Anna Kleberg – Cavalos & Bangalos
Published by Libraryman, 2009, Ed. of 500
ISBN: 978-91-86269-01-2
I got this book about a year ago when Tony Cederteg came to NYC to have a book launch for Libraryman. I specifically remember listening to him speak about this book in particular and its layout, design, sequencing, etc. This book is in a way 14 images on 7 sheets of paper, but each image is folded in half for the middle of the book. So each image, besides the centerfold, is merged with another image; horse’s heads are coming out of bungalows. I also learned that this book is only bound with 1 staple in the center of the crease, instead of the normal 2 staples, so you can more easily remove the staple if you wanted to view all the images in a “straight” manner.
See more here: annakleberg.com
-Grant Willing
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Some of my favorite things in the world are photo books, so its always exciting to see others who are as equally enthralled by published photography. Laurence Vecten and Pierre Hourquet have started a blog in which they are going to document every new book they acquire throughout 2010. One Year of books is off to a really nice start so far, I’m excited to see where it goes and to compare similar book-collecting habits.
Laurence and Pierre also run a couple of other online projects, namely Lozen Up and Books On Line.
Noah Beil – This Is Not My Sky
RJ Shaugnessy – Deathcamp
Marcelo Gomes – Taciturn Heart
Jesper Ulvelius – 100C, Books On Line
Jessica Williams – Tenderness, Books On Line
Guillaume Greff – Heimat, Books On Line
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Fiona Tan – Vox Populi: Norway
Published by Book Works, 2006
ISBN: 1-870699-90-4
This book is a truly great collection of photographs Fiona Tan acquired while being commissioned by the Norwegian Parliament to create an archive of contemporary Norwegian culture. Tan selected the photographs from about 100 different family albums, and the book is broken into three categories: Portraits, Home, and Nature. This work brings to mind Tacita Dean’s FLOH, but is obviously a much more specific and anthropological look at a specific culture. The images are really beautifully sequenced and create a fairly humorous, but very genuine look into the lives of the different families.
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February 22, 2010 – 11:42 am
Étrange Stabilité – Jeremie Egry
Hiatus – Aurélien Arbet
Fils de la Liberté – Grant Willing
Monologue – Nicolas Poillot
Le Monde Gelé – Peter Sutherland
All published by Je Suis Une Bande de Jeunes, 2009-10, edition of 50.
Je Suis Une Bande de Jeunes has been making a series of small, very limited edition fanzines since summer, 2009. These publications are all similar in design- all are lazer-jet printed, 46 pages, and feature a photographic print on the royal blue cover. I got the first two in the series last year and was fortunate enough to have made my own book with them as well. The quality of everything I have seen from JSBJ has always blown me away, they have a really simple aesthetic that always feels “right.”
See more here: jesuisunebandedejeunes.com
Étrange Stabilité – Jeremie Egry
Étrange Stabilité – Jeremie Egry
Hiatus – Aurélien Arbet
Hiatus – Aurélien Arbet
Monologue – Nicolas Poillot
Monologue – Nicolas Poillot
Le Monde Gelé – Peter Sutherland
Le Monde Gelé – Peter Sutherland
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February 15, 2010 – 10:34 am
David Schoerner – All my photographs as of 12/17/2009 photocopied in the order they are listed on my website
Self-Published, 2009
Edition of 20
I got this book from David shortly after he made it, and I was really interested in what something like this would actually turn out like. The book is exactly what the title says, and in turn the results are humorous and kind of mind-boggling. I really love his idea of taking something as ephemeral as an online digital image, photocopying it, and turning it into a staple-bound book. He also plans on making this an ongoing project in which he will create a new book every few months to contain the new imagery added (or possible lack of new imagery) to his site. It is a really interesting concept in terms of preservation and presentation of something like a photograph; what is the proper way of displaying a photo? And does it really matter? I’m not sure if this book is supposed to be taken this seriously, but it definitely has me thinking…
-Grant Willing
See more here: http://davidschoerner.com/
And look out for his upcoming book through Hassla.
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