"Polaroid Portraits" is published following "Performing Light, a retrospective exhibition of Ulay that was on view from September 9 to October 22, 2000 in De Appel Foundation.

The Dutch photobook is internationally acclaimed for its close collaboration between photographer, printer, and designer. The current photobook boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that predates World War II.

Daily Weeding depicts Kuba Ryniewicz's everyday life in Newcastle. The British photographer of Polish origins gives us a glimpse into a number of intimate and public moments spent with his husband and closest friends, set against the familiar backdrop of his home and surrounding fields, sharing them with both poetry and humor. His photos are enhanced by a moving work of literary fiction written by playwright and novelist Yelena Moskovich and a postscript written by James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner Olivia Laing.

This book is a dynamic and generously illustrated survey of independent publications that are breathing new life into old media. While magazines such as Spin and The Face have disappeared from newsstands and mailboxes, non-traditional periodicals with names like Boneshaker, Lucky Peach, Anorak, WRAP, and Kinfolk are taking their places on shelves and coffee tables everywhere. Print is Dead. Long Live Print is an eye-opening look

Wien zählte bereits im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den internationalen Zentren für modernen Tanz. Das Buch, das die groß angelegte Ausstellung des Theatermuseums in Wien begleitet, verweist auf die Vielfalt der brodelnden Tanzszene bis in die 1930er Jahre, stellt aber immer wieder Zusammenhänge mit der Gegenwart her.

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

Undeniably one of the most influential innovations of the modern world, the car has changed not only the way we live, but also the way we look at the world around us. From formal, compositional device to highly desirable, photogenic object,

How do photographers select, order, and display their images? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture, The Lives of Documents ― Photography as Project prompts reflections on the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photography.

Dia Art Foundation commissioned Thomas Hirschhorn to build Gramsci Monument, an excessive outdoor sculpture that measured 8,000 square feet and was located on the grounds of Forest Houses,in New York (Bronx). On display for 77 days, with daily and weekly events organized by the artist, Gramsci Monument concluded Hirschhorn’s series of “monuments” dedicated to philosophers, which began in 1999.

Walker Evans’s Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of a family of white sharecroppers.

Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as a model in a range of costumes in invented situations, she plays with images created and popularized by mass media, popular culture, and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion, and Old Master paintings--they are all fair game.

See Hear Yoko captures the rich complexity of Yoko Ono-woman, artist, activist, wife and mother-from her days with John Lennon through the present, with intimate portraits by the legendary rock-and-roll photographer Bob Gruen, and words by Ono herself, edited from conversations with Jody Denberg, rock radio's "Voice of Austin, Texas." Conceived expressly for Yoko Ono as a gift between friends on the occasion of her eightieth birthday,

On the occasion of the exhibition "Julia Schmidt - Economies of Hygiene", Meyer Riegger, Berlin. October 6 - December 18, 2010

The physical form of the book explored with photographs of reflections, that are positioned with the line of symmetry aligned with the pages binding. The turning of the pages echoes and adds depth to the two dimensional plane of each photo. (ref. the pealing apart of ink blot paintings, Rorschach test cards). The reader is goaded to put stress on the intersection of pages, generating a morphologic change in the shape of the book, producing creases on the spine.

Einerseits - jemand muss es tun. Dokumentarische Fotografie der ukrainischen Gegenwart - schwarz-weiss, mit journalistischem Gestus, Stadt, Fashion, Öffentlichkeit und Architektur. In Kiev scheint die Sonne, junge Leute sitzen auf den Stufen unter Monumenten aus einer anderen Zeit und blättern in Lifestyle-Magazinen.

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.

In Text und Fotografie hinterfragt das Buch von Claire Laude anhand von Beispielen aus zwei Mittelmeerländern, Italien und Griechenland, unsere Beziehung zur Erde und den Begriff der Spuren und ihrer Beständigkeit in der Landschaft. Welche Spuren können die Geschichte und die Aktivitäten der Menschen in einer ländlichen Landschaft hinterlassen?

