Photobook

Maya Rochat, The Chromophagist

It is clever enough to remain completely autonomous and lacks the problematic discourse of “trying too hard”.

Michele Tagliaferri: Grass That Came From Nothing

Michelle Tagliaferri’s “Grass” is book of natural gravity and beauty. That is to put it simply.

Alexander Binder: Glass Delusion and the Prism of Photographic Mysticism

“It is thus, my most coveted photography book of the year in its qualification as unspeakable language and the glory of the potentially transcendental image.”

Philip-Lorca diCorcia on ‘A Storybook Life’: Circular Narratives, Dream States and Doing What You Like

“I was drawing upon things that I’ve learned and those are not necessarily intellectual things.” Dorian Devens and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, 2003 PLDC: I don’t consider myself to be an intellectual, you know, I think I’ve met enough intellectuals to know what a really smart person is… analytical I might be, but, you know, one […]

Axel Hoedt: Dusk is Woven to the Hide of Death

Axel Hoedt’s “Dusk” is a real enemy of the cross – a concise and metaphoric look at the subjects of the Swiss and Austrian tradition of carnival.

Martin Kippenberger: Peinlichkeit Kennt Keine Grenzen (Embarrassment Has No Limits)

History has been kind to Martin Kippenberger. Following his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44, the art world scrambled to retrofit Kippenberger into the Postmodernist canon.

Girls, Rain and Nightclub Haiku: César Ordóñez and ‘Tokyo Blur

Presented as a trip through Tokyo, perhaps even snapshots of one wild night out, Tokyo Blur shows the reader a clear view from a back-row seat.

Mark Cohen’s ‘Grim Street’ – the Bang of the Flash and the Crop of the Head

“I come in a bit closer. So it’s not a play; it’s a macro-play that I’m dealing with. It’s a macro-play that I create with my own intrusion into the scene…” “Grim Street” is a selection and book of photographs by street photographer Mark […]

‘Mess-aesthetics’ and Absurdist Life Collages in Beni Bischof’s ‘Psychobuch’

It could be said that Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol have created a bastard child where trash and glitter are king of the streets, but have moved into the studio for the purposes of re-creating consumer waste in artistic practice. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, June 2015 Beni Bischof’s a product of his generation. His […]

William Klein’s Tokyo Pop

William Klein was invited to Tokyo in 1961, where he shot for three months and made more than 1,000 pictures.

Torbjørn Rødland: ‘Sasquatch Century’ – Pathology of a Sacred Striptease

Theirs will be a genetic lineage where Eden’s vast land has been bulldozed over for that of another Wal-Mart parking lot where their future generations will congregate to buy house paint while sipping numbness-inducing frozen latte’s from the Starbucks within. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, June 2015 It, to him, presents a stranglehold […]

The Enemy Today: ‘Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men’

For the authors Feuerhelm and Salu, theirs’ is an act of frustration at our willingness to sit back and be spoon-fed bullshit while behind us a cartoon mouse holds a gun to our head. By Poppy Coles, June 2015 This book reads as an unrelenting portrait of “the enemy” today. Using the historic […]