Fleeting by Tuukka Kaila
4/4 Offset print with 2/0 dust jacket, staple bound
Design: Indrek Sirkel & Jan Tomson
Published by Lugemik
D 10€
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The Concept of Non-Photography – Francois Laruelle
Myriads of negatives tell of the world, speaking among themselves, constituting a vast conversation, filling a photosphere that is located nowhere. But one single photo is enough to express the real that all photographers aspire one day to capture, without ever quite succeeding in doing so. Nevertheless, this real cohabits intimately with negatives, with clichés as embedded in our lives as they are imperceptible. Photographs are the thousand flat facets of an ungraspable identity that only shines – and sometimes very faintly – through something else. What more is there to a photo than a curious and prurient glance? And yet it is also a fascinating secret.
The Concept of Non-Photography develops a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy and art, and introduces the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle’s ‘non-philosophy’.
In English and French.
D 18€
Komfort Mag #6
Komfort on the trail. A precisely executed deduction, direct evidence and the subsequent cross examination lead to a confession. The upcoming summer issue of the visual magazine Komfort will bring you a crime-themed photo series by Michal Šeba, the author of a successful exhibition at the Prague Rudolfinum; photos of confiscated objects by Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer; the trauma of Czech detectives, dealing with a real and unsolved mystery of the mass murderer Hubert Pilčík will be covered in a picture reconstruction by Michal Adamovský. The project Selection, where Dominik Hejtmánek and František Polák collect anonymous photographs from private archives and work with the nostalgic energy of this medium, will be presented in the curatorial selection of Václav Jirásek. Scenes from the Diary of the Maid will be provided by Petra Steinerová, and everything will be accompanied by prose from the tough school of Jan Čumlivský.
Language: English / Czech
D 11.50€
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der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis, issue e like “Eis” (ice), Summer 2011
“der:die:das is a mono thematic magazine based in Zurich. It draws its inspiration from objects of everyday life. Our relationship with the mundane is put to question and deconstructed through the investigation of objects, ideas and stories. The familiar is staged in an unfamiliar way while the alien in the usual is discovered.”
der:die:das is published every sixth month in German with an English translation.
Contributors “der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis”:
Francis Alÿs, Florian Ammann, Nicole Bachmann, Big Zis, Michael Bodenmanna, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Etzensperger, Helve & Christian, Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Véronique Hoegger, Michael Hunziker, Stefan Jäggi, Alban Kakulya, Aleli Leal, Andreas Lutz, Jon Mathiey, Melanie Matthieu, Irving Penn, Hans-Ruedi Rohrer, Barbara Signer, Remo Stoller, Gabriela Weidmann
D 12€
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Güterzug # 4 – Summer/ 11
Similia similibus solvuntur.
Heat Haze! 64 pages of Taurus Sounds, Bench Prey, Heavy Metal, Track Ballast,
Worker Slaps, Nerd Talk and Campfire Tales from The Freight Depression.
Edition of 100
Published by Beerbird Press
D 6€
no skateboarding – Mathias Fennetaux
This is the story of a French skater and photographer who one day got it into his head to meet and make portraits of all the skateboarders that had influenced him and his generation. This is the story of over a decade of trips to the US to complete the project. The story of seventy encounters with men who shaped modern skateboarding in the 90’s; that is during the period when the sport, no longer confined to a small clique of aficionados, barged into youth culture influencing its aesthetics, its music, its fashion and its imagery. It is the story of seventy photos taken with the same square-format camera as an exercise in style on the portrait genre; seventy sittings that all followed the same basic principles and resulted in as many different portraits.
Mathias Fennetaux grew up in Paris in the 80’s. He has been an independent photographer for over 20 years. His work, which centers on the skate/surf culture, its lifestyle and its fashion, has been deeply influential in shaping the visual culture of the French and European scenes. Splitting his time between personal art projects and advertising campaigns for all the major board sports companies, he lives and works in Biarritz, France.
