Beuys Book. Klaus Staeck, Gerhard Steidl. Steidl.

Joseph Beuys was photographed extensively during his life, whether at work, while traveling or at home. But only a few photographers had the privileged access and tenacity of Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl. Graphic artist Staeck and printer/publisher Steidl accompanied Beuys with their cameras from 1970 until his death in 1986. Staeck and Steidl were part of Beuys´ entourage, worked closely with him to produce his multiples and objects, and documented intimate aspects of the life of this unmatched artist-performer. These photos reveal Beuys´ unique charismatic personality that influenced not only those he met, but society and art in general.

Hardcover
English Language
ISBN: 9783865219145

D 28€

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Looking for Eva. Mads Teglers. MTHM Books.

Looking for Eva is the first book from MTHM Books.

The book brings together 41 photographs of actress/model Viktoria Winge’s search, for her deceased grandmother’s history.

Depicting a mysterious young girl moving through a magical landscape of shifting realities, the life of the grandmother is revealed through paintings and photographs and shows a
universe not unlike Viktoria’s own.

Looking for Eva illustrates Copenhagen based photographer Mads Teglers’ interest in documenting peoples lives by changing the plot, in order to create a new narrative.

The photographs were first shown at Preus Museum in Oslo, Norway.

First Edition of 300 copies
Soft cover, perfect bound / Printed in Latvia
Published September 2012

28 €

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romka. magazine #7

Some photographs are more important than others.

In this issue, 58 professionals and amateurs from 21 countries share their favorite photos and stories behind them. We also show you excerpts from an extraordinary photo album from 1950s Germany and the five worst photos ever.

photos & stories by:
Aaron MacDonald, Ai-Lun Huang, Alec Soth, Amber Fairweather, Andreea Preda, Anke Schüttler, Anthony Tortorici, Árpád Szigeti, Ash Bowland, Brian Weiland, Christopher Sharpe, Christopher Snyder, Clara Bahlsen, Craig Johnson, David, Paul Maharam, David Roth, Elisa Longhi, Esteban Pochintesta, Eugenio Villagra, Gábor Arion Kudász, Go Itami, Hadas Tapouchi, Irina Yulieva, Iris Janke, Jan-Dirk van der Burg, Jeff Hamada, Jennife Schäfer, Jordan Sullivan, Kaupo Roivasepp, Ksenija Kucerova, Laurence Vecten, Laurent Ripoll, Leif Gunnar Boman, Mara Ploscaru, Maria Kazvan, Markus Schaden, Michal Brezinsky, Miriam Neitzel, Nadia Sablin, Neven Allgeier, Nico Krebs, Nicolas Turlais, Nils Orth, Philippe Gerlach, Roberto Rubalcava, Roger Ballen, Ryan Becker, Sachi Nasatir, Sera Marshall, Sonya Dyakova, Stefan Peters, Stéphanie Jesus, Taiyo Onorato, Trisha Thompson, Tyrone Williams, Veronica Nardulli, Wolfgang Filser, Zara Pfeifer

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edition of 1,500

11.5 €

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Warsaw Modern by Czeslaw Olszewski, published by Fundacja Raster

This album of photographs by Czesław Olszewski is a unique cultural testament to the decade just prior to the outbreak of World War II. It is a fascinating voyage to the “Warsaw of the future” via the city’s modernist architecture.
The album is an attempt to revive the integrity of the Warsaw Architecture School of the interwar period. Yet it is also a narrative of the visionary modernist perspective, of how architecture creates a new spatial and aesthetic order, and how photography invokes an awareness of this order within us.
The album presents close to 300 archive photographs of selected architectural structures in Warsaw, including public buildings, residential estates and villas, as well as the modernised highways of the 1930s. These photographs were scanned from the original, glass negatives. When possible, the photographer’s original frames were restored on the basis of existing notes.
The album is preceded by an essay by Professor Marta Leśniakowska and Piotr Jamski, specialists at the Art Institute at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). The text casts a closer look at the life and works of photographer Czesław Olszewski, and also explores the significance and specific character of architectural photography as a historical document.

Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 348

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Participating Artists:
Victoria Long
Ten Yetman
Natsuki Mukai
Miki Kishida
Yoko Sakamoto
Nina Hartmann
henlywork

Publisher : CMBMC PRESS
Date : 2012 spring/summer
Size : 148 x 210 mm
Pages : 32p
Edition of 500
printed by colonbooks

17€

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“No matter how grand the vision, when a person thinks of something the image that he sees is no more than the trifling and ordinary scene that he is so accustomed to–as one’s bedroom.” From the artist’s statement accompanying the exhibition of SWISS+ In 2007, Nagashima participated in an artists residence program in the Village Nomade of Switzerland and the photographs she made at that time are reproduced in this volume, which are of flowers along with views of her residence and her son. The images were inspired by a set of flower photographs she found in a box of her recently deceased grandfather’s home. The photographs in that box were made by her grandmother twenty-five years prior. Nagashima’s work is characterized by her documentation of her family. Through the pictures of flowers and her diaristic entries, she has found a new means of creating a document of her family despite the separation of time and distance. Wedged into the pages randomly–not unlike a scrapbook– are airline tickets, memos, and blank sheets of craft paper. The sense of shuffle and easy re-ordering dispenses with linear narrative in favor of an accidental, open-ended reading. This makes the book’s art direction and design are integral components of the project, blending together visual and text elements with found matter. Her diary-style entires are printed on tracing paper and seem to be typed out with a typewriter with keys out of register. The deliberate slowness of the book’s aesthetic is the vehicle for presenting the photography.

Language: Japanese
Pages: 214
Size: 215 × 290 mm
Weight: 900 g
Binding: Hardcover (in 20 different colors!)

68.00€

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Lexicon by Joëlle Tuerlinck

A comprehensive lexicon, written by the artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx, accompanies the exhibition WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS? in Wiels Brussels (22.09.2012 – 06.01.2013). Accompanied by an illustrated folder containing 3 extracts from the ‘Cahiers du Progrès?’, material for conference and publication.

D 10 €

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Die Wende by Ingrid Hora, mit Seniorenschwimmgruppe Treptow, Berlin

Die Wende (›the Turn‹ in German) is the story of a group of women from former East Germany who are training to perform a particular movement in synchronized swimming, called ›die Wende‹, in which the swimmer perform an underwater backwards loop. Thee women, most of them over 60, are part of a still active East German association (Verein) and have been training together for over 20 years now.

Artist book printed with RISO MZ 770e at Rocky P. Matters, Berlin.
With texts by Shumon Basar, Emanuele Guidi and Maxi Obexer.
Published and edited by Ingrid Hora

D 16 €

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Times is an annual publication concerned with memory and representation. The first edition of Times, The Puzzling Almanac, is a pictorial atlas arranged according to a calendrical structure.
365 photographs from the early 19th to the early 20th century were assembled to a book, enabling the reader to embark on time travels through unlikely associations between scientific inventions, ancient discoveries and past current affairs. The blatant staging of the photographs that have become constituents of our collective memory, reveal the futility of objectifiable, transhistorical systems of measurement and documentation. We are always dealing with genealogical, indexicalized representations, or in less fancy words, with storytelling.

The cyclical notion of the calendar installs the photographs in the realm of the clockwork of the skies, an ongoing movement that allows brief glimpses of time, yet as soon as we have realized, they have already escaped our grasp and disappeared into something scientists have described as an ever-expanding, strange spiral.

Times: The Puzzling Almanac
21,5 × 30 cm, open stitch binding
116 pages, softcover, limited edition of 500
published in November 2012 by Colorado House
25€

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“White Flowers” is Sayo Nagase’s third book. She focused on a weed which grows wild along roadsides in Sweden during her stay last summer.

Edition of 500. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Published by Twelve Books.

D 25€
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