168 pages 21cm × 30cm Format: Paperback 2017

133 pages 15cm × 21cm Format: Paperback

Mit seiner Verbindung von Poesie und Wissenschaft, Reiseroman und ethnologischer Reflexion nimmt dieses Buch eine einzigartige Stellung im Werk von Claude Lévi-Srauss und in der ethnologischen Literatur insgesamt ein. »Traurige Tropen« meint das Ausste …

From a very rational point of view, skin is nothing more than the biggest organ we have. “SKIN” by Lodown Magazine on the other hand is an artistic exploration of the simple reality that skin actually defines and dictates who we are, like it or not. An …

VANDALS is an only content book/magazine. Straight to the point: No comments, no small talk… It is not another waiting room magazine, something you look at before getting a tooth removal. VANDALS is not a niche dark magazine, it’s just an eyes-wide-o …

Blowtorched mackerel, upscale downtown baths, shopping malls for supergeeks, gourmet chicken skewres, raw beef sushi, art in a shipping container and a story by Banana Yoshimoto… Get lost in the city of neon lights and cherry blossoms

ROBERTO BURLE MARX: BRAZILIAN MODERNIST – NEW YORK, JEWIsH ART MUSEUM – Catalogue by Jens Hoffmann & Claudia J. Nahson. New York u.a.O. 2016-18. 22,9 x 30,5 cm. XVI, 208 p.

68 pp. 52 colour images thread-sewn softcover Leipzig April, 2017 ISBN: 9783959051071 Edition Number: 1 Width: 21 cm Length: 29.7 cm Language(s): German CO-DESIGNER Markus Dreßen AUTHOR Stefanie Pretnar DESIGNER Stefanie Pretnar

Other rules apply to the fashion of the future. New technologies and materials make things possible today that couldn’t have even been imagined in the past. High-tech fabrics and melting forms are no longer science fiction but reality. Inspired by the …

Since first coming to prominence 10 years ago, Ryan McGinley has ushered in a wholly new language of photography: images that are uniquely grounded in our contemporary moment while simultaneously evoking an idyllic timelessness. In this new volume, Rya …

The first book to examine Ryan McGinley’s early photographs and Polaroids—raw, visceral portraits of his coterie of friends and artists in downtown New York City. Published to accompany an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Ryan McGinley: …

During an Artist in Residency at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt in the spring of 2011, we, Sandra Kassenaar and Bart de Baets, collaborated on a poster series titled Success and Uncertainty. A month prior to our arrival, the then president Hosni …

Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother …

Network is 8 x 11 inches, 336 pages, otabound with smythe sewn signatures. The publication features fore-edge printing and includes a half-sheet bookmark. It is printed on 120 gsm Munken Polar Rough, in a first edition of 1100 copies.

leipzig, 2017 At the end of the 1950s Karl-Heinz Adler began to reinvent himself as an artist: he arranged fanned layerings of the same geometric elements, constructivist collages of interpenetrating rectangles, and laminations of transparent film, lat …

The first Public Possession publication (a collage in book form) is available now. The mixture of text and graphic material is the result of their research on the topic of sleep. “N.B. the publication is at once an invitation to wake and to sleep.” Inc …

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Studio Work collects formal portraits, snapshots, still-lifes and documentation of the studio space, created during his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2010–2011. The artist writes: “I am exploring how the studio environment, as the site of creation, editing, and accumulation affects and frames portraiture, and the performance of portraiture.”

Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee from the Nazis for copying leaflets. They were interned for eight months in a labour camp in Elmshorn. The Soviet occupation prevented him from returning to his native Lithuania after the war and, classed as a “displaced person”, he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. Towards the end of 1949 he and his brother emigrated to New York. In his autobiography I Had Nowhere to Go he describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence.

