The new issue of mono.kultur with the legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has been a long time in the making – two and a half years in fact – but...
Play Book is the new collection of poems by Irish poet, Maurice Scully. His writing began in the early 1970s, and since 1981 he has published 10 books of poetry...
Indonesian-born artist Fiona Tan has been commissioned to make London the focus of the fifth and final installment of her Vox Populi series. Following her work in Norway, Sydney, Tokyo...
18In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in...
The artist book Things Change Anyway is a collaboration between non-binary, trans* artist MC Coble and art / photo historian Louise Wolthers about various kinds of metamorphosis in life, bodies,...
Following in the footsteps of a man named Franklin Lung, the book Dear Franklin immerses the reader in the history of the Chinese diaspora, from the fall of the Middle Empire in...
Gilles Roudière is a French photographer, born in 1976, who lives in Tours and Berlin. Member of the collective project Temps Zero and represented by In)(between gallery, Paris. Volta No...
The fourth publication in the Vox Populi series, presents a social portrait of Switzerland selected from personal and private family photo albums. Often intimate and individual, these pictures when presented...
Chamo San is an artist and illustrator from Barcelona. Sketched Memories contains a selection of drawings made by the artist in his sketchbooks between 2011 and 2021. Divided into several...
With A Sensitive Education the photographer Francesca Todde explores, through the figure of bird educator Tristan Plot, the possibilities of empathy between different natural species. The narrative, far from being...
'Demande à la poussière (Ask the Dust) makes one step closer to the minute, counts the speck of dust that the oblivion has not taken, explores the thin fissures where...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art,...
With a long-term commitment and an open-minded approach, Belgian artist Vincen Beeckman challenges norms. Through personal conversations, this book offers a deeper understanding of Beeckman’s creative process and takes you...
Stationed around an art freeport megaproject in the Persian Gulf, and hopping across numerous locations real and fabricated, the book spins off into shadow-histories of synthetic colour production, abstruse citizenship...
White Fungus is an arts magazine based in Taiwan. "That gesture also is a kind of gesture you make towards the reader, saying, "I trust you", and in a way...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
Two leporellos around the river Isère in France as a former place of labour. The leporello form refers to tourist souvenirs from the 50ies and 60ies and is at odds...
The Daddy Cool project raises questions about how the subjective image of a close relative (in this case the author’s father who passed away in 2015) can be re-examined in...
"Deep inside the interior world of Tereza Zelenkova’s The Essential Solitude, time has ceased to exist. Webs of dust have gathered on unmade beds, folds of black velvet sit decaying...
Still Looking Good is triadic collaboration between siblings Oliver Connew (dancer/choreographer) and Alice Connew (photographer) that brings together dance, sound and a visual aesthetic that are drawn from and reference pervasive...
Photographs by Erica Van Horn of Ulrich Ruckreim's barn housing his sculptures in Clonegal on the border between Co. Carlow and Co. Wexford in Ireland. Reprinted issued as part of...
Phyllis Christopher’s fearless and tender photographs fuse lesbian sex and queer protest against the backdrop of a city in flux. Relocating to San Francisco from her hometown Buffalo in the...
In the classic story by the Grimm brothers, a young man called Hans exchanges his hard-earned piece of gold for one object after another, in a series of increasingly unprofitable...
In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudgett, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of...
Novogen is a project focusing on the eponymous breed of chickens that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products such as medicines and...
There is Nothing New Under the Sun is Geibl’s first monograph. Carefully planned images are mixed with stream-of-consciousness texts. A poetic approach emerges through allegories, personal short stories and image...
With contributions by Bogdan Ablozhnyy, John Flindt, Graham Hamilton, Karl Holmqvist, Lin Jing, David Moser, Dudu Quintanilha, Ian Waelder and Vera Varlamova. Published on the occasion of the workshop #THEREISNOAUDIENCE......
