TOPIC for recommended art books, if it doesn't seem to be maybe worth of entire topic of its own (like overlook on artists whole career).
Starting with some re-posts from other forum...
Zed Nelson's "Love Me", new release from this year. It's a great art book following the modern worlds obsession on altering physical body to aim for "perfection", as well as the focus on beauty in society. All in full color, really sharp images. Some images are simply beautiful. Beauty pegant candidates, from ages of 9 to teenager to regular ages. Then it proceeds into more morbid areas of surgery. Severed heads used as training faces for doctors. Female fat in buckets after tummy tuck. Removed slices of nose cartilage. Removed slices of cunt lips etc. Miss nuclear energy. Miss 3rd world country inmates. Each spread has one image on right and left page is with liner notes of image as well as further texts. I struggled for some time should I buy it or not, since price for kind of "regular" full color images seemed little high, but in the end, totally recommended for study on beauty, morbid obsession, society's "bizarre" standards, need and yearning of acceptance and being special.
(http://www.bjp-online.com/img/show.html?img=339247)
Also should give additional credits for Thames & Hudson "photofile" series. It's ridiculous that books with 8,95£ cover price are 18 euros in Finland. Otherwise low budget photo/art books becomes in the end pretty rough priced. Got couple more of these. Look on early French surrealist photo movement, which includes pretty good erotic / abstrack works. For those who look for morbid, death obsession, surreal works, there are cheap & easy ways to get Joel-Peter Witkin, Peter Beard, Man Ray, Lewis Carroll, Araki, etc..... Now latest purchase was book of previously unknown (to me) Sarah Moon. Probably wouldn't invest big $$ for her books, but on this range, very good stuff. She seems to have extensive body of work since 70's.. including lots of books, films, exhibitions. Probably have to keep eye on how is other works.
Some years ago I saw Peter Beards works as that gigantic size book done by Taschen. In their collectors series, which is for serious investment only. Browsed once in bookstore in NYC. Since retail went to few thousand $$, thought this would remain always out of my price league. It looked phenomenal, and kept bugging me, until finally there was edition done for "regular" people in 2008. And yesterday finally found it in shop in Helsinki for pretty decent price.
Two hardcover books in folder. About 500 pages in first volume, and 2nd book with liner notesm diaries etc. If you thought some crappy collages you see in noise tapes is "great", you should see what this guy does. Of coutse it's not all sex & violence, but it is much more. If one likes what Martin Bladh did for Special Interest #1. Or Mania, Bizarre Uproar, .. or perhaps even most of all the full folor works of Richard Rupenus/TNB.. etc etc.. If you don't need noise to justify art, these are books to grab. I tried to link few examples, but seems like artist who is so eagarly borrowing everybodys photos & book clippings for his collages, is very protective about results and programmed site in a way that can't make links to images.. but check out http://www.peterbeard.com/work.htm
Due being Taschen regular release, it should be available worldwide, and about anywhere. If you're buying one book of collages in your life, let it be this.
KAMERAN TAIDETTA a.k.a. Kamerakonst a.k.a. Camera Art
WSOY 1946
Found copy of the hand numbered #800 copies special edition on "special paper". Don't know how much was normal version and was it even made. This book is very good document of early days of Finnish photographic art. It is follow up to previous book done c. 15 years earlier. It explains the history of photography in Finland. Giving information from times when 1st photographic methods were invented and how long it was mainly for professional use for nothing but portrait and documenting for publications. Common man or "artists" couldn't simply master the difficult equipment, and also the war times here fucked up the supply and resources.
It does also list positive sides of isolation. While scandinavian countries were getting influenced by eachother, most of Finnish photographers were isolated from the influence. Lengthy text explains the change of technology what allowed people to actually take camera with them and start shooting more difficult angles and close-ups etc. Dadaistic influences and rebellions against traditional ways.
There was 2 photographic societies in Finland at the time. Older one was swedish language only, and the attempt to to make it bi-langual was fucked up in so hostile confrontations that the old society decided to make it exclusively for the swedish speaking high class, and the Finnish speaking finns started this Kameraseura Ry. which is responsible for the book now with is their 25 year anniversary publication.
112 full size images printed in very warm b/w colors, depicting landscape, close-ups of nature, nudes, nature morte, urban life, country life... Some phenomenal images that should be a album cover, some just "ok" images. But the way it's most of all shot on old big format cameras with the old methods, creating very eerie, somewhat blurry, but atmospheric images.
Book was a showcase, which intention was to show "not only to our neighbor countries, but worlds across the seas" how Finland is right there with everybody else succeeding on field of newly invented artform. They have summaries in Swedish and English, but Finnish language articles are many times longer about our own country as well as whole art form in general.
A lot of people then... and maybe still now, don't really associate photography as such a artform as classic painting for example.
I'm sure book is impossible to find abroad, but for Finnish people, check out the dusty book shelves of the suffering 2nd hand bookstores that nobody cares. Their shelves might be filled with goodies nobody remembers to exists and don't care. I was talking with owner about old medical books and he said nobody cares, that he just throws them out in garbage. I bought one with shitloads of drawn medical images and anatomy for couple euros. Got free of charge finnish working class commie song book as bonus. Not a bad day.
Christine Kessler "Pervy Girls - Erotic Fashion Photography" book
Goliath
So, if you think of Skin Two and words like "pervy" and "erotic fashion", I guess you might have already stopped reading the text, but lets see... it isn't as bad as one could think. Christine Kessler started in early 90's filming b/w photos of LA subcultures, and developed into what we can see here. Neat and clean colorful fetish fashion photographer. One can appreciate quality, and the lightning, and the set ups of many of the photos, but I feel highly disconnected from the culture of tattooed neat subculture girls in their fancy clothing. If you like what Skin Two is doing, and want to forget about club reports and stuff like that, this photobook is decent purchase.
Donna Ferrato "love & lust" book
Aperture
Only checking out who actually published this, Aperture instead of something like Goliath. You know you're getting something better. At least, that's what I feel. Black & white photoraphy from 70's to late 90's, focusing to much more real and filthier approach. Swingers clubs, sex show, fellatio, fucking, family portraits, pregnant women, some pretty experimental shots. Fags, lesbians, few minor "celebrities" a'la Annie Sprinkle. Some pretty funny things, some just grotesque,... basically life in general from perspective of... hmm.. Well, someone who was there, I suppose. You don't see any specific "girly" approach here, nor any specific agenda, I'd say. Or at least it doesn't jump into your face. Maybe some sort of showcase sexual freedom and all that. But simply as visual journey, the book is well worth of its price.
