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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/15/2025Tuesday, July 15, through Monday, July 21, please join Artbook | D.A.P. in the Aesthetic Movement Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view a curated selection of new books on art and culture for Summer and Fall 2025!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/11/2025Join Artbook | D.A.P. July 11–13 in Booth A-17 at the 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair, hosted by the Minnesota Street Project. Our booth will feature new and classic books from a range of our most charming and challenging international publishers. Preview is Thursday evening, July 10, from 6–10 PM. All events are free and open to the public!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/6/2025There is a reason Jeffrey Gibson was selected to represent the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. And it’s not because he’s Native American, and it’s not because he’s gay. It’s because he is the best. Now, the astonishing, challenging, celebratory and totally uncompromising work that he exhibited in Venice can be seen in a new iteration at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. This show, and the next-level catalog that accompanies it, prove without question that Gibson more than deserves the MacArthur genius award that he received in 2019. Printed with a variety of special papers, custom inks, multicolored ribbons, gatefolds and fold-out posters, the space in which to place me is unlike any other book. It conveys perfectly the complex physical content of the exhibition—which includes performance, sculpture, painting, programming and more—and the intellectual content of the work—encompassing such themes as inclusivity, community, dignity and tradition. Text contributions are by an esteemed group of scholars and collaborators.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/3/2025The Fourth of July holiday is both fun and loaded. But whether you love the barbeques and the fireworks, or you fixate on contradictory aspects of our country’s history, we think there’s something special about this 1935 Lobster photograph by Madame Yevonde. Reproduced from Chromotherapia, it’s one of 170 “feel-good” color photographs selected by artist and Toilet Paper editor Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé for their unusual intensity. “Color photography is often criticized and belittled,” Cattelan and Stourdzé write, “but it has been a bonanza for artists, allowing them to get out their palettes and repaint the world. Some have broken with the medium’s traditional documentary role to explore photography’s shared roots with the world of the imagination, flirting with pop culture, Surrealism, bling, camp, kitsch and the bizarre—all associated with bad taste and extravagance. But why shouldn’t the trivial and the banal also have something to tell us about our existence and the age we live in? Why should rigorous, ascetic minimalism be the only way to approach reality?”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/30/2025Monday, June 30, from 6–8 PM, Fort Greene's Head Hi presents the first installment of its esteemed New York Architecture + Design Book Club with a focus on Lars Müller Publishers' new, expanded edition of 'Jasper Morrison: A Book of Things.' Nick Olney, President at Kasmin Gallery, where Morrison had his first solo gallery exhibition in North America, and Jonathan Olivares, Creative Director at Knoll, will be in conversation.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/30/2025 This photograph—by Dae Howerton and Dallas J. Logan—of Los Angeles community organizer, urban gardener, humanitarian, artist, designer, father and “ecolutionary” Ron Finley is reproduced from staff favorite new release Ron Finley: The Gangsta Gardener. The first book devoted to this heroic horticulturalist, The Gangsta Gardener chronicles Finley’s journey from 2009, when he was first fined for planting vegetables, fruit trees and flowers in barren spaces around his neighborhood, through his participation in the 2024 Hammer Museum exhibition, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice. “Growing your own food is a human right! Or it should be!” he writes in the book. “Being healthy is a form of resistance. Swords to Plowshares. Let your shovel be your Weapon of Choice to change the system of food inequality. Raise Your Spades!”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/27/2025An image we love always, but especially over Pride weekend here in NYC, Kent Monkman’s “The Great Mystery” (2022) is reproduced from History is Painted by the Victors, the catalog to the renowned Cree Canadian artist’s current show at the Denver Art Museum—his first major museum exhibition in the United States. Generally organized around Monkman’s alter ego, “Miss Chief,” this volume takes on issues of colonization and queerness, dark histories and corrective imaginations, with dark humor and pointed fury. “The subjects of Monkman’s paintings range from brutal scenes of oppression to moments of lament and celebrations of triumph and valor,” John P. Lukavic and Léuli Eshroghi write. “They challenge authority, or rather authorship, of the official colonial histories that many have learned and perpetuated. Some of these works are allegorical or metaphorical, while others are of known moments in history. If you find Monkman’s work challenging, enlightening, offensive, affirming or validating, it is absolutely meant for you.” They conclude: “A little mischief can lead to monumental change.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/26/2025In March of 2024, Letterform Archive Books published The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930, a breathtaking compendium of the influential interwar Japanese commercial design journal that Steven Heller has described as “the holy grail of graphic design artifacts representing the art deco, or Moderne, period.” Now, Letterform Archive Books has collected twenty of the most charming designs and published them as a collection of forty postcards, housed in what might be the cutest box of all time.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/25/2025Wednesday, June 25, from 6–7:45 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents 'Fire Island Invasion' photographer Anderson Zaca in conversation with essayist Thom (Panzi) Hansen, leader of the original 1976 invasion. The discussion will be followed by a book signing.
