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 Otsuji, 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
Analogue
Zoe Leonard
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, 2007, 186 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 27.3 × 33 cm, English
Price: €200

The photographs in Zoe Leonard’s Analogue trace the “layered, frayed, and quirky” beauty of a fading way of life. Zoe Leonard documents the vanishing face and texture of twentieth century urban life, as seen in the shop windows of mom-and-pop stores. Lacking the glamour of the shopping mall and the digitally manipulated perfection of mail order catalogs, these fading objects tenaciously hold on to their disappearing place on city streets. Recognizing that digital technology has transformed traditional photography just as chain stores and multinational corporations have changed the face of urban life, Leonard attempts to preserve the photographic realm of the analogic—the photograph’s distinct ability to record physical data into a corresponding image. Analogue is a testament both to vanishing city storefronts and to the endangered status of photography itself. Leonard also documents a twenty-first century phenomenon, the globalized rag trade. Her photographs follow a shipment of discarded clothing from a clearing station in her native Brooklyn to used clothing markets in Kampala—showing us, in the trajectory of one commodity, the economic and social forces that link us globally.

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

#2007 #mitpress #photography #zoeleonard
Speaker Receiver
Moyra Davey
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2010, 160 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €255

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Speaker Receiver at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 17 June–29 August, 2010.

This monograph brings the diverse aspects of Davey’s work together. It features “Index Cards”, a new piece of writing by Davey, in which she reflects on subjects such as a recent illness, her personal mapping of Paris and her habit of reading newspapers. Rather than formulating a systematic argument, the essay unfolds in a series of short “takes” or fragments.

Photographs distributed in order of their appearance within the texts interrupt the various writers’ contributions. Furthermore, for Davey’s own essay, and for the interview, the artist chose to reproduce her photographic “Mailers”, a unique series and format of work that Davey likes to refer to simply as “mail art”.

#2010 #kunsthallebasel #moyradavey #sternbergpress
Es gibt kein unglücklicheres... (card)
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €14

Rosemarie Trockel is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

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

#ephemera #invitecard #rosemarietrockel
Viva Chocolatta! (card)
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €14

Rosemarie Trockel is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

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

#invitecard #rosemarietrockel
Cogito, ergo sum (card)
Rosemarie Trockel
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €12

From the series 197 ARS PRO DOMO.

Rosemarie Trockel is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

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

#invitecard #rosemarietrockel