D 60€
Lotto Magazin und das Spiel ums Ganze – 1 aus 6
There is an idea. It says: human identity consists of six different zones which fit together as an entity. Every individual human being tries its best to keep these different areas of identity stable and firm. If one fails, the loss of identity is inevitable. The six zones mentioned consist of: a soundly relationship to other people, an emotional connection to different places, a mental association with objects and things, an integretion in certain organisations and communities, a well-balanced relation to power and obsession and last a dynamic definition of ideals: ideas in a value system. And this is what the first issue is all about. The „idea“ in a sense of a discourse about humanistic values is looked into by as many different angles, grades of abstraction and artistic interpretations as possible. Aspects like religion, philosophy, devotion and avocation, morality and ethics, science and politics are considered within this context as well. And each little part of the human constitution which is thereby explored and reckoned from another point of view helps us to find our complete identity and stability as an individual and within human society.
Editor-in-Chief: Matthias Straub
Art Direction: Wessinger und Peng
Photography Editor: David Späth
D 10€
Le Cercle – Benjamin Deberdt/ Mark Gonzales
In 2009, Mark Gonzales revisited his project the ‘Circle Board’ – a sequence of nine skateboards joined end to end to form a complete loop. Benjamin Deberdt photographed Mark riding his creation before dawn in front of the Eiffel Tower producing enigmatic grainy black and white prints. These photographs were then shipped to New York City and drawn directly upon by Mark in his idiosyncratic style. His poetry, familiar characters and some new themes can be seen, much of these inspired by the photos themselves and the city of Paris.
The publication is a limited run artist book conceived by the artists and Izrock Pressings. Including a mix of 4-colour cover and 2 colour Risograph printing throughout the printing is by bespoke press Blood and Thunder in Sydney, Australia.
200mm wide x 255mm high
Perfect bound with belly band around cover
4 colour cover and inside cover 200gsm
2 colour inside black + blue or fluro pink 140gsm paper
52 pages
Risograph print
Edition of 500
Published by Izrock Pressings
D 30€
Nero No.26 – Spring/Summer 2011
NERO is a quarterly magazine dealing with contemporary culture. Created in 2004, it has a circulation of 60.000 copies and is distributed widely in Europe and the US. The team behind NERO also works in curating, art direction and production of contemporary art events and exhibitions. The publishing department, under the name Produzioni NERO, works in the production of artist’s editions, alongside catalogues and books commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections.
Content:
WIKI DIARY pt.2, POLITICS AND THE AVANT-GARDE, THE INFINITE CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 HEAD-HUNTERS, TOPOLOGIES OF CULTURE(S) ON THE SEMIOTICS OF DRY STONE WALLS, TROVATELLI, A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD, THE MEANING OF MY AVANT-GARDE HILLBILLY AND BLUES MUSIC, CHÈRE STURTEVANT, COMPOSITES, SEE YOU AT PART TWO, WORKS THAT COULD BE MINE & WORKS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIN…
Cover by Adou
Special Project by Josh Smith
D 10€
Irene – Roswitha Hecke – Edition Patrick Frey
Roswitha Hecke’s photo book Liebes Leben (Love Life) about the Zurich artist-muse and prostitute, Irene, also called “Lady Shiva,” was published for the first time in 1978. It became both a cult book and an international success. Reprinted many times and translated into several languages, it is finally available again. The new, revised volume put out by Edition Patrick Frey presents photos that have never before been published. It is through the director Werner Schroeter that Roswitha Hecke met Irene. Irene, a secret star of Zurich’s Bohème at that time, worked as a prostitute until her tragic accidental death. For three weeks Hecke photographed her daily routine in Zurich and accompanied her to Rome where Irene always celebrated her birthday. The result was a subtle and strong portrait of a woman, both beautiful and confident, with an unrivaled eroticism and proud elegance. The photos, a mix of choreographed and documentary work, capture an unusual immediacy and presence.
“Irene wanted to be pretty, to be a woman, to be free. She was direct and moody, like a child. She loved a flirt more than marriage. Tension more than harmony. Longing more than satisfaction. And distance more than contact. She lived her life according to this, come what may.” (Roswitha Hecke)
With a Text by Roswitha Hecke in German and English
Graphic Design: Tania Prill / Alberto Vieceli
D 48€