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 6/22/2025Sunday, June 22, at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a conversation celebrating the exhibition and catalog 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger.' Acclaimed artist Dawoud Bey, book designer Joseph Logan, and Michelle Kuo, MoMA’s Chief Curator at Large and Publisher, will discuss Whitten’s unceasingly innovative forms of abstraction, and illuminate Whitten’s own writings, histories and visions of the future.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/22/2025Published to accompany the Hammer Museum’s groundbreaking and wildly popular recent Alice Coltrane exhibition, this beautifully designed and lovingly assembled clothbound hardcover with gold stamped lettering and tipped-on cover image sold out almost immediately. We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new printing! Pairing Coltrane’s work and cultural legacy with works by 19 contemporary artists—including Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and Jennie C. Jones, among others—Monument Eternal is an exquisitely considered and produced design object as well as a must-have volume of scholarship for collectors of books on art, music, Vedic religious practices or Black cultural history. Named after Coltrane’s iconic 1977 book (written in order to “fulfill a divine command”), Monument Eternal “calls forth her important autobiography and brings together a collective of contemporary Black American artists who are influenced by her cultural impact and production,” Erin Christovale writes. She concludes, “I believe Coltrane’s legacy resonates with so many, specifically with the group of artists included in this exhibition, because her story offers a self-paved path toward liberation and pursuit of the divine.” Photo: Alice Coltrane, c. 1978. Courtesy of the John & Alice Coltrane Home.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/21/2025Saturday, June 21, from 1–2 PM, the International Center of Photography presents photographer Anderson Zaca speaking about his practice and his new release—'Fire Island Invasion: Day of Independence,' published by Damiani—at ICP’s Photobook Club. This event is free to attend.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/20/2025 Whether you’re a connoisseur of post-war Japanese photography or a die-hard cat lover, Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke is a book for life. Featuring tipped-on front and back cover images and 115 gorgeously printed duotone 1970s and 80s photographs of renowned photographer Masahisa Fukase’s cats Sasuke and Momoe jumping, sleeping, biting, hiding, escaping, playing, plotting, climbing, staring and especially yawning, this highly collectible photobook is infused with fascination. Featured photograph is of Sasuke as a kitten.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/13/2025Nydia Blas’ extraordinary new photobook lives up to its name. Published by Image Text Ithaca Press, Love, You Came from Greatness is the rising Atlanta-based photographer, educator and community organizer’s first major monograph. Born in Ithaca, New York, for this project Blas returned to her hometown to explore her past and present roots, going back more than a century. This quietly profound artist’s book blends new and archival photographs to produce a meaningful portrait over generations. “It is so important to keep saying that there is power in looking, and that your viewpoint is really important,” Blas is quoted. “And that what you have to say is really important.” Her dedication at the beginning of the book? “To love, for being the only thing that can save us.” The ingenious production of the book is also worth noting. Perfect-bound with silkscreen on gold paper and cloth-wrapped boards, it is all and only its own. Featured here, “Ithaca, New York, 2013. Rosario Williams, my daughter.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/12/2025Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama (1956) is reproduced from Gordon Parks: Segregation Story—one of the great photography books of the twentieth century and perhaps Parks’ photographic masterpiece—recently expanded to include 30 previously unpublished photographs and a new essay by artist Dawoud Bey, among other special features. “In picture after picture,” Bey writes, we see that “deliberate choices of tool, material and sensibility lend the Black Southern presence, often under siege, a sense of lives fully and expressively lived. We see Black subjects and spaces that are rendered with all of the qualities of expressivity that the medium is capable of in the hands of one seeking to use it as not only an information-gathering tool, and as a ‘weapon against all the things I dislike about America,’ as Parks once stated, but also as a transformative tool capable of reshaping the experience of the world, and the Southern Black peoples who lived in it, into photographs that are the equal of those made by others whose works are considered formative to the medium’s expressive potential.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/9/2025“So I have done what I wanted to do, I have seen everything, misery, celebrity, the beautiful people, the wicked ones, generosity and hatred. But I think I have gone beyond my vision.... In the heart of my own life, in the heart of other people’s lives. Perhaps that is the most important thing I have done.” So noted nonagenarian American documentary photographer Bruce Davidson is quoted in the new Steidl monograph, The Way Back, collecting four decades of previously unpublished images from Davidson’s archives, selected by the artist himself. Pictured here, “East 100th Street, New York” (1966).
