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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
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 Including many previously unpublished paintings, this five-volume set allows Bacon’s oeuvre to be seen and assessed in its entirety for the first time, with all works reproduced in full color.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
Edited by Martin Harrison
$1,500 plus shipping
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 Including many previously unpublished paintings, this five-volume set allows Bacon’s oeuvre to be seen and assessed in its entirety for the first time, with all works reproduced in full color.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
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.
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.
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.
On The Road: An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA
$9,000
CONTACT ARTBOOK TO PURCHASE
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.
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
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!
Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice
by Eivind Røssaak
Signed
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
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
MONUMENT LAB
RE:GENERATION
SIGNED
Monument Lab: Re:Generation presents case studies that travel across America, highlighting local commemorative campaigns dedicated to advancing public memory. Featuring articles and artwork from the country’s leading monument makers, each project includes a framing essay that provides insights into the varied contexts of location, culture, form, and subject matter. The publication provides innovative, healing, and practical approaches to the United States’ unreconciled past and divided present facing our nation. In doing so, it invites readers to engage with a broader discourse of monuments and public memory.
Edited by Paul M. Farber and Sue Mobley. Contributors: Thomas J. Adams, Kareal Amenumey, Sháńdíín Brown, Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Kristen Dorsey, Aruna D'Souza, Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Jacqui Germain, Grace Sanders Johnson, Dani R. Merriman, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Naima Murphy Salcido, Kirk Savage, Clint Smith, Tsione Wolde-Michael, Eric Zimmer, and the editors.
Beginning in 2022, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art, history, and design studio, Monument Lab, launched a nationwide initiative organized around a central question: Which stories belong in public? The editors and contributors to Monument Lab: Re:Generation responded with creative and impactful projects of reclamation that provide a deeper understanding of how monuments live and function in communities.
Cover Photo: Destiny Folgheraiter (Diné) at the Trail Opening Celebration, August 2022, Four Corners Region, Walking with Dinétah, Monument Lab - Re:Generation(Photo by Marissa Leshnov for Monument Lab).
Temple University Press, 2026 | 320 pages | 6.75 x 9.25 inches | $35.00
Design History Reader
Edited by Kristen Coogan
SIGNED by Kristen Coogan
Design History Reader: An Emerging Vision for a New Narrative, published by ONOMATOPEE, reimagines graphic design history through eight thematic sections that highlight both dominant and marginalized narratives. Moving beyond chronology, the Reader proposes new ways to study design—and new criteria for what counts as “good design” today. Design History Reader was led by Kristen Coogan, Associate Professor of Art and Graphic Design at Boston University, who applies the department’s pluralistic approach to the topic. The case studies featured in this book are real-life examples from her students that demonstrate the practical, ubiquitous applications of design theory. They began as a curricular revision and evolved into a new form of design history pedagogy. Already a part of Boston University’s graphic design curriculum, this student-focused reader is an excellent choice for course adoption, or for the bookshelf of an independent aspiring designer.Contributors include: Annabella Pugliese, Belle Bennet, Charles Li, Dar Saravia, Ellen Johnson, Flora Kerner, Grace Chong, Haya AlMajali, Julia Cheung, Kristina Shumilina, Lauren Had, Leila Garner, Maidha Salman, Natalie Seitz, Rayne Schulman, Rhea Jauhar, Rashina Wang, Sheryl Peng, Sophie Zimbler, Tzu-Hsuan Huang, Winnie Mei, Xiuqi Ran, Yue Luo.
ONOMATOPEE, 2025 | Paperback | 6.75 x 9.5 in | 324 pgs | $35.00
Kristen Coogan is a designer, educator, and writer whose work bridges graphic design practice and history. She is Associate Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Graphic Design at Boston University, where she teaches design history, information design, and graduate studio courses. Coogan is the editor of the Design History Reader(Onomatopee, 2025), a thematically organized volume that challenges the traditional design canon by highlighting both dominant and marginalized narratives and proposing new criteria for what counts as “good design.” Her work has been featured in national and international conferences, exhibitions, and publications, and she has played a key role in expanding the conversation around design history and pedagogy.
Alphabet in Motion
How Letters Get Their Shape
By Kelli Anderson
Edited by Ben Kiel, Caren Litherland, Michelle Santiago Cortés, Claire Evans, Emily Doucet.
SIGNED BY KELLI ANDERSON
Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual?
Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains—as well as demonstrates—the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about '60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers' Kombinations-Schrift.
Type history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to fully explain in text or in diagrams alone. The book's interactive features provide a sensory inroad for curious general readers to grasp how typography has transformed through history (and how lettering can convey a point of view or philosophical stance). A 128-page companion essay section includes an essay further contextualizing each pop-up. Alphabet in Motion puts the reader's hands, eyes and minds in touch with the meanings behind the typography that surrounds us in our homes, on our screens and on our streets. If you look carefully, you can see the history of the world—from the Bronze Age to the Information Age—in the microcosm of type.
KATHERINE SMALL GALLERY, 2025 | Hardcover, 2 vols, 9.5 x 12 in. | 144 pgs | 280 color | 17 pop-ups. $85.00
Kelli Anderson is a graphic designer, paper engineer, educator and author who uses design magic to connect people with the hidden talents of everyday things. Her previous publications include This Book Is a Camera (MoMA, 2015)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book Is a Planetarium (Chronicle, 2017)—which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Swan Moon’s Swan Moon
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Swan Moon's Swan Moon is a diaristic portrait of youth, identity, and performance set against the faded glamour of 1990s Los Angeles. Swan Moon revisits her teenage years as a Korean American growing up in the cultural shadow of Hollywood—where cinema’s myths loomed large and personal history blurred with fantasy.