GüNTER BLUM "Erotisches Tagebuch"
umschau/braus
This is compilation of artists Gunter Blum who was active from late 60's till .. well probably today. Book is published in 2000, so biography ends in 1999. All text is in german, so I have very little to check out other than the images. And what is it then? It is collection of color & b/w polaroid photos or erotic nature. Some simply stylish nude works, others more fetish oriented, and I have vague recollections I have seen some of these previously in some issues of european fetish magazines back in mid 90's. One can appreciate the quality of polaroid image. His works are actually rather advanced and I wonder how big differences there are with polaroid cameras? I have cheap one, and only used it for "substitute" CD front cover photo years ago. Image was originally of pretty old female, but the lenz just changed image to look very very different than situation actually was, and therefore was used for cover. These, you couldn't really tell if they are polaroid or not, only from square shape perhaps.
It's very limited amount of models, pretty neat settings and taking good care of lightning etc. With soft velvet like surface on cover, nice item to be on shelves for occasional browsing.
Speaking of polaroids and Taschen,
The Polaroid Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Polaroid-Book-Collection-Taschens-Anniversary/dp/3836501899/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263479063&sr=8-1) is not bad at all for its price. Might be of interest to those with an obsession towards the format.
QuoteIn existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, and Robert Rauschenberg. The Polaroid Book, a survey of this remarkable collection, pays tribute to a medium that defies the digital age and remains a favorite among artists for its quirky look and instantly gratifying, one-of-kind images.
• over 400 works from the Polaroid Collections
• essay by Polaroid`s Barbara Hitchcock illuminating the beginnings and history of the collection
• technical reference section featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras
angelo cozzi "Innocence in the mirror"
William murrow company NYC, 1978
Have tried to look some information of this guy, but never really found anything relevant what would expand information give in this book. American edition goes back 30+ years and it says copyright to 77 for artists.
In opening text mr. Cozzi goes through thoughs of womanhood.. and then proceeds much longer text of girlhood. "The stress of growing up shows in the gangling body and uncertain gestures; and the hard task of becoming a person is reflected in the worried eyes. With a mixture of excitement apprehension and amazement, every girl wonders what her new womanly body will bring her; standing in front of mirror asking herself questions is part of her essential narcissism, so necessary if she is to live and love to the full"
Images what Cozzi delivers are quite similar to dreamy and blurry images of David Hamilton, but perhaps less about the setting and enviroment and more about the girl in front of camera. Many fully clothed, many slightly less, but also full on nudity. Always very tasteful and artistic. Both color and b/w images are soft and grainy.
Cozzi is real professional. He had being doing photography since 1950, and was for example among very first foreigners who managed to go to document Hungary after uprise of 1959. Was in vietnam as photographer. Been filming olympic games and space shuttle launches, but when you look at this book, it seems like man went into totally selfish interests and passions and covers the pure innocence and beauty. Don't know if this was ever re-printed, and perhaps in times or modern hysteria concerning models like this, makes it hard. And perhaps also guarantees that item is pretty much unavailable for larger amount of viewers. For those who really need it, seems like Amazon and various other 2nd hand/collectors book sites have plenty available, often for, in my eyes, exaggerated prices.
I got this book almost purely by accident. While buying various books of FKK, nudism & nude art as lot, without knowing exactly what was coming, except that got good deal for few I knew I wanted.
I wonder is this is somehow exceptional famous or notorious character in Italy? Any italians know something?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/06/kanaval-haiti-photography#/?picture=364606778&index=0 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/06/kanaval-haiti-photography#/?picture=364606778&index=0)
Ritter Verlags books on Wiener Aktionisten are great. The one I treasure the most is the Schwarzkogler one.
(http://www.ritterbooks.com/typo3temp/pics/753eeb26d4.jpg)
I have a friend who traded tourist crap about the Swedish ship Vasa for those books. Luckiest phone call he ever made to a publisher...
The Schwarzkogler book is still available from the publisher for 75 Euros http://www.ritterbooks.com/index.php?id=23&tx_ttnews[backPid]=5&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=26&cHash=f98bdd85f2&no_cache=1&sword_list[0]=schwarzkogler and I actually think that the book is worth it. 200 Euro for the first Wiener Aktionisten book is a bit step though.
Some recent artbook reading:
BONDAGE FASHION A6/200 pages
It's tiny postcard size book from Japan from the early 90's. Nothing to do really with what "bondage fashion" brings to your mind. It's all about re-prints of classic bondage. Drawings, photos, etc..
Irwin Klaw, John Willie and many others of the time. Also pin up models and tihuania bible comics. Of course many things overlap with western publications of similar type, but we're talking about cheap (originally c. 8$) full color book, which includes some things in full color what western re-issues did only b/w. And some before unseen images. Hardly any text, so great browsing.
IIZAWA KOHTARO book A6/235 pages
Another similar, 10 years old publication from 2001. There was whole series by publisher, this book (name unknown, the title I have refers to.. I guess editor who collected it?) covers vintage photo art and classy fine-art photography, focusing mostly young females and girls. Including works of Sally Mann, Lucia Radochonska, sawatari hajime (now I regret not having guts to buy the re-issue of Alice book of him, due high price and not being able to browse what it actually was), Cecil Beaton (google for her name + "evacuated chilren"), Hans Bellmer,..... It has 1800's deformed people, midgets, dwarves, reprints of old photos/postcards from west and japan. Small and relative inexpensive way to get exposed to plenty of artists, very nice printing too.
http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_arkhive&number=7
- has given me a great deal of pleasure and inspiration over the last ten years.
went home with this:
(http://www.exhibitionsinternational.org/img/9789076979939.jpg)
QuoteSynopsis
The first hardcover part of the work consists of a series of polaroid pictures, taken in Dark Rooms and Sex clubs. Bruylant chooses not to depict the visitors in action, but focusses on the surroundings. We see parking lots, dressing rooms, staircases, walls,... The second poster edition portrays a more human angle, forming a surreel tableau vivant of the sex club underworld.
(http://www.klondyke.nl/new/images/extra/extra_117718_01.jpg)
a collection of telephone booth hooker calling cards from '84 to '94
Last summer, was walking around Stockholm. By accident, saw art book store. Went through the inventory, and this book by Miroslav Tichy immediately captured my eye. Heavy duty hardcover book with 3 blurry black'n'white photos pasted on the front. Had not heard about him at all. Browsed sample copy a bit, and was convinced this is what I need to have. Hesitated a bit due the price, yet then sacrificed some of the travel budget on it.
short bio:
Quote
After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Miroslav Tichý (born 1926) withdrew to a life in isolation in his hometown of Kyjov, Moravia, Czech Republic In the late 1950s he quit painting and became a distinctive Diogenes-like figure. From the end of the 1960s he began to take photographs mainly of local women, in part with cameras he made by hand. He later mounted them on hand-made frames, added finishing touches in pencil, and thus moved them from photography in the direction of drawing. The result is works of strikingly unusual formal qualities, which disregard the rules of conventional photography. They constitute a large oeuvre of poetic, dreamlike views of feminine beauty in a small town under the Czechoslovak Communist régime.
