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SALE!An exclusive monograph of Vladimír Zidlicky presents his color photographs from the years 2007 - 2009. This beautifully printed book includes 100 pages of essays, interviews, and 95 photographs in groupings that are presented in chronological order. Essays and texts appear in Czech and English. This book was again chosen as the ’Best Book of Contemporary Photography for Central and Eastern Europe in 2010’ by an international jury in Bratislava. Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Miroslav Ambroz, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Natasha Christia, Eric Min Year: 2009 Hardcover, 100 pages Language: english, czech ISBN: 978-80-254-6364-2 -
Eva Petrič’s Webbing is a »hybrid« of her visual art and creative writing with which she presents the web of her 25 art installations in the medium of lace assembage. Made in the period of 2012-2018, they were installed worldwide. Connected into one web by the artist’s perception of lace representing hematomas they seem to exist as a collective web which surpasses time and space. Hematomas occur not only when the wall of blood vessels is damaged and blood leaks into surrounding tisues where it does not belong, but also on emotional and social dimensions. We, as a society or as indiviudals, can ourselves be hematomas when emotional barriers break and emotions explode… Petrič’s hematomas, are further tied into one common web by their ephemerality: when the artist deinstalls them, they cease to exist and can never again appear in the same form – except in this monography. Author: Eva Petrič Publisher: Drava, Klagenfurt Year: 2018 Hard cover, 288 pages 500 copies Language: Angleški Dimensions: 31 x 23 cm ISBN: 9783854358947 -
Author: Stanko Abadžić Foreword: Branka Hlevnjak Publisher: Kadar36 Year: 2024 Hard copy, 160 pages Black and White Photos Duoton Print Limited Edition In edition of a 100 copies Language: english, croatian -
Neo-avant-garde Trends in Hungarian Art Photography, 1965-1984 has been published with the support of Art+Text Budapest. The book, like its Hungarian version published in 2007, presents some 400 works of art by 32 Hungarian artists of the 1960s, 1970s and the early 1980s. It undertakes to collect the greatest photographers of this vibrant and fruitful era from Géza Perneczky to Tibor Hajas and János Vető. Among the presented artists we can find photographers who refused the anachronistic aesthetics of the official photography, and artists who used the camera accepting the conceptual approach of the period. Author: Sándor Szilágyi Foreword: Sarah Morthland Publisher: Art + Text Budapest Year: 2017 Hardcover, 377 pages Language: english (first english edition) Dimensions: 30 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-963-12-8293-1 -
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In the book Shaped by the West Dino Kužnik (1986, Slovenia) depicts some of the most famous symbols of the American West, the car, the gas station, the road and also the landscape. This body of work was created between 2016 and 2019 on various solitary road trips. Conceptually, the series stems from the artist’s experience with the Westernization of the culture in Slovenia during its transition from socialism to capitalism, after its independence. Shaped by the West is thus a personal and artistic confrontation with the symbols of Americana from his youth opposed to his adult identity. The predominant narrative revolves around the artist’s desire to move abroad and a nostalgic vision of the American dream contrasted with his reality of living in a foreign country as well as the process of applying for an artist’s visa. Dino has lived in the USA since 2013 and has travelled through Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada in search of his artistic expression. Text : Špela Pipan Design : Emil Kozole Perfect Bound, 96 pages Edition: 300 copies Published by : Dino Kužnik & Photon Third edition: 2021 ISBN : 978-961-95107-3-5 COBISS.SI-ID: 62591747 -
A new, beautifully printed book celebrates a 30-year retrospective of his artwork. The over-sized book includes 248 pages of essays, interviews, and an abundance of photographs in groupings that are presented in chronological order. Essays and texts appear in Czech and English. This book was chosen as the ’Best Book of Photography for Central and Eastern Europe in 2008’ by an international jury in Bratislava. Famed Czech photographer Vladimir Zidlicky began his artistic career in the 1970s as a painter, but soon established a signature style that blurred the distinction between painting and photography. Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Miroslav Ambroz, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Paul Bogaers, Jim Jordan, Lucia L. Fišerova Year: 2008 Hardcover, 248 pages Language: english, czech ISBN:978-80-254-2920-4 -
NEW!The debut by Zuzana Pustaiová titled One Day Every Day (2022) is an ironic commentary on various social norms impacting our daily lives. Commonplace routine, gender stereotypes, and role-playing (depicted in the book literally as ‚wearing masks‘) are few examples of cultural code, which, on the one hand, bind the society together, but on the other, it imposes the often unwanted social pressure affecting an individual’s freedom. In this book, the artist seeks the boundary where the (otherwise useful) behavioral patterns become pathological. Exploring the intricate relationship between these patterns and broader social phenomena, the book shows deeper layers of institutional limitations conceived by the policy-makers and relayed to the public by the media and via social networks. It brings the reader’s attention to the point that while striving for a better world, one ought not to forget how the individual feels in the realm of all those recommendations, behests and restrictions, imprinted to one’s mind since an early age and while being brought up, only to find that civilizing imperatives often lead to systematic oppression. The idea of rethinking one’s conviction, when it comes to social norms, is further supported by the ‚Leporello‘ layout, allowing for alternative page juxtapositions. Photographs: Zuzana Pustaiová (2020-2022) Text: Branislav Štěpánek Book design: Matúš Lelovský, Zuzana Pustaiová Print run: 300 + collectors edition of 11 Date of publishing: May 2022 Language: Slovak / English Number of pages: 62 Number of images: 60 Publisher: self-published with Reflektor Supported by: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava www.vsvu.sk Photon Gallery www.photon.si Reflektor www.reflektor.org Fond výtvarných umení www.fvu.sk Zoltán Szabó www.raftys.sk Supporters of crowdfunding campaign on www.startlab.sk -