Both protest and party, Vancouver Pride celebrates the LGBTQAI2S+ community and their right to be their full selves. Softcover zine, hand stitched, including a postcard on front and back, with...
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg...
"Myself, Friends, Lovers and Others" is a photographic series by Latvian photographer Arnis Balcus. Most images were taken between 2000 and 2004, shot on Olympus Mju II film camera. Being...
To impair the racial ordering of the world, The Black Technical Object introduces the history of statistical analysis and “scientific” racism into research on machine learning. Computer programming designed for...
“Today, the ecological catastrophe challenges us to rethink the space our societies have assigned to art. Creativity, critical thinking, exchange, transcendence, the relationship to the Other and to History are...
Issue #44 of mono.kultur might just be the most adventurous yet: traveling from the deserts of New Mexico to the exclusion zone in Fukushima, from satellite orbits in space to...
Hannah Regel has built a book, a house, a place to escape one's muting duties. A place of scars, write-offs, rags. It’s a dirty lustful pit where domesticity has been exposed...
Thomas Sauvin kept the negatives presented in this series un-scanned for almost a decade. Even though the artist was intrigued by the content, the risk of scanning official Chinese disposed...
Elena Helfrecht and Teri Varhol’s debut photobook is a compilation of their two stories, ‘The Swallow’ and ‘The Cage’. These act like telegrams between worlds, merging distant places into a...
Portraits 2013-2023 is a look-back to the 10 last years of the Chinese female photographer Vaccine (formerly called SickGirl). A self-written year-by-year introduction opens the book, followed by 120 pages of...
Stefano Calligaro presents a selection of his literal “poetical-tricks”, an ongoing body of work consisting of modified words and common English terms. These silly yet clever verbal glitches challenge established...
Lampoon 27 looks for imperfections, impurities, paradoxes, distortions, human realities. From this word ‘rough’ – RUVIDO – comes our cultural narrative and visual context. Lampoon respects, is committed, and supports...
For issue 11, Der Greif has invited Jason Fulford, American photographer, artist and publisher of J&L Books as guest editor. Sourcing from our archive of past submissions, Fulford’s edit takes...
For this monograph, Tom Arndt, one of the masters of documentary photography, opened his archives. Over a hundred images, half a century of American history (from 1970 to 2015) is...
When you’re sick people say things:What are avocados good for?Your stomach is your second brain.You probably shouldn’t be eating that.You can stay as long as you like.I didn’t sign up...
Introducing THE ICONOMIST’s latest thematic dossier. This edition takes inspiration from art magazines and catalogues to curate a collection of images that provoke and question our relationship with artwork documentation...
The medium is the Memory Trapped on the implacable arrow of time, whether on account of a mystery or by means of a "persistent, stubborn" collective illusion, we instinctively conceptualise our...
Drawings by Philip Emde, a German contemporary artist born in 1976 in Mannheim, the southwestern part of Germany. In his artistic practice, he permanently explores the question of ”coping with everyday...
In her essay The Dematerialization of Art, Lucy Lippard presented evidence that art might be entering a phase of pure intellectualism, the result of which could be the complete disappearance...
Meral Güler and Dan Porter are explorers prompted to make evident proof of their existence with over 4,000 miles between them, with a sensitivity to the stories that linger between...
A speculative catalog that shatters the classic genre of artist monograph and embraces interpretation and fiction as an elemental part of an artist's biography. The book has contributions in 6...
‘The persistence of thoughts of such a kind in individual memory is very rare. If they are not fixed by writing or other means, they tend to disappear in a...
Assaults and street fights are everyday activities on weekend nights in Finland. People have a strong tendency to get rather intoxicated when partying and, once drunk, they are released from...
Zoom Books is a collection of three photo shoots taken by Catherine Walsh through Zoom conference and made into visual art by Pénélope Delaur. Catherine was inspired to collaborate with...
In Vivo is the result of the photographic work of Klavdij Sluban at the Fleury-Mérogis Young Offender Institution (France) from 1995 to 2016 [Beds] in addition to his work from...
