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Issue 48
Mousse Magazine
Issue 48
Published by:
26.5 x 37.5 cm Softcover Newsprint
£8.00
Featuring work from Nick Currie, John Menick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Denny and more!
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Sketches
Viviane Sassen
Sketches
Published by: Kominek Gallery
36 pages 16 x 20 cm Softcover Second Edition 2015
£18.00
Sketches includes Polaroids made in Africa between 2002 and 2010. This publication could serve as an introduction to the work of Viviane Sassen and specially during the period of the Flamboya work. Sketches captures the raw energy of spontaneously staged street scenes and shows an inside view on the creative process of Viviane Sassens photography. The design of the publication is by Sybren Kuiper, who also designed the highly acclaimed Flamboya book. The reproductions of Polaroid piles suggests the 3 dimensional feeling of a real Polaroid. The tactile finish of the embossed cardboard cover and the binding with stitched black thread makes this publication just incredibly balanced.
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Issue 2
Space Magazine
Issue 2
Published by:
148 pages 24.5 x 30 cm Softcover 2015 Pre-order your copy now, to be dispatched mid May.
£10.00
Space Magazine 02, an interior and culture magazine combining photography and writing with the universal subject of living. The second issue explores artists’ studios, focussing on the workspaces of our friends and collaborators – the artists who inspire us most. Alister Mackie, the creative director of Another Man magazine, and possibly the most influential menswear stylist of our times, gives us a unique tour of his home and studio in East London. In Stockholm, we meet with the artist Mamma Andersson, known for her almost hypnotic studies of everyday life – mysterious but hauntingly familiar. For this issue, Mamma documented her atelier with a candid and eye-opening series of Polaroid images. We also meet the Norwegian photographer and artist Benjamin Alexander Huseby, who, realising that he needed a change of scene from photographing fashion in London, moved to Kreuzberg in Berlin, joining the Basso collective, a hub for activity and activism.
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Issue 4
Saturdays Magazine
Issue 4
Published by:
312 pages 16 x 30 cm Softcover 2015
£20.00
Saturdays Magazine is an annual publication featuring original works from the realms of art, cinema, design, photography and surfing. The latest issue centres on the idea that while we constantly need to have our eye on the future, there are certain things that never go out of style.
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Issue 3
Noon
Issue 3
Published by:
24 x 34 cm Softcover 2015
£10.00
Noon is a magazine concerned with art and commerce. Published twice a year, the title has a strong art and fashion bias, with contemporary critical text alongside. Issue 3 features Mel Bles, Charlie Engman, Zoe Ghertner, Adrian Henri and Clunie Reid.
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The Provence Summer Reader: After Dark
Tobias Kaspar and Hannes Loichinger
The Provence Summer Reader: After Dark
Published by: Paraguay Press
184 pages 11 x 18 cm Softcover Edition of 1000
£10.00
Don’t be deceived by the dark metal tone of the cover, or the winter release date. The PROVENCE Summer Reader: After Dark (the second book co-published by Paraguay Press and PROVENCE) is a reader for all seasons—a reverse roman de gare for all flights! Maintaining the light tone of The PROVENCE City Guide: NICE, After Dark combines new and historical texts by artists, writers and cultural agents that ballades amongst the themes of seduction, glamour and politics. Infused with the effects of technology on our social relations, the contributions vary from narratives about cruising on the French Riviera, to reflections on the art world, from sexual investigation, to poetry, not to mention a suite of illustrations by Siw Umsonst. A flirty book to flick through or read cover-to-cover, After Dark offers you a nice excuse to do nothing but read during sunny days on a ski-resort terrace or hot nights in bed with light breezes. Wave your expectations goodbye and experience intimate encounters with celebrity (Maria Callas’ weight problems, at least) through the eyes of Helmut Berger. Go deeper into the work of desire via a discussion between Carter Mull and Shelby Sells, or a dinner confession recalled by Marina Pinsky. Get into Gerry Bibby’s head and reflect on consumerist logic through his socio-politico-sexual vignettes, and so much more… After Dark is the perfect mixer for all spirits.
