Tintin is a god to me. Surely this imaginary globetrotter seems real to most of us. He is also the most beloved of all comic-book heros worldwide – except in America, where he is inevitably confused with the dog, Rin Tin Tin - as well as the first literary boho “backpacker.” Too, Tintin’s second book, Tintin [...]
Category Archives: Books
Cop This Now
December 8, 2011 – 4:07 pm
Dashwood Books has established itself as something of a mecca for anyone looking to add to their collection of photography books. Nestled in the ground floor of a historic building on Bond Street in New York, you’ll find the latest quality books on contemporary photography from the 1960s to the present day. From rare and [...]
Golf Wang
November 6, 2011 – 10:11 pm
Our friends at Family Bookstore are having an opening reception and book launch signing for the LA-based Rap group OFWGKA. Golf Wang features captured moments these friends have spent together and features work from Odd Future, Vyron Turner, Wolf Haley, Brick Stowell, Taco Bennett, Lucas Vercetti, Julian Berman and Sagan Lockhart. I imagine it should be an [...]
AA Bronson In Conversation
November 2, 2011 – 12:49 pm
For those who haven’t been, the NY Art Book Fair is held annually at MOMA PS1 and presents an exhaustive collection of artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs, monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines in one space over the course of a weekend. From the impassioned art-book obsessive to anyone with a remote interest in print, [...]
In Conversation with Lele Saveri: Incubi et Succubi
October 21, 2011 – 10:05 am
When at night we close our eyes, the ensuing darkness wraps us in a blanket of fear. Photographer Lele Saveri’s latest book, Incubi et Succubi, is about turning this notion on its head, bringing his most intimate nightmares to light through visual tales of fear—and love. Olivia Fincato: Why “incubi”? Lele Saveri: I wanted to [...]
Alec Soth: The Anti-Fashion Fashion Photographer
October 3, 2011 – 6:11 am
I first encountered Alec Soth’s photographs while wandering through the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The series on display, Sleeping by the Mississippi, stirred something in me that I still can’t quite shake; the images, possessed with a steely – and uniquely American – longing, chronicled several road trips Soth took down south, using only the Mississippi [...]
New York Art Book Fair
September 30, 2011 – 8:05 am
This weekend, Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. Free and open to the public, the fair features more than 200 stands selling artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. Personally, I [...]
WhaiWhai: The Pegleg
September 28, 2011 – 11:04 am
When I was in grade school, New York City was heralded as the world’s “melting pot,” an anthropomorphic melding of cultures. Today, word is that teachers have moved onto a “salad” analogy, arguing that while the various human ingredients harmoniously mix and mingle, they retain their separate identities. Whichever school you subscribe to, one of [...]
Friends of The High Line
September 24, 2011 – 8:00 am
Photographer Joel Sternfeld gave a lecture on Wednesday night titled What the High Line Meant and Means to Me. Currently there is still a half-mile section of the structure that has not been turned into a public park, because ownership of the property is still in limbo. The organization Friends of the High Line have [...]
Guido Guidi: Autobiographical Italy
August 19, 2011 – 8:15 pm
Loosestrife Editions recently published A New Map of Italy: The Photographs of Guido Guidi, a collection of the Italian photographer’s work that includes the images above and below. The publisher states, “Working in marginal and decayed spaces with a (8″x10″) camera, Guidi creates dense sequences intended as meditations on the meaning of landscape, photography, and [...]
