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Gabriele Basilico - Marocco 1971
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Marocco 1971 offers an intimate, social, and aesthetical portrait of Morocco by Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico. Set during the Summer of 1971, the series also brings back the distinctive spirit of this era.
Jean-Luc Moulène - Documents (box set 4 books)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
220.00 120.00 €
4-volume box set gathering six of the artist's most iconic photographic series. This special publication brings an end to a research on the notion of document that started in 1999 (limited edition of 700 signed copies).
Espace(s) - Traces et résidus
2016
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Espace(s) #13 inaugurates the new formula of the French Space Agency's review. This issue explores the potential of the archive as a material for new artistic or literary narratives.
Giacomo Bianchetti - Bilderberg 2015 - 63ème conférence Bilderberg – 11-14 juin 2015
2016
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A series of photographs taken in the margins of the 63rd Bilderberg conference, which brings together some of the most influential political and economic leaders of the Western world.
Klaus Pichler - Golden days before they end
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A swan song for Vienna's drinking dens.
Andreas Tschersich - Peripher
2016
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Carole Douillard - Alive
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
Republications - Archive Journal Hors-Séries
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Archive Books
First volume of a hors-series' collection focusing on the theory and practice of republishing and archiving.
 Július Koller & Květa Fulierová - Archive of Květa Fulierová / Family
2016
English edition
Sputnik
The family archives of Július Koller's collaborator and loving partner Květa Fulierová (artist's book).
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Les rumeurs du monde - Repenser la confiance à l\'âge de l\'Internet
2015
French edition
Villa Arson
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
 Nguyen Trinh Thi - Lettres de Panduranga
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Letters from Panduranga evokes the fate of the Vietnamese Cham community, whose territory is threatened by the construction of two nuclear power plants. Acting as an ethnologist Nguyen Trinh Thi explores the issues related to speech and history as well as new forms of colonialism.
Claudio Cambon - Shipbreak
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
Luciano Rigolini - Mask
2015
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
Estelle Hanania - Happy Purim
2015
texts in English and French
Shelter Press - Books
This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.
Elisabetta Benassi - King Leopold Soliloquy
2015
English edition
Nero
This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.
David Grubbs - Les disques gâchent le paysage - John Cage, les années 1960 et l\'enregistrement sonore
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
The French translation of David Grubbs's long-awaited study of the role that sound recordings play in representing experimental music of the 1960s.
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
Collectionner, conserver, exposer le graphisme - Entretiens autour du travail de Dieter Roth conservé au Frac Bretagne
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.
Francesca Berardi - Detour in Detroit
2015
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
(last copies available!)
The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).
Heinz Peter Knes - On distance
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.
Yto Barrada - Before History
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.
Hubert Renard - Invitation - Quarante-deux cartons d\'invitation aux vernissages
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens
Artist's book.
Giovanna Silva - Foxtrot Gate - Cyprus
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A portrait of a divided Nicosia.
Recréer / scripter - Mémoires et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Between documention and recreation: memories and transmissions of performance art and contemporary dance.
Peter Piller - Materialien (F) - Nachkriegsordnung
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad. They were taken from German newspapers soon after the beginning of the second iraqi-american war in March of 2003. Following their removal they were placed and stuck in the centre of a piece of paper, aiming to be as precise as possible (artist's book).
Ari Marcopoulos - Solon
2014
no text
Nieves
An intimate portrait gallery of Ari Marcopoulos' brother (artist's book).
Thomas Ruff - Zeitungsfotos - Newspaper Photographs
2014
English edition
various
Artist's book.
Johanna Viprey - The Artist As A Cabdriver - A Methodological Journey with Jeff Perkins, Professional Outsider
2014
English edition
Nero
A research project in progress developed by the artist Johanna Viprey: the book narrates the encounter that has led the artist to investigate the personal history of Jeff Perkins, American performer painter and documentary filmmaker, from an anthropological perspective.
Micronaut is against the grain too
2014
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A critical approach to practices of photographic representation and information.
Éric Baudelaire - Anabases
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Archive Books
This book documents an installation by Eric Baudelaire revisiting the political and personal saga of the Japanese Red Army as an anabasys—an allegory of a journey that is both a wandering into the unknown and a return back home.
Ari Marcopoulos - The Pope\'s Secrets
2014
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
Emmanuelle Bayart - Commémoration
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
First photography book by Emmanuelle Bayart, dedicated to memorial issues in the town of Sarcelles, in a “ville nouvelle” sociocultural context.
Jef Cornelis - 13th Biennale de Paris 1985 (DVD)
2014
original version, subtitles in English and French
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
The fourth title in the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, and provides sources and moving images to the growing field of research of curatorial studies and exhibition history.
Nathan Réra - Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique - Les médias, la photographie et le cinéma à l\'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi (1994-2014)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.
Joachim Koester - Of Spirits and Empty Spaces
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph.
Akram Zaatari - Time Capsule, Kassel
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.
Giovanna Silva - Libya - Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley
2014
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A double portrait of Libya.
 Július Koller & Květa Fulierová - J+K!
2014
bilingual edition (English / Slovak)
Sputnik
The everyday as an artistic act: a look back at the artistic and romantic relationship between Július Koller and Květa Fulierová through a series of personal belongings and documents (artist's book).
Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001 - 11/03/2011
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Artist's book: Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents.
Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001 - 11/03/2011 - Limited edition
2013
no text
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Artist's book (Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents), with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2013
English edition
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Sternberg Press
Conceived while in residency at the library of the Goethe-Institut New York, this issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library used the context of the hosting institution as a thematic starting point. Germany, and often the author's specific relationship to the German language, is the unifying thread that unites these diverse pieces.
Petra Feriancová - Index - An Order of Things I
2013
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A vast photographic archive conceived as an extension of Petra Feriancová's project for the Czech and Slovak Republic Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Yto Barrada -
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
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