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Issue 9: Cosmos released!  Limited quantities shipping soon.  Order your copy today!

Join us for our launch party Oct. 28th, 8-11pm @ Bubble Lounge (228 W Broadway, NYC)

Featuring:

Adam Bartos | Robert Canali | Linda Connor | Vincent Fournier | Stan Gaz | Sharon Harper | Jason Lazarus

Charles Lindsay | Noel Rodo - Vankeulen | Phillip Scott Andrews | Greg Stimac | Neilson Tam   

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"Voices from Burma" is a creative cross-disciplinary event featuring the performance of narratives from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime and photography from Magnum photographers Chien Chi Chang, Lu Nan and James Mackey.

Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime is the eighth book in the Voice of Witness nonprofit oral history book series, founded by author Dave Eggers.

Tuesday, October 11, 7–8:30 p.m.
The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY

Free webcast will be broadcast from 7-9 p.m. ET on asiasociety.org/live

Sponsored by the Asia Society, PEN American Center, Open Society Foundations, Voice of Witness, and the Magnum Emergency Foundation. More info: http://asiasociety.org/calendars/voices-burma-0

Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape, Opens October 21, 2011

Buffalo, NY – This comprehensive, ten-year survey of the work of Victoria Sambunaris (American, born 1964) marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at a major American museum. Each year for the past twelve years, Sambunaris has crossed the United States alone with her camera to capture the vast American landscape and terrain, and its intersection with civilization. The resulting, hauntingly beautiful images reveal a sparse, seemingly limitless landscape and geology, dotted by a human imprint that is distinctly American.

The exhibition, substantially drawn from the collection of the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, includes more than thirty-five images captured by the artist with her 5x7 field camera as she traveled highways and gravel roads across the United States. Climbing mountains and often enduring extreme conditions for days, Sambunaris waited for the right light and the right moment to document contrasting geology and industry, and man’s footprint in nature. The Lannan Foundation has collected forty photographs by Sambunaris since first taking note of her work a decade ago. The exhibition will also include a comprehensive installation of ephemeral material featuring the artist’s maps, journals, and travel records, desined by art director Michael Reynolds.

Speaking about her process and her approach, Sambunaris has said, “My process begins with an unmitigated curiosity inspired by research into industry, culture, history, anthropology, geology, and ecology. I travel with an extensive library of books, maps, and reference material and have amassed an abundance of artifacts that include mineral specimens, journals, video footage, road logs, and oral histories from my journeys. My motivation to traverse the American landscape is the attempt to reveal the layers of a place. I resist approaching a landscape strictly as an expanse of scenery but view it as an anomaly with an abundance of information to be discovered.”

Exhibition co-curator Holly E. Hughes notes, “Sambunaris’s work reflects the eye and hand of a modern-day explorer-turned-artist. Taking her time to survey the landscape and familiarize herself with her surroundings, she reveals in her work the complexity of the United States’ topography and geology, and its panoramic beauty—a beauty that has gotten lost in the shadow of progress and industrialization.”

Also on view:

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Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland, will present thirty-five iconic images of American life from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, selected from the Library of Congress’ Farm Security Administration photography collection. Organized by Bruce Jackson (SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture, University at Buffalo) with Albright-Knox Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes, the exhibition includes the work of a group of photographers that has been credited with the development of documentary photography, and that was among the first to work with color film.

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 A week after P.S. 1 and Printed Matter's annual book fair, I'm still not half way through looking at the stack of books I brought home.  If you weren't able to attend the fair, didn't manage to see every table, or if simply want more leftovers from the annual Thanksgiving of artist books read on to see some of my favorite tables and publishers.   

ABC Artist Book Cooperative:  ABC is an international network of artists making print-on-demand books.  As to be expected with such a diverse group of artists, ABC had a great range of books: Travis Shaffer's conceptual piece, AB:C, was hand printed with a pen the moment I bought it.  Burkhard von Harder's My Anonymous Cold War Archive has an understated charm; I took home Folder 0504 Images 17/19-24 (gymnasts frozen twirling in mid-air).  And there were a number of new titles from the prolific artist/bookmaker Victor Sira; I got a copy of Voyeur A Midsummer which pairs beautifully reproduced images of couples copulating in wooded havens with images of mushrooms, butterflies and an all-seeing owl.  

Roma Publications: Founded in 1998 by artist Mark Manders and graphic designer Roger Willems, Roma makes impeccably designed books covering a wide array mediums.  Three titles that caught my eye:  a preview copy of Dirk Braeckman's dark and brooding new monograph, Spomenik, a series of abandoned monuments in the former Yugoslavia, by Jan Kempenaers and Aglaia Konrad's Italian quarry images titled Carrara.  

No Work: No Work is a series anonymous collaborative projects.  They recently released Blotter, an oversized newsprint edition of found mugshots that is printed with so much ink that you'll leave your finger prints everywhere.  They've also started a zine series that pairs their photographs of New York; the latest version focuses on the Occupy Wall Street protests. 

Hassla: Artist and publisher David Schoerner founded Hassla almost five years ago, producing twenty publications to date with some of my favorite artists.  The two most recent, Sydney Jonas Walk by Colin Snapp and Humours by Kathryn Herr, are a brilliant addition.

Gottlund Verlag:  The fact that every box, cover, stamp, and sewn section at Gottlund Verlag is done by hand blows my mind, and every project that founder Nicholas Gottlund takes on is worth the effort.  Three works that caught my eye: a preview copy of Coley Brown's new book A Recurring Dream, Salad Days, the first in a series of books of Ed Panar's grungy high school archive, and a box of Nicholas's own c-prints that are a working edit for his forthcoming book Possession. 

Dashwood Books: Beautifully cluttered, and always eclectic.  Dashwood released one of their publications, Jacko Weyland's work on 70's and 80's US ski culture,The Powder. 

BAS: The Istanbul based BAS was started by Banu Cennetoglu as an artist space with a focus on producing, collecting and displaying books.  BAS began working with artist Philippine Hoegen in 2006 to form Bent Artists' Books who this year brought an amazing series of six never before seen comic books by the Armenian artist Masist Gul called Kaldirim Destani - Kaldirimlar Kurdunun Hayati (Pavement Myth - The Life of the Pavement's Wolf).  I was also happy to see a few new editions of Banu's own zine 15 Scary Asian Men.  

Pete Deevakul, Yams Baked in Honey Butter for White Zinfandel magazine, 2011. Roe Ethridge, Old Fruit, 2010. Robert Mapplethorpe, Fruit and Urn, 1987. Copyright the artists.

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