition of 20 signed and numbered copies with one numbered and signed print. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. II, p.211. “ The documentation for these events was for the most part provided by the populations involved who, using smart-phones and small video cameras, published and shared pictures and videos of the revolts on the internet. (…) I watched and studied hundreds of videos on the internet, singling out individual frames which I would then re-frame and photograph from my computer screen with a Polaroid camera. (…) I wanted to represent the overlap between documenting and witnessing, between pictures produced (and post-produced) by photographers and home-made pictures provided by people actually participating in the events. If on the one hand the yellowed aspect of the photographs seemed to suggest a temporal distance between me and the events, on the other hand it clashed with their being contemporary: so the images gradually moved away from the subject (and the photographer) to get closer to our visual memory and our processing of reality. ” Giorgio Di Noto Scarce & collectible copy in great condition.
9 [Antoine D’AGATA] Odysseia
André Frère Editions, Roquevaire, 2013. First edition. Hardcover, 225 x 175 mm, 192 p, texts by Antoine d’Agata, Bruno Le Dantec, Rafael Garido. Copy signed by Antoine d’Agata. “ Details bored Antoine d’Agata. The reality is the men and their trials. Here, there is nothing like a haunting documentary concern or a complex construction. The project simply reports activities like walking, eating, staying warm and sleeping. The everyday life of a world in-between, made of nomadism and inertia.Hence the intensity, the density of sequences that couldn’t be told in any way. The linear narrative is absent. Antoine d’Agata is the photographer who’s the most stubbornly photographer ever. Still he persists in his pursuit of another corporation. This business can’t be practiced without values. In fact, Antoine d’Agata has never really been a fan of photojournalism. The paper, dry and flat, is a sham. The event never took place. One can’t mimic emotions that one does not feel. D’Agata is perhaps entirely in these shots somewhere. With him, the modern image gets closer to despair, it faces the human distress and, perhaps, finds a new life among all that. ” François Cheval Copy in very good condition.
10 [Ezra NAHMAD]
Entrances to the City Borders Reach the Boat 2015, self-published. First edition. Softcover, stiched, 260 x 200 mm, 74 p, 28 photographs. Limited edition of 20 signed copies. At Kos or Lesbos the sea is a border. East and West, salvation and wreck, nights and days depart, a bit of world drifts. Primitive, boats and waves go. A kind of modernity passes around. Spates. Up to Berlin or Atlanta. Ezra Nahmad has selected and reworked stills from TV reports on Syrian refugees arrival to Europe in summer 2015. The very low resolution images were cut from online YouTube version of the reports. This is not his first experience of this kind. The artist lives in Paris but his actual works are rooted in the Middle-East, mostly in Israel. He has published recently Without/Sans et Sounds Hell with Peperoni Books, Berlin. As new.
11 [Joan FONTCUBERTA] Deconstructing Osama
Actar, Barcelona, 2007. First edition. Thick folded leather cover and string binding. 305 x 225 mm, 124 p. Copy signed by Joan Fontcuberta. This is an ironic work of parody in which the artist disguises himself as an Islamic terrorist, by wearing a fake beard and Arabic attire. By manipulating photos and videos from the Al Yazira channel, the artist places himself in the scenes, superimposing his face to the body of Bin Laden. While one listens to the voice of the terrorist and the subtitles appear in Arabic Fontcuberta actually recites The Pirate’s Song poem written by Espronceda. Copy in very good condition. Beautiful edition made like a missel.
12 [Alec SOTH]
The Last Days of W. Little brown mushroom, St-Paul, Minnesota, 2008. First edition. Printed on newsprint. 420 x 310 mm, 45 p, 45 photographs. Selected as one of the best books 2009. “ During these last days of the administration, what is the point of protest, satire or any other sort of rabble-rousing? In assembling this collection of pictures I’ve made over the last eight years, I’m not really trying to accomplish much at all. But as President Bush once said, ‘One of the great things about books is, sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.’’ - Alec Soth Copy in very good condition.
13 [Olivier CHANARIN & Adam BROOMBERG] Holy Bible
Mack, London, 2013. First edition. Embossed black hardcover, 216 x 162 mm, 721 p, 614 photographs, text in english by Adi Ophir. Violence, calamity and the absurdity of war are recorded extensively within The Archive of Modern Conflict, the largest photographic collection of its kind in the world. For their most recent work, Holy Bible, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin mined this archive with philosopher Adi Ophir’s central tenet in mind: that God reveals himself predominantly through catastrophe and that power structures within the Bible correlate with those within modern systems of governance. The format of Broomberg and Chanarin’s illustrated Holy Bible mimics both the precise structure and the physical form of the King James Version. By allowing elements of the original text to guide their image selection, the artists explore themes of authorship, and the unspoken criteria used to determine acceptable evidence of conflict. Inspired in part by the annotations and images Bertolt Brecht added to his own personal bible, Broomberg and Chanarin’s publication questions the clichés at play within the visual representation of conflict. Copy in very good condition.
14 [Cristina DE MIDDEL]
Party. Quitonasto Form Chanmair Mao Tungest RM Verlag, Barcelona, 2013. First edition. Softcover with plastic dust jacket. 130 x 95 mm, text in english. Limited edition of 1715 copies. Party was conceived by Cristina after a first trip to China in 2012, undertaken in the aim of“ making photography, of reacting with the camera to whatever caught my attention, without any attempt to explain or analyze. ” She returned“ with a large series of photographs that were hard to classify and edit, since the only common denominator was my own astonishment. ” Party is a photobook built on the foundation of Mao’s Little Red Book. It is a book with“ new ” quotations and a free spirit that somehow shows us what China is today. Cristina uses the skeleton of Mao’s little book to be the“ Bible ” of the Chinese people—to create a particular narrative. Copy in very good condition.
15 [Kuang HUIMIN]
Townsman in Mao Zedong’s hometown Red hardcover, 70 x 95 mm, 16 p, 17 photographs. Winner of World Press Photo Award 2014 Kuang Huimin made this tiny red photobook by appropriating Mao’s little red book and his figure as well, taking pictures of residents in Mao Zedong’s hometown. In 2011, Kuang’s project Mao Zedong’s Hometown was selected to be shown at the Toronto Chinese Photo Festival, in Canada, and he was granted a Mid-career Photographer Award, under the National Geographic All Roads Photography program. Copy in very good condition.
16 [COLLECTIF]
Guevara Shashin Shu Che Light Buenos, 1969. First edition. Softcover, 240 x 240 mm, 136 p. Staple binding. Appropriation of Che Guevara’s images by the legendary members of Provoke. At this time, they were very much influenced by the revolutionnary actions that took place in Latin America, especially with the leading figure of Che Guevara. Taki Koji & Takuma Nakahira having notions of spanish, gathered newspaper articles from Spain or Latin America to complete this work. The result is stunning and constitutes one of the most achieved books about Che Guevara. One page presents some stains, the spine is a little used ; wears on the cover as well otherwise very scarce copy still in good condition with a beautiful design made of different papers and colors.
17 [Hans-Peter FELDMANN] Der Überfall
Wolfgang Hake Verlag, Köln, 1975. First edition. Softcover, 250 x 250 mm, 26 p. Limited edition of 350 copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. II, p.157. Artist’s book recording a fake bank hold up using real press clipping. Copy in very good condition.
18 [Miyazaki KOICHI] Scissorings
1968, Shicho Sha, Tokyo, 113 p. Hardcover, in a cardboard slipcase. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Extracts from newspaper articles written between 1962 and 1967. The pictures reveal the American grip on Japan in general, and on its culture and habits in particular (for instance, we can see images of sports such as baseball). Miyazaki Koichi made these pictures his own to question their meaning and not without implying political issues. Just a little yellowed but in very good condition for a scarce and collectible copy.
19 [Fabio MAURI]
Manipulation der Kultur/Manipolazione di Cultura La Nuova Foglio Editrice, Polenza Macerata, 1976. First edition. Hardcover, 379 x 242 mm, 42 black & white photographs, captions in italian & german. Included in Liliana Dematteis and Giorgio Maffei, Libri d’artista in Italia: 1960-1998. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Manipolazione di Cultura is one of Fabio Mauri’s most significant works on the theme of the ideological instrumentalization of language. In this artists’ book he appropriates photographs taken from German and Italian fascist sources. These are reproduced with part of the lower half having been over-printed with a black band of varying width, seemingly representing the rising tide of fascism. Each image has a brief descriptive caption which undermines the ideological content: ‘they film everything’, ‘they burn books’, ‘they hide their traces’, ‘they all have the same idea’. Very scarce and collectible copy. Final page is shaken. Otherwise copy in excellent condition with beautiful reproductions.
