We are delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting at Paris Photo this year, our booth number is EE19.

Book signings during the fair:

Thursday 15th November

16:00 – Brad Feuerhelm, Self Publish Be Happy Book Club Vol.2, 2012
16:30 – Brian Griffin, Open and other self-published books, 1978-1988

Friday 16th

16:00 – Stephen Gill, Coexistence, 2012
18:00 – Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Posters and books from Chopped Liver Press, 2012
18:00 – David Campany, Rich and Strange, 2012

Saturday 17th

16:00 – Ben Roberts, Occupied Spaces, 2012

Location:
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Dates:
Thursday 15th Nov. – Sunday 18th Nov.
Opening: 14th Nov. 2012 (by invitation only)

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We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Sean Scully: Doric.

For further details please email books@oliverjwood.com

Launch event: 29 May 2012, 6:30 – 8:30
OFFSITE: 17 Brook’s Mews, Mayfair, London W1K 4DT

Studio Voltaire has commissioned Pablo Bronstein to produce a solo portfolio of works. This portfolio is the fifth in a series of collaborations with artists to publish innovative and affordable works. This new portfolio consists of a series of 4 etchings featuring Designs for Clocks decorated with Feathers in the Indigenous taste. There are two different variations of the portfolio, a hand tinted version and a more exclusive edition of the untouched etchings.

The portfolio offers an exceptional opportunity to collect a work by an artist whose work is included in major public and private collections worldwide, including Tate Collection, London; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York. Proceeds from the sales of editions and portfolios directly support Studio Voltaire’s public programmes.

Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires) lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include Sketches for Regency Living, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2011), Pissoir, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2011), Garden A La Mode, Tate Britain (2010) and Pablo Bronstein at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2009)

To register your interest in the portfolio, please email editions@studiovoltaire.org.

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5 vols. (270 x 204 mm), [The Dad Project] pp.(56), 49 colour photographs; [Waves] pp.(44), 4 black-and-white and 22 colour photographs; [Gems] pp.(48), 20 colour and 8 black-and-white photographs; [At Home] pp.(52), 37 colour photographs; [Gypsy Gold] pp.(44), 32 black-and-white photographs. Photo-illustrated pink card covers, text in black, stapled. Each volume signed and numbered in pencil to inside rear cover. 5 original photographs (151 x 203 mm), each signed and numbered in black ink and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Contents housed in a grey and pink silk-screened photo-illustrated paper-covered board box. Fine.

First editions, limited to 20 signed and numbered copies issued in a box with a signed photograph from each of the books.

A discussion exploring the artistic and curatorial potential of artists’ books, book artworks, and handmade publications. With Reza Aramesh, Florian Roithmayr, Oliver Wood, Louisa Riley-Smith and Clive Phillpot.

Zabludowicz Collection
176 Prince of Wales Road
London NW5 3PT

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(264 x 207 mm), pp.[104]. 94 black-and-white photographs, text by Jenicek and Frantisek Modroch. Plain cream wrappers; light handling marks. Black-and-white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in blue, black, and unprinted white; short tears to top edge, sides rubbed and lightly soiled, small chip to upper side at head of spine. Inscribed by Jenicek in blue ink to first page. Very good.

First edition, a presentation copy inscribed to a judge, simultaneous issue in wrappers. Jenicek, who was himself a Major, is perhaps best known for Dvacet Let and Cesko-Slovenska Armada, his two 1938 books on the Czechoslovakian army which were designed by Ladislav Sutnar. In this book he follows an army ski unit as they complete a course of training at a base in the mountains and then set out on an expedition.

10 vols. (275 x 213 mm), pp.[108]. 1,000 colour photographs. Plain endpapers. Cloth-covered boards (each volume bound in a different colour cloth), spines and upper sides stamped in gilt. Each volume signed and numbered by Waplington in Pencil to front free endpaper. Original black cloth-covered board slipcase. Fine.