His photographic work is obsessive with voyeuristic images of women, sometimes girls. Blurry, grainy, stained, damaged, scratched, cut & drawn on,... And this extensive collection exhibits several hundreds pieces of his works, scanned and printed in full size accurate replicas, including the hand made frames. Texts by various people, and also with more detailed history of his works and photos about his hand made equipment in his "studio".
Man was nearly unheard until few years ago, and all his photographic work dates several decades before it got published.
QuoteTichy never did anything to promote his art. Tichy distroyed a large part of his work, mostly passively, by leaving it to time and dust (and rats), sometimes actively by burning it in his oven. As all artists he enjoyed the late fame, that has come since 2005 but only in a indirect way he would express his appreciation and approval for books, articals, films and exhibitions. He lived a life in isolation and did not travel. He never had a telephone and never gave interviews. He never visited his exhibitions. Now he is too old and too ill and does not wish to be disturbed anymore
For more information and sample photographs, visit:
http://www.tichyocean.com/
This huge collection book 1st edition is 2010, so I guess now is about the time to get it. I would bet than sooner or later it could be hard to find collectors item.
simply amazing. voyeur has always been an obsession, but have never heard of Miroslav Tichy. I will be buying this book.
QuoteFor a long time, Tichy was something between a charming oddity and a local bogeyman. He was frequently arrested for hanging around the local pool and snapping pictures of unsuspecting women.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b129/gore_gore_grrrl/Michael/miroslav-tichy.jpg)
Heh. Indeed, brilliant stuff!
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on February 14, 2010, 07:19:54 PM
angelo cozzi "Innocence in the mirror"
William murrow company NYC, 1978
I wonder is this is somehow exceptional famous or notorious character in Italy? Any italians know something?
I must admit I never heard of him.
The only Cozzi I know is Luigi, the director of crappy movies as Paganini Horror and the quite inventice Contamination.
The criminal who coloured the first Godzilla movie with a Jelly layer and turned the whoole movie Yellow.
But I am going off -topic.
Tomorrow I will attend Arakis' exhibition in Lugano (CH), I hope the catalogue is good.
KEN-ICHI MURATA "Princess of desire"
edition reuss
QuoteJapanese photographer and visual artist Murata creates highly detailed photographic stagings which evocatively depict nude models as though they were characters in an erotic fairytale. His enchanting models blithely shed their clothing and reveal their gorgeous nude bodies. What Murata strives to illustrate with these young girls is the image of the hime: an ancient Japanese word which can denote both a feeling of awe and a yearning for women. The conventional meaning of the word "hime" is noble princess. His second photobook too is a virtuosic and fantastic journey into erotic dream worlds.
This photographer is known perhaps most to be doing works for SM SNIPER magazine in japan. German company put out two books of his works, and they may not have the complete sets of works, but what is important: it's all uncencored! Now you can see the elegance of hand colored black/white images in full page (I mean 24 x 31cm! as opposed to A5 japanese books) with all the genitals without black spots or mosaic! His works are works of genius. Their settings, props, lighting and all the details are top-notch, yet still include all the elements like flat chested jap teenies, shitting, pissing, bondage, etc..
Edition Reuss has done lots of erotic photography books. Never seen single one for sale in Finland. They have russian youthful nudes, japanese stuff, pissing, anal sex, etc etc. Pricey, and therefore I'd hope to get pre-view of content before investing. Out of two books of KEN-ICHI MURATA, this one was better. The other recommended if you have plenty of €€ to spend...
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 05, 2010, 07:35:23 PM
KEN-ICHI MURATA "Princess of desire"
edition reuss
Wow, I really like his style. I need to check out some of his books. It is not too often that I see something I like a lot. Amazing.
It has text also in English. Explaining the fear of death what artist has, basically shut himself away from life for years etc. I browsed through the books in bookshop in Estonia and bought the better one. Expensive, but worth it.
Tarkovsky Polaroids
Some of it has been digitized here: http://www.diphotos.net/JJ/Tarkovskij/Web/li.htm
Quote from: shakehurst on December 08, 2010, 06:36:36 PM
Tarkovsky Polaroids
This looks
very good. And only £10 on Amazon... hmm...
I think come payday I'm going to do up a nice little Amazon order. been wanting this one for a while now
Gilles Berquet - Le Banquet
95 pages Last Gasp (October 2000)
Erotic and mostly bondage themed b&w (and I guess some are filtered/tinted photos) w/ropes and odd contraptions...a handful of pics with women pissing too....good stuff.
also featuring Gilles Berquet work is:
Mïrka
96 pages Kehrer Verlag; Har/DVD edition (April 1, 2008)
Is photographs of Mïrka Lugosi (GB's muse apparently) frolicking around outdoors mainly looking like a nude 1920s flapper girl with Louise Brooks-like hair but sometimes wearing wigs and masks and usually with shoes on.
Included is dvd that mostly shares same description as the book.
heh....fucking hell what terse descriptions.
Very curious and interested in Francesca Woodman and her works.
Haven't seen any books of FW's stuffs firsthand yet but have seen many of her lonely and utterly depressing photos online.
She flung herself from a window to her death while in her early twenties if I'm not mistaken.
Trevor Paglen "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World" is really nice, good inspiration for pseudo-millitary/occult/industrial noise aesthetic too...
http://www.paglen.com/index.htm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933633328?ie=UTF8&tag=starwarscust-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933633328
One of the best recent art book finds:
(http://images.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9781/7419/9781741967395.jpg)
QuoteStill Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. At the turn of the twentieth century Antarctica was the focus of one of the last great races of exploration and discovery. Known as the 'heroic age', from 1895 to 1917 Antarctic explorers set off from their huts in search of adventure, science and glory but some, such as Scott, were never to return. The World Wars intervened and the huts were left as time capsules of Edwardian life; a portrait of King Edward VII hangs amid seal blubber, sides of mutton, a jar of gherkins, penguin eggs, cufflinks and darned trousers. One of New Zealand's best known photographers, Jane Ussher, was invited by the Antarctic Heritage Trust to record 'the unusual, the hidden and minutiae of these sites'. The Executive Director of the Trust, Nigel Watson, provides a fascinating introduction to the history and atmosphere of each hut and detailed photographic captions. Key points: features Discovery Hut (used by both Scott and Shackleton), Shackleton's Hut and Scott's Hut on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound; unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of Antarctic explorers, a subject that holds great fascination for readers worldwide; large format and seven gatefolds display Jane Ussher's intriguing and evocative photography with stunning impact.