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Morgan Is Sad Today
J.P. Maurer & R. Müller
Morgan Is Sad Today
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
232 pages 16 x 20.9 cm Softcover
£34.00
The photo series by Jean-Pierre Maurer and Robert Müller was only shown once, in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich in 1968, without any commentary other than a text by Ettore Sottsass. It is now displayed in this same way in Morgan Is Sad Today, which has been republished. The title of the book comes from a song whose lyrics go on to say “…sadder than yesterday”– and which in turn comes from the movie Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment, 1966, by Karel Reisz. It marked the beginning of a new way of making movies, the Free Cinema, with statements like “No film can be too personal,” or “Perfection is not an aim,” which are also reflected in the photographs at hand. The staged documentations and the stagings documented in the studio recall elaborate, but unpretentious concepts in art photography series by Swiss artists such as Manon or Urs Lüthi; on the other hand, though, the formal style, motifs, and narrative threads echo comic books. The pictures capture the Zeitgeist: on a trip to the myth-obsessed London of the Sixties or when Zurich Beat bands still posed for record covers standing head to head, or made leaps wearing suits with skinny ties and Flamenco dancer ankle boots. The Mid-sixties were also a time when the first large-scale black and white prints of posters became available: of Buster Keaton or Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out, or Trotsky.The photo series Morgan Is Sad Today is in this sense very much also a conceptual stringing together of posters. In his text Ettore Sottsass stays very close to what the Zeitgeist embodied without glorification or denigration, with a subtle sense of amusement. And Sandro Fischli draws on the backgrounds of the pictures, sometimes sharply, sometimes deliberately, fraying a subjective and associative social and cultural history of the 1960s, and looking back on an economically booming Switzerland in which the boundaries of high culture were becoming increasingly porous.
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Issue 12
Inventory Magazine
Issue 12
Published by:
188 pages 23 x 30 cm Softcover 2015
£16.00
The cover of our Spring-Summer ’15 issue, shot by Tim Barber, features American artist and designer, Erik Brunetti. The twelfth edition of Inventory also includes Adam Silverman, Scott Sternberg, George Nakashima and Arthur Erickson; a selection of seasonal fashion stories; and contributions by JIMA, Lina Scheynius, James Hoff, Katherine Clary and Ricky Swallow.
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There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here
Paccarik Orue
There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here
Published by: Owl and Tiger Books
48 pages 18 x 20 cm Softcover
£22.00
"There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here is a photobook about the struggling city of Richmond, California, a place that has a reputation as being one of the most crime ridden parts of the Bay Area. The book depicts unexpected moments in a place where people have come to expect only ugliness and suffering." — Paccarik Orue Richmond, California is a place where many families are struggling with rising unemployment, foreclosure, poverty, and the ensuing violence and substance abuse. This situation has accentuated Richmond’s reputation for being one of the roughest parts of the Bay Area. However, Richmond is also a place where turkeys walk past on the sidewalks, dogs guard their owner’s properties, people ride horses in the park, and fire hydrants cool the hot afternoons. During one of my visits, a middle-aged African American woman asked me why I was taking pictures in her neighborhood. I answered that it was beautiful. She responded, “there is nothing beautiful around here.” Beauty and sorrow live side by side in Richmond. This body of work documents this contradiction, the character of the city and the pride of its residents.
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I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough...
Mira Gonzales
I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough...
Published by:
14 x 21.5 cm Softcover 2014
£9.00
Mira Gonzalez is a phenomenon of the same breed as Tao Lin: she might actually be the only literary social media presence more prolific and more intense – flitting between her two Twitter accounts, @miragonz and @miraunedited, is a kind of poetry in and of its self and fairly representative of her first collection. Either brutally honest to the point of appearing unhinged or wildly fantastic, but totally engrossing regardless.
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Summer Weather
Michael Jang
Summer Weather
Published by: Owl and Tiger Books
74 pages 14 x 21.5 cm Softcover 2014
£24.00
"In 1983, a local TV station held a contest for anyone who wanted a chance at reporting the weather. My role was to take head shots of contestants after each screen test. Five winners were chosen out of nearly one hundred applicants. The pictures were never used, but I developed the negatives anyway (without proofing them). These images had been lost until recently and I am seeing them for the very first time."— Michael Jang Summer Weather is a visually arresting book. Each photograph appears in full on the page, focusing your attention to the individuals. Careful viewing allows the subtle nuances of their unique character to seep in; hairstyles, facial expressions, emotional values. They become real, if not just hilarious people. We become invested.