While alternative youth were raving and Larry Clark’s Kids was defining a generation, Moon and her friends were doing something profoundly divergent: dressing in vintage clothing, staging impromptu, cinematically adjacent environments, and living out an aesthetic that was wildly out of sync with the time. The work feels improvised, playful—shot with flea market props and makeshift lighting which carried with it an amateurish charm. Moon wasn’t imitating Cindy Sherman—she had yet to know that name let alone see the iconic Untitled Film Stills—but she was drawing directly from the language of cinema, attempting to insert herself and her circle within the medium’s canon.
The photographs echo mid-century domesticity—gestures borrowed from the 1950s and ’60s—but subverted through the awareness and often overwrought angst of the 1990s. Sexuality here is present but subdued, expressed with a tenderness that would soon be obliterated by the onset of the Internet's rise. There’s humor, style and an earnest make-believe that is refreshing in light of today’s hyper self-awareness and image saturation.
Designed with a nod to Hollywood's silver screen, Swan Moon’s Swan Moon includes a curated soundtrack and character credits at the book’s conclusion. An afterword by the esteemed writer Chris Kraus brings clarity and context to Moon’s love letter to a nostalgic Los Angeles—her version of the city and its youthful inhabitants that feels both deeply personal and entirely lost to time.
Casebound hardcover with tipped-in chromogenic print
132 pages, 76 plates
7.6 x 10.5 in. / 193 x 260 mm
Afterword by Chris Kraus | 2025
Both Sides of Sunset Photographing Los Angeles
$300
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SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA
Los Angeles is a city of dualities—sunshine and noir, coastline beaches and urban grit, natural beauty and suburban sprawl, the obvious and the hidden. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles reveals these dualities and more, in images captured by master photographers such as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Daido Moriyama, Julius Shulman and Garry Winogrand, as well as many younger artists, among them. Taken together, these individual views by more than 130 artists form a collective vision of a place where myth and reality are often indistinguishable.
Metropolis Books
Hardcover | 12.75 x 10.25” | 28 pages
$300
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SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA
Los Angeles is a city of dualities—sunshine and noir, coastline beaches and urban grit, natural beauty and suburban sprawl, the obvious and the hidden. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles reveals these dualities and more, in images captured by master photographers such as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Daido Moriyama, Julius Shulman and Garry Winogrand, as well as many younger artists, among them. Taken together, these individual views by more than 130 artists form a collective vision of a place where myth and reality are often indistinguishable.
Metropolis Books
Hardcover | 12.75 x 10.25” | 28 pages
Dayanita Singh: Museum Bhavan
Steidl
Hardcover | 10 vols | 3.5 x 5.5” | 298 pgs
Interviews by Aveen Sen, Gerhard Steidl
With Museum Bhavan, Dayanita Singh forges a new space between publishing and the museum, an experience where books have the same--if not greater--artistic value as prints hanging on a gallery wall. Consisting of 10 individual “museums” in book form, Museum Bhavan is a miniature version of Singh’s eponymous traveling exhibition, with prints placed in folding expanding wooden structures.
The images in Museum Bhavan have been intuitively grouped into lyrical chapters in a visual story such as “Little Ladies Museum” and “Ongoing Museum,” as well as more specific series such as “Museum of Machines.” As in Singh’s first project, Sent a Letter (2008), the books are housed in a handmade box and fold out into accordion-like strips which the artist encourages viewers to install and curate as they wish in their own homes. The exhibition thus becomes a book, and the book an exhibition.
With Museum Bhavan, Dayanita Singh forges a new space between publishing and the museum, an experience where books have the same--if not greater--artistic value as prints hanging on a gallery wall. Consisting of 10 individual “museums” in book form, Museum Bhavan is a miniature version of Singh’s eponymous traveling exhibition, with prints placed in folding expanding wooden structures.
The images in Museum Bhavan have been intuitively grouped into lyrical chapters in a visual story such as “Little Ladies Museum” and “Ongoing Museum,” as well as more specific series such as “Museum of Machines.” As in Singh’s first project, Sent a Letter (2008), the books are housed in a handmade box and fold out into accordion-like strips which the artist encourages viewers to install and curate as they wish in their own homes. The exhibition thus becomes a book, and the book an exhibition.
Steidl
Hardcover | 10 vols | 3.5 x 5.5” | 298 pgs
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi’s radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, “I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces―brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves―to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.”
With more than twenty written contributions from curators, poets, and authors, alongside luxurious tritone reproductions of Muholi’s images, Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an autobiographical, artistic statement.
Aperture
Hardcover | 10.5 x 14” | 212 pgs
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi’s radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, “I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces―brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves―to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.”
With more than twenty written contributions from curators, poets, and authors, alongside luxurious tritone reproductions of Muholi’s images, Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an autobiographical, artistic statement.
Aperture
Hardcover | 10.5 x 14” | 212 pgs
Daido Moriyama: Tales of Tono
Text by Daido Moriyama. Translation by Lena Fritsch. Afterword by Simon Baker.
Throughout his career, Daido Moriyama has produced a huge body of extremely influential photobooks, each demonstrating the variety and complexity of his work, from the blurred and grainy style of his early Provoke-era publications, to his more classic city- and object-based projects. Tales of Tono, appearing here for the first time in English, is one such book. First published in 1976, and taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, Tales of Tono is a compact little volume composed of black-and-white photo diptychs and spreads that were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan. Faithfully reproducing the original edition, this book contains a text by the artist that offers the reader a typically honest and self-effacing account of Moriyama’s thoughts about his practice. More than 30 years since its original Japanese publication, Tales of Tono gives a fantastic insight into one of the world’s most original and provocative photographers. It is published to coincide with a survey of the artist’s work at Tate Modern, London.
D.A.P. | Tate
Paperback | 4.5 x 6.75” | 192 pgs
Text by Daido Moriyama. Translation by Lena Fritsch. Afterword by Simon Baker.
