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Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out

Surfing in General 1997-2012

Published by Um Yeah Arts.
Foreword by Scott Hulet. Afterword by Ed Templeton.

Growing up in southern California, artist, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell was raised on the DIY aesthetic of the early 1980s skateboarding culture. Photography tips came from like-minded fellow photographers employed in the skateboarding press rather than from school, and art history was a matter of osmosis, not academia. In the mid-1990s, Campbell moved to New York and immersed himself in the scene around Alleged Gallery, where he quickly befriended and exhibited among the generation of artists who would star in the landmark 2004 exhibition Beautiful Losers. Campbell began documenting surfing culture in the late 1990s through both photography and film. His first feature-length film, The Seedling, came out in 1999, followed by Sprout in 2004 and The Present in 2009. Campbell’s surfing photography has long been admired among by fellow surfers for its lack of gloss finish; unlike most, he eschews the familiar fish-eye shots or tightly cropped land angles. The first of ten projected volumes in Um Yeah Press’ surf photobook series, Slide Your Brains Out compiles work from the past 15 years. Often lo-fi and gritty, other times lush and saturated, Campbell’s compositions--which include portraits and action shots of some of the best surfers in the world--are always surprising and full of emotion, from melancholy to exultation.
Thomas Campbell (born 1969) is a self-taught painter, sculpture, photographer and filmmaker. He divides his time between his painting/sculpture studio in Bonny Doon, California, and traversing the globe making films. Campbell has had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Denmark, the Netherlands, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Morocco; he is also creative director for the independent record label Galaxia, which has released records by Tommy Guerrero, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Peggy Honeywell and the Black Heart Procession.

PUBLISHER
Um Yeah Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2012
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Andrew Savulich: The City

Published by Steidl.
Text by Brendan Bernhard.

Social and cultural transition is often hard to gauge. New York in the 1980s and the first half of the 90s was clearly a different place than it is now: the city was more violent, the streets stranger, and Times Square still wonderfully sleazy. Andrew Savulich's (born 1959) subject is this perpetually changing metropolis, and his images are a unique mix of spot news and street photography, capturing crime scenes as well as everyday life. The startling immediacy of the moment prevails in his black-and-white images on which he provides handwritten captions. What at first seems like objective commentary soon reveals a dry ironic tone, at times bordering on black humor.

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Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 11 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 5/26/2015
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Victor Moscoso: Psychedelic Drawings 1967-1982

Published by Andrew Edlin Gallery.
Edited by Dan Nadel. Text by Norman Hathaway, Gail Moscoso.

This is the catalogue for the first retrospective of drawings by Victor Moscoso (born 1936), one of the preeminent graphic artists of the 20th century, who is widely renowned for his 1960s psychedelic posters and comics. Moscoso began designing posters for rock shows in San Francisco in 1966, and quickly developed a signature style in which opposite hues of the same intensity sit next to each other to create a visual "vibration" effect. This book is the first to present the full range of Moscoso's drawings for posters and comics, including original renderings for his renowned cover of Zap Comix 4 (1969), the Hocus Pocus story, posters for The Doors and The Who, and other seminal published editions. These works reveal Moscoso's dedication to expert draftsmanship in the service of graphics, as well as his graceful approach to drawing everything from dinosaurs to spaceships to humans.

PUBLISHER
Andrew Edlin Gallery

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 80 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/28/2015
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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 164   

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Ken Schles: Invisible City

Published by Steidl.
Text by Lewis Mumford, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Jean Baudrillard.

"An essential companion to the new, long-awaited reprint of Schles' gritty 1988 classic Invisible City.” –Mark Murrmann, Mother Jones

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Clth

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/24/2015
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What Nerve!

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present

Published by D.A.P..
Edited with text by Dan Nadel. Text by Robert Cozzolino, Dominic Molon, Roger Brown, John Smith, Naomi Fry, Michael Rooks, Nicole Rudick, Judith Tannenbaum.

Published with RISD Museum of Art.

What Nerve! reveals a hidden history of American figurative painting, sculpture and popular imagery. It documents and/or restages four installations, spaces or happenings, in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and Providence, which were crucial to the development of figurative art in the United States. Several of the better-known artists in What Nerve! have been the subject of significant exhibitions or publications, but this is the first major volume to focus on the broader impact of figurative art to connect artists and collectives from different generations and regions of the country. These are: from Chicago, the Hairy Who (James Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, Karl Wirsum); from California, Funk artists (Jeremy Anderson, Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, Ken Price, Peter Saul, Peter Voulkos, William T. Wiley); from Detroit, Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw); and from Providence, Forcefield (Mat Brinkman, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, Ara Peterson). Created in collaboration with artists from these groups, the historical moments at the core of What Nerve! are linked by work from six artists who profoundly influenced or were influenced by the groups: William Copley, Jack Kirby, Elizabeth Murray, Gary Panter, Christina Ramberg and H.C. Westermann. Featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and videos, as well as ephemera, wallpaper and other materials used in the reconstructed installations, the book and exhibition will broaden public exposure to the scope of this influential history. The exuberance, humor and politics of these artworks remain powerfully resonant. Much of the work in this book, including installation photos, exhibition ephemera and correspondence, is published for the first time. What Nerve! represents the first historical examination of the circumstances, relationships and works of an increasingly important lineage of American artists.

