This work revisits a summer day in 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his triumphant “I I have a dream” speech, a scathing critique of inequality in the United States: “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient f...

08.02.2013[ read full story ]

The series Resort (2009-2011), recently exhibited at James Hyman Gallery, is a documentary work of family breaks at Butlins, Bognor Regis. This special edition book of 100 signed and numbered copies includes a 10 x 12.5 ins print of the purchaser’s choice. The publication i...

08.02.2013[ read full story ]

La Fábrica de Madrid has just published a monograph of the famous Madrid portrait artist of French origin, Pierre Gonnord. This anthology brings together 100 of his portraits taken from 1999 to 2012. Deeply inspired by classical painters like Ribera, Rembr...

07.02.2013[ read full story ]

The book is a lasting luxury. We live with them throughout our lives, and when they are created by artists, they can become objets d’art in their own right. “Artists take the book very seriously as a creative part of their vision. They hold high standards and produce it with pas...

12.02.2013[ read full story ]

On April 3, 2011, Ai Weiwei was detained by Chinese authorities on charges of tax evasion and was held in detention for eighty-one days. One cannot help but wonder what would have happened had there not been such a vociferous outcry by the international community. “Everyth...

08.02.2013[ read full story ]

I first saw photographer John Schabel’s images in 1997 when he brought a very large box of incredibly beautiful prints for Twin Palms publisher Jack Woody to view. Now more than 15 years later, Twin Palms is publishing Schabel’s “Passengers,” a fascinating series depicti...

04.02.2013[ read full story ]

Frédérique Founès and Marie Karsenty. To celebrate 2013, Signatures, in collaboration with StoryLab, has produced a digital work called “Des baisers pour 2013” (Kisses for 2013) that combines photographs and poetry. So for the last day of January, Signatures wishes you a...

31.01.2013[ read full story ]

I have a theory: we are moving into a post-literate society. As the digital age descends, we usher in a new vocabulary of visual iconography, photographs, typefaces, books, films, posters, and installations all instantly available around the globe, transcending language barriers. That the ...

01.02.2013[ read full story ]

This tells the story of a passion and a twisting plot to put the particular bouquet of freshly printed books in a bottle. Gerhard Steidl was first alerted to the importance of the smell of a book by Karl Lagerfeld, prompting a passion for paper and the composition of a scent on the p...

23.01.2013[ read full story ]

The photographs of Sam Shaw have long appeared on the covers of Life and Look. He photographed the Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 60s: Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Marlon Brando, John Cassavetes, Anthony Quinn, Woody A...

23.01.2013[ read full story ]