Re-Framed

Re-Framed

Marc Hom

Part museum experiment, part documentary book project: Re-Framed shows the work of famed photographer Marc Hom in a whole new light. In this combined indoor/outdoor exhibition, viewers engage with the medium of portrait photography via the juxtaposition of a controlled classical indoor show with sculpture-like eleven-foot- tall photographs displayed and left exposed outdoors in the open air. This creates a new way to experience photography in an ever-evolving environment, while discovering oversized, larger-than-life pieces amidst the green lawn and lakeshore behind the museum building. Hom’s outdoor studio portraits, displayed in flexible three-meter-high frames, are vulnerable to elements that change the viewing experience: literally, the wind and weather. 

Specifications - Hardcover. 160 pages. 23,5 x 30 cm

 
CROWBAR HOTEL

June 2024
Second Edition

The First Edition was published in November 2019.
This edition also includes new content from 2020 - 2024.

Crowbar Hotel: Live From CDCR  is the culmination of contraband smartphone photos taken in prison by incarcerated Bloods and Crips gang members. Photos and videos were sent in by inmates, with content found by following their social media accounts. Most of the content was created between 2016 and 2019 from different CDCR state prisons in California, such as Lancaster, California City, Corcoran, Calipatria, and other facilities. The incarcerated depicted serve sentences varying from minimum to maximum, in security level one to level four.

Young gangbangers ready to prove themselves and prison-hardened gangsters that have done twenty years and counting.

The book is a visual anthropological documentation of the secret smartphone activity of Bloods and Crips gang members locked up in California state prisons; who also represent the majority of (online active) inmates.

The content includes satellite photos of CDCR prison facilities, portraits, and video stills of inmates tattooing, working out, and cooking inside their cells. 

Specifications - Softcover (Thread Sewn). 324 pages. Dimensions: 22 x 17 cm

 
Ultra Violent

April 2024
Third Edition 

The First Edition was published in December 2021
The Second Edition was published in June 2022

Ultra Violent is a visual study that focuses on the appearance and behavior of diehard football club fans, known as Ultras and Casuals.

Men join these groups and riot for fun because it’s an instant way to feel they’re connected to a community. The antisocial kick is like doing drugs: bad for you but addictive. Violence produces endorphins and lets their adrenaline flow. It’s like sex – you live in the moment.

This publication comprises low-resolution grayscale images, reframed and cut to create a new, first-person perspective of the lifestyles of football fanatics from the streets to the stands.

When you quickly flip through this book, it hardly differs from zapping through hundreds of news channels or scrolling through your timeline on social media. The enormous number of (horrific) images we see every day, unsolicited, makes us realize less and less what we are actually looking at. We cannot (and do not want to) close ourselves off from our contemporary, violent visual culture. The author used hardcore football culture to study this.

Specifications - Hardcover. 100 pages. Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm

 
The Man Behind the Myth
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Death and disaster (Maurice Blanchot: Excerpts from The writing of the disaster). Fame and death (Mathilde Helnæs: Images of fame). The indefinite art of Andy Warhol (Toke Lykkeberg: No key, no prison, how Andy Warhol likes the world). Warhol the artist (Blake Gopnik: In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes - Andy Warhol (or very possibly not). Glenn O'Brien: Excerpts from Interview magazine June 1977, Andy Warhol). Warhol the man (Judith Butler: Excerpts from Bodies that matter - on the discursive limits of "sex". David Bowie: Andy Warhol : from the album Hunky Dory. Jørgen Leth: Excerpts from Mine helte). Sexuality and religion (José Carlos Diaz: Intimately Warhol. Adelaide Mena: Excerpts from Pop artist, provocateur, catholic, who was Andy Warhol? Excerpt from The Andy Warhol diaries). Obituaries

Specifications - Hardcover. 164 pages.

 
Me and My Brother
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Me and My Brother was Robert Frank’s first feature length film, completed and first shown in 1968 at the Venice Film Festival. Everything which had defined Frank’s art up to that point turns up in this film – the look at America “from the outside”, the poetic libertinage of the Beats, the marginal in a central role. It celebrates the return of the poetic essay as assemblage, the affirmation of the underground as a wild cinematic analysis in the form of a collage, and skillfully weaves together opposites, plays counterfeits against the authentic, pornography against poetry, acting against being, Beat cynicism against hippie romanticism, monochrome against colored. The story contains bizarre twists and turns, and appears to be a rather artless-film-within-a-film being shown at a rundown movie theater. This previously unpublished book includes stills and dialogue from Me and My Brother, together with a DVD of the re-edited 85 minute film.

Specifications - Softcover. 56 pages. Measurement: 25 ×32.5 cm

 
Verkehrte Welt- Topsy-Turvy World
Sale 200 kr 100 kr

A multistoried apartment building. Its plaster is grayish beige and exudes a kind of petit-bourgeois tristesse; it has the requisite carpeted balcony railings, the lone flower box, even the deckchair is there. A familiar view. It is only on second glance that we see that something is wrong. All of the balcony doors lead to nowhere, and in turn, the balconies themselves cannot be accessed.

