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The Rendering Eye

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Regula Bochsler/Philipp Sarasin
The Rendering Eye



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

288 pages 33 x 21.5 cm Hardcover Colour Offset

£49.00

The Rendering Eye shows 3-D screenshots of the urban United States as they appear in Apple Maps: deserted streets, buildings and industrial plants that look almost post-apocalyptic. Cars and boats turn into ephemeral shadows, trees are cocooned into sculptures, containers melt, machinery is deformed, and streets are warped. Although the algorithms trace the contours of the world with astonishingly mimetic precision, the spooky universe of Apple Maps is utterly baffled by “reality.” The software, originally developed for seeker missiles, was declassified a few years ago. The images it now produces conjure such references as the dystopian metropolises of Blade Runner, the Expressionist sea of buildings in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the futuristic buildings in SimCity, or Camille Pissarro’s light-saturated boulevards. The cityscapes captured by Regula Bochsler for this publication are abstract, machine generated, and cold. And yet they are, at times, bathed in exuberant, almost poetically tender colors. Thanks to their “mistakes,” their blurred outlines, their distortions and reflections, they look handmade, which ultimately lends them an obscure painterly beauty. Regula Bochsler and Philipp Sarasin explore the implications of these algorithmically generated cityscapes, with a particular emphasis on the impact made by this technologically advanced rendering of our “new world” on photography and the media sciences. Three essays accompany the virtual flyover expedition: Regula Bochsler describes the beginnings of classic air photography; theorist Bernd Stiegler elaborates on the historical, photographic context; and MIT Technology Review’s editor Tom Simonite addresses the military origins of Apple's technology.


Fredi Fischi/Niels Olsen

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Trix and Robert Haussman
Fredi Fischi/Niels Olsen



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

180 pages 23.4 x 17.2 cm Softcover Colour Offset

£29.00

Trix + Robert Haussmann’s monograph opens the publication series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey, a collaboration between the publisher and the exhibition space STUDIOLO. The curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen run a varied program of contemporary art productions in an atelier house in Zurich. The exhibition The Log-O-Rhythmic Slide Rule shown in spring 2012 was dedicated to the work of Trix and Robert Haussmann and is the basis for this publication, which, with illustrations, essays, texts by artists and a discussion, provides an in-depth look into the rich creative work of the Swiss architect and designer couple. Trix and Robert Haussmann are two of the most important architects, designers and theoreticians, consequential in influencing and helping to displace classical modernism in Switzerland. They have realized about 650 projects in their lifetime; in Zurich these include the Da-Capo-Bar, the new main train station, the boutique Weinberg and the Kronenhallenbar. The year 1967 marks their marriage and the establishment of their joint office Allgemeine Entwurfsanstalt. It is also the year they began working together, a collaboration which has brought forth works breaking with the dogmas of entrenched architectural practices. In addition to designing buildings and furniture, they have developed a rich theoretical œuvre that is presented for the first time in this publication. This book will form the basis for any future assessment of their work.

The Particles (of White Naugahyde)

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William Leavitt
The Particles (of White Naugahyde)



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

64 pages 21 x 14 cm Softcover BW Offset

£11.00

THE PARTICLES (of White Naugahyde) is the first publication of a play by William Leavitt (b. 1941). Leavitt is one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Los Angeles, helping significantly to establish the genre in the late 1960s and the 1970s. His works make use of narrative elements drawn from LA architecture and popular culture as well as from the movie and television industries. The artist works in various media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and theatre.  Framed as a sitcom setting, the narrative of THE PARTICLES (of White Naugahyde) tells the story of a family auditioning for a NASA program, which sends them to a newly planned space colony. The demanding admission process makes them live in a security-free community in the desert together with other applicants. These two weeks in the desert result in anxiety and anti-social behavior among the participants.

Familiar Territory

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Jon Naiman
Familiar Territory



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

68 pages 37.6 x 26.5 cm Hardcover Colour Offset

£49.00

In the series Familiar Territory, farm animals are portrayed together with their owners. But instead of standing in a stall or on a field, they are pictured in the middle of people’s living quarters. The emotional connections that exist between animals and humans find multiple and careful expressions here and are also effectively questioned.  The Familiar Territory photographs invoke the tradition of portrait and documentary photography as a way to investigate culture, habitat, domesticity, family and gender roles as well as our relationship to animals. Although the photographs are orchestrated and carefully composed, Jon Naiman has managed to capture a moment of intimacy. The color photos, made with a large-format camera, were taken in various regions of Switzerland, especially in the Bern and Solothurn cantons, in Alpine villages, on farms, in cities and agglomerations.

