DelMonico Books

Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs

Published with Art Gallery of Ontario.

As the bass player for the iconic 90s alternative rock bands Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Auf der Maur toured the world, documenting life backstage, onstage and in the crowd. She instinctively turned the camera on herself as the most intimately available subject, as informed by her studies at Concordia University where her professor, Raymonde April, introduced her to the subjective self-portraits of Francesca Woodman. By the time she joined Hole for their Live Through This world tour, she requested a roll of 35mm film backstage at every venue. Her daily practice, continually documenting herself and her surroundings, expanded through her creative uses of self-timers and cable releases to take snapshots in the middle of performances. . . . . Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.

Edited with text by Sophie Hackett, Jim Shedden. Foreword by Stephan Jost. Text by Melissa Auf der Maur, Ann Powers, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Kevin Moore, Michael Stipe.

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Reel Art Press

The Ivy Look A to Z

The Essential Guide for Modernist Cats

Authored by a leading expert on the style, The Ivy Look A to Z is a celebration of the clothing and accessories of the Ivy Look. First emerging in the Ivy League schools of America's East Coast during the 1950s and '60s, the Ivy Look has had a lasting sartorial impact on fashion and culture. Democratic, stylish and comfortable, it has been embraced by presidents, film stars, businessmen and hipsters alike. With its understated yet carefully curated components, the Ivy Look embodies an approachable correctness and laid-back confidence.
This visual lexicon showcases all the Ivy essentials and how to wear them—including D for Desert Boots, L for Loafers, M for Madras, O for Oxford Shirts and T for Trench Coats. Each entry . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 208 pgs / 180 color / 20 b&w.

By Graham Marsh.

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Fraenkel Gallery

Robert Adams: Contact

Robert Adams’ photographs of the Western landscape are iconic reminders of nature’s resilience in the face of human development. But as this collection of never-before-published contact sheets shows, his precise arrangements of clouds, trees and roads under clear Colorado light were not inevitable. Instead, they are the result of Adams’ relentless searching for form and his inimitable, exacting photographic technique, as evidenced by prints marked with cropping lines, exposure times and other notes. The book pairs around 50 photographs with their original contact sheets, each showing the exposures from a single roll of medium format film, or with contact-printed 4x5 negatives and pencil-drawn printing guides. The photographs span 20 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, just before Adams traded these . . . . Clth, 12 x 13 in. / 108 pgs / 52 color / 50 tritone.

Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel, Ola Dlugosz. Introduction by Jeffrey Fraenkel.

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DelMonico Books

Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudo & NUNO

Trade Edition

Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Since joining NUNO (“fabric” in Japanese) in 1984 and becoming the firm’s creative director in 1987, Reiko Sudo has pioneered innovative fabrics that merge tradition with technology, and handcraft with experimentation. Textile Alchemy accompanies the largest presentation of Sudo’s textiles in the United States and showcases approximately 100 fabrics alongside sketches and prototypes that immerse visitors in NUNO’s shifting textures and inventive surfaces—from rust-dyed rayons and feathers encased in silk organzas to chrome-plated fabrics and upcycled plant-fiber weaves. This richly illustrated publication explores Sudo's career through essays examining her design philosophy, NUNO’s place in contemporary Japanese culture and the groundbreaking technical innovations behind the firm’s renowned textiles. Featuring striking photography of both finished textiles . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.

Edited with text by Sharon Sadako Takeda. Foreword by Michael Govan. Preface by Toyo Ito, Kunihiko Moriguchi. Text by Rika Iezumi Hiro, Ryu Niimi, Naomi Pollock, Reiko Sudo.

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DelMonico Books

Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudo & NUNO

Special Edition

Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Since joining NUNO (“fabric” in Japanese) in 1984 and becoming the firm’s creative director in 1987, Reiko Sudo has pioneered innovative fabrics that merge tradition with technology, and handcraft with experimentation. Textile Alchemy accompanies the largest presentation of Sudo’s textiles in the United States and showcases approximately 100 fabrics alongside sketches and prototypes that immerse visitors in NUNO’s shifting textures and inventive surfaces—from rust-dyed rayons and feathers encased in silk organzas to chrome-plated fabrics and upcycled plant-fiber weaves. This richly illustrated publication explores Sudo's career through essays examining her design philosophy, NUNO’s place in contemporary Japanese culture and the groundbreaking technical innovations behind the firm’s renowned textiles. Featuring striking photography of both finished textiles . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.