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Texte 1
Beni Bischof
Texte 1
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
320 pages 10.5 x 17.5 cm Softcover 2015
£15.00
Beni Bischof works in an unruly and intuitive manner. In addition to his drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, and installations, his self-published, laser copied art magazine has since 2005 borne witness to his eruptive creative urges. He translates spontaneous ideas concerning social and political issues into quirky, humorous word and image-based messages of a disarming directness.The banality of everyday life is not spared any more than current political dramas. Beni Bischof de-glamorizes the noble appearance of purported exclusivity and draws a picture of society characterized by his unfathomable sense of humor. He draws his image and text materials from trivial literature, fashion magazines, advertising, and even the virtual world. Psychobuch (2014), his first publication with Edition Patrick Frey, is both an overview of this intensive production as well as a full-fledged artist’s book in its own right. Texte offers an initial view into his current work in progress: pure text in a paperback format. It consists of Beni Bischof’s personal portrayal of his collection of emails, headlines, slogans, and jokes. Texte is being published on the occasion of the artist’s solo show at the St. Gallen Art Museum (February 13–June 21, 2015). Beni Bischof was awarded the St. Gallen Manor Art Prize for the year 2015.
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Issue 9
Printed Pages
Issue 9
Published by:
156 pages 20 x 27.5 cm Softcover 2015
£6.00
Featuring interviews with advertising royalty Dan Wieden, comics legend Charles Burns, photographer of the moment Viviane Sassen and Gail Bichler, design director of The New York Times Magazine. There’s also features on nudie drawing, private views, some of the strangest design studio names and an in-depth exploration of rock’n’roll tour photography through the ages.
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Issue 6
Human Being Journal
Issue 6
Published by:
224 pages 16.5 x 21.5 cm Softcover 2015
£12.00
Human Being Journal is Need Supply Co.’s biannual print publication. This issue, In Plain Sight, was a close collaboration with Soulland. It features the one and only Tok Kise and ruminated on simplicity, singularity and vision in his Osaka studio. We explored new minimalism with the Los Angeles sisters behind Building Block. We brought a stack of real guns into our studio for a sunny Saturday shoot and had some celebrated chefs reimagine prison food. The elusive Elmgreen & Dragset talked to us about social subversions and artsy mischief. We looked inside once-auspicious landscapes in America is Dead, glimpsed amped-up youth through Lasse Dearman‘s lens, and Mikael Kennedy took us across the forgotten and otherworldly US state of New Mexico. This issue has two limited-edition covers: “Copenhagen” shot by Sascha Oda and featuring model Marie Falkner and “California,” shot by Juliette Cassidy and featuring model Leah Goode.
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In Der Wohnung
Albert Oehlen
In Der Wohnung
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
128 pages 24 x 32 cm Hardcover 2015
£41.00
In der Wohnung is a book about the long-standing tradition of representations of domestic interiors. Since antiquity, painting has played with the motif of the interior: the symbol of depth, evoked by every form of illustration. It has always been an important subject to Albert Oehlen, a German painter now based in Appenzell, Switzerland. In his latest collages he works with source materials drawn from art history, transforming works by the likes of Vuillard and Dalí into pop art “panels”. In collaboration with Oehlen, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen put together a collective exhibition in the spring of 2014 at the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil-Jona near Zürich, spanning the broad range of different approaches to the painting of interiors in contemporary art. The book In der Wohnung has now come out in the series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey. It is a journey through time that begins in a landscape in which the viewer comes across works from Oehlen’s oeuvre referring to paintings by Thomas Arnolds, Richard Artschwager, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Roy Lichtenstein et al. Then we see a building in the landscape, rooms inside that building, and we have arrived for a tour of the Albert Oehlen exhibition In der Wohnung.
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Issue 4:1
Art Margins
Issue 4:1
Published by:
128 pages 23 x 15.5 cm 2015
£13.00
Luis Castañeda (Syracuse) on conflicting racial, archaeological and art historical interpretations of Olmec art produced in the United States in the early 1960s. Chelsea Foxwell (Chicago) reconsiders the uses of nihonga in contemporary Japanese art. In the Document section, we present a previously untranslated section from S.R. Choucair’s seminal text “How the Arab Understood Visual Art,” a quasi-manifesto for modernist art in the Arab world (introduction and translation, Kirsten Scheid). Artist Project: Marwa Arsanios (Beirut), Olga's Notes: This Whole New World. Review Article: Ezra Akcan (Ithaca/NY), "Is a Global History of Architecture Displayable? A Historiographical Perspective on the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and Louvre Abu Dhabi.”
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The Guide: Barcelona
38 Hours
The Guide: Barcelona
Published by:
70 pages 22.5 x 17 cm Softcover English 2015
£9.00
Tapas with a modern twist, utopian housing projects, thrilling views from a diving board, art spaces in abandoned factories, broad beaches in the outskirts…Discover the Barcelona beyond the Ramblas in 38 Hours.
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The Great Unreal Third Edition
Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs
The Great Unreal Third Edition
Published by: Edition Patrick Frey
152 pages 22.5 x 33.5 cm Hardcover 2015
£50.00
During a period 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.
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