01/12/2011

All Beauty Must Die (Silkscreen) | Patrícia Almeida & David Alexandre Guéniot

All Beauty Must Die (Silkscreen)
Patrícia Almeida & David Alexandre Guéniot
Photograph: Patrícia Almeida
Silkcreen on lumisilk paper (90g/m2)
64 x 80 cm
Ghost, 2011

The book collects multilingual comments left by anonymous visitors of the show “All Beauty Must Die” presented in 2010 at Museu Colecção Berardo. The exhibition included photographs, a video and posters with pop song lyrics and poetry of the English Romantic period, aiming to evoke an idyllic atmosphere inspired by the ideals of youth and nature.

(Book: http://stet-livros-fotografias.com/livros/all-beauty-must-die-patricia-almeida-david-alexandre-gueniot/?lang=en)

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_13.html

01/12/2011

All Beauty Must Die | Patrícia Almeida & David Alexandre Guéniot

All Beauty Must Die
Patrícia Almeida & David Alexandre Guéniot
84 pp | silkscreen (cover), riso and offset
19,5 x 24,5 cm
Ghost, 2011

‘All Beauty Must Die’ is a reference to the lyrics of Nick Cave’s ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’, a duet with Kylie Minogue released with Nick Cave’s 1996 record Murder Ballads, but also to John Keats’ Ode on Melancholy: “She dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must die”.
This book collects multilingual comments left by anonymous visitors of the show “All Beauty Must Die” presented in 2010 at Museu Colecção Berardo. The exhibition included photographs, a video and posters with pop song lyrics and poetry of the English Romantic period, aiming to evoke an idyllic atmosphere inspired by the ideals of youth and nature.
The intention was to create an indie book of sorts, referencing the world of fanzines, by using a set of highly contrasted black and white images that establish a dialogue with anonymous phrases, be they love messages, political slogans, random thoughts, quotes or testimonies.

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_5.html

01/12/2011

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness | Julian Germain

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness
Julian Germain
80 pages | 42 colour plates
23.5 cm x 28 cm
Hardcover with a full-colour printed cloth
MACK, 2011

In 2005 For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness was published to critical acclaim, selling out soon after it’s release. Germain’s warm and affectionate portrait of Charles Albert Lucian Snelling (Charlie) is now reprinted in a glowing new edition.

‘I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992.
He lived in a typical two up two down terraced house amongst many other two up two down terraced houses… It was yellow and orange. In that respect it was totally different from every other house on the street. Charlie was a simple, gentle, man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved colour and surrounded himself with colour. He loved his wife. Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living.’
Julian Germain

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/16-For-every-minute-you-are-angry-you-lose-sixty-seconds-of-happiness.html

01/11/2011

Redheaded Peckerwood | Christian Patterson

Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson
164 pages
19 cm x 24 cm
98 images including 3 inserts and a booklet
Printed paper over board
MACK, 2011

“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land”
Luc Sante

Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way.

From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate and reference the techniques of photojournalism, forensic photography, image appropriation, reenactment and documentary landscape photography. On a conceptual level, they deal with a charged landscape and play with a photographic representation and truth as the work deconstructs a pre-existing narrative.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/54-Redheaded-Peckerwood-signed-first-edition-copy-.html

01/11/2011

War Primer 2 | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

War Primer 2
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Limited Edition of 100 copies
100 pages
Original Bertolt Brecht hardback book (this edition published 1998) with text silkscreened into the book and 85 colour images tipped-in by hand
MACK,2011

War Primer 2 is a limited edition book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer.

The original is a collection of Brecht’s newspaper clippings, each accompanied by a four-line poem that he called Photo-epigrams. It was the culmination of almost three decades of intermittent activity. The title deliberately recalls the textbooks used to teach elementary school children how to read; Brecht’s book is a practical manual, demonstrating how to “read” or “translate” press photographs. Brecht was profoundly uneasy about the affirmative role played by the medium within the political economy of capitalism and referred to press photographs as heiroglyphics in need of decoding.

War Primer 2 is the belated sequel. While Brecht’s War Primer was concerned with images of the Second World War, War Primer 2 is concerned with the images of conflict generated by both sides of the so-called “War on Terror”.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/12-War_Primer_2.html

01/11/2011

White Noise | António Júlio Duarte

White Noise
António Júlio Duarte
78 pages | color
30 x 30 cm
Hardcover
Pierre von Kleist, 2011

António Júlio Duarte has been photographing casino’s lobbies in Macau for the last 10 years.