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 6/8/2025Sunday, June 8 at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents J. Hoberman discussing 'Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.' To celebrate this new work Hoberman will be in conversation with Melissa Rachleff Burtt.
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 6/7/2025Saturday, June 7 at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a conversation about Jeanette Spicer’s 'To the Ends of the Earth.' The event will include a discussion between Jeanette Spicer, her mother Marcia Buckley, and partner Sara Duell, moderated by contributor to the publication Keren Moscovitch.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/5/2025Featured spreads are from MFA Publications’ new release, Robert Frank: Mary’s Book, a facsimile reprint of the photographer’s poetic 1949 Paris photobook, made for an audience of one. In its new incarnation, this stitched, 7 x 9.5-inch volume with spot varnished images and faithful reproductions of the original paper—stains, notes (English and French), erasures and all—comes housed in a larger clothbound hardcover book that features additional photographs, essays by Frank scholar Stuart Alexander and MFA curator Kristen Gresh, and annotations transcribing and translating Frank’s notes in the photobook that he produced for his beloved, Mary Lockspeiser, just one year before they would marry, in 1950, in New York City. “On the book’s cover is its simply written raison d’être,” Alexander writes: “‘This is for you. It is not much but I promised you a little story. Maybe this is not a story.’ Mary’s Book, a love letter from Robert to Mary, is a series of unbound pages nestled within one another, filled with handwritten notes and hand-cut prints. The book is more than a keepsake of their burgeoning love affair. It was an important exercise in bookmaking for Frank, evidence of his maturing artistic vision, which led to one of the most influential photobooks of the twentieth century, The Americans (1958).”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/2/2025June 3, 4 and 5, please join publishers Naomi Yang and Damon Krukowski and editor Isabel Ochoa Gold to celebrate the publication of 'Immemory: Gutenberg Version.'
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/1/2025Out now from MASP and KMEC Books, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is, unfortunately, perfectly timed for this moment in America—not only looking back to our recent pandemic, but applied to the current administration’s epic war on diversity, gender freedom and civil rights. The first major survey of the game-changing NYC activist artist collective whose late-80s to mid-90s graphic artworks fearlessly demanded change around the outrages of the AIDS epidemic, this indispensable catalog includes 156 reproductions of artworks, documentary photographs, pamphlets, manifestoes and other rare ephemera, alongside previously unpublished essays and historical interviews. Above: Read My Lips (Men’s version) on T-shirt. Original artwork, photocopy on paper, ACT UP, Spring AIDS Action, 1988.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/29/2025Out now from Damiani Books, Chromotherapia is edited by artist and Toilet Paper publisher Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé, who together have taken Rome by storm with this exhibition of outrageous, sweet, sexy, Surrealist and Pop color photography by some of the most interesting figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—from Yevonde Middleton to William Wegman. Featured here is American mid-century cat photographer Walter Chandoha’s Long Island (1952).
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/28/2025"Turn the lights off and dance." "Look into someone's eyes for five minutes without talking." "Cut up a piece of junk mail and make a collage." "Memorize a poem." These are just a few of the 52 suggestions in Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford's best-selling, tear-off coupon-style booklet, Offline Activities. Measuring just 5 x 2.5-inches, this adorable, perfectly provocative, pocket-sized publication encourages users to seek the kinds of surprising, intimate experiences that can only really happen IRL. So follow the instructions. Pick a page at random. Rip it out. Do the activity on the page. Repeat until the book is empty!
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