Edition Patrick Frey

Active since 1986, Edition Patrick Frey focuses on unique projects and produces books in small print runs. The purpose of Edition Patrick Frey is to provide particularly young artists, mainly Swiss but also international, an opportunity and a platform with a first publication, but EPF has also been engaged in long-term collaborations with several artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Andreas Züst. With an output of up to 20 books per year, the publisher focuses mainly on photography, art and projects dealing with everyday and popular culture.

Zurich

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206 titles

Barbara Davatz
As Time Goes By – Portraits 1982, 1988, 1997, 2014

2016

English edition

In 1982 Barbara Davatz photographed 12 young couples from the Zurich scen—lovers, friends or kin. She portrayed them again in 1988, 1997 and 2014, covering more than three decades of human relations, aesthetic and social evolution.

Prill Vieceli Cremers
Money

2016

English edition

An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.

Greetings from Auschwitz

2015

English edition

Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947—only two years after the liberation of the camp.

Thomas Müllenbach
Originale

2015

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Thomas Müllenbach's series Halboriginale (“Semi-originals”), which he worked on from 2005-2013, constitutes an artistic appropriation of art-related documentation found in his mailbox over the years. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by the artist.

Claudio Cambon
Shipbreak

2015

English edition

A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.

Salon Moderne

2015

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The art of hair salon window-dressing in Switzerland.

Luciano Rigolini
Mask

2015

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An artist's book presenting an extensive series of grilles from American cars built between 1955 and 1962. A book allowing multiple readings and meanings, in a balance between conceptual rigor and visual sensuality.

Gasoline and Magic

2015

English edition

Collected amateur photographs tell with a wistful eye the magical heyday of Motor sports from the sixties until the eighties.

Flurina Rothenberger
I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go

2015

English edition

A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.

Cameron Jamie
Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries

2015

English edition

America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).

Bob Nickas
69 / 96

2015

English edition

In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).

Weinberg & Co, Trix + Robert Haussmann
Haussmann für Weinberg

2015

English edition

currently out of stock

A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.

Die Not hat ein Ende – The Swiss Art of Rock

2015

bilingual edition (English / German)

currently out of stock

A visual history of rock music and its subcultures in Switzerland in the last 50 years.

Jean-Pierre Maurer, Robert Müller
Morgan is sad today

2015

English edition

A photo series influenced by the Free Cinema captures the Beat spirit in Switzerland during the Sixties.

Beni Bischof
Texte

2015

German edition

Artist's book.

Albert Oehlen
In der Wohnung

2015

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(last copies available!)

Albert Oehlen's collages (artist's book): a spatial and temporal journey into the tradition of artistic representations of domestic interiors, from the great names of art history to the artist's own works.

Eric Bachmann
Muhammad Ali, Zurich, 26.12.1971

2015

English edition

The legendary fight between Muhammad Ali and Jürgen Blin in Zurich, covered by the photographer Eric Bachmann.

Susanne Meyer
Are you kidding

2015

English edition

Artist's book.

Marianne Mueller
Stairs etc

2015

no text

Artist's book.

David Weiss
Die Wandlungen

2015

English edition (text in English and German)

An exclusive publication of an important body of work by the late, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012): Die Wandlungen (“The Metamorphoses”) for the first time reproduces all 82 series of graphic metamorphoses dating from 1975 to 1979 in Marrakesh, Carona (Switzerland), and Zurich.

Das Fremde ist nur in der Fremde fremd

2015

German edition

Catalogue.

Giuseppe Micciché
Cento Passi

2015

bilingual edition (German / Italian)

Artist's book.

Anne-Lise Coste
Où suis-je

2014

English edition

Artist's book.

Jürg Halter, Huber.Huber
Hoffentlich verliebe ich mich nicht in dich

2014

German edition

A project by the Zurich artist duo Huber.Huber— i.e. twin brothers Markus and Reto Huber—and Bern poet Jürg Halter.

Karen Kilimnik
Photographs

2014

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Artist's book (Karen Kilimnik's photographic works).

Ashley Bickerton
Susie

2014

English edition

The first monographic close reading of Ashley Bickerton's influential early work (texts by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Bob Nickas, Thomas Lawson, John C. Welchman...).

Suzanne Perrottet
Bewegungen / Movements

2014

bilingual edition (English / German)

A visual archive of movement.

William Leavitt
The Particles (of White Naugahyde)

2014

English edition

The first publication of a play by one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Los Angeles (new edition).

Maya Rochat
Crystal Clear

2014

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A series of analog and digital photographic collages by Maya Rochat.

The Rendering Eye – Urban America Revisited

2014

bilingual edition (English / German)

A series of images of the urban United States based on 3D screenshots taken from Apple Maps, by Regula Bochsler.

Daniela Comani
Eine glückliche Ehe / Un matrimonio felice / A Happy Marriage

2014

texts in English, German, Italian

Daniela Comani's gender game.

David Renggli
25% Painting

2014

English edition

A collection of about 500 collages, repeatedly and arbitrarily re-arranged during the printing process, making each book its own unique work of art.

Erik Steinbrecher
Mondfotografie

2014

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Erik Steinbrecher's pictures of the moon (artist's book).

Catherine Ceresole
Beauty Lies in the Eye

2013

English edition

A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).

H. R. Giger
Alien Diaries

2013

bilingual edition (English / German)

The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.

Keiichi Tanaami
No More War

2013

English edition

A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.

Trix + Robert Haussmann

2013

bilingual edition (English / German)

Reference monograph.

Marie Angeletti
Fabricants Couleurs

2013

French edition

The French artist Marie Angeletti presents photographs from a project hosted by two sites belonging to a color manufacturing company in the cities of Gémenos (France) and Shanghai.

The Politics of Friendship

2013

English edition

A collaborative project initiated by Anicka Yi, Jordan Lord, Lise Soskolne and Carissa Rodriguez, based on Mal Ahem and Moira Weigel's viral essay and on Derrida's Politics of Friendship.

Marc Elsener
Bärte aus dem Jenseits

2013

no text

Artist's book.

David Küenzi
Zustandsaufnahme

2013

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Artist's book: a glimpse into the archive of status assessment photos that David Küenzi took for the city of Zurich over a period of several years.

Max Küng
Pensive Racing Drivers

2013

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Artist's book: Max Küng's collection of pensive racing drivers portraits.

Roswitha Hecke
Irene

2011

English edition

~~60.00~~ 52.00 €

Reprint of Roswitha Hecke's 1978 cult book.

Lutz & Guggisberg
Loch im Spiegel

2011

no text

Artist's book.

Jussi Puikkonen
On Vacation

2008

English edition

(last copies available!)

~~72.00~~ 36.00 €

First monograph.

Walter Pfeiffer
Cherchez la femme!

2007

bilingual edition (English / German)

Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.

Yelena Yemchuk
Malanka

2024

English edition

sold out

Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's sixth photobook: a series dedicated the Malanka Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on Old Year's Day.