Cyanotypes – Ruth Erdt & Eva Vuillemin

Self Portraits Ruth Erdt 16-22 years.
Self Portraits Eva Vuillemin 16-22 years.
Eva is Ruth’s daughter.
Cyanotype is one of the earliest photographic printing processes.
The specific blue colouring of the print is called “Berliner Blau”.
The images were made through exposure to sunlight on the street.

Idea: Ruth Erdt
Editing: Ruth Erdt, Eva Vuillemin, Benedikt Reichenbach
Graphic Design: Benedikt Reichenbach
Thanks to Urs Küenzi (Substitut Berlin) and Landis & Gyr (Kulturstiftung Zug)
Berlin 2011

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Tobias Zielony: Trona. Armpit of America

Tobias Zielony (*1973, lives in Berlin) has for many years been photographing young people in their given environments, mainly in the public space. He is attracted to the fringe areas of urban reality: the banlieues of French metropolises, the cities of Saxony-Anhalt that have gained a reputation as shrinking cities, or the desert city Trona outside Los Angeles. In such places social tensions, the lack of alternatives and prospects are strongly in evidence.

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Under Deconstruction. Libia Castro, Ólafur Ólafson. Sternberg Press

The publication by Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson on the occasion of the exhibition at the Icelandic pavilion at Venice Biennale 2011 is conceived as a first comprehensive overview / in depth analysis of more than ten years of their artistic practice—leading up to their most current works.

Four essays by internationally renowned writers approach Castro/Ólafsson’s work from different angles, while a conversation with the exhibition curator, Ellen Blumenstein, meanders through the book, takes up the artists own perspective on their work, and focuses on the production of the new projects while digging into recent social and political developments in Iceland.

Edited by Ellen Blumenstein
Texts by Maurizio Lazzarato, Susanne Leeb, Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Simon Sheikh
Conversation with the artists by Ellen Blumenstein
Design by jung + wenig
144 Pages / English

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Mad Marginal—Cahier #2: The Inadequate – Dora Garcia – Sternberg Press

Mad Marginal is a project started by artist Dora García in November 2009. Mad Marginal wants to research a form of artistic practice, using the tradition of antipsychiatric and anti-institutional movements as a prism to look at the work of artists who have either consciously chosen to remain outsiders or been defined as outsiders by others.

The publication appears in the form of cahiers. Mad Marginal—Cahier #2: The Inadequate is the second cahier, presented as the publication for the Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.

English / Spanish
432 Pages

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Quick #3. Erik van der Weijde. Ourpress Publishing

Quick magazine #3, Theory of Ruins, features work by Erik van der Weijde and a quote printed in both German and English from Jaques Derrida’s “Memoires of the Blind,” which ends:

“Ruin is, rather, this memory open like an eye, or like the hole in a bone socket that lets you see without showing you anything at all, anything of the all. This, for showing you nothing at all, nothing of the all.”

Editor: Arno Auer
Design: Franziska Nast / Arno Auer
First edition of 250, June 2011
2 colour stencil print

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The Pier – Nils Petter Löfstedt – Pierre von Kleist Editions

“If we take the liberty of doing things out of the ordinary, we can catch something we didn’t know was there. Some kind of creative power. Usually this is hidden but once in a while we can find it. However, this can be done only if we work on our own terms not having to consider the conventions.

A lot can be accomplished with two pairs of hands, without the need of a boss or money. This is a story that took place under a pier on the outskirts of Malmö between January and May in 2009.”

Nils Petter Löfstedt, 29, lives and works as a photographer in Malmö, Sweden.

Softcover | 72 pages | color and b&w
ISBN 978-972-99825-6-9
Edition of 750

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Stefan Kiełsznia: Ulica Nowa 3 – Ulrike Grossarth (Ed.) – Spector Books

This photography book is a fairly comprehensive collection of street photos that Stefan Kiełsznia took of the Jewish quarter of Lublin in the mid-1930s. Developed in cooperation with the Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN cultural centre in Lublin, the volume offers a survey of the photographic stock that has now been digitized as the Stefan Kiełsznia Digital Archive and will be accessible along with additional material at Teatr NN.

This publication was produced upon the initiative of its editor Ulrike Grossarth in the framework of the exhibtion ‘Fabrics from Lublin. Ulrike Grossarth: Contemporary Art and Stefan Kiełsznia: Historical Street Photography from Lublin’ at Kunsthaus Dresden from 11 June, 2010 to 19 September, 2010.

A cooperative project of Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst und Kunstfonds Sachsen / Dresden State Art Collections, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

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C Magazine #110 – Food

Issue 110 includes Mark Clintberg’s essay “Hungry Eyes: Feasting on Food Photography from elBulli and Beyond,” Nicole J. Caruth’s “Kitchen Studio: A Recipe for Disaster,” Leah Modigliani’s “Collaborating on Conceptual Art: An Aesthetics of the Impossible” and Swapnaa Tamhane’s “The Performative Space: Tracing the Roots of Performance-Based Work in India.” This issue also include an interview by Pandora Syperek with Fiona Kinsella and artist projects by Keesic Douglas and Aislinn Thomas. The reviews section includes writing about exhibitions by Karen Azoulay, Marcel Dzama, Jessica Eaton, Sean Martindale, John Monteith, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland and Diane Arbus, and Douglas Scholes.

56 pages, 29 x 21 cm.

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Zde Jsou Psi (Here Be Dogs) – Michal Nanoru (Ed.) – Yinachi

Zde Jsou Psi, translated into English as ‘Here Be Dogs’, is full of photos, drawings, graphics and articles about 32 Czech bands, compiled by dozens of contributors. Michal Nanoru edited the project from New York while Martina Overstreet produced it in Prague. The bands were selected by Nanoru, Overstreet and Marie Hladíková.

The bands covered include: Marius konvoj, Like She, Schwarzprior, 1a2v1, Midi Lidi, Kazety, Mateřídouška, Čokovoko, The Models, Poxxoxo, Indie Twins, Tvyks, Table, Eost, Prince of Tennis, Sporto, Magnetik, Dné, Fiordmoss, Dva, Please the Trees, Kill the Dandies!, Priessnitz, Scissorhands, Sunshine, Night, Root, Master’s Hammer, 518, Smack, WWW, Plastic People of the Universe.

262 pages
Czech / English text

D 23€

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Geoffroy de Bsoimenu

System Image

72 polaroids / USA 1993 – 1995

Published by RVB Books / Janvier

D 35€

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