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 ]

Describing this book is a challenge. It’s both a way to display the artwork and the artwork itself. The story of its creator, Frédéric Vidal, is already unusual enough. At 33 he gave up his career in fashion photography to travel and experiment with ph...

14.03.2013[ read full story ]

All the world is a stage, theater in the round, and when we walk upon it, we take action accordingly. We become actors in the movie of our lives, taking on a public persona that is in part crafted by the landscape itself. The milieu becomes a defining factor in our lives, but the more int...

15.03.2013[ read full story ]

GC, DF, CSQ, WXD, SQX, LS, HL, ZHF, HL, LY, GYY, ZMT, LTP, LWT, GLW, SY. 
They are the initials of names, women’s names, young chinese women’s names. This book is dedicated to them because – as the artist said – “without their incredible trust and friendship these photographs would not ex...

13.03.2013[ read full story ]