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PHOTOBOOK2012 - 3rd Annual Exhibition: Photobook Catalog
20 photobooks, photobook2012

This online catalog directly links to each of the twenty artists selected for the annual PHOTOBOOK Exhibition and Sale.  You may purchase these award winning books directly from the artist or his/her publisher.


There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today 2005-2008
by Loli Kantor

Limited edition of 500 artist book. Numbered and signed by artist  87 pages, hard cover, reproduction of palladium prints and color images.  Photographs by Loli Kantor. Essay by Anne Helmreich, “Witnessing and Making Memory”

“Memory and hope are visible in the moving and surprising scenes of daily life among the revived Jewish communities of Poland and Ukraine. The palladium prints echo the indelible images of Roman Vishniac and others whose recording of the shtetl and its inhabitants in the 1930s proved to be the final snapshots of a doomed life.”

Loli Kantor, There Was A Forest

$45 plus shipping


To the Flag: A Parade and Memoir to the Chimes of Freedom by Karen Davis 

74 pages, 56 color photographs, premium luster paper, Davis Orton Gallery Editions via blurb 11 pages of memoir, lyrics of Chimes of Freedom To the Flag: A Parade and Memoir to the Chimes of Freedom by Karen Davis Civil rights, Vietnam, the right of labor to organize, the Gulf Wars, a woman’s right to choose… for over fifty years I’ve marched to take a stand. While I saw my acts as patriotic, it was the opposition that wrapped itself in the flag. It should come as no surprise that I harbored a deep distrust of people making too much of a fuss over our flag. The catalyst for this book was a Flag Day Parade in Hudson NY, my new hometown. As the parade passed, thoughts turned to vivid memories of the flag, shared national experiences and long-held beliefs. Although the sounds of bagpipes, horns and drums filled the air, the song in my head was Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom.

$39.95 plus shipping.   Preview and purchase also available through blurb

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eBook $4.99

 


salt & truth by Shelby Lee Adams

128 pages, 80 tritone + varnish reproductions.  Candela Books Essays by Shelby Lee Adams, James Enyeart and Catherine Evans (signed by artist)"salt & truth" photographs by Shelby Lee Adams, publisher Candela Press $60 plus shipping Also Available October 1 Two separate limited editions of one book and one of two 8″ x 10″ prints.  Each in edition of 35 with one of the following: “Frankie Holding Shucky Beans” 2002, or “Billie and Bethany with Coon Skins” 2004.  Initial offering of editions (#1-5) is $750. Contact gallery for purchase. Limited Edition, 'salt & truth' with 8 x 10" print by Shelby Lee Adams

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Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010 by Howard Saunders

9″ x 7″,  full color, 62 pages

$25 plus shipping

We are pleased to announce that “Axeman Who Will be 70 in the Year 2010,” the faux graphic memoir by Howard Saunders: “Artist/Writer/Agent Provocateur” has arrived!!  Axeman… has the scope of history along with humor and diaristic intimacy.Axeman - who will be 70 in the year 2010 by Howard Saunders


LAY FLAT 02 Meta  Shane Lavelette, (Editor) and Michael Bühler-Rose (Editor)

10″ x 8″,  103 pages, Lay Flat, layflat.org $30 plus shipping Lay Flat 02: MetaLay Flat 02: Meta brings together a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself. Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Stephen Gill, Daniel Gordon, David Haxton, Matt Keegan, Elad Lassry, Katja Mater, Laurel Nakadate, Lisa Oppenheim, Torbjørn Rødland, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Useful Photography, Charlie White, Ann Woo and Mark Wyse are accompanied by the textual contributions of Adam Bell (Co-editor, The Education of a Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Publisher/Editor, Aperture Foundation), Alex Klein (Editor, Words Without Pictures), artists Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Arthur Ou, as well a conversation between Lyle Rexer (Author, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography) and James Welling, an artist who is seminal to this dialogue.


Les mystères de Paris / Paris Mysteries by Ellen Feldman

8.5″ x 8.5″,  70 pages,  viovio.com

$49 plus shipping

Street photographer Ellen Feldman finds mystery and wonders in both popular and little visited corners of Paris.  Her sense of adventure is infectious. Without text, the rhythmic sequence of Feldman’s images guides us through an unexpected and joyful tour of an amazing city.