Throughout his career, Daido Moriyama has produced a huge body of extremely influential photobooks, each demonstrating the variety and complexity of his work, from the blurred and grainy style of his early Provoke-era publications, to his more classic city- and object-based projects. Tales of Tono, appearing here for the first time in English, is one such book. First published in 1976, and taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, Tales of Tono is a compact little volume composed of black-and-white photo diptychs and spreads that were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan. Faithfully reproducing the original edition, this book contains a text by the artist that offers the reader a typically honest and self-effacing account of Moriyama’s thoughts about his practice. More than 30 years since its original Japanese publication, Tales of Tono gives a fantastic insight into one of the world’s most original and provocative photographers. It is published to coincide with a survey of the artist’s work at Tate Modern, London.
D.A.P. | Tate
Paperback | 4.5 x 6.75” | 192 pgs
Francesca Woodman (DAP)
Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at the viewer through her right hand. This photograph typifies much of what would characterize Woodman's work to come: a semi-obscured female form merging with or flailing against a somewhat bare and often dilapidated interior. In an oeuvre of around 800 photographs made in just nine years, Woodman performed her own body against the textures of wallpaper, door frame, baths and couches, radically extending the Surrealist photography of Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun and creating a mood and language all her own. In the 30 years since her untimely death, Woodman has gained a following among successive generations of artists and photographers, a testament to her work's undeniable immediacy and enduring appeal Amid a renewed intensification of interest in Francesca Woodman, this volume is published for a major touring exhibition of her photographs and films at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph.
Hardcover | 9.25 x 10.75” 224 pgs
Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at the viewer through her right hand. This photograph typifies much of what would characterize Woodman's work to come: a semi-obscured female form merging with or flailing against a somewhat bare and often dilapidated interior. In an oeuvre of around 800 photographs made in just nine years, Woodman performed her own body against the textures of wallpaper, door frame, baths and couches, radically extending the Surrealist photography of Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun and creating a mood and language all her own. In the 30 years since her untimely death, Woodman has gained a following among successive generations of artists and photographers, a testament to her work's undeniable immediacy and enduring appeal Amid a renewed intensification of interest in Francesca Woodman, this volume is published for a major touring exhibition of her photographs and films at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph.
Hardcover | 9.25 x 10.75” 224 pgs
Ayoung Kim Signed Book Bundle:
Ayoung Kim. Delivery Dancer’s Arc: InverseAyoung Kim. Many Worlds Over
Ayoung Kim. Synthetic Storyteller
Ayoung Kim. Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse
This catalog was published in conjunction with Kim’s 2024 exhibition ACC: Future Prize 2024, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse. The work follows female delivery drivers En Storm and Ernst Mo (whose names are anagrams of “monster”). Featuring live-action footage from actors in real locations, the works—which Kim describes as “pandemic fiction”—center labor within the gig economy, which skyrocketed in both Korea and the US during recent years.
National Asian Culture Center | 228 pages | paperback | 150 color images
Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over
Published to accompany the exhibition Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over at Hamburger Bahnhof, where Kim drew from her "Delivery Dancer" universe. Her subjects cross the boundaries of possible realities, creating intersections between times and spaces. The exhibition extended Kim’s virtual landscapes into the physical museum space, completely transforming the gallery’s topology.
Silvana Editoriale | Paperback | 112 Pg | 57 Color
Ayoung Kim. Synthetic Storyteller
The 2025 revised edition of "Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller" is the first and most comprehensive monograph encompassing the artist’s eighteen-year trajectory.
The 2024 edition brought together critical essays by Wonhwa Yoon, Jinshil Lee, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Nanna Heidenreich, and Chien-Hung Huang, alongside scripts and texts by the artist herself, and a selection of works from 2007 to 2022. The new edition incorporates recent works and exhibition views, plus an updated interview with the artist. Korean and English language sections function as independent publications, joined at the center by full-page images of Kim’s works that bridge the two halves.
"Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller” | Edited by Gye Taek Gon (James Gui) | Designed by Shin Shin | The Floorplan, 2025 | Softcover | 400 pages | English, Korean
Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.
Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over
Edited by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath.
Introduction by Charlotte Knaup.
OUT OF STOCK
Published to accompany the exhibition Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over at Hamburger Bahnhof, where Kim drew from her "Delivery Dancer" universe. Her subjects cross the boundaries of possible realities, creating intersections between times and spaces. The exhibition extended Kim’s virtual landscapes into the physical museum space, completely transforming the gallery’s topology.
Silvana Editoriale | Paperback | 112 Pg | 57 Color
Ayoung Kim
Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse
SIGNED by Ayoung Kim
UNSIGNED
This catalog was published in conjunction with Kim’s 2024 exhibition ACC: Future Prize 2024, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse. The work follows female delivery drivers En Storm and Ernst Mo (whose names are anagrams of “monster”). Featuring live-action footage from actors in real locations, the works—which Kim describes as “pandemic fiction”—center labor within the gig economy, which skyrocketed in both Korea and the US during recent years.
National Asian Culture Center | 228 pages | paperback | 150 color images
Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.
National Asian Culture Center | 228 pages | paperback | 150 color images
Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.
Ayoung Kim
Synthetic Storyteller
SIGNED by Ayoung Kim
UNSIGNED
The 2025 revised edition of "Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller" is the first and most comprehensive monograph encompassing the artist’s eighteen-year trajectory.
The 2024 edition brought together critical essays by Wonhwa Yoon, Jinshil Lee, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Nanna Heidenreich, and Chien-Hung Huang, alongside scripts and texts by the artist herself, and a selection of works from 2007 to 2022. The new edition incorporates recent works and exhibition views, plus an updated interview with the artist. Korean and English language sections function as independent publications, joined at the center by full-page images of Kim’s works that bridge the two halves.
"Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller” | Edited by Gye Taek Gon (James Gui) | Designed by Shin Shin | The Floorplan, 2025 | Softcover | 400 pages | English, Korean
Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.
$35.00
The 2024 edition brought together critical essays by Wonhwa Yoon, Jinshil Lee, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Nanna Heidenreich, and Chien-Hung Huang, alongside scripts and texts by the artist herself, and a selection of works from 2007 to 2022. The new edition incorporates recent works and exhibition views, plus an updated interview with the artist. Korean and English language sections function as independent publications, joined at the center by full-page images of Kim’s works that bridge the two halves.
"Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller” | Edited by Gye Taek Gon (James Gui) | Designed by Shin Shin | The Floorplan, 2025 | Softcover | 400 pages | English, Korean
Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.
$35.00
VAGINAL DAVIS
MAGNIFICENT PRODUCT
At Artbook stores in conjunction with the major exhibition of Davis’s work at MoMA PS1 (Oct 9 – Mar 2)
WELCOME TO THE WONDROUS WORLD OF VAGINAL DAVIS: VISUAL ARTIST, PUNK ROCKER, "DRAG TERRORIST" AND GENDERQUEER ICON
In Vaginal Davis' pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets racial justice and resistance meets joy. An icon of contemporary queer history, Vaginal Davis has made scenes for a living: through personas as diverse and outrageous as Rayvn Cymone McFarlane or John Dean Egg III, and as a part of bands including Cholita! The Female Menudo and the Afro Sisters. Since then, she has achieved cult status as a self-proclaimed "sexual repulsive" and a "drag terrorist"--shattering notions of mainstream conformity and the sanitization of Black, queer and Chicano cultures for appropriation by white audiences.
An uproarious celebration of Davis' work and cultural legacy, this bilingual English/Swedish catalog is Z-bound (English on one side, Swedish on the other) and takes readers on a whirlwind tour across the artist's protean output spanning music, performance, installations, lectures and visual art: from her early punk shows to her recent "fantasy library" imagined as a teenager's bedroom. A final section, "Dear Ms. Davis," includes heartfelt tributes to the artist from fellow "colleagues, concubines and conconspirators."
VAGINAL DAVIS was born intersex in Los Angeles to parents of Black Creole, Mexican, Jewish and German descent. Naming herself after radical Black feminist Angela Davis, she emerged in the queer punk scenes of Bushwick and Los Angeles in the 1980s before moving to Berlin in the early 2000s.
Published in association with Moderna Museet, Stockholm | Walther Konig Verlag, 2025 | 312 pages | Paperback | $45.00
Heidi Howard:
Colors Make Us Do Vibrant Deeds!
Author(s): Brenda Coultas; Gaby Collins-Fernandez; Amy Giovanna Rinaldi; Heidi Howard; Natasha Marie Llorens; Veronika Sheer | Design: M.H. Orfanos.
"Heidi's practice, like this book... gives us paintings "in the expanded field" of our lives, relationships, books, clothes, favorite colors. ...We are always moving, and Heidi is painting the move and the pause."
- Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Colors Make Us Do Vibrant Deeds! by Queens-based artist Heidi Howard showcases the artist’s paintings, interspersed with photographs of the studio, landscapes, times spent with friends and family in the studio and outside of it, screenshots of social media activity, and other pieces of the artist’s life. Through painting, and now this limited edition book, Howard explores the intimacies of friendship as a core theme. For the editions available at Artbook @ MoMA PS1, Howard has specially wrapped each edition in dyed fabric remnants from their studio.
PHŒBE PRESS, 2024
Sewn bound softcover (with thread) 424 pages
David Horvitz
Nostalgia
Third Edition
by David Horvitz
This project is about erasure; memory, forgetting, data, archives, etcetera. The book ‘Nostalgia’ contains 300 image descriptions of deleted photographs taken on various digital cameras since the early 2000s and stored on computers, hard drives, and memory cards. Their diverse subjects range from personal moments, to visual note-taking as a mnemonic device, to photos used in artworks. This artists’ book questions tendencies to produce new images and instead moves in the opposite direction by deleting them and creating texts that produce images in the readers mind.
Edition Taube, Gato Negro, 2022, 304 p., 23 x 17 cm., Paperback | $30
Third Edition
by David Horvitz
This project is about erasure; memory, forgetting, data, archives, etcetera. The book ‘Nostalgia’ contains 300 image descriptions of deleted photographs taken on various digital cameras since the early 2000s and stored on computers, hard drives, and memory cards. Their diverse subjects range from personal moments, to visual note-taking as a mnemonic device, to photos used in artworks. This artists’ book questions tendencies to produce new images and instead moves in the opposite direction by deleting them and creating texts that produce images in the readers mind.
Edition Taube, Gato Negro, 2022, 304 p., 23 x 17 cm., Paperback | $30
(nostalgia)
First Edition
by David Horvitz
(Nostalgia) is a catalog of deleted photographs by David Horvitz.
Each page is labeled with a photo’s filename and date and a short description of what the photograph depicted. There’s great pathos in the simplicity of these descriptions. As Horvitz says, this is a world “over-inundated and amassed with photographs (mostly digital) and with eroded attention spans.” (nostalgia), then, becomes a way to mark the emotional content of this endless stream of photographs.
Edition Taube co-published with Gato Negro, 2019 | 124 p. | 23 x 17 cm. | Paperback
First Edition
by David Horvitz
(Nostalgia) is a catalog of deleted photographs by David Horvitz.
Each page is labeled with a photo’s filename and date and a short description of what the photograph depicted. There’s great pathos in the simplicity of these descriptions. As Horvitz says, this is a world “over-inundated and amassed with photographs (mostly digital) and with eroded attention spans.” (nostalgia), then, becomes a way to mark the emotional content of this endless stream of photographs.
