Negative Space

Mungo Thomson, Negative Space

Mungo Thomson, Negative Space
Softcover, 160 pp., offset 4/4, 175 x 255 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-3-905770-27-8
Published by JRP|Ringier, CK editions

$29.00 ·

The Negative Space project is a book made of photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and inverted. As “color negatives” of outer space (stars, solar systems, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, and exotic cosmic phenomena) it maps our universe in a book form. The book had been conceived by the artist in collaboration with graphic designer Conny Purtill, on the occasion of Thomson’s exhibition at GAMEC, Bergamo.

This publication is part of the series of artists projects edited by Christoph Keller. Personally selected by Keller, for Textfield, as one of his top five from the series.

Zeitung

Peter Piller, Zeitung

Peter Piller, Zeitung
Hardcover, 384 pp., offset 4/1, 280 x 280 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-3-905829-10-5
Published by JRP|Ringier, CK editions

$95.00 ·

From 1994 to 2005 Peter Piller earned his living as Head of Documentation in a big Hamburg media agency, responsible for the day-to-day analysis and archiving of over 150 regional newspapers. This activity was the springboard for his artistic work, the Peter Piller Archive. The newspaper photographs were classified according to a subjective methodology involving some 80 collection categories and assigned to a typology of picture journalism that graphically manages the grotesque mundaneness of our news culture and its visual archetypes.

This publication is the most complete compilation to date of Peter Piller’s collection of found images. More than 2000 illustrations chosen from newspapers are organized in such categories as “Touching Cars,” “Sad, Hopeless, Despair, Tristesse,” “Girls Firing Arms,” “Stand-in, Protests,” or “Man and Fire.” An improbable typology of press photography of the last decades.

This publication is part of the series of artists projects edited by Christoph Keller. Personally selected by Keller, for Textfield, as one of his top five from the series.

Cloud, the, 3

Helen Mirra, Cloud, the, 3

Helen Mirra, Cloud, the, 3
Hardcover, 304 pp., offset 4/1, 140 x 195 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-3-905770-17-9
Published by JRP|Ringier, CK editions

$45.00 ·

For the past few years Helen Mirra’s writing has been in the form of the index. Dislocated from a source text, the entries point out into the world at large. This volume relies upon John Dewey’s “Reconstruction in Philosophy” (1920). While Dewey’s book is largely about the conceptualization of ideas, Mirra’s project is a materialization of conceptualization, under the auspices of a spare poetics.

This publication is part of the series of artists projects edited by Christoph Keller. Personally selected by Keller, for Textfield, as one of his top five from the series.

Appendix Appendix

Stuart Bailey and Ryan Gander, Appendix Appendix

Stuart Bailey and Ryan Gander, Appendix Appendix
Softcover, 192 pp., offset 4/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-3-905770-19-3
Published by JRP|Ringier, CK editions

$29.00 ·

Appendix Appendix is conceived as the sequel to Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey’s 2003 book “Appendix.” Like its predecessor, it attempts “a translation of practice” based on Ryan Gander’s recent body of work. Neither straight
documentation, nor an “artist’s book,” it pushes for a third way, editing and presenting each individual piece of work in a manner appropriate to its specific nature. In the years since “Appendix,” Gander’s work has increasingly encompassed sound and the moving image in addition to the earlier objects and installations. This shift will directly affect the form of Appendix Appendix.

Born in 1976, Ryan Gander lives and works in London and Amsterdam. His photographs, films, installations and sculptures draw on multiple layers of facts and fiction. He has exhibited in the USA and throughout England and Europe.

The English-born Stuart Bailey (*1973) has forged a formidible creative base for himself in Amsterdam where he has benefited greatly from Dutch design tradition. Since his arrival in the Netherlands, he has become a steady contributor to the art and design culture as a writer, critic, editor, and graphic designer.

This publication is part of the series of artists projects edited by Christoph Keller. Personally selected by Keller, for Textfield, as one of his top five from the series.

American Minor

Charlie White, American Minor

Charlie White, American Minor
Hardcover, 144 pp., offset 4/4, 245 x 345 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-03764-003-6
Published by JRP|Ringier/Codax Publishers

$65.00 ·

The photographs of Los Angeles-based artist Charlie White (*1972) explore the complex social and psychological realities of American culture. American Minor delves into an important subtext of White’s work: the American teen. By cataloguing studio archives, film stills, animation stills, scripts, and photographs, the book highlights the artist’s investigations into the representation of the American teen girl. Through images culled from the artist’s two-year study of an ex-urban teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35mm film, and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgenders, American Minor presents White’s ongoing and never-before-seen studies of the American teen subject as image and idea. This book sheds new light on the artist’s oeuvre within the context of his new work in film, animation, and cultural archiving.

