Corina Neuenschwander / Proposal for a (book) shelf
Publisher: Werkplaats Typografie. July 12, 2012.
Pages: 142, perfect bound paperback, full color
Dimensions: 8.25” x 11.70”
From publisher: “Initiated by corina neuenschwander, proposal for a (book)shelf is a project space for participants of the werkplaats typografie for presenting work. the shelves, a small niche, are located inside the meeting room of the school. similar to many places in wt building, this space is a platform for sharing research and producing work with an emphasis on peer critique.”
Chinati Foundation Newsletter Vol 11
Marianna and Donald Judd STOCKEBRAND
Marfa, TX: Chinati Foundation, 2006. First edition. Softcover. 92 pages. Text in English and Spanish. Features the text of a conversation between John Chamberlain and Klaus Kertess, David Tompkins writing a report on the John Chamberlain Symposium. Also includes some of Donald Judd's writings on Josef Albers. Includes some color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers.
R.H. Quaytman / Chapter 29
Published by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2015
Foreword by Suzanne Landau, with essays by Mark Godfrey, Annie Bourneuf and R. H. Quaytman
Hardcover, 130pp., 47 color ill.
Designed by Michael Gordon
Hebrew/English
ISBN 978-965-539-121-3
Takashi Homma: New Documentary (Japanese and English Edition)
Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: Asahi Shimbun (January 10, 2011)
Language: Japanese, English
ISBN-10: 4900050563
From publisher: “Takashi Homma started out in advertising and fashion magazines in the late 1980s, moved to London in the early 90s where he worked for legendary cultural magazines like i-D and met a few photographers who produced their own works by diverse methods. Upon his return to Japan, his own photographic works capturing the landscape and people of Tokyo's suburbs were published in 'Tokyo Suburbia'. This exhibition catalogue focuses on his work since 2005 and draws our attention to his new approach of dynamically exploring the diversity and polysemy of photography. Essays by Elein Fleiss, Noi Sawaragi and others.”
R.H. Quaytman / R.H. Quaytman: Dalet Chapter 24
Hardcover
Publisher: Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (2012-01-01)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3924039593
ISBN-13: 978-3924039592
Yuji Hamada / Photograph (C)
Publisher: Lemon Books
Book Size257 x 364 mm
64 pages
French binding, Soft Case
Publication Date2014
Limited Edition 700
From publisher: “This is a photo book of a series of images that try to capture and seize light. Originally shot under the name “Pulsar” between 2005 and 2006, it was retitled “photograph” when published at P.G.I. in 2013.
Based on the fundamental thought “I want to paint light on photographic paper”, I photographed the light in places and spaces of everyday life in a way that makes it visible and tangible to the human eye.
In the process of creating the exhibition at PGI, and subsequently the book, I noticed the differences between the world-view embedded in the work made roughly ten years ago and my present-day thoughts regarding it, and so decided to use the simple word “photograph”, rather than “Paint Light”, to title the series.
(Artist statement)
"photograph"
One day in 2005, I saw a girl in the park. It was almost evening, and she seemed mesmerized by a patch of sunlight resting on her palm. She asked me, “Where did this light come from, and how?” I mulled over the question; the light had been emitted by the sun, before traveling an astronomical distance to reach that very place, but I refrained from telling her so. She seemed to be looking for a different kind of answer.
The distance that sunlight travels is crucial for our planet to flourish, and nurtures an environment in which we can survive. Light allows us to see and be seen, in turn realizing the presence of one another. Yet in our daily lives, neither light nor shadow capture our attention; they are simply too ubiquitous.
I often find myself pondering the light that shines unnoticed, whether it be somewhere on this planet, or in outer space. Seeing light sometimes gives me a peace of mind; other times, it leaves me awestruck. It was these moments that led to a desire to capture, through photography, the light that exists in our everyday lives.
I created a machine that produced smoke via a hosepipe, hence rendering the rays of light visible. The images were shot using a long exposure and occasionally I would walk into the scene while the film was being exposed, in order to discover the light for myself. In the end, the length of exposure erased any traces of my presence, and all that remained was the light.
- Yuji Hamada”
Takashi Homma / Tokyo
Signed by artist.
