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Offline Activities By Tamara Shopsin & Jason Fulford
(FULFORD, JASON and SHOPSIN, TAMARA). I00031920. 2020. Paperback. New.
*Please note! Quantities are limited and subject to real-time availability.*
Return to the real world! A coupon-style booklet of 52 activities for offline fun, from Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin
Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin's Offline Activities is a book of 52 suggestions for things you can do in real life. Rearrange your furniture; invite an old friend to lunch; bring something home from the supermarket and treat it as sculpture. Part novelty, part self-help guide, Offline Activities encourages you to seek out the chance and mystery that is often lacking in the digital age.
Featuring the kind of ingenious, charming design you expect from a Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin project, Offline Activities is designed as a coupon book with tear-out pages, with one inspirational suggestion and quote per page. You are encouraged to physically do the activity and rip the page out of the book as proof. If you do one offline activity per week, the book will last a year. Offline Activities is a delightfully analog, pleasantly practical guide to shaking up your offscreen life.
Tamara Shopsin (born 1979) is an illustrator, graphic designer, writer and part-time cook in her family’s New York restaurant. She is the author of two memoirs, Mumbai New York Scranton (2013) and Arbitrary Stupid Goal (2017), designer of the 5 Year Diary and coauthor, with Jason Fulford, of the children's book This Equals That (2014), among many other projects.
Jason Fulford (born 1973) is a photographer and cofounder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities and has led workshops across the globe. His numerous monographs include The Mushroom Collector (2011) and Hotel Oracle (2013).
Paperback, 5 x 2.5 in. / 112 pgs / 52 color 9780999265543 Inventory Number: I00031920 -
GALERIE HALF: SELECTED WORKS / SPACES
(GALERIE HALF). Smith, Cameron. Introduction by Rosa Park. Foreword by Kathe Clements and Tommy Clements. Photography by Shade Degges. Paris, France: Flammarion, I00240217. 2023. First Edition. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2", 4to. Cloth with Pasterdown. Design Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 342pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. "A favorite purveyor to the Los Angeles design cognoscenti, Galerie Half is imbued with a sense of timeless imperfection. Pieces from disparate design traditions converge seamlessly in a single room: a bleached Gustavian daybed is flanked by a Roman statue, a Venetian mirror reflects African masks, and a rustic farmhouse table is framed by caned chairs. Galerie Half is talented at constructing such diverse compositions. A vivid hue can create synchronicity between the timeworn patina of a glazed terracotta planter and the softened leather of an Advocat and Press chair by Le Corbusier–Pierre Jeanneret. A monochromatic palette of contrasting textures can ground a room, creating harmony between luxurious and humble materials, or signed and anonymous designs. Similarly, complementary shapes can provide balance—the horizontal stripes on a Finnish floor lamp echo those in Marcel Breuer’s 1932 armchair, and the seductive curve of Carlo Mollino’s Suora lamp mimics that of Rick Owens’s marble stool. The genius of Galerie Half and the celebrity homes that they have appointed lies in this artful curation of individual elements with soul.". A brand new, most handsome example of this exquisite document photographed by Shade Degges that does poetic justice to the refined aesthetic bent of one of Los Angeles' treasures. 978-2-08-042724-3 Inventory Number: I000240217
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NOWHERE NEW YORK: DARK, INSULTING + UNMELODIC PHOTOGRAPHS BY JULIA GORTON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(GORTON, JULIA). Gorton, Julia & Lucy Sante. Foreword by Lydia Lunch. New York: Julia Gorton, 2023. First Edition. 10 x 10". Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Music Photography Monograph. New.. 192pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. "With a synthesis of imagery, metaphor and feeling, in a space located between attraction and angst, Julia Gorton's photos of New York's No Wave scene, 1976-1980, capture a fleeting time with unique style. Her beautiful vision of downtown Manhattan, in the moments before AIDS, crack, Disney and condos changed everything forever, focus on subjects including musicians and friends; Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop, James Chance, Richard Hell, Anya Phillips and many others less well known, but certainly just as memorable. Gorton's photographs taken at her Lower East Side apartment, in all night diners and illegal after-hours clubs, on totally empty streets, and in the dingy pits and clubs in which music was played, makes one remember what joy we all took in wasting our youths." In addition to Ms. Gorton's striking documentary images, this strikingly designed and printed book features essays by Lucy Sante and Lydia Lunch as well as contributions from Thurston Moore, Philip Dray, Kristian Hoffman, Bill Arning, Perry Brandston, Rick Brown, Nicholas Dembling, Simeon Gallu, Angela Jaeger, Hilary Jaeger, Arto Lindsay, Michael McMahon, Chris Nelson, Klara Palatoi, Jim Posner, Linda Ramone, Amy Rigby, Andy Schwarz, Robert Seitsema, Michael Shore, Chris Stamey, Margaret Winslow. A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED "julia gorton" in silver ink on the title page. 979-8-218-03256-2 Inventory Number: I000230706
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LIGHT ON FIRE: THE ART AND LIFE OF SAM FRANCIS
(FRANCIS, SAM). Selz, Gabrielle. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2021. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Biography. As New/As New. 0-520-31071-3
392pp, 22 b&w and 11 color photos illustrations. "Light on Fire" is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Based on Gabrielle Selz’s unprecedented access to Francis' files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents; his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofit organizations. "Light on Fire" captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the “visionary reconstruction of art history,” defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life." A brand new, most handsome example of the first edition of this engaging study.
Inventory Number: E211024SFLOF
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SAM FRANCIS: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF CANVAS AND PANEL PAINTINGS 1946-1994
(FRANCIS, SAM). Burchett-Lere, Debra & William C. Agee. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket + two DVDs in a Linen Clamshell Box. Catalogue Raisonné. As New/As New. 0-520-26430-4
In conjunction with the publication of "Light on Fire...", we are offering a 10% discount off of The University of California Press list price of $495.00 for this massive, scholarly catalogue raisonné Sam Francis' painted work.