The Great Unreal

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Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs
The Great Unreal



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

152 pages 33.3 x 22.5 cm Hardcover 1st Edition

£49.00

Rare First Edition of The Great Unreal. During a space of three years, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working ‘on the road’ on the photo series The Great Unreal. The photographic work deals with reality and the fabrication of reality. The geography of America serves as both setting and fertile ground for the examination. Mysticism and demystification are important aspects in this process, as is working with a rich inventory of visual icons that can be continually deconstructed and manipulated. The working method of both photographers is based on interventions prescribed mostly by happenstance and change. Through repetition and associative placement, the sometimes crude, sometimes subtle interventions begin to link to one another, establishing an exciting transformation of reality that only hesitatingly reveals itself to the viewer. Together with book designers Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun, what emerged is an unmitigated picture book that makes a visual journey possible without any instructions. It comprises narrative image sequences that approximate the curiosity and restlessness of being on the move and, at the same time, depict associative connections with the American landscape.

Crystal Clear

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Maya Rochat
Crystal Clear



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

114 pages 30.2 x 23 cm Softcover 

£29.00

The symbolically laden, analog and digital works of the young Swiss artist Maya Rochat probe the depths of the photographic plane. Using her own writing and fragments of found images, she modifies her photographs to create radically associative compositions. She sources her own immediate surroundings, weaving portraits of friends and shots of landscapes into a dense, intimate visual fabric that is scratched, dissected, and reassembled with almost militant surgical intervention. The bitter, beautiful universe that surfaces in Crystal Clear patently eludes conventional codes of interpretation, relentlessly undermining the usual visual clichés and notions of beauty propagated by the media.

Beauty Lies in the Eye

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Catherine Ceresole
Beauty Lies in the Eye



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

312 pages 28.5 x 31 cm Softcover

£56.00

In 1979 Catherine Ceresole and her husband Nicolas moved to New York, where he was to begin training as an audio engineer. In truth, however, the couple went there because they were captivated by the city’s underground music scene. They soon became friendly with a number of musicians who Catherine began to photograph at concerts and in intimate settings. The result was a unique photographic documentary of the New York punk, no-wave and avant-garde music scene during its heyday. With her keen eye for dramatic moments, she captured them all on film: Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, Arto Lindsay, Christian Marclay, the Beastie Boys and many others. After they returned to Switzerland, Catherine Ceresole continued to photograph musicians and their bands — with an unfailing ear and keen eye. The book is a visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of this unique photographer to a broad public for the first time. Texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, and a conversation between Catherine Ceresole and Emmanuel Grandjean, along with Nicolas Ceresole and Francis Baudevin.

Eldorado Experience Two: Surf Panama

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Folch Studio
Eldorado Experience Two: Surf Panama



Published by: The Flames

23,5 x 33,5 cm Softcover Edition of 700

£17.00

This annual surf publication features stories and imagery about everything having to do with surfing in a certain place. The idea is to capture the feelings or sensations involved with surfing a particular place. This issue features a photography essay by Dizy Diaz, artwork by Angela Palacios and art direction by Folch.


Issue 01

Summer Issue

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Hotshoe
Summer Issue



Published by:

110 pages 21.5 x 28.cm Softcover 2014

£9.00

HOTSHOE is the UK's leading contemporary photography magazine, published 4 times a year HOTSHOE is repeatedly the first to spot and support innovative work. Our accessible features are not only the product of a powerful visual aesthetic, but also strong writing and intelligent design.  The multitude of voices and opinion that makes up Hotshoe include some of the most important names in photography today, writing in one of the few truly independent publications. Forty years after the launch of our print magazine,The Hotshoe App edition was released, available on Kindle Fire, Windows 8, and iPad bringing a whole new world of contemporary photography through your postbox and onto your tablet. This issue focuses on features on Hannah Whitaker, Bill Henson, Edgar Martins, Roe Ethridge, Richard Mosse and many more!