NEW!What will our world be like without emotions, and will anyone even miss them? This question, provoked by the concern that life in current circumstances of constant digital connectivity and instant “likes” and emoticons” is heading into a state where emotions are increasingly losing their role and are retreating into cliches, has motivated the visual artist and author Eva Petrič to create ”@apple girl story 2 ; to be a shadow or a puppet…”. The multilayered story and its book is a hybrid by its content as well as its form. It is a hybrid of a literary story, switching between a fairytale and a contemporary email dairy, and the visual dictionary of emotions among which many are on the brink of extinction. The text itself is a hybrid mitigating between images and sentences, spread out over paper of different colors in ways where sentences form visual images. By depicting figures in their material forms of bodies as well as in their immaterial forms as shadows, the book enables viewers various ways of perception and possibilities of creating one’s own stories. Eva Petrič is a transmedia artist, known for her creative use of photography, interweaving with other media, exploring with it the language of shadows, decoding our existence on ephemeral levels. Her motivation to expose the multidimensional architecture of space, defined by atmosphere, lead her to apply a trans medial approach in her art. Author: Eva Petrič Foreword: Olga Butinar Čeh 23 cm x 23 cm 358 pages, hardcover -
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In his limited photographic monograph entitled The Present, Peter Koštrun captures the quiet atmosphere of the countryside in the immediate vicinity of his home. Pastoral motifs are composed in a way of intriguing poetry that is - wrapped in a misty veil of gently lit countryside - receptive to mystical wanderings and silent contemplation. The photo book is available only in edition of 20! Author of photographs: Peter Koštrun Author of text: Dejan Sluga Publisher: self-published Year: 2013 Hardcover, 44 pages Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm Language: english, sloveneFOR ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE OF SLOVENIA PLEASE SEND US EMAIL ON info@photon.si
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„In today’s world, sweating is taboo. Enter “sweat” into any search engine and you’ll find a multitude of ways to remedy it. The huge array of deodorants available commercially is an indication of just how unacceptable sweating is in everyday life. Sweat is embarrassing: a sign of poor hygiene. Body odor is ‘disgusting’. Faces cringe when confronted with it. Even as far back as the Bible, sweat was equated with hardship. When Adam was expelled by God, for example, he was condemned thenceforth to earn his daily bread By the Sweat of His Brow (Genesis 3, 19). Sweat may well owe a good part of its poor reputation to its anti-social stench, but it also has negative connotations due to its association with fear. A sweaty handshake betrays nervousness. When you wake up bathed in sweat at night, it’s more likely due to nightmares or anxiety than to faulty air conditioning. Photographer Reiner Riedler has discovered sweat as an artistic form of expression.Fascinated by the image captured by the sweat on his T-shirt after jogging – like a spontaneous self-portrait – he has used the sweat produced by others to create a series of images. In order to achieve this, he approached the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Munich which provided him with a special sensory material that could be placed above or underneath his perspiring models. In doing so, Riedler used the sweaty body as a kind of rubber stamp to create life-size negatives. He then photographed these and transformed them into monochrome paper prints.“- Vreni Hockenjos, Excerpt from the book
Photographs: Reiner Riedler Texts: Vreni Hockenjos Graphic design: Tapir Design / Ania Nalecka-Milach Publisher: Reflektor Year: 2019 Hardcover, linen, 104 pages Language: English Dimensions: 24 x 30,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-9502450-9-7
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Robert Kusterle's exhibition catalogue is actually a photographic folder published on the occasion of the Images on Paper / Cartacei, exhibition opening at the Gong Gallery in Nova Gorica. The conceptual design of the publication is a collaboration between the artist, Gong Gallery and Studio Faganel from Gorizia, where the catalogue was also designed. The photographic folder includes, in addition to the expert text, fourteen individual reproductions of photographs based on images of old papers from the Gorizia archive, with damaged and faded stamps layered on top of each other. The last layer is made up of human figures that merge and are immersed in the paper, so that the viewer can no longer distinguish between the surface of the body and the paper. In the context of the artist's concept of photographs, the cover of the folder is partly made of pieces of old paper, while the title of the exhibition and the gallery's logo are stamped onto it. Author: Roberto Kusterle Text: Nataša Kovšca Publisher: Galerija Gong Year: 2020 Photographic map: 14 prints Print run: 100 copies Language: slovene, italian Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm ISBN: 978-961-95131-0-1 -
Nicole Brandstaetter (2001) is a Vienna-based artist whose work spans the fields of photography, storytelling, fashion and design. Since 2019, her photographic practice has been driven by a relentless pursuit of aesthetics, capturing the intricate interplay between visual appeal and narrative depth. Her public recognition began in 2020 with exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Academy of Fine Arts. With a background in photography and audiovisual studies, her distinctive style and thematic exploration has been featured in various online magazines and recognized by designers in Vienna and the wider German-speaking community. The artist, who grew up in two different cultures - Austrian and American - is deeply intrigued by themes such as self-expression, transience and longing. These interests feed into her work, adding layers of meaning and resonance that invite the viewer to engage with the deeper narratives woven into her photographs. Her ability to integrate design and fashion into her photography has created a powerful visual language that captures the essence of contemporary artistic expression. In the photograph, rain pours down on the lens of my camera, creating this beautiful and abstract image of a silhouette in a white dress in the city of Milan. Amidst the dark streets, the glow of distant streetlights resembles a scattering of luminous dots. - Edition of 6 prints, sized 20x30 and printed on semi-Matt archival paper.