Popper Publishing issue “Systems” is dedicated to contemporary and post-internet art with abstract forms, color, geometry, mathematically generated images, visualizations generated by biological processes and outer space. International artists: 108, 1010, Arnaud Loumeau, Bianca Brunner, Daniél Niederkofler, David Mendez Alonso, Dunja Jankovic, Ekta, Emmanuelle Pidoux, Erin O’Keefe, Fanny Pápay, Frances Malthouse, Gfeller + Hellsgård, Heretic, Ian Stevenson, Goekhan Erdogan, Kottie Paloma, Laimonas Zakas (Glitchr), Letha Wilson, Mark Whalen, Moneyless, Mujuice, Shoboshobo, Tellas, The Pit, Tracy Widdess, Heretic, Ian Stevenson. Latvian artists: Andrejs Lavrinovičs, Armands Zelčs, Arturs Koršs, Atis Jākobsons, Darja Meļņikova, Eltons Kūns, Ēriks Apaļais, Ēriks Naivo, Evita Vasiļjeva, Gustavs Klucis (LNMM), Gints Gabrāns, Henrijs Preiss, Ieva Kraule, Jānis Dzirnieks, Jānis Krauklis, Kaspars Groševs, Katrīna Čemme, Katrīna Neiburga, Klāvs Loris, Krišs Salmanis, Kristaps Zelmenis, Zane Zelmene, Kristīne Alksne, Lazy Bra, Līva Rutmane, Maija Kurševa, Mārtiņš Ratniks, Ojārs Pētersons, Oskars Veilands, Pēteris Noviks, Reinis Lismanis, Sarmīte Māliņa, Viktor Timofeev, Voldemārs Johansons, Vija Celmins (LNMM), Elīna Sproģe (text).

International contributors: Popay, Monica Canilao, Nano 4814, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Mina Hamada, Motohiro Hayakawa, Zosen, Smithe, Leon Ka (Kafre), Matthew Palladino, Tetsunori Tawaraya, Daniel Muñoz SAN, SCUBA, Waone (Interesni Kazki), Martha Cooper, Hell 'O Monsters, Lennard Schuurmans, Ako Castuera, Ana Serrano, Lola Rose Thompson, Miju Lee. Latvian contributors: Andrejs Lavrinovičs, Maija Kurševa, Miķelis Fišers, Kristīne Kursiša, Kristians Brekte, Mārtiņš Ratniks, Tron Karton, Ēriks Caune, Gints Gabrāns, Liene Mackus, Līga Spunde & Jānis Klaučs, Jānis Dzirnieks, Krišs Salmanis, Inga Meldere, Irīna Spičaka, Ernests Kļaviņš, Agata Melnikova & Daria Melnikova, Kristaps Zelmenis & Krišijānis Mežulis, Zane Zelmene, Indriķis Ģelzis, Reinis Semēvics, Ojārs Pētersons, Aigars Opincāns & Ton Koene, Šelda Puķīte (text), Normunds Kozlovs (text).

Muita Animação showcases a selection of Portuguese party posters that are very prominent in the local landscape because of their bold design as well as their unique production method: Printed on plastic and mounted on streetposts and trees, they mostly survive the date they announce and therefore can even be seen on Google Streetview. Zurich Artist Noël Fischer started to collect these posters a few years back and has now — together with design studio Hammer — published them in this whimsical A3-sized book. This collection might as well be Jan Tschichold’s worst nightmare.

‘If you’re stuck for an idea, have a big decision to handle or need a new perspective on a problem, here are some approaches for thinking, communicating and creativity. An upbeat guide that anyone can use to help with the big and small challenges we face every day.’ Anthony Burrill A life-affirming guide to new thinking, creative problem-solving and getting things done from graphic artist Anthony Burrill. Full of inspiration and ideas, his best-loved prints as well as new work, this book will get you thinking bigger and better and recharge your creativity.

A lavishly produced celebration of the output, aesthetic, and legacy of one of the most influential record labels in contemporary music.

Isotype (= international system of typographic picture education) wurde ab den 1920er-Jahren vom Wiener Soziologen und Philosophen Otto Neurath als Methode zur Visualisierung von Daten und Zusammenhängen entwickelt. Das aufklärerische Ziel war es, komplexe Sachverhalte mittels gegenständlicher Bilder und Symbole in eine intelligente und komprimierte Form zu transformieren, die sowohl klar verständlich und interessant als auch genau war. Dieser mit vielen anschaulichen Beispielen versehene Band widmet sich den Prinzipien von Isotype, der Tätigkeit des „Transformierens“ – so der zeitgenössische Terminus – und Marie Neurath, der wichtigsten Mitarbeiterin und Wegbegleiterin Otto Neuraths. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein bislang in deutscher Sprache noch nie veröffentlichter Essay aus dem Jahr 1986, den Marie Neurath kurz vor ihrem Tod verfasst hat. Der Leser erhält authentische Einblicke in die Entstehungs- und Gestaltungsprozesse von Isotype-Schaubildern und die Arbeitsweisen von Otto Neurath und seinem Team sowie die Fortführung der Arbeit nach dessen Tod. In weiteren Beiträgen schreibt der britische Typograf und Verleger Robin Kinross über Marie Neurath, sowohl als Person als auch bedeutende Protagonistin der Designgeschichte, und reflektiert über Vermächtnis und Zukunft von Isotype in der visuellen Kommunikation.