Edition Taube co-published with Gato Negro, 2019 | 124 p. | 23 x 17 cm. | Paperback
For Ruth, the sky in los angeles
by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and
David Horvitz
Signed by David Horvitz
An intimate, cross-generational conversation through mail art. American multimedia artist David Horvitz (born 1982) visited visual poet and mail artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (born 1932) in her native Germany while conducting research in 2014. There, Horvitz discovered her archives of “typewritings,” graphic works that Wolf-Rehfeldt had used for mail art and sent across the globe from her studio in East Berlin in the 1970s. Later, Horvitz invited Wolf-Rehfeldt to use a disposable camera to record images of her house and garden and, in return, he photographed his studio in Los Angeles. These snapshots and dialogues are presented along with Horvitz’s text-based watercolors—such as For Ruth, the sky in los angeles and For Ruth, the wind to you, which were original sent as mail art. Together they constitute a delightful dialogue.
Spector Books, 2022 | Paperback, 9 x 6.25 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color. | $35.00
by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and
David Horvitz
Signed by David Horvitz
An intimate, cross-generational conversation through mail art. American multimedia artist David Horvitz (born 1982) visited visual poet and mail artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (born 1932) in her native Germany while conducting research in 2014. There, Horvitz discovered her archives of “typewritings,” graphic works that Wolf-Rehfeldt had used for mail art and sent across the globe from her studio in East Berlin in the 1970s. Later, Horvitz invited Wolf-Rehfeldt to use a disposable camera to record images of her house and garden and, in return, he photographed his studio in Los Angeles. These snapshots and dialogues are presented along with Horvitz’s text-based watercolors—such as For Ruth, the sky in los angeles and For Ruth, the wind to you, which were original sent as mail art. Together they constitute a delightful dialogue.
Spector Books, 2022 | Paperback, 9 x 6.25 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color. | $35.00
How to shoplift books
David Horvitz
How to shoplift books by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic. This textbook is readable, but also shamelessly draws attention to its existence as an object, a conversation starter, a thing that can be acquired by fair means or foul. This is a book that turns a point of sale display into an intellectual and ethical adventure. A comprehensive guide to stealing books with its price printed on the cover, clearly visible, provokes the visitor of a bookshop to become aware of the unconscious decisions, pre-empted by others, that we make every day. The poetic, funny and paradoxical texts also bring to light some structural elements of the mechanics of bookselling and our relation to the exchange of goods. It inserts friction into the conditioned behaviour we display when we are moving through commercial spaces. All advertising tells us to buy things, we rarely come across a message encouraging us to steal – especially not one with the authority that print still carries.
Edition Taube, 2019, Softcover | 84 pages
David Horvitz
How to shoplift books by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic. This textbook is readable, but also shamelessly draws attention to its existence as an object, a conversation starter, a thing that can be acquired by fair means or foul. This is a book that turns a point of sale display into an intellectual and ethical adventure. A comprehensive guide to stealing books with its price printed on the cover, clearly visible, provokes the visitor of a bookshop to become aware of the unconscious decisions, pre-empted by others, that we make every day. The poetic, funny and paradoxical texts also bring to light some structural elements of the mechanics of bookselling and our relation to the exchange of goods. It inserts friction into the conditioned behaviour we display when we are moving through commercial spaces. All advertising tells us to buy things, we rarely come across a message encouraging us to steal – especially not one with the authority that print still carries.
Edition Taube, 2019, Softcover | 84 pages
Sophie Calle Because
A stunning artist’s book containing loose photographs hidden between pages of text that tell the story of each image
Words have always been central to the practice of French artist Sophie Calle (born 1953), who is known for her photographic work that often includes panels of text of her own writing. In this project, Calle conceives of the internal thought processes behind her art-making as stories to be told. It is with these stories—alongside the external stories of the moments preceding a click of a camera shutter—that Calle opens Because. The volume chronicles her reasons behind capturing particular moments in time, but the corresponding photos themselves are revealed only later, hidden in the interstices of the Japanese binding. In this process, Calle reverses the relationship of natural primacy between an image and the words that accompany it, instead calling our attention to the influence that the latter may have on our perception of a photograph.
The new revised edition of this classic artist’s book contains 39 loose photographs inserted between the pages, alongside text and other imagery by Calle. A beautiful object in its own right, it features Japanese binding and an iridescent orange cloth cover.
Atelier Exb, 2024 | Hardcover | 6.75 x 9.5 in. | 168 pgs | 39 color.
| 9782365114097
Sophie Calle:
The Sleepers
Calle’s seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in English
In one of Sophie Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a trumpet player and three painters. Calle photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversations once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, she subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits and dreams as well as their interpretations of the act of sleeping in her bed: a curiosity, a game, an artwork, or—as Calle intended it—a job. The result, comprising her first exhibition in 1979, was a grid of 198 photographs and short texts.
Unlike the original installation, this artist’s book version of The Sleepers contains not only all the photographs and captions but also her engrossing, novellalike narrative, untranslated until now. From the single, liminal mise-en-scène of her bedroom, Calle reports in text and photos, as if in real time, as sleepers arrive, talk, sleep, eat and leave. Their acute and sometimes startling, sometimes endearing particularities merge into something almost like an eight-day-long dream. Many seeds of Calle’s subsequent works are embedded in The Sleepers: her exacting and transgressive methods of investigation, her cultivation of intimacy and remove, and her unrelenting curiosity. In this work, as she observes the sleepers, they observe her too—with reciprocal candor. The Sleepers, clothbound and pillow-like, unfolds as it opens, inviting the reader to join the others in Calle’s bed.
