GHOST TOWN
Ola Vasiljeva
Published by Vleeshal, Middelburg & Roma Publications, Amsterdam, 2024, 340 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €35

GHOST TOWN by Ola Vasiljeva is the first comprehensive overview of Vasiljeva’s practice and (re)collects the fragments, shapes, and thoughts that have been (re)configured and (re)presented throughout Ola’s multi­faceted constellations from 2008 to 2023.

Edited by Roos Gortzak and designed by Robert Milne, the publication consists of several intertwined sections, including Ola’s exhibitions; texts by Roos Gortzak, Chris Fitzpatrick, Anna Gritz, Daniil Kharms, and Kate Strain; an ALBUM by The Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA); and STORAGE that functions as ‘both a compass for navigating the archipelago of her piled arrangements, and later, as a mnemonic device.’

#annagritz #chrisfitzpatrick #katestrain #olavasiljeva #robertmilne #romapublications #roosgortzak #vleeshal
The Place in the Window
Richard Tuttle
Published by Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2013, accordion folded 44 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20.4 × 25.5 cm, English/Japanese
Price: €75

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Place in the Window at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, April 26 – June 1, 2013.

#2018 #richardtuttle
Encens No. 43
Spring/Summer 2020
Published by Encens, Paris, 2020, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 26.5 cm, English
Price: €24

Published twice a year since 2002, Encens is focused on fashion as artform from the perspective of designers rather than trends. The magazine investigate new forms of dressing from past to present with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and vintage, and dynamic layout. This issue features Willie Christie, Dominique Issermann, Sonia Rykiel, Aurore Clement, Wim Wenders, Margot Pilz, Barbara Hulanicki, Roger Vivier and Emanuel Ungaro.

#2020 #encens #fashion #photography
Are Plants People?
Mark Borthwick
Published by Purple Books, Paris, 2000, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 11 × 15 cm, English/French
Price: €130

Mark Borthwick belongs to a generation of photographers who, in the 1990s, changed fashion’s imagery. Breaking the conventions of fashion photography, he developed a style that was at once intuitive and personal, integrating elements, props, attitudes, that touch contemporary art, environmental issues, interior and architectural design, and a reverence for clothes as works of art.

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

#2000 #fashion #markborthwick #photography #purplebooks
Drawings
Marian Zazeela
Published by Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, 2000, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 23 cm, English/German
Price: €90

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marian Zazeela: Drawings at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, 2000. Over the past six decades, Zazeela was a central figure of the New York avant-garde. Her expansive practice encompassing painting, calligraphic drawing, film, light projection, stage design, sculpture, and light environments applied rigorous formal procedures to enact states of transcendence.

In 1962, Zazeela produced a series of highly singular drawings that charted the course of her subsequent work. Employing both improvisation and an increasing array of rigorous compositional techniques, Zazeela’s ornamental shapes render the page a concentrated visual field of startlingly complex design.

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

#2000 #marianzazeela
Archäologie Beaux Arts Ethnography Théâtre Vérité
Christopher Williams
Published by Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2005, 2 volumes, 48 pp. & 8 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20.7 × 25 cm, English
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur la Société Industrielle at the Contemporary Art Gallery, January 13 – March 6, 2005.

It includes a forward by Christina Ritchie, essays; Mechanization takes command: Modernization, Terminable and interminable by John Miller and Some References for Christopher Williams by Claudia Beck.

Designed by Christopher Williams with Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2005 #christopherwilliams #johnmiller #photography #yvonnequirmbach