Nowadays music produces social relationships that no longer require any proprietorship. But it still cannot operate independently of the system without itself being part of a powerful logic of commercialism. This inextricable conflict is the bassline for a mix that is presented by Andrzej Steinbach and Achim Szepanski in Ultrablack of Music: Feindliche Übernahme (Hostile Takeover). Steinbach montages three different texts: a TV talk show as chamber play, a roll call of all the Red Army Faction members in the form of a score, and the computer code of a chopped-up McKinsey advertisement. In 1971 WDR broadcast “Open Ended: Pop and Co — The Other Music between Protest and Commerce!” during which Nikel Pallat, a member of the band Ton Steine Scherben, produced an axe from under his jacket and repeatedly smashed it down on the table with all his might. The table didn’t break but the gesture was unambiguous.

Max Dax, seit 2006 Chefredakteur des Musikmagazins Spex, gab jahrelang die Interviewzeitschrift Alert heraus. Dabei entstanden gesprochene (Selbst-)Porträts von (Techno-)Musikern, Künstlern, Regisseuren und Schriftstellern und ganz nebenbei eine Zwischenbilanz der Gegenwartskultur. Zu Wort kommen in dieser Auswahl: Aphex Twin, Blixa Bargeld, David Bowie, Vashti Bunyan, Diedrich Diederichsen, DJ Hell, Kim Gordon, Juliette Gréco, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Lee Hazelwood, Jenny Holzer, Dennis Hopper, Jörg Immendorf, Lemmy Kilmister, Martin Kippenberger, Alexander Kluge, Claude Lanzmann, Arto Lindsay, Marcel Marceau, Johnny Marr, Thomas Ruff, Helge Schneider, Mark E. Smith, Bernhard Sumner, Mayo Thompson, Caetano Veloso, Roger Waters und Townes van Zandt.

Auf einer Reise nach Japan wurde er mit der japanischen Zeichenwelt vertraut und bemerkte, daß diese Zeichen seiner Vorstellung vom Zeichen am nächsten kamen. Das japanische Zeichen ist stark: Es ist in bewundernswerter Weise Regeln unterworfen, angeordnet, dargestellt, niemals naturalisiert oder rationalisiert. Das japanische Zeichen ist leer: Sein Signifikat flieht, es gibt keinen Gott, keine Wahrheit, keine Moral, die diesen Signifikanten zugrunde liegt, die ohne ihr Gegenstück herrschen. Und vor allem sind die höhere Qualität dieses Zeichens, die Anmut seiner Behauptung und der erotische Charme, mit dem es auftritt, überall eingeprägt, auf den belanglosesten Gegenständen und Verhaltensweisen, die wir normalerweise in das Gebiet des Unbedeutenden oder Banalen verweisen.

»Das Vorhaben von Die Sprache der Mode entstand unmittelbar im Anschluß an das Nachwort der Mythen des Alltags, in dem ich die Möglichkeit einer immanenten Analyse anderer Zeichensysteme als der Sprache entdeckt habe – oder zu entdecken geglaubt hatte. Ich hatte von diesem Augenblick an den Wunsch, eines dieser Systeme, eine von allen gesprochene und zugleich allen unbekannte Sprache, Schritt für Schritt zu rekonstruieren. So habe ich die Kleidung gewählt.« Roland Barthes

a career-spanning collection of comics by Hayashi Seiichi, one of Japan’s best known alternative cartoonists

Addressing ideas of ethnicity and identity, Port Yarin serves as a visual documentation of a fictional town, a home to the wandering souls of the racially ambiguous, third culture kids of the world. In and around the collated cityscapes and landscapes are the subjects, swathed in the glow of dusk and neon lights, haunted by a sense of foreboding; in many ways reflecting the feeling of unrest faced by minority groups in the political world today. Port Yarin is about embracing the melting pot of influences that form our construct of ethnicity, forging a new future identity.