German photographer Frank Kunert (*1963 in Frankfurt/Main) has not uncovered any sort of architectural scandal. With Balcony is one of the works that sensitively and enigmatically turn familiar narrative contexts upside down and question reality itself. Far from being simply photographic satire, Kunert’s miniatures give three-dimensional form to puns on thoughts and words, making them tangible in the truest sense of the word. Kunert spends weeks constructing his model sets down to the smallest detail and then photographs them in his studio—in the process, creating the antithesis of worn and hackneyed concepts and ideas.

Specifications - Hardcover. 72 pages. Measurement: 22.5 × 22.5cm

 
Vortigern's Machine
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Vortigern's Machine

James Jarvis, Russell Waterman

For the past 8 years British illustrator James Jarvis has been creating three-dimensional casts of characters for the Silas, World of Pain and In-Crowd plastic toy series. Now, inspired by classic cartoons like Tintin and Asterix, he introduces us to a set of new characters in storybook form. Vortigern s Machine is a new Jarvis universe full of psychedelic adventures, mystical insights and much magic. The story sees the adventures of two 12-year-old friends who, when faced with the problems of their 21st century existence, seek the help and guidance of their friend and mentor, Mr Vortigern. Vortigern is a gentleman of great wisdom who lives in a large Victorian house together with his giant orange cat. He is also the owner of a magic slide machine which opens the way into alternative dimensions and mysterious, fantastical worlds. The two friends venture forth, into these magical light projections, and in their quest to the answer to one of life s great unanswered questions, they encounter many new characters including explorers, hippies, a giant angry gorilla, mystical monks and a troll called Kevin. Somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and Lord of the Rings, with a twist of eccentric English humour, Vortigern's Machine will cement James Jarvis's universal appeal. Story by Russell Waterman

Specifications - 48 pages. Measurement: 21 × 29cm

 
Vitamin PH
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Vitamin PH

Phaidon

Photography continues to be a central part of international artistic practice. Over the past ten years it has experienced radical changes, in part due to the rise of digital technologies. Photography is now often engaged in by artists who are not just printing in a darkroom, but using the medium as a single aspect of a larger ouvre, as one of several media under exploration.Vitamin Ph focuses on diverse global developments in 'art' photography through the work of 121 contemporary artists, who were nominated by 78 international critics, curators and artists. These selections will be accompanied by a 5000 word introductory text by TJ Demos, aiming to explore ideas relevant to contemporary photography with reference to the works included in the book. In addition, the work of each photographer/artist will be introduced by a short commissioned text of approximately 500 words. Similar in concept, scope and structure to Vitamin P and Vitamin DVitamin Ph presents, in A to Z order, artists who have emerged, or in some instances re-emerged, in the last five years using the medium of photography.

Specifications - Hardcover. 352 pages

 
Loretta Lux
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Loretta Lux

aperture foundation

Though the sense of realism in German photographer Loretta Lux's striking portraits of children remains eerily intact, Lux does not strive to create faithful photographic representations of her young subjects. Instead, each image–invariably comprised of a lone child in a sparse landscape–is painstakingly composed and manipulated to create psychically charged explorations of the nature of childhood and the process of self-discovery.

Originally trained as a painter, Lux continues to draw influence from paintings by Old Masters such as Velasquez, Goya, and Runge. This influence is especially apparent in Lux's compositions. After carefully choosing the models, costumes, and backdrops–sometimes using her own paintings–she digitally combines and enhances each element to form meticulously structured tableaux. The consistently forlorn expressions of her models combined with the hyperreality of the image create portraits that transcend their subjects and remind us that childhood is as chaotic and multidimensional as any other part of life.

Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany in 1969 and currently lives and works in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited extensively and is included in several collections in Europe and the United States, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Norton Museum of Art, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, Artothek Munich, Photo Museum Munich, and Fotomuseum Den Haag.

Specifications - Hardcover. 96 pages. Measurement: 31 × 27cm

 
Massin
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Massin

Phaidon

Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugène Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one of the key exponents in the development of post-war graphic design. Wolff charts Massin's wide-ranging career with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning THE BALD PRIMA DONNA (1964) and LETTER AND IMAGE (1970). Wolff carried out her research in close collaboration with Massin, gaining unrivaled access to the Massin collection in Chartres as well as the designer's personal archives. MASSIN includes preparatory sketches, letters, and finished works, photographed especially for this book.

Specifications - Hardcover. 216 pages.

 
Mean-While Now
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Mean-While Now

Space Poetry

"Ebbe Stub Wittrup har lavet en ny fotobog i 3 afsnit. Cool og psykedelisk og cool igen"

Specifications -
Hardcover. 80
pages. Measurement: 23 × 30.5cm

 
Simply contemporary
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Simply contemporary

Thames & Hudson

The renowned photographer Solvi dos Santos has travelled all over the world to photograph the homes in this new interiors book, which is packed with homes that have been chosen for their unique style, lovingly restored by their owners, who have repaired, refurbished and recycled the existing materials. It will be of immense appeal to designers, travellers and anyone interested in photography and interiors.