20 [Klaus STAECK] Pornografie
Edition Kölling/Anabas Verlag 1971. First edition. Hardcover, 250 x 200 mm, 388 p, 286 black & white photographs. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.II, p.150-151. Here is a bewildering collection of curious of everyday violence: press photos of street fights, naked victims of war, and tortured prisoners follow staged body-art pictures and a wide array of objects colored by desire, power, exposure and surveillance. With a name that refers to x-rated images and the obscene, the works shown in Pornografie may be far from a voyeur’s expectations. Indeed, it is filled with obscene photos, but as the philosopher Herbert Marcuse put it: “ It’s not the picture of a naked woman that’s obscene but that of a general who shows off his medals earned in a war of aggression. ” The book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn’t be any more current, especially given movements like activist art. Some wears on the cover and along the spine with some part of the rhodoid missing. Copy in good condition. Scarce collectible copy.
21 [Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK] Looters
Dalpine, Madrid, 2011. First edition. Softcover, 185 x 135 mm, 48 p, risograph printing. Limited edition of 150 copies. Copy signed by Tiane Doan na Champassak. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p. 297. On August 6th 2011, following a peaceful protest over the fatal shooting by police of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, a riot began and descended into violence, arson and looting across England. All images of Looters were captured during the riots that took place between August 6-10, 2011 and were found on the internet. Copy in great condition.
22 [Daniel MAYRIT]
You haven’t seen their faces Riot Books, London, 2015. First edition. Softcover, 255 x 175 mm, 101 p, printing on kraft paper. Limited edition of 350 numbered and signed copies. This book intends to appropriate the characteristics of surveillance technology in order to create a very different set of images. Its subject matter is not the usual target of surveillance cameras, but a list of the 100 most powerful people in the City of London (according to the annual report by Square Mile magazine in 2013). The people here featured represent a sector which is arguably regarded in the collective perception as highly responsible for the current economic situation, but nevertheless still live in a comfortable anonymity, away from public scrutiny. Hence the questions raised would be of the same nature: in the same way that we could not possibly know if the youngsters portrayed by the police were actually criminals, we cannot assume either that the individuals here featured are all involved in the ongoing financial scandals... but aren’t they?“ As New.
23 [Kurt CAVIEZEL]
The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel Rorhof, Bolzano, 2015. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 240 x 160 mm, 414 p, foreword by Joachim Schmid, text in English. Copy signed by Kurt Caviezel. For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and subjects. This encyclopedia is comprised of a small part of his archive. The dust jacket of the book contains all 15,000 web-links used by Kurt Caviezel to create this body of work. Copy in very good condition.
24 [Michael WOLF]
A series of unfortunate events Peperoni Books, Berlin, 2010. First edition. Hardcover, 200 x 150 mm, 72 p, 50 color photographs, text by Stephen Harris and Marc Feustel. Limited edition of 500 copies. Copy signed by Michael Wolf. To achieve this book, Michael Wolf used Google tool as main material for his own images. Copy in very good condition.
25 [Doug RICKARD]
A New American Picture White Press, Freiburg, 2010, First edition. Blue hardcover, 230 x 335 mm, 92 p, text in english. Limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p. 310. Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While on first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditional bounds of the genre, his methodology is anything but conventional. All of the images are appropriated from Google Street View; over a period of two years, Rickard took advantage of the technology platform’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America, bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated, and abandoned. With an informed and deliberate eye, Rickard finds and decodes these previously photographed scenes of urban and rural decay. He rephotographs the machine-made images as they appear on his computer screen, framing and freeing them from their technological origins. (…)It was named a best book of 2010 by photo-eye magazine. Copy in very good condition.
26 [Hiroshi NOMURA] Slash
N/T Works, 2010. First edition. Softcover, 162 x 257 mm, 192 p, 93 photographs. Limited edition of 500 copies. “ I am trying to discover ‘borderlines’ in the world, at which I place myself and wherein I explore what is there. ‘Slash’ represents such lines. ” Hiroshi Nomura’s photobook Slash contains a series of image taken using Google’s Street View found within the viewing application Google Maps. Published in 2010 and designed by Match and Company found Satoshi Machiguchi and Hikari Machiguchi, Slash presents a collection of photographs which present and explore the boundaries of our private and public worlds. Within, the images taken using the Google Street View application presents the overarching presence of the viewer within our everyday lives heightened by the use of technology. Slash represents Nomura’s exploration within such places, where out perceived privacies and intimacies once private are now unavoidably unrestricted. Copy in very good condition.
27 [Eduardo SERAFIM] I wish you were here
Self-published, 2011. First edition. Green clothbound hardcover, 255 x 190 mm, risograph printing, text in english and in french. Limited edition of 40 numbered and signed copies. I wish you were here explores the notion of surveillance. Through this series, Eduardo Serafim works with the border between security and voyeurism, public and private space. This project exceeds the intrusiveness that is normally found in these kinds of images. The images are taken from public spaces such as offices, hospitals, construction sites, and also within the privacy of people’s homes. As though he is in a control tower, Serafim accesses other’s lives creating postcards and mails them off to unsuspecting recipients, as a souvenir of a visit that never happened. He creates a tension between the most simple photographic representations and the weight that these images induce. The interest of this project is to go deeper into a current problem: how much are our lives are accessible by these new technologies? How disconnected are we from our privacy? Copy in very good condition.
28 [Doug RICKARD] Tom
Little Big Man, San Francisco, 2013. First edition. Softcover in a slipcase, 240 x 285 mm, black & white photographs. Limited edition of 300 copies. One of the first fifty copies signed by Doug Rickard. Tom is book about obsession, explains artist Doug Rickard. “ Mine and someone else’s. We watch over the shoulder of he who once watched over other shoulders. ”Drawing its name from that of a peeping Tom, Tom unearths vintage found images that show the voyeuristic surveillance of a certain archetype of woman in the streets of 1960s Los Angeles. The subjects of each photograph are stockinged, short skirted, and stylish—and as seen longingly through someone else’s lens—clearly an object of desire and interest. As new.
29 [Grégoire PUJADE-LAURAINE] The Significant Savages
RVB Books, Paris, 2011. First edition. Hardcover, 240 x 166 mm, 392 p, 374 color plates. With obi as issued. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p.294. In this age in which what we call ‘social networking’ has probably become the main vehicle for photography, The Significant Savages presents a foray into the way the ‘profile image’ is used to sum up one’s personality, particularly when it avoids showing one’s face or body. The book exploits an arbitrary selection of Facebook profile images in which alternative artefacts are represented instead of the person: seascapes, forests; dogs and horses and cats; cars, bikes or fancy boats; cities, socks and shells, galaxies. Copy in very good condition.
30 [Francesco SCAMPINATO] Go human Not Ape
BlisterZine, 2012. First edition. Softcover, 210 x 148 mm, 44 p. Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Copy signed by Francesco Scampinato. Go Human Not Ape is a book made of a series of appropriated portraits of ape-men represented in cinema and television in the twentieth century. The book provides an opportunity to reflect on the animal origin of the human being and on the ape-man as a metaphor of the alien and uncivilized. A quote from Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 1871, introduces the images: “ In order that an ape-like creature should have transformed into man, it is necessary that this early form, as well as many successive links, should all have varied in mind and body. ” Copy in very good condition.
31 [Tiane Doan Na CHAMPASSAK] The King of Photography
Self-published, 2011. First edition. Softcover, staple binding, 195 x 135 mm, risograph quadtone printing. Limited edition of 250 copies. Copy signed by Tiane Doan Na Champassak. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. III, p.293. Tiane Doan na Champassak’s first book, featuring photographed images found online of the King of Thailand, apparently a keen photographer. Copy in excellent condition.
32 [Dimitri Bruni & Manuel Krebs (ed.)] Bruce Lee
Published and reedited by NORM, Zurich, 2005. Leather black hardcover, title embossed in silver. 205 x 140 mm, 136 p. Limited edition of 350 copies. This publication is based on the book “ Bruce Lee – The King of Kung Fu. His life, his art, his films and his death ” from “ The New Sports Series ” first edited by the Modern Library, Beirut, in 1975. The format and number of pages as well as the layout of images are identical with the original “ Bruce Lee – The King of Kung Fu ”, with the exception of a different type of paper stock and a new cover design.“ We would like to point out that the main title Bruce Lee on the back cover suggests that the book be read from left to right, whereas the original would have been read from right to left. We are not too bothered by the fact that, as a result, our book begins with Bruce Lee’s death. ” One page is slightly fold, otherwise in great condition.