Siglio, 2024 | Clth, 6 x 8 in. | 304 pgs | 176 bw. | 9781938221347
$48.00
Sophie Calle: Suite Venitienne
Calle’s first artist’s book documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice
After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and notating their movements, Sophie Calle ran into a man at an opening whom she had followed earlier that day. "During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice. I decided to follow him," she writes at the beginning of Suite Vénitienne, her first artist's book and the crucible of her inimitable fusion of investigatory methods, fictional constructs, the plundering of real life and the composition of self. Over the course of almost two weeks in Venice, Calle notates, in time-stamped entries, her surveillance of Henri B., as well as her own emotions as she seeks, finds and follows him through the labyrinthine streets of Venice.
Her investigation is both methodical (calling every hotel, visiting the police station) and arbitrary (sometimes following a stranger—a flower delivery boy, for instance—hoping someone might lead her to him). This Siglio reissue is a completely new iteration of Suite Vénitienne (first published in 1988 and long out of print), designed in collaboration with Calle to be the definitive English-language edition. Printed on Japanese paper with a die-cut cover and gilded edges, this beautiful new Siglio edition allows readers to devour this crucial and compelling work.
Siglio, 2015 | Hardcover | 96 pages | 5.5 x 8 in | 4 color | 56 bw. |
| 9781938221095 |
Sophie Calle:
The Hotel
In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts through the evidence of the hotel guests' lives. Assigned 12 rooms on the fourth floor, she surveys the state of the guests' bedding, their books, newspapers and postcards, perfumes and cologne, traveling clothes and costumes for Carnival. She methodically photographs the contents of closets and suitcases, examining the detritus in the rubbish bin and the toiletries arranged on the washbasin. She discovers their birth dates and blood types, diary entries, letters from and photographs of lovers and family. She eavesdrops on arguments and love-making. She retrieves a pair of shoes from the wastebasket and takes two chocolates from a neglected box of sweets, while leaving behind stashes of money, pills and jewelry. Her thievery is the eye of the camera, observing the details that were not meant for her, or us, to see.
The Hotel now manifests as a book for the first time in English (it was previously included in the book Double Game). Collaborating with the artist on a new design that features enhanced and larger photographs, and pays specific attention to the beauty of the book as an object, Siglio is releasing its third book authored by Calle, after The Address Book (2012) and Suite Vénitienne (2015).
Siglio, 2021 | Clth | 6 x 8 in. | 224 pgs | 12 color | 180 bw.
Tim Davis
I’m Looking Through You
Photographs by Tim Davis.
Text by Tim Davis.
SIGNED BY TIM DAVIS IN-STORE AT ARTBOOK @ HAUSER & WIRTH LA!
I’m Looking Through You is an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach.
Animating Tim Davis's wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer’s decades long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As Davis states, “The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath.” Davis’s keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium—the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing—solidify I’m Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.
Aperture
Hardcover | 6.5 x 9”|
256 pgs
Taryn Simon. The Color of a Flea’s Eye
Taryn Simon’s The Color of a Flea’s Eye presents a history of the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection—a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies.
In her work The Picture Collection (2012-20), Simon (born 1975) highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon’s photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards and Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue, at the same time that history—its classifications, its contents—seems the stuff of projection.expansive conversation with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa.
Produced in direct collaboration with the artist, the book contains 57 individually hand tipped-in plates, numerous gatefolds and a variety of unique papers, as well as essays by Joshua Chuang, head of The New York Public Library’s Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, and Tim Griffin, executive director and chief curator at The Kitchen.
Cahiers D’Art, 2020 | Hardcover, 10 x 13.25 in. / 460 pgs / 57 color / 442 bw.
Taryn Simon’s The Color of a Flea’s Eye presents a history of the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection—a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies.
In her work The Picture Collection (2012-20), Simon (born 1975) highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon’s photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards and Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue, at the same time that history—its classifications, its contents—seems the stuff of projection.expansive conversation with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa.
Produced in direct collaboration with the artist, the book contains 57 individually hand tipped-in plates, numerous gatefolds and a variety of unique papers, as well as essays by Joshua Chuang, head of The New York Public Library’s Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, and Tim Griffin, executive director and chief curator at The Kitchen.
Cahiers D’Art, 2020 | Hardcover, 10 x 13.25 in. / 460 pgs / 57 color / 442 bw.
Taryn Simon. A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters
SIGNED BY TARYN SIMON
A significant and extensive book on a major new body of work by the American artist Taryn Simon. Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I-XVIII was produced over a four-year period (2008-2011), during which Simon travelled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen "chapters" that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her subjects feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. This volume accompanies the exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (May 2011), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (September 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (May-September 2012).
MACK, 2011 | Hardcover
SIGNED BY TARYN SIMON
A significant and extensive book on a major new body of work by the American artist Taryn Simon. Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I-XVIII was produced over a four-year period (2008-2011), during which Simon travelled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen "chapters" that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her subjects feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. This volume accompanies the exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (May 2011), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (September 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (May-September 2012).
MACK, 2011 | Hardcover
Taryn Simon: Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies
In 1936 an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it "flat and colourless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous ... a blunt instrument in the hands of the government." In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–89) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs and classifies all the birds that appear within the 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
Hatje Cantz, 2016 | Hardcover, 7.5 x 11.5 in. / 608 pgs / 367 color.
In 1936 an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it "flat and colourless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous ... a blunt instrument in the hands of the government." In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–89) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs and classifies all the birds that appear within the 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.
Hatje Cantz, 2016 | Hardcover, 7.5 x 11.5 in. / 608 pgs / 367 color.
Taryn Simon. Contraband
This publication reissues a much sought-after photobook. Taryn Simon is an American artist whose works combine photography, text and graphic design. Her practice involves extensive research, in projects guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification. For Contraband, 1,075 photographs were taken at both the US Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the US Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. From November 16 to November 20, 2009, Simon remained on site and continuously photographed items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the United States from abroad. The list of items includes pork, syringes, Botox, GBL date rape drug, heroin, imitation Lipitor, Ketamine tranquillizers, Lidocaine, Lorazepam, locust tree seed, ginger root, deer tongues, cow urine, Cohiba cigars and Egyptian cigarettes. The volume is published in three differently colored covers.
