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  • SKOVBO

    Viggo Mortensen - May, 2008

    This book functions as a partial companion to the upcoming photo exhibit , also titled Skovbo (which roughly translates from Danish as "home in the forest"), by Viggo Mortensen at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography (Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavikur), opening on 31st May, 2008 and running until 31st August, 2008. In this new collection of images and poems are trees and the memory of trees, ghosts, words, nights, days, lives, deaths, and safe haven for them all in the place where "...the twigs become branches, / And the mist becomes make-believe..." (Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam). If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.  Get the Book -»

  • Inside North Korea

    By Mark Edward Harris, Foreword by Bruce Cumings - February, 2007

    Inside North Korea — All but closed to outside visitors and influence, its public posture guarded and combative, we see almost nothing from inside North Korea. Award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has had rare access to this reclusive country, traveling within its borders as well as documenting life along its northern border with China and the highly militarized DMZ dividing North and South Korea. His images are amazing: the monumental architecture and empty streets of the capital; tightly controlled zones of economic and tourist trade with South Korea; mass games featuring 100,000 choreographed participants. Short essays, extended captions, and a foreword by North Korea expert Bruce Cumings further illuminate a country increasingly at the center of international politics.  Get the Book -»

  • Wanderlust

    Mark Edward Harris - 2007

    Wanderlust takes the viewer to visit tribes in northern Vietnam, down China’s Yangtze River, into the tense demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, to the top of Mt. Fuji, through Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, and around the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the exotic islands of the South Pacific and the Caribbean. Harris’s uncommonly keen eye turns photos of people and their environments into seductive images that banish travel photography clichés. The viewer is left with a fresh sense of wonder at the world’s beauty and the artist’s skill. In this newly expanded edition of Wanderlust, Harris covers the entire globe by adding ten new countries - India, Russia, Vatican City, Peru, Ecuador, Kenya, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Oman and North Korea - with over 100 new photographs. His uncommonly keen eye turns photos of people - especially children in their native garb and environment - into seductive images that banish travel-photography clichés.   Get the Book -»

  • Strauss-Peyton: Celebrity and Glamour

    Stephen White Editions - November 2006

    Photographic images of celebrities have long captivated the curious and adoring. Talented photographers of the last century, like Yousuf Karsh, Andy Warhol, and Annie Liebowitz, have not only photographed the famous, but have, through thoughtful and creative composition, given the viewer an illuminating insight into their subjects. Now in Strauss-Peyton: Celebrity and Glamour. Portraits From The Early 1900s (Sunswept Press, November, 2006), we get a glimpse of portrait photography in a most glamorous era-the first three decades of the twentieth century - by a collaborative team whose work has not previously been published in book form.   Get the Book -»

  • Supernatural

    Lindsay Brice - Spring 2006

    In these beautifully-made photographs, Lindsay Brice’s hypersensitive eye leads us onto pathways of the subconscious. As vessels for the imagination, Brice’s sometimes disturbing but always suggestive tableaus open channels to our individual and collective memories, seeming to share confidences in a manner as disarming as it is seductive. Her dolls have no visible owners, no masters. They appear, rather, in their often faded and forlorn states, to shape their own narratives - stories that invite our participation. Introduction by Kim Gordon of seminal rock band Sonic Youth. Also, includes Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Temple of the Holy Ghost.”   Get the Book -»

  • Linger

    Viggo Mortensen – Spring 2006

    New black and white photographs and words from Viggo Mortensen that look directly at loss, change, and renewal. In making Linger, he strives to find a still place from which to see and interpret the world around him. The imagery in this book deals frankly with family, strangers, and landscape that Mortensen has recently been able to spend extended time with, rather than hurriedly observe as just one more passing ghost with a camera and a notebook. Although we might occasionally find in these newer images hints of the chaotic abstractions that have recently dominated his work, Linger evidences a patience with things as they come to be and, consequently, a tranquility long-absent from both his photography and writing.   Get the Book -»

  • Furlough 55

    Stanley Milstein

    Furlough 55 takes us back to the relatively innocent time and place that was post-World War II Europe through the eyes of photographer Stanley Milstein, U.S. Army Specialist, Second Class. A creative and inquisitive young man leaving his native Brooklyn for the first time, he captured in carefully-composed black and white portraits and landscapes an ephemeral historical moment, bearing witness to a largely-vanished era of European-American fellowship and hope. Now, fifty years later, his original negatives have been lovingly restored and used to make the captivating images that his son, printer Hugh Milstein, has provided for this book.   Get the Book -»

  • Skip

    David Newsom

    David Newsom’s SKIP is a moving and highly personal view of the landscape his older brother Lloyd (Skip) Curtis Newsom, Jr. inhabits. The images in this book, tender as they are austere, not only bear witness to the photographer’s appreciation for the natural beauty of a particular corner in South-Eastern Idaho, but also represent his sincere attempt to see that place as his beloved brother does. An attempt to learn, as Skip has, to understand and embrace this harsh new landscape as home. Dying weeds going into autumn, menacing skies, mountains so distant as to appear unreachable, isolated view of phone pole, road sign, new coat, old blue truck, and the snowy path to their sister’s yellow house... These images remind us, as Ralph Waldo Emerson did, that “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”.   Get the Book -»

  • Dream

    A Journal by Larry Vigon

    In 1989, at the suggestion of his analyst, designer Larry Vigon began to record every dream he could remember. He wrote each into an 11 x 14-inch sketchbook, along with an acrylic painting inspired by the dream. The result, over time, is an astonishing body of work, represented by the selections in this beautiful full-size facsimile volume. After seeing advance materials for the book, a writer in G r a p h i s magazine said it “preserves the intimate presentation of the original warts-and-all artist’s notebook—with words scratched out in first-draft fashion, blobs of ink, traces of transferred paint throughout, all the glorious imperfections. Unmediated as it is, Vigon’s work functions like a form of meditation. At the same time the quality of the painting is that of finished art, so we experience the journal as a kind of heightened sketchbook of the unconscious.”   Get the Book -»

  • Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians

    Ricky Jay

    This is an informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century broadsides from the Ricky Jay’s extraordinary collection. It includes observations on the convention of promoting such appearances, digressions on the manner and method of printing advertisements to do so, and insights into the psychology employed to that end. All are compiled in a monograph that is itself a shameless attempt to entertain and elucidate.   Get the Book -»