The third edition of Death Book collects contemporary depictions of death, in the form of drawings, illustrations and paintings. Before photography was invented, we relied on illustrations, paintings and, even...
Christian Morgenstern, Rathna Ramanathan, Sirish Rao First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern’s piece is a darkly comic linguistic caprice. Illustrated with punctuation marks, the text is a romp,...
Romanian photographer Mora Alexandru´s ongoing series Leave the bones in a better place is encapsulating feelings for keepsake in a better place. Mora´s intent technicality gives his imagery something cold, almost statuesque...
'I had heard that some had been so wrought up by the play as to become temporarily insane, and run about town haunted by wildest hallucinations.' — Joseph Krauskopf, A Rabbi’s Impressions of the...
Blueprint 2017–20 explores how the mass media has influenced political debates and democratic processes during the process of Brexit. Norman Behrendt's photographs of Brexit-related video material examine what sort of...
Fortuiti scorci di luce e Vedute taciturne - Haphazard Glimpses of Light and Hushed Sights.The book brings together the images from the exhibition "Fortuiti scorci di luce e Vedute taciturne"...
Different surfaces collide in a strangely unfamiliar way; their collision raises goose bumps. These shaggy drawings! Pleasantly scratchy, they present themselves to the viewer and offer structure as well as...
Leaving his personal trail in vegetation: some more bushdrawings, collected with pen and paper by Cologne's most famous "George of the Jungle": (Tim G). TBOOKS was founded in March 2010...
Artisan Camera is a testimony to an era of hands-on studio photography, when physical materials combined with the photographer’s artistry to shape the final image. This book features work from Studio...
Splitting consists of found photographs which document the illegal destruction of a building lying on a disputed property line in a residential area south-west of Oslo. Two workers were hired...
For Pompei, Pompeii Swiss artist Bianca Pedrina carefully inspects the relationship between form and function in a newly implemented accessibility project in Pompeii. The project consists of iron elements embedded...
When encountering objects that labeled as “waiting for recycling" or “abandoned" on the street，one may think: Is it possible that these out-of-date existences are not “abandoned"? Perhaps the object moves from the...
In The Picture of the Yellow Sun Lisbeth Johansen searches in the memories of the complicated relationship with her seriously ill father. A man who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and...
'Zuza Krajewska’s portraits of young offenders at a custody centre near Warsaw examines this transitional period between physical maturity and full adult development. Her subjects were brought to the centre...
The accompanying diary entries from Georgs Avetisjans trip to Siberia in 2019-2020. During his journey, he was writing a personal diary and reflecting on thoughts, observations, and the process of making...
In this book from the collection Des oiseaux (On birds), South Korean photographer Kyunghee Lee takes us into the winter forests of the far south of her country, to meet the crows....
Boys Appetite rises a desire for youth, the body (mostly male) and its expressions.
Published by Stolen Books Edition of 300Softcover136 pages160 × 240 mmISBN: 9789895458967
Issue 8 comes to you showing idiosyncratic combinations of both photographic images and poetry with a slightly extraterrestrial touch, presented to you on 100 sensitively laid out pages. Edited by Leon...
Portraits of dead domestic plants as failed attempts to import wilderness into our structured lives.
Published by Monroe BooksEdition of 500Softcover24 pages185 x 245 mm
In Cupboard Memories the Chinese artist Xia Boqian merge together two projects; Out of the closet, where she have covered for a long time people with depression, mental issues due...
Mastering the Elements is a photographic research on the scientific exploration and conquest of nature from the beginnings of alchemy until the present day. As history shows, scientific findings often have...
Morgan Ashcom began Open while making photographs of daily life in Occupied Palestine in 2009. As Ashcom departed Palestine for his home in the United States, Israeli security forces opened...
Some Los Angeles Apartments is a remake of the original book by the American artist Ed Ruscha, published in 1965. In Jóhannsson’s version, which is as deprived of people as...