View India brings together recent works by Saumya Khandelwal, Selvaprakash Lakshmanan, Ritesh Uttamchandani, Ajit Bhadoriya, Apoorva Guptay, Venkatesh Peevee Perumal, Anoop Ray, Anisha Baid, Nihaal Faizal, Gayatri Ganju, Anushree Fadnavis, Arshad Hakim, Ram Krishna Ranjan, Chinar Shah, Vivek Mariappan, Sl Shanth Kumar, Cheena Kapoor, Vaibhav Bhardwaj and Chandan Gomes.

Thomas Ruff is one of the most important contemporary German photographers living today. Studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ruff experimented with large-format printing. This comprehensive book focuses on his photographic series from the past twenty years.

The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas.&;&;Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

Olivier Richon provides a detailed examination of Walker Evans’s now-iconic 1936 photograph Kitchen Corner; in doing so he reveals an unexpected set of visual and literary associations that lie beneath the surface.

Im Fokus dieser Publikation stehen die Fotoarbeiten von Aglaia Konrad und Armin Linke zu wegweisenden Hollein-Bauten der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte.

Der Bildband ist eine ausführliche fotokünstlerische Beschreibung des privaten Lebens- und Arbeitsraumes von Inge Morath in ihrem Wohnort in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA. Die SW-Fotoreportage folgt der Tradition der Dokumentation der Ateliers bedeutender Künstler:innen als wichtige Quelle ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit.

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

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Arbeit ist ein zentrales Thema der Künstlerin Katharina Gruzei. In der Serie Bodies of Work befasst sie sich mit Österreichs letzter Donau-Schiffswerft. Dort sind hochtechnologische maschinelle Fertigung und industrielle Handarbeit eng miteinander verzahnt.

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Inge Morath in diesem Jahr erscheint in der FOTOHOF>EDITION ein Doppelband von zwei selten gezeigten Fotoserien. Beide Bücher nehmen sich Themen im Werk von Inge Morath an, die nicht zum Mainstream ihrer Arbeit gehören, die aber eine ganz besondere Qualität besitzen.

Eine blecherne Taschenlampe mit einer runden Glaslinse und diesem kleinen Schalter, an dem immer wieder der Fingernagel hängenblieb. Eine Farbfilmdose von Agfa, die grobe, altmodische Küchenreibe (ich benutze sie immer noch) und vieles mehr… Dinge.

Cocoon or Carcass. Past or Future. Building the ruin. This edition pays close attention to the metaphorical structures and cultural crisis in South West Cornwall.

Plunder the silver crust. Fill the stained valleys. Deeper into the subterranean. The shocks, the rocks, the flash. Echoes of our old faith tearing loose the earth. Photographs from the Wheal Maid Copper Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, 2023.

Gehfotografen, literally “walking photographers”, were active on the streets of cities and tourist destinations across Europe between 1927 and 1935. This type of profession became increasingly popular with the Great Depression, when the 1929 collapse of the New York stock exchange led to an economic crisis throughout Europe. Unemployment and poverty eventually led to a civil war in 1934.

“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.

Selbstinszenierung, Selbstentblößung, Selbstauslöschung – das sind die Themen, die Michaela Moscouw (*1961) über drei Jahrzehnte kompromisslos, exzessiv und einprägsam bearbeitete. Bis Anfang der 1980er-Jahre malte die Wiener Künstlerin abstrakte Bilder, dann zerstörte sie ihr gesamtes Werk und filmte sich dabei. Damit wechselte sie das Medium und verwendete

Timo Huber, Gründungsmitglied der Architekturgruppen Zünd-Up und Salz der Erde, ist vom Verführungspotential und der Irritationskraft alltäglicher Bildwelten fasziniert; er kombiniert und verfremdet in seinen Fotomontagen auf analogem Weg gefundenes, mit dem Seziermesser bearbeitetes Bildmaterial zu überraschend neuen,

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

Bandra Sentimental, the new photography book on the block, documents style on the streets of Mumbai.
With a cast chosen from the city’s streets, their flamboyant styles intact, the book aims to showcase everyday life in the city. Commonplace to the Indian, sometimes shocking to an outsider, the fearless amalgamation of colour, fabric, pattern, design and cut, worn by men out and about, comes not from wanting to make a statement but a natural sensibility within.

