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“Publish Your Photography Book” Featured in the Wall Street Journal Photography Book Gift Guide
“Publish Your Photography Book” has been featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Gift Guide under photography books. You can see the article and other recommended photography books here. Thanks, WSJ!
November 17th, NYC: Panel Discsussion with Kathy Ryan
Aperture Foundation
Panel Discussion with Kathy Ryan, New York Times Magazine Photographs
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Admission: Free
“Longtime photo editor Kathy Ryan will discuss her new book, The New York Times Magazine Photographs (Aperture, 2011) at Barnes and Noble with photographers Damon Winter and Taryn Simon.
The book reflects upon and interrogates the nature of both photography and print magazines, at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution. It presents some of the finest commissioned photographs worldwide of various types, including reportage, portraiture, style, conceptual photography, and photo illustration. Also addressed are issues of documentary photography in relation to more conceptual photography; the efficacy of storytelling; and what makes an image evidentiary, objective, subjective, truthful, or a tool for advocacy; as well as discussion of whether these matters are currently moot, or more critical than ever. As such, The New York Times Magazine Photographs aims to serve as a springboard for a rigorous, necessary, and revitalized examination of photography as presented within a modern journalistic context.”
Barnes & Noble Bookstore
150 East 86th Street
New York, New York [map]
(212) 369-2180
collect.give Book Release
“The charity-based online photography gallery collect.give announces the release of a book celebrating the project’s first 50 photographers – all of whom have pledged to donate 100% of their print proceeds to charities they’ve selected. Since 2009, collect.give has raised over $28,000 for a wide variety of charitable organizations, by selling affordable, limited edition photographs.”
Design By
Heidi Romano
Photographs By
Jane Fulton Alt, Malu Alvarez, Jonathan Blaustein, Mark Brautigam, Jesse Burke, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Katrina d’Autremont, Amy Eckert, Matt Eich, Jon Feinstein, Sarina Finkelstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Max. S. Gerber, Meggan Gould, Andrew Hetherington, Geoffrey Hiller, Peter Hoffman, Jon Horvath, Ben Huff, Dave Jordano, Stella Kalaw, Melissa Kaseman, Liz Kuball, Shane Lavalette, David Leventi, John Loomis, S. Billie Mandle, Kerry Mansfield, Mark Menjivar, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Annie Marie Musselman, Colleen Plumb, Susana Raab, Shawn Records, Ellen Rennard, Dalton Rooney, Jonathan Saunders, Manjari Sharma, Daniel Shea, Kelly Shimoda, Emily Shur, Allison V. Smith, Aline Smithson, Brea Souders, Sarah Sudhoff, Jake Stangel, Lacey Terrell, Sonja Thomsen, Susan Worsham and David Wright.
Essays By
Crista Dix, Darius Himes, Lisa Hostetler, Rachel Hulin, Miki Johnson, Larissa Leclair, Wally Mason, George Slade, Amy Stein and Alison Zavos.
To Benefit
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). In keeping with the collect.give mission to donate 100% of proceeds to charity, all profits from this book will be donated to the RSPCA, a charity chosen by the designer Heidi Romano.
You can purchase the book from MagCloud for $22.00 USD.
Interview with W.M. Hunt
Today, at Length magazine posted a wonderful interview with W.M. Hunt by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching. The interview can be found here. Go read it now, it is a must.
One week from today: MVS/DH lecture & booksigning at SF Camerawork!
LECTURE: ”To Be Published or Self-Publish? Options for Artists”
MONDAY, August 1st at 7 pm, SF Camerawork
(Book signing for PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK to follow lecture)
LOCATION: 657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco CA 94105 (415) 512-2020
My co-author Darius Himes and I will be SF giving a public lecture, signing books, and consulting with photographers on their publication projects. We hope to see many of you there!
ABOUT THE LECTURE:
“The print-on-demand revolution has opened up new publishing possibilities for photographers; it has never been easier or more affordable to produce and market a book of your photographs. The traditional publishing path has the advantage of a highly specialized team that brings experience with design, production, marketing and distribution systems to the table. In a self-publishing scenario you can create exactly the book you envision, but without the input and expertise of seasoned professionals at a publishing house. Which scenario is best for you?
Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, coauthors of the recently released Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) will give a 50-minute visual presentation for artists who wish to bring their artwork to book form, discussing both traditional publishing and self-publishing avenues towards helping determine the pros and cons of each path.
Time will be allotted for Q&A following the presentation; copies of Publish Your Photography Book will be available for purchase. 
Panel Discussion from Flash Forward Boston: The Future of Photobooks
On Saturday, June 4th at the Flash Forward Festival in Boston Andy Adams, Miki Johnson, Shane Lavalette, Michael Itkoff, Bruno Ceschel, and Alan Rapp participated in a panel discussion on The Future of Photobooks, moderated by Stephen Mayes, Managing Director, VII Photo. ”The discussion explored the state of photobook production, consumption and distribution in the Internet Era.”
If you were not able to attend the festival, you can see a video of the discussion here or on Andy Adams’ website. Scroll down on the page on his website so you don’t miss the extensive list of online photobook resources Andy has up there as well (thanks, Andy!).
The Future of Photobooks: Flash Forward Festival Discussion from FlakPhoto.com on Vimeo.
PRINTED MATTER! “Artists’ Photography Books” Exhibition at Art Basel, NYC In-Store Exhibition, and more!
OH to be able to see these exhibitions! If any readers are lucky enough to attend Art Basel, or see the in-store exhibition up through June, please take some installation views for me!