In the last ten years, the Dutch photographer Erik van der Weijde has been responsible for over fifty publications: these include not only slim photozines and simply produced brochures but also voluminous cloth-bound books — many of them distributed via his own publishing house 4478ZINE. This Is Not My Book provides for the first time an overview of his work, which constitutes one of the most important artistic positions at the interface between photography and independent publishing. The book uses large-format representations to show the lines of connection between the individual publications. It also contains van der Weijde’s 4478ZINE publishing manifesto and other texts as well as five conversations with the publishers Anne König and Jan Wenzel. This Is Not My Book indicates a full stop, an act of punctuation set down by the author with his published work.

Edition Bauhaus 46 When Dessau was bombed in early 1945, the Director’s House and Moholy-Nagy’s Master House were reduced to rubble as well. After the Dessau Masters’ Houses – epitome of the 20th-century artists’ colony – had been restored to their original state in the 1990s, a debate began on the reconstruction of the two houses destroyed in the war. In 2010, after consultation with the British star architect David Chipperfield, the decision was made to recreate the Master Houses of Gropius and Moholy-Nagy using contemporary means, rather than rebuilding them 1:1. And so they have now been reconstructed on the basis of designs by the Berlin firm Bruno-Fioretti-Marquez, as innovative reductions and abstractions of the original houses. This volume describes the chequered history of the Dessau Masters’ Houses, presenting the reconstructed buildings for the first time in book form, with photographs by Armin Linke and Heidi Specker.

At the beginning of the 1970s US American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill developed the first ideas for colonizing space. Shortly thereafter, Stewart Brand, cybercommunard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, took up these ideas and published the book Space Colonies. In this and in other editions of the CoEvolution Quarterly, the issue of whether space might already be colonized in the year 2000 is discussed. Fabian Reimann’s Space Colonies. A Galactic Freeman’s Journal refers to these publications. In his photo essay he assembles historical, present-day, and speculative material, which he combines with fictional and factual stories to create a composite of different images of the world.

Fernsehtürme – 8.559 Meter Politik und Architektur” zeigt nicht nur die architektonische und konstruktive Rekordjagd des Größer, Höher und Weiter, die mit Fernsehtürmen ausgetragen wird, sondern erläutert die Türme aus ihrem gesellschaftlichen und politischen Kontext. Denn kein Gebäudetyp zeigt seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ein so großes Verlangen nach gesellschaftlicher, wirtschaftlicher oder politischer Symbolik. Aber wie genau äußern sich diese Wünsche, Zukunftsvorstellungen und Machtbekundungen in der Architektur? Wie wird deren Auslegung durch politische Propaganda oder alltagskulturelle Aneignung transformiert? Und wie politisch kann Architektur sein? 25 Fernsehtürme im Buch: Stuttgarter Fernsehturm, Stuttgart Al-Borg, Cairo Tokyo Tower, Tokyo Ostankino Tower, Mosckow Avala Tower, Belgrade Torre de Televisao, Brasilia Berliner Fernsehturm, Berlin Jested Tower, Liberec Telkom Jo’Burg, Johannesburg Canadian National Tower, Toronto Televizijos Bokstas, Vilnius Tashkent TV Tower, Tashkent Riga Radio and TV Tower, Riga Zizkov TV Tower, Prague TV Tower Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg Torre de Collserola, Barcelona Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Stratosphere Tower, Las Vegas International Saddam Tower, Baghdad Sky Tower, Auckland Borj-e Milad, Tehran Menara Jakarta, Jakarta Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, Guangzhou Tokyo Sky Tree, Tokyo

In the summer of 2015 writer Roman Ehrlich and photographer Michael Disqué visited the German army base Camp Marmal in Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan. Their aim was to portray the life of the soldiers in the camp without falling back on the standard narratives of journalistic reportage. At the heart of the book are the structures that the soldiers have created for themselves and the interaction between the camp’s architecture and its inhabitants; the extreme artificiality of the living environment; and the civilian aspect of life there that extends throughout the camp in spite of it being a military organization. Derived from a term used to mean the battlefield, Theatre of War represents all the aspects of “staging” that determine warfare — depicted here first and foremost in its most banal form: the everyday life of the camp as seen in its offices, workshops, and accommodation areas, in its utility hubs and kitchens, as the war’s employees occupy their time waiting and contemplating.

