photo-eye | BLOG: January 2016

Le Crowbar
Photographs by Tom Hunter
Here Press

"In 1995 Tom Hunter set off from a squatted street in Hackney with a group of friends in an old double decker bus, loaded with muesli, Sosmix, baby-foot table and a sound system. Fuelled by selling egg butties, veggie burgers and beer, their journey took them through folk festivals in France, teknivals in Czech Republic, hippie gatherings in Austria and beach parties in Spain. Le Crowbar Café became an oasis for a nomadic party community hungry for all night food and a break from the hardcore techno."—the publisher

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Greetings from Auschwitz. Edited by Pawel Szypulski.

Edition Patrick Frey, 2015.

Greetings from Auschwitz
Reviewed by Colin Pantall

Greetings from Auschwitz
Edited by Pawel Szypulski
Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015. In German/English. 88 pp., 75 color illustrations, 8½x8¾".

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by:
Aaron Schuman
Rafal Milach

The photographs of Auschwitz that were taken during the war are revealing. They show the breadth of photography, the functions it serves, and the regimes it serves under. They encompass the history of photography.

Douglas Levere | Snowflake 2014.02.09.005

photo-eye Gallery’s upcoming exhibition Fire and Ice features the work and collaboration of Alan Friedman and Douglas Levere. Fire is represented by Friedman’s telescopic images of the Sun’s surface, while Ice is demonstrated by Levere’s microscopic studies of snowflakes. The exhibition opens Friday January 29th from 5–7pm, and a gallery talk with both artists will be held Saturday January 30th at 2:00 pm. photo-eye’s Savannah Sakry spoke with Levere regarding the art of photographing snowflakes and where his collaboration with Friedman began.

The Life of Small Things.
By Adam Ekberg. Waltz Books, 2015.

This week's Book of the Week pick comes from Jim Stone who has selected The Life of Small Things by Adam Ekberg from Waltz Books.

Homesick
Photographs by Sara J. Winston
Zatara Press

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by John Gossage

"In many ways, Homesick wears its heart on its sleeve; in lyrical images that meld keen observation and a tender depiction. Katz reveals her deep familiarity with these people, objects and rooms, while also retaining a certain wistful remove. Little is shared of the family’s physical relationships or even accidental proximities to one another. Figures are usually solitary and shot from behind. A story of family life in cropped limbs and headless torsos, prone and on the block; and written in part by someone else."—from the review by Karen Jenkins

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The Democratic Forest.
By William Eggleston. Steidl, 2015.

This week's Book of the Week pick comes from Jeff Mermelstein who has selected The Democratic Forest by William Eggleston from Steidl.

photo-eye Gallery is excited to announce Fire and Ice, a collaborative exhibition by acclaimed astro photographer Alan Friedman and photomicrographer Douglas Levere opening Friday January 29th and running through April 9th, 2016. An opening and artist reception with Friedman and Levere will take place on Friday, January 29th from 5–7 PM, and a gallery talk with both artists is scheduled for Saturday, January 30th at 2:00 PM.

LOOK At Me by David Lykes Keenan

photo-eye carries many unique objects and some limited editions produced in very small numbers. These objects are often incredibly affordable ways to collect prints along side some amazing books or as original objects in their own right. Two such limited editions are Jason Vaughn’s hide and David Lykes Keenan’s LOOK At Me. For the second in our limited edition series — following a post on Smith Eliot's one-of-a-kind artist books and Denis Roussel’s multi-volume, handmade book — we focus on two artists who explore typological subjects. Vaughn’s book and limited edition hide feature numerous images of deer stands in Wisconsin and Lykes Keenan’s loose plate, boxed portfolio featuring portraits of young men. In these brief interviews, we talk to each artist about the work and the production of the limited editions.

ON
photographs by Eamonn Doyle
Self-published

"So it’s a book of street photography with a visual (and limited) documentary element that portrays a new Dublin, a Dublin that is of new arrivals who are now living and settling in the city. He’s telling a story here and in that story he also connects back to i through visual connections that reprise the textures of Doyle’s first book. There are fleshy arms and bare backs, all freckled as they should be, there are stretching legs and the patterns of skirt and headscarf and hat. And there is a similar consideration of dress, class and the material structure of street."—from the review by Colin Pantall

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1972. By Noritaka Minami.
Kehrer Verlag, 2015.

1972
Reviewed by Blake Andrews

1972
Photographs by Noritaka Minami. Texts by Noritaka Minami, Julian Rose, Ken Yoshida.
Kehrer Verlag, 2015. In English. 92 pp., 52 color illustrations, 9½x11".

As buildings go, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has an impressive pedigree. Designed in 1972 by renowned Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, and constructed quickly in a matter of weeks, Nagakin is the icon of Metabolism, the post-war Japanese Utopian architecture movement based on modular form, flexible use, and organic growth. When it was built, the Tower was conceived as the vanguard of similar futuristic buildings that would soon spread across Japan, ushering in a space age of clean, capsule living.