7 x 10 inches
256 pages
125 four-color images
Paperback
978-1-59711-059-4
Spring 2008
Designed by de.MO
Since the advent of photography, certain cities have become inextricably intertwined with their depiction by great photographers: Eugène Atget in turn-of-the-century Paris; Berenice Abbott in 1930s New York; Ed Ruscha in late-60s Los Angeles. While Daido Moriyama documented the disaffection and dissipation of postwar Tokyo, Takashi Homma picks up the baton with a contemporary portrait of the modern-day metropolis that is both cinematic and complex. For over a decade, Homma has turned the neutral gaze of his lens toward Tokyo’s suburban environs and urban center. As in all of his work, Homma’s vision of Tokyo navigates a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality, detachment and lusciousness, presenting a sleek, contemporary vision of a postmodern megalopolis populated by a new generation of video-game aficionados and fashionistas. While Homma has published extensively inside his native Japan, this is his first volume published for an international audience. Takashi Homma: Tokyo compiles selections from each of the artist’s six previously published titles on the city, including Tokyo Suburbia, his seminal work now considered a contemporary classic.
Takashi Homma / Gecko
Ring-bound
Publisher: Little Big Man (2013)
ASIN: B00DTFHW7M
From publisher:
”Strictly limited print run of 300 hand numbered copies. Takashi Homma curates a selection of Takuma Nakahira's modern color work, alongside portraits of Nakahira taken by Homma. The edition includes an oversized poster, an except from an archival essay by Nakahira, and a contemporary critical text from Homma.”
Dutch Resource: Collaborative Exercises in Graphic Design
Out of print
Publisher: Valiz / Werkplaats Typografie, 3/1/2006
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color / 150 bw
ISBN 9789080818576
Essays by Paul Elliman and Maxine Kopsa:
”Eleven participants in the Dutch Werkplaats Typografie's design program recently asked an equal number of more accomplished graphic designers to join forces with them in collaborations destined for France's Chaumont Graphic Arts Festival. Dutch Resource reports on that collaboration. Each of the 11 different pairs showcases both designers' working methods and the innovative, experimental aesthetic that unites them. The book as a whole offers a clear overview of the uncompromising practice of today's graphic designer, a specialist and jack-of-all-trades who is not only master of his or her own work but often works as a writer, researcher, editor, curator, critic and photographer as well.”
Carol Bove / Plants & Mammals
Status: Out print
Stock: Out of stock
Publisher: Horticultural Society of New York and Karma
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Accordian book in slipcase with inserts
Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in (14 x 21.6 cm)
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780615285801
Takashi Homma / London 1991-1992
Out of print.
OK FRED, 2011.
Softcover
A Supplement of TOO MUCH Magazine Summer 2011 Issue
Marga Van Mechelen / Art at Large - Through Performance and Installation Art
Paperback: 302 pages
Publisher: Artez Press (June 26, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9491444042
ISBN-13: 978-9491444043
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Mary Shelley / Facsimile Library
Limited edition of 1,000
Publisher ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, 2011
Softcover, 140pgs
Size13 × 19 × 1 cm
Length 140
Description
The Mary Shelley Facsimile Library is a collection of fascimile-format thesis bibliographies intended as a reference library for future participants. The library was relocated from Arnhem to New York from 30 September to 2 October 2011. This publication is a companion to the library, within these pages are texts, spells and reading lists gathered by current participants regarding their research.
Participants: Stefano Faoro, Ilke Gers, Laure Giletti, Valentijn Goethals, Bosco Hernandez, Ine Meganck, Niko Mihaljevic, Corina Neuenschwander, Christof Nussli, Erica Preli, Mark Simmonds, Noah Venezia, Rutger de Vries, Mathew Whittington, Yin Yin Wong and Manuel Zenner.
Christopher Wool / Sound on Sound
Rare.
Out of print catalog for an exhibition held at Corbett vs. Dempsey October 27 - November 27, 2010
Includes an essay by John Corbett and photographs by Aubrey Mayer
Design by Kathi Beste
softcover, 32 pages, 9 x 7 inches
From Guggenheim:
“In fall 2010, the Chicago gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey held an exhibition of Christopher Wool titled Sound on Sound. John Corbett explains in the exhibition catalog Christopher Wool: sound on sound that the title of the exhibition was based on a conversation between Wool and himself, and evokes Wool’s interests in process, improvisation, music, and sounds. The exhibition showed new works by Wool and included a performance by celebrated experimental musician Joe McPhee.”