(http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2010/11/interior_of_scott_s_hut_at_cape_evans_photo_by_jan_4cef4a49f3.JPG)
I can't really find any online images what would represent this book well. We're talking about hundreds of A4 pages, in hardcover, with special cloth design attached in it. All full color, but in the best possible tonality! In a way, it is modern, that images are pretty sharp and colors are little bit artificially colored/improved looking. Yet, it's so damn well done, and tastefully done and most of all, this is pretty close to what I have done for years, but haven't really found any books of similar interests. So what it is? Even if few landscape and normal interior photos that may be online make you think it's just "normal" nice photobook, no. It's little different. Vast majority of the book is utmost texture studies of various objects & settings. She doesn't just take photos of "room", but may focus on very small elements. Be it macro-photo of rusty safetypin, be it frozen & torn loop of old rope. Rusty tin can surfaces. Broken penguin eggs. Penguin carcasses. Half "mummified" frozen dog that's been dead for decades... or.. century?! Skulls, jars, boxes, etc. It all plays with colors and textures of corrosion, damage and decay. And she doesn't seem to take a pressure of creating photo that would stand out due some extreme technical quality or extremely unusual target, but merely floods such a massive amount of eye-candy, it is really about photo-book. Not about some individual piece. There are no people in this book. It all simply delivers the abandoned ghost house feeling. The only actually living thing seen in the book is large amount of penguins far away in distance.
I guess book is such a new release, and done by Australian publisher, that perhaps it hasn't properly been scattered around the world. I would have not had high hopes about finding it in Finland, but from Copenhagen one could see one lonely copy asking to be purchased. For what it is, c. 30 UK pound price tag seems cheap as fuck. And not to mention there are plenty to read and many "unusual" solutions, such as extensive amount of 4 pages sized panorama folds inside the book. They really put effort to get this done.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 08, 2010, 03:55:15 PM
It has text also in English. Explaining the fear of death what artist has, basically shut himself away from life for years etc. I browsed through the books in bookshop in Estonia and bought the better one. Expensive, but worth it.
Finally got Princess of Desire by Ken-Ichi Murata. Expensive, but worth it, exactly. I am not a big fan of those A5 size art books where the pictures are too small to be fully appreciated. Princess Of Desire is big enough and you can really see lots of detail. Just beautiful. The soft image quality (and the unusual scenarions, of course) adds a dreamlike dimension to Murata's work. I think I need to check out his other books too before they can only be hunted down on eBay.
Shunji Ohkura - Tokyo-X - I don't think I've posted about this before, but I've been meaning to. I've had this book for years. It's all photography of Tokyo from the 90's - early 2000's. There's no captions to the pictures, but certain sections clearly focus on specific themes like couples, cameras, architecture, sub-cultures, trash, sex, etc. All black and white photography. I've played with this many times in my personal collage work and demo artwork. Looking through it again last weekend with the girlfriend, I was struck by how good it is. How important the big brother, the gov't is watching theme still is. It also shows just how suffocating Tokyo can feel. I think it's cheap on amazon used right now.
(http://ia700804.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/34/items/olcovers104/olcovers104-L.zip&file=1043792-L.jpg)
Quote from: P-K on July 08, 2010, 08:12:25 PM
went home with this:
(http://www.exhibitionsinternational.org/img/9789076979939.jpg)
QuoteSynopsis
The first hardcover part of the work consists of a series of polaroid pictures, taken in Dark Rooms and Sex clubs. Bruylant chooses not to depict the visitors in action, but focusses on the surroundings. We see parking lots, dressing rooms, staircases, walls,... The second poster edition portrays a more human angle, forming a surreel tableau vivant of the sex club underworld.
masterwork
i'm searching books about ghosts photo capture.
some advices?
I just visited germany for a small art tour. Besides experiencing the joys and wonders of superior german playback schlager I also managed to move further to my goal of owning a if not complete so at least all-encompassing library section on the Vienna actionists. Already having one fat volume dealing with all four of them, I was quite happy to get my hands at two books dealing with separate artists, and at beneficial prices as well.
First was Otto Muehl on MAK, just under 400 pages (large format) which I got for the rteduced price of 20 euros. A lot of this I already know or own in other formats, but I thought it was too much of an bargain to miss. There are of course his wonderfully looking actionist documentations, also a lot of his works as a painter and graphic artist. facsimiles of his commune publications, and as well some representations of his later COMPLETELY ATROCIOUS "electric paintings" and film stills, which I do find a little interesting though due to the dirty old man factor still surrounding him. Though the art itself is absolut shit. The book is in german which means I can't really read the texts regarding the commune and actionist eras which would've been interesting. I'm thinking of picking up german nhow as I own a fair share of publicationbs in that language which I really want to get into. The one english part I found is an elogy from 2003 by feminist performancxe/conceptual artist Carollee Schneemann celebrating Muehl for the masculine virility of his art.
Second, and best, is a book titled BRUSEUM which is a monster book dealing with Günter Brus, whom is my favorite of the actionists. Around 650 pages hardcover large format, for only 48 euros. It contains some text, interviews etc of which only one is in english (an article dealing with the political aspect of art and actionism through the use of psychoanalysis, which was very popular at the time). It contains lots and lots of pictures in b/w and color ranging from the actions to facsimiles, graphic works, Irrwish material (often different sketch versions than the ones in Irrwish itself), drawings etc etc. The size of this volume makes it a real carreer-spanning compilation. Absolutely fantastic.
Quote from: SILVUM on July 29, 2012, 07:32:33 PM
Keizo Kitajima's Photo Express Tokyo
Thanx for the share. Will def check this out. Can dig the visuals and æsthetic.
Has anyone read or seen "The Art of the Nasty"? It's supposed to be THE complete collection of video nasty art/sleeves.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Nasty-Nigel-Wingrove/dp/1903254574 (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Nasty-Nigel-Wingrove/dp/1903254574)
Got this one last week:
(http://www.randomhouse.de/content/edition/covervoila/422_4957_141997_xxl.jpg)
Antoine D'Agata AntibodiesHardcover, approx. 560 pages, 20.4x26.6, 8.0 x 10.5 Inches, 2,500 colour illustrations
Quote
This monumental collection of d'Agata's controversial work is a cult classic and companion to one of the most talked-about photography exhibitions of the past decade, available now for the first time in English.
Containing striking images of people living on the fringes of society, Antibodies is a challenging and captivating collection from one of the most renowned photographers working today. Antoine d'Agata has traveled the world's darkest corners collecting images of prostitutes, addicts, war-torn communities, and the homeless. A nomad himself, d'Agata tackles subjects often left untouched, unnoticed, or ignored. Frequently compared to his mentors Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, d'Agata's work, for all its grim and occasionally terrifying realism, bears the hallmarks of timeless photographs. This volume features images from a number of d'Agata's series, interspersed with short texts as well as essays and commentary. Antibodies was awarded the 2013 Arles Book Prize, and is certain to become one of the most sought-after photography books of the year.
Quote from: cr on March 15, 2014, 02:41:02 PM
Got this one last week:
(http://www.randomhouse.de/content/edition/covervoila/422_4957_141997_xxl.jpg)
Antoine D'Agata Antibodies
Hardcover, approx. 560 pages, 20.4x26.6, 8.0 x 10.5 Inches, 2,500 colour illustrations
Quote
This monumental collection of d'Agata's controversial work is a cult classic and companion to one of the most talked-about photography exhibitions of the past decade, available now for the first time in English.
