iylshowcase: NY Art Book Fair & Unseen Amsterdam - Reading Room SpecialSeptember is generally a
iylshowcase: NY Art Book Fair & Unseen Amsterdam - Reading Room SpecialSeptember is generally a good month for art books and consequently a bad one for your wallet… Here’s a selection of new books and publications that caught our eye at the NY Art Book Fair and Unseen Amsterdam last month.A light on the wall - Emma Phillips - Perimeter EditionsTaking her cue from late Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri and his 1991 essay ‘A light on the wall’, Emma Phillips’ new body of work adopts a mode of investigation that perpetuates this notion of the camera as conjurer. True to Ghirri’s intention, Phillips’ A light on the wall reads as an endeavor towards an expanded understanding of the fleeting nature of the image and its tenuous place in the wider milieu. Can’t Pay You to Disappear - Thomas Vandenberghe - Akina BooksBelgian photographer Thomas Vandenberghe has released a new book, which is almost a search for intimacy within landscapes and people. The images are carefully selected and arranged to create a composition that allows the viewer to flow through the publication. Issue 9 - Der GreifWith their signature portrait cover and spot-on curation, the latest issue of contemporary photography magazine Der Greif is a definite yes. Mossless 4: Public/Private/Secret - MosslessIn contemporary society, it can be difficult to define what is private and what is public. Mossless’ fourth big book explores this theme by looking at how contemporary artists address these very issues. The book was made in collaboration with Charlotte Cotton & the International Center of Photography The book will also complement their inaugural exhibit, Public, Private, Secret.The line-up for this book is absolutely stellar, with photographers like Signe Pierce, Anouk Kruithof, Ryan Pfluger, Amy Elkins, Kris Graves, Jen Davis, Daniel Mayrit, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Shohei Miyachi, Rachel Stern, Farah Al Qasimi, Molly Matalon and many more. Fuck it - Michele Sibiloni - Edition Patrick Frey“All the animals come out at night… Broken eggs, bruised legs, torn skirts, laughing lads, crested cranes, packs of dogs, a wide-eyed man with a gun. The stories told by these grimy vignettes are at once a cartoon strip and an archive of the ephemeral, an African symphony and a third-world catastrophe, a naughty grope and a guilty giggle.“ by David CecilCATALOGUE - Vincent Delbrouck The new self-published book by Vincent Delbrouck launched at this year’s Unseen fair. This is Not a Catalogue - despite its title, which evokes the idea of creating order, Catalogue does not propose a methodical classification. The book is composed of numbered plates, of single images, teeming collages, and exhibition views. All copies vary in page order, so is therefore unique. Tiksi - Evgenia Arbugaeva - The EyesTiksi is a love-letter to the past, narrating the adventures of a girl called Tanya, a representation of the artist’s younger self. The images capture her playing amongst candy-coloured houses, snowcapped valleys and the eerie glow ofthe nightly aurora borealis.ZZYZX - Gregory Halpern - Mack BooksThe people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halpern’s camera, but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasy—a structure, sequence and edit which, like Los Angeles itself, teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass. -- source link