Koji Takiguchi / Sou
1st Edition 300 copies.
Publisher: Little Big Man Books, 2014.
Softcover, 116 pages, with 90 black and white and color photographs
Includes an interview with the artist conducted by Dan Abbe
From publisher:
”Sou is perhaps one of the most concisely direct photo journals concerning family life and death that exists. To lay it bare, Sou begins as Takiguchi’s mother-in-law is dying of cancer, and very quickly we are introduced her husband whose health and sanity begins to crumble shortly after her death. We then witness a euphoria of love and romance--resulting in the conception and birth of Takiguchi’s son. His beloved cat Ponta dies, followed by a rapid and harrowing decline of his father-in-law’s health and subsequent final passing.
Throughout, Takaguchi inserts vintage images of his parents-in-law, himself and his wife at different stages of their life. By this adherence to showing things out of progressional order, Sou deftly avoids a relentless and punishing pursuit, while still addressing the brevity of human life. To address the cyclical nature of existence, we see vintage photographs his in-laws in at his age, and then images of himself and his partner at the same age as his newly born son. When his mother-in-law passes away, the last image we see of her reflects not a frail state, but an old photograph of stronger, younger, and happier times. Throughout, these images from the past are laid directly on dried pressed flowers, a fitting metaphor as once verdant and lush, they are now desiccated, but still redolent and beautiful.
Through this intelligent arrangement, Takiguchi has permitted the viewer a catharsis of sorts, by unflinchingly recording both his own harrowing and euphoric experiences, and deftly delivering a document of profound grace and depth. Sou delivers refutation to Barthes’ statement that “every photograph is [a] catastrophe,” as Sou suggests that collective life itself is not only to end in the catastrophe, but to also begin in wonder. The past, present and future are in accordance, bittersweet, but an ultimately harmonious coexistence.
The book concludes with infant Takiguchi’s son pointing to the shadows—in some was a literal acknowledgment of the coexistence of both dark and light in equal measure. Seen, though, in more spiritual terms, there exists an awareness that in the shadows of our forebears, they’re no longer with us, but no longer without us either.”
Between 1994 and 1995, Christopher Wool shot a series of photographs in downtown New York City that he calls East Broadway Breakdown, after a street on the Lower East Side, the neighborhood where he lives and works. Taken at night using a 35 mm camera, the pictures feature the city's signature streets with their dilapidated storefronts and ramshackle staircases leading up to anonymous spaces. The high contrast images are often hard to read, producing, rather than coherent images, seemingly random forms that emerge from skewed camera angles. Like his paintings, Wool's photographs hover between abstraction and representation, forcing viewers to confront their desire for visual coherence while offering an alternative construct for picture-making today.
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Boyd Rice / Twilight Man
First pressing limited to 1000 copies. Twilight Man follows Rice through San Francisco's darkest crevices during his time as a responder for the Twilight Alarm Company.
Excerpt from Twilight Man Chinatown: When the tourists empty the streets, the rats come out. When the neon turns off is when I'm on the clock. I carry a gun. I'm an alarm agent. Chinatown is another world, existing separate and distinct from the world that surrounds it. It is a city within a city, perhaps even a town within a city. Think you know or understand it - you're wrong. Beneath its quaint facade lurks a hidden world with its own hidden history and its own hidden laws. It's a world I inhabit on an almost nightly basis, from around midnight 'til dawn. If you're a businessman in the district, I'm your best friend, the only living soul keeping a watchful eye on your assets when the streets are empty but for rodents, night and fog. If you're a lowlife trying to rip off those businesses, I'm paid to stop you. My job is simple. If an alarm goes off in an establishment, I'm informed by radio and dispatched to the address. If the place appears to be secure and unmolested I call it in as a false alarm. If someone is up to no good, I take 'em down. My tag is agent 1225, and I work for Twilight Alarm Company. This is my story.
Motoyuki Daifu / Lovesody
Out of print.
