Komfort Mag #4

Featuring photos by Jiří Thýn, Johana Pošová, Dušan Tománek, Jiří Karásek, Radeq Brousil, Petra Ondřejková, Romana Drdová, Jana Šprinclová and Megan Cullen. Ilustrations are from Petra Josefína Stibitzová and Yulie Yakushová. Memorable interviews were conducted with Petr Všetečka, the architect who reconstructed the National Monument in Vítkov in Prague (interviewed by Dušan Tománek), and with Tomáš Vojáček, a forensic surgeon (interviewed by Ondřej Formánek a Luděk Staněk).

This issue of Komfort is also completely bilingual, written in both Czech and English languages.

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Alpine Star by Ron Jude

The source of the photographs in Alpine Star is the weekly newspaper from the artist’s hometown in Central Idaho. The poetic element of these images – that unnamed, abstract subtext found in every photograph – is inflated here through the process of subtle manipulation and nuanced sequencing. While offering a world of loss and isolation, the pictures also suggest the cross-pollination of personal history and collective memory.

Published by A-Jump Books.

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Svart Metall by Grant Willing

Grant Willing’s ongoing photographic series Svart Metall is a meditation on the ineffable qualities of an unsubtle musical subculture, Black Metal. Though its sonic qualities are challenging even for some metalheads, its Nordic atmospherics and paganistic themes are arguably evocative for a diverse range of artists. The photographs are allusive of the themes black metal culture treats, and presented in a surprisingly informal way—printed on bleached newsprint stock. On this ephemeral paper, the photographs retain a stately quality but gain a more disorienting sense.

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Modern Life of The Soul by Melanie Bonajo

Melanie Bonajo’s series of photographs Modern Life of The Soul, created in collaboration with Kinga Kielcynzska, make up this beautifully designed tabloid-format artist’s book. Depicting it’s characters in the depths of the polish woodland, the images are deep rooted in the idea of humankind’s return to nature. Through Bonajo’s recurring use of the body as part of obscure sculptures, the work is both haunting and beautiful and somehow gives a nod to religion along the way.

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Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death.
Curated by Maik Schlüter and featuring Jerry Berndt (USA), Laura Bielau (GER), David Deutsch (USA), Charles Gaines (USA), Caroline Hake (GER), Andreas Schulze (GER), Clare Strand (GB), Amy Patton (USA) and Marco Poloni (CH).

This book was published by Spector Books (Leipzig) on occasion of the exhibition Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death, May 29 – August 22, 2010, at Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Potsdam.

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Faund #9, FBCDN
Through a selection of finders presented in a printed album, Faund aims to highlight the value of internet-found images.

The guest of this ninth issue made a selection of unexpected and beautiful photos from the Facebooks servers. This new era of privacy exposes a huge amount of images. Among them valuable surprises can be found.

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The Reading of Time in the Text of Nature by Klaus Merkel

Photographer and artist Klaus Merkel continues to search for–and record in striking black-and-white photographs–structures in nature and architecture that, no matter where they are, exhibit overlapping patterns and configurations, significant deviations and parallels, and resonate in juxtaposition. In this extension of that program, he has turned his attention to stones, rock landscapes, as well as man made objects, such as temples, ruins and churches

Lars Müller Publishers

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Temporary Discomfort by Jules Spinatsch

Temporary Discomfort documents Davos, Genoa, New York and Evian/Geneva in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during the global economic summits. It combines different photographical genres: landscape photography, photojournalism and police photography, though here with the camera lens turned back at the security forces

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Cabinet Magazine #37 – Bubbles, Spring 2010

Including Wayne Koestenbaum on the figure of the bubble in the philosophy and praxis of Marx (Harpo), Jonathan Allen on the delicate art of the balloon, D. Graham Burnett on bubbles (fast), bubbles (hot), bubbles (fun), and more bubbles (metaphysical), Justin E. H. Smith on the loaf of life, a conversation about fizziness between mixologist Eben Klemm and food scientist David Arnold and recently discovered correspondence from aspiring balloonist Gordon Matta-Clark

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Ron Jude Postcards

Shot over the past fifteen years in places as culturally and geographically diverse as Italy and Louisiana, these photographs do more to foil the idea of travelogue than support it. Inverting the usual role of the “picture postcard”, these images favor the minutia of private experience over generalized representations of the well-known. Through pictures of deritus–the failed, the broken, and the lame–Jude is looking for something that echoes the texture of actual experience, and the small, hidden epiphanies that reside there

Slip-case containing 22 unbound colour postcards

Published by A-Jump Books

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