First edition, one of 10 sets only. In 1998 Waplington began collecting images that were posted on online photo sharing communities. A large number of these photographs were posted by soldiers and their families. They show life in combat zones, primarily Iraq and Afghanistan, loved ones at home, tomfoolery and many banal moments and unusual objects. To these sourced photographs Waplington has added an unspecified number of his own photographs, and sequenced them so that each of the ten books loosely imagines the life of one soldier.

One set of books was exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2007 where the photographs were also shown in the form of a slideshow accompanied by a live feed from KCEO Radio, San Diego.

2 vols. [Towards the City] (418 × 280 mm), pp.[130], 62 black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, design by Kohei Sugiura. Printed silver endpapers. Black cloth-covered boards, spine lettered in white, silver aluminium disk mounted to upper side; lightly scuffed. Inscribed by Takanashi in black ink to front pastedown. [Note Tokyo-Jin] (256 × 182 mm), pp.[128]. 54 black-and-white photographs. Plain black wrappers with printed label to front. Fine. Both items housed in portfolio box, original black paper-covered boards, black paper strip to spine. A fine copy with a very good example of the scarce original cardboard shipping box.

First edition, a presentation copy, inscribed to Hisato Aikura. Aikura was a critic and director of music at the ‘Pit Inn’, Tokyo’s premier venue for Jazz when it opened in Shinjuku in the mid 1960s. Takanashi was a leading commercial photographer during the Japanese economic boom of the 1960s. Towards the City includes photographs taken in Tokyo, both in the city and in the outskirts some of which were included in issues of Provoke, together with commercial work made whilst on assignment. In the January 1966 issue of Camera Mainichi Takanashi presented a thirty-eight-page spread under the title Tokyoites, in which he attempted to capture Tokyo through a series of fragmented snapshots. Many of these photographs are included in the second volume, Note Tokyo-Jin. Together the two volumes form a brooding and lyrical document showing the effects of Japan’s rapid economic growth and the cost paid by the country as a result of this period of unbridled consumerism.

Takanashi was a founder member of the Provoke Group, alongside photographer Takuma Nakahira, critic Koji Taki and poet Takahiko Okada. ‘Toshi-e… is the last and the most luxurious of the group’s books’ (The Photobook). Its publication effectively marked the end of the Provoke era in Japanese photography.

(194 x 284 mm), pp.[532]. 264 black-and-white photographs. Black endpapers. Black cloth-covered boards, spine and upper side silk-screened in yellow. Signed and numbered 4/15 in pencil by Scholten to to rear pastedown. Fine.

First edition, one of 15 copies. Nulla da Dire consists of photographs taken from the Italian Newspapers La Republica and La Corriera della Serra. Each page shows a man gesturing with his hands or caught between words. Scholten began the series in 1988 following a three month stay in Rome. In total she made 9 volumes, each in an edition of 15, concluding the project in 1998. In 2000 she added a tenth volume of photographs of women.

1 copy in OCLC: Bavarian State Library, Munich

(210 x 147 mm), pp.99, [1]. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and occasionally with red, design and text by Rossmann; small tear to one page at margin. Illustrated wrappers, light blue, printed in black and red; sides lightly soiled and rubbed, 20mm loss to head and 35mm to foot of spine. Very good.

First edition. Rossmann initially studied architecture, first at the Brno Technical Academy (1924-27) and then at the Bauhaus in Dessau (1929-30). In the late 1920s he began working as a graphic designer and was a member of Devetsil in Brno, where he designed magazines including Pásmo and Fronta. He continued working as a designer and is seen as one of the leading exponents of Czech typography in the 1930s, and also as a pioneer of exhibition design. Here he examines the use of typography, photography and colour within advertising. Presenting examples of modern advertisements, catalogues, book and poster designs by a number of the leading European designers of the time including: Jan Tschichold, Herbert Matter, Piet Zwart, Herbert Bayer, Paul Schuitema, Ladislav Sutnar, together with his own work. The final section is devoted to exhibition design.