33 [Miguel CALDERÓN] Eden is a magic world
Little Big Man, New York, 2011. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket as issued, 250 x 180 mm, text by Guillermo Fadanelli in english and in spanish. Limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Eden is a Magic World is a story of obsession. The central figure of Calderón’s book is Flor Eduarda, a former child actress in her native Mexico. After Carrusel (the hugely successful telenovela she appeared in as an infant) began screening around the world, Eduarda started to receive letters from a besotted admirer, Choi Chun Moon, an 18 year old student based in Seoul, Korea. Moon’s letters demand that Eduarda reply in her own handwriting, so that he may study her spirit, and also send pictures of herself to him. While the offscreen persona of Eduarda remains a mystery to the obsessive Moon, Calderón happily obliges our own curiosities by providing insight into Eduarda’s private life—no longer the innocent girl of television. Capturing many lost days and nights spent between the pair, Calderón’s images detail a close friendship, and Calderón’s subsequent and brilliant transformation into Eduarda’s number one fan. As new in the original publisher wrap.
34 [Larry CLARK]
The Perfect Childhood LCB, 1993. True first edition before the Scalo edition in 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket as issued, 290 x 240 mm. “ Larry Clark’s work has always obsessively circled around adolescent boys, their awakening sexual drives, the enormous energies they have to harness. Clark offers the viewer a cultural anthropology of this transitory period that oscillates between painful pleasure and exuberant self-destruction. Clark is spellbound with the vital, unruly, and destructive force teen boys exude. Clark confronts us with lucid images of male sexuality and its equally creative and destructive impulses. He combines pop-culture imagery with his own photographs to evoke a myth ingrained in the heart of our culture. ” (Publisher’s description) Includes Clark’s controversial black and white photographs from the “ Tulsa ” and Teenage Lust ” work, as well as previously unpublished color and black and white images. A touch of wear at top of the spine. Copy in good condition.
35 [Nicolas GIRAUD]
The Great Masters of Art history with pictures of Jacques Chirac Fluctuat Press, Paris, 2013. True first edition. Softcover, 180 x 145 mm. Limited edition of 400 copies. The collection Great master of art histoy with pictures of Jacques Chirac is the result of a vast iconological research, executed from a Warburgian standpoint. Embedded in a cultural context where the constant use of archives leads to pure compilation in the majority of cases, and with this in mind, it would seem essential to highlight the fact that selection is only the first step in the iconological process. Jacques Chirac/ Haim Steinbach opposes two corpora of images within a dynamic perspective of intersecting critiques. Copy in very good condition.
36 [Sophie CALLE]
Comme si de rien n’était Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt, Lausanne, 1997. First edition. Postcards kit, 110 x 155 mm. This artist’s book is the result of Sophie Calle appropriating the Ledig-Rowohlt’s Fondation on their property, the Château Lavigny. As she does for years, Sophie Calle appropriates every single object owned by the Ledig-Rowohlt’s to tell a story of her own. Copy in very good condition.
37 [Bruno LOCCI]
“ Signore e signori qui si da inizio al gioco ” Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milano, 1977. First edition. Softcover, 245 x 175 mm, introduction by Ilaria Begnamini, Text in english and italian. Limited edition of 500 copies. Bruno Locci’s compilation of photographs of 1950s Italy, taken from the archive of Mar. Roberto Pavese and recontextualized within a narrative sequence. Copy in very good condition. Very little yellowed. A tiny wear on the back cover.
38 [Nicole DELMES & Susanne ZANDER (ed.)]
Margret – Chronik einer Affäre Mai 1969- Dezember 1970 Walther König, Koln, 2012. First edition. Softcover, 275 x 195 mm, 144 p, text in german. Summer of 1970, the corporate office of a West German metropolis. Margret, the young secretary with the miniskirt and sauerkraut hair, throws herself into pose, looking coquettishly from the electric typewriter, leaning lasciviously on windowsill. Behind the camera is Günther, her boss and, more recently, her lover. It is the beginning of a six-month love affair that must be kept secret, because both are married. And still, he documented it in hundreds photos and documents. Günther makes himself a voyeur of his own affair. Editors Nicoles Delmes & Susanne Pfeffer gathered archives images of this ilicit relationship. Copy in very good condition.
39 [Thomas MAILAENDER] Illustrated People
RVB Books, Paris, 2014. First edition. Softcover, with red vinyl dust jacket, 320 x 220 mm, 128 p, 25 photographs, 57 archive photographs from the Archive of Modern Conflict. “ Illustrated People ” is the translation into book form of a performance by Thomas Mailaender. He applied to the skin of models 23 original negatives selected from the Archive of Modern Conflict’s collection before projecting a powerful UV lamp over them, thus revealing a fleeting image on the skin’s surface. Maileander then photographed each of his models before the sun made the image disappear. The book comprises the resulting shots combined with a series of photographic documents found in AMC’s collection. Copy in very good condition.
40 [Anouk KRUITHOF] The Bungalow
Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2014. First edition. Hardcover, 230 x 170 mm, 272 p, text by Anouk Kruithof, Brad Feuerhelm and Freek Lomme. Limited edition of 1200 copies. Immersed in collector Brad Feuerhelm’s vernacular photo collection, artist Anouk Kruithof moved into a bungalow where she developed a niche relationship with the photos and transformed the image archive. She visualizes scenarios in which images, through the imaginary space of our conception, and parallel to digitization, leap across the tooth of time. The personal image relations, all but magically approached and released, offer new perspectives, to relate us, one-to-one with the image, to the present post-digital image economy in which our image memory moves. Furthermore, the technical angles give insight into the way we can process our image memory. The five differently-processed image stories make this book a layered ‘Gesamt-sculpture’ that has a lot to say about the actual status of our image memory. The Bungalow is an ‘image wonderland’ in which a closed meeting represents the ‘bite’ of the leap. Copy in great condition.
41 [Andrea BOTTO] 19.06_26.08.1945.
Danilo Montanari, Ravenna, 2014. First edition. Hardcover, 270 x 180 mm, 80 p, 183 black & white and 24 color illustrations. Selected as one of the best books of 2014. Limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Made by Andrea Botto, in the memory of his grandfather Primo Benedetti, this precious hand-made book traces his return journey from a Nazi prisoner of war camp at the end of WWII. He recreated replicas of historical archives and documents just like Kasuma Obara did with Silent histories, giving his whole work a vintage aspect as well. Amazing edition in excellent condition.
42 [Kasuma OBARA] Silent histories
Self-published, Kyoto, 2014. First edition. Handmade tweed hardover, 257 x 182 mm,146 p, text in english and in japanese. Limited edition of 45 numbered and signed copies. This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photo Book Award. This tweed-covered album grants individuality and voice to six of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese people injured by U.S. bombing during the Second World War. Kazuma Obara, a young photojournalist, dove into the personal archives of these individuals, many of whom were injured during air raids as very small children; one was badly burnt as a newborn. Snapshots, class photos, and views of Japanese cities in 1945 and today, as well as Obara’s recent portraits of each person, are interspersed with pull-out replicas of government disability cards and wartime magazines. “ I’m surprised that it was possible to publish this book, considering its very complicated printing, ” says Mutsuko Ota. “ Because it includes bureaucratic and personal pictures as well as propaganda, it shows photography’s many roles ”. Beautiful handmade edition. Copy in excellent condition.
43 [Ariana ARCARA & Luca SANTESE] Found Photos in Detroit
Cesura Publish, Pianello val Tidone, 2011. First edition. Hardcover, 297 x 420 mm, 80 p, 167 photos. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gery Badger, The Photobook, vol. III, p.255. We found these photos on the streets of Detroit. We took them and started to sift between the thousands of polaroids, letters, prints of photographic evidence, police documents, mugshots and family albums. Ariana Arcara & Luca Santese Spine a little hurt. Two tiny scratches on the cover. Copy in good condition. Beautiful reproduction.
44 [Tacita DEAN] Floh
Steidl, Göttingen, 2001. First edition. Green linen hardcover, in a cardboard slipcase, 300 x 245 mm, 176 p, 48 color and 109 black-and-white illustrations, limited edition of 4000 numbered and signed copies. The images in Floh are photographs discovered by Tacita Dean in flea markets across Europe and America. These portraits, holiday snapshots, documents of banal occurrences or spectacular views have all been retrieved and given a new existence. They keep the silence of the flea market; the silence they had when they were found; the silence of the lost object. This, however, is found photography with a twist. In FLOH, it is presented as art… Copy in great condition. Beautiful edition.