320pp, 130 color and 76 b&w illustrations + 2 DVDs. "This innovative and long-awaited catalogue raisonné brings together, for the first time, all the known paintings on canvas and panel of California-born abstract expressionist Sam Francis (1923–1994) and offers a comprehensive chronicle of his artistic journey. One of the twentieth century’s leading interpreters of light and color, Francis maintained studios not only in New York and Los Angeles, but also in Paris, Bern, and Tokyo, making his reach truly international. Elegantly boxed, it includes a richly illustrated book with an extended essay by Francis scholar William C. Agee and a biographical timeline by editor Debra Burchett-Lere accompanied by two DVDs with color images and authoritative documentation for all one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-plus paintings on canvas and panel by Francis - hundreds of which are reproduced here for the first time." A brand new, most handsome example of this extraordinary undertaking in the publisher's shipping carton.Inventory Number: E211024SFCR
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SITTIN' IN: JAZZ CLUBS OF THE 1940s AND 1950s - SIGNED BY AUTHOR JEFF GOLD
Gold, Jeff, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Robin Givhan, Jason Moran & Dan Morgenstern. New York: Harper Design, 2020. Later Printing. Oblong Small 4to. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Music Monograph. As New/As New. 0-06-291470-7
"Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s" is a visual history of jazz clubs during these crucial decades when some of the greatest names in in the genre - Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, and many others - were headlining acts across the country. In many of the clubs, black and white musicians played together and more significantly, people of all races gathered together to enjoy an evening’s entertainment. House photographers roamed the floor and for a dollar, took picture of patrons that were developed on site and could be taken home in a keepsake folder with the club’s name and logo.
"Sittin’ In" tells the story of the most popular club in these cities through striking images, first-hand anecdotes, true tales about the musicians who performed their unforgettable shows, notes on important music recorded live there, and more. All of this is supplemented by colorful club memorabilia, including posters, handbills, menus, branded matchbooks, and more. Inside you’ll also find exclusive, in-depth interviews conducted specifically for this book with the legendary Quincy Jones; legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins; Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan; artist, musician, and creative director of the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran; and Jazz critic Dan Morgenstern.
Gold surveys America’s jazz scene and its intersection with racism during segregation, focusing on three crucial regions: the East Coast (New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington, D.C.); the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City); and the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco). Its collection of ephemeral snapshots tells the story of an era that helped transform American life, beginning the move from traditional Dixieland jazz to bebop, from conservatism to the push for personal freedom.A brand new, most handsome example of the third printing of this vtal document with a striking custom bookplate designed and SIGNED by author Jeff Gold affixed to the front pastedown.
Inventory Number: E201122JGSI
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A LIBRARY OF MISREMEMBERED BOOKS SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARINA LUZ
(LUZ, MARINA). Chronicle Books, 2021. 4 1/2" x 6", 96 pages. Hardbound. New. 9780847870646
PRE-ORDER NOW! Books will be signed by Ms. Luz at Arcana on 12/11/21 and will begin shipping the following week.
How do you find a book when you can't recall the title…or the author? This homage to a common reader's dilemma is a gift the booklover in your life won't soon forget.
Readers know all too well the comedy and tragedy of forgetting the name of a must-find book. Inspired by this torturous predicament, artist Marina Luz creates paintings of books based on the descriptions we use when we can't remember their titles—mining Internet book-search forums for the quirky, vague, and often hilarious language we come up with in these moments. This volume collects dozens of these imaginary books into a library all their own: Titles like "Cat, Possibly Named Henry," "It Was All a Dream," or "Something-Something, Beverly Hills" inspire dreaming up their contents, often as entertaining as trying to guess the real book behind them. A celebration of book love unlike any other, this petite book is a clever gift for bibliophiles that will spark knowing smiles.
Marina Luz is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Vice, and ProPublica, among other publications. She runs her illustration and design studio Honeylux out of Oakland, California. She found these descriptions during her own search for a forgotten book, Iceberg Shows Up Overnight in Front of Hotel.
Inventory Number: E00MLUZ
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RUSSEL AND MARY WRIGHT: DRAGON ROCK AT MANITOGA - SIGNED BY AUTHOR JENNIFER GOLUB
(WRIGHT, RUSSEL AND MARY). Golub, Jennifer. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, I00220427, 2021. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Design Monograph. As New/As New. 1-64896-019-7
Please join us for a discussion with author Jennifer Golub & Eames Demetrios
Sunday, May 1st 2022 from 4:00 - 6:00 PMHelms Design Center - 8745 Washington Boulevard (1/2 block West of Arcana!) Culver City
208pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Simon Johnston. "In the mid-century era of TV dinners and suburban conformity, Russel and Mary Wright were individualists. Their home Dragon Rock at Manitoga is situated on forested woodlands, sited at an abandoned quarry located an hour north of New York City, now part of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Although best known for American Modern dinnerware, the Wrights rejected rigid modernism for a life that invited ambiguity. Mary's role as a partner, designer, and entrepreneur is explored here for the first time. This lavish volume is filled with personal histories and over one hundred stunning photographs, synthesizing multiple archives and charting the innovation of their design practice, their lives, and the development of their Dragon Rock home and the Woodland Paths of Manitoga."
A brand new, most handsome example of this charming new work additionally SIGNED by author Jennifer Golub.
Inventory Number: E00JGRMW
$60.00 InquireFiled Under: 2021 Staff Holiday Picks , - Lee's Picks, Architecture, Ceramics and Glass, Decorative Art, Signed Books -
ZANDRA RHODES: 50 FABULOUS YEARS IN FASHION - SIGNED BY DAME ZANDRA RHODES
(RHODES, ZANDRA). Rhodes, Zandra. Preface by Iris Apfel. Foreword by Suzy Menkes. Dennis Nothdruft, Editor. With contributions by Marylou Luther, Anna Sui, Journalist Joan Agajanian Quinn, Rajeev Sethi, Helena Matheopoulos, Mary Schoeser & Pierpaolo Piccioli . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Fashion Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Celebrating decades of achievement by one of the foremost names in British fashion, whose vitality and influence continue to shine, "Zandra Rhodes" provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her fifty-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases not only Rhodes’s work but also her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion trailblazer and a consummate textile designer, she has influenced the work of contemporary labels such as Mary Katrantzou and Alice Temperley. The book honors the centrality of textile design in Rhodes’s work, while exploring the versatility of her imagination throughout her long career; contributors include Pierpaolo Piccioli (creative director of Valentino), Suzy Menkes (editor of Vogue International), and celebrated fashion designers Anna Sui and Rajeev Sethi. It also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the house of Zandra Rhodes, a British-owned-and-made brand, and Rhodes’s successful establishment of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED by Dame Zandra Rhodes.
