Image as Trace
Published by Brunette Coleman, London, 2025, leporello (b/w ill.), 10 × 19 cm (folded), 70 × 19 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €7

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Image as Trace at Brunette Coleman, London, 26 April–31 May, 2025. Featuring Paride Maria Calvia, Nat Faulkner, Joyce Joumaa, Marietta Mavrokordatou and Kazuna Taguchi.

“Such images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.” – Susan Sontag, On Photography

The artists in Image as Trace favour experiential techniques that aren’t subjected to traditional modes of photography. With a shared affinity for exposing their means of production, the works reveal Sontag’s image as trace – charting the material process of photography itself, as well as the imprints of time.

Designed by George Haughton.

#2025 #abstractphotography #brunettecoleman #georgehaughton #joycejoumaa #kazunataguchi #mariettamavrokordatou #natfaulkner #paridemariacalvia #photography
Abstract Paintings In Japan 1910–1945
Published by The Japan Association of Art Museums, Tokyo, 1992, 225 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 24 cm, Japanese
Price: €42 (Out of stock)

Comprehensive survey of early Japanese abstract painting (and photography). Including Koshiro Onchi, Iwata Nakayama, Saburo Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Koishi, Ryuichi Amano, Ei-Q and many more.

#1992 #abstractphotography #eiq #iwatanakayama #japaneseavantgarde #japanesephotography #kiyoshikoishi #koshiroonchi #painting #ryuichiamano #saburohasegawa
GIRL
Marietta Mavrokordatou
Published by Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, 2023, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 23.4 × 30.8 cm, English
Price: €50

Produced on the occasion of Marietta Mavrokordatou’s exhibition GIRL at Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, 29 September – 5 November, 2023. With a text by Hannah Regel.

More information on the Thkio Ppalies exhibition can be found here, and also a later iteration at Brunette Coleman, London here.

Born 1996, in Cyprus, Marietta Mavrokordatou lives and works in London. She explores the potential forms of the photographic medium. By redefining autobiographical elements, which she uses as points of reference, a new way of perceiving is presented through her own eyes.

#2023 #abstractphotography #hannahregel #mariettamavrokordatou #photography
A Poet of Colors and Forms
Koshiro Onchi
Published by Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, 1994, 336 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 15.3 × 21.9 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €62

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Onchi, A Poet of Colors and Forms at the Yokohama Museum of art, October 8 – November 6, 1994.

Koshiro Onchi was the most important figure in the ‘Sosaku Hanga’ movement from 1918 until his death, outstanding as a print artist, photographer, book designer and active as a poet, founder and editor of magazines, an author on the subject of prints, art and literature, a leader and organiser of societies and encourager of other artists.

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

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Traces of Light in Modernism
Koshiro Onchi, Osamu Shiihara and Ei-Q
Published by The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1997, 40 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €44

Various artistic trends originating in Europe after World War 1, such as Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus in Germany and Surrealism in France, left a strong impression on Japanese art and photography in the Taisho and the early Showa periods. In photography in particular, the Western influence brought a new movement called Shinko Shashin (New Photography) in the early Showa period. This exhibition was an attempt at reexamining the visual expression in the period from the perspective of the photographic work of artists from fields other than photography, focusing on the work of Koshiro Onchi, Osamu Shiihara and Ei-Q.

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

#1997 #abstractphotography #eiq #japaneseavantgarde #japanesephotography #koshiroonchi #osamushiihara
Liz Deschenes
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2012, 100 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 22.2 cm, German/English
Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of Liz Deschenes’ exhibition at Secession, Vienna, 7 December – 10 February, 2013.

Liz Deschenes’s photographic oeuvre deals with the conditions of photography and its components, with perception and the correlation to other artistic media, and with the architecture within which her works are shown. Her works allow a self-referential look at the medium, liberated of its functions, taking its own conditions as its theme.

#2013 #abstractphotography #lizdeschenes #photography #revolver #secession