Higher Arc #1

The inaugural issue of Higher Arc magazine includes:

accuracy, archives, art, big names/no names, clumsiness, collating, conflict, conspiracy, dialogue, editing, experiments, knowledge, literature, lectures, new sincerity, old jokes, projects, reading, TIME, the hand, transcription, writing…

Akiko Watanabe, Alasdair McLuckie, Andrew Murray, Anna Heyward, Andrew Liversidge, Bill Peit, BLESS, Chris Barton, ffiXXed, Gian Manik, HIMAA, John Kleckner, Lindsay August-Salazar, Manuel Buerger, Matthew Griffin, Martin Bell, Mieke Chew, Miles Allinson, Misha Hollenbach, Nicholas Ashby, Pat Foster and Jen Berean, Th. Baldishwyler, Thomas Jeppe, Tim Hillier, Tin & Ed, TONK, Tom Ellard, William Heyward.

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The Kingsboro Press Issue 7Buy

JFL: WHAT DOES “WHY” MEAN? . Octavian Esanu . J&L

Hilarious and profound. This book has so many layers of meaning that you can read it every day for the rest of your life. In 2001, while residing at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, artist and curator Octavian Esanu read hundreds of interviews and essays by artists and art critics. He then formed a new text out of questions about art, that he culled from his readings. Each question is duly footnoted. Originally published in 2002 in Germany by Edition Solitude, JFL: What Does “Why” Mean? is now available in North America, re-typeset and printed by J&L.

Octavian Esanu is a Moldovan artist and a Ph.D Candidate at Duke University.

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Sunsets & Other Colour Photographs . Ann Woo . Schnauzer Publications

Ann Woo is a photographer based in Hong Kong. “Sunsets & Other Colour Photographs” features a small collection of the artists work with a focus on her “Sunsets” series. For this project, Ann created various colour fields out of a single negative; which was originally an image of the sun setting that developed as a pure tonal gradient. The front and back covers represent the possible environments that could surround these surreal sunsets and also show the viewer how diverse Ann’s practice is. Please visit Ann’s website to learn more about her; http://annwoo.com.

30,5 x 23 cm, 6 pages, tri-fold, 8 colour photographs, 500 copies
ISBN 978-0-9813947-1-8

D 8.50 €

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GOLDEN PALMS . Ed Panar . J&L

Golden Palms is a collection of Ed Panar’s photographs of Los Angeles, where he lived for two years without a car. The cumulative effect is a subtly hilarious and beautiful walking tour through generic back streets, showing us a side of contemporary LA that most people speed by. Includes an interview with Ed and Charlotte Cotton.

Ed Panar is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Cranbrook Academy of Art. In addition to his straight photography, Panar creates video art and poetry as his guardian angel alter-ego, Johnny B. Smooth, with collaborator the B. Dazzler. He has also edited projects for the London based Tomato Workshops. Golden Palms is one piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is Ed Panar. Taken in the context of Panar’s various other artistic endeavors, Golden Palms reveals an educated eye with a sensitivity to personality and humor. Ed received a 2007 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A Pennsylvania native, Ed lives and works in Pittsburgh.

Charlotte Cotton is curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Previously, she was head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, and a curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

English
with an interview with Charlotte Cotton
96 pages, full color, hardcover, 10 ” x 8″, limited edition of 1000
ISBN-10: 0-9746908-6-4

D 36 €

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Abstraction Mask . Ingo Mittelstaedt . our press

Abstraction Mask is published on the occasion Blitzlicht 2:
Ingo Mittelstaedt
“Neue Ordnung”
7. – 30.Mai 2010

2 colour stencil print

D 8 €

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Above Below . Kasane Nogawa . Gottlund Verlag

The photographs in Above Below move through the Japanese wilderness with grace as one season fades into the next. They document the experience of living outdoors and mountaineering from Nogawa’s perspective. A perspective that seems to float alongside her fellow trekkers, not entirely on the ground but never out of reach.

Four color digitally printed.
Letterpress printed raw bookcloth cover.
9.25 x 11.75 inches.
40 pages with center gate fold.
Hand sewn binding.
ISBN: 978-0-9816855-9-5
Edition of 250

D 19 €

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Cardinal Pölätüo . Stefan Themerson . Gaberbocchus

Cardinal Pölätüo is the biography of Guillaume Appollinaire’s anonymous father, who turns out to be an ecclesiastic with a murderous interest in modernist poetry, a faith based on science, and a dreamlife so frankly obscene that only a dictionary of Freudian symbols can explain its innocence.

English
184 pages
ISBN 0825470517

D 15 €

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Fotograf #17: Amateur Photography

“Amateurism, the theme of this issue, is a phenomenon that has been tied to photography not from the medium’s very beginning, but rather from the period when taking photographs became accessible to a broader range of social classes. At the start, photography was an exclusive, very demanding process (both operationally and cost-wise) that was however gradually simplified. Over time a business element entered into the process: sellers not just of cameras, but also of photo materials, chemicals, etc. had an interest in the maximum expansion of the market and thus in the gradual simplification of process. The result of this effort was the gradual permeation of photography into a wide array of layers of society.” – Pavel Baňka, Editorial

Czech/English
110 Pages
ISBN: 9-771213961006

D 16€

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The Opening Merlin Carpenter

With texts by Caroline Busta, George Baker

This book presents the work of London-based artist Merlin Carpenter. With essays by critic Caroline Busta and art historian George Baker, the book represents the final part of a series of exhibitions entitled, The Opening. These exhibitions were marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings. Hundreds of photos of these opening events offer a fascinating view of the art world from 2007 to 2009. The paintings by the artist are also reproduced, as are numerous gallery invitations announcing Carpenter’s referential, at times irreverent, politically-charged painting actions.

August 2011, English
21 x 27 cm, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-60-3

D € 28

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