45 [Christoph BÜCHEL]
Korean Business Directory 1975-1976 Snoeck, Koln, 2010. First edition. Hardcover, 261 x 185 mm, 368 p, text in german, english and korean. Internationally lauded Swiss artist Christoph Buchel creates hyper-realistic environments that are, in essence, like walking into a mind at work. His detailed installations are three-dimensional renderings of spaces or situations that convey extreme psychological mindsets. This book is another of Buchel’s environments - a dead-boring Korean Business Directory turned into a full color scrapbook of pop-culture ephemera. Seemingly unrelated clippings from German tabloids on minor celebrities and inconsequential members of the nobility, bits from catalogs and travel magazines all come together in an oddly compelling artist book. Somehow, Buchel uses these bits and pieces as a vehicle for social and political commentary within the artist’s contemplative space. Copy in very good condition.
46 [Timothy PRUS & Donovan WYLIE] Scrapbook
Steidl, Göttingen, 2009. First edition. Softcover, 295 x 205 mm, 112 p, text in English. Copy signed by Donovan Wylie. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p. 252. This has been made all for the love of scrapbooks. For about three centuries in many different countries, a scrapbook or album became the most immediate manner of diary making. In Ireland, this often took on a particular and idiosyncratic form. From the late 1960s until the early 1990s, the turmoil of Northern Ireland was often reflected in these hand-constructed books. Clippings from newspapers, family photos and personal mementos often found their way into highly individual collaged records of daily life. Donovan Wylie and Timothy Prus have recreated a non-sectarian version with the benefit of hindsight. Wylie, son of a mixed marriage, grew up in Belfast during a period when identification with one side of the sectarian divide or another was an essential component of everyday life. Scrapbook gives nothing but the authors’ personal view of an era and a kind of record making. Copy in very good condition.
47 [Georges HUGNET]
Le Guide rose : Huit jours à Trébaumec Henri Mercher, Paris, 1969. First edition. 186 x 92 mm, 116 p, 82 photographs. Limited edition of 107 signed and numbered copies. Signed by the binder as well. Joined with a four pages photomontage untitled “ Journal de vacances de Georges Hugnet ”. Out of print. Brillant pastiche of the famous Guide Michelin. As new. Extremely scarce.
48 [Rémi NOEL] Texas ≠ 62
This is not a map, Poetry Wanted, 2013. First edition. Map In a plastic package, 250 x 110 mm (folded), Texas is the first map published of this collection. This is, without a doubt, the least precise map of Texas in the history of Texas. Though a less-than-stellar student in geography, French photographer Rémi Noël has been obsessed with the “ America ” of Jack Kerouac, Edward Hopper and Robert Frank since his early school years. And Texas, with its endless highways and fleabag hotels, is the perfect setting for Noël’s playfully poetic tableaux. The 34 images presented here were taken during four trips to the Lone Star State between 2004 and 2012. From Houston to Marfa by way of Dallas, Noël and a plastic Batman (his only travelling campanion) crisscrossed the State in search of relics of the “ timeless America ” that inspires Noël so. As new.
49 [Nicolas SIMARIK] La Déroute
Entrez sans frapper, 2006. First edition. Softcover, 260 x 210 mm. Limited edition of 6000 copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol III, p.238. Pastiche of the famous catalog mail order, La Redoute, by artist Nicolas Simarik and 600 inhabitants of the renowned Empalot tough neighborhood in Toulouse. The result of a year and a half of work, the catalog “ hijacked ” at first view similar to its “ big brother ” of La Redoute, the leading French mail order, 1236 pages, shows the diversity of the neighborhood and the inhabitants of Empalot and aims, according to the initiators of the project, to “ rectify prejudices ” against the cities of suburbs. “ The media focus on the negative things in the neighborhoods. It basically talks about the cars burned, violence. I wanted to correct that with a pad image, focus on the positive things, “ said Nicolas Simarik at a press conference organized to mark the release of The Rout. The objective is “ to improve the look that you wear on neighborhoods, ” added Isabelle Tardiglio, director of the association “ Enter without knocking, ” at the origin of the project. Damaged copy. Some wears on the front cover and back cover torn on a corner.
50 [Joachim SCHMID] Ikea sucks
Self-published, 2015. First edition. Hardcover, 220 x 105 mm, 36 p. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Ikea sucks. In my opinion they owe me money. They don’t agree. In order to recuperate the disputed amount I made this book. The prices of all items bought at Ikea are listed in the book. The revenue from sales of the complete edition equals the total of my purchase.All materials used for the production of the book were involuntarily supplied by Ikea. The book’s pages are Ikea note sheets, the cover is made of Ikea wrapping paper and cardboard, the typographic elements and photos are taken from the Ikea catalog. The twenty-five copies of the book are numbered and signed using an Ikea pencil which is attached to each copy. Everything is kept neat and flat and in place by a belly band made of an Ikea measuring tape. Ikea is a registered trademark of Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Copy in very good condition.
51 [Mishka HENNER] Less Américains
Self-published, 2013. First edition. Hardcover, 190 x 215 mm, 180 p. Limited edition of 350 copies. Like the vast country it depicts, the power and influence of Robert Frank’s The Americans has spread far and wide in the 55 years since its first publication. To many photographers working to this day, the book has taken on almost sacred significance. In the black & white candidness of the imagery and in the unflinching and all-encompassing portrait of 1950s America, a notion of authenticity endures. (…)A remake of Robert Frank’s classic photobook, The Americans, erasing the old to make something new. Copy in very good condition.
52 [Ulrich Tillmann & Wolfgang Vollmer] Meisterwerke der Fotokunst
Wienand Verlag, Koln, 1985. First edition. Scarlet clothbound hardcover in a slipcase, 220 x 150 mm, text by ABC Gruber, Friedrich Heubach and L. Fritz Gruber. Limited edition of 1000 numbered and signed copies. In a transparent envelope are original fragments of Klaus Peter Schnuettger- Webs’s plate camera, which he threw out of the studio window at the Bauhaus in Dessau following an argument with Herbert Bayer in 1925. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger The Photobook, vol. II, p.162-163. Faced with the prohibitive prices of the masterpieces of modern photography, Ulrich Tillmann and Wolfgang Vollmer went in search of collection of images taken by unknown photographers and therefore less valued. Not only their insight proved to pay but, to their surprise, they discovered that many famous photographs of the twentieth century had been created by certain artists less famous then had simply been plagiarized or stolen by those whose names proudly included in the collections photographic museum as August Sander and Edward Weston. The smart reader will have guessed that there is little truth in the above. In summary, it is a reconstruction or deconstruction - of the concept of postmodern photographic art photographer and a fantasy.. As new.
53 [Christian PATTERSON]
Fond du Lac/Bottom of the Lake Walther König, Köln, 2015. First edition. Softcover, 280 x 225 mm, 256 p, text in english. Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist’s family’s telephone book for his home town of Fond du Lac (Bottom of the Lake), printed in 1973, after his birth soon. The book includes reproductions of found markings and inserted material, along with Patterson’s own drawings, photographs and marginalia. Bottom of the Lake is a book within a book and carefully combines the original, found, factbased phone book with the artist’s highly subjective re-imagination of his hometown ; it playfully juxtaposes different documentary forms and ways of seeing to create a deeply staff, darkly humorous ‘other’ book. In addition, the experience of the book is extended beyond its pages by at interactive feature – a telephone number attached to the book DID connects users with over 100 experiences mixing field audio recordings, found archival audio and performances did re-imagine and re-create the artist’s hometown. New.
54 [Martin PARR] The Phone Book
Rocket, London, Galerie 20.21, Essen, 2002. First edition. Softcover. 293 x 215 mm, 198 p, 141 photographs. Limited edition of 2002 copies (1001 with a blue cover and 1001 with a pink cover). Conceptually conceived by Parr to mimic the original phone book distributed by British Telecom. Full colour photographs show people using their mobile phones. Copy in very condition.
55 [Mark POWER] Die Mauer is weg !
Globtik Books, 2014. First edition. Hardcover, 385 x 290 mm, 96 p, 44 photographs. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Copy signed by Mark Power. By a series of fortunate events, Mark Power was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, this new production is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper Power purchased in Berlin the morning after, embossed into heavy-duty cardboard. While the early pages read as news-based photojournalism, as the book unfolds Power retreats away from the epicentre of the event to re-camp over the border in an almost desolate East Berlin. From there he views the story from another perspective, before embarking on a (frankly rather pointless) search for Bertolt Brecht’s grave. Perfect condition.
56 [Sophie CALLE]
L’Homme au carnet In Journal Libération du mardi 2 août 1983, Paris, 380 x 290 mm. Facsimile of the newspaper Liberation from August 2, 1983, containing “ The man with the book ” by Sophie Calle. One day, Sophie Calle finds an address book in the street. Curious, she contacted all the people mentioned to talk about the owner of the book, then the descriptions are used as a portrait of the man. Fine condition.