Edited with text by Sharon Sadako Takeda. Foreword by Michael Govan. Preface by Toyo Ito, Kunihiko Moriguchi. Text by Rika Iezumi Hiro, Ryu Niimi, Naomi Pollock, Reiko Sudo.

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Gregory R. Miller & Co.

Carroll Dunham: Studio on Another Planet

Across more than five decades, American artist Carroll Dunham (born 1949) has amassed a provocative body of work in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture by combining human anatomy, landscape and abstract forms, often to surreal effect. His distinctive visual language, informed equally by art history and pop culture, is characterized by thick black outlines, vibrant color and psychologically heightened environments. Studio on Another Planet showcases the artist’s latest body of work, completed between 2022 and 2026: 24 paintings, 46 drawings and 5 monotypes depicting a fictional sculptor’s interplanetary voyage of self-discovery. In addition to full-color reproductions of the artworks, the monograph includes two new texts that explore Dunham’s artistic vision: a critical text by author Naomi Fry and an interview by . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 112 pgs / 82 color.

Text by Naomi Fry. Interview by Matthew Ritchie.

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Dancing Foxes Press

Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People

Published with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Working across performance, publishing, urban intervention and long-term social engagement, New York–based artist Mary Ellen Carroll (born 1961) uses conversation, contracts, zoning codes and bureaucratic processes as the key components of their conceptual language. Their practice unfolds through law, architecture and lived systems rather than discrete objects. The artist often operates in real time and in public view, embracing uncertainty, risk and contradiction as generative conditions. How To Talk Dirty and Influence People offers a comprehensive overview of Carroll’s work since the 1980s. Bringing together performance documentation, new critical essays, commissioned fiction and poetry and conversations with the artist, this publication presents the oeuvre of an artist whose work insists that speech, negotiation and persistence are . . . . Hbk, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 336 pgs / 251 color / 9 b&w.

Edited by Rebecca Matalon, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder. Introduction and text by Rebecca Matalon. Text by D. Graham Burnett, Pamela M. Lee, Iman Mersal, Kathryn Scanlan. Interviews by David Joselit, Hamza Walker.

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siglio

three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing)

Though there are 365 exercises for writing in this book, three six five is not simply a book of writing exercises. It is a "how-to" book of questions rather than answers, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an ars poetica of expanding possibility. Tracing the lineage of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, Lucy Ives here offers encouragement, candor and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders and challenges of writing life. These prompts—in alchemical combinations with drawings by Nick Mauss—offer ways to become a (better) writer through observation, reorientation, inquiry, play and engagement with the world and its inhabitants. They invite the writer to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and . . . . Hbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 416 pgs / 42 b&w.

By Lucy Ives. Illustrations by Nick Mauss.

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DelMonico Books

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

Published with Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art.

This book is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art and jazz scenes. Abercrombie was a creative force of singular vision who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings full of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary and a restrained palette, she produced potent images that speak to her mercurial nature and her evolving psychology as an artist. Cats, owls, doors, moons, barren trees, seashells and searching female figures all converge in her mysterious works, which suggest a life of purposeful introspection and emotional struggle. Drawing consistently on her dreams . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 206 color.

Edited with text by Eric Crosby, Sarah Humphreville. Foreword by Eric Crosby, Jacqueline Terrassa. Text by Katie Anania, Donna Cassidy, John Corbett. Chronology by Cynthia Stucki.

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Steidl/Birkenstock

The Book of Birkenstock

The Birkenstock brand is adored the world over for its function-first footwear and commitment to high-quality European production. Its sandals and famous cork footbeds have filtered into countless cultures and subcultures over many decades. The rich visual history of the Birkenstock brand and the creativity it has inspired over the years is gathered here in book form for the first time.
The Book of Birkenstock provides a lush, image-led history of the company, its family origins in shoemaking and its relationship with the health and fashion industries. It also offers a peek behind the scenes into the company’s German production and world-leading design processes that form the Birkenstock footbed, appreciated by millions of wearers. Enhancing this narrative, The Book of Birkenstock is . . . . Pbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 688 pgs / 920 color / 188 b&w.

