Produced on the occasion of Mladen Stilinović’s exhibition Cinizam siromašnih / The Cynicism of The Poor at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, in 2001, this catalogue features texts by Nada Beroš, Tihomir Milovac, Danijel Dragojević, alongside documentation of the works Ljudi s vrećicama (Bag-People) (2001), and Pokapanje boli (Buried Pain) (2000).

The book is the first monograph dedicated to Barbara Kozłowska (1940–2008), a Wrocław artist, painter, and precursor of performance art in Poland. The study contains a detailed timeline of Kozłowska’s life and work, prepared by Marika Kuźmicz and Zbigniew Makarewicz, essays by Marika Kuźmicz, Piotr Lisowski, Karolina Majewska-Güde and Wiktoria Szczupacka, and a selection of texts by Kozłowska. The publication discusses and problematizes the artist’s work, placing it in the context of the Wrocław avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s and in the context of the phenomenon of global conceptualism.

Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France and was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

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

Puglia. Tra albe e tramonti offers an account of Luigi Ghirri’s relationship with Puglia — a distinctive region, which was pivotal in establishing Ghirri’s career and continued to inspire him throughout it. A first visit in 1982 introduced Ghirri to Puglia’s whitewashed streets, luminescent nights, doorways and arches, potted cacti, funfairs, and beaches, as well as a group of artists, critics, and curators who would become his close friends and collaborators. Over the following decade, Ghirri returned to the area almost every year, photographing, exhibiting, and deepening his understanding of its subtle terrain.

In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book, an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Part amateur photo-album, Ghirri presents his surroundings in tightly cropped images, making photographs of photographs and recording the Italian landscape through it’s adverts, postcards, potted plants, walls, windows, and people.

Long out of print and on the 20th anniversary of Ghirri’s death, MACK published the second edition. Now in its fifth reprint this volume is the first print of the second edition.

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

Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions. Born in Scandiano in 1943, Luigi Ghirri spent his working life in the Emilia Romagna region, where he produced one of the most open and layered bodies of work in the history of photography.