In 2018, the Museum Villa Stuck presented a comprehensive retrospective with works by the goldsmith and silversmith Rudolf Bott. The book accompanying the exhibition is a 672-page monumental work. Far from a usual catalog with colorful illustrations, it is "thought in black and white" like the entire exhibition. With a 340-page photo report by Jörg Koopmann and Lene Harbo Pedersen, who photographed the objects across Europe at the lenders and in Bott's studio.

Bringing forth the silent voices in the history of photography, this publication highlights key aspects of image production and representation by four ‘minute camera’ practitioners in India: Bharat Bhushan Mahajan (Delhi), Teekam Chand Pahari and Surendar Kumar Pahari (Jaipur); and Kinshan Chand Hemlani (Pushkar).

Die großen, grotesken Fotoserien von Anna und Bernhard Blume sind heute wohlbekannt. In ihnen inszenieren die Künstler im dokumentarischen Gestus paranormale Situationen, die sich im Inneren einer „kleinbürgerlichen“ Welt oder in symbolisch besetzten Regionen deutscher Kunst (wie dem Schwarzwald) abspielen.

Lewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new possibilities for visual representation and the notion of childhood itself was in transition. In this lavishly illustrated book, Diane Waggoner offers

You ever read the back of a book and blah blah blah words and more words, and function. Poets depend on the emotional character of words. Manuals depend on the instructiveness of words. Yet words can be pronounced backwards or cut up and given new meaning, they can be looked at for their mathematical value, pondered over how they change in translation or seen as hiding messages within them.

»Von wunderbarer Klarheit« – mit diesen Worten beschrieb Friedrich Simony die Aussicht vom Gipfel des Dachsteins im Jahr 1847. Diesen Pionier der Alpenforschung und Geografie faszinierte

Unbekannte Dame in der Strahlenschutzabteilung, Pfütze, tanzendes Paar im Kostüm, Beschädigung einer Mülltonne, Verabschiedung eines Rentners, Bleiabschirmung, ausgebranntes Handschuhfach, Skorpion mit Mikrochip – das sind alles

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).

Philatelic Items documents 220 works produced over the last ten years by Lolly Batty. It includes an index showing the envelopes followed by a selection printed at actual-size. ⁣

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.

The Olympics – with their sense of historical urgency and unconditional trust in the future and nationalism, embodies a system that marks the modern confluence of capitalism and mass media by means of an unprecedented mastery of technology, the mass migration of people, and a hyper-mediated event culture. In “Beijing”, Morris plays with

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

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine. Published in October 2016 this issue features: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo

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,

Surreal arrangements of artifacts from skulls and teapots to fried eggs and dirty socks by Théo Mercier. Théo Mercier (born 1984) employs found objects in his photography and sculpture to subvert viewers’ expectations. His inaugural monograph reveals the impressive scope of his oeuvre.

We see women looking at art, everything an exhibition has to offer: paintings, sculptures, installations. If we’re women, then one could say they’re women looking at women looking at art.

“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

Created in Berlin around 15 years ago, this large-format collage book by Isa Genzken is both a personal diary and artistic manifesto. In it are portraits of the artist and her friends;

The book is composed of amateur photographs of women in various degrees of undress, which were enclosed with letters and circulated among couples to convey sexual proclivities and attractiveness, as a way of getting to know each other.

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.

Stranger In Polaroid features exclusive images by Otto Grokenberger, which he took during the production of a landmark of art-house cinema, Stranger Than Paradise (1984), written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

In his photo series, Asamoah shows us young men through time, finding contentment within the transitions of boyhood to adult-hood.

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.