A collective effort from a vital scene in Kampala, KIKOMMANDO takes its name from Ugandan street food of flat bread and beans.

»Von wunderbarer Klarheit« – mit diesen Worten beschrieb Friedrich Simony die Aussicht vom Gipfel des Dachsteins im Jahr 1847.

Sarah Dobai’s The Donkey Field weaves a link between a racist attack in on a young boy and the story of the persecution of Marie and Balthazar in the acclaimed film Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966).

In Fischerspooner's new project, two things remain constant: the physical space--Casey Spooner's apartment--and the cast--the artists

Standing on top of a building: film 2008-2019 is liam gillick's first publication dedicated to his video-film production. eight works, created from 2008 to today, together with a selection of the artist's sculptural production, on display at the mother museum in Naples curated by alberto salvadori and andrea viliani: the most 'intimate' elements of his artistic research - film for the most conceived in his home-studio in New York where inspiration takes concrete form - original scripts with notes and images, as well as site specific installation views. Since the early 1990s, Gillick has been creating installations, sculptures, films, digital animations and sound works, stitched together from an intense critical and theoretical production, between the political-social dimension and the personal sphere. questions the parameters of the fruition of art and the interdependence between the economy, art and institutions, inviting the viewer to participate in the generation of meaning. to highlight how the critical potential and utopian ambitions of avant-garde movements risk being absorbed and neutralized by the structures of contemporary entertainment, communication, urban furniture and corporate culture.

“Casa Azul” (Blue House) is part of a socio-visual developed with the sociologist research Chloé Constant, about the life histories of five trans women imprisoned in a male penitentiary in Mexico City. Nr. 302/460, Nr. 277/460

In her artistic works, Franziska von den Driesch works with analogue and digital photography, video, and also photographic procedures that do not involve a camera.

Catalog of the exhibition “Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn”. The exhibition proposed at the Bourse de Commerce is first and foremost a dream, that of being able to present two artists whose work and commitment have meant a great deal to their peers.

The photographs that Annette Kelm has produced over the past fifteen years across a wide range of formats and appearances rank among the most compelling and significant contributions to recent contemporary art.

An iconographic taxonomy—researched, conceived, and ideated by Wolfgang Scheppe, also author of the book’s final essay—that traces the state and police visual control through almost 500 images from the May 1968 police archives in Paris.

Àmor is an exploration. Roberto Timperi’s gaze leads us into an uncanny underground world where we survive despite the curse that seems to have affected everything by now, and for good. A world where new forms of filterless beauty are possible, and every corruption is holy. Àmor is the livid portrait of a humanity raging and beating in the city’s deepest heart.

FAGS is a photo book by Jacopo Benassi. It brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist.

Soggetto nomade (Nomadic Subject) gathers, for the first time in one volume, shots taken by five Italian photographers between the mid 60s to the 80s. The photographs are

News Cuts brings together twenty-two images selected from Olaf Nicolai’s personal archive of newspaper clippings. Each image is accompanied by a collage of quotes compiled from different kinds of sources,

'The spirit of Gemini is best captured by the word 'collaboration.' It's about artists and printers working hand in hand to create works of art. This same spirit prevails when I take photos. There's a trust extended by the artists, allowing me to share so many special moments with them.' -Sidney Felsen

Modefotografie existiert nur über das Frauenmagazin. Die Geschichte dieses fotografischen Genres ist daher mit der der Frauenpresse verbunden. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die ersten Frauenzeitschriften erschienen, war die Fotografie noch immer nur eine Hilfsillustration.

Contributions from Sabeth Buchmann, Burcu Dogramaci, Noit Banai and Sa’ed Atshan are accompanied by visual and literary material and references from Gal’s extensive research practice.

Much is popularised of the Mafia in film, literature, music and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful of the facts, but many are presented through a creative lens distorting how organized crime began. References are often made to criminal activity in the infamous Prohibition Era, but few stories cover the preceding years, until now. This new book

A major figure of the French arts scene, Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963) lives and works in Paris. His work is the result of a plural practice, shared between sculpture, painting, environment, live performance, video, and photography.

The photo of a woman’s leg stepping onto an open book when climbing out of bed served as inspiration.
I asked some of my friends to take a picture for me according to these guidelines. They should photograph themselves stepping on a book with their bare feet. It was agreed that the authors of the photos remain anonymous

In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins:

Dedicated to his friend and mentor Peter Hujar, Salters Cottages is an artist’s book of stills from a short film Schneider made in 1981 at Salters Cottages, a summer seaside cottage community on Long Island, New York.

Michael Snow is, without doubt, one of foremost living artist, and a central figure in North American art in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Since the reception of the “Independent Film Award” (1968) from the journal Film Culture, his work was placing in the ranks of such major figures of avant-garde cinema as Stan Brakhage and Gregory Markopoulos as well as in the company of two other artists-turned-filmmakers: the photographer Robert Frank and the painter Andy Warhol.

Can an autobiographical tale tell the personal stories of many? This is what Rubén H. Bermúdez achieves through the pages of the photo book 'And you, why are you black?" where, starting from an investigation into the origins of black slavery in Spain, the author constructs an autobiographical tale that acts as a political essay, rescuing his memory captured in the images, conversations and symbols that marked his life and thus narrates the everyday and the extraordinary of a society seen from a black perspective.

Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies intelligible to each other. Every gesture is a link in a chain binding us to gender, race and social class. Gestures solidify into identities. They enact identities that become natural through the systematic repetition of identical

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

Few people know that the cult filmmaker David Lynch began his career in the visual arts and has remained deeply committed to them ever since. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs,

Weiß bemalte, nackte Körper, die Gesichter vom Betrachter abgewendet, so fotografiert Nadav Kander (*1961 in Israel) die Modelle seiner jüngsten Serie. Die Accessoires sind spärlich, die Ästhetik ist reduziert, gleichwohl erscheint das Arrangement der meist üppigen Körper barock.

Goldblatt recherchiert und dokumentiert darin mit seiner Kamera die sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Dimensionen des Bergbaus in seiner südafrikanischen Heimat Randfontein.

Lee Friedlander is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander’s lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery. In Dressing Up, Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work.

This book, the first to pair the two, examines the work they produced during visits to Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.

New York-based photographer Mariana Cook is known for her character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye. Among her previous bestselling photobooks are Mathematicians, Faces of Science, Mothers and Sons and Fathers and Daughters.

“It might be said that the subject of Callahan’s photographs is photography, and that his world exists essentially as a formal problem.” John Szarkowski

Als "Nothing Personal", das gemeinsame Buchprojekt der Schulfreunde Richard Avedon und James Baldwin 1964 erschien, stellte es die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft des Publikums, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Widersprüche auszuhalten, auf eine zu harte Probe.

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA, in Los Angeles, has been home to three highly popular leather bars over the decades: the Shed, the Outcast, and the Gauntlett II. The Eagle LA, opened in 2005, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform, set forth by leather Eagle bars around the country.

Bibliophil und stimmungsvoll: das Architekturbuch über Architekturbücher
Projekte aus der Arbeit von Wiel Arets Architects, Fotografien von Bas Princen

“So photography says nothing, you see.” Loos could not adhere to such enormous skepticism concerning the photographic representability of his architecture, however, when a monograph of his buildings was to be published in 1931.

»Sie sehen also, die Photographie sagt nichts.« Eine so enorme Skepsis gegenüber der fotografischen Abbildbarkeit seiner Architektur konnte Adolf Loos allerdings nicht aufrechterhalten, als 1931 erstmals eine Monografie seiner Bauten erscheinen sollte.

Wolfgang Suschitzky (*1912) wächst in einer mehr dem Sozialismus als ihren jüdischen Wurzeln verbundenen Familie auf. Sein Vater ist Mitbegründer des Anzengruber Verlags und der ersten sozialdemokratischen Buchhandlung Wiens.

Wolfgang Suschitzky (* 1912) grew up in a family that was more connected to socialism than to its Jewish roots. His father is a co-founder of Anzengruber Verlag and the first social democratic bookstore in Vienna. Wolf Suschitzky received his photography training at the Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt.

A documentation of the traditional pilgrimage with carts of oxen and horses for the festival "La Colomba Blanca - La Virgen del Rocío" in El Rocío (near Almonte in Spain), photographed at Pentecost 2000.

Dieses kleine Büchlein beschäftigt sich mit Beginn der Kinofilmproduktion und stellt ein paar der wichtigsten Vertreter des Kurzfilm zum Ende des neunzehnten und Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts vor.

Traces of Autism is about an understanding of public space, which is seen as a confrontation with insecurity, as exposure, as vulnerability, and which rejects the use of the term ‘public’ for spaces that are actually more and more privatized and protected.

Die Arbeiten Florian Rossmaniths beinhalten sowohl planerische als auch spontane Momente und bewegen sich inhaltlich zwischen Alltagswahrnehmung, kunstgeschichtlichen Rückbezügen sowie bildanalytischen und rezeptionsästhetischen Fragestellungen.

Mit der Monographie gibt die Künstlerin erstmals einen umfassenden Einblick über ihre fotografische und filmischen Arbeiten.

Adrian Sauer ist bildender Künstler und Fotograf. In seinem bisherigen Werk befasst er sich mittels digital rekomponierter Fotografien gleichermaßen mit den Bedingungen und Folgen des Verschwindens der analogen Fotografie für die zeitgenössische Bildkultur.

Florian Rossmanith hat eine Fotoreihe mit Udo Samel gemacht.

"Used Future #8" shows the photograph of a poodle dog, made by Simon Haenni.

Photographs and texts by Libuše Jarcovjáková

Beiträge zu einem problematischen Verhältnis

Lacaton and Vassal’s principle of doubling space is echoed in the book’s treatment of photography: black-and-white exterior shots that run alongside the text form a dialogue with corresponding full-color photographs of each interior, gathered at the end of the book.

Die Publikation «Archäologie der Instabilität / Unearthed Foundations» von Christoph Brünggel ist gleichermassen Künstlerbuch und Werkdokumentation. In seiner vom Aargauer Kuratorium in der Reihe Primeur herausgegebenen Erstpublikation gibt der Künstler erstmals Einblick in seine Recherchen.

A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

Die hier erstmals in einer Auswahl abgedruckten Zeichnungen bilden einen Ausgangspunkt für die Installationen der Puppen und Videobeams, für die Oursler bekannt geworden ist.

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John Houck’s “Digital Guides to Photography” is a series of books that form the basis for the artist’s Aggregates series. In these books, Houck explores photography’s movement from chemical to coded.

Das Buch entwickelt den Begriff der »sexuellen Arbeit« an drei Beispielen.