Hatje Cantz, 2015 | Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 1,075 color
This publication reissues a much sought-after photobook. Taryn Simon is an American artist whose works combine photography, text and graphic design. Her practice involves extensive research, in projects guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification. For Contraband, 1,075 photographs were taken at both the US Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the US Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. From November 16 to November 20, 2009, Simon remained on site and continuously photographed items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the United States from abroad. The list of items includes pork, syringes, Botox, GBL date rape drug, heroin, imitation Lipitor, Ketamine tranquillizers, Lidocaine, Lorazepam, locust tree seed, ginger root, deer tongues, cow urine, Cohiba cigars and Egyptian cigarettes. The volume is published in three differently colored covers.
Hatje Cantz, 2015 | Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 1,075 color
Nan Goldin. The Other Side
This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised introduction by Goldin, and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented. Published at a time when discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving rapidly, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility.
The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early 1980s, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the ’90s, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines. Goldin’s newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends. The Other Side is her homage to the queens she has loved, many of whom she has lost, over the last four decades.
Steidl | 2019 | Hardcover | 9 x 10.75 in | 140 pgs
This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised introduction by Goldin, and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented. Published at a time when discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving rapidly, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility.
The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early 1980s, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the ’90s, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines. Goldin’s newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends. The Other Side is her homage to the queens she has loved, many of whom she has lost, over the last four decades.
Steidl | 2019 | Hardcover | 9 x 10.75 in | 140 pgs
Nan Goldin. The Beautiful Smile
2007 winner Nan Goldin is easily one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct aesthetics of snapshot photography, she has documented her own life and that of her friends and others on the margins of society for more than 30 years, offering frank depictions of drug abuse, cross-dressing and alternative sexualities. Her intimate photographs depict urban lives in New York and Europe in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, a period massively determined by HIV and AIDS. Her practice of photography as memoir, as a means of protection against loss and as an act of preservation, as well as her use of the slide show, resonates in the work of photographers of recent generations.
This classic volume, which the photographer has called her favorite of all of her books, is a moving homage to the work of one of the most eminent artists of our time.
Steidl | 2017 | Hardcover | 9.75 x 10.5 in | 150 pgs
2007 winner Nan Goldin is easily one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct aesthetics of snapshot photography, she has documented her own life and that of her friends and others on the margins of society for more than 30 years, offering frank depictions of drug abuse, cross-dressing and alternative sexualities. Her intimate photographs depict urban lives in New York and Europe in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, a period massively determined by HIV and AIDS. Her practice of photography as memoir, as a means of protection against loss and as an act of preservation, as well as her use of the slide show, resonates in the work of photographers of recent generations.
This classic volume, which the photographer has called her favorite of all of her books, is a moving homage to the work of one of the most eminent artists of our time.
Steidl | 2017 | Hardcover | 9.75 x 10.5 in | 150 pgs
Nan Goldin. A Double Life
-Nan Goldin
“I used to think Nan and I were complete opposites and it was all about the complement. But it’s different from that. At the same time we’re identical- like our pictures. At first they seem to come from different plants but finally they arrive at the same place.”
-David Armstrong
DAP | 1994 | Hardcover | 9.75 x 13 in | 184 pgs
-Nan Goldin
“I used to think Nan and I were complete opposites and it was all about the complement. But it’s different from that. At the same time we’re identical- like our pictures. At first they seem to come from different plants but finally they arrive at the same place.”
-David Armstrong
DAP | 1994 | Hardcover | 9.75 x 13 in | 184 pgs
Nan Goldin. I’ll Be Your Mirror
-Nan Goldin
“I used to think Nan and I were complete opposites and it was all about the complement. But it’s different from that. At the same time we’re identical- like our pictures. At first they seem to come from different plants but finally they arrive at the same place.”
-David Armstrong
Scalo Verlag | 1996 | Hardcover | 8.5 x 11.5 in | 491 pgs
-Nan Goldin
“I used to think Nan and I were complete opposites and it was all about the complement. But it’s different from that. At the same time we’re identical- like our pictures. At first they seem to come from different plants but finally they arrive at the same place.”
-David Armstrong
Scalo Verlag | 1996 | Hardcover | 8.5 x 11.5 in | 491 pgs
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life
Edited with text by Ruba Katrib. Text by Anne Dressen & Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, Lanka Tattersall.
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A new exploration of Niki de Saint Phalle’s colorful and compelling public structures, with archival materials and more
This volume brings newfound attention to Niki de Saint Phalle’s work in architecture and public sculpture, and the commercial products such as perfume and jewelry that she produced to fund these ambitious projects.
Featuring a wide selection of images of her architectural works and rarely seen archival materials, this book places these projects within the context of her larger boundary-defying practice, drawing connections with politically charged works such as the films and books she made in response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Charting Saint Phalle's many efforts to radically open her practice beyond the confines of the art world, it serves as a survey of her practice from the 1960s until the early 2000s. Edited and with an essay by exhibition curator Ruba Katrib, the publication features new scholarship by Anne Dressen and Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, and Lanka Tattersall.
MoMA PS1
Paperback | 6.75” x 9” | 232 pgs
Edited with text by Ruba Katrib. Text by Anne Dressen & Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, Lanka Tattersall.
SALE PRICE
A new exploration of Niki de Saint Phalle’s colorful and compelling public structures, with archival materials and more
This volume brings newfound attention to Niki de Saint Phalle’s work in architecture and public sculpture, and the commercial products such as perfume and jewelry that she produced to fund these ambitious projects.