This second expanded edition of Oslofjord by Jessica Williams is a close collaboration between the artist and Issue Press. Images have been both reworked and added on the five year anniversary...
When Abba was ill is an intimate look at two narratives placed together in time. The outer images portray a sons’ world, trying to find a semblance of normality in...
MAD Magazine pointed out in its March 1961 issue, that 1961 was the first upside-up" year since 1881 until 6009 in which the numbers look the same when rotated upside...
Reduced due to damage on cover Through the fascinating formal beauty of seeds revealed by Thierry Ardouin's photographs, the book tells the history of these "great travellers" and interrogates the connection...
Colours & Shapes is a playful introduction to the practice of Belgian ceramic artist Sigrid Volders. Edited and with photographs by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, including sketches and diary outtakes from...
The Canadian Rangers are part-time reservists, taken mainly from the indigenous Inuit population, who provide a military presence in remote, isolated and coastal communities of Northern Canada. Acting as the...
A project that looks out of a window into history to understand the consequences of the events of decades ago on the contemporary world. The story begins in the 1960s,...
Gangsta Bat made me. Drawings that loosely fit into the form of bats... TBOOKS was founded in March 2010 by Cologne-based artist Tim G. Totally dedicated to the artists’ publication as...
The moon – always source of inspiration and imagination throughout history of wo*mankind. Setting off on the imaginative journey through fictitious space by browsing the pages of the photobook, the...
Unportraits is an collection of anonymous portraits captured by Google Street View's cold and impersonal camera. The series is dedicated to non-portraits of Brazilians. The images are presented here in...
A collection of 75 black and white photographs, the book documents different gardening and property management practices in Germany, particularly in allotment gardens and cemeteries.Published by Monroe Books Edition of 500Softcover128 pages120 x 165...
Based on mutual affection and trust, this issue focuses on the meaning of Friend along with its opposites, in the sense of material, animal or human relationships, kinship, phantoms and ghosts, parasitism,...
*aaaaaaaaaaaargh is about the shape of words and how words are shapes and sounds and containers of the struggle in the world. Published by FUFU PRESSUpdated Edition of 15Softcover 108 pages207 × 273...
Joselito Vershaeve interweaves black and white photographs of both day-to-day encounters and staged fiction from archives of the artist's own work, to create visual short stories which defy conventional interpretation.The...
Edmund de Waal is a potter. His pots, plates, and vessels are the result of craft and mastership, but they are also so much more than that: they are experiments...
The first Apollo moon landing. Jumbo, the elephant. The films of Chris Marker. The belly buttons of Adam and Eve. The story of the Utah teapot. The gaze of thermal...
At last the mighty task is done;Resplendent in the western sun These are the first lines of a poem by Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge....
The expression “speak out” in Chinese is fā shēng, which literally means “to produce sound”. It often has a vital social component, but at the same time emphasises an immediate choice...
In “Vibration Highway”, Andrea Éva Győri illustrates her explorations in female lust in 80 truely vibrating watercolors. The book consists of three series: The first one is created in her...
For Alice Hawkins second book ‘Dear Dolly’, the photographer uses herself to appropriate the imagery and guises employed by country western sensation and American dream, Dolly Parton. As Hawkins states herself...
When Elliot Ross and Genevieve Allison traveled the 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border it was the spring of 2017. The post-election climate had presented a stark new context for...
TRIGGER publishes (longread) essays, interviews, opinions, new gazes, and opens up research to the broader public. TRIGGER is a publication platform concerning photography, which originates from and is supported by...
Gitai (Gitai means biological mimicry in Japanese) is an art book collection with the theme of "object’s mimicry" by a Japan based designer, Tomoyuki Koseko. By applying the concept of...
Muhammad Fadli traveled through Indonesia to document the local modifications of the iconic Italian Vespa motorcycle, called “Vespa extreme” by their owners and “Vespa sampah” (“garbage Vespa”) by others. “The...