Woodstock 69436-14a , August, 1969, Bethel, NY – Baron Wolman

photo-eye Bookstore + Project space is excited to announce WOODSTOCK, an exhibition of images from the legendary concert by classic rock photographer Baron Wolman. The exhibition opens on Friday January 15th from 5–7pm, and Wolman will be signing copies of his accompanying book WOODSTOCK. Wolman's black-and-white images captured the experience and atmosphere of Woodstock like no other photographer. More interested in the crowd than the performers, his photographs are hugely evocative and offer an insight into this legendary event that is rarely seen. photo-eye's Lucas Shaffer interviewed Wolman about what the historic event was like, and how the book came to be published.

Outcasts and Innocents: Photographs of the Northwest.
By Alice Wheeler. Minor Matters, 2015.

This week's Book of the Week pick comes from Jenny Riffle who has selected Outcasts and Innocents: Photographs of the Northwest by Alice Wheeler from Minor Matters.

Hold the Line. By Siegfried Hansen.
Verlag Kettler, 2015.

Hold the Line

Reviewed by Adam Bell

Hold the Line

By Siegfried Hansen
Verlag Kettler, Dortmond, Germany, 2015. In English. 56 pp., 7¾x10x½".

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Colin Pantall

If the city provides endlessly human drama, it also offers an equally fertile stage. Concrete, metal, stone, wood, and paint form the foundations of this built environment and shape our lives and interactions. They coalesce in purposeful and temporal ways creating beauty for those attentive enough to look. Lines intersect or break the city apart, while shadows, people and the occasional animal extend or cut off forms in unexpected ways. Riffing off classic street photography and Modernist photography, Siegfried Hansen’s Hold the Line is a playful examination of the city as a graphic playground of color, line, and form. Filled with bold geometric images and brightly colored pages, Hansen transforms the city into a maze of graphic delights and asks us to see the city and the built world with fresh eyes.

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Ten Disciples — SIGNED

Photographs by Tsutomu Yamagata

"The spa of Tamagawa is deep in the rural mountains of Akita prefecture in northern Japan. The valley is filled with radioactive rocks and the ground temperature is high. The air is thick with sulfuric fumes from nearby volcanoes. When I look closely, I see people lying here and there on stretch of gray rock. People fighting cancer throw themselves at the mercy of the radiation that fills the valley and get exposed to the heat of the Earth." —Tsutomu Yamagata

Ten Disciples documents this unique place in a beautifully displayed photobook containing 22 original images. Printed in an edition of 300 copies.

photo-eye is taking pre-orders for signed copies of Ten Disciples. If our supplier runs out, orders will be fulfilled in the order in which they are received. The cutoff time for ordering in our shipment is Tuesday, January 12th at 12:00 PM MDT.

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Beastly/Tierisch
Edited by Duncan Forbes and Daniela Janser.
Spector Books

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Hans Gremmen

Beastly/Tierisch was selected for the Shortlist for the 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

"A very intelligent catalogue that accompanied the exhibition Beastly/Tierisch at Fotomuseum Winterthur. The book is designed in such a way that it seems default, but on the other hand almost over-designed. It is banal and academic at the same time, which is very effective: it makes you scratch the surface of the universal topic of the representations of animals." —Hans Gremmen

The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar. By Jamey Stillings.
Steidl, 2015.

The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar
Reviewed by George Slade

The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar
Photographs by Jamey Stillings. Text by Bruce Barcott. Foreword by Robert Redford. Introduction by Anne Tucker.
Steidl, Gottingen, Germany, 2015. 148 pp., 60 tritone illustrations, 9¼x13½".

Stillings’ photographs of the new bridge surmounting Hoover Dam, and the 2011 Nazraeli book featuring them, left me underwhelmed. Drama dominates; the landscape, the construction, the oversized geometry and scale of the thing, and the book reflecting it all, seemed at once too grand and too simplistic. No offense intended, Jamey Stillings, but the images seem kind of “can’t miss;” certainly not easy to make, given the multitude of angles, points of view, and varying lighting conditions over a two-year period, but easy to grasp.

White Dreams I, Chaco Terada, Archival Pigment, Silk, Sumi Ink – Unique Object

Chaco Terada

The World and it's Possibilities: Photographs by Chaco Terada
Pasatiempo: The Santa Fe New Mexican

Pasatiempo currently features a write up and introduction to Terada's exhibition Between Water & Sky, currently on View at photo-eye Gallery through January 23rd.

"The imagery is shrouded, obscured — its details blurred because it is being seen through a second layer of silk. The calligraphy is often painted on both layers but those on the top appear suspended, like free-floating thoughts in the atmosphere."

– Michael Abatemarco

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