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Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Eyes in His Eyes
D.A.P/ Rose Gallery | 2007




Magritte And Photography
D.A.P / Ludion | 2005



Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking in
D.A.P. | 2014



Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History
D.A.P | 2013



Hans Ulrich Obrist Do It: The Compendium
Independent Curators International | 2013



Lee Friedlander: A Second Look: The Nudes
D.A.P. | 2013

Gerhard Richter: War Cut
D.A.P. | 2013


HOPPER
D.A.P. | 2012


Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel
D.A.P. | 2012

Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective
D.A.P. | 2011


James Castle: Show and Store
D.A.P. | 2011


Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum
D.A.P. | 2011


Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture
D.A.P. | 2011


Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois!: Comrades and Contemporaries: The 1970s
D.A.P. | 2011


Lee Friedlander: America by Car
D.A.P. | 2010


Fritz Haeg. Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, First Edition: A Project by Fritz Haeg
Metropolis Books | 2002


Gerhard Richter: Atlas
D.A.P. | 2011

Louise Bourgeois: La Famille
D.A.P. | 2006




Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation
Metropolis Books | 2007



Lee Friedlander: Apples & Olives
Fraenkel Gallery | 2005


Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture
D.A.P. | 2005



Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Metropolis Books | 2006


Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005
D.A.P. | 2005
$155


Robert Adams: Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration
Fraenkel Gallery | 2005


Richard Tuttle: The Art of Richard Tuttle
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | 2005

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
D.A.P. | 2002


Lot-Ek: Mobile Dwelling Unit
D.A.P. | 2007



Martin Kippenberger. Annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997
D.A.P. | 2003


Lee Friedlander: at work
D.A.P. | 2008


Garry Winogrand. Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand
D.A.P. | 2009



Peter Halley: Maintain Speed
D.A.P. | 2000


Lee Friedlander: The Desert See
D.A.P. | 1996


Joseph Beuys: Arena: Where Would I Have Got If I Had Been Intelligent!
Dia Art Foundation | 1994



Garry Winogrand. The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand
D.A.P. | 1999

Alfonso Gonzales JR.
Paradise (For Lease) Incense Ashtray

The Paradise (For Lease) Incense Ashtray, produced by Studio Roosi, is based on Los Angeles based artist Alfonso Gonzales JR.'s titular painting, shown in his solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch gallery here in NYC.


Select solo exhibitions include This Was Here, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2024) and There Was There, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022). Recent museum group exhibitions include Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, MOCA, Los Angeles (2024); Xican–a.o.x Body, American Federation of Arts, New York (2023); Singular Views: Los Angeles, Rubell Museum, Miami (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA, Miami (2022); and Loveline, Long Beach Art Museum, CA (2022).

Through his art practice, Gonzalez synthesizes the bygone era of his childhood where he participated in punk ideology, painted graffiti, and embraced rural ranch culture. By incorporating snippets of his immediate surroundings in his paintings Gonzalez elevates, documents, and reframes the vernacular economies of Southern California.Alfonso Gonzalez (b. 1989, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an artist whose work in painting developed from close observation of his father’s skillful trade in commercial sign painting. He draws inspiration in the permanence of hand painted signage and the physical weathering remnants of Los Angeles to narrate his own familial histories of labor and image making.

Paradise (For Lease) Incense Ashtray | 4" x 7" x 2" | $150

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Franco Dupuy
Cruising Diaries

Cruising Diaries is both a celebration and a provocation: a portrait of queer pleasure at its most raw, secret, and uncontainable. This photobook/diary explores the elusive visual language of cruising—a queer practice of anonymous desire played out in public spaces, where bodies negotiate consent through gaze, gesture, and instinct.

Franco Dupuy captures what is almost impossible to show: fleeting encounters, unspoken codes, and moments that vanish as quickly as they appear. Set in places that shift after dark—parks, train stations, beaches—the book documents a world that resists the camera, yet insists on being seen. Cruising Diaries becomes both archive and fiction: a love letter to the thrill of the hidden, and the politics of queer pleasure.

