Bombay Beauties

Collected & edited by Erik Kessels. A sequel to Bangkok Beauties, this collection of found photographs comprises a selection of pieces discovered by Erik Kessels in Mumbai. It depicts a rich mix of ordinary subjects, from hairdressers’ models to family shots to wedding images. Mixed in with this cross section of typical folk are rare shots of Bollywood actors and stars. Taken together, these show the rich diversity of the city, hinting at its untold stories and lives. Black & white, 170 x 225 mm, 60 pages, soft cover, edition of 500.

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Bangkok Beauties

Beauty captures the eye as well as the imagination. There is something naturally alluring and distracting about loveliness; something in its purity, its naivete, its promise and its hopeful inspiration. We all tend to gravitate with passion towards the ideal. 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 their most of all by their appearance. The photographs have become even more precious and lovely in their decay. Over the years, the pictures have deteriorated, been scratched and suffered weather all of which serves to enhance their beauty both as images and as objects. In fact, we can hold these rescued beauties and see them front and back thereby join in the admiring contest that continues even still. Black & white, 170 x 225 mm, 28 pages, soft cover.

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American Zoo

Collected, edited and designed by Jennifer Skupin, text by Zack McDonald.
Aristotle once observed that “man is by nature a political animal.” Art Director Jennifer Skupin takes this age-old profundity quite literally, compiling images of American presidents and the animals which they most resemble. It turns out that Fillmore is a mallard, Grant is a grizzly and Obama a llama. For all those hungry for the ultimate series in presidential non-human doppelgangers, American Zoo is the feast you’ve been awaiting. Black & white, 170 x 255 mm, 100 pages, soft cover, edition of 500.

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Teufelsberg
Marie Sommer

Text:
Jean-Yves Jouannais
Teufelsberg (mountain devil), is an artificial hill located southwest of Berlin, overlooking the city. Amusement park very popular with young Berliners, this hill was built after the Second World War with the remnants of the city after the Allied bombing. An estimated 30 million cubic meters of rubble piled mass there, the equivalent of 400,000 buildings. The hill rises on the site of the University of Nazi war which had been designed by the architect of the Third Reich, Albert Speer, and half done. As after the war, it was difficult to totally destroy the building riddled with underground bunkers, the German authorities decided to bury him and make him disappear under an artificial hill. The hill was then covered with trees, and used during the winter ski run in the 60s and 70s. During the Cold War, was built at the top center of U.S. espionage radar to listen to communications of the Soviet bloc in East Berlin.

She won the contest SFR Jeunes Talents – BAL 2009.
Coproducer : Le Bal/SFR
Released : September, 15th 2010
Collection : Hors Collection
English/French
ISBN 13 : 978-2-35046-197-7
Format : 210 x 290
72 pages
Paperback with flaps
41 color and black and white photos

D 22€
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Printing at home, Xavier Antin.

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Watercolour Printer
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Joystick Printer
Brush Jet Printer
Springboard Printer
Rainbow Printer
Acid Printer
Potato Printer

PREMIER EN SPORT ET EN CHANT Nº0

Premier en sport et en chant is a new journal showcasing emerging photography.

Extent: 56 Pages
Trim size: 21 x 27 cm
Black and white laser print on Cyclus 115gr,
Cover on Cyclus 170 gr
Binding: Softcover, saddle stitched
Text: French / English
First run of 100 copies
Self Published

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Club Donny #6
A strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment

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Bon Voyage
Joëlle Allet

Joëlle Allet won the manor price 2010 of the swiss canton wallis. This opportunity enabled her to display her first solo show and publication. The exhibition took place in the museum of arts in sitten, wallis.

Instead of a typical catalogue where the already existing works are photographed in their context, we decided to create a virtual 3d journey book through the museum with renderings of objects that were to be finished only in the night of the opening. Her interventions are shown as a collage between photos and 3d renderings using the stereoscopy technique to produce monochrome anaglyphs. These where composed and arranged with special software and in close collaboration with the swiss society for stereoscopy.

Kodoji Press, by Joëlle Allet & Marco Müller, texts by Giovanni Carmine and Heike Bippus, 2010, 17 x 25 cm, 80 pages, 27 colour plates, soft cover

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Waterfall Magazine #3

Editor in Chief
Shauba Chang

Art Director
HoTeng Chang

Translations
YiChiu Chn, ChienNi Hong

info@waterfallmagazine.com
www.waterfallmagazine.com

ISBN 978-986-85479-2-6

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Erik Steinbrecher Arabesque à gogo

A project by the Swiss artist for his exhibition at Pasqu’Art in Bienne.

This book contains a series of images collected by the artist (barricades, barbed-wire enclosures, bamboo stockades, wood fences), illustrating the theme of frontiers and their limits.

Co-published with the Centre Pasq’Art, Bienne and JRP Ringier. Designed by Cornel Windlin.

Softcover, 240 x 314 mm
94 pages
Images 90 b/w

D 13€

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