Rødland, Torbjørn: VANILLA PARTNER.
Author: Rødland, Torbjørn
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 158
Illustrations: 67 Color Illustrations. 18 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 10”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9781907946318
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6761
Price: $175.00
Torbjørn Rødland's photography is direct but idiosyncratic, pushing at the boundaries of aesthetic and social norms. His fifth book, Vanilla Partner, continues in this vein, combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books. Rødland’s practice navigates through the problematic and seemingly unchanging heart of popular photography. Accepting neither the humanist realism of most photographic portraiture nor the postmodern role-play, Vanilla Partner explores the cultural complexities and archaic foundation of contemporary image-making. Reconstructed scenes of ultrasoft BDSM read like twisted metaphors for photography’s ability to freeze or capture. The book title, dripping in innuendo, also poses a question about the ambiguity of the relationship between the artist and his medium. Is Rødland acknowledging the medium’s straight foundation or does he see himself dominated by it? Many of the images also have explicit political references, often linked to the 1980 US Presidential election. Vanilla Partner brings together works made in Oslo, Tokyo, Beijing and Rødland’s current home, Los Angeles. Torbjørn Rødland was born in 1970 in Hafrsfjord, Norway. Since the mid-90s his photographs have been exhibited widely.
Sarje, Kimmo: ASUNTO VALTAKADULLA AN APARTMENT ON THE PROSPEKT.
Author: Sarje, Kimmo
Country: Finland
Language: English/Russian/Finnish
Year Published: 2014
No. of pages: 104
Illustrations: 63 Color Illustrations. 7 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio.
Code: 6985
Price: $29.50
Kimmo Sarje is a doctor of philosophy and a visual artist. He participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York in 1986–1987. He is Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Helsinki and lecturer at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki. He has worked as a researcher, critic, curator and artist. In all these roles, he has steeped himself in issues of modernity, postmodernity and socialism. Sarje has written and edited numerous books about art, architecture and philosophy, and he has works in the collections of major art museums in Finland. His montage exhibition Apartment on the Prospect, which examined Finland, Karelia and Russia, was presented in Helsinki in 2011. Sarje received Yrjö Hirn prize in 2012.
SASSEN , VIVIANE SOL & LUNA.
Author: Editor Cederteg, Tony
Country: Sweden
Language: All Visual/No Text
Year Published: 2013
No. of pages: 32
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 27 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 12”x 9”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9789186269272
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6783
Price: $125.00
In 2009 we initiated this project for a Swedish clothing brand Our Legacy. Luckily the project got finalized as a lovely little hardbound book.
SASSEN, VIVIANE DIE SON SIEN ALLES.
Author: Sassen, Viviane
Country: Sweden
Language: German title - no text - all visual
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 40
Illustrations: 18 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 12”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9789186269197
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6745
Price: $150.00
Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) photographed the series Die Son Sien Alles in the townships of Cape Town during several visits between 2002 and 2004, looking at the interior decoration of people's homes, shops and bars. This is her third book following Sol & Luna (2010) and A day in the life of… (2009) published in Sweden.
Saxgren, Henrik: BUS FRA BAGDAD (Bus from Baghdad).
Author: Saxgren, Henrik
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 112
Illustrations: 57 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11”x13”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9788702136715
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6845
Price: $125.00
Photographer Henrik Saxgren previously released the critically acclaimed and award-winning photo book War and Love, is published the book The bus from Baghdad. The book consists of 43 stories of 46 bus drivers who have all made a very long journey from b.la. Chile, Kenya and India to have a better life. Most are raised from war or poverty, and many have indebted themselves to come to Denmark.