8.75″x11.3″
100 signed and numbered (out of a total run of 300)
From the publisher:
LOVESODY by Motoyuki Daifu is an intimate portrait of the photographer’s relationship with a single young mother and her two children. Suffused with joy and melancholy, the images capture all the intimacies of young love burning fast and bright. In Daifu’s introduction, he announces that their ‘lovesody’ (a portmanteau of love and rhapsody) lasted for six months—a statement that while endearing, hints also at a kind of sadness. All the while, Daifu’s relationship with his subject remains in constant flux—from father figure, to lover, and even to the role of child.
Daifu’s images in all their frenetic quality allow the viewer to dive right in to the picture—to see and almost feel, touch, smell and hear. Firing on all senses, Daifu offers a multi-layered dialogue with the viewer, where one can almost taste the milk desired by the needy newborn, see the snot and grime, and taste the molten butter on thick cut toast. Added to this is Daifu’s ambigious position, whereby his gaze repeatedly shifts from that of amorous admirer, to that of a protective father, and finally to the role of a child himself. His image of a swollen breast amounts to both the lover’s gaze on the object of his desire, and also that of a child demanding his sustenance.
LOVESODY in its structure can clearly be seen as part of a photo dairy tradition within Japanese photography (Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey as an example).It is a book containing a clear timeframe and narrative, but in content, Daifu’s work remains apart from many of his contemporaries.In his previous series’, Daifu focused on his own family and the idiosyncrasies within. Chaos and imbalance reign, and we are often shown an intimate erosion of realities—the order, structure, and stoicism often associated with contemporary Japan are wholly absent, all the while marking Daifu as a more accurate recorder of a new, and uncertain time, a time when generations are shifting and values change on a daily basis. Added to this, in a country with a staggering age imbalance and birth rates at a critical low, LOVESODY is a pure anomaly.
LOVESODY is Motoyuki Daifu’s first publication, and coincides with a solo exhibition of the same name at Lombard Freid Projects in New York City. Daifu was previously featured in ‘Minor Cropping may Occur.’ a group photographic exhibition in early 2011. Reviewed favourably by several notable publications, Daifu’s work within the exhibition was highlighted by The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Takashi Homma / Mushrooms From the Forest
First edition limited to 950 copies. Choice of beige or blue cover subject to availability.
From publisher: "The earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11th, 2011, near Japan�s Tohoku region, led to the catastrophic equipment failures and nuclear disaster of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.Six months later, on September 15th, the Japanese government prohibited the gathering and ingestion of any mushrooms grown in the forty-three cities of Fukushima prefecture. Traces of radiation exceeding safety limits were detected in some wild mushroom varieties.Fungi inherently absorb radiation much more rapidly than other organisms.My Geiger counter detected a greatly elevated level of radiation in the lush forests of Fukushima when compared to the region�s urban areas. The wild mushrooms in the photographs assembled here are from those forests.
Takashi Homma, who started his career as a photographer in the 1990s, selected immature children and young folks as a photographic subject. Tokyo Suburbia, which is his early renowned artwork, presents their living environment and overall atmosphere by photography. Throughout his career, Homma has presented his photography themed on urban cities, although in addition to cities his field photography has been greatly expanded. He has photographed mountains, sea, and our surrounding world widely while displaying an amazing eye for detail. Mushrooms From The Forest 2011 by Takashi Homma is an artwork undertaken to photograph the forest and mushrooms.
The forest is one of the most common places for us to feel the nature, and we also take care of and maintain the forest. The forest is a part of our surrounding world and has had a deep relationship with us. An accident happened in a forest in Japan. High radiation levels were recorded there, and therefore collecting and eating the mushrooms from this forest has not been approved."
Carol Bove /The Middle Pillar
Text by Cathleen Chafee
Karma, New York, 2013
28 pages
13 × 9 1/2 inches
Edition of 1,000
Out of Print
“In 2004 Carol Bove described her interest in what she called the provocative “shady places” of display: “A gradient that starts with a small, personal domestic object and goes through art objects, installation art, site-specific works, environments, installation design, architecture, etc.” Her use of historical objects and texts belongs to this larger project dedicated to undermining binaries, often the either/or distinctions between site-specific installations and autonomous artworks.”