An assembly of speculative essays, reviews, interviews and collected statements, its concern is with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in...
This project is concerned with female members of the Irish diaspora living in England and is engaged with representational imagery and personal testimony from the Irish community ensuring the collective...
Klara and the Bomb is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of...
'This book is soft. Just like your insides, just like mine. The photos were given to me by a janitor that worked in the late ‘80s in a hospital gone...
'I tried to get in but I could not.'- Timo Klein 'Pools. People. Plants. Red. Blue. Green. Badelatschen.'- Mattis Hogur TBOOKS was founded in March 2010 by Cologne-based artist Tim...
This photographic project aims to contribute to the rediscovery of Binidittu, retracing the improbable life of Saint Benedict the Moor, and exploring the historical sites of his hagiography, the motivations...
Delirious, vulnerable bodies running, stumbling, sliding from ramps, crashing into each other in full flight; whirling dancers in states of trance and abandon; traces of patterns emerging and dissolving: the...
å falle mellom stoler by Jelsen Lee Innocent is a project that encourages a discourse that surpasses the aesthetic of ethnic integration as proof of racial progress in Norway. In...
These photographs capture moments of feeling, thinking and trying to make sense of the world whilst looking at a body of water or a bunch of stones, gazing at the...
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram. Featuring recipes from over...
French artist Anaïs Beaulieu learnt the craft of embroidery from her grandmother, a practice passed on through the generations of women in her family. A Stitch Out of Time features images of...
Amazingly off-beat, feisty, fashionable, fun-loving and self-assured in every possible situation… meet the women in young artist Sangita Jogi’s mind. “My women are modern,” she says. “A modern woman thinks...
Interpreted for the twenty-first century, God of Money is based on extracts from Karl Marx’s famous chapter on money, published in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844. Marx was a young man at the...
The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told by slaves from the American South. In this powerful rendering for children and adults, writer and griot Arthur Flowers re-tells them...
Baron is pleased to present artist Joyce Lee’s debut book, dedicated to the artists archive of watercolour and pencil works, exploring aspects of love, sex and sexuality, and the human...
In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian home: “There are many Mediterraneans: the geographical, the historical, the philosophical... the personal,...
'The view of reality, as an exotic prize to be tracked down and captured by the diligent hunter-with-a-camera has informed photography from the beginning, and marks the confluence of the...
Dan Graham was a contrarian. His art confronted viewers with a multiplicity of possible perceptions and intersubjective experiences. Some Rockin’ was his last project and—through conversations with friends, artists, architects, curators, and former assistants—articulates his sensitivity...
Softcover sketchbooks made with paper found in former typographies, warehouses, second hand markets and workshops. Covers are made from letterpress printing tests, assembled and bound by hand, stamped and numbered, ready...
This volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional...
In 1991, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, portraying two street prostitutes in ‘My Own Private Idaho’, took us on a trip to the dark side of the USA – a...
Politics and the dance floor make for uneasy bedfellows, and it is this uneasiness that drives most of the work of Terre Thaemlitz, confronting head-on issues that are usually off...
mono.kultur #45 is a homage to the great mythical city that is New York. And who better to talk to about New York than Richard Price? The acclaimed writer gained...
‘Haute couture’s chief scientist’, ‘sorceress of style’, ‘avant-garde technologist’ are just some of the terms the press have used to describe the extraordinary Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Having...
Made up of architects, lawyers, journalists, scientists, and more, Forensic Architecture is part investigative research lab, human rights activism hub, political think tank, journalism bureau, artists’ collective, and detective agency. Based at...
Nestled within the redwood forests of Monte Rio, northern California, sits Bohemian Grove, a 2,700-acre retreat owned by the exclusive gentlemen’s San Francisco Bohemian Club, founded in 1872.Every summer, the...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
During the pandemic, Sheung Yiu (HK/FI) started digitising everything on his desk at home, the inevitable confined space to which he was bound during quarantine. He created 3D models of...