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 368 pgs / 300 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 23   

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Dennis Hopper: Drugstore Camera

Published by Damiani.
Edited by Michael Schmelling. Introduction by Marin Hopper.

Drugstore Camera feels like a stumbled-upon treasure, a disposable camera you forgot about and only just remembered to develop. Yet in this case the photographer is Dennis Hopper and the photographs, remarkably, are never before published. Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, the series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs. This clothbound collection documents Hopper's friends and family among the ruins and open vistas of the desert landscape, female nudes in shadowy interiors, road trips to and from his home state of Kansas and impromptu still lifes of discarded objects. These images, capturing iconic individuals and wide-open Western terrain, create a captivating view of the 60s and 70s that combines political idealism and optimism with California cool.
Dennis Hopper (1936–2010) was born in Dodge City, Kansas. He first appeared on television in 1954 and quickly became a cult actor, known for films such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Easy Rider (1969), The American Friend (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), Blue Velvet (1986) and Hoosiers (1986). In 1988 he directed the critically acclaimed Colors. Hopper was also a prolific photographer and published now-classic portraits of celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Martin Luther King Jr. His works are housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.25 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/26/2015
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The Art of Smallfilms

The Work of Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin

Published by Four Corners Books.
Edited by Jonny Truck, Richard Embray. Introduction by Stewart Lee. Foreword by Daniel Postgate.

Postgate & Firmin produced some of the best-loved British children’s television of the 1960s and '70s, including Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine

PUBLISHER
Four Corners Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10.25 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color / 20 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/24/2015
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Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986

Published by Metropolis Books.
By Louise Sandhaus. Contributions by Lorraine Wild, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Michael Worthington. Designed by Louise Sandhaus.

The essential record of America’s most American design movement, in a form that perfectly matches its content. — Michael Beirut

PUBLISHER
Metropolis Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.5 x 10 in. / 432 pgs / 275 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2014
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Disco

An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Disco Patrick & Patrick Vogt.

An encyclopedic guide to the cover art of disco

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 12 in. / 360 pgs / 600 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2014
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Reading Andy Warhol

Author Illustrator Publisher

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Nina Schleif. Text by Marianne Dobner, Burcu Dogramaci, Simone Förster, Birgitta Heid, Lucy Mulroney, Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox, Anna Rühl, Nina Schleif, Jordan Troeller, Reva Wolf, Matt Wrbican.

Warhol as publisher, author, book artist and illustrator

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.

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Pub Date 2/28/2014
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Tools: Extending Our Reach

Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Text by Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid.

An unprecedented survey of tools throughout human history and their role at the forefront of design

PUBLISHER
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date 2/24/2015
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Wim Wenders: Written in the West, Revisited

Published by D.A.P..
Text by Wim Wenders. Interview by Alain Bergala.

In late 1983, looking for the subjects and locations that would bring the desolate landscape of the American West to life for his iconic film Paris, Texas, German filmmaker Wim Wenders took his Makina Plaubel 6 x 7 camera on the road. Driving through Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California, Wenders was captivated by the unique, saturated, colorful light of the vast, wild landscape of the American West--even in the 20th century, a land associated with cowboys and outlaws, and suffused with the mythology of the frontier. The series he produced, Written in the West, was first exhibited in 1986 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and first published in 2000.
Roughly three decades later, in this expanded edition, Wenders adds 15 new images of the sleepy town that gave the movie its name--though no footage was ever actually shot there. Made with a Fuji 6 x 4.5 camera, the new photographs are poetic documents of an abiding fascination and a search for personal memories. Together, they add an essential new chapter to Wenders' classic Written in the West, now Revisited.
Over the past four decades, through films like Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Pina (2011), Wim Wenders (born 1945) has distinguished himself as one of the leading lights of New German Cinema and one of the great directors in contemporary film. Wenders has had an equally distinguished career in photography; his photographs are exhibited and collected internationally.

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 9 in. / 108 pages / 58 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/23/2015
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William Eggleston: From Black and White to Colour

Published by Steidl.
Text by Thomas Weski.

At the end of the 1950s William Eggleston began to photograph around his home in Memphis using black-and-white 35mm film. Fascinated by the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston declared at the time: "I couldn't imagine doing anything more than making a perfect fake Cartier-Bresson." Eventually Eggleston developed his own style which later shaped his seminal work in color-an original vision of the American everyday with its icons of banality: supermarkets, diners, service stations, automobiles and ghostly figures lost in space. From Black and White to Color includes some exceptional as-yet-unpublished photographs, and displays the evolution, ruptures and above all the radicalness of Eggleston's work when he began photographing in color at the end of the 1960s. Here we discover similar obsessions and recurrent themes as present in his early black-and-white work including ceilings, food, and scenes of waiting, as well as Eggleston's unconventional croppings-all definitive traits of the photographer who famously proclaimed, "I am at war with the obvious."

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2014
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ISBN 9783869307930 TRADE
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