In mid-nineteenth-century Turin, legend has it that, among the forms of discourtesy reserved by the people for the executioner, bakers would hand him the bread upside down as a form of contempt and evil eye

When Oswald Wiener and his wife Ingrid moved to Canada in 1984, it was not only an act of intellectual inquiry but also a deliberate decision by the writer to leave art behind.

Founded by artists Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner in 1998, Fischerspooner began as a philosophical provocation that sought to explore the expressive potential located in the gap between popular entertainment and art.

Master American photographer Adger Cowans's predominantly black-and-white photography is collected in this monograph of original images taken over the past forty years.

One hundred years ago, Edward Sheriff Curtis began a thirty-year odyssey to photograph and document the lives and traditions of the Native peoples of North America.

Vienna's Ringstrasse: a world-famous synonym for 19th-century urban design and architecture, whose values remain valid to this day. But hardly anyone would associate the term Ringstrasse with technology.

Mono.Kultur is an interview-based cultural magazine established in the early 2000s, focusing on art, music, film, design, and visual culture.

America and the Tintype is an exhibition catalogue that examines the cultural history and social significance of tintype photography

At the core of Nikita Kadan’s practice is a critical engagement with the social and political conditions of the post-communist present and their roots in Soviet

Artful Lives offers a richly researched biography of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, set against the vibrant artistic and

Paul Jasmin often found his models through students at the college where he teaches in Pasadena, while others are the children of close friends

Edmund Teske (1911-1996) was one of the alchemists of twentieth-century American photography. Over a sixty-year period, he created a diverse body of

Nudo. I libri fotografici dal 1895 ad oggi examines the photographic nude through the specific medium of the book, tracing how representations of the body have been shaped

I am. presents a focused exploration of the work of Birgit Jürgenssen, foregrounding questions of identity, self-representation, and the construction of the female body.

Dieter Roth (1930–1998) is considered one of the most important universal artists of the last century, whose uncompromising appropriation of reality seems more relevant than ever.

In cycle racing there have been some amazing feats, stories of comeback and daring, of victory and tragedy, of personal sacrifice and bad luck – and

Seit der Antike ist die Maske als Objekt der Verhüllung und Verwandlung des Gesichts unverzichtbares Element des Theaters und des Kultes.

In Soft Zeros, Mimi Ọnụọha examines the unreliability of archives and the instability of knowledge, exploring how absence and silence – shaped by algorithmic bias,

Waikiki, one of Honolulus most famous neighbourhoods, had already become a crowded tourist destination when Wessel photographed there in the late seventies and early eighties.

Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993–2012 is a retrospective selection of images of the country where Dupont has covered everything from civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom and the ongoing war on terrorism.

A comprehensive look at one of the most celebrated photographers of the American frontier

This edition of Nikolai Gogols classic short story The Overcoat presents the 1842 text together with newly commissioned artwork by Sarah Dobai.

Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875) was a pioneer of English photography in the 19th century. His work is both

Die Wahrheit der Photographie brings together, for the first time in German translation, Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s scattered and often hard-to-find writings on photography.

“… was here” was published for Huo Rf’s solo show, curated by Merve Elveren, that took place on September, 2018.

The autochrome process, developed in 1904 by Auguste and Louis Lumière, represents the first industrially produced method of colour photography.

Freshers is the first project of Sigune Hamann’s residency working with perception and attention in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University in collaboration with neuroscientist Prof Kia Nobre and her students.

Arrived Early is a compelling artist book by Laura Virág Szekeres, published in 2023.

The Complete Papers is the definitive monograph on Thomas Demand, offering an unparalleled overview of his artistic journey spanning nearly three decades.

The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand’s renowned practice of constructing, photographing,

Olaf Breuning: Ugly is a monograph published by Hatje Cantz in 2002, offering a vibrant insight into the playful and provocative work of Swiss artist Olaf Breuning.

Dialect by Felipe Romero Beltra?n is a photographic series that follows a group of immigrants who have recently crossed the strait (the maritime border between Morocco and Spain) to avoid border controls.

The artist’s works are mounted on panels, sitting on large pieces of veneered furniture placed around the edges of the rooms.

A Faggot is a Unit by Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Padraig Robinson, brings together two original screenplays for yet-realized video works by Robinson along with a collection of research material presented as a retrograde calendar. The screenplays, / Imagine Prompt: Catfish Monogamy and The Jealousy of Sagittarius A*, both deal with

The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century.

All the cannons and artillery included in this survey are actual, historic weapons, located in Greater London and freely accessible to the public.

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. "My Queer History " wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.

'Queer' is an inclusive term, encompassing the complex experiences of sexuality and gender diversity across history. In the past, 'queer' has been used as a term of derision, but many today have reclaimed the term to capture the complexity of gender and sexuality.