978-0300244304Inventory Number: E000ZR
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YELENA YEMCHUK: MALANKA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(YEMCHUK, YELENA). Yemchuk, Yelena & Ioana Pelehatai. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Edition Patrick Frey, I00240213. 2024. First Edition. 10 x 7 1/2", 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New.. np (176pp), 121 color illustrations. Text in English, Ukranian, and Romanian. 978-3-907236-67-3
(176pp), 121 color illustrations. Text in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. "Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuk is most commonly known for her fashion and portrait photographs, which have appeared in Italian and Japanese Vogue, V, the New Yorker and The New York Times. Yemchuk makes images that teeter on the threshold between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York; between fiction and reality; between the grand beauty of 1960s cinema and the social and built environments of post-Soviet realms. As with all of her work, "Malanka" is a personal, feminine, surrealist and magical project. The eponymous tradition is a pre-Christian folklore ritual driving out winter and welcoming spring, an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology. It is celebrated on January 14th, the old New Year in the Julian calendar, by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. In 2019 and 2020, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (Krasnoilsk in Ukrainian) to document the night-long festival. Accompanying Yemchuk's striking photographic documentation is a poetic essay by Romanian cultural journalist Ioana Pelehatai. A brand new example additionally SIGNED by Yelena Yemchuk on the title page.
Inventory Number: E000YYM
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SACRED BONES PRESENTS THE MUSIC OF YA HO WHA - 2022 12" GOLD VINYL 33 1/3 RPM LP LIMITED TO TWO HUNDRED COPIES
(BROTHERHOOD OF THE SOURCE, THE). Ya Ho Wa. Brooklyn, NY: Sacred Bones Records, 2022. First Printing 1/200 Copies. 12 x 12". LP in Illustrated Album Cover. 12" Vinyl LP. Fine LP in Fine Sleeve (in Shrinkwrap). One gold 12" vinyl 33 1/3 RPM long-playing phonograph record inside a 12 x 12" album cover printed in color offset recto and verso. "For those not familiar ,Ya Ho Wa 13, formed in 1973, are regarded as one of the most extreme, groundbreaking and influential psychedelic rock bands in history. The band released nine super rare LPs (and are rumored to have recorded sixty-five LPs worth) full of deep spiritual wisdom, tribal drums and distorted guitars, some of which were completely unrehearsed jam sessions, others which contained more conventional rock songs. Most were recorded after hours of meditation at 3:00-6:00 AM in a soundproofed garage that served as the musicians’ studio at the family’s communal residence. All of the records with Father Yod’s participation were completely improvised, with no rehearsals or overdubs and feature him on lead vocals and percussion, via a kettle drum. Most of their original music was pressed in small runs and are highly sought after collector’s items. The good folks at Sacred Bones Records have listened through hours and hours of this transformative music to bring you what is an absolutely essential compilation of some of their best songs." A brand new, most handsome example of this 2022 Source Family anthology limited to two hundred copies. Inventory Number: E000YHWSB
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YA HO WA: IT'S A KNACK / ANGEL BOY - 1974 7" VINYL 45 RPM SINGLE - PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY FIRST PRESSING
(BROTHERHOOD OF THE SOURCE, THE). Ya Ho Wa. Los Angeles, CA: HigherKey Records, 1974. First Printing. 7 x 7". Single in plain paper sleeve. 7" Vinyl Single. Near Fine Single in Near Fine Sleeve. One 7" black vinyl 45 RPM phonograph record in a plain paper outer sleeve. This is the 1974 two-sided single by Los Angeles' Brotherhood of The Source's musical group, Ya Ho Wa. The A-side is "It's A Knack" 2:45 backed with "Angel Baby" 1:30 as the B-side. Issued in a small press run as for promotional use only, it was never made commercially for sale. A handsome example of the 1974 first HigherKey Records pressing of this psych rarity acquired directly from a member of the Source Family showing some light surface abrasions to the vinyl along with some age-toning to its unprinted paper outer sleeve. Inventory Number: E000YHWIAK
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YA HO WA 13 - 1974 12" VINYL 33 1/3 RPM LP - FIRST PRESSING IN THE ORIGINAL SHRINKWRAP
(BROTHERHOOD OF THE SOURCE, THE). Ya Ho Wa. Los Angeles, CA: HigherKey Records, 1974. First Printing. 12 x 12". LP in Illustrated Album Cover. 12" Vinyl LP. Fine LP in Near Fine Sleeve (in Shrinkwrap). One black 12" vinyl 33 1/3 RPM long-playing phonograph record in a plain paper inner-sleeve, inside a 12 x 12" album cover printed in color offset recto and verso. This is the 1974 LP by Los Angeles' Brotherhood of The Source's musical group, Ya Ho Wa. The front cover features a portrait of The Source's spiritual leader Father Yod, while the striking rear cover presents the bare chested - at least - Father Yod plus three musicians pointing to the band's central pyramidal logo. A brand new, most handsome example of this psych rarity acquired directly from a member of the Source Family still unopened in the original shrinkwrap showing just a bit of creasing at one of the corners. Inventory Number: E000YHW13
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TONY MANZELLA: TRUE IMAGE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(MANZELLA, TONY). Manzella, Tony. Venice, CA: Verb Editions, 2017. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Pictorial Tabloid Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.
32 pages, four color offset on 17 x 11 1/2" tabloid newsprint
Edition of 1000 designed by David Blankenship for Because
Published by Verb Editions
“Excavating local landscapes. True Image is a photographic representation of our unseen surroundings.” - Tony Manzella
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TODD HIDO: THE END SENDS ADVANCE WARNING - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, I00240115. 2023. First Edition 1/6000. 14 x 17", Oblong Small Folio. Pictorial Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, 80 color illustrations. Designed by Bob Awfuldish and Todd Hido. 9781590055953
"For over 25 years, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and cinematic portraits. Irrespective of its title, this is a book about hope and beauty and why we seek it so desperately at this time. For his latest images he has roamed as far as the Hawaiian Islands and their meteorological opposites; the shores of the Bering Sea, and Nordic fjords above the Arctic Circle. Even with such geographic diversity, Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. With this stunning new monograph, Hido picks up where his previous title "Bright Black World" left off, presenting some eighty new and previously unpublished landscape photographs. "The End Sends Advance Warning" is beautifully printed on heavyweight art paper and bound in offset printed linen. The book also includes nine tipped-in photographs printed on Kasadaka art paper, as well as tipped-in and laid-in booklets. A masterpiece of an artist’s book, and a must for the serious contemporary art library." A brand new, pristine example of the 2023 first printing limited to six thousand clothbound copies, signed by Todd Hido.
Inventory Number: E000THTESAW
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TODD HIDO ON LANDSCAPES, INTERIORS, AND THE NUDE
Hido, Todd. Introduction by Gregory Halpern. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. Third Printing. 8vo. Pictorial Paperback. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.