Franco Dupuy is a director and photographer born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

Entermission Gallery Bag

The EMG bag, designed, and handcrafted here in New York City's Garment District, is tailored to fit way more than your average street bag. EMG bags are made of heavy canvas, featuring 6 pockets on the inside with 3 pockets on each side and a removable canvas base on the bottom that gives the bag it's structure ensuring it will remain standing upright instead of slumping over. Its 7 Gallon volume is perfect for a heavy reading list or a day trip.

Cory Arcangel

The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of Big Tech.Combining the hands-on skills from the 1990s net art scene and the 2010s post-internet art’s fondness for memes and the generic image, Arcangel demonstrated the wal critique. In The Cory Arcangel Hack, Eivind Røssaak shows how Arcangel’s body of work defines a particular strain of post-conceptual art that is fundamental for understanding the digital world we live in.

Eivind Røssaak is Research Professor at the National Library of Norway’s Department of Research, Visual Media Section. A former Visiting Scholar at Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago, Cinematic Arts at USC, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.He has published and lectured widely on media aesthetics, media archaeology, archival experiments, and critical theory. He got his first computer, an Apple Macintosh SE, in 1987, and his first laptop, an Apple Powerbook 140, in 1992. During his school, college, and graduate school years, he worked as a musician, journalist, reviewer of cinema and literature, and wrote travelogues from around the world. He can still remember the sound of a modem and life without a smartphone.

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, he is author of several books on digital media and critical theory. Galloway has given over two hundred talks both across the U.S. and in ten countries around the world. His writings have been translated into eleven languages. He is recipient of a number of grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the Prix Ars Electronica.

Cory Arcangel is an artist, and composer living and working in Stavanger, Norway. Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Arcangel's notable works include Super Mario Clouds (2002), a modified version of the video game Super Mario Bros. in which all of the game's graphics have been removed, leaving a blue background with white clouds, and /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD (2017-2021), an AI video game playing computer. In 2014, Arcangel founded Arcangel Surfware, a software publisher and merchandise company. Notable brand releases include Arcangel's The Source zine series, and a first-time publishing of Tony Conrad's Music and the Mind of the World. Arcangel is the youngest artist since Bruce Nauman to have been given a full floor solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011).




MIT Press | Paperback | 274 pages | 6 X 9 in | $45

Cory Arcangel: The Source Digest

The Source Digest, a paperback collection of issues 1–10 of The Source (2013–the present), gathers Brooklyn-based artist Cory Arcangel’s (born 1978) ongoing archival zine project of annotated computer source code from software-based works of the past 15 years.

This code is footnoted with artist texts and is published both as a series of small books―one for each project―and online. Arcangel creates a virtual user’s manual that details the process by which he has built previous works, including the manipulation of video games. The Source thus embodies the ethic of openness and generosity that exists within the closed field of hackers, home hobby programmers and new media artists, and posits it as its own art project. While issues 1–8 are individually available, The Source Digest includes the two newest issues, which are currently only available in this book.

Title TK: Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, Alan Licht

Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage as a band, the members do not play live music. Instead the performances are conversations between the three artists about music, performance and the music industry, and their act plays with the tensions created by the audience’s expectations and the actuality of their performance. Though ostensibly not music, their spontaneous banter nonetheless demonstrates Arcangel, Chen and Licht’s incredible range of artistic influences and preoccupations, all of which stem from a sophisticated understanding of music and composing. The conversations engage each audience as the performer reveals his own infatuations with popular culture, music and art. Title TK: An Anthology collects the transcripts of these live performances from 2010 to 2014, charting the group’s development.

Identity Pitches: Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel

A collaborative artist’s book of musical scores based on Norwegian knitting patterns

For Identity Pitches, artists Cory Arcangel (born 1978) and Stine Janvin (born 1985) have composed conceptual music scores based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte. Utilizing three of the most popular designs (Setesdal, Fana and the eight-petal rose of Selbu) of this ubiquitous garment, Janvin creates scores for both solo and ensemble performers by mapping the knitting patterns onto the harmonic and subharmonic series and integrating the tuning principles of traditional Norwegian instruments. These scores are further manipulated by Arcangel using a custom “deep-fried” coding script to create a series of image glitches.
A foreword and an interview between the two artists, both based in Stavanger, Norway, provide context for the work, delving into the history of Norwegian folk music tunings and the Lusekofte sweater and their intersection with the cultural identity of the country over the last millennium.

Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by Martin Harrison



Martin Harrison, following his appointment by the Estate of Francis Bacon, has devoted over a decade to the creation of this magnificent publication, the first-ever complete catalogue raisonné of the work of the great British painter. Including many previously unpublished paintings, this five-volume set allows Bacon’s oeuvre to be seen and assessed in its entirety for the first time, with all works reproduced in full color. The only previous Bacon catalogue raisonné was published in 1964, gathering only 37% of Bacon’s ultimate oeuvre, and featuring only 27 color reproductions. Only about half of the 584 paintings that survive are accessible to the public in exhibitions and publications; with Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, the painter’s entire oeuvre can be seen and assessed for the first time.

The catalogue, containing around 800 illustrations across five clothbound, hardcover volumes, includes three books comprising the study of Bacon’s entire working history, which are bookended by two further volumes: the first including an introduction, chronology and an indispensible index and users’ guide, and the second a catalogue of Bacon’s sketches with an illustrated bibliography. Beautifully produced and printed, the five volumes of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné are boxed within a handsome cloth slipcase.

The Estate of Francis Bacon 
Hardcover | 5 vols | 9.5 x 12.25” |  1,556 pgs  

Ed Ruscha
On The Road: An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA 

$9,000
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In 1951, Jack KeOn the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120-foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in 20 days his road trips across the United States and Mexico. On the Road was finally published in 1957, and Kerouac was immediately acknowledged as the voice of the Beat Generation.

For almost 50 years, Ed Ruscha has recorded the evolving emblems of American life in the form of phrases and sentences, Hollywood logos, gas stations and archetypal landscapes. During the 1960s, he created a series of cheaply printed photographic books which can be seen in part as deadpan meditations on the romantic vision of the road epitomized by the Beats. In Royal Road Test (1967), he brought the word and the road together in a conceptual prank by documenting himself dropping a vintage typewriter from a speeding Buick.

In 2010 Ruscha turned his attention to On the Road, and has produced his own limited-edition version of Kerouac's Beat bible. Ruscha designed the book, illustrating Kerouac's text with 55 tipped-in photographs that the artist has either taken himself, commissioned from other photographers or selected from found images to refer closely to the details and impressions that the author describes, from car parts to jazz instruments, from sandwich stacks to tire burns on a desert road. The text is printed in letterpress on 220g Hahnemühle paper and every one of the 55 photo-plates is blind-embossed and tipped in by hand to create an exquisite and original edition. 

Steidl
The leather-bound book comprises 228 pages, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 350 and presented in a slipcase.

CULTS THAT KILL

Bibiliomancers x Brendan Donnelly

Featuring rare publications and ephemera from Bibliomancers and Brendan Donnelly's collections that focus on the satanic aspects of cults and related pop culture.

Paperback
Limited Edition
Edited by: Bibliomancers & Brendan Donnelly
Publisher: Bibliomancers
Year: 2025
Size: 140 × 215 mm
Pages: 106

Explicit Snow Globe


An irreverent snow globe to celebrate any time of year. 
4 inch glass snow globe with plastic base. 

Pure Products USA | 4 x 3 x 6 in.

Marcel Duchamp: Boîte-en-valise (or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy)


One of the most important and enigmatic pieces of modernist art, "Boîte-en-valise" (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Marcel Duchamp between 19
35 and 1941.

This is the first ever reinterpretation of the legendary book-object, conceptualized by French artist Mathieu Mercier and now available to a broader audience. At once a work in and of itself, and a reproduction in the Duchampian spirit, this miniature museum contains 69 reproductions of Duchamp's most celebrated creations, including the famous "Fountain," Nude Descending a Staircase" and the "Large Glass." Mercier has reproduced the bulk of the contents of Duchamp's original box in paper form, designing everything to scale. Playful and accessible, the "Boîte" reflects Duchamp's desire to display his works outside the museum and gallery system.

Walther König, Köln 
Boxed | 14.75 X 14.75 “ | 69 replicas and printed reproductions

       
       Tosh Berman from Artbook unboxes Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise!