Containing striking images of people living on the fringes of society, Antibodies is a challenging and captivating collection from one of the most renowned photographers working today. Antoine d'Agata has traveled the world's darkest corners collecting images of prostitutes, addicts, war-torn communities, and the homeless. A nomad himself, d'Agata tackles subjects often left untouched, unnoticed, or ignored. Frequently compared to his mentors Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, d'Agata's work, for all its grim and occasionally terrifying realism, bears the hallmarks of timeless photographs. This volume features images from a number of d'Agata's series, interspersed with short texts as well as essays and commentary. Antibodies was awarded the 2013 Arles Book Prize, and is certain to become one of the most sought-after photography books of the year.
even about Antoine D'agata
(http://www.lepointdujour.eu/images/pages/40.jpg)
HAUNTED AIR - Ossian Brown
a collection of anonymous USA Halloween photographs from 1875 to 1955
Finally found a copy of Niraworks for under $120 and not shipped from japan. I paid less for one of his actual handcast/painted pieces than this damn book.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.261849557277409.61019.223400181122347&type=3 (not my pics)
got a copy of Tabula Obscura by M Tinnemans, S Hynninen, and T Ketola in the mail yesterday. Beautiful work. Manuel Tinnemans work especially captures my imagination. It's like some bastard child of HR Giger and Hieronymus Bosch. All of the artists do really detailed work though, so there's a lot to examine and scrutinize.
http://www.tabulaobscura.com/ (http://www.tabulaobscura.com/)
need advices
photobooks about VOODOO?
thanks
Quote from: theotherjohn on June 24, 2014, 03:31:27 AM
Quote from: ANDROPHILIA on June 24, 2014, 12:24:55 AM
need advices
photobooks about VOODOO?
thanks
Taschen comes to the rescue! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3822886491/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=3822886491&linkCode=as2&tag=limerobjec-21)
great
also....
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=19520
Quote from: borderland on June 25, 2014, 02:57:23 PM
also....
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=19520
thank you man
this can be more interesting than Taschen book.
Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age, by B. Rifkin, M. Ackerman, and J. Folkenberg (2006). Great collection of historical scientific illustrations depicting human dissections, pathologies, etc. The picture from the cover of the Contagious Orgasm album Division and Combination is in this book.
some suggestion about photo-book related in SKINHEAD world?
thanks
Nick Knight's Skinhead is a good one. Also Spirit of '69 by George Marshall, not really a photography book but does have good amount of pics. And haven't seen it myself, but Skinstreet: The Skinhead Way of Life sounds like it could be worth a look too.
Quote from: Sadomaniac on July 24, 2014, 04:12:04 AM
Nick Knight's Skinhead is a good one. Also Spirit of '69 by George Marshall, not really a photography book but does have good amount of pics. And haven't seen it myself, but Skinstreet: The Skinhead Way of Life sounds like it could be worth a look too.
There's a book close to this genre called In The Blood, more related to Suedehead stuff. The cover is somewhat delicious:
(http://www.modculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/intheblood.jpg)
EDIT: Well, shoot, misread the thead, no art photos in the book I mentioned.
Quote from: theotherjohn on July 24, 2014, 06:56:30 PM
This book was recently published: Skinheads 1979-1984 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178305171X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=178305171X&linkCode=as2&tag=limerobjec-21).
And the photographer's website here: http://www.derekridgers.com/index/category/gallery%7Cdocumentary%7Cskinheads/start/0
great
thanks for all suggestions
This is a fairly nice journal which is about the occult and magic and general counter culture stuff but also very arty and visual I probably threw this link up somewhere here before http://fulgur.co.uk/abraxas/
One issue came with a CD
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Tesserae/release/3083077
DIVINE TURBULENCE - BOZ MUGABE 2004-2014
http://divineturbulence.tictail.com/product/divine-turbulence-boz-mugabe-2004-2014
picked this up :
(https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/117417843/disp/62ab7e6c0d456efcb19ace6260b52b8d.jpg)
rubberlike/fake leather hardcover, decaying German concrete fortifications : fap fap !
publisher : http://www.uitgeverijkannibaal.be/atlantic-wall (http://www.uitgeverijkannibaal.be/atlantic-wall)
I'll never even see a copy but the Bible of Dreams by Mark Manning, text by Bill Drummond has taken on legendary proportions in my mind. Manning is best known as absurd metal musician Zodiac Mindwarp, he's also a writer, and the art he still makes sells to private collections. Details on this very rare book -http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/bible.htm
Soviet Ghosts
Photographer Rebecca Litchfield captures many abandoned location's, which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied satellite states during this period of history, including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist states. These photographs deliver a compelling narrative of both moral bankruptcy and flawed ideology. Featuring stunning imagery throughout, this compelling road-trip through the old USSR, breathes new life into these forgotten places, finding both beauty and meaning in their post-apocalyptic decay. Extended essays by Tristi Brownett, Neill Cockwill and Professor Owen Evans, offer considerable contextual depth to the locations imbuing them with a wealth of connection and wonder. By virtue of its holistic approach, the book also explores how and why these once thriving communities became abandoned, whether by natural disaster, man-made catastrophe or simply through the march of time.
http://shop.dittopress.co.uk/products/skinhead-an-archive
(http://www.libri.it/image/cache/data/covers_2015_3D/9788857607993_3dd-800x800.jpg)
Quote from: ANDROPHILIA on February 02, 2015, 07:22:46 PM
http://shop.dittopress.co.uk/products/skinhead-an-archive
This was quite amusing. First of all, because I'd assume many people tend to dislike something about skinhead movement, but to publish book that will most likely be sort of offensive for everybody.
Those who like trad. skinheads, may be turned off by extensive WP skinhead content. Those who appreciate WP boneheads, may have hard time accepting pretty explicit gay skinhead materials. Etc.
From swastikas to cocksucking, all there in hard covers.
this is exactly what I have enjoyed. disturbing for anybody who sticks "true" to the tag, but superb for borderline people.
Quote from: SILVUM on July 29, 2012, 07:32:33 PM
Keizo Kitajima's Photo Express Tokyo is pretty awesome. It's a cardboard slipcase set of facsimile printings of the 12 mini photo zines he did. Super high contrast, close ups, confusing images, really cool, especially if you are obsessed with 70's 80's Japan nightlife / "counter"-culture. Maybe it's not the all time greatest reproduction job, but judging the savagery of the material, I'm sure this is as good as it gets without spending thousands on the originals if you can even find them.
Here're some examples, snaps I took with my phone to give a sense of what the work is like.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/Seinsart/IMAG0564.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/Seinsart/IMAG0563.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/Seinsart/IMAG0562.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/Seinsart/IMAG0561.jpg)
Thanks to your inspiration/hint i just got the last copy of Amazon for 45 Euro. Seems like this book is quite up my ally and i am looking forward to
lay my hands on it.
Same goes to the guy who did post the "Atlantic Wall" book. Great recommentations.
