FIFTY. Todd DosSantos
Posted in photography on January 6th, 2016Tags: Douglas Richard, Todd DosSantos
“For three years (2011-13), we have collected press clippings. The ‘Arab Spring’ at its peak; the arrival of the Troika (IMF, ECB, EU) in Greece, Portugal and Ireland; the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan; and a bit everywhere in Europe and the USA, citizen movements against austerity policies in favour of the bailout of the financial system. Far from these world events, yet affected by them, a family, ours, a photo album.
Gustavo is 5, 6, 7 years old. He learns to read and write. His friend Gaspar is 9, 10, 11. His body changes from child to small adult. The disease comes back, goes away and comes back anew, always in the summer, but surrounded by friends. ‘Banks are like cancer’ says a placard brandished during an “Occupy” protest movement in New York. A brutal metaphor spreading in someone’s body. We hesitate between staying in Portugal and trying our luck in France. As long as one of us still has a job, we stay.
This book is a facsimile of a photo album dedicated to our son and his friend, meant to be opened in 2030. It offers a journey across time, from an uncertain future to a past (our present) where our family pictures collide with those we get from newspapers. It’s a book to read, more than leaf through.” Patrícia Almeida and David-Alexandre Guéniot
A book by Patrícia Almeida and David-Alexandre Guéniot
98 Pages, 198 black and white pictures
Size: 27,5 x 40 cm
Hard cover
Print run: 200 copies
€43.00
Samopal’s first issue.
with works by:
Andrey Isakin
Eva Sterlyagova
Ivan Orlov
Kira Pievskaya
Lisa-Marie Manthey
Marta Pfeiffer
Misha Piterskiy
Nadya Zakharova
Oleg Borodin
Olga Timofeeva
Pavlik Kuznetsov
Petz Alyaev
Sasha Marshani
Svetlana Selezneva
€15.00
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An Archive of International crust punk music, Filipino anarchist zines, Black and white punk aesthetics, anti-system philosophies, A descent into illness, a discourse on recovery
Published by Hardworking, Goodlooking
€78.00
A debut monograph of Polaroid photographs taken 2005 – 2012 by Thora Dolven Balke.
Essay by Sam Thorne
Conversation with Tacita Dean, moderated by Gaby Hartel.
Designed by Young Professionals, NY
Self published
€34.00
DIDI Zine
In collaboration with GeoAIR Artist Residency Georgia, DIDI Zine is the result of a photography based workshop held by Moritz Freudenberg and Marius Land in Tbilisi, March 2015.
With works by: Tamara Bokuchava, Maroussia Ferry, Moritz Freudenberg, Qeta Gvinepadze, Lika Jalagania, Ana Jikia, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Marius Land, Lado Lomitashvili, Tika Nadareishvili
Thanks to: Nini Palavandishvili, Data Chigholashvili, Annie Daravashvili
€15.00
She Comes in Colors: a visual diary of love in thoughts
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In the summer of 2012 I met a girl. I took her picture.
We had a brief romance. She left home.
She Comes in Colors is a visual diary of love in thoughts.
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The first edition of 50 copies of my book was self published in 2013, it was part of my graduation at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands. The book has been nominated for the Unseen Dummy Award 2013 in Amsterdam and has been shown during the Photobook Show 2014 in Tokyo. The project has been exhibited in several
exhibitions across Europe.
The self published second edition of 500 copies has been a wonderful collaboration with Maciej Pestka from Magic Editions and Read That Image.
€24.00
Featuring:
Anne Collier
Helmut and Johanna Kandl
Ala Younis
Teresa Burga
Kolumne Column
Simon Baier
Matthias Reichelt
Guy Mannes-Abbott
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Cinenova Feminist
€16.00
You and me and everybody. Erik Steinbrecher. rakete.co + Motto Books.
Everybody is busy this Tuesday.
Size: 19 x 12
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-940524-40-2
€11.00
What’s wrong with redistribution? Wolfgang Tillmans. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Wolfgang Tillmans’ “truth study centre” became a fixed part of his exhibitions since he first showed a version of the multi-part tabletop installation in 2005. Often arising from local circumstances and current issues at the time of their creation, the “truth study centre” works mark an endeavour to create a clear view in ever more confusing times.
Tillmans observed the paradigm shift that defines politics today early on. The scope and complexity of this project become apparent for the first time through this book, the second we have published, after “manual” in 2007, dedicated to this set of works. Over 320 pages, printed using a high-resolution technique, Tillmans presents an alternative chronology of the present. Far exceeding his original and main medium of photography, he juxtaposes a variety of contrary opinions, statements and comparisons on recurring table formats. The dimensions of the wooden tables, which he designed himself, are not arbitrary: they are built using standard British door panels, 198 cm long, and with one of four different standard widths.
This book gives an overview, through lavish reproductions, of this new form of collage, in which picture, text and object “are only kept in place by their own weight.” An essay by Thomas McDonough, Professor for Art History at Birmingham University, New York, places Tillmans’ project within the context of twentieth-century collage, from Hannah Höch to Robert Rauschenberg.
This artist’s book, produced by Tillmans’ Berlin atelier, includes a Fresnel magnifying glass, making it possible to zoom in on the contents and read even the smallest of printed texts. The largest installation of “truth study centre” to date will be shown in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof beginning November 28, 2015.
€48.00