In this book - part of Aperture's Photography Workshop Series - Todd Hido explores the genres of landscape, interior, and nude photography, with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective and with a sense of intimacy. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creative issues, including mining one’s own memory and experience as inspiration; using light, texture, and detail for greater impact; exploring the narrative potential activated when sequencing images; and creating powerful stories with emotional weight and beauty. A brand new, most handsome example..
978-1-59711-297-0 Inventory Number: E000THOL -
TODD HIDO: HOUSE HUNTING (REMASTERED)
(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd & A.M. Homes. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2019. First Edition Thus 1 /4000. Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New.
“Todd Hido’s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious… and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air.” — From Nazraeli's description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000. We are excited to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and highly sought-after first monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book – certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time – Nazraeli has collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases, this new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. It will be a welcome addition to collections lacking access to the very scarce original printings; and to those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further illuminates the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame. Todd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido’s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, France. Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 "Remastered" edition of Todd Hido's long unavailable classic "House "Hunting."
978-1590055052 Inventory Number: E000THHH -
TODD HIDO: BRIGHT BLACK WORLD - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd & Howard Nemerov. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2018. First Edition 1/3000. Oblong Small Folio. Pictorial Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, 48 color illustrations. Designed by Bob Awfuldish and Todd Hido. "For over two decades, Todd Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and stylized portraits. He has traversed North America capturing places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which translates into the ‘endless winter’, Hido’s new monograph, "Bright Black World" alludes to and provides form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending winter. Exploring the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan enchanted Hido, calling him back on several occasions. This presents the artist’s first significant foray extensively photographing territory outside of the United States, chronicling a decidedly new psychological geography. Opening with a text by Alexander Nemerov, "Bright Black World" contains forty-eight plates printed in an oversized format, featuring two vertical gatefolds and a fold-out poster measuring some 25 by 40 inches. A brand new, pristine example of the already unavailable first printing limited to three thousand clothbound copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED" Todd Hido" in ink on the title page. 1-59005-475-X Inventory Number: E000THBBW - 1
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THOM BROWNE. - SIGNED BY THE DESIGNER
(BROWNE, THOM). Browne, Thom. With an introduction by Andrew Bolton. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, I00240404. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 9", Stout 4to. Printed Boards in a Clamshell Box. Fashion Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 420pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 9781838667047
Thanks to everyone for making Saturday's Thom Browne event such a rousing success!!! We sold out right at 6:00 PM, and a wonderful time was had by all. Though we are now temporarily out of stock, Mr. Browne and Phaidon have been kind enough to promise us additional SIGNED copies within two weeks. If you'd like to purchase one to arrive with us later in April, please place your order below!
"With a vast celebrity clientele, Thom Browne is widely recognized for modernizing today’s professional uniform: the suit. As the company’s twentieth anniversary nears, Thom Browne. celebrates the legacy of the house. The book features an introduction and texts by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu curator in charge of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, and specially commissioned photography by Johnny Dufort presenting more than two hundred looks from past seasons. It concludes with a tableau of show installations that further illustrate the house’s design philosophy and evolution. Published as a hardback enclosed in a clamshell box, the book includes four, six, and eight-page gatefolds along with more than forty translucent vellum pages featuring the brand’s signature four stripes. It also includes a Thom Browne-designed grosgrain ribbon." A brand new, most handsome example of the elegant 2023 Phaidon first edition in the publisher's clamshell box additionally SIGNED by Thom Browne still in its printed shipping carton.
Thom Browne is an American fashion designer and the founder / creative director of Thom Browne, a luxury fashion house based in New York. Initially celebrated for his distinctive approach to men’s tailoring in 2003, Browne has since expanded the collections to include womenswear, childrenswear and accessories. He has also become known for his highly conceptual runway presentations which have gained global attention for their thought-provoking themes and dramatic settings. In 2023 he became chairman of the CFDA.
Inventory Number: E000TB
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SENON WILLIAMS: WORDS DONT MEAN MUCH - DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST WITH AN ORIGINAL 4 x 5" WORK ON PAPER - SHIPPING AFTER 2/1/22
(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, 2021. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 12mo (4.5 x 5.25 in.). Printed Flexible Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Book Signing at Arcana with Senon Williams Saturday, January 29th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Details here!
152pp, illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild, Green Dragon Office. “The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is turned on its side in “Words Don't Mean Much” - Senon Williams’ new book of aphoristic phrasing. Far fewer words are needed to create an illuminating image in the mind’s eye, conjuring immediate multi-sensory experiences. This book of poems is derived from the text in Williams’ ink on paper drawings. The drawings are textual extractions and gather momentum within the book, exhibiting great attention to materials and craftsmanship. Every detail, from select paper to classic typeface, has been considered. An object, not unlike a sculpture, can be viewed from all sides, handled - and leafed through in the case of this book - front to back, back to front, or randomly opened. “Words Don't Mean Much” is a small pocket book, easy to conceal. A book to keep all to yourself or share intimately.”
Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood."
A brand new, most handsome example of deluxe edition of this charming new work limited to fifty copies additionally SIGNED by Senon Williams in ink accompanied by A SIGNED ORIGINAL 4 x 5" WORK ON PAPER.
PLEASE NOTE: Deluxe Copies of "Words Don'tMean Much" will be signed Saturday, January 29th and shipped starting on Tuesday, February 1st.
Inventory Number: E000SWWDMM-LTD
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SENON WILLIAMS: WORDS DONT MEAN MUCH - COPY SIGNED BY THE ARTIST - SHIPPING AFTER 2/1/22
(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, 2021. First Edition. 12mo (4.5 x 5.25 in.). Printed Flexible Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Book Signing at Arcana with Senon Williams Saturday, January 29th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Details here!
152pp, illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild, Green Dragon Office. “The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is turned on its side in “Words Don't Mean Much” - Senon Williams’ new book of aphoristic phrasing. Far fewer words are needed to create an illuminating image in the mind’s eye, conjuring immediate multi-sensory experiences. This book of poems is derived from the text in Williams’ ink on paper drawings. The drawings are textual extractions and gather momentum within the book, exhibiting great attention to materials and craftsmanship. Every detail, from select paper to classic typeface, has been considered. An object, not unlike a sculpture, can be viewed from all sides, handled - and leafed through in the case of this book - front to back, back to front, or randomly opened. “Words Don't Mean Much” is a small pocket book, easy to conceal. A book to keep all to yourself or share intimately.”
Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood."
A brand new, most handsome example of this charming new work additionally SIGNED by Senon Williams in ink.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Words Don't Mean Much" will be signed Saturday, January 29th and shipped starting on Tuesday, February 1st.
