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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193 titles

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

no text

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The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.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

no text

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

no text

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

~~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.

KCBR

2023

English edition

sold out

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

sold out

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

Gauri Gill, Rajesh Vangad
Fields of Sight

2023

English edition

sold out

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

Philippe Dudouit
The Dynamics of Dust

2019

French edition

sold out

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

sold out

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

sold out

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

sold out

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.

Olivier Suter, Jean Tinguely
Torpedo Institut

2015

French edition

sold out

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

sold out

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.