Wir finden einen Künstler in malerischen Landschaften, Kunstinteressierte erkennen die Orte, an denen schon die bedeutendsten Maler der letzten Jahrhunderte gemalt haben. Dort, wo der Blaue Reiter, Monet oder Van Gogh gewirkt haben, steht Hank Schmidt in der Beek im karierten Hemd vor seiner Leinwand, die auf einer Staffelei ruht. Seine Hand hält den Pinsel, er malt. Jedoch erkennt man auf der Leinwand nicht die Motive, die die berühmten Vorgänger hier malten: Die Leinwand zeigt das selbe karierte Muster, das auch das Hemd des Malers ziert. Seit 2009 arbeitet Hank Schmidt in der Beek an der fortführenden Reihe „Und im Sommer tu ich malen“. Gemeinsam mit dem Fotografen Fabian Schubert reist er durch ganz Europa, um an den Wirkungsorten berühmter Maler seine Kleidung zu malen.

This collection presents, for the first time in English, the best of Sasaki Maki’s work, mainly from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories here follow Sasaki’s groundbreaking exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling, weaving through references to R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, the Vietnam War, Andy Warhol, the Summer of Love, the Beatles, British humour, and the wacky world of Japanese consumerism. Ding Dong Circus demonstrates what manga fans already knew: that in Sasaki Maki, Japan can claim not only a pioneer in experimental comics, but one of the world’s masters of Pop Art and a trenchant avant-garde critic of the Sixties.

_Renaissance analoger Druckverfahren _Fundierter einführendender Überblick _Fokus auf die aktuelle Risographie-Szene _Mit umfangreicher Dokumentation risographischer Erzeugnisse Die Risographie, benannt nach der japanischen Firma Riso, ist ein Schablonendruckverfahren nach Art der Siebdrucktechnik, welches in der Übergangsphase vom mechanischen zum digitalen Drucken entwickelt wurde. Obwohl die Druckmaschine aussieht wie ein Kopiergerät, wird die Farbe ohne Anwendung von Hitze und Chemie auf das Papier gebracht, also energiesparend und ökologisch. Heute haben Grafiker und Designer aus der ganzen Welt den Risographen – und die entsprechenden Maschinen für ähnliche, schon fast vergessene Techniken wie die Mimeographie– für sich entdeckt und eine unerwartete Renaissance des analogen Druckens in Gang gesetzt. Auf eine sorgfältig recherchierte Einführung über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft folgt ein Beitrag über wichtige Pioniere der aktuellen Risographie-Szene. Im Kapitel Risoworld werden besondere risographie-affine Verlage, Druckereien und Designstudios aus der ganzen Welt vorgestellt. Das Herzstück des Bandes sind wunderbare, ganz unterschiedliche Arbeiten wie Postkarten, Magazine, Poster, Flyer und experimentelle Druckerzeugnisse, die allesamt durch die Kraft der Farben der ganz eigenen Textur und vor allem der perfekt unperfekten Authentizität der Risographie begeistern.

Haifisch’s idiosyncratic, episodic comic chronicles the experiences of a young artist in his formative years, satirising the exclusive, ephemeral and frequently absurd world of fine art. Plagued by doubts and anxiety, the artist is confronted with constant setbacks punctuated by occasional, surprising glimpses of recognition. The Artist was printed by offset lithography at DeckersSnoeck in Belgium.

Disobedient Bodies: JW Anderson at The Hepworth Wakefield has been published alongside the exhibition of the same name, curated by JW Anderson and opening The Hepworth Wakefield in March 2017. The book – made in a close collaboration between Jonathan Anderson, Andrew Bonacina and OK-RM – acts as an alternative exhibition space in which the pairings and combinations that unfold within The Hepworth’s galleries come in to play with images from Anderson’s collaborative photographic projects with Jamie Hawkesworth. The book object comprises a series of interleaved sections amassing 142 pages and featuring works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, Eileen Gray, Sarah Lucas, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Helmut Lang and many more, alongside contributions from Anderson’s own collections.

Die Polaroids waren Dash Snows “Eintritt” in die Kunstwelt und wurden der Legende nach von ihm gemacht, um Erlebnisse zu dokumentieren, an die er sich aufgrund seines Rauschzustandes sonst nicht erinnern könnte. Die sehr spontan wirkenden Aufnahmen zeigen skurrile Alltagsszenen, Partys, Drogenkonsum, sexuelle Anspielungen und sehr intime Portraits aus der Umgebung des Künstlers. In vielen Polaroids taucht der Künstler selbst auf und wird damit gleichzeitig zum Verwalter und Subjekt seiner Bilder.