Inventory Number: E000SWWDMM
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SENON WILLIAMS: HUNTED & GATHERED - DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST WITH AN ORIGINAL WORK ON PAPER - SHIPPING AFTER 2/1/22
(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Venice, CA: Hamilton Press, 2017. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Small 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket as Issued. 978-0-692-87700-5
Book Signing at Arcana with Senon Williams Saturday, January 29th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Details here!
Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood". With imagery ranging from stark silhouettes to lush landscapes and human forms staged in undetermined acts of hope, his pairing of words and imagery form a poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle both ancient and contemporary.152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Senon Williams' first book, "Hunted & Gathered" was painstakingly produced by Hamilton Press. The press was established in 1990 by master printmaker Ed Hamilton and artist Ed Ruscha to encourage artists to produce art in a peaceful, unhurried atmosphere. Steeped in traditional book making in a modern age, each publication itself is a fine object created by an esteemed team. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Marina Mills Kitchen of Green Dragon Office with color separations by Echelon Color, Santa Monica and printed by Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei Median GmbH in Ostfildern, Germany, the first edition consists of seven hundred hardbound copies along with a deluxe edition of limited to fifty copies containing an original work on paper by the artist. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe edition additionally SIGNED by Senon Williams in ink accompanied by A SIGNED ORIGINAL 4 x 5" WORK ON PAPER.PLEASE NOTE: Deluxe Copies of "Hunted & Gathered" will be shipped starting on Tuesday, February 1st.
Inventory Number: E000SWH&G-LTD
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SIMONE SHUBUCK
(SHUBUCK, SIMONE). Shubuck, Simone, Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey & Alex Wagner. New York, NY: Self-published. Printed in Poland by Szaransky, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
"In the summer of 2017, Simone Shubuck launched WIFEY, a Brooklyn pop up that fused art, food, ceramics, flowers, and bit of retail in an elevated DIY way. During the process, Shubuck realized that so much of what she was doing directly connected to a show she staged as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1990s. Wanting to formalize that multi-decade connection, she decided to make a book.
While at the Art institute, Shubuck studied painting, but probably spent more time tagging on the streets in the middle of the night than in her studio. When it came time to produce her student show, she constructed ten very unusual fake cakes festooned with pink ham hocks, a school of fresh sardines, a tent of chicken feet, and live crickets within a hat box within a cake. It was these images that attracted chefs Ignacio Mattos and Natasha Pickowicz of Estela, Flora Bar, and Cafe Altro Paradiso to the project. They became partners and began experimenting with dreamy layers cakes, which were served at WIFEY and were met with great acclaim.
As described by Ella Riley-Adams on Vogue.com: "She had made a paged project before; a short run of 'zines for Natasha Pickowicz’s bake sale benefit at Altro Paradiso. “It had more of a punk vibe,” Shubuck says—150 copies, printed in Chinatown. The new book feels more like a collector’s item: a retrospective of off-kilter cakes, blossoming drawings, and character-filled ceramics that charts Shubuck’s creative course that would make the ideal gift for the cool girl in your life. As Alex Wagner writes, next to a bright yellow page in the book: “Simone’s work - on paper, in clay, in life! - retains a glorious sense of mess and possibility and freedom.”
Includes texts by Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey, and Alex Wagner.
0-692-07877-0 Inventory Number: E000SS -
THE SOVIET PHOTO BOOK 1920-1941
Heiting, Manfred & Mikhail Karasik. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2015. First Edition. Stout Square 4to. Illustrated Boards. Photographic Survey. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-3958290310
The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941
A massive, full-illustrated history of photography book making and design from the USSR
Published by Steidl
Edited by Mikhail Karasik, Manfred HeitingThe Soviet Union was unique in its dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the form of the book, the USSR articulated its utopian (and eventually totalitarian) ideologies and expressed its absolute power through avant-garde writing and radical graphic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s.
No other country or political system advanced its cause by attracting and employing acclaimed members of the avant-garde. Among them were writers such as Semion Kirsanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Sergei Tretyakov and Kornely Zelinsky; artist designers such as Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, El Lissitzky, Sergei Senkin, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Troshin; and photographers such as Dmitry Debabov, Vladimir Griuntal, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Khlebnikov, Yeleazar Langman, Alexander Rodchenko and Georgy Petrusov, not to mention many of the best printing plants and bookbinders.
Gorgeously produced, edited and designed, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 presents 160 of the most stunning and elaborately produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations. The book also provides short biographies of the photobook contributors, some of whom are presented for the first time.Inventory Number: E000SOVIET
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THE STEVE KEENE ART BOOK - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(KEENE, STEVE). Efram, Daniel, Hilarie Bratset, Sam Brumbaugh, Elle Chang, Shepard Fairey, Karen Loew, Christina Zafiris, Starling Keene, Jonathan LeVine, Leo Fitzgerald, Talia Logan & Steve Keene. Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, I00220723, 2022. First Edition. 11 3/4 x 11 3/4", 472 pages. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-1955125147
Book Signing with Steve Keene at Arcana Saturday, July 30th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
"Steve Keene is the most prolific American painter of all time, producing more than 300,000 hand-painted works via his studio / chainlink fence cage where he paints more than fifty paintings at a time.
Lovingly known for making affordable art, as well as being the indie rock cover art maker to Pavement, The Apples in stereo, and Silver Jews, Keene has long been under appreciated for his importance to the nineties indie art and music scenes. "The Steve Keene Art Book* - originally conceived during his sold out 2016 show at Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects Gallery - is the first art book dedicated exclusively to his work.
The book features essays by musician Hilarie Bratset (The Apples in stereo), writer Sam Brumbaugh, Elle Chang, Efram, Shepard Fairey, journalist Karen Loew, and Christina Zafiris, along with comments from Starling Keene, curators Jonathan LeVine, Leo Fitzgerald and Talia Logan, alongside a dazzling two hundred and seventy-seven reproductions of Keene’s works. Efram takes readers into Keene’s utilitarian chainlink “painting cage” for an all-access pass for a peek into the artist’s fascinating systemic technique.
"The Steve Keene Art Book" was edited by Gail O’Hara, editor-in-chief of the “legendary indie nerd bible” chickfactor, and designed by Grammy-nominated graphic designer Henry Owings.
