Dear Herb. ECAL.

In October 2012, a group of 10 students from the Master Art Direction course at ECAL travelled to New York for a one week workshop at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. This publication is the result of interviews and photographic interpretations of the heritage of Herb Lubalin, with a specific focus on and around Eros Magazine.

Price: €12.00

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Fivehundred places. Jason Dodge (ed.).

New books by: Anna McDonald, Caroline Knox, Carl Phillips, Mary Ruefle, Matthew Zapruder, Heather Christle, Valzhyna Mort.

Fivehundred places is a press established by Jason Dodge in an attempt to bring new readers to some of the poets that have been so important to his thinking and working over the past decades.

With a single printing of 500 copies, each book will find itself in one of 500 places.

Each Fivehundred places book also features a Dead Scissor by Paul Elliman on its cover.

Price: €8.00

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Wicker Gayhouse 7. Jean-michel wicker. Septembre Editions

Invited to conceive the issue 7 of the journal, Jean-Michel Wicker put together a selection of xeroxed/scanned posters, flyers, e-flyers, cards, collages, drawings he previoulsy realized from 2006 to 2013, including collaborative works. The graphic design was conceived by Jean-Michel Wicker and Yusuf Etiman in Berlin.

29.7 x 42 cm
28 pages
Price: €25.00

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Mockup x 36. Pierre Fantys, François Rappo. ECAL.

This book published by ECAL brings together editorial projects and images produced by students under the leadership of Pierre Fantys and François Rappo, in charge of the ECAL Art Direction Master from 2009 to 2012, as well as students from the editorial design course by the Visual Communication Department (Bachelor Photography, Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design) and by the Master Art Direction). All the works included and the publication itself represent that last phase of the R&D project in Multimodal Publishing supported by the HES-SO strategic fund (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland).

Softcover, 1500 pages.
Language: French/English

Price: €35.00

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Quick #10: Fabian Reimann. Fabian Reimann. ourpress publishing.

10th edition of Quick Magazine by Fabian Reimann.
Softcover.

Price: €7.00

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mono.kultur #35: Marina Abramović

“I’ve been attacked and ridiculed all my life.”

Autumn 2013 / English / 15×20 cm / 48 Pages

Interview by David Levine
Introduction by Anna Saulwick
Artwork by Marina Abramović
Design by Nirit Binyamini & Gila Kaplan

Price: D €5 EU €6 WW €7

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Der Greif #7

Featuring 133 photos, 22 texts from 133 artists.

Language: German / English
Softcover, 96 pages.

Price: D €12,5

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Jesus Days: Slide show and publication presentation @ Motto Berlin. 22.11.2013.

Jesus Days, 1978 – 1983
Photographs by Greg Reynolds

“In the late 70s and early 80s, I was a closeted gay man in his 20s working as a campus minister for an evangelical Christian student organization called the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. I struggled with my homosexuality. I was overwhelmed by grief and saw no option other than to repress my desires for sex and love. In 1978, a missionary friend gave me a 35 mm Pentax K1000 that she didn’t use. I knew very little about photography, but I loved taking pictures. It wasn’t my intention to document the American evangelical movement, but rather to take photographs of the people and places that were important to me. Now I see that the camera allowed me to say in pictures what I could never say in words.” 

From 19.00, slide show begins at 19.45

Motto Berlin
im Hinterhof
Skalitzer Str. 64
Berlin 10997

The White Review No. 8. Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard (Eds.). The White Review.

July 2013

FEATURES:

Estate by China Miéville (Fiction)

Chris Kraus (Interview)

A Fictive Retrospective of the Bruce High Quality Foundation by Legacy Russell (Art)

Poems by John Ashbery, Jack Underwood and Sumana Roy (Poetry)

Claudia Wieser (Art)

The Croatian Fairy by Dubravka Ugrešić (tr. David Williams) (Essay)

Sophie Calle (Interview)

On Queensway Market, or How to Care about Things by Orlando Reade (Essay)

Untyping by Eley Williams (Fiction)

Deborah Levy (Interview)

Guy Gormley (Art)

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi by Eugene Ostashevsky (Poetry)

Barking from the Margins: On Écriture Féminine by Lauren Elkin (Essay)

The Lady of the House by Claire-Louise Bennett (Fiction)

Cover art by Ben Berlow

Language: English
Softcover, 176 pages.

Price: €16.99

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Kotzmann.  Alena Kotzmannová. Kant Books.

The means of photography that Alena Kotzmannová uses is derived much more from a dialogue between the photographer and viewer. The difference between the creator and the later consumer of the photographic image is, to a large degree, blurred in such a concept of photography, which is not uncommon in contemporary art. This in fact results from the very process of creating these pictures. Kotzmannová does not make a preconceived work – first she looks. Before she becomes the photographer that pushes the shutter-release button, she is a person who sees something that she decides to take a picture of. The appeal of her photography does not lie in a photojournalistic boast: I have been to places that you have not. No matter where her pictures come from, they feature everyday things lying in the backdrop of spectacular photogenic events. These are situations that can happen anywhere in the world. Kotzmannová does not show exclusive shots from exotic countries to her viewers, but instead provides the viewer with instructions how the viewer himself should proceed in viewing the world and what can be seen in it. Yes, the final photographic image and its aesthetic quality is also essential. But its meaning is, above all, the aforementioned strategy for viewing the world.

English / Czech
Hardcover
308 pages

€60.00

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