Ben Thorp Brown
Cura’s Garden

In 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Cura’s Garden, a long-term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture, and sound—elements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features vivid documentation across two years of the garden’s young life alongside linocut botanical prints by the artist’s mother, Cary Thorp Brown. New essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Laurie Cluitmans, Robert Wiesenberger explore the conceptual, formal, art historical, and affective valences of Cura’s Garden, and a roundtable conversation between Brown and Laura Herman, Jan Minne, and Valentijn Goethals considers the history and development of the project, from the artist’s 2019 film Cura, a precursor to the garden, through present concerns around the maintenance and unfolding nature of this site-specific work

"Cura’s Garden" by Ben Thorp Brown | 8.75 × 11.75 inches

Ben Thorp Brown (b. 1983) is an artist based in New York. He atten­ded the Whit­ney Muse­um Inde­pen­dent Stu­dy Pro­gram, and is a gra­du­a­te of Wil­li­ams Col­le­ge and the School of the Art Insti­tu­te of Chicago. He has presented recent solo museum exhibitions of his work at CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Kunsthal Gent, Jeu de Paume, and the St. Louis Art Museum. His work has been featured in significant group exhibitions including Empathy Revisited: Designs for More Than One at the Istanbul Biennial, The Supermarket of Images at the Jeu de Paume, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1904-2016 at The Whitney Museum, and Greater New York 2015 at MoMA PS1. He is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, and has received awards from Creative Capital, the Graham Foundation, the Shifting Foundation, and was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.  

Karl Haendel: Less Bad

Introduction by Aldy Milliken. Text by Andrea Gyorody, Analia Saban, Darren Bader, Karla Diaz, Michelle Jane Lee, Ray Anthony Barrett, Hazel Haendel.

Installation images and close-up detail shots underscore both the technical precision and irreverent tone of Karl Haendel's staggeringly precise graphite drawings
This monograph highlights key thematic elements from Karl Haendel's (born 1976) 25-year artistic output, focusing on the artist's exploration of masculinity, tenderness, friendship, introspection and vulnerability through drawing.


Karl Haendel is an artist who makes drawings, installations, films, and public projects. He received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and a MFA fromthe University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has been included in the Biennial of the Americas (2015), the Whitney Biennial (2014), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Prospect (2011), and the California Biennial (2004, 2008). His work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway. He has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and the California Community Foundation. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Andrea Gyorody is a curator, writer, and cultural strategist whose work explores abstraction, politics, religion, and cultural memory in modern and contemporary art. She has held curatorial positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, and most recently served as director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, where she secured a $2.49 million Lilly Endowment grant for a five-year project examining rites of passage and religious identity. Major curatorial projects include Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature (2024–25, The Broad, co-curated with Sarah Loyer); Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings (2019–22, co-curated with Barry Rosen); and Afterlives of the Black Atlantic (2019–20, AMAM, co-curated with Matthew Francis Rarey), which received an Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Curatorial Excellence. She has also curated solo exhibitions of Makoto Fujimura, Karl Haendel, Cameron Harvey, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, Jeni Spota C., and Isabel Yellin. She is a frequent contributor to Artforum and her writing has also appeared in Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She holds a PhD in Art History from UCLA.

Aldy Milliken has worked in the art sector as a museum director, curator, gallerist, educator, and artist since the mid-1980s. Before settling in Park City, Utah in July 2020 as Executive Director of Kimball Art Center, Milliken directed KMAC Contemporary Museum in Louisville, KY, and founded an eponymous gallery in Stockholm, Sweden in 1998. Milliken has served on accreditation teams for the American Alliance of Museums and mentored museum professionals through the Museum Leadership Institute, formerly the Getty Leadership Institute. His collaborations with Karl Haendel began around 2007.

Skira 2026
Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.5 in. | 184 pgs | 150 color.

Dictionary of the Illegible By Laurenz Brunner

SIGNED

Dictionary of the Illegible explores the limits of language—its beginnings and its ends—from humanity’s earliest marks to the dissolution of modern alphabets before our eyes. Mapping more than 400 examples of illegibility drawn from Indigenous cultures to imagined future civilizations, the book spans contemporary art, science fiction, politics, architecture, and technology. Dictionary of the Illegible proposes illegibility as a strategy for navigating a world increasingly governed by visibility, efficiency, and total surveillance. 

