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Universal Wrapping Paper
The universal wrap idea was born on a January afternoon, soon after Christmas, when Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti – both italian designers – realized they couldn’t use wrapping paper with...
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The Story Of Olga By Ellen Von Unwerth
The Story Of Olga (limited edition of 1.000 copies by Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8365-4236-4, $500) returns for more lustful adventures with a colorful cast of characters. After a first foray with Bettina...
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Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood, A Visual Crime Dossier
“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land,” writes Luc...
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The Dude And The Zen Master
“All my life I’ve been interested in expressing my truth in ways that almost anyone can understand. A famous Japanese Zen Master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words...
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Mao’s Golden Mangoes And The Cultural Revolution
Mao’s Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution (Scheidegger & Spiess, ISBN 978-3858817327, $49) tells the historical story of the fruits’ rise to fame and how it became a symbol of Mao’s...
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Comics Sketchbooks – The Unseen World of Today’s Most Creative Talents
Comics Sketchbooks (Thames & Huddson, ISBN 978-0500289945, $44.95) gives us an intimate insight into the unseen world of more than 80 of today’s most creative comic illustrators and talents,...
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A Map Of The World
A Map of the World (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-469-4, $60) is discovering the world according to illustrators and storytellers. Drawing and cartopgraphing a map means understanding our world around...
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Nadav Kander – Bodies. 6 Women. 1 Man
“Revealed yet concealed. Shameless yet shameful. Ease with unease. Beauty and destruction. These paradoxes are displayed in all my work: an enquiry into what it feels like to be human.” – Nadav...
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Aperture Magazine Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952-1976
We’re all curious about the origin, about the first steps of what started to be where before there was nothing. Published on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary, this is the first ever Aperture...
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Blackbox – Your SMS Printer
Whether the communique is of a loving or legal nature, SMS and IM conversations are only in electronic format, leaving no physical copies as a means for remembrance. BlackBox is a portable unit that...
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Burlesque Compere – Before And After Portraits Of New York City Performers
1984 born Brooklyn-based photographer Van Sarki has been working on a series entitled Burlesque Compere and therefore captured 60+ portraits of glittering female/male Burlesque stars, shot naturally...
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The Americans By Robert Frank
Armed with a camera and supported by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at...
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Everyday Life At 1⁄125 Of A Second
Maciej Dakowicz, Pink Hat, Cardiff, 2006. Street Photography Now, by Thames & Hudson. Gus Powell, Putti from the series Lunch Pictures, New York, 1999-2007. Street Photography Now, by Thames &...
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Conflict And Costume – The Herero Tribe Of Namibia
Conflict and Costume (Merrell Publishers, ISBN 978-1858946009, $50) by acclaimed photographer Jim Naughten, curreently living and working in London, documents remnants of colonial fashion in the...
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Walls Notebook: Street Art Practice Book
Walls Notebook (Quirk Books, ISBN 978-1594743245, $16.95) by photographer and design engineer Sherwood Forlee is a notebook or sketchbook that features 80 pictures on 160 pages of bare, urban NYC...
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Occupy São Paulo
“I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the...
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Swissted – Vintage Rock Posters Remixed And Reimagined
Swissted (Quirk Books, ISBN 978-1594746116, $40, Kindle Edition $29.50) by Mike Joyce takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist...
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Process Journal – Independent Journal Of Graphic Design
Process Journal ($25 AUD) is a quarterly released graphic design publication produced in Melbourne Australia. The magazine is dedicated to capturing beautiful work in print, stepping back and allowing...
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Retrospective: Saul Leiter’s Photography
Like in Early Color Saul Leiter‘s Retrospective (Kehrer, ISBN 978-3868282580, $65) shines bright. Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter’s color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art...
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I Saw Nick Drake: Photographs By Keith Morris
I Saw Nick Drake (roughly $600) is the second release by Snap Galleries. Just 500 individually numbered copies of this ultra-large-format book are being offered worldwide. It’s a huge and exciting...
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A Message For You
A Message For You (Steidl, ISBN 978-3869305516, $60) captures the work in progress by the French fashion photographer Guy Bourdin (1928-91) who had his first shots published in Vogue Paris in 1955....
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Arctic Spleen By Pier Casotti
After almost five years of hard work shooting and filming in east Greenland, the book and short multimedia Arctic Spleen by photographer Pier Casotti is coming to light. “If the populations of...
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You Talkin’ To Me?
Taxi Driver (Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8365-4198-5, $65) by Steve Schapiro lets you travel back in time to the film shoot in New York in 1975. The book showcases previously unseen photographs from Martin...
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Various Small Books By Ed Ruscha
With his small photo-conceptual artist’s books, Ruscha expanded the artist’s field of permissible subjects in the 1960s and 1970s. Among them are for example Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small...
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The Photographs Of Ray K. Metzker
The Photographs Of Ray K. Metzker (Nelson Atkins, ISBN 978-0300171051, $60) brings the extraordinary work of one of the greatest living photographers of the modern era to the attention of a larger...
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New York City Of Trees
New York City Of Trees (Quantuck Lane Press, ISBN 978-1593720520, $29.95) by Benjamin Swett documents the role of of trees as storehouses of a city’s past, in this case New York City. The inside flap...
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Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes
I came across Ed Panar some time ago about an interview about his photobook Animals That Saw Me. It’s a collection of photographs in which an animal is looking at Panar’s camera over a period of...
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360° Book By Julie Mangeard
The 360° book is a concept by London based graphic designer Julie Mangeard exploring our new way of reading information due to internet. We now go from one link to another and do not read anymore from...
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Others People’s Clothes By Caleb Cole
Photographer Caleb Cole describes himself on his site as “a scout and 4-H Grand Champion in Gift Wrapping.” Cole uses a method that was perfected by Cindy Sherman, but Cole’s approach is a bit less...
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Desert Realty – The Grey Area Between Realism And Fantasy
Desert Realty (Chronicle Books, ISBN 978-0811-8582-3-6, $24.95) is a stunning architectural collection of surreal photographs. Glorifying ordinary structures and subverting the conventions of...
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