Paris Mysteries, photographs by Ellen Feldman


Overheard at the Museum by Judith Henry

5.25″ x 6.5″, 80 pages.  Universe Publishing, A Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

$10 plus shipping

Henry captures the humor, irreverence and under the breath critiques of Fine Art that museum-goers display.  Quotes are paired with candid black and white photographs of museum patrons. “Soul-baring, intimate, sordid, chock full of wit and wisdom…. a book sure to become an icon of popular culture.”

overheard at the museum by Judy Henry


SX-70 Polaroids 1981 – 2011 by Franc Palaia

8.5″ x 8.5″, offset, self-published, netpub $25 plus shipping 53 images of Palaia’s hand colored Polaroids with oil based crayons. Palaia covers, blends, eradicates and heightens the Polaroid’s colors and adds texture to the images, making them look like miniature oil paintings.

Franc Palaia book, 2x70 Polaroids 1981 - 2011, Davis Orton Gallery


urmonumental New Museum opens on Warren Streetby Howard Saunders

7.5″ x 7.5″, offset, self published

$15 plus shipping

Howard Saunder’s personal reflections on curating high and low art. Here Saunders documents his one day installation/intervention on Warren St. in Hudson NY when readymades, teeshirts,  junkyard treasures and antiques stood together and took on the art establishment.

urmonumental, a book by howard saunders


100 Images by Moira Barrett

8.5″ x 11″, Blurb, 2010

$49 plus shipping

Moira Barrett’s intimate photographs of family and the quotidian of daily life add an important voice to the canon of family portraiture.

photobook: 100 Images by Moira Barrett


Stations of the Scale by Andrea Rosenthal

11″ x 8.5″, Lulu, 2009

$21 plus shipping

A photographic memoir that deals in an insightful yet humorous way with the author’s love of food, particularly sugar, and the consequences. The author uses herself as a subject in these very funny images about a serious topic.

Stations of the Scale


Corn Dogs, Blue Ribbons and the American Pastoral by Meg Birnbaum

8.5″ x 8.5″  viovio, 2009

$28.00 plus shipping

Selections from a portfolio of black and white photographs taken with a toy plastic camera of fourteen summer fairs in New England over a two year period.  An emotional and wistful visual record of this long-standing American tradition.

Corn Dogs, Blue Ribbons and the American Pastoral


Absolution of the Wind by Emily Corbato

7″ x 7″  blurb, 2009

$19.95 plus shipping

Selections from a portfolio of black and white landscape photographs – water, sky, woods – Plum Island, MA, recently exhibited at Boston University. Includes text by artist and quotes from Book of Psalms and poem by Philip Booth.

absolution

 

MASS MoCA Restrooms Postcard Portfolio by Karen Davis

6.5″ x 4.5″  self-published and assembled  (also available at Hardware museum store at MASS MoCA)

$12.95 plus shipping

Seven black and white offset 4″ x 6″ postcard prints of the restrooms of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in a silkscreened, stamped portfolio

MassMoCA Restrooms Postcard Portfolio





The McCann Family by Karen Davis

7″ x 7″   blurb, 2008

$19.95 plus shipping

Family Memoir:  When we were small, my younger sister, Cheryl, had a set of four mechanical dolls. She called them the McCann Family. They were a thinly disguised version of the Davis family. Cheryl decided that she was “Tom McCann,” the boy doll. I think she liked the idea of being the spunky and adventurous child. At first Tom could stand on his own. Later he lost his balance all the time. Cheryl diagnosed Tom with Polio. She fitted him with crutches and braces just like hers. (Cheryl was born with spina bifida.)

The McCann Family


Pretension: All About Us by Karen Davis and Mark Orton

7″ x 7″  blurb, 2008

$20 plus shipping

A satirical look at contemporary art criticism through the authors’ double portrait.

Pretension - All About Us


Central Square, volume 1 – almost home  by Karen Davis

8.5″ x 5.5″  O.L.D. Press, 2004, photocopied

$10 plus shipping

Photographs and personal essays of life changes in Central Square, Cambridge, MA

CentralSquare vol1 almost home


Its Not Art ’til You Bite It – another adventure to the quotidian by Mark Orton

8.25″ x 10.75″ magcloud.com 2009

$10 plus shipping

One Sunday, in the midst of capturing another brunch icon, Mike Beach, one of the regulars, said, ““It’s not art ’til you bite it.”” In one stroke of genius, or perhaps just a brain burp, the series took on a life of its own. I have now been taking shots of half- eaten food for several years in hundreds of venues on two continents. You could say it’s my ““artistic practice”.” – Mark Orton

ItsNotArtTilBiteIt-cover