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.

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206 titles

KCBR

2023

English edition

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A series of rail graffiti by the KCBR collective, renewing the practice with an original reflection on the medium, concealment (including, of course, with regard to police services), the trace, public reception and ephemerality, as the works are obliterated by the artists themselves immediately after completion.

Walter Pfeiffer
Chez Walti 2000-2022

2023

English edition

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A large retrospective of the Swiss cult photographer's work over two decades.

Gauri Gill, Rajesh Vangad
Fields of Sight

2023

English edition

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A unique collaboration between photographer Gauri Gill and renowned Warli artist Rajesh Vangad.

Philipp Mueller
120 bpm

2022

English edition

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Philipp Mueller's photographs of the emerging techno scene in Switzerland in the early 1990s.

Philippe Dudouit
The Dynamics of Dust

2019

French edition

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A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.

$Pier Paolo Pasolini - Pasolini\'s Bodies and Places$

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pasolini's Bodies and Places

2017

texts in English and Italian

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First English edition of a colossal volume on Pasolini's cinematographic oeuvre, first published in the 1980s in Italy: 2.000 film stills ranged under the categories of “bodies” and “places”, with analysis and a compilation of texts by Pasolini. A Pasolinian publication in terms of both content and form, as well as an indispensable tool for research. The book contains also the original text in Italian.

Laurence Rasti
There Are No Homosexuals in Iran

2017

English edition

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For two years, Laurence Rasti photographed Iranian homosexual refugees who transit through the city of Denizli in Turkey, waiting to join a host country where to live their sexuality freely. The resulting photographic series explores the sensitive concepts of identity and gender, while juxtaposing the gravity of the situation with lighter and hopeful moments.

Piotr Uklański
Real Nazis

2017

English edition

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This artist's book compiles true propaganda photographs of the Third Reich with stills from actors playing Nazis in Hollywood movies: a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.

Mélanie Veuillet
Tools of Disobedience

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

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185 photographs of everyday objects secretly made by inmates in their cells.

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
Continental Drift

2017

English edition

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Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.

Arno Brandlhuber
Legislating Architecture Schweiz

2016

bilingual edition (English / French)

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A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.

Olivier Suter, Jean Tinguely
Torpedo Institut

2015

French edition

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A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
The Great Unreal

2015

English edition

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During a period of three years, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working “on the road” on The Great Unreal, a photographic work dealing with reality and the fabrication of reality.