57 [Brad FEUERHELM] TV Casualty
AMC, 2013. First edition. Softcover, 360 x 225 mm, risograph print, text by Daniel Campbell Blight and Brad Feuerhelm. Limited edition of 300 copies. TV Casualty is a graphic study of the horror of nostalgia in the decline of the American Dream. On November 22nd, 1963 President John F Kennedy was gunned down by an assassin’s bullet. A new chapter in American dystopia with many unanswered questions had begun. (…) Several decades later an American punk band, The Misfits identifying with the decline of the American dream began to fashion what would soon become the “ horror punk ” moment; a rather insidious rumination on the fault line of the American unconscious. Disconcerted Totem events of American history became infused with a penchant for underclass DIY creativity and gothic aesthetics. (…) TV Casualty proposes a re-examination of the DIY aesthetic of the movement within the locus of screen and TV culture. Found vernacular images of President Kennedy’s funeral cortege snapped by a Polaroid camera from the T.V. screen and press images from the Camelot’s last stand are woven together in a cut up and unnerving pastiche of American fixation of the spectacle. (…) New.
58 [Michael SCHMIDT] U-NI-TY
Scalo, Zurich, 1996, First edition. Hardcover, 270 x 190 mm, 314 p. Michael Schmidt, born in Berlin 1945, is one of Germany’s most famous photographers. In this artist’s book, he traces the universal iconography of political systems and the images of humankind they project. Addressing the complex relationships between the individual and the state, he asks how we can resist the loss of individuality inherent in systems of mass control. Copy in very good condition.
59 [Günther SELICHAR]
Nächtliches Realitätenbüro Molotov, Vienne,1984. First edition. Black linen hardcover, 312 x 305 mm, photographs in black & white, 108 pictures, text in german by Otto Breicha and Thomas Zaunschirm. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Copy signed by the photographer. 108 Photographs of screens’s captures from Günther Selichar, two Textes von him and from Otto Breicha and Thomas Zaunschirm.Catalogue to the exhibition series of the nocturnal reality office, in Mai 1983 at Wien. Inside of spine if fragile but copy in very good condition.
60 [Inakoshi KOICHI] Meet again
Shashin Hyoron-sha, Tokyo, 1973, First edition. Hardcover, 220 x 240 mm, 92 p, essays by Shinichi Kusamori & Kineo Kuwabara, text in Japanese. Limited edition of 600 numbered copies. A conceptual artist’s book executed in photography, with 38 uniform black and white images that appear to be rephotographs or film stills, but are likely neither. Binding just a bit sunned. Copy in very good condition.
61 [Thomas RUFF] Jpegs
Aperture, New York, 2009. First edition. Hardcover, 395 x 300 mm, 132 p, 36 color images, essay by Bennet Simpson. In 2007, Ruff completed his monumental Jpegs series in which he explores the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culls primarily from the Web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, which exaggerates the pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of Ruff’s works in the series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes, and conversely, scenes of war, and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterworks create an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also actively engages the history of landscape painting. A fittingly deluxe and oversized volume, Jpegs is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the publication of Ruff’s remarkable series. Sealed copy.
62 [Katja STUKE] Supernatural
Böhm/Kobayashi, 2010. First edition. Softcover, 350 x 280 mm, 28 p, offset. Limited edition of 150 copies. Katja Stuke’s series Supernatural shows male and female athletes, who mentally somehow seem to be somewhere else - absent in their concentration, shortly before their athletic peak performance. A skill to ignore the whole environment, thousands of people in the audience, the noise level, everything that surrounds them. Because all eyes are set on them, the main characters, and exactly this concentration is crucial for their success. The images of gymnasts and high-divers have been taken during the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004) and Peking (2008). All portraits have been photographed from the television screen. One can still see the grids, the rest of the television features, like stations or the fade-ins have been removed. You can clearly read the tension in the young faces just before the performance. The ambition, the iron will can obviously be seen, the talent can be sensed. And exactly this interplay between body and mind forms the fascination, which the event of the Olympic Games provokes. Copy in great condition.
63 [MAKI]
Welcome 2 my room Self-published, 2010. First edition. In a cardboard slipcase, 325 x 235 mm. Loosely insert, 43 inkjet prints + an original polaroïd print. Limited edition of 30 numbered and signed copies. A snapshots collection of a Filipino live peep show on internet made with an analog polaroid camera through a computer screen documenting a series of interactions between photographer Maki and online sex participants. Here lines between public and private are blurred, performance and boundaries are explored within digital encounters questioning notions of the body, sex and intimacy. “ Sometimes exchanges and discussions are intense… Laying bare the feelings, the lives, the bodies..Sincerity encounters with cunning…In the end thousands of snapshots taken in my bedroom during the highlights of our conversations and sometimes private shows.. Giving a face to sex… As always image rule as a unique weapon…We play with it , we come with it.. ”Maki January 2010 Very scarce.
64 [Sébastien GIRARD] Strip-o-gram
Self-published, 2012. First edition. Softcover, japanese binding, obi as issued, 300 x 245 mm. A special edition of 250 sets containing two books : one regular edition and a second one bound in reverse to fully expose the text correspondence (the dust jacket has been fold in reverse also). Both books are signed and numbered. A yellow enveloppe containing a strip-tease sequence of 4 prints reproduced from the originals purchased on Ebay is included. In 2007 Sébastien Girard set up an automatic email alert on eBay for keywords related to photographs and strippers. Over a period of several years, he purchased pictures of strippers at work in homes and at parties, all of them taken by amateur photographers in attendance. The resulting images are an exuberant romp into hidden terrain, and they shine like objects uncovered in an archaeological dig. Sealed copy.
65 [Richard PRINCE] Naked nurses
John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz, New York, 2006. First edition. Softcover, 165 x 110 mm, 84 p, black & white photographs. Limited edition of 1000 copies. These naughty nurses have shed their uniforms, but kept on their garter belts to unwind with a little girl-on-girl action. Richard Prince presents a selection of vintage amateur erotica with plenty of spread legs and bare breasts. Copy in pristine condition.
66 [Adam BROOMBERG & Olivier CHANARIN] Black market
Chopped Liver Press, 2012. First edition. Softcover, under glassine paper, 220 x 160 mm, 101 p, black & white photographs. Limited edition of 100 copies, with the rare VHS video tape. Black Market has been selected by Le Monde as one of the best Photography Books of 2012. The book takes its name from the eponymous film Al Suq al Soda, or Black Market. Directed by the surrealist painter-turned-filmmaker Kamel el-Telmissany, the film was banned shortly after its release in Egypt in 1945, and has since all but disappeared. What is more, this rare copy of the film, a recording from television, has been partially erased by another film – an unknown porno probably made in the 1970s or 80s. The two films share the same strip of magnetic tape, but sit uncomfortably together and transmit inverse aesthetic, moral and political positions.This chunky VHS cassette, itself an artefact of recent audiovisual history, contains the second half of an equally defunct Egyptian film entitled Al Suq al Soda, or Black Market. Copy in good condition. Glassine paper just a little torn.
67 [Tiane Doan Na CHAMPASSAK] Our Sxe Dsir
Self-published, 2015. First edition. Hardcover, coil binding, archival quality inkjet printing, 260 x 380 mm, 60 p. Limited edition of 25 numbered copies. Copy signed by Tiane Doan Na Champassak. Our sxe dsir is a reproduction of a found scrapbook made up of thousands of cut outs extracted from Thai adult magazines from the 1970’s. Found in a flea market in Bangkok, this limited edition artist book highlights the qualities typical to “ Outsider Art ” and much more. The book is rendered unique in many ways, firstly the cover is torn by hand and secondly the original scrapbook is disseminated, pollinated into each copy of Our sxe dsir by the artist choosing one original print with 2 sides to it from the original source material. The primary scrapbook is sliced up and reincarnated in each copy of the book rendering the editions even more unique. Copy in great condition.
68 [Erik KESSELS] Bangkok Beauties
Kessels Kramer Publishing, 2007. First edition. Hardcover, 165 x 165 mm, black & white photographs, black silk screened box with 12 handkerchiefs with photo print, signed and numbered, edition of 25. In Bangkok Beauties, Erik Kessels provides a look at a specific photographic series that depicts attractive women during a beauty contest sometime ago. Here we see the contestants displaying themselves in such a way as to be judged by their poise, their posture and most of all by their appearance. Copy in very good condition.