Featuring a wide selection of images of her architectural works and rarely seen archival materials, this book places these projects within the context of her larger boundary-defying practice, drawing connections with politically charged works such as the films and books she made in response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Charting Saint Phalle's many efforts to radically open her practice beyond the confines of the art world, it serves as a survey of her practice from the 1960s until the early 2000s. Edited and with an essay by exhibition curator Ruba Katrib, the publication features new scholarship by Anne Dressen and Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, and Lanka Tattersall.
MoMA PS1
Paperback | 6.75” x 9” | 232 pgs
| Niki de
Saint Phalle Inflatable Yellow Nana |
Niki de Saint Phalle began commercializing her Nana balloons in 1968, as part of an effort towards democratizing art, by offering her inflatable sculptures at more affordable prices. To this day, they are beloved by children and adults alike.
Il Giardino dei Tarocchi
Vinyl Plastic, 90 x 82 cm
| Niki de Saint Phalle: Tarot Cards |
“If life is a game of cards, we are born without knowing the rules. Yes we must play our hand. Is the tarot only a card game, or is there a philosophy behind it?“ --Niki de Saint Phalle
Game of 22 cards, 8 x 14 cm each.
Special screen printing with relief effect.
14 special colors + Braille paint on the front; 1 special color black on the back + UV paint.
| Niki de
Saint Phalle Inflatable Black Nana |
Niki de Saint Phalle began commercializing her Nana balloons in 1968, as part of an effort towards democratizing art, by offering her inflatable sculptures at more affordable prices. To this day, they are beloved by children and adults alike.
Il Giardino dei Tarocchi
Vinyl Plastic, 90 x 82 cm
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
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.
TOILETPAPER MAGAZINES
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.
Cao Fei: I watch that worlds pass by
Snoeck
Staff Favorites: Books on Film
Here are some of our favorite film books currently in stock at Artbook @MoMA PS1. What they share is a rich, contextual overview of each filmmaker's career.
Derek Jarman's Jubilee was a seminal film for many, though he's perhaps better known for Edward II, Sebastiane, and Blue. This book explores his diverse work, from experimental Super 8 films to queer painting and activism, with essays and photos accompanying each body of work. While their focus and mediums differ, Cao Fei’s work also features heavy social commentary and surrealism, evoking the feeling of entering a dreamlike world. In Fei’s case, she blurs the lines between the virtual and real as she explores the impact of globalization and internet culture on China. 'I Watch That Worlds Pass By' examines 3 major projects from her career, all delving into these themes. Hito Steyerl’s work also critiques the global capitalist system, with an emphasis on surveillance. In 'Broken Windows' (published alongside her exhibition of the same name) she teaches AI to recognize the sound of breaking glass, which feels especially timely as AI becomes more present. In contrast to 'Broken Windows', the protagonist in 'Memoria' struggles to recreate a sound that no one else seems to hear. While Weerasethakul’s meditation on memory feels spiritual, cyclical, and timeless, Steyerl’s work interrogates how the past is mediated through the digital archive. Weerasethakul is known for 'Uncle Boonmee', which won the Palme d'Or 2010. 'Memoria', was based off his own experience with Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS)—a condition where individuals hear loud noises in their sleep. Weerasethakul found the experience strange and dreamlike, and while making the film in Colombia, his symptoms mysteriously disappeared. This book offers a rare glimpse into his personal sketchbook as he explores a new country and makes this film. What unites these filmmakers’ works, for me, is their profound intersections between technology, memory, and identity.
Each of these books would be a happy addition to any film book collection.
Apichatong Weerasethakul: Memoria
Firefly Press
Derek Jarman
JRP Editions
Hito Steyerl
The City of Broken Windows
SKIRA
Shanekia McIntosh
A New Sense of Luxury
A New Sense of Luxury is the first full-length collection from poet & artist, Shanekia McIntosh.
“Shanekia Mcintosh’s A New Sense of Luxury is a lyric epic of presence, where being here and now is too often a choice between only Pleasurescrolling./Doomscrolling. - thus, not enough and too much at the same time. 21st-century luxury is such a muchness as that; up in imperial prolapse, what’s luxe ain’t nothing if the good feeling doesn’t cost someone some blood. Sometimes, the buyer’s. McIntosh spurns, reels, wants and winces in a tableau of cramped plentitude and roomy scarcity, taking inventory. This book tells us what’s extra and what’s missing.” - Douglas Kearney
Shanekia McIntosh is an interdisciplinary artist, with her work rooted in poetry, performance and installation. Her work is an exploration of memory and archives, guided by an insatiable curiosity and interest in philosophy and history, McIntosh uses her work to explore themes of time, dislocation, trauma, climate, passivity and action and connectivity through the lens of digital culture probing at the stories we tell ourselves and interrogating at who gets to tell them. In 2021, she released her debut chapbook, Spiral as Ritual, published by Topos Press.
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 is carrying the book in conjunction with a reading program for the current exhibition at MoMA PS1 “DON CHRISTIAN JONES: The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go”. The program features Martine Gutierrez, Morgan Bassichis, and Shanekia McIntosh.
Eureka! Press
5x8 inches | 111 Pages | Digital Print |Letterpress Cover | Perfect Bound | First Edition of 400
$17.99
On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016-2021
Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2022 | English | Paperback | 384 pages | 6.5 x 0.7 x 9.5 inches
Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019: Yvonne Rainer, Emily Coates, Nick Mauss
Performa/Lenz/Wadsworth Atheneum | November 5, 2024 English| Paperback | 160 pages | 7 x 10 inches
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
MoMA, 2018 | Paperback | 199 pages | 8 x 10 inches
Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York
1955-1972 | University of CA Press, 2016 | Hardcover | 192 pages | 8.5 x 10.5 inches