Dictionary of the Illegible by Laurenz Brunner | Source Type, 2026 | 5 x 7 in. | 480 pgs | 71 duotone | 278 b&w. | $40.00

KEMBRA PFAHLER

SIGNED by Kembra Pfahler

Original New York City icon Pfahler has terrorized and tantalized audiences since her arrival in the Lower East Side in the early 1980s. Originally associated with the Cinema of Transgression, Pfahler supported her films with work at an independent porn studio. In the 1990s, she launched The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, a rock band associated with Kiss, Alice Cooper, and White Zombie. Nude and covered in paint, with blackened teeth and bouffant hair, Pfahler developed a reputation for wild performance that reached far beyond the Lower East Side. Elements of Kabuki theater, surfing, bugs, and giant sharks from her legendary shows were later repurposed for performance art. Beginning in the early 2000s, Pfahler titillated gallery-goers with openings featuring dozens of painted women, butt-prints, and performances involving endurance and strength. With galleries including Emalin and Deitch Projects, Pfahler created a visual lexicon incorporating occult imagery, bondage, and challenging forms of femininity.

Through teaching, activism, and performance art, Pfahler serves as a mentor to students, and in recent years, a muse to designers including Rick Owens, Casey Cadwallader, and Alessandro Michele. Collecting four decades of ephemera, performance documentation, road pictures, and more, the book celebrates Pfahler as a countercultural star.

Kembra Pfahler (b. 1961, Hermosa Beach, CA, US) lives and works in New York, US.Pfahler is a legendary figure of New York’s underground scene. With a practice spanning music, performance, acting, film and visual arts since the 1980s, the image vocabulary she has built informs the countercultural aesthetics of Lower East Side. Drawing references from monstrous fetishistic femininity and Japanese Noh theatre, she founded a death-rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. The band’s cult performances incorporate handmade costumes and props created along the lines of her philosophy of availabism – making use of what’s available – with the aim of fostering a radical view of femininity and beauty. The ceremonial treatment of her body in transgressive acts continues to mark the contemporary cultural landscape through her collaborations in film, photography and fashion.

Kembra Pfahler
Contributions by Anohni, Jeffrey Deitch and Rick Owens
Rizzoli, 2026 | Hardcover | 6 x 8 inches | 336 pp | $75.00

Zine Making and Bookbinding: A Beginner's Guide in 25 Projects by Lauren Simkin Berke

Signed

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS

Educator and artist Lauren Simkin Berke walks you through each handmade book and zine format in straightforward tutorials. This book is perfect for all abilities and experience levels.

Vincent Desiderio
Paintings 1975-2005

Edited by Todd Bradway. Essays by Mia Fineman, Barry Schwabsky and Lawrence Weschler. Interview by Donald Kuspit.

The distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit reserved a chapter of his book, The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century, for Vincent Desiderio, who, he says, “pictures privacy, with great sensibility and masterful craft” and “Old Master brilliance.” This significant monograph, the first on the artist, will gain him the praise and audience his startling accomplishments and empathy deserve, as well as raise him to the top rank of contemporary painters, alongside Mark Tansey, Eric Fischl, John Currin and Gerhard Richter. More than 100 of Desiderio's works, some of them enormous canvases and triptychs, are faithfully reproduced here, and, thanks in part to five gatefolds their painstaking detail and sweeps of emotion can be truly appreciated. Desiderio's repeated themes and motifs, appearing in often perplexing narratives of great psychological complexity, strike at the intellect and the heart: art history (often manifested in piles of books open to paintings), human intimacy, heroic behavior and, perhaps most viscerally, the plight of the artist's handicapped son, Sam. Rounding out the volume are many works on paper and excerpts from the artist's sketchbooks, an interview by Donald Kuspit, and essays by Lawrence Weschler, Barry Schwabsky and Mia Fineman. Most of all, in Desiderio's highly original works, the viewer will rediscover painting's ability to both astonish and move.