69 [Julião SARMENTO] 95 Polaroids
MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Gent, 2012. First edition. Softcover with dust jacket, 240 x 120 mm, 168 p. 95 Polaroids SX70 found in the studio, shot between 1974 and 2009 and organized according to the reference number on the reverse. For many years Sarmento has used Polaroid photographs to work on his pieces, as “ crutches ” for his paintings, his drawings and other projects. Sometimes the Polaroids were used as artworks by themselves. Other times they were used as portraits of friends or memories of glimpses. Sarmento gathered all the Polaroids he could find in his studio, just randomly lying around or pinned up on walls or wherever... He found 95 of them and organized them in this book. There are no Polaroids left in Sarmento’s studio now!... Copy in great condition.
70 [Charles JOHNSTONE]
The Girl in the Fifth Floor, walk up SUN, New York/ Los Angeles, 2014. First edition. Blue hardcover, 230 x 180 mm, 62 p. Limited edition of 200 copies. Copy signed by Charles Johnstone. Charles Johnstone’s deftly designed book The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk-Up explores the allure of a pulp fiction narrative, “ The Blonde ” using a Raymond Chandler excerpt from Farewell My Lovely and nineteen - forties design elements to set the tone “ It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She was wearing street clothes that looked black and white, and a hat to match and she was a little haughty, but not too much. Whatever you needed, wherever you happened to be-she had it. ” The book mirrors his previous self - published title Libby based on his muse and longtime collaborator. - David Strettell As New.
71 [Benoît GRIMBERT et Hannah DARABI] Neuköln “ Heroes ”
Bartleby & Co, Brussels, 2013. First edition. Hardcover in a cardboard slipcase, 300 x 220 mm, 182 p. Special limited edition of 30 copies. In the mid seventies, David Bowie, tired of the tumultuous life of Los Angeles, finds Berlin – as a destination where he could be anonymous – especially attractive. The books of Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris changes trains in particular, which describe the decadent Berlin of the thirties, was stimulating for him. In 1977 the album “ Heroes ”, made entirely in Berlin, is released. One of the instrumental pieces of the B-side, Neuköln, restores strongly a sense of hardness and sadness that Bowie felt in relation with residents of this popular area, where ” Turks are shackle in bad conditions ”. Thirty five years later, Hannah Darabi and Benoît Grimbert photographed this area. A contemporary counterpoint to Neuköln of “ Heroes ”, these photographs evoke both the present time and the time that goes by, or on the contrary stands still. It is primarily a “ cararact of times ” that confronts us in this book, by going through the texts such as The Salaried Masses : Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany Siegfried Kracauer)or Walks through Berlin ( Franz Hessel), or even filmstills from People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak), which echo Berlin 30s. Copy in great condition.
72 [David WOJNAROWICZ]
Rimbaud in New York 1978-1979 PPP Editions, New York, 2004, 108 p, black & white photographs, edited by Andrew Roth and essay by Jim Lewis, text in english. In 1978 David Wojnarowicz took a series of photographs of a man wearing a paper mask bearing the face of Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet. Wojnarowicz was 24 when he shot most of the Rimbaud in New York series, and the urban situations in which he poses the masked figure represent a specific moment in history: post-Stonewall but pre-AIDS, a land of sex, drugs, art, love, and wondrous bohemian existence. When a few pictures from the series were published in the Soho Weekly News in 1980, they were the first of his works to make it into print. This volume reproduces for the first time, the series in its entirety. Some wear on the cover but copy in very good condition .
73 [Ed RUSCHA]
Every building on the Sunset Strip Self-published, Los Angeles, 1966. First edition with the extra flap on the last page. Leporello, offset lithograph on paper in silver Mylar-covered box,186 x 147 mm. In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha more or less reinvented the artist’s book. By turning away from the craftsmanship and luxury status that typified the livre d’artiste in favor of the artistic idea or concept, expressed simply through photographs and text, Ruscha opened the genre to the possibilities of mass-production and distribution. The 25-foot length of the accordion-folded Every Building on the Sunset Strip affords the viewer two continuous photographic views of the mile and a half section of this landmark stretch of Sunset, one for each side of one of the city’s landmark thoroughfare. The viewer may want to know that for this book, Ed Ruscha reappropriated Ginza Kaiwai/ Ginza Haccho by Yoshikazu Suzuki & Kimura Shohachi, photobook presented views of Tokyo’s Ginza district. Copy in very good condition.
74 [Antony CAIRNS] Kingsland road
Self-published, 2015. First edition. Hardcover leporello, 632 pictures, 200 X 190 mm. Artist proof copy signed by Antony Cairns. Limited edition of 100 copies. The Kingsland Road Panorama was shot on a 5Ă—4 camera and consists of 632 black & white photographs showing both east and west facing sides of the street. Cairns has lived and worked on the Kingsland Road for the past ten years and his intention was to record the street in its current state. The pictures were taken over a three-month period in 2011. Like Ed Ruscha before, Antony Cairns took inspiration of Ginza Kaiwai/Ginza Haccho photobook, but giving views of Kingsland road in London. Copy in very good condition.
75 [Olafur ELIASSON]
Your difference & repetition Kitakyushu, 2001. First edition. Softcover, 209 x 148 mm, 128 p. Artist book from a serie of the Kyushu University published by Nobuo Nakamura and Akiko Miyake. Appropriation of aerial photographs taken by Japan Space Imaging Corporation. Locally sunned on the bellow cover but copy in very good condition.
76 [Mishka HENNER] Dutch Landscapes
Self-published, 2011, First edition. Softcover, 120 p, 200 x 250 mm. When Google introduced its free satellite imagery service, governments concerned about the visibility of political, economic and military locations, exerted considerable influence on suppliers of this imagery to censor sites deemed vital to national security. One of the most vociferous of all governments to enforce this form of censorship were the Dutch. Their method of censorship is notable for its stylistic intervention compared to other countries; imposing bold, multi-coloured polygons over sites rather than the subtler and more standard techniques employed in other countries. In ‘Dutch Landscapes’, these interventions are presented alongside physical alterations made to the Dutch landscape through a vast land reclamation project that began in the 16th Century and is ongoing. Copy in very good condition.
77 [Christian PATTERSON] Redheaded Peckerwood
Mack, London, 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, 250 x 200 mm, 168 p, 98 images including 3 inserts, an illustrated booklet and a facsimile postcard. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p. 309. Signed by the photographer. “ Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land ” Luc Sante Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way. Copy in very good condition. A visible trace due to the removed price.
78 [Valerio SPADA] Gomorrah Girl
Cross Editions, 2011. First edition, first printing. Softcover, staple binding, 300 x 200 mm, 80 p, text in english and in italian. Limited edition of 500 copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. III, p. 136. Gomorrah Girl tells two stories in one, the problems of growing up in a crime-ridden area and the murder of Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of a Mafia shootout. The stories are brought together through innovative, book within a book, design. Bound together are Spada’s photographs documenting adolescence in the land of Camorrah (the name for the Mafia in Naples) and pages detailing the police investigation. Staple binding fragile. Copy in good condition.
79 [Larry SULTAN & Mike MANDEL] Evidence
Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae, California, 1977. Original edition. Hardcover, fine dark blue cloth, with title stamped in gilt, no dust jacket as issued, unpaginated, with 59 duotone plates, afterword by Robert F. Forth, text in English. Includes a list of government agencies, educational institutions and corporations that permitted access to their files. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger’s The Photobook: A History, vol. II, p.220-221, in The Hasselblad Center’s The Open Book p. 314-315, and in The Book of 101 Books p.140-141. Accompanied by an exhibition in the same year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this project was the culmination of a three-year search through the files and archives of over one hundred American government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations, such as the Bechtel Corporation, General Atomic Company, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the San Jose Police Department and the United States Department of the Interior. The original pictures Sultan and Mandel collected were made as documents and objective records of activities and situations: the scenes of crimes, aeronautical engineering tests, industrial experiments, among other subjects. Sifting through some two million images, Mandel and Sultan assembled a careful sequence of 59 pictures.
In very good condition.
80 [Brian GRIFFIN]
Brian Griffin Copyright Self-published, London, 1978. First edition. Softcover, staple binding, 295 x 215 mm. Limited edition of 500 copies. Signed by the artist Under the guidance of Roland Schenk, art-director of Management Today, Griffin incorporated a sense of theatre into his work, and was to have a large influence on the visual language of commercial photography. Copyright comprises a number of photographs that had been produced for Management Today and other clients, including one made during a session for the album cover of Devo’s Be Stiff. Collectible copy in very good condition.
