A, by Gregory Halpern.

In A, American photographer Gregory Halpern (born 1977) leads us on a ramble through the brilliant and ruined streets of the United States Rust Belt. The cast of characters, both human and animal, are portrayed with compassion and respect by this native son of Buffalo (now professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology). The cities he is drawn to— Baltimore, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit—share similar histories with his hometown, and in this post-apocalyptic springtime all forms of life emerge and run riot. On the heels of Halpern’s two previous books, Harvard Works Because We Do (a portrait of Harvard University through the eyes of the school’s service employees) and Omaha Sketchbook (a lyrical artist’s book portrait of the titular city), A continues the photographer’s investigations of locations and persons that fly under the radar.

Edited by Jason Fulford

D 38.25€

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(FC) Two Cabins by JB

This project based publication edited by Julie Ault documents and analyzes a body of work by the critically acclaimed filmmaker.

Benning reconstructed Henry David Thoreau’s and Ted Kaczynski’s iconic cabins, and uses these structures to reflect on utopian and dystopian versions of social isolation. Mounted on the walls of each cabin are copies of paintings by so-called outsider artists, also made by Benning. On the surface Benning’s two cabins are night and day, invoking contradictory sets of reclusive intentions and divergent paths leading back out. Deeper inquiry reveals the Thoreau / Kaczynski equation to be inspired. Benning’s engagement makes discernable a multitude of contacts between their motivations, beliefs, and experiences of seclusion. Benning’s armature artfully unfolds a complex articulation of practices of dissent, nonprescriptive ways of living, and the politics of solitude.

The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Julie Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from Thoreau’s and Kaczynski’s writings.

D 29.80 €

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Forests, Gardens & Joe’s

Mixing and matching an abandoned Story Book Forest, historical Victory Gardens and a bar called Joe’s, in this artist’s book Amy O’Neill unfurls middle-American stories to create a feral landscape in which childhood memories rule. The project is designed by O’Neill for the Centre culturel suisse in Paris.

Co-published with:
Centre Culturel Suisse. Paris.

Edition of 100.

D 24.80€

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LWTUA

“In the early hours of 18 May 1980, on the eve of a first tour in America, Ian Curtis, lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division, hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield. He had just viewed Werner Herzog’s film ‘Stroszek’ and listened to Iggy Pop’s ‘The Idiot’. At the time of his death, his health was failing as a result of the epilepsy and attempting to balance his musical ambitions with his marriage, which was foundering in the aftermath of his affair with journalist Annik Honoré. His wife Deborah found his body the next morning.”

The book LWTUA (Love Will Tear Us Apart) gathers found materials from the Internet: videos-stills from teenagers’ covers of the famous Joy Division song, photographs of fans on the Ian Curtis’s memorial stone at Macclesfield graveyard and comments of this song on forums. The book aims at enriching the iconographic relations between Pop-Rock music, Romantism and Youth.

D 12 €

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YYY #1.

YYY is an experimental photography zine.
For each issue two photographers are invited for a ride, to make a photographic conversation of sorts within the pages of a tabloid magazine. The printed publication is planned to be published on a biannual basis.
Issue 1 is made with Teemu Lehmusruusu and Shira Igell. YYY font and logo are made by Mikko Varakas.
YYY is curated, published and self-funded by Katri Naukkarinen.

D 5€

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Werker 2

Werker 2 addresses the museum by interrogating the relation of the ordinary man with History. From our collection of worker photographer publications and other documents depicting labour compiled in second-hand bookstores and antiquaries from Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and U.S.A, Werker 2 articulates a visual history of labour centered around the figure of the young worker.

D 20 €

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Interview #4 (DE). Mai 2012

Diesen Monat in INTERVIEW:

Die Schauspielerin Keira Knightley sieht für sich keine Chance, US-Präsidentin zu werden, und plädiert für Ahnungslosigkeit beim Kinobesuch. Im Gespräch mit David Cronenberg erzählt sie vom Dreh zu ihrem neuen Film „Anna Karenina“, was der Filmemacher sich mit wachsender Eifersucht anhört: „Ich kann die Vorstellung, dass du mit anderen Regisseuren arbeitest, nur schwer ertragen.“

Die neue Documenta-Leiterin Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev fordert im Gespräch mit der Hundetrainerin Maike Maja Nowak ein Wahlrecht für Hunde. Die Filmproduzentin Minu Barati spricht mit Katja Riemann über ihren Flötenunterricht auf der Waldorfschule. Und die Musikerin Lydia Lunch erklärt ihrem Kollegen Alec Empire, dass sie sich wie ein schwuler Trucker fühlt.

Der Rolling-Stones-Gitarrist Ronnie Wood erzählt Naomi Campbell, dass er erst im Entzug gelernt hat, wie man Wäsche wäscht. Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough berichtet seinem alten Freund Joey McIntyre von den New Kids On The Block, wie glücklich er war, als ihm ein Fan in den Schritt gegriffen habe – es sei der Rock’n’Roll-Moment seiner Karriere gewesen. Ein ganz anderes Erlebnis hatte beim Künstler Martin Eder schwer wiegende Folgen: Wie er dem Kurator Thomas Girst erklärt, schlug ein Meteorit in seinem Garten ein.

Die Jungs aus der MTV-Serie „Jersey Shore“ haben sich von Terry Richardson mit dem israelischen Supermodel Bar Refaeli fotografieren lassen. Schauspielerin Jessica Alba erzählt Regisseur Robert Rodriguez von ihrem neuen Leben als Chefin eines Vertriebs für umweltfreundliche Baby- und Haushaltsprodukte. Und die Sängerin Norah Jones erklärt, dass sie ihr Hit-Album „Come Away With Me“ gern vom Markt genommen hätte.

D 6 €

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Lick Creek Line

Ron Jude’s new book, Lick Creek Line, extends and amplifies his ongoing fascination with the vagaries of photographic empiricism, and the gray area between documentation and fiction. In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Jude follows the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho in the Western United States. Through converging pictures of landscapes, architecture, an encroaching resort community, and the solitary, secretive process of trapping pine marten for their pelts, Lick Creek Line underscores the murky and culturally arbitrary nature of moral critique.

With an undercurrent of mystery and melancholy that echoes Jude’s previous two books about his childhood home of Central Idaho, Lick Creek Line serves as the lynchpin in a multi-faceted, three-part look at the incomprehensibility of self and place through photographic narrative. While Alpine Star functioned as a fictitious sociological archive, and Emmett explored the muddy waters of memory and autobiography,Lick Creek Line finds its tenor through the sleight-of-hand structure of a traditional photo essay.

Published by Mack, 2012
With a newspaper booklet featuring an accompanying essay
by Nicholas Muellner entitled No Such Place

D 35€

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Perceiving Something Different After Something Significant Although Things Remain The Same.

Published by Lugemik, 2012.
Edition of 200.
Includes an essay by Miklos Gaál.
Designed by Indrek Sirkel.

D 15€

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In Vicinity

The photographic series In Vicinity depicts new suburban development areas near Tallinn, Estonia. Shot entirely within a 5-kilometer radius of where I grew up I have tried to document the results of the vast change from former agricultural farming lands to new housing developments in the 2000s. I believe that upon close inspection this deformed landscape can reveal something essential about the culture that produces the desire to live this way. The recent economic downfall has, of course, left some peoples’ desires unfulfilled.

Published by Lugemik, 2011.
Text by Mari Laanemets.
Designed by Indrek Sirkel.
Edition of 300.

D 15€

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