From Printed Matter’s e-blast this morning:
“Printed Matter is pleased to announce its participation in this year’s Art Basel. For the 2011 fair we will have two stands: the Artists’ Photography Books exhibition in the Artists’ Books Sector of Art Unlimited in Hall 1.0; and a shared booth with Art Metropole in Hall 2.1/Booth Q21.
Artists’ Photography Books opens on Monday, June 13, with a preview at 4 PM, and Hall 2.1 opens with a preview on Tuesday, June 14. Both stands will be open through Sunday, June 19.
Artists’ Photography Books, organized in collaboration with Zurich-based curator and publisher Lionel Bovier, will present a broad survey of artists’ books from the 1960’s to the present. These are not your typical photo books: from Ed Ruscha’s deadpan cataloguing of the western urban landscape, to Sol LeWitt’s use of photography in his investigation of patterns, systems and sequences, these publications employ photography as a strategic component in the aggregate of the book as art work. Drawing from and expanding on conventions of photography and related photographic media, the artists’ books in this exhibition explore the possibilities of artistic expression. The entire exhibition is drawn from the collection of Zurich collector Christoph Schifferli.
In addition to the exhibition, a huge variety of artists’ photography book works will be on display for sale: zines by Ari Marcopoulos; an original one-of-a-kind exttravaganza by Jonathan Meese; Alan Kaprow’s “Activity Books” from the 1970’s; El Caso, a grisly miniature book of corpses by Christian Boltanski; Larry Clark’s tome Punk Picasso; a 1980’s artist pamphlet by Sarah Charlesworth, to name a few as well as classics by John Baldessari, Martin Kippenberger, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Prince, Jack Pierson, Anne Collier, Ryan McGinley, Katja Stuke, Dash Snow, Sophie Calle, Jonathan Monk, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Helen Douglas, Olaf Nicolai, Charlotte Dumas, Christopher Wool, Andy Warhol, and many others.
At our booth in Hall 2.1, Printed Matter will feature yet another array of artists books, multiples and editions. Selections from Printed Matter’s publishing program, including our most recent – Abraham Lincoln by Rachel Harrison – will be featured alongside a choice selection of in and out of print publications, including titles by Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Barney, General Idea, Robert Gober, Misaki Kawai, Harmony Korine, Raymond Pettibon, Christian Marclay, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Tom Sachs and many others. We also will have a sampling our fundraising print editions by Matthew Higgs & Anne Collier, Mark Gonzales, William E. Jones, Ari Marcopoulos, Jack Pierson, Seth Price and Kiki Smith.”
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications.
VISIT PRINTED MATTER BOOKSTORE in NYC: 195 Tenth Avenue, NYC
Store Hours:
Tuesday to Wednesday: 11am – 6pm
Thursday to Saturday: 11am – 7pm
Closed Sundays & Mondays
ABC Artists’ Books Collective
Opens at Printed Matter
Printed Matter is pleased to announce the opening of ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative, a new exhibition surveying work from members of the print-on-demand collective ABC. The group, established in 2009 by Joachim Schmid, is a growing network of artists committed to the production and distribution of artists’ books through Print on Demand technology. The exhibition is open June 2nd – June 30th, 2011.
SAVE THE DATE: NY ART BOOK FAIR, September 30 – October 2nd, 2011 at MoMA’s P.S.1 in Queens, NY
See you there!
Ben Lowy wins Honickman First Book Prize from CDS
Ben Lowy’s photographs taken in Iraq have won the prestigious Honickman First Book Prize, co-sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies and The Honickman Foundation. The judge was photographer William Eggleston. From the CDS press release:
“Benjamin Lowy, a war and feature photographer with Reportage by Getty Images, has won the fifth Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.
Internationally renowned photographer William Eggleston judged the competition and chose Lowy to win the prize. He says, “Although I like the other photographers’ work, I felt that the Iraqi pictures made a better book.”
“Benjamin’s work is an opportunity to see as an American soldier sees when in Iraq—nobody’s ever shown that,” Eggleston says, “especially through night vision goggles.”
Benjamin Lowy will receive a grant of $3,000, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in an online exhibition of prizewinners. William Eggleston will write an introduction for the book, Iraq / Perspectives, which will be published in Fall 2011 by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. This collection of photographs made in Iraq over a six-year period will be Lowy’s first book.” Read the complete press release here.
Reminder: Artist’s Book exhibition at the Grolier Club in NYC closes on February 5t
One of my favorite show this winter in NYC closes on Saturday:
From the Grolier Club website:
In Our Ground Floor Gallery,
December 8, 2010 – February 5, 2011:
“Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop.“ Curated by Kathleen Walkup. The forty works in “Hand, Voice & Vision” celebrate three facets that characterize the artist’s book program at Women’s Studio Workshop: the hand-made mark of the book-maker, the unique voices and viewpoints of a broad and diverse range of artists, and the visionary nature of artwork that forges new directions in the medium of book arts.”
The MET! On View January 25–30: Original Autochromes in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand exhibition at the Met, and January 30th “Sundays at the Met” lectures on Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand exhibition
This week is THE week to visit Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand exhibition, with special lectures Sunday January 30th.
Not to be missed, from the Metropolitan Museum’s website: a wonderful overview of the history of the autochrome, and specifically the AUTOCHROMES on view this week only within the STIEGLITZ, STEICHEN, STRAND exhibition.
An array of educational programs will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition, including a “Sunday at the Met” lecture program on January 30 with Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, and Sarah Greenough, Senior Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art (Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 2 pm, free with museum admission); gallery talks with Malcolm Daniel; a special teen program for ages 15-18; and a photography class for visually impaired adults. The Museum will also present screenings of documentaries about Stieglitz and Steichen, as well as two films by Strand—Manhatta (1921) and The Wave (1936). For further information about educational programs, visit the Museum’s website at www.metmuseum.org/events