ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/25/2025 Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'DATE 6/21/2025 ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion'DATE 6/15/2025 Gasoline and Magic for Father's Day, 2025DATE 6/13/2025 In Nydia Blas' 'Love, You Came from Greatness,' the title says it allDATE 6/12/2025 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/9/2025 Four decades of previously unpublished work by Bruce DavidsonDATE 6/8/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents J. Hoberman and Melissa Rachleff Burtt on 'Everything is Now'DATE 6/7/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'DATE 6/5/2025 A love letter from Robert FrankDATE 6/2/2025 Exact Change launches Chris Marker's 'Immemory: Gutenberg Version'DATE 6/1/2025 Inspiration for now in 'Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough'DATE 6/1/2025 Pride Month Staff Picks 2025!DATE 5/29/2025 Feel-good color photography in 'Chromotherapia' | AT FIRST SIGHTTHOMAS EVANS | DATE 3/18/2011Done.Book: Picturing the City of SocietyThe methodological models for urbanism are plentiful, ranging from the recent revival in cartography to the boom in infrastructure theory, but Wolfgang Scheppe’s Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society offers a wonderfully original take on the city he has made his ongoing object of study, Venice. Migropolis, Scheppe’s massive two-volume saturation job on Venice from 2010, adopted an impressive and thorough but not unfamiliar psychogeographic method for excavating the city’s layers, in which various mappings were undertaken through walks around the city. Done.Book is a more eccentric enterprise. Described by Scheppe as “an inquiry into the depth of visual archives,” it assembles a portrait of Venice through two sets of archival materials: the notebooks used by the Victorian art writer John Ruskin (1819-1900) for his legendary 1851 study Stones of Venice and the photographic archive of one Alvio Gavagnin, a Venetian market seller and non-professional photographer who bequeathed Scheppe his archive after they met at Gavagin’s stall.![]() ![]() |