D.A.P./MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, 2005 | Clothbound, 12 x 11 in. / 250 pgs / 160 color / 34 bw. | $75.00

Robert Adams: Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration

Photographs by Robert Adams

Turning Back: A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The narrative begins at the Pacific Ocean and moves eastward through what was formerly one of the world's great rain forests. Photographs at the center of the book report on the forest's destruction. Elsewhere they trace a search for hope. Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. In Turning Back Robert Adams looks again at the region's trees, discovering evidence both of America's failure and of a continuing promise. President Jefferson's primary charge to Lewis and Clark was to prepare the way for American commerce. Today, historians still speculate about why, upon his return, Lewis lapsed into depression and apparently committed suicide. “Going east,” Adams suggests, “was more difficult than going west.” So what is the future? Turning Back documents two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand we observe the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or Providence; in these 164 pictures the tone is celebratory, as in a prayer book. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in eastern Oregon, here we reflect on what was lost, what is retained, and what we value both regionally and as a people with a common history.

FRAENKEL GALLERY/MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY, 2005
Clothbound, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 234 pgs / 164 tritone.
$65.00

Joel Sternfeld
American Prospects 2003

Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld's now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld's eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld's most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the course of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. In American Prospects, a fireman shops for a pumpkin while a house burns in the background; a group of motorcyclists stop at the side of the road to take in a stunning, placid view of Bear Lake, Utah; the high-tech world headquarters of the Manville Corporation sits in picturesque Colorado, obscured by a defiant boulder; a lone basketball net stands in the desert near Lake Powell in Arizona; and a cookie-cutter suburban housing settlement rests squarely amongst rolling hills in Pendleton, Oregon. Sternfeld's photographic tour of America is a search for the truth of a country not just as it exists in a particular era but as it is in its ever-evolving essence. It is a sad poem, but also a funny and generous one, recognizing endurance, poignant beauty, and determination within its sometimes tense, often ironic juxtapositions of man and nature, technology and ruin.

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003 | 140 pages | 15.5 x 1 x 12 inches

Annotated Catalogue Raisonné Of the Books by Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997

Roberta Smith called him the “madcap bad boy of contemporary German art” and also “one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period.” Martin Kippenberger disrupted the status quo throughout his brief, excessive life, not just by making art of every variety and medium but also by conducting an extended performance in the vicinity of art that involved running galleries, organizing exhibitions, collecting the work of his contemporaries and overseeing assistants. He published books and catalogues, played in a rock-and-roll band and cut records, ran a performance-art space during his early years in Berlin, became part owner of a restaurant in Los Angeles during six months he spent there preparing for an exhibition, and collaborated extensively with other artists. This particular volume considers his output of artist's books, as well as his exhibition catalogues and all the publications whose content he either created or edited. More than just documentation, this publication makes accessible for a wider public the multiple aspects of Kippenberger's books, with all the complexity and consequence of his oeuvre intact.
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, 2003
Clothbound, 8.25 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 150 color / 46 bw.
$55.00

Lee Friedlander At Work

Essay by Richard Benson

In the Industrial North at the end of the 1970s, people were at work with hands and machinery to make things we all use. In the mid 80s, in Wisconsin, they built supercomputers; at the same time, near Boston, they typed on desktop computers. In New York City, in the early 90s, people stood on stock floors, trading. In 1995, in Omaha, they sat at computers, cold calling as telemarketers; and in Cleveland, in that same year, they used their human skills in traditional ways to once again craft products we all depend on. Work, work, work--we spend the better part of our lives on the job, be it in a factory or an antiseptic office, or somewhere else in the vast assembly line in between. Tireless photographer Lee Friedlander, the maniacally inclusive but blessedly nonchalant cataloguer of Americana--her monuments, jazz musicians and urban landscapes--here presents 16 years of Americans at work. A collection of commissioned portfolios, some made at the request of art institutions, others at the behest of company CEOs, Lee Friedlander At Workalso documents, albeit subtly, 16 years of one of America's most exceptional and hard-working photographers at work.

D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, 2002 | Hardcover, 11.5 x 12 in. | 96 pgs | 231 duotone | $55.00

I KNOW A PLACE Long Sleeve Tee

MoMA PS1: “I Know a Place” Ball Cap

MoMA PS1: “Your Place to Make a Mark” Embossed Notebook