BOOKS at BRUNETTE COLEMAN
11 July–8 August, 2025
opening: Friday, 11 July, 4–7pm

In July, the bookshop will pack up and temporarily relocate to Brunette Coleman in London, presenting a selection of books alongside artworks from past and future projects.

With works, books and ephemera from Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Stuart Sherman, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, gerlach en koop, Wyatt Niehaus, Ian Burn, Willem Oorebeek, Anna Daučíková, Seth Siegelaub’s International General imprint, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, a selection of publications around early abstract experimental Japanese photography by Kiyoshi Koishi, Ei-Q, Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Nakaji Yasui, Iwata Nakayama, Kansuke Yamamoto, Osamu Shiihara amongst others, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Barbara Bloom, Marian Zazeela, Eugene Carchesio, Anna Oppermann, Lili Dujourie, Cady Noland, Nasreen Mohamedi, Jason Dodge, Mladen Stilinović, Laurie Parsons, Kōshirō Onchi, Jochen Lempert, Atsuko Tanaka, Hans Bellmer, Gutai, readymades belong to everyone®, Philippe Thomas, Trisha Donnelly, Lucy McKenzie, Jef Geys, Ilke Gers, Henri Michaux, Kazuna Taguchi, Pierre Klossowski, Lutz Bacher, Etel Adnan, Zoe Leonard, Ian Wilson, David Robilliard, VALIE EXPORT, Ketty La Rocca, Michael Snow, Ibon Aranberri, Charlotte Posenenske, Běla Kolářová, Yvonne Rainer, stanley brouwn, Margaret Honda, Moyra Davey, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Sanja Iveković, Robert Filliou, Michael Krebber, Manfred Pernice, Ronald Jones, Ezio Gribaudo, Paul Sharits, On Kawara, Fiona Connor, Cinzia Ruggeri, Barbara T. Smith, Man Ray, Derek Jarman, Tetsumi Kudo, Guy Mees, Mária Bartuszová, Guy de Cointet, Kai Althoff, Christopher Williams, Richard Tuttle, Marie Laurencin, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Hanne Darboven, Francis Picabia, Simone Forti, Susan Howe, Algirdas Šeškus, Marcel Broodthaers, Dora Budor, Jack Goldstein, Alina Szapocznikow, Poul Gernes, John Knight, Tomio Miki, Chantal Akerman, Francesca Woodman, Sarah Rapson, Franz Erhard Walther, Vivian Suter and others.

Until August, the Amsterdam space will be open by appointment only and web orders will run as usual.

#2025 #brunettecoleman
His Unknown Aspects
Iwata Nakayama
Published by Seibu S.A., Tokyo, 1989, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 22 × 22 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €72

Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, 29 August–15 October, 1989 and Seibu Department Store Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 27 October—15 November, 1989.

Iwata Nakayama (1895-1949) is regarded as a one of the most important contributors to the Shinko Shashin movement. From 1918 he travelled in the the west and was attracted to avant-garde movements and moved in bohemian circles where he met Shimizu Toshi, Man Ray, Fujita Tsuguji, and Enrico Prompolini. These encounters left a deep impression on him and when he returned to Japan in 1927 he energetically set about forming his own vision of ‘pure art photography’. In 1929 he settled in Ashiya (nr. Kobe) and in the following year founded the Ashiya Camera Club with Hanaya Kambei, Korai Seiji, and others. This club became the main driving force of New Photography in Japan. Together with Kimura and Nojima he founded Koga magazine in 1932 that was the most important forum for artistic photography at the time.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

#1989 #abstractphotography #iwatanakayama #japaneseavantgarde #japanesephotography #photography
Snow Seen: The Films And Photographs of Michael Snow
Published by PMA Books/Peter Martin Associates Limited, Toronto, 1980, 184 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 25.5 cm, English
Price: €53

Completed in 1975, this oft-referenced dissertation by Regina Cornwall was revised and enlarged for the current publication. The book presents and interprets the seminal years of Snow’s artistic production in film and photography, in 8 chapters, illustrated with black and white images.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

#1980 #experimentalfilm #film #michaelsnow
Prick Ass (card)
Gilbert & George
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €16

Gilbert & George have created art together since 1967, when they met at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and decided that their art should be understood as emerging from a single source. Theirs would be, in their words, ‘art for all’, in contrast to what they saw as the overly cerebral and elitist Minimalist and Conceptual work that was dominant at the time.

#ephemera #gilbertampgeorge #invitecard
Rich (card)
Gilbert & George
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €16

Gilbert & George have created art together since 1967, when they met at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and decided that their art should be understood as emerging from a single source. Theirs would be, in their words, ‘art for all’, in contrast to what they saw as the overly cerebral and elitist Minimalist and Conceptual work that was dominant at the time.

#ephemera #gilbertampgeorge #invitecard
Prostitute Poof (card)
Gilbert & George
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €16

Gilbert & George have created art together since 1967, when they met at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and decided that their art should be understood as emerging from a single source. Theirs would be, in their words, ‘art for all’, in contrast to what they saw as the overly cerebral and elitist Minimalist and Conceptual work that was dominant at the time.

#ephemera #gilbertampgeorge #invitecard