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Michael Stipe: Even the Birds Gave Pause

DAMIANI

The artistic polymath behind R.E.M. explores the potency of portraiture

Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 96 pgs. | 4/30/2024 | Awaiting stock
$55.00


     

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Michael Stipe

DAMIANI

Portraits of resilience and vulnerability, with QR-linked audio of comments and anecdotes from Stipe

Hbk, 9.75 x 13 in. / 176 pgs / 120 bw. | 4/13/2021 | Out of stock
$60.00


Michael Stipe: Volume 1

DAMIANI

“Volume 1 focuses on my timeline, on the work I've done all along, parallel to the band and back to my early 20s.” —Michael Stipe 

Hbk, 9 x 13 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 5/22/2018 | Out of stock
$45.00


Michael Stipe: Even the Birds Gave PauseMichael Stipe: Even the Birds Gave Pause

Published by Damiani.

Before his wildly successful foray into music—as frontman of the 1990s international sensation R.E.M.—Michael Stipe was a visual arts student at the University of Georgia in Athens. After the band dissolved in 2011, Stipe returned to his first love: generating illustrations, photography and sculptures. His diaristic photographs are perhaps his best known works, and he has previously published three photobooks with Damiani that largely consisted of portraits.
In this fourth publication, portraiture once again takes focus. This time, however, Stipe articulates the form through a plethora of mediums: including plaster, concrete, rotocast plastics, bookmaking, ceramics, video and darkroom photographic printing. The book privileges process over product, displaying a series of works in progress that continue an exploration of contemporary portraiture, instinct and abstraction. Classical and conceptual forms create a cohesive whole from seemingly disparate elements, culminating in an inclusive and complete vision, in which the familiar and unfamiliar are granted equal grounding. The volume is published in conjunction with Stipe’s solo exhibition of his artwork at the ICA Milano, which opened in December 2023 and will be up through March 2024.
The New York City–based artist Michael Stipe (born 1960) studied photography and painting before leaving school upon the formation of R.E.M. The sensibility that he began to develop during his time as an art student transferred to the spectrum of his work for R.E.M., from art directing all graphic, video and stage designs, to writing, composing and performance, and his iconoclastic personal style.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 13 in. / 96 pgs.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 67   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862088145 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $79.00

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Awaiting stock

STATUS: Forthcoming | 4/30/2024

This title is not yet published in the U.S. To pre-order or receive notice when the book is available, please email orders @ artbook.com

Michael StipeMichael Stipe

Published by Damiani.

In this third, photo-based chapter of the Damiani series, Michael Stipe explores strength, courage and vulnerability, pausing the project abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What follows is a lockdown interpretation of a 21st-century portrait, with a resolute desire to show our resilience, our humor, our collective fortitude and our adaptability.

The book is enriched by free audio content which deepens and enhances the discovery of the images. Scanning the QR code opens access to the “making-of” anecdotes and the intention behind the book, as told by Stipe.

As an undergraduate studio art major at the University of Georgia, Michael Stipe (born 1960) studied photography and painting before leaving school upon the formation of R.E.M., the band for which he served as frontman and singer/songwriter until its dissolution in 2011. The sensibility that he began to develop during his time as an art student transferred to the spectrum of his work for R.E.M., from art directing all graphic, video and stage design, to writing, composing and performance, and his iconoclastic personal style. Stipe’s visibility as a media figure in the popular culture of the 1980s and ’90s left an indelible mark on the aesthetic trends of the time, many of which have trickled down to contemporary culture.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 176 pgs / 120 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 69   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862087384 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $84.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Michael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference TimesMichael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference Times

A Visual Record

Published by Damiani.

For this second book in an ongoing exploratory series, multifaceted artist Michael Stipe has collaborated with the writer and artist Douglas Coupland on an investigation of how analog imagery is crashing on the shores of our digital future. For Stipe the signature mark of this phenomenon is the moiré pattern. Culled from Stipe’s vast archive of personal images, the book is a contemplation on the tug-of-war between pixels and halftone, between past memory and new memory and their vagaries of representation.

As an undergraduate studio art major at the University of Georgia, Michael Stipe (born 1960) studied photography and painting before leaving school upon the formation of R.E.M., the band for which he served as frontman and singer/songwriter until its dissolution in 2011. The sensibility that he began to develop during his time as an art student transferred to his spectrum of work for R.E.M., from art directing all graphic, video and stage design, to writing, composing and performance, and his iconoclastic personal style. Stipe’s visibility as a media figure in the popular culture of the 1980s and ’90s left an indelible mark on the aesthetic trends of the time, many of which have trickled down to contemporary culture.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 52   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862086783 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $85.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

Michael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference Times, Limited EditionMichael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference Times, Limited Edition

A Visual Record

Published by Damiani.

This limited edition of 30 copies comes with a signed and numbered print by Michael Stipe.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 13 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 52   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862086813 SDNR20
List Price: $600.00 CDN $800.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

Michael Stipe: Volume 1Michael Stipe: Volume 1

Published by Damiani.

Volume 1 is the first in a series of publications presenting different aspects of Michael Stipe’s multifaceted artistic practice.

Volume 1 includes a focused presentation of 35 images, bringing together 37 years of Stipe’s practice of creating and collecting photographic materials, in addition to posing as a subject in the photographs of others. The book centers around his unconventional and deeply personal understanding of queerness, conflating figures in his own life with those in American history and popular culture. Throughout the book, the formal qualities of images often relate in a poetic or lyrical way, allowing for unlikely juxtapositions and connections to emerge between subjects. These relationships transcend logical associations between time, place and social structures.

Volume 1 is produced in collaboration with artist Jonathan Berger and designer Julian Bittiner.

As an undergraduate studio art major at the University of Georgia, Michael Stipe (born 1960) studied photography and painting before leaving school upon the formation of R.E.M., the band for which he served as frontman and singer/songwriter until its dissolution in 2011. The sensibility that he began to develop during his time as an art student transferred to the spectrum of his work for R.E.M., from art directing all graphic, video and stage design, to writing, composing and performance, and his iconoclastic personal style. Stipe’s visibility as a media figure in the popular culture of the 1980s and ‘90s left an indelible mark on the aesthetic trends of the time, many of which have trickled down to contemporary culture.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 13 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 73   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862085915 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CDN $60.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Michael Stipe: Volume 1Michael Stipe: Volume 1

Limited Edition

Published by Damiani.

Published in a run of 20 signed copies, this limited edition of Michael Stipe's (born 1960) Volume 1 includes the 19 x 12¾" print The Last Time I Saw River—a photograph that Stipe shot while driving away from the set of the last movie that his friend River Phoenix made. The image is unique within the book insofar as it is the only picture lacking people.

Volume 1 is a focused presentation of 35 images, bringing together 37 years of Stipe's practice of creating and collecting photographic materials, in addition to posing as a subject in the photographs of others.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Special edition, 9 x 13 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 103   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862086158 SDNR20
List Price: $600.00 CDN $795.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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