Shot at night, with a medium format camera and a flash, often in jetlagged mode, the lobbies became Duarte’s personal territory. The absurd luxury of the places combined with the strangeness of the objects, and the absence of human presence, creates a strong dreamlike feeling. We are led through a labyrinth, as if floating.

Thia work is both an important document about the little seen reality of Casino’s in Macau today, and a very personal reflection about East and West, about how to relate to the world through photography.

http://www.pierrevonkleist.com/product/white-noise-by-ant%C3%B3nio-j%C3%BAlio-duarte

01/11/2011

Things Here and Things Still to Come | José Pedro Cortes

Things Here and Things Still to Come
José Pedro Cortes
116 pages | color
24.5 x 31 cm
Hardcover
Pierre von Kleist, 2011

During nine months I lived in Tel Aviv. During this period I met four young Jewish women who were born in the USA. They had all decided, at the age of 18, to go to Israel to do the military service. After completing the required two years of service, they decided to stay and live in this idyllic Middle Eastern city.
José Pedro Cortes

The images of these four women, in their underclothes or partially nude, are interspersed with landscape and detailed views of the city – old cars, over grown palm trees, porticos, puddles of water.. Mixing color and black&white, hard flash and natural light, this book creates a sense of ambiguity placing the viewer in between the intimacy of the portraits and the deserted city of Tel Aviv.

http://www.pierrevonkleist.com/product/things-here-and-things-still-to-come-by-jos%C3%A9-pedro-cortes

01/10/2011

Oceanomania | Mark Dion

Oceanomania
Mark Dion
192 pages | 7 transparent printed inserts and printed endpapers
Numerous essays and extensive colour and black and white plates
22 cm x 30.4 cm
Foil embossed hardback with foil edges
MACK, 2011

Oceanomania investigates the evolution of our fascination with the sea, in time and space, design, literature and art, revealing how the uncanny and marvelous have inspired artistic research. Continuing his investigations as a naturalist, archaeologist and traveler, the American artist Mark Dion explored the collections of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to create a monumental curiosity cabinet and dived into the collections of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM) to present a major intervention at Villa Paloma, one of the NMNM’s exhibition spaces. The accompanying publication, Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas published by MACK and NMNM combines installation images from the exhibition, original artist imagery and essays from various writers exploring the different facets of the exploration of the seas and the challenges in exhibiting a marine world above sea level.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/10-Oceanomania-French-edition-.html

01/08/2011

Chromes | William Eggleston

Chromes
William Eggleston
728 pages
Steidl, 2011

William Eggleston’s standing as one of the masters of colour photography is widely acknowledged. But the gradual steps by which he transformed from an unknown into a leading artist are less well known. Steidl has undertaken tot race these steps in an ambitious series of publications. Before Color (Steidl, 2010) explored Eggleston’s revelatory early black and white images, while Chromes is an edit of more than 5,000 Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken from ten chronologically ordered binders found in a safe in the Eggleston Artistc Trust. This archive had once been used by John Szarkowski who selected the forty-eight images printed in Eggleston’s seminal book William Eggleston’s Guide, while the rest of the archive has remained almost entirely unpublished. This book presents Eggleston’s early Memphis imagery, his testing of colour and compositional strategies, and the development towards the ‘poetic snapshot’. In short, Chromes shows a master in the making.

http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Books/Chromes/0919354257.html

01/08/2011

Pontiac Gerry | Johansson

Pontiac
Gerry Johansson
160 pages | 111 duotone plates
17.5 cm x 24.5 cm
Clothbound hardcover with two tipped-in photographs
Mack,2011

Gerry Johansson’s sensitive and subtle photographs hint at human life through the occasional car or lone figure but for the most part they draw the reader’s eye to the simplistic architecture of a small American town. In singling out Pontiac, Johansson offers comment on more than the landscape, photographing a microcosm of the effects of the decline in the auto industry in Michigan. His images survey the landscape with a characteristic Swedish melancholy, echoing the new topographic photographers of the 1970s.

Pontiac marks the end of an eighteen year project by Johansson. In 1993, 1994 and 1996 he visited America, taking photographs on his travels from one small town to the next. This work was compiled published as Amerika in 1998. It was followed by a collection of photographs from his homeland, published under the title Sverige in 2005. Critical response led Johansson to narrow his camera’s eye to make Kvidinge, a portrait of a Swedish town, published in 2007. Finally he revisited America in 2010, traveling to Pontiac, Michigan, and this became the basis for his final piece in this series.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/8-Pontiac.html