A cabinet of curiosities – or Wunderkammer – exhibits a wide variety of objects and artefacts with a particular notion towards the rare, eclectic and esoteric. Through their selection of...
The snow covers the rooftops, muffles the sound, and makes us wonder if what we are seeing is real. Gods, emperors, and warriors with coloured robes and faces walk the...
The human and the horse share a long history together. At first horses were working animals, serving as a means of transport in agriculture and in war. Nowadays, horses are...
HappySad Souvenirs is a series of photographs taken in 2018 and 2019 during Hiller’s travels through China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. Paul Hiller, born in 1984 in Germany,...
Utopia ending investigates the urban transformation of London since the 2012 Olympics, and includes photographs taken between 2014 to 2019. Through images and text, including three interviews and a final...
Fun and entertaining book including a collection of portraits of sheep which are showing off different hair'n'fur styles.
Published by Unpatient BooksSoftcover48 pages140 x 200 mmISBN 9780993149733
Covid testing policies in different countries vary extensively, from the public not having access to basic rapid testing to comparatively more social examples where people are able to have free PCR testing...
This book offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonisation and labour relations among other subjects. Contributors include...
YOUTH RAGE! YOUTH VIOLENCE! YOUTH ORGASMS! FEAR OF A GAY UNDERCLASS – ARMED – DANGEROUS - SICK FUCKS. Andy ‘Chubz’ Wilson is just another NEET on the street, spending his summer days...
Tom Buckle is an ambitious young moderate Labour apparatchik, rising happily through the party bureaucracy on a diet of bottomless brunches, legitimate concerns and drug-fueled Blairite sex parties. That is until he...
Description: Curated by Martha Micali and Klim KutsevskyyWe love them, we consecrate time and devotion to them.We post and watch videos and photos on social networks, they make us laugh and...
After Whisper of the Snow (Juri Ishiwata, 2020) and Once in a corner (Kazuyuki Yamada, 2021), Bromide Publishing House ends its Japanese trilogy based on the three components of the...
After living for several years in the chaos of influences that is New York, the visual artist Satoshi Tsuchiyama realized that it is Israel that is the world’s hub for...
The Train Passed By: Stills starts with director Kam Jeong-won's first feature-length independent film, The Train Passed By. Hee-su, a young female worker, works at a dyeing complex in Daegu....
The Space & Its Double by Niels Munk Plum is a hand-held companion to the his series of performances ()Nҽɯ Lσσρ() at the new National Museum in Oslo as part...
pile by Jessica Williams is both a publication that could be put together by the public and a live publishing workshop that was activated for four weeks as part of...
The things I'm afraid to ask for by Robin Mientjes is the companion piece to an artwork especially produced to be part of the yearlong experimental exhibition (be)longing at House of...
Genesis by Amanda Earl translates the biblical tale of creation into visual poetry, each of the book's 50 chapters represented by one visual poem. At times delicate and beautiful as flowers,...
.An encounter of 5 women musicians, a variety of sounds woven together track after track on a first Stereo anthology.
Published by Stereo Editions Edition of 30 CD
DXI is an international publication dedicated to creativity, visual culture and contemporary creation. It is a transversal publication dedicated to industrial design, graphic design, interior design, photography, illustration, art, architecture,...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. 'Phlogiston is based on photographs taken in southern Poland and the Czech Republic. I felt an...
The work of artist Moyra Davey (Toronto, 1958) has traditionally been related to photography, film and video. However, her book Quema los diarios (November 2020) shows how literature and writing...
Invisible, immaterial, emotive, and visceral; a body of memory, space, and time. In the context of contemporary art, sound as a medium is cross-disciplinary. Its hybrid practice prospers on the...
The young photographer Wu Yuhang lock himself in his darkroom to project his feelings on instant films. The chemicals medium are manhandled, overexposed with various light sources, jogged, crushed, pressed,...