81 [Bruno LOCCI] Archivio
Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milano,1982. First edition. Softcover, glassine dust jacket as issued. 410 x 350 mm,text in italian and english. Limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. Locci’s reinvention of the archive of Roberto Pavese, broken into sections or stories introduced by a brief statement, and presented in a washed-out greenish tint. Very interesting and little-known artists’ book comprised of found or reinterpreted photography. Some wears on the glassine dust jacket. Spine slighlty yellowed. Otherwise binding is very well preserved. Rare copy.
82 [John STEZAKER]
The 3rd person archive Walther Konig Books, Koln, 2009. First edition. Grey clothbound hardcover, 247 x 165 mm, 338 p, 300 photographs. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p.296. John Stezaker has been collecting photographic city views from the 1920s and 30s for 30 years, focusing on subjects photographed by chance. Here, he presents hundreds of mostly stamp-size details, miniatures that hint at the fates and encounters of long-forgotten people caught in urban labyrinths. Copy in very good condition.
83 [Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS] Fotografias
Museo Tamayo Arte Comtemporaneo, Mexico, 2006. First edition. Softcover, 119 x 169 mm, text in english, black & white photographs. Long before Peter Fischli and David Weiss made Fotografias, Nancy Spector had noted that the two liked to «undermine conventional distinctions between high and low art.» This collection of underexposed black-and-white images does exactly that, recreating low-end figurative paintings as muddy, dark, snapshots and minting them anew as fine art. Subjects include landscapes and historical scenes, animal and mythological beings, and, yes, female figures. Copy in very good condition.
84 [Paul GRAHAM] Paintings
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, 2000. First edition. Pink linen hardcover, 245 x 170 mm, 14 plates. Catalogue of color photographs of details of graffiti found on bathroom walls. Behind this surface subject however, is a second layer – a meditation on the relationship between painting and photography. Viewed from a distance these seemingly abstract images recall the post-war American painting of Rothko, Newman, Ryman, Rauschenberg or Twombly. As viewers, we expect the subtleties of color, light, and surface markings to be those of painted canvases. A stain on the back cover, otherwise copy in very good condition. Inside like new.
85 [Yasumasa MORIMURA] Los Nuevos Caprichos
Luhring Augustine, New York, 2005. First edition. Hardcover, 290 x 230 mm, 55 p. Text in english. This book focuses on Francisco Goya’s etching prints book called “ Los Caprichos ”. In this series of works, Goya critically depicted politics and religions, vice and evil habit to satirize Spanish society in late 18th century. Morimura has challenged to create modern satire by re-decrypting and re-composing Los Caprichos. Copy in very good condition.
86 [Cindy SHERMAN] History Portraits
Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 1991. First edition. Clothbound, with a striking dustjacket, 290 x 230 mm, 64 p, text by Arthur C. Danto translated in French. These photographic series of Cindy Sherman are like a game, a game with history of art, paintings. She metamorphoses into a new kind of Marquise de Pompadour or a XV century Madonna, playing with different historic codes, styles to give a new breath on it or make a wink to famous artistic identities. Spine a bit fading but copy in good condition. Binding is fine.
87 [Robert HEINECKEN] Food, Sex & TV
Fotoforum, Kassel, 1983. First edition. In photo-illustrated staple-bound wrappers, with a front gatefold, 170 x 245 mm, 22 p, with essays by Suzanne Pastor and Susan Cohen, text in English and in German, 2 colour and 16 black & white plates. Limited edition of 1200 copies. Published on the occasion of the Robert Heinecken workshop and exhibition entitled “ Robert Heinecken Food, Sex and TV ” held at the Fotoforum Kassel in June 1983. Scarce and collectible copy in good condition.
88 [Robert HEINECKEN]
Lessons in posing subjects Triangle Books, Wiels, 2014. First edition. Softcover, spiral-bound, 340 x 250 mm, 56 p. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, this book presents the series Lessons in Posing Subjects which Robert Heinecken created in 1981-1982 and reproduced here in its entirety for the first time.Playing with the reality effect inherent to instant photographs, Heinecken re-contextualizes in this series images found in mail order catalogues, which he juxtaposes with ironic texts.At once seductive and full of humour, his ‘lessons’ are no less provocative, bearing witness to the commitment of this controversial artist, who considered his approach a form of ‘guerrilla’ artistic practice. As new.
89 [Jean-Charles BLANC]
White Shadow. 84 photographs by Jessie Bee Centre national des arts plastiques, 1989. First edition. Hand-made cardboard hardcover, 405 x 287 mm, 27 p. Limited edition of 320 numbered and signed copies. With this book, Jean - Charles Blanc appropriates the photographs of mysterious Jessie Bee and turn them into a fiction. Copy in very good condition.
90 [Gilbert & George] Dark Shadow
Nigel Greenwood, London, 1976. First edition. Hardcover, red marble cloth, title stamped in gilt, 195 x 135 mm, 129 p, text in english. Limited edition of 2000 numbered and signed copies. This sculpture is a result of our past three years of earnest daily thoughts, shadows, deeds, cares and pleasures. We have turned them into ink and arranged them as words and pictures to form this living sculpture book. We hope that you have a nice time going through it Gilbert & George Copy in very good condition.
91 [Liz COHEN] Bodywork
Onestar press, Paris, 2006. First edition. Hardcover, 295 x 210 mm, 46 p. Limited edition to 600 copies. Includes 9 color reproductions printed separately and loosely inserted. This instantly collectible limited edition artist’s book, featuring rounded edges and nine blown-in, four-color photographic images, documents a recent project by the daring and witty young American artist, Liz Cohen. In 2002, the artist began the process of importing the Trabant, once the most common car in East Germany, to the United States. Upon their arrival, Cohen set to work converting these Communist-era workhorses into supped-up hybrid American El Caminos. Black-and-white photographs and the artist’s notes explain the process, and the glossy, blown-in photographs show the scantily clad, stiletto-shod artist posing in typical calendar-shot, car-model form on top of and alongside her works in progress, sometimes accompanied by the real-life mechanics who helped her to reach her dream. Copy in good condition.
92 [Luciano RIGOLINI] Surrogates
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2012. First edition. Clothbound hardcover, japanese binding, 205 x 150 mm, 128 p, text in french and in english. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol.III, p.301. Luciano Rigolini’s interest in vernacular photography simultaneously questions this particular mode of representation. He carefully collects neutral images of objects or urban features removed of any human presence or trace, such as photographs intended for sales catalogues or mechanical handbooks. Presented in their found state, or thoroughly retouched and enlarged, Rigolini’s images reveal an aesthetic approach filled with sculptural, pictorial and metaphorical qualities which offer reflections about our ability to visualise and perceive. The objects themselves are reduced to abstracted, anonymous forms hovering in space, entirely foreign, and lacking context or function. In this book, he gathered photographs of antique cars for sale on ebay and transformed them, giving the cars parts another context and inviting us to look at these images with a different eye. Sealed copy.
93 [Christian BOLTANSKI] Compra-venta
Almondi, Valencia, 1998. First edition. Two volumes in a slipcase, blue (vol.1) and gray (vol.2) hardcover, blue linen spine. 250 x 180 mm, text by José Miguel G. Cortes (in catalan, english and spanish) From the publisher: “ The exhibition conceived and carried out site specifically by Christian Boltanski for the city of Valencià, creates an intimate relationship between these central ideas that control his work and the specific characteristics of the venue for which it has been designed. The exhibition has been baptized Compra-Venta (Buy and Sell) and is made up of a large number of private and personal objects (furniture, lamps, toys...) that many people from the city and the surrounding area are interested in selling. These objects have been collected, stored and distributed by the artist himself in the venue of the Almudin to be viewed for possible acquisition by anybody who is interested...As the available articles are sold they will be covered by a white sheet to denote that they are no longer for sale. They will be partially or totally covered form view and should all the articles be sold eventually, we would be faced with the sight of a room completely covered in white sheets like a mortuary full of stored corpses. ” Copy in very good condition.
94 [Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS]
Bericht über den künstlerischen schmuck im Neubau der Börse Zürich Oktogon Verlag, Zürich, 1995. First edition. Softcover, 210 x 140 mm, 54 p. Limited edition of 900 copies. Signed by Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Serie of color photographs of objects presented in plexiglass cubes. This accumulation of artistic decorations reveals a critical and comical point of view on the art market... Copy in very good condition.
95 [Christian LANGE] Lange List 79-97
Spector Books, 2013. First edition. Softcover, 196 p, 340 x 240 mm, text in german with a supplement in english. Limited edition of 900 copies. Lange Liste 79–97 documents the daily lives of the Lange family using their meticulously kept account books—the story of a childhood and youth in the form of a housekeeping record. A painstakingly calculating mother who had to keep track of her limited funds unknowingly produced the raw material for experimental literature. Lange Liste 79–97 is a unique book about everyday history in the final days of East and West Germany shortly before reunification. Prizewinner in the Swiss Federal Office of Culture’s competition Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher (The Most Beautiful Swiss Books) in 2011 and in Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design (Design Prize of the State of Saxony) in 2012. Copy in very good condition.