This would possibly have also fit into the Pornography or Cartoon threads, but I guess due to the presentation, pricing etc. it belongs here, mostly. New book on / by Stu Mead (seemingly) entitled "First comprehensive edition of Stu Mead's art" released:
http://divus.cc/en/eshop/product/books-magazines/1901/stu-mead.html
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on November 23, 2015, 05:26:58 PM
Quote from: ANDROPHILIA on February 02, 2015, 07:22:46 PM
http://shop.dittopress.co.uk/products/skinhead-an-archive
This was quite amusing. First of all, because I'd assume many people tend to dislike something about skinhead movement, but to publish book that will most likely be sort of offensive for everybody.
Those who like trad. skinheads, may be turned off by extensive WP skinhead content. Those who appreciate WP boneheads, may have hard time accepting pretty explicit gay skinhead materials. Etc.
From swastikas to cocksucking, all there in hard covers.
Ditto Press has reprinted the book in a "new" edition.
Grab a copy if you missed the first one.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on February 10, 2011, 09:47:16 PM
One of the best recent art book finds:
(http://images.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9781/7419/9781741967395.jpg)
QuoteStill Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. At the turn of the twentieth century Antarctica was the focus of one of the last great races of exploration and discovery. Known as the 'heroic age', from 1895 to 1917 Antarctic explorers set off from their huts in search of adventure, science and glory but some, such as Scott, were never to return. The World Wars intervened and the huts were left as time capsules of Edwardian life; a portrait of King Edward VII hangs amid seal blubber, sides of mutton, a jar of gherkins, penguin eggs, cufflinks and darned trousers. One of New Zealand's best known photographers, Jane Ussher, was invited by the Antarctic Heritage Trust to record 'the unusual, the hidden and minutiae of these sites'. The Executive Director of the Trust, Nigel Watson, provides a fascinating introduction to the history and atmosphere of each hut and detailed photographic captions. Key points: features Discovery Hut (used by both Scott and Shackleton), Shackleton's Hut and Scott's Hut on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound; unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of Antarctic explorers, a subject that holds great fascination for readers worldwide; large format and seven gatefolds display Jane Ussher's intriguing and evocative photography with stunning impact.
(http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2010/11/interior_of_scott_s_hut_at_cape_evans_photo_by_jan_4cef4a49f3.JPG)
I can't really find any online images what would represent this book well. We're talking about hundreds of A4 pages, in hardcover, with special cloth design attached in it. All full color, but in the best possible tonality! In a way, it is modern, that images are pretty sharp and colors are little bit artificially colored/improved looking. Yet, it's so damn well done, and tastefully done and most of all, this is pretty close to what I have done for years, but haven't really found any books of similar interests. So what it is? Even if few landscape and normal interior photos that may be online make you think it's just "normal" nice photobook, no. It's little different. Vast majority of the book is utmost texture studies of various objects & settings. She doesn't just take photos of "room", but may focus on very small elements. Be it macro-photo of rusty safetypin, be it frozen & torn loop of old rope. Rusty tin can surfaces. Broken penguin eggs. Penguin carcasses. Half "mummified" frozen dog that's been dead for decades... or.. century?! Skulls, jars, boxes, etc. It all plays with colors and textures of corrosion, damage and decay. And she doesn't seem to take a pressure of creating photo that would stand out due some extreme technical quality or extremely unusual target, but merely floods such a massive amount of eye-candy, it is really about photo-book. Not about some individual piece. There are no people in this book. It all simply delivers the abandoned ghost house feeling. The only actually living thing seen in the book is large amount of penguins far away in distance.
I guess book is such a new release, and done by Australian publisher, that perhaps it hasn't properly been scattered around the world. I would have not had high hopes about finding it in Finland, but from Copenhagen one could see one lonely copy asking to be purchased. For what it is, c. 30 UK pound price tag seems cheap as fuck. And not to mention there are plenty to read and many "unusual" solutions, such as extensive amount of 4 pages sized panorama folds inside the book. They really put effort to get this done.
This is really a great book! Highly recommended!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DZ9GHAKBL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.gif)
Pretty cool to flip through, and can be found for just a few dollars
(http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/460/452460/452460_130711110718_sac4.jpg)
Don't know if this really fits to topic, but still, I like it a lot:
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-14-1439522522-6849781-itsamansworld_coverMans_Epic_August_1964_Norm_Eastman510x660.jpg)
Not really an art book in the traditional sense, but probably fits in here best:
http://www.timeless-shop.com/prod/the-thai-occult-ghost-edition-jenx-2328,101.html
Pretty interesting looking book on Thai occultism out soon. Probably worth picking up!
Quote from: vomitgore on September 12, 2016, 03:11:16 AM
Not really an art book in the traditional sense, but probably fits in here best:
http://www.timeless-shop.com/prod/the-thai-occult-ghost-edition-jenx-2328,101.html
Pretty interesting looking book on Thai occultism out soon. Probably worth picking up!
I ordered a copy. Very interested in reading this. I have a couple of these thai black magic amulets and pha yant. Powerful stuff.
thanks for cling me to vol 1of dark side.
had vol2 a while and found really worthwhile.
Quote from: cr on March 26, 2016, 08:53:27 PM
Don't know if this really fits to topic, but still, I like it a lot:
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-08-14-1439522522-6849781-itsamansworld_coverMans_Epic_August_1964_Norm_Eastman510x660.jpg)
yes it's on topic.
in addition there are a couple of other books on decide press (creation offshoot?) that bootleg similar images and topics like you would expect an increasingly exploitational and vague publisher to do.
Was in some photobook store in Hamburg and noticed this. Browsed through. And was thinking... 35 euro is a bit heavy, as it is not really a book, more like magazine. Put back on shelves, but it kept haunting me, until I decided to just grab it along bunch of other books. And absolutely no regret on this. You can preview video trailer and some preview pics from links below, but they don't do full justice for the physical item.
Utmost care has been invested into making it. Choice of paper, how extra layers of spot-varnish makes impact on each page. Mostly it is that photograph is layered with varnish, that makes it stand out from semi-glossy page almost like it would be photo glued on paper.
Images are tasty, and there is clearly attention to detail in compositions and selection of images.
SIAM'S GUY - Tiane Doan na ChampassakQuote
In addition to his personal photographic practice, A French artist of Asian origin, Tiane Doan na Champassak carries out a reflection about anonymous photography, collected via various sources such as Internet, family albums, or again periodicals. His work often translates into bookmaking and publishing and he has already released over a dozen books. Siam's Guy is his first book blending together his own photography and his re-appropriation practice.
