Archive for January, 2009

2009 European Publishers Award for Photography

Dewi Lewis, a photographer book publisher based in the UK, just sent out this press release:

THE ENTRY DETAILS AND ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2009 EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
www.dewilewispublishing.com

The European Publishers Award for Photography, now in its 16th year, is a major initiative to encourage the publication of contemporary photography.

We are delighted to announce that the 2009 European Publishers Award For Photography will be sponsored by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The company is known world-wide for its Heidelberg printing presses which are recognised as being synomous with the highest quality of offset printing.

The 2009 Jury will be held in Rome. Peliti Associati will be the Project Leader.

Open to photographers worldwide, the competition is a unique collaboration between six European Publishers – Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (United Kingdom), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain) and Peliti Associati (Italy).

The competition requires the submission of a substantial, completed and unpublished photographic book project. The winning project is then published in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in their own country and in their own language, resulting in perhaps the most extensive cultural collaboration currently existing in Europe.

The winning book will be published in autumn 2009.

PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE AWARD ARE

Jacob Aue Sobol
Paolo Pellegrin
Ambroise Tézenas
Lorenzo Castore
Harri Kallio
Haris Kakarouhas
Simon Norfolk
David Farrell
Dean Chapman
Alfons Alt
Jeff Mermelstein
Toni Catany
Bruce Gilden
Shanta Rao
Dario Mitidieri

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“An Open Book” at MOCA, LA

On view now through March 1, 2009 is the following show at MOCA, in Los Angeles: To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book.

The show “examines how sequencing, a characteristic of time-based media, manifests itself in various ways within artists’ books.” Check out the website, where you can view video clips of the pages of various artists books being turned. Artists included are Keith Haring, Sigmar Polke, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Snow, Edward Ruscha, Hans-Peter Feldman and Larry Bell.

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Michael Beirut on the Art of the Book

I came across this the other day and loved it!

Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y’s mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y’s satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age.

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