A multidisciplinary look at the foremost archive of Black American visual culture, as recast by Theaster Gates. This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a monumental participatory work by Theaster Gates (born 1973). The Cabinet includes nearly

46 Seiten im Heft mit Schutzumschlag, 3 Textbeileger, 4Blatt Aufkleber mit Arbeiten des Künstlers, zahlreiche Abb. in Farbe, Broschur, 22 x 15 cm - Ob barocke Madonnen, Satellitenaufnahmen von Google Earth, Pistolen oder Ereignisse der Weltgeschichte in Nussschalengröße: Der Künstler Peter Sauerer (*1958) nimmt sich all jene Dinge vor, denen es gelingt seine Aufmerksamkeit zu binden. Sorgsam schnitzt er sie im Miniaturformat liebevoll nach, bemalt und zerlegt sie sodann, um sie im letzten Schritt der Bearbeitung mit Schnüren wieder zusammen zu fügen. Seine Kleinplastiken vereinen Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion, balancieren zwischen Aufbau und Zerstörung, markieren einen Zustand der Wandlung.

Als Oswald Wiener und seine Frau Ingrid 1984 nach Kanada zogen, war das nicht nur ein Akt der Erkenntnissuche, sondern auch ein bewusster Schritt des Schriftstellers, die Kunst hinter sich zu lassen. Interesse an den Extremen der Natur am Polarkreis, an außergewöhnlichen gesellschaftlichen Umständen machte Dawson City in der arktischen

“Folded” is a documentary photo book by Zoran Shekerov published by PrivatePrint. The book researches and presents the Pehlivan wrestling tradition from an authentic and contemporary angle. Shekerov’s style - so visible through the photographs - is bright and unpredictable, and carries the viewers closer to the subject matter, where they never expected to be.

Intervention by the artists: Karrabing Film Collective has created a limited-edition series of four cards for the publication, one of which is enclosed with each copy. The faces of the cards show image-text collages in Karrabing’s characteristic technique of layering and

Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh is an ode to the infinite courage and resilience of the women of Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, who sat in protest for a 100 days and nights. A book of photographs, drawings, songs, letters and other material gathered as a record of the iconic protest, marks an extraordinary moment in the political and contemporary history of India.

In the turbulent square of Martim Moniz, stands a robust building by the architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral. Invited by TECLA PLAY Cultural Association, artist Leylâ Gediz presents an installation of paintings in the interior gallery of the building,

In our daily lives, folds, creases, and wrinkles belong to the realm of aging processes or are the unwanted result of carelessly handled pieces of fabric or paper.

The protocol for the production of the works presented at Salon du Salon is simple. There is a certain nonchalance, few gestures. These gestures directly question how a work is produced. The stages of development of these works are predefined: visiting museums, taking photographs, opening them on a computer, copying, pasting, adjusting, moving and recording.

In 1976, Harun Farocki and Hanns Zischler directed Heiner Müller’s plays The Battle and Tractor for Theater Basel. For Farocki, this production remained his only directorial work for theater. With Heiner Müller, however, he remained in intellectual exchange. The two collaborated on the adaptation of Müller’s text The Hamletmachine for radio in 1978; for the May 1981 issue of the magazine Filmkritik, they conducted a conversation.

In the mid-1970s, Harun Farocki wrote a two-page call programmatically entitled “What Ought to Be Done,” followed by a survey addressed to potential collaborators and supporters.........
Mitte der 1970er Jahre schrieb Harun Farocki einen zweiseitigen Aufruf mit dem Titel „Was getan werden soll“, der von einer Umfrage unter potentiellen MitarbeiterInnen und UnterstützerInnen begleitet wurde.........

Con esta exposición se podrá ver por primera vez en España una amplia selección de obras de la artista checa Hanzlová Jitka (Nachod, 1958). Sus fotografías, que buscan penetrar en la esencia de las cosas y los personajes representados, crean imágenes directas que evidencian la relación entre el hombre y su contexto. Además

"Her∂ubrei∂ at Home" is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Her∂ubrei∂, Iceland’s much-loved mountain, and Stéfan V.

Heavy metal is a cultural phenomenon that unites its fans across borders, generations, genders, religions, and social classes. Metalheads is a journey into the heavy metal underground around the world that documents the lives and passion of these fans.

Als ausgebildeter Zeichner arbeitete Adolphe Braun (1812–1877) zunächst für die elsässische Textilindustrie,

Becoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known.

Martin d’Orgeval’s photographs show the animals and insects that survived the disaster in situ, against a background of charred woodwork in the shop that had been their habitat since their ‘natural’ death.

Theresienstadt oder Terezín, die befestigte Stadt nördlich Prag, errang 1942 traurige Berühmtheit, als sie von den Nazis als „jüdische Mustersiedlung“ ausgesucht wurde.

Becoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known.

Mit seinen Bildern von den „Swinging Sixties“ – ihren Stars, ihrer Mode, den schönen Körpern und bedeutenden Köpfen – wurde David Bailey zu einem der wichtigsten Chronisten der Epoche.

Kosten, Nutzen und Schuldenkrise – das sind die bestimmenden Größen, wenn heute von Europa die Rede ist. Mit seinen fünf Streiflichtern über den Kontinent erinnert Alvermann an den Reichtum und die Vielfalt europäischer Kultur und Geschichte.

In den 1890er-Jahren erforschte der Göttweiger Pater Lambert Karner im Mittelalter gegrabene Höhlen von Niederösterreich bis ins südliche Bayern. Emil Wrbata, ein Absolvent der Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Wien), begleitete ihn mit der Kamera und modernster Blitzlichtausrüstung in die dunklen, extrem engen Gänge dieser „Erdställe“.