The book borrows its title from one of Tiane Doan na Champassak's collected items, Siam's Guy, a Thai erotic magazine from the 1960s and 1970s that remained available over the counter in spite of censorship. For this project, the artist selected among more than 100 issues, 68 original pages over which he layered his own photographs of female nudes, thus substituting the very contemporary esthetic of his photographs to the somewhat dated images. Through the use of superimposition, which does not obliterate the initial act of censorship operated then over genitals and breasts, Champassak actually pays tribute to the exceptional design of the period.
https://vimeo.com/171932414 (https://vimeo.com/171932414)
http://www.rvb-books.com/book.php?id_book=118 (http://www.rvb-books.com/book.php?id_book=118)
John,
lucky you.
the hope of getting what you want, the excitement of getting it
the years long chase are all sensations I know and envy you for.
Once In A Life Time by Tomi Ungerer: Stark single panel cartoons satirising the cold war; very funny and very Dark.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Once-Lifetime-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0224022989/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481741559&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Tomi+Ungerer+once+upon+a+time
The Voynich Manuscript just released as an artbook on Yale University Press. Gorgeous edition.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Voynich-Manuscript-Raymond-Clemens/0300217234/ref=pd_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MDXP7NR3841WAY995P88
Quote from: Pax Chetyorka on December 27, 2016, 06:38:05 PM
The Voynich Manuscript just released as an artbook on Yale University Press. Gorgeous edition.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Voynich-Manuscript-Raymond-Clemens/0300217234/ref=pd_sbs_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MDXP7NR3841WAY995P88
reminds me of so much outsider art, both in execution and in the potential mysteries it opens.
Right well I don't see anything about this posted here but maybe that's because it's so well known in our community?
Amazing photographs by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka of various scenes of carnage and morbidity centered around corpses. Excellent photography. Evokes the halcyon days when trolling up and down rotten.com still felt interesting.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Photography-1994-2011-Tsurisaki-Kiyotaka/dp/1840681934/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1485111301&sr=8-9&keywords=death+photography
Quote from: Deadpriest on January 22, 2017, 09:00:25 PM
Right well I don't see anything about this posted here but maybe that's because it's so well known in our community?
Amazing photographs by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka of various scenes of carnage and morbidity centered around corpses. Excellent photography. Evokes the halcyon days when trolling up and down rotten.com still felt interesting.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Photography-1994-2011-Tsurisaki-Kiyotaka/dp/1840681934/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1485111301&sr=8-9&keywords=death+photography
i have it.
It is particularly curious and interesting that he has worked both in the interest for death scenes and in pornography
Quote from: ANDROPHILIA on January 23, 2017, 01:08:18 AM
It is particularly curious and interesting that he has worked both in the interest for death scenes and in pornography
He did say something in the introduction to that book something about how no one is more naked/vulnerable than when they're dead, so maybe he's just very voyeuristic.
The 'Death - Photography 1994-2011' is the only Kiyotaka book I have. Bought it some years ago from Amazon. It's really good. I like his foreword about art and the freedom of expression. ("...I'm a sort of fundamentalist as regards freedom of expression. I believe nothing is impossible for art. I believe I can do anything for art. However anti-social or obscene it is, even if it hurts someone, expression mustn't be restricted by any means. This is my faith and prayer. I'm ready to sell my soul to the devil for art. I'm nothing but an artist. ...")
Recent purchases:
Trevor Brown: Black and White
Zorïn: Art Moral
Both from Timeless, both recommended.
!
http://www.kiddiepunk.com/kiddiepunk_collected.htm
Quote from: ANDROPHILIA on March 15, 2017, 02:43:32 PM
http://www.kiddiepunk.com/kiddiepunk_collected.htm
daresay this is on order by a number on this site and reviews will follow.
hope folks are getting for more than a bit od lost Sotos though.
my copy of kiddiepunk arrived this am.
clearly too soon to comment on the writing
the visuals are however striking ESP if you like the rough b&w aesthetic.
reminds of the few Japanese photobooks I have seen-high contrast images, pictures across two pages and so 'divided', rough matte paper, little or no explanation/context unless you see publishers themselves as context.
Recent library score:
"1000 Nudes: Uwe Scheid Collection" by Michael Koetzle (Benedikt Taschen)
History of nude photography through earliest stages of photography to the early 1930s; almost entirely women, some men; categorized by artistic portraits, experimental techniques, pin-ups, private obscene photographs, early pornography and erotic photos, pictorialism, nudism, scientific photography, etc. Basic concept is that from the moment anyone could take pictures of anything, the obvious preference and objet d'art was the naked female body. Duh. But still great coffee table book.
'Trait' by Vladimir Velickovic is a beautiful thing large with thick paper.
Morbid looking very loose and dense sketches of men in various disjointed states and some birds.
Reminds a bit of Fancis Bacon like most of his work does
Not sure if it's the right topic, but I got some heavy books from Timeless this week:
Problem by Aleksandra Waliszewska
and NAROK by Stephen Bessac, which I think was already mentioned in another topic.
Was just browsing through them yet, but damn, they both look great!
Apart from these two, I also got The Thai Occult book by Jenx - just read the introduction, but it should be very good and interesting as well.
Although it maybe fits better in another topic, I also have to mention the BEYOND TERROR - The films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower, which I also received this week.
Won't be a boring weekend...
(http://hauntedair.com/img/Haunted_0001_2.jpg)
Not exactly an art book, but Haunted Air, a book of old photographs of children in Halloween costumes is pretty incredible and enchanting. Compiled by Ossian Brown (ex-COIL), it has been reissued at a reasonable price. I guess it was pretty expensive to get the first edition, which sold out quickly.
http://hauntedair.com/
Received Jukka Siikala - "Ecstatic Nausea" this week from Infinity Land Press. Well, was only reading through the foreword by Mikko A., the interview by Martin Bladh and browsing through the pages - but I strongly recommend to everyone to immediately get this!
Quote from: NO PART OF IT on October 25, 2019, 03:28:50 PM
(http://hauntedair.com/img/Haunted_0001_2.jpg)
Not exactly an art book, but Haunted Air, a book of old photographs of children in Halloween costumes is pretty incredible and enchanting. Compiled by Ossian Brown (ex-COIL), it has been reissued at a reasonable price. I guess it was pretty expensive to get the first edition, which sold out quickly.
http://hauntedair.com/
Thanks! This looks interesting.
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0533/6417/products/tumblr_nflub8QqXp1t3i99fo7_1280_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1571268884)
Currently enjoying a book of old photographs of recently deceased people, positioned for photography in a funerary context. This is an extremely well made book.
Beyond The Dark Veil
https://www.abebooks.com/Beyond-Dark-Veil-Post-Mortem-Mourning/22637616724/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade-_-used-_-naa&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsPy1ndKK5gIVkR-tBh1ZHgI0EAQYBiABEgLiovD_BwE
(https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1230594478l/1557269.jpg)
Flight Into Egypt by Timothy Ely.
Ely is an artist who creates books rather than gallery exhibitions.
This particular book is inspired by findings that his grandfather travelled to Egypt between the two world wars to apparently study alchemy.
There is an interview, but mostly images here. Basically a surrealist take on the experience of his grandfather.
I can recommend the "Wer hat hier gelebt?" book with photographies by Thomas Windisch and texts by Ilija Trojanow and Thomas Macho. But as far as I know it's only in German language.
