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Ein Magazin über Orte 7

Textfield — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:10:42 +0000

Ein Magazin über Orte 7, Sea
Softcover, 76 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1866-2331
Published by Ein Magazin über Orte

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Ein Magazin über Orte (A magazine about places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Textfield — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:47:03 +0000

Wolfgang Tillmans, Wolfgang Tillmans
Hardcover, 80 pp., offset 1/1, 218 x 305 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-905829-36-5
Published by JRP|Ringier

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This publication is a reprint of the first book realized by Wolfgang Tillmans in 1995. A very atmospheric, if measured, compilation of black and white images, it combines portraits of youth culture with landscape, city scenes with slogans, clippings from newspapers, and book illustrations. Released now into a different context from its first appearance, the book is emblematic of the new approach and the energy Tillmans has developed since the end of the 1980s to the present in terms of genres, quality, and the status of photography as a medium.

Issue a for apple

Textfield — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:12:56 +0000

der:die:das:, Issue a for apple
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 4/4, 200 x 270 mm
English and German
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1663-2508
Published by der:die:das:

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Some words on, and images of, the apple.

Portraits

Textfield — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:05:57 +0000

Wolfgang Tillmans, Portraits
Softcover, 144 pp., offset 4/4, 235 x 305 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9781891024368
Published by Walther König/Distributed Art Publishers

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For artist Wolfgang Tillmans, portraiture is a collaborative process between photographer and accomplice. While Tillmans’ photographs are often referred to as casual, they are actually the result of a carefully constructed process of engagement with his models. Each sitter, be they a world-famous rock star or a family member, projects both vulnerability and dignity. Presented here are a selection of some of the best of these portraits, taken between 1988 to 2001, and chosen by Tillmans himself. Subjects include filmmaker John Waters, architect Rem Koolhaas, musicians Moby and Michael Stipe, actresses Irm Hermann and Chloë Sevigny, as well as the artist’s family and friends.

Peter Saville Estate

Textfield — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:31:30 +0000

Peter Saville, Peter Saville Estate
Softcover, 272 pp., offset 4/4, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-3-905701-66-1
Published by JRP|Ringier

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Peter Saville Estate traces the development of designer, artist and cultural observer Peter Saville, from his groundbreaking work for Factory Records in the late 1970s, though to his most recent explorations of art and design’s role in the highly commodified, visually hyper-literate early 21st century. Taking Saville’s 2005 exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich as its starting point, the book features essays by Michael Bracewell and Heike Munder, alongside personal responses to Saville’s work from artists Slater Bradley, Liam Gillick, Steven Gontarski, Thomas Grünfeld, Robert Longo, Sarah Morris, Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Sean Snyder, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kelley Walker and T.J. Wilcox.

Peter Saville Estate is not a conventional account of Saville’s professional practice, but collects together work, reference material and ephemera from his archive to form an illuminating and highly personal topography of the life and working methods of one of the most influential designers of the last 30 years.

Born in Manchester (U.K.) in 1955, Peter Saville studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic. He found early inspiration in the elegantly ordered aesthetic of Jan Tschichold, the German-born book and type designer who was to become the chief propagandist for the New Typography. In 1979 he co-founded Factory Records (with Tony Wilson), and in the following year he co-designed the famous Haçienda nightclub.

032c 14

Textfield — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:15:02 +0000

032c 14, Cecil Balmond
Softcover, 256 pp., offset 4/1, 20 x 27 cm
Edition of 2000
Published by 032c

out of print

Cecil Balmond is a structural engineer, author, and man of ideas; he is deputy chairman at the global design and engineering firm ARUP, and director of its think-tank, the Advanced Geometry unit. Architects Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Toyo Ito, among others, are indebted to his groundbreaking structural work. Both Cecil Balmond and artist Wolfgang Tillmans have dismantled the very architecture of their genres – Balmond’s genre being architecture itself, and Tillmans’ being the representational genres of portraiture and still life. A dismantling pictured and reformulated in an image essay, in which Tillmans distills an early 21st century office life so liberated by innovation that it is uninhibited by its cubicles.