Fotografien aus den Jahren 2013 bis 2017 aufgenommen in verschiedenen Städten mit unterschiedlichen Fotoapparaten

The mid-1960s witnessed a boom in underground and selfpublished works. Hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing not only allowed for the production of small, lowcost print runs but also promote a unique aesthetic: using wild mock-ups, »messianic amateurs« combined typescript aesthetics, handwriting, scribbled drawings, assemblages of collaged visuals, porn photos, snapshots, and comic strips. The typography consciously frees itself, in parallel to a liberalization of linguistic and visual forms of expression in the name of a new »sensibility«. This book (which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Weserburg in Bremen) is the first to present the underground and self-published works that came out of West Germany in such depth, while also showing the internationalcontext in which they emerged: not as an anecdotal history but as an attempt to tap into the aesthetic cosmos of a Do-It-Yourself rebellion, one that also challenges us to take a new look at the current boom in »independent publishing«, the risograph aesthetic, and so on.

The mid-1960s witnessed a boom in underground and selfpublished works. Hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing not only allowed for the production of small, lowcost print runs but also promote a unique aesthetic: using wild mock-ups, »messianic amateurs« combined typescript aesthetics, handwriting, scribbled drawings, assemblages of collaged visuals, porn photos, snapshots, and comic strips. The typography consciously frees itself, in parallel to a liberalization of linguistic and visual forms of expression in the name of a new »sensibility«. This book (which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Weserburg in Bremen) is the first to present the underground and self-published works that came out of West Germany in such depth, while also showing the internationalcontext in which they emerged: not as an anecdotal history but as an attempt to tap into the aesthetic cosmos of a Do-It-Yourself rebellion, one that also challenges us to take a new look at the current boom in »independent publishing«, the risograph aesthetic, and so on.

With the publication Metafiction, we pay a tribute to the many renowned artists with whom we have worked over the past 25 years including Blommers/Schumm, Anne de Vries, Freudenthal/Verhagen and Jaap Scheeren.

Seiichi Furuya’s Dresden photographs from 1984/85 are a most unlikely document — a view of daily life in the latter days of the GDR recorded by a Japanese photographer, who had been a major player in the photography scene in Austria since the beginning of the 1980s. Furuya came to Dresden as an interpreter for a Japanese construction company. His pictures are private — a young family in an intimate setting, their deep-seated anxieties and moments of happiness — and it is more in passing that he records everyday life and society. His view from the outside, a stranger’s way of seeing things, has no equivalent in the art photography of the GDR. In 2015 an exhibition project brought Furuya back to Dresden, where he took a series of new pictures: photographs of familiar places, onto which capitalist life has now inscribed itself, thirty years on, and of the Pegida demonstrations that have completely transformed the image of the city.

Newspaper was started in 1969 by Steve Lawrence, and it ran for nine issues till 1971. It was a small press publication that spotlighted work by figures of the Downtown NY scene. A pivotal publication for the time, Newspaper was a product of the conceptual art movement and an emphasis on media systems and subversion. In 1970 it was part of the Information show at MoMA — widely acknowledged as the first large survey on conceptual art. Over the years and after the AIDS crisis, Newspaper was lost and Steve Lawrence's work faded into obscurity. In researching the original, NEWSPAPER has been inspired to make a call for the return of the transgression of earlier queer forefathers — an intellectual awareness, openness and love deeply informed by countercultural thinking. It is an exercise of looking back in order to move forward. As particular queer images of beauty, body, consciousness, and identity have emerged in mainstream visual culture and media, damage has been done. Over time they have established themselves in most media. This will be a space for artists, living and dead, that loudly or quietly promote an investigation or redefinition of these images in order to express their own sensibility.

POV paper is a quarterly published by the Swiss gender and sexuality festival La Fête du Slip . POV paper explores the themes of gender and sexuality as well, with purpose to focus on photography, illustration and writing. At the core of POV paper, is a developing exploration of new aesthetic approaches to porn. For each issue, POV paper brings together a photographer from the art world, and performers from the alternative porn world. The paper features articles, interviews, short stories, poems, and reviews, all exclusive and yet unpublished work, with contributors from around the world.