Information & discussion about African diaspora photographers and publishing.
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, edited by Paul Chan, was three years in the making and is a complete summation of the producing of this play in two acts and project in three parts. The book is available for sale at creativetime.org/store and in bookstores worldwide—but if you can’t wait long enough for it to be mailed, you can download chapters from the book and a host of additional content at creativetime.org/godotbook.
(Aperture publishes Zwelethu Mthethwa, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dawoud Bey)
(I am the moderator for this symposium next week; I hope to see some site visitors there!)
ARTBOOK specializes in new books on art, photography, architecture, design and critical theory. Founded in 2008 as a sister company of Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., ARTBOOK is the online host of the complete D.A.P. catalog and operates the bookstore ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS 1 in Long Island City. In addition, ARTBOOK runs occasional pop-up stores at temporary, site-specific venues like Art Basel Miami Beach and The Armory Show New York. Visual Studies Workshop is a nonprofit arts center with a graduate program for photography, film/video, and artists’ books in Rochester, NY.
ARTBOOK @ VSW will be open for the month of July 2010, to coincide with VSW’s Photo-Bookworks Symposium, the 2010 Visual Studies Workshop Summer Institute, and the exhibition “52/52+ by skúta.”
VSW’s Photo-Bookworks Symposium, July 1-3, 2010, addresses a new production generation as an effort to expand the potential for books-as-art. VSW’s Photo-Bookworks Symposium is a series of presentations on exemplary photo-bookwork projects by American and international photographic artists, publishers, and historians including Theo Baart, Jason Fulford, Susan kae Grant, Gregory Halpern, Jeffrey Ladd, Nathan Lyons, Ron Jude, Mike Mandel, Stephen Marc, Cary Markerink, Danielle Mericle, Alec Soth, Alex Sweetman, Anne Wilkes-Tucker, and Chantal Zakari. VSW’s Summer Institute consists of intensive one-week courses in Photography, Artists’ Books, Film, Video, Digital Imaging, Web Design and more. The VSW Gallery will house the exhibition 52/52+ by skúta, a multi-media installation of 52 of the artist’s books made over 52 weeks which functions as a library, an archive, a catalog, a collection, and a retrospective.
ARTBOOK @ VSW will offer a diverse range of titles to compliment the highly curated selection of artist books for sale at the Workshop year-round, with a focus on photography, film, and digital media. In addition, ARTBOOK @ VSW will feature books from the many participants in the Photo-Bookworks Symposium, as well as artist books by skúta.
ARTBOOK @ VSW
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street Rochester
New York 14607
phone 585.442.8676
www.vsw.org
ARTBOOK @ VSW BOOKSIGNING SCHEDULE:
July 1
1:00 PM - Ron Jude, signing copies of Other Nature (The Ice Plant Press)
5:00 PM - Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari, signing State of Ata (Aperture)
July 2
12:30 PM - Jason Fulford signing copies of Raising Frogs for $$ (The Ice Plant) and Crushed (J+L Books).
5:00 PM - Theo Baart and Cary Markerink signing copies of Nagele Revisited: A Modernistic Village in the Polder (NAi Publishers).
July 3
1:00: PM - Alec Soth signing copies of Niagara Falls (Steidl)
PHOTO-BOOKWORKS SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
June 28-29, Workshop: Artist-Conceived Books for Digital Production with Scott McCarney
June 30, Workshop: A Book of Photos or a Photo-Bookwork with Douglas Holleley
July 1
9:30 AM, Welcome and Introductions, Tate Shaw, Director of VSW
10:00 AM, Francois Deschamps on Drones, VSW Press
11:00 AM, Danielle Mericle on Seneca Ghosts, A-Jump Books
12:00 PM, Ron Jude, A-Jump Books
1:00 PM, lunch
3:00 PM, Stephen Marc
4:00 PM, Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari
5:00 PM, Interior Monologue by Elisabeth Tonnard exhibition reception, Booksmart Studio
8:00 PM, “Robert Frank: An American Journey” including “surprise attractions” at the Dryden Theater, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
July 2
9:30 AM, Jason Fulford, J&L Books
10:30 AM, Gregory Halpern on Omaha Sketchbook, J&L Books
11:30 AM, Jeffrey Ladd, Errata Editions
12:30 PM, lunch
2:30 PM, Susan kae Grant
3:30 PM, Theo Baart and Cary Markerink, Ideas on Paper, on Snelweg, Memory Traces
6:00-9:00 PM exhibition reception for “52/52+” by skúta
July 3
9:30 AM, Anne Wilkes-Tucker in conversation with Alec Soth
11:00 AM, Alex Sweetman in conversation with Nathan Lyons on his epic four-book photo sequence
12:30 PM, Closing commentary by symposium moderator Carla Williams
July 5-9, Workshop: Mapping the Unconscious with Susan kae Grant
For more information about the VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium please contact:
Tate Shaw, Director
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, New York 14607
585.442.8676 x102
tateshaw@vsw.org
www.vsw.org
For more information about Artbook and D.A.P. please contact:
Alexander Galan
Director of Communications
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
155 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013
212.627.1999 x211
agalan@dapinc.com
www.artbook.com
…and ARTBOOK IS OPENING A TEMPORARY BOOKSTORE!
Visual Studies Workshop | 31 Prince Street Rochester, New York 14607 | phone 585.442.8676 | http://vsw.org/
VISIT www.FACEBOOK.com/ARTBOOKAT FOR MORE EVENT DETAILS
(Thanks for the reminder of this, Orville! Wouldn’t it be amazing if a black photographer won this? Most of us don’t yet have that first book, so we’re all eligible. It isn’t due until September, so start working on that application now!)
First Book Prize Overview
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation (THF), based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize for American photographers. The only prize of its kind, the CDS / Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities. The prize will honor work that is visually compelling, that bears witness, and that has integrity of purpose.
Guidelines
Eligibility
The prize is open to American citizens of any age who have yet to publish a book-length work (a publication which focuses on the photographer’s work, contains more than thirty of the photographer’s images, and is sold through conventional book distribution channels).
Deadline
All required materials must be submitted under one cover between June 15 and September 8, 2010. Materials must be postmarked no later than September 8, 2010.
Entry Fee
The entry fee is $50. Make checks or money orders payable to the Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize.
For more information go to: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/bp/index.html
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