Issue 45

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Brownbook
Issue 45



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200 pages 21 x 26 cm Softcover 2014

£6.50

Middle Eastern magazine Brownbook released its 45th edition earlier this month, highlighting the unsung heroes of the region’s music scene. “The Music Issue” includes features such as the rock star wedding singers from Agadez, Niger and an interview with Vice Magazine co-founder Suroosh Alvi — whose coverage also helped to popularize the first Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda. The issue also covers Moroccan actress Chaimae Ben Acha’s most recent role as Malika, the lead singer of the all-girl Tangier punk band in Traitors.

Issue III

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Tunica
Issue III



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120 pages 21.8 x 28 cm Softcover Colour Offset 

£16.00

"To promote in every possible way the interests of the arts, recognizing no taboos. It’s here that we stand as particles, as a whole, like a body in a continuous drift, longing for a place to fuse and elevate its deeds. The postmodern scene is a good picture, we admire your energy, silently, expectantly, Ma-ga-zine ‘de vers’. Enormous Youngsters, you and Artists are the only things (you don’t mind being called things?) leaving the world with a little life in it. You are the word of change and prevalence, all emphatic ions. A word of advice; leave works of art alone, the ego is a great enemy of progress, a modern caricature. A Tunica is what we all would wear in our hope against oblivion. Staying power! Brave comrades!"

NOBUYOSHI ARAKI KAORI by 20 x 24

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Nobuyoshi Araki
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI KAORI by 20 x 24



Published by: Eyescencia

12 prints of 20 x 24  Edition of 75

£465.00

This exclusive monograph by famed Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki contains 12 reproductions of 20 x 24 instant photographs in one wooden frame. The shots were taken in 2011 in Japan using Impossible monochrome film with an original Polaroid™ 20 x 24. This collector's edition is limited to just 75, each autographed by the artist. Cooperated by IMPOSSIBLE. 

Black Market

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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Black Market



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101 pages 15.5 x 21.5 cm Softcover Edition of 100 Signed

£50.00

Black Market has been selected by Le Monde as one of the best Photography Books of 2012. Black Market takes its name from the eponymous film Al Suq al Soda, or Black Market. Directed by the surrealist painter-turned-filmmaker Kamel el-Telmissany, the film was banned shortly after its release in Egypt in 1945, and has since all but disappeared. What is more, this rare copy of the film, a recording from television, has been partially erased by another film – an unknown porno probably made in the 1970s or 80s. The two films share the same strip of magnetic tape, but sit uncomfortably together and transmit inverse aesthetic, moral and political positions.

Rich and Strange

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David Campany
Rich and Strange



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23 pages 16 x 22 cm Hardcover Edition of 100 Signed

£50.00

As the image world becomes electronic, paper photographs from the past drift about in search of new homes. Earlier this year the writer and artist David Campany chanced upon a press photograph in a flea market. It was taken in 1931 on the outdoor set of a film shoot. The director was Alfred Hitchcock. The film was Rich and Strange. Campany turns the photograph into a book of the same name.Hitchcock was the master of suspense but photographs suspend in a very different way. The show but they don’t tell. They describe but they don’t explain. They are factual enigmas. Zooming in, the book picks out the seemingly endless details: African shacks, rickshaws, lily white movie stars from Europe, a nervous producer, a cameraman, scattered props. All in a field in Elstree, North London.Rich and Strange is a homage to the materiality of photographs, to filmmaking, to abandoned archives and to the photographer who shot this image but whose name is lost.


Moshpits

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Dan Witz
Moshpits



Published by: Pogobooks

36 pages 21 x 26 cm Softcover Colour Offset 

£11.00

Back in my 20's as my brief career as a musician was waning to a close, I knew I'd really miss the intensity of performing when I returned to making art full time. But I discovered in my museum wanderings - especially in the epic baroque multi-figure pieces - that painting actually had plenty of potential for the adrenalin and animalistic frenzy I craved. The action, especially in the large set pieces by Rubens. Brueghel and Bosch can be dizzying: sometimes it even manages to achieve an almost punk-rock pitch of chaos and catharsis. After photographing in the mosh pits for awhile I began to get familiar with patterns in the music. Eventually it got to the point where I could sense the moment coming when things would really cut loose and go berserk. I had the camera on a pole so I'd hit the timer, count down with the music and lift the camera over the crowd hoping the shutter would click at the optimum moment. It was mostly luck but when I'd nail someone in full barbaric yawp it was as satisfying as performing. And being tossed around in the mosh pit definitely satisfied my need for adrenalin and an art-form that involved risk. Another thing I've noticed in my museum and gallery wanderings is that if you watch people, the majority of them spend just a few moments in front of the art. As an artist this is disturbing. And a challenge. I mean, we pour everything into these things, we dedicate our lives to these objects, and it seems sad that our best efforts can divert people's attention for barely a few seconds. And these are people who are motivated to go look at art - what about the rest of the world? I understand that we all have short attention spans and the world is over-saturated with images, but still, as artists I think the goal has got to be to transcend this benumbed condition and figure out a way to make images that are worthy of your prolonged attention. 