Takashi Homma, Mikako Ichikawa / Portrait
Tokyo: Heibon-sha, 2012.
ISBN: 9784582231212
Condition: Near fine
Hardcover
First Edition
Takashai Homma collaboration with Japanese actress / model Mikako Ichikawa.
Takashi Homma: Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes (Japanese)
Tankobon Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Switch Publishing (1997)
Language: Japanese
ISBN-10: 4916017854
ISBN-13: 978-4916017857
Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
Condition: Good
Motoyuki Daifu / Project Family
Published by Dashwood Books, 2013
edition of 500 copies
softcover / 50 pages / 9.5 x 7 in
Release Date: 03/01/2013
From publisher: “Project Family documents the chaotic home life of young Japanese photographer Daifu Motoyuki. Seven family members and a cat all squeezed into the small five-room house where he was raised in Yokohama. A light-hearted look at domestic life in contemporary Japan.”
In Alphabetical Order: File Under: Graphic Design, Schools, or Werkplaats Typografie
Edited by Stuart Bailey. Text by Paul Elliman, Anthony Froshaug, Melle Hammer, Robin Kinross, Norman Potter.
PUBLISHER: NAI PUBLISHERS
PUBLISHED: MARCH 2003
ISBN-10: 9056622722
ISBN-13: 9789056622725
FORMAT: PAPERBACK
SUBJECT: DESIGN / GRAPHIC ARTS / TYPOGRAPHY
From publisher: “This is a schizophrenic book. Between its covers are: a book about typography and graphic design, arranged around recent work from a single source and incubator, the Werkplaats Typografie (Typography Workshop/WT) in Arnheim, the Netherlands; a book about a specific approach and pedagogy, the methods that the WT uses to study and practice graphic design, in which students integrate all aspects of the discipline and its forms in their own expressive vocabulary; a book that presents a broad selection of work from a "school-in-progress," the WT, along with texts that articulate their common foundations and ideas. Actually, perhaps it suffers not so much from schizophrenia as from multiple-personality disorder. In any case, the WT was founded five years ago as a postgraduate course in graphic design; it functions both as a training site and a studio where professional commissions are executed for a varied clientele. Published in conjunction with Werkplaats Typografie.”
Richard Hell, Christopher Wool / Psychopts
Publisher JMc & GHB editions, NY 2008
Dimensions: 22.5 x 18 cm, paperback , sewn bound, offset printing, b/w
From publisher: “This collaborative artists’ book emerges from a collaboration between the writer/musician Richard Hell and the painter Christopher Wool and focuses on their mutual interest in experiences associated with reading. The two artists create images using a selection of word pairings that would appear conceptually estranged but share a subliminal connection. The resulting book balances precariously between rationally ordered sense and polymorphous chaotic association, asking the reader to engage in its associative wordplay and poetic investigations. Published in conjunction with the 2008 exhibition at John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller and Art Gallery.”
1st edition of 1000
Screw Bound Acrylic Hardcover; 64 pages
Los Angeles / New York / Tokyo: Blum & Poe, 2016
ISBN: 9780986112843
10 x 13 inches
Weight: 2 lbs.
From Blum and Poe:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Richard Prince: New Portraits, April 3 - May 30, 2015 at Blum & Poe Tokyo.
Prince has pioneered appropriation since the mid-1970s, mining images from mass media, advertising, and entertainment to subvert and redefine concepts of authorship and ownership. The New Portraits series updates this strategy and continues Prince's exploration of photography through the platform of Instagram. Drawn to certain users, Prince traverses an illimitable network of links, jumping from one account to another, scanning through postings, reading endless texts, discarding, collecting, commenting, and cementing. He captures images that appear to be products of the medium itself; these portraits belong to an infinite stream of image distribution, catalyzing exhibitionism and voyeurism. The artist’s comments — non-sequiturs, jokes, quotes, oxymorons, and emojis — embolden his authorship in this enlivened new direction in portraiture. In a fusion of painting and photography, image and text, and authorship and freedom, intervention becomes composition and the written word becomes brushstroke, handled with a signature.
The only catalogue to document this particular body of work thus far, the unique artists' book features Prince's recent topical text "Bird Talk," and is housed in a hinged, screw-bound acrylic cover.