The Sun As Error

Shannon Ebner, The Sun As Error

Shannon Ebner, The Sun As Error
Hardcover, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 11 x 14.5 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-87587-200-1
Published by LACMA

$65.00 ·

The Los Angeles based artist Shannon Ebner extends her exploration of photography, sculpture and language in this remarkable book, The Sun as Error. In collaboration with Dexter Sinister (design duo David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), The Sun as Error re-investigates the meaning and language of photographs, creating both an open-ended reading of her practice and also rethinking the idea of an artist’s monograph. Far from straightforward, the book interweaves her bodies of work, previously unseen one-off pieces, with the language of technical diagrams, optical illusions, and graphic design. One of the persistent motifs through the book’s sequence is an asterisk and, specifically, one imbued with the legacy of the graphic designer Muriel Cooper. As the first design director for MIT Press and the cofounder of the Visible Language Workshop, Cooper’s legacy for reorienting and repositioning the direction of an artist’s monograph is imaginatively explored in the creative partnership of Dexter Sinister and Shannon Ebner.

Shannon Ebner’s work has been shown in exhibitions including Trace at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria (2006), The 2006 California Biennial at The Orange County Museum of Art, Uncertain States of America, at The Serpentine Gallery, London (2006), Learn to Read, at the Tate Modern, London (2007), and the 2008 Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Slime the Boogie

Dash Snow, Slime the Boogie

Dash Snow, Slime the Boogie
Softback, 420 pp., offset 4/1, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Editon of 300, numbered, AP/300
Published by Peres Projects

$250.00 ·

The artist’s photographic work is in a thematically similar mode to photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Ryan McGinley and Richard Billingham, often depicting scenes of a candid or illicit nature. Instances of sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretentiousness are documented with disarming frankness and honesty, offering insight into the decadent lifestyle associated with young New York City artists and their social circles.

Polaroids

Dash Snow, Polaroids

Dash Snow, Polaroids
Softback, 280 pp., offset 4/4, 11 x 11 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 0-9817658-4-X
Published by Peres Projects

out of print

The artist’s photographic work is in a thematically similar mode to photographers Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Ryan McGinley and Richard Billingham, often depicting scenes of a candid or illicit nature. Instances of sex, drug taking, violence and art-world pretentiousness are documented with disarming frankness and honesty, offering insight into the decadent lifestyle associated with young New York City artists and their social circles.

Whitney Catalog (Special Edition)

Terence Koh, Whitney Catalog (Special Edition)

Terence Koh, Whitney Catalog (Special Edition)
Softcover/boxed, 148 pp., offset 4/1, 8.25 x 12 inches
one unique sculpture, one book, one info card signed
Edition of 50
ISBN 13-9780300123
Published by Peres Projects

$1000.00 ·

This special catalog has been created by Terence Koh on the occasion of his exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (January 19-May 27, 2007). Each includes a lead sculpture by the artist. Each book has been hand-gouached. The scratch marks on the surface of the publication made by the sculpture are the intention of the artist.

The Whole Family

Terence Koh, The Whole Family

Terence Koh, The Whole Family
Softcover, 36 pp., offset 4/1, 5 x 7.5 inches
Edition of 1000
Published by Peres Projects

$30.00 ·

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Peres Project Los Angeles of the same name.

Such Things I Do Make Myself More Attractive To You

Terence Koh, Such Things I Do Make Myself More Attractive To You

Terence Koh, Such Things I Do Make Myself More Attractive To You
Softcover/boxed, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 6 x 8 x 1.5 inches
three booklets, one unique sculpture, black jelly beans
Edition of 200
Published by Peres Projects

out of print

Synopsis: Koh’s artists’ books and editions are integral to his exploration of the intersection between death and desire. Such Things I Do To Make Myself More Attractive To You amps up the sense of impending cataclysmic consummation. Each of the edition of 200 consists of a black box containing three booklets resting on a bed of black jellybeans, along with a unique ebony-colored, organically-shaped sculpture of black plaster and black glitter, and a black-on-black colophon card with a unique signed “drawing” on the reverse, individually charred around the edges. The first of the three pamphlets presents tiny ghostly black and white photographs, internet images of attractive young men, each centered in a sea of black. Each page of the second pamphlet presents a burn mark, which has in turn been burned with a cigarette, creating a series of negatives spaces surrounded by brown ashy tracing and reptilian bubbles. The last booklet, holding only a single tipped-in image, frames the overwhelming drive towards a loss of individuality though a prism of suicidal impulses.

Instilled and Lost

Dean Sameshima, Instilled and Lost

Dean Sameshima, Instilled and Lost
Softcover, 116 pp., offset 4/4, 23 x 30 cm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 0-9778819-1-1
Published by Peres Projects

$30.00 ·

A collection of recent works by Dean Sameshima. With essays by Lisa Lapinski, Lecia Dole Recio, Richard Lidinsky and Stuart Comer.

Hysteric Seven

Dean Sameshima, Hysteric Seven

Dean Sameshima, Hysteric Seven
Hardcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 9 x 10.25 inches
Edition of 500
Published by Hysteric Glamour

$50.00 ·

This slim but potent collection of photographs from Dean Sameshima is divided into three chapters that lead seamlessly into one another: the sunbleached, unadorned cement facades of sex clubs make way for the rumpled, sweat-soaked sheets of the empty beds inside, which then open naturally onto the open shirts of the “Modern Boys” whom the artist has cropped just below the eyes. Bruce Hainley’s essay, “Jock, Model, Building, Bed,” uses Sameshima’s photographs as a launching pad for musings on objects of his own desire and the spaces and places of that desire.