A brand new, most handsome example of this massive, highly-anticipated survey additionally SIGNED by Steve Keene in ink.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Steve Keene Art Book" will be signed by the artist Saturday, August 30th and ship beginning Tuesday, September 2nd. If you would like to pre-order a signed copy and collect it at the event, please indicate this in the "Notes" section of your order.Inventory Number: E000SKAB
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THE DOME BOOK - LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE SIGNED BY ISIS AQUARIAN
(BROTHERHOOD OF THE SOURCE, THE). Aquarian, Isis. Brooklyn, NY: Sacred Bones Books, 2022. First Edition. 9 x 11 ½". Illustrated Wrappers. New.. 20pp, 20 color illustrations. Issued as an exceedingly limited edition by Sacred Bones Books in conjunction with their publication of "Family: The Source Family Scrapbook," "Dome Book" is a 9 x 11 ½" reproduction made from high resolution scans of the original Dome Book manuscript in the Source Family's archive housed as part of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library's American Religions Collection. This beautifully illustrated prospectus embodied Father Yod's grandiose-though-ultimately-unrealized vision for The Family's post-California communal life. It features detailed plans for a rustic, domed utopia they dreamed of building in Hawaii. The Family archivist Isis Aquarian said of the project "This was our dream: to live together, far away from the city and self-sufficient, able to offer others a healing retreat with a spa, a restaurant, and a nightclub." A brand new, most handsome example of this never before published document that quickly sold out and will not be reproduced again additionally.signed by Isis Aquarian in black ink on the rear cover. Inventory Number: E000SFDB
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STEVE BANKS: NITRO, DRAG RACING IN THE SIXTIES: 1964-1966 - SIGNED, SLIPCASED LIMITED EDITION
(BANKS, STEVE). Banks, Steve. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2019. First Edition 1/350. Small Folio. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (60pp), 28 duotone illustrations.
np, profusely illustrated in tritone. "In 1964, a young Steve Banks bought one of the most coveted ‘Muscle Cars’ on the market - a Pontiac GTO with a four-speed stick and a Hurst shifter, Tri-Power, and three Rochester 2G carburetors. He then drove Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles to begin his new advertising agency job. Gassing up one day after arriving at Nobo’s Shell station at Beverly and Larchmont, Banks learned that Nobo had previously been head mechanic at the Courtesy Chevrolet dealership, and that his station had become a center for building and tuning street racers. On and off over the next few months, Banks would leave his car at the garage while Nobo fine-tuned the carburetors, replaced the stock tires, torsion, and sway bars, and added Koni shocks and a Sun tachometer. Next, he taught Banks how to ‘speed shift’ while making late night runs up and down Larchmont Boulevard. One day, Nobo mentioned he was going to a drag race that Saturday, and that Banks was welcome to come along. Witnessing his first drag race, Steve Banks was immediately hooked. He returned the following Saturday, and the next, and again the next; but this time with his cameras. Over the course of two years, Banks photographed guys preparing runs, the thundering nitro-burning dragsters launching down the strip at two hundred-plus miles per hour, and everything else that moved. Today, fifty years later, the sport of drag racing is a big bucks, corporate-sponsored television broadcast business with the NHRA sporting over two hundred different drag racing classes. However, in a nod to the sport’s modest beginnings, almost every weekend from coast-to-coast one can find "nostalgia racing" events preserving the dragster culture of the 1960s captured here in NITRO, Drag Racing In The Sixties: 1964-1966." A brand new, pristine specially-priced SIGNED AND SLIPCASED AP example of this stunning volume from the fourth and final set of the NZ Library editions limited to three hundred and fifty copies.
Inventory Number: E000SBN -
SUPERSONIC: THE DESIGN AND LIFESTYLE OF CONCORDE
Azerrad, Lawrence. . Prestel, 2018. When the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing the Atlantic in just under three hours, they established a new standard for luxury flight. Powered by 38,000 pounds of thrust and easily recognizable with its delta wing and drooping nose, the Concorde jet embodied the pinnacle of aviation technology and industrial design. It quickly became the preferred mode of transatlantic flight for superstars and business moguls alike. Opening with a lively history of the jet and how it changed travel, the book focuses on the look and feel of the Concorde. Photos of the jet’s evolving interiors show how the original, starkly designed cabin gave way to luxury seats and interiors designed by the likes of Sir Terence Conran and Andrée Putman. Filled with fascinating historical and technical background, and drawn from the author’s personal collection of more than one thousand Concorde-related objects, this elegant book offers rarely seen historical photography and firsthand contributions from the people who helped create the Concorde experience from take-off to landing and beyond.
783791384092 Inventory Number: E000S -
REIMAGINING THE AVANT-GARDE: REVISITING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1960s AND 1970s
Butcher, Matthew & Luke C. Pearson, Editors. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Architectural History. As New./No Jacket - As Issued..
The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an "architectural Big Bang", such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse, the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency. It was divergent geographically - reaching from Europe to North America and Japan - and in its political, formal and cultural preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and experimental force, critiquing contemporary society against the backdrop of extreme social and political upheaval: the Paris riots of May 1968, the anti-Vietnam war movement in America and the looming ecological crisis. Re-imagining the Avant-Garde outlines how in contemporary architectural practice, avant-garde projects retain their power as historical precedents, as barometers of a particular design ethos, as critiques of society and instigators of new formal techniques. Given the far-reaching impact of the subsequent digital revolution, which has since reshaped every aspect of practice, the issue asks why this historical period continues to retain its undeniable grip on current architecture.
A brand new, most handsome example of this thought-provoking architectural re-assessment whose contributors include Pablo Bronstein and Sam Jacob, Sarah Deyong, Stylianos Giamarelos, Damjan Jovanovic, Andrew Kovacs, Perry Kulper, Igor Marjanovic, William Menking, Michael Sorkin, Neil Spiller and Mimi Zeiger.
978-1119506850 Inventory Number: E000RTAG -
RANDI MALKIN STEINBERGER: NO CIRCUS - SIGNED!
Malkin Steinberger, Randi and D.J. Waldie. Damiani, 2016.
No Circus brings together photographs by Los Angeles–based Randi Malkin Steinberger of buildings tented for termite fumigation around Los Angeles. After moving to the city in the early ‘90s, she encountered these shrouded structures and began to stop and photograph them, knowing that the tent might be undraped at any given moment.
Steinberger was intrigued by the way the colors and shapes of the tents showed off the forms below and highlighted the beauty of the poor plants on the outside, still flourishing, unaware that they were slowly being poisoned. Beyond the intended purpose of fumigation, these tents unwittingly allow us to stop and contemplate not only architectural form and the meaning of home, but also the Southern California lifestyle more broadly.