96 [Christian BOLTANSKI]
Inventaire des objets ayant appartenu à une femme de BoisColombes CNAC, Paris, 1974. First edition. 210 x 140 mm, 48 p. Included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. II, p. 154-155. Bob Calle: Christian Boltanski, Livres d’artiste 1969-2007, pp. 38-39. Boltanski uses “ photographs as a memorializing agent, to make a record of an individual life, as in his exhibition and artist’s book Inventaire des Objets Ayant Appartenu a une Femme de Bois-Colombes ” (Parr & Badger II, 136). The title translates to Inventory of Objects Which Belonged to a Woman of Bois-Colombes (a suburb of Paris), and it is one of a series of four books, for each of which he selected a person at random and then photographed all of their worldly goods. This is a “ record of a life defined by personal possessions… a biography… Boltanski details the possessions of an anonymous life, and beyond the artistic its aim is essentially social, even sociopolitical…the result is impersonal and objective, and yet intensely moving. Boltanski is demonstrating the power of the archive and the catalogue, the survey that at some point becomes surveillance. A bit sunned on top of the cover but the copy is in great condition and very well preserved. Scarce collectible copy with the original CNAC invitation paper inside.
97 [Hans-Peter Feldmann] Voyeur
OFAC Art Contemporain, La Flèche, 1994, 1997, 2006, 2009, 2011 & 2014. 6 volumes. Softcover, 165 x 110 mm, 256 p, 800 black & white photographs. Taking the form of an affordable mass market paperback, Voyeur is a compact representation of society as image spectacle. A sprawling taxonomy vernacular photography, images from every possible genre are here--crime, fashion, sports, advertising, and on and on. The variety of sources, mostly twentieth century, is equally sprawling. They are presented scrapbook style in miniaturized black and white half-tone reproductions. “ Voyeur trawls the image wreckage of our consumer-driven culture, making eccentric or sinister juxtapositions (shots of nude women next to aircraft crashes) and cataloging the blandness of media bombardment to render its toxic assault visible to us, its near-helpless voyeurs. ” Each and every page of Voyeur by Hans-Peter Feldmann is packed full of pictures. Completely unexpectedly, photos of naked women are arranged next to snapshots of airplane crashes. Are we voyeurs like the artist himself, or has he caught us out? Copy in great condition.
98 [Ferdinand KRIWET]
Stars Lexicon in 3 Bänden Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln, Berlin,1971. First edition. 3 volumes, softcover, 220 x 140 mm, 128 + 144 + 144 p. A pioneer in the field of media art, Ferdinand Kriwet (born 1942) began exploring the consequences of mass media and sensory overload in the 1960s through neon signs and wall paintings, stage appearances and radio plays. Analyzing the language of television, advertising and photography, the German artist describes himself as a visual poet. Copy in very good condition.
99 [Emma SOUHARCE] Voyeur
Rollo Press, Zurich, 2013. First edition. Softcover, 170 x 110 mm, 156 p. For this small book brimming with images, Emma Souharce has processed each of the 813 images in Hans-Peter Feldmann’s highly popular ‘Voyeur fifth edition’ using Google’s image search function. In the original work by Feldmann, the German visual artist sifts through the plethora of images available to our consumer-driven culture and re-presents this numbing media overload to render its toxic assault visible through intriguing juxtapositions. Sealed copy.
100 [Hans-Peter Feldmann] Voyeur
OFAC Art Contemporain, La Flèche, 2011. Fifth edition. Softcover, 165 x 110 mm, 256 p, 800 black & white photographs. Hans-Peter Feldmann’s continually updated Voyeur project is one of the original zeitgeist image-trawls (alongside Gerhard Richter’s Atlas). A chaotic compendium of movie stills, photojournalism, ads, amateur photos, art, scientific imagery and much else, it dips into the iconographic whirlpool of our times and presents a world both familiar and utterly bizarre. As new.
101 [Max REGENBERG] M Come to Where
White Press, Freiburg, 2011, hardcover, sew binding, 205 x 315 mm, 128 p, print vintage, black & white photographs, limited edition of 600 copies. Max Regenberg is a long distance surveyor. The pictures reproduced in his second book “ M – Come To Where… ” are vintage 35mm from the 70’s and 80’s. By “ screening ” the Marlboro advertisement blow ups he mingles the artificial myth of the post colonial conquerer with the reality of black and white German everyday’s public. But looking at these pictures, one (specially looked at with a german eye) has to admit: This is not reality anymore. Both worlds are history! Ultimately, the book is an attractive wink to the artist Richard Prince... Copy in great condition.
102 [Richard PRINCE] Four Cowboys
Other Criteria, London, 2010. First edition. Hardcover, 385 x 295 mm, 32 p, essay in english by Gordon Burn. Four of Richard Prince’s Cowboy prints are reproduced in brilliant colour at the centre of this large-scale publication. The double spreads of luminous American landscapes are re-photographed, cropped and re- appropriated images of original Marlboro Country iconography. For Gordon Burn, in his accompanying essay, Prince presents a new way of reading these images. He examines how the artist has deconstructed the efforts of lighting, costume and make-up used in the production of hyper-masculine cowboys. Burn dissects the implications of nostalgia for a commodified, advertised Americana and discusses Prince’s interest in multiplicity and the uncanny. Copy in very good condition.
[INDEX] AGATA (D’), Antoine ARCARA, Ariana & SANTESE Lucas BLANC, Jean-Charles BOLTANSKI, Christian BOTTO, Andrea BRECHT, Bertold BROOMBERG, Adam & CHANARIN,Olivier BRUNI, Dimitri & KREBS, Manuel BÜCHEL, Christoph CAIRNS, Anthony CALDERÓN, Miguel CALLE, Sophie CAVIEZEL, Kurt CHAMPASSAK, Tiane Doane Na CLARK, Larry COHEN, Liz COLLECTIF DAVID, Laurent DEAN, Tacita DELMES, Nicole & ZANDER, Susanne ELIASSON, Olafur FELDMANN, Hans-Peter FEUERHELM, Brad FISCHLI, Peter & WEISS, David FONTCUBERTA, Joan GILBERT & GEORGE GIRARD, Sébastien GIRAUD, Nicolas GRAHAM, Paul
9 43 89 93-96 41 5 6-13-66 32 45 74 33 36-56 23 21-31-67 34 91 16 1 44 38 75 17-97-100 57 83-94 11 90 64 35 84
[INDEX] GRIFFIN, Brian GRIMBERT, Benoﾃｮt & DARABI, Hannah HALIL HEINECKEN, Robert HENNER, Mishka HUGNET, Georges HUIMIN, Kuang JOHNSTONE, Charles KESSELS, Erik KOICHI, Inakoshi KOICHI, Miyazaki KRIWET, Ferdinand KRUITHOF, Anouk LANGE, Christian LOCCI, Bruno MAILAENDER, Thomas MAKI MAURI, Fabio MAYRIT, Daniel MIDDEL (DE), Cristina MORIMURA, Yakumasa NAHMAD, Ezra NOﾃ記, Rﾃｩmi NOMURA, Hiroshi NOTO (DI), Giorgio OBARA, Kasuma PARR, Martin PATTERSON, Christian PICHLER, Michalis
80 71 4 87-88 51-76 47 15 70 68 60 18 98 40 95 37-81 39 63 3-19 22 14 85 10 48 26 8 42 54 53-77 2
[INDEX] POWER, Mark PRINCE, Richard PRUS, Timothy & WYLIE, Donovan PUJADE-LAURAINE, Grégoire REGENBERG, Max RICKARD, Doug RIGOLINI, Luciano RISTELHUEBER, Sophie RUFF, Thomas RUSCHA, Ed SARMENTO, Julião SCAMPINATO, Francesco SHERMAN, Cindy SCHMID, Joachim SCHMIDT, Michael SELICHAR, Günther SERAFIM, Eduardo SHERMAN, Cindy SIMARIK, Nicolas SOTH, Alec SOUHARCE, Emma SPADA, Valerio STAECK, Klaus STEZAKER, John STUKE, Katja SULTAN, Larry & MANDEL, Mike TILLMANN, Wolfgang & VOLLMER, Ulrich WOJNAROWICZ, David WOLF, Michael
55 65-102 45 29 101 25-28 92 7 61 73 69 30 86 50 58 59 27 86 49 12 99 78 20 82 62 79 52 72 24