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Lars Müller Publishers

Helvetica forever

Story of a Typeface

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design, and emblematic of the sober, functional communication adopted throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The font’s balanced and perceived neutral appearance forgoes a high degree of expressivity—a quality for which it is both criticized and admired. This polarization has helped it gain unparalleled notoriety. First published in 2009 and since out of print, Helvetica forever returns in a smaller and more affordable paperback format. The book retraces Helvetica’s 50-year history, compares it to the well-known sans serif fonts of the 20th century and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread. The study grows from the archive of Alfred Hoffmann, the former director of the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei . . . . Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 128 color / 22 b&w.

Edited with text by Victor Malsy, Lars Müller. Text by Indra Kupferschmid, Axel Langer. Afterword by Alfred E. Hoffmann.

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Reel Art Press

John Simons: Since 1955

British designer John Simons (born 1939) has been the definitive voice on Ivy League style in the UK for 70 years, shaping the way that generations of men dress both in London and around the world. He is responsible for naming the "Harrington" jacket and introducing terms such as "button down," "Weejuns" and "workwear" into the modern style lexicon. Blending the finest contemporary items with elusive vintage pieces, his unique approach to curation draws from music, film and art and has had an enduring sartorial influence on menswear worldwide.
John Simons: Since 1955 celebrates 70 years of Simons' style and innovation, exploring the cultural forces that inspired him, showcasing customers in their finest Ivy threads and delving into his deep love of . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 208 pgs / 180 color / 20 b&w.

Edited by Paul Simons, Tony Nourmand, Kinara Pegorini. Text by Paul Simons, Graham Marsh.

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Steidl

Jackie Nickerson: Clad

Photographer Jackie Nickerson (born 1960) has worked for some of the world's leading luxury brands and magazines, including Louis Vuitton, Yeezy, Hermès, Dior, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and yet her fashion photography maintains an anti-commercial stance, the conviction that dressing and dressing up are less about clothes and more about the selves they help us to discover. "I think of clothing as a kind of architecture and part of my job is to find the right environment for it," she says. Often these environments are outside, shaped by changing rhythms of light and a sense of narrative, sometimes theatrical, nearly always open-ended. Clad is the first book wholly dedicated to Nickerson's fashion photography. In 400 pages and nearly as many images, . . . . Pbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 400 pgs / 326 color / 60 b&w.

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HENI Publishing

The Zaha Hadid Interviews

This volume gathers 12 conversations between the architect Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) and Hans Ulrich Obrist, conducted between 2001 and 2013. Across these exchanges, Hadid reflects on architecture as a field of experimentation shaped by drawing, exhibition-making, urbanism and new technologies. The interviews trace the evolution of her thinking from early speculative projects to the realization of major cultural buildings, including museums and civic spaces across Europe, Asia and the United States. Hadid discusses interior complexity, movement and perception, the testing of ideas through exhibitions and installations and the relationship between architecture, art and performance. She also addresses collaboration, authorship and the challenges of translating radical ideas into built form. Illustrated with drawings and paintings—some of which are published here for the . . . . Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 204 pgs / 76 color / 20 b&w.

By Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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DelMonico Books

Kathy Butterly: Assume Yes

Published with Tang Museum at Skidmore College.

Clever, mischievous, seductive, defiant—for over three decades, American sculptor Kathy Butterly (born 1963) has captivated viewers with her experimental and expressive ceramic works. Her signature small-scale porcelain and earthenware pieces evoke a range of moods, incorporating surprising color and textures in her masterful deployment of ceramic techniques. In a gesture that veers toward iconoclasm, Butterly contorts traditional vessel forms, producing biomorphic, individualistic creations that seem to bend and fold. Every detail of a Butterly sculpture—from pools of orange glaze to pearlescent beads of clay—is an essential part of its composition. Published concurrently with Butterly's expansive exhibition at the Tang Museum, Assume Yes is a major monographic survey of her sculptural and ceramic work. It spans . . . . Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 230 color.

Edited with interview by Ian Berry. Text by Forrest Gander, Theodora Bocanegra Lang, Nancy Princenthal, Elena Sisto.

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