The Last Waltz, The Last Show, The Last Roll: all are tributes to the end of an era. For Jeff Jacobson, The Last Roll represented the end of airiness. His life was never in question, but from that day onward, he lived in defiance of death. Life was not linear a...

28.03.2013[ read full story ]

The decision for Editions Noir sur Blanc to publish this book was made the moment I laid eyes on the face of Aleksei Zheltikov, a locksmith in the Moscow subway, arrested on July 18, 1937, and photographed in prison the night he was executed. This man with an unforgettable expres...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

A grey light filters through a quiet clearing in a softwood forest. The ground has been carefully kept clean. A few fragile shrubs with tender green leaves grow between the hoary trunks whose reddish brown wood peeks through steely gray bark. Three trees are wreathed in embro...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

An exhibition at the Gagosian and a book published by MIT Press shows Ed Ruscha’s influence on contemporary artists, photographers and even writers who engaged his work in a stimulating aesthetic dialogue. The exhibition is presented chronologically, with Ruscha’s various publications...

25.03.2013[ read full story ]

“Art is never finished, only abandoned,” Leonardo Da Vinci said and there is no greater proof of this than the creation of the book itself. By virtue of being print and bound, of being run off thousands of copies at a clip, the book appears to be an object that reaches complet...

21.03.2013[ read full story ]

The book Redheaded Peckerwood, published by MACK, is inspired by the tragic story of two young Americans, Charles Starkweather, 19, and Caril Ann Fugate, 14, who in 1958 killed ten people during a three-day massacre in Nebraska. The places, objects and central characters depicted i...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

With 1700 acres of greenery, the Casa de Campo in Madrid is one of the largest urban parks in Europe, five times larger than Central Park in New York. This work by Spanish photographer Antonio Xoubanova is an ancient fable told in images. From 2008 to 2012, he wandered the paths and tree-c...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

In this first iBook edition of her landmark 1976 study Janine Wiedel transports us to the heart of the Irish Traveller community of the 1970s. Through words and photographs amassed over five years spent with the Travellers, we are offered a window into a transitional mo...

20.03.2013[ read full story ]

Minescape is a distressing work of landscape photography. Visually, the book takes a triangular structure that repeats itself throughout the pages: a landscape, a landmine, a prosthesis. The battlefield landscapes are photographed at dawn, romantic and vast, with fairy-tale colors....

21.03.2013[ read full story ]

Costume. How we define ourselves when we stand upon the world’s stage and read from the scripts we draft. In donning an ensemble, we assume a posture, an attitude, an aesthetic that we accept as how we see ourselves, and how we wish to be seen. Costume can shape identity the way the corset ...

13.03.2013[ read full story ]