Books will be signed by Ms. Steinberger and Mr. Waldie on 10/1/16. 9788862084802 Inventory Number: E000RMSNC -
RICHARD EDSON: YEAR ZERO - LOCKDOWN JOURNAL - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(EDSON, RICHARD). Edson, Richard. New York: Artvoices Art Books, I00230930, 2023. First Printing. 10 x 7 1/2". Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 979-8986841304
548 pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "I began the Year Zero Lockdown Journal on March 20th, 2020. On the first day I took my bicycle and camera and rode through the empty, silent streets of Los Angeles. Everything looked the same, but everything was completely different. I took photos and came back and wrote about it. And I kept it up for next twelve months, through our personal and collective isolation, through the ups and downs of the pandemic, the slow, halting opening of society, the politicization of the virus, the George Floyd protests, the elections, the Stop-the-Steal movement, and the storming of the Capital. Covid-19 was beyond anything we thought possible or could even imagine. It's the stuff of science fiction and dystopian nightmares. But the writers and doomsayers were right. And here we are. Each of us who have lived through Year Zero have our own stories to tell. This, in photographs and texts, is mine." Published by Artvoices Books, "Year Zero - Lockdown Journal" features two beautifully packaged hardcover books in a slipcase subtitled, "Spring & Summer" and "Fall & Winter."Richard Edson has been acting in films for nearly forty years, appearing in over one hundred movies and television shows. His more notable roles include a disreputable parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Howard the Duck (1986), Jim Jarmusch's cult film Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Eight Men Out, and Joey Breaker (1993). He also appeared in Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Tougher Than Leather (1988), Let It Ride (1989), and Do the Right Thing (1989). He starred in the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros as Spike (1987). As a photographer he has had four solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and has been in countless group exhibits. He has also appeared in Juxtapose, Puta, and The Propagandist magazines and photography assignments for Wax Poetics and American Apparel, and many others. Until recently he had a monthly photo spread / column in the Los Angeles downtown arts magazine, Citizen LA. In addition to acting and photography he was a founding member and first drummer for the seminal art rock band Sonic Youth, and drummer / trumpet player for the legendary New York Afro-dance band, Konk.
Inventory Number: E000REYZLJ
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ROGER DAVIES: BEYOND THE CANYON: INSIDE EPIC CALIFORNIA HOMES
(DAVIES, ROGER). Davies, Roger. New York: Monacelli Press, I0020221127. 2022. First Edition. 12 x 10 ½". Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architectural Photography Monograph. New/New. 280pp, profusely illustrated in color. 9781580936057
"For more than twenty years, globe-trotting English-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Roger Davies has shot stunning, luxurious, unique, and storied residences by the world’s most acclaimed designers and architects for the most prestigious magazines. In Beyond the Canyon, he trains his camera on residential interiors throughout the Golden State, his adopted home. Granted unparalleled access from Malibu to Marin County and Laurel Canyon to Hollywood, Davies takes readers into the often glamorous, always compelling homes of artists, film producers, actors, musicians, interior designers, art collectors, and others who lend the West Coast its cachet. Across the variety of spaces represented - including legacy works by mid-century masters John Lautner, A. Quincy Jones, and Craig Ellwood as well as contemporary designs by Tadao Ando and Frank Gehry, he captures the essence of California living in his portraits of spectacular spaces and breathtaking views of the Hollywood Hills and palm tree–lined beaches, all bathed in a warm glow. As one of the world’s top photographers of interiors, Davies’s work has appeared in numerous design and architecture books. In Beyond the Canyon, his first monograph, he provides in his own words a rare behind-the-scenes, industry insider’s experience of photographing these stunning residences. A brand new, most handsome example of this striking new publication.Inventory Number: E000RDBTC
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PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK: THIRD EDITION - SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON
Swanson, Mary Virginia & Darius D. Himes. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, I00240205, 2023. Third Edition. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4", Small 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. New.. 272pp, 200 color illustrations 978195516125
The first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs, Publish Your Photography Book was first released in 2011 and subsequently sold out two editions. This highly anticipated third edition guides photo-based artists through the steps involved in publishing a book of their work. Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson survey the current landscape of photography-book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. This updated, expert guide covers: a history of the photobook; an overview of the publishing industry; the process of bringing your project to book form (with both traditional publishing and self-publishing options); how to market a photography book (including a dialogue with collectors on the limited edition and artist-made books); case studies with published photographers; and valuable resources on production materials, publishing and marketing timelines. Filled with educational wisdom, the book features interviews and contributions from artists, agents, editors, designers, printers, publishers, distributors, booksellers, curators and librarians who share their experiences and provide advice about each step on the path to publication and placement. A removable workbook helps readers address book preparation, draft submission guidelines, production timelines and marketing plans. With over 50 years of combined industry experience and insights, the authors also provide both historical context and contemporary expertise about the international photobook scene, including awards, fairs and grants.
This updated edition's stellar list of contributors includes Regina Maria Anzenberger, Bob Aufuldish, Julia Borissova, Barbara Bosworth, Frish Brandt, Sonel Breslav, Joan Brookbank, Jane Brown, Jason Burstein, David Campany, Alejandro Cartagena, Bruno Ceschel, Nelson Chan, Lewis Chaplin, Clément Cheroux, David Chickey, Joshua Chuang, Mary DelMonico, Sarah Espenon, Jon Evans, Chloe Ferres, Tricia Gabriel, Susan kae Grant, Kris Graves, Hans Gremmen, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Todd Hido, Deborah Hollis, Tiffany Jones, Christina Labey, Joan Liftin, Michael Lundgren, Lesley A. Martin, Christopher McCall, Lisa McCarty, Clifton Meador, Dan Milnor, Arezoo Moseni, Colleen Mullins, Azu Nwagbogu, Martin Parr, Cecile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, Alan Rapp, Rixon Reed, Ruth R. Rogers, Laura Russell, Markus Schaden, Mike Slack, Søren Solkær, David Solo, Gerhard Steidl, Alan Thomas, Ian van Coller, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Amy Wilkins, Deborah Willis, Denise Wolff, Nancy E. Wolff, Carl Wooley, Sophie Wright and Philip Zimmermann.
A brand new example additionally SIGNED by author Mary Virginia Swanson in ink.
Inventory Number: E000PYPB
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Platon: The Defenders Heroes of the Global Fight for Human Rights
(PLATON). Text by Platon, Ko Bo Kyi, Wael Ghonim, Tanya Lokshina, Alina Diaz, Denis Mukwege.. MW Editions, I00240501. 2024. 9.75 x 13.75 in. / 560 pgs . Paperback. Photography Monograph. New. 9798987784501
Platon will be signing copies of "The Defenders" at the UTA Artist Space (403 Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, CA 90210) on Saturday, May 4th, between 2:00 and 4:00 PM following a walkthrough of his exhibition. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will ship the week of May 7th.