Etna

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Renato D'Agostin
Etna



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48 pages 24 x 33cm Hardcover BW Offset

£27.00

Etna by Renato D' Agostin is the fifth book by the young venetian photographer. His gaze on the sicilian volcano seems to tell us of an alien place, a lunar landscape where shadows and figures move along ineluctable lines, fumes and mists of Dantesque atmosphere, figures inhabiting a magical world as it is the ancestral volcano, with thousands of symbolic references . You sense the power that seethes beneath the unnatural stillness . The book, consisting of 23 black and white photographs printed by D' Agostin in the darkroom is accompanied by an internal volume with Sequenza e Fuga in 4,6,8 voices, composed by italian poet Luigi Cerantola.

Medium #3

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Drama
Medium #3



Published by: Nieves

64 pages 16.5 x 24 cm Softcover BW Offset 2014

£10.00

I was waiting for the flight to Graz. There were only minutes left to go when at the gate next to ours, a circle of passengers started backing away, slowly, from a Duty Free bag lying there on the floor. A broken bottle of red wine was bleeding profusely from the inside of the plastic bag. And it was a hypnotic sight to see. The honeyed, earthy smell of wine was both immediately familiar and jarring as it permeated the terminal. With surprising speed, a cleaning lady arrived, all dressed up in Schiphol blue. Heading straight for the bag. This particular cleaning lady was an elderly employee, her hair thin, her hands almost skeletal, her face exhausted. Too old, one muttered to oneself, to be working still. She slowed down as she approached the bag, suddenly frowning, and started clicking her tongue, gently, as if soothing a wounded animal. Published and edited by artist Shirana Shahbazi (1974 Tehran), writer Tirdad Zolghadr (1972 San Francisco) and designer Manuel Krebs (1970 Karachi). 

The Pope's Secret

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Ari Marcopoulos
The Pope's Secret



Published by: Nieves

72 pages 16.5 x 24 cm Softcover Colour Offset 2014

£16.00

The Pope's Secrets combines all the elements that Ari Marcopoulos is dealing with in his practice. And then adds an element of design as well at some point in the book a series of horizontal images that follow each other and are basically rectangles that could be replaced by any other image or plain solid rectangles.  Ari Marcopoulos (born 1957) is an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New York and California. As a photographer, film artist and adventurist, Marcopoulos, who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol, transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living on the edge. Artists, snowboarders, musicians and skateboarders have been both muses and commercial subject-matter throughout his quarter century career as a photographer. His stunning landscapes and playful portraiture offer a dramatic take on every day life, and a glimpse into all things awesome.

Down and Out in Moscow

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Miron Zownir
Down and Out in Moscow



Published by: Pogobooks

120 pages 22 x 26 cm Hardcover BW Offset Edition of 500

£44.00

In summer 1995 Miron Zownir traveled to Russia. Focused on street photography he took pictures of homeless, dying and dead people. According to Zownir, he experienced Moscow as "the most aggressive and dangerous city I've ever been to." Yet even Russian militia couldn't keep him away from depicting the blatant social and moral decline in the former Soviet Union. Zownir's images from Russia are bitter and brutal, and highly distressing to view. The human tragic of radical poverty, that they reveal, ultimately climaxes in the utterly undignified act of dying in public. "It was Dante's inferno," Zownir would state when he returned to Berlin after three months of a terrifying descend into the lower depths of the Post-Soviet society. Since more than 30 years Miron Zownir is known as one of the most radical contemporary photographers. His images from the western cities like Berlin, New York and London or the post-communist east-europe were shown in several international shows like the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. Miron Zownir's photographs were shown next to Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Weegee, Larry Clark, Robert Capa and many more. 

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