As far as I remember I also posted a link to his photographs in a thread here called something like "Hail Wreck and Ruin"
https://thw.photography/de/main/ (https://thw.photography/de/main/)
I'm desperately searching for books about/from French painter Clovis Trouille. Are there any?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Quote from: cr on October 03, 2020, 12:54:58 PM
I'm desperately searching for books about/from French painter Clovis Trouille. Are there any?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
If you use Abe Books and use Clovis Trouille as a key word you get some magazines and a book? article... same with Amazon.
Ebay gave 4 but 2 are over £100.00 !
Thank you both! Will try to find something, but probably won't be very successful.
Somebody should make new editions or a completely new book. I think it's well deserved.
Just got this one yesterday, can't wait to jump in:
(https://primaryinformation.org/pi/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PI_WiCP_Cover-300x333.jpg)
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979
Various Artists
Edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre
https://primaryinformation.org/product/women-in-concrete-poetry-1959-1979/
This question didn't seem to warrant a new topic, so I will ask here:
VOD159: CLOCK DVA HOROLOGY IV 1976-1981 320 page Book with 2x7inch.
Comprehensive Anthology of early Clock DVA 1976-1981.
What exactly is this? Is the book a written history of the period? A visual collection of visual art, pamphlets, show flyers, or... ? Both? I have no idea and cannot find anywhere on the Vinyl On Demand Facebook posts nor elsewhere on the internet a further explanation than the short, ambiguous blurb above. Has anyone laid hands on this book? Thanks for any insight!
Hermann Nitsch, The Gesamtkunstwerk of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, published in 2015 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Insanely huge art book of 968 pages, if you're into Hermann Nitsch this is the document. It's an incredible tome covering all of his work from the actions to the paintings and drawings, theater and opera staging, even his musical scores. There are essays by Nitsch and others throughout and a whole section devoted to some of Nitsch's key texts on the philosophy of his work. There is a German version and an English version, it looks like the English version might be out of print. I got mine off AbeBooks for a reasonable price. Definitely worth it if you're really into this.
"In addition to functioning as a substantial documentation of his work and in a sense preserving and disseminating it, it was important to me that this book should reflect the artist's own style of editorial and graphic work. The artist Hermann Nitsch should help shape and design his reference work, so that it captures his Gesamtkunstwerk for posterity in a way that is authentic, genuine, and entirely in the artist's spirit. The focus of this extraordinary book project was not just a monograph on Hermann Nitsch but a monograph on and by Hermann Nitsch. A magnum opus on his magnum opus." -Michael Karrer, Editor
German Edition ISBN 978-3-86335-702-3
English Edition ISBN 978-3-86335-703-0
Save for making a new thread I suppose this might be the best spot for this:
Anyone have intel on a photo book, I'm assuming from 70s/80s, which collects movie stills of actors in the roles of Nazis (or at least in uniform - I only remember a photo of Clint Eastwood from Where Eagles Dare)? I saw a used copy on Amazon about 12 years ago but it was quite expensive. I kept it in my wish list but it was eventually removed and I don't recall the name of it. It's a hard thing to try and google as well.
Quote from: absurdexposition on April 28, 2021, 06:50:57 PM
Save for making a new thread I suppose this might be the best spot for this:
Anyone have intel on a photo book, I'm assuming from 70s/80s, which collects movie stills of actors in the roles of Nazis (or at least in uniform - I only remember a photo of Clint Eastwood from Where Eagles Dare)? I saw a used copy on Amazon about 12 years ago but it was quite expensive. I kept it in my wish list but it was eventually removed and I don't recall the name of it. It's a hard thing to try and google as well.
Not a book but i remember an art exhibit which did this- some time ago at the tate i think, and tracked this down...
https://www.phillips.com/detail/PIOTR-UKLA%C5%83SKI/NY010417/132
and from this i traced the book! The Nazis by Piotr Uklański
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603864.The_Nazis
There is a copy for sale https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9783905509229/Nazis-Uklanski-Piotr-3905509229/plp £ 1,064.54 !!!!!!!!
Wow yes, that's it, thanks!
Damn, what a price...
Be interesting to see that as an exhibit as well.
EDIT: And here is the Eastwood image I remember https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/The-Nazis-9783905509229
Quote from: absurdexposition on April 28, 2021, 09:06:44 PM
Wow yes, that's it, thanks!
Damn, what a price...
Be interesting to see that as an exhibit as well.
EDIT: And here is the Eastwood image I remember https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/The-Nazis-9783905509229
Ebay has one for £20.00 - if its legit
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133704224454?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190920091355%26meid%3D763f9ec1773c468485ebb45abdf65a2f%26pid%3D100036%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D383249863413%26itm%3D133704224454%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganic&_trksid=p2047675.c100036.m2109
Does anybody know more about this movement and the related Inside artzines? Is it worth getting them?
https://artscum.org/ (https://artscum.org/)
Thanks!
Just got this one last week and now browsing through it. At first glance, this is really beautiful!
https://www.lannoopublishers.com/en/dark-and-dystopian-post%C2%ADmortem-fairy-tales (https://www.lannoopublishers.com/en/dark-and-dystopian-post%C2%ADmortem-fairy-tales)
Diane Arbus: Revelations
Highly recommended!
Narok Exhibition Catalogue is currently on sale at Timeless for 18€. I got mine few days ago. Some great stuff in it.
A topic of great interest for me has always been the conflict in Northern Ireland, especially the I.R.A. itself.
The murals that are ubiquitous in Northern cities that are the primary battlegrounds between the English Loyalist paramilitaries, occupation forces and the I.R.A. paramilitary have always been of great fascination.
A series of 5 books chronicling the messages through the years called "Drawing support: murals in the North of Ireland" by Bill Rolston is a great series and well worth checking out.
https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-support-murals-North-Ireland/dp/0951422936 (https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-support-murals-North-Ireland/dp/0951422936)
First time hearing about this book series, thank you for the tip.
The Game Of Saturn – Decoding The Sola-Busca Torrochi
Very interesting read with a lot of interesting rare images of occult / esoteric studies that are little to almost forgotten. The history of modern Tarot is explored here.
(https://i.postimg.cc/YqtLgDjT/Firefox-Screenshot-2023-10-14-T09-53-02-925-Z.png)
Just realized this great topic exists!
Highest recommendations for this book of which I have read only up to a bit over half way now:
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Classics-Mountains-My-Life/dp/0141192917
Real life stories beat fiction each and every time.
Author's ethics in his mountaineering art was the same with any true art: expose yourself to danger to become yourself and steer clear from the masses.
Günter Brus: Disclosure/Herzeigung
Such a heavy thing, content wise and in general. I'm sure, you can kill somebody with something like this. I think in some years I may be even too old and weak to carry it from one room to another.
Anyway, it's amazingly good. Get it, if you think your bookshelf can hold it!