Specifications - Hardcover. 192 pages. Measurement: 25 × 28cm

 
Robert Montgomery
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The lyrical and melancholy works of Robert Montgomery (b. Chapelhall, 1972; lives and works in London) portray the raw wounds of the capitalist society. His gaze is informed by profound skepticism about modernity and its blind progress, but he also believes in the individual’s ability to offer resistance. His texts render his reflections visible and trace the memories of a place and its people.

Montgomery installs his bold and pithy text pieces—many of them are bathed in a radiant cold neon light—in the urban landscape: on Berlin’s Tempelhof airfield, in the garden of the Louvre, as posters on rail bridges or billboards on busy intersections in the world’s metropolises. White block letters on black grounds proclaim poetic messages that turn out to be critical statements about society and global politics. His critique of capitalism takes the viewer by surprise and hits home; it is activist performance art for the contemporary urban scene—echoes of Fluxus and the art of the Situationists are very much intended. The book offers a richly illustrated overview of Montgomery’s oeuvre; essays by Henrik Wobbe, Barbara Polla, Manuel Wischnewski, and others illuminate aspects of his art.

Specifications - Hardcover. 200 pages. Measurement: 20 × 29cm

 
Phil Frost
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Phil Frost

Phil Frost

Initially conceived as a personal project on the walls of Sorrenti’s New York loft, the material in Draw Blood for Proof eventually found its way onto gallery walls as a large-scale installation piece in 2004. Papering the site from floor to ceiling with layers of collected snapshots, contact sheets, prints, Polaroids and ephemera drawn from over fifteen years of work, Sorrenti’s collection was a unique look into the artist’s diaristic creative process, going beyond ideas of public and private production.

Re-photographed as a series of 8x10 Polaroids and reconstituted here, Sorrenti’s montage finds yet another incarnation in book form. Here the images are both documentation and personal exploration, and the layout repositions Sorrenti’s photographs in a series faithful to their placement on the walls of the gallery. This gives the viewer a sense of the raw impact of the original installation but also creates new visual relationships between images as they move across spreads, redefining themselves and one another on the pages. Images obscured in one layout may appear fully and with renewed force on the next. The result is a free-associative experience like memory or dreams, rooted in Sorrenti’s methods but drawing on his cache of personal associations, and the act of perception becomes part of the work.

Specifications - Hardcover. 162 pages.

 
Dior
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Dior

Thames & Hudson

Of all the great couture houses, Dior is the most prestigious and internationally celebrated. Since its foundation in 1947, it has been the embodiment of a vision of sublime femininity, a vision to which Christian Dior’s successors – Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré and John Galliano – have remained faithful while at the same time reinterpreting it in their own new and distinctive ways.

This book traces the history of the House of Dior through the constantly changing contours of its haute couture. Arranged in five sequences, one devoted to each artistic director, this panorama of the evolution of a couture house is also a history of fashion since 1947, of its dreams and realities, its big events - the shows and the society occassions - and main protagonists, its high-profile stars and clients, its models and journalists, and its indispensable petites mains, or seamstresses, and all the others who work their magic discreetly behind the scenes.

A visual feast of contemporary photographs by the most outstanding fashion photographers of their time, including Richard Avedon, Henry Clarke, Nick Knight, Willy Maywald, Irving Penn and many others, is complemented by Laziz Hamani’s studio portraits of 150 exceptional designs selected from the 120 haute couture shows presented by Dior in its sixty years of existence.

Specifications - Hardcover. 335 pages. Measurement: 36.6 × 29cm

 
Brand Wand
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Brand Wand

steidl

 “Though these pictures appear like magnificent modern paintings, they are in fact a deeper unconscious social artistic expression of an urban re-development that historical events since the Gründerzeit have fermented and brought to the surface.” Robert Polidori

The soaring, rigid walls of the tenement blocks torn open by the bombing of World War II dominated the German streetscapes of the 1950s. Fire walls, originally integrated in the building and serving as fire shields, suddenly became visible and turned into outer walls. That is how the originally rather technical term got a new meaning: Firewalls as walls spared by the fire.

Those long brick walls often adjoin to vast vacant lots once taken up by buildings that were never reerected after the war. Windows—sometimes bricked up again—cover the walls without any rational order, bearing witness to the troublesome moments of Germany’s history, just like smut, traces of bullets, shrapnel holes, the outlines of previous buildings, and provisional repairs. The remarkable housing boom following the fall of East Germany whitewashed most of the scars and overgrew the occasional graffiti and advertisements originally decorating those walls. A look behind them reveals—like a negative form of the same cast—the imprint of the building’s story.

Specifications - Hardcover. 152 pages. Measurement: 37.5 × 29.5 cm

 
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