Fifteen years of Platon’s visually arresting and often dangerous documentation of human rights movements, from Cairo to the Congo
The celebrated portraitist Platon has spent much of his career photographing the famous and powerful, but he has also traveled the world documenting human rights activists and their quests for justice. The Defenders presents five photo essays spanning 15 years of work on these struggles in Burma, Egypt, Russia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In Burma, he took portraits of monks, sex workers, former child soldiers and the controversial political leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He was on the ground in Cairo for several weeks early in 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets and demanded the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. In Russia, he photographed and spoke with dissidents who have battled a slew of oppressive governments. Along the border between the US and Mexico, he documented victims of inhumane immigration policies. Finally, the chapter on the Congo documents the continuing trauma of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
The full-bleed images are accompanied by short texts that contextualize the complex issues in each place, and retell Platon’s own stories of shooting on location. The book also includes a poster.
Inventory Number: E000P
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NADAV KANDER: THE MEETING
(KANDER, NADAV). Kander, Nadav, Ian McEwan, David Campany & David Lynch. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
324pp, 151 color and 118 b&w illustrations.
"Regardless of his sitter - whether family member or influential celebrity - the portraiture of London-based photographer Nadav Kander shows what makes that particular individual human. His aim is to move beyond capturing an accurate likeness to access the emotions within, the uncertainty, the shadow as much as the light, the complex sense of self that otherwise lays hidden. “Revealed and concealed, beauty and destruction, ease and disease, shame and shameless,” explains the photographer, “These paradoxes are essential to all my work and represent what is common to all my varied subject matter.” This collection, the first book dedicated to his portraiture, shows the range and nuance of Kander’s work from Barack Obama, John le Carré and Alexander McQueen to Tracey Emin, Robert Plant and Prince Charles. Layered and penetrating, these remarkable images reveal unexpected moments of reverie and vulnerability."
A brand new, most handsome example still in the publisher’s shrinkwrap.
978-3-9582961-5-2 Inventory Number: E000NKTM -
Michael Schmelling: Your Blues - SIGNED
Schmelling, Michael. The Ice Plant and Skinnerboox, 2018. In 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Photography commissioned American photographer Michael Schmelling to make a new series of photographs about music in his hometown of Chicago. First shown as the solo exhibition Your Blues in 2014 (curated by Karen Irvine), this ambitious body of work now takes form of an artist book, co-published by The Ice Plant and Skinnerboox. Schmelling spent eighteen months immersed in the project, crisscrossing Chicago alone at night, making his way into basement shows, crowded clubs, parties, and recording studios (“waiting in the dark for a communal experience with strangers,” as he describes it), documenting both the communal culture at large — musicians and fans alike — and the DIY individualism of the characters involved. Focussing on niche and local acts in unconventional venues, Schmelling’s work reflects a vibrant, fluid crossover between the region’s music genres, a diffuse legacy that encompasses the blues, punk, psychedelic jazz, rap, emo, hardcore, and house music. In Chicago “there’s no dominant cultural tradition,” writes musician Tim Kinsella in an essay included in the book. “The dominant form is hybridity.” Teeming with enthralled bodies and ecstatic faces, Your Blues is an energetic and intimate document of a time and place, featuring over 200 meticulously sequenced photographs, puzzled together through subtle rhythms and recurring visual riffs, infusing Schmelling’s own personal photo-cryptology into the evolving musical history of the city.
Please note: Mr. Schmelling will be signing books at Arcana on October 13th -- orders will ship on Tuesday, October 16th. Inventory Number: E000MSYB -
MIKE SLACK: THE TRANSVERSE PATH - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/ No Jacket - As Issued. np (100pp), 50 color illustrations. "Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles… Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in "The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance? Made primarily around the American southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid compositions — like a series of thought-bubbles in search of a narrative — are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie". A brand new, pristine example of the first The Ice Plant edition limited to nine hundred unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "Mike Slack" in ink.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Transverse Path" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9992655-0-5 Inventory Number: E000MSTTP -
MARK STEINMETZ: SOUTH CENTRAL - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. Introduction by Richard B. Woodward. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Renowned for his modest yet powerful photographs that capture the sense of displacement and isolation felt by many young Americans, Mark Steinmetz photographed in and around Knoxville, Tennessee to create the work that makes up "South Central". The title of the book is derived from the South Central Bell telephone company that serves Knoxville, and their public payphones are a recurring theme in this work; an iconic reminder of the area's socio-economic condition. The artist possesses an uncanny ability to pull folly, aggression and tenderness through his lens simultaneously, and delivers with this book a powerful and touching visual novel of the human condition. "South East" Richard B. Woodward. Mark Steinmetz is a Guggenheim Fellow whose work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2006 first hardbound printing limited to one thousand copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Mark Steinmetz" in ink on the title page.
978-159005-171-8 Inventory Number: E000MSSoC -
MARK STEINMETZ: SOUTH EAST - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. Introduction by Peter Galassi. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2008. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Designed as a companion volume to his critically-acclaimed 2006 Nazraeli Press monograph "South Central" Mark Steinmetz here turns his focus to Athens and Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and East Tennessee, and the roads between. Highly regarded for his black-and-white portraits, Steinmetz is renowned for producing powerful pictures which capture the strong sense of displacement and isolation that is felt by many young Americans. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "South East" features an introduction by Peter Galassi, chief curator of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2008 first edition limited to one thousand copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Mark Steinmetz" WITH A SMALL DRAWING OF A HEART on the title page.
978-159005-231-0 Inventory Number: E000MSSE -
MARK STEINMETZ: SUMMERTIME - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(STEINMETZ, MARK). Steinmetz, Mark. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. Small Folio. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
Mark Steinmetz's follow-up monograph to his classic trilogy "South Central / South East / Greater Atlanta", "Summertime" is a series of portraits of kids and teenagers caught in the midst of activity in distinctly American settings. Made between 1984 and 1991 when kids and teenagers were able to roam their neighborhoods with less supervision than today riding bikes without wearing helmets, and hanging out without constant digital interruptions, these black and white photographs capture the light and feel of an endless summer. Beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese stock with the publisher's exclusive "Daido black" ink, this charming, long unavailable tome was printed in a first edition of one thousand copies casebound copies. A brand new, most handsome example SIGNED AND DATED "Mark Steinmetz / 2012" in pencil on the title page. 978-159005-348-6 Inventory Number: E000MSS