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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/27/2024Hello Detroit! Friday, September 27 from 6–7 PM, Source Booksellers celebrates the storied career of the beloved letterpress printer whose posters spread messages of racial justice! Please join Source for this highly anticipated occasion, including a few questions and a book signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/14/2024Saturday, September 14 from 2–3 PM, the Queens Museum presents acclaimed artist and photographer Lyle Ashton Harris and scholar Nana Adusei-Poku as they delve into topics around self-care and representation explored in Harris’s exhibition, 'Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love.' Book signing to follow.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/12/2024Thursday, September 12 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tony Nourmand of Reel Art Press—a world authority on film posters—to celebrate '1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times,' RAP's beautiful, definitive, 640-page compendium of the art form. In conversation with Angelina Lippert of Poster House, followed by a signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/12/2024Thursday, September 12 at 6 PM, Printed Matter Chelsea presents a conversation between Portland, Oregon–based photographer and zinemaker Rian Dundon and Tod Lippy, whose new imprint, Mirrorical, is publishing Dundon’s latest volume, 'Passenger.' The 96-page large-format book juxtaposes Dundon’s forensic depictions of scenes from a battered city with intimate—and at times, heartbreaking—photographs of friends and family.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/9/2024 Featured photograph, by Bernard Gotfryd of Nina Simone with James Baldwin (1965), is from new release This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance, edited by Hilton Als and Rhea L. Combs and published to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. “The musician Nina Simone met James Baldwin through their mutual friend Lorraine Hansberry. Following the success of her groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Hansberry had committed herself to educating others she felt could contribute to raising awareness about the cause of equal rights. By introducing Simone to Baldwin and the poet Langston Hughes, Hansberry ensured her close friend would be embraced by other queer writers who understood something about difference. … Baldwin and Simone shared a great bond: the desire to marry anger to lyricism while refusing to separate the personal from the political.”
SKUTA HELGASON | DATE 9/7/2024 Saturday, September 7 from 4–5:30 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore invites you to celebrate 'Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between,' published by Frances Lincoln, with author Gemma Rolls-Bentley in conversation with Kari Rittenbach and Daniel Schaeffer.
LACY SOTO | DATE 9/7/2024 Join Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore Saturday, September 7, at 3 PM for the LA book launch of 'Growing Up in Alphabet City: The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret' with artist Michael Doret in conversation with graphic designer, calligrapher and former Disney marketing exec John Sabel. Book signing with Doret to follow.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/6/2024Featured spreads are from new release Omen: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive, launching in New York this weekend with a panel and signing at the ICP Photobook Fest. Drawing from approximately 40,000 works of the FSA Photographic Archive (1935–42) at the New York Public Library, and gorgeously printed in the deepest of black inks, this oversized paperback tells the darker version of the American story under the stark terms of injustice. “It is an uncovering of a more or less literal grave, a grave made out of light, to borrow a phrase from the poet Alice Notley. And it is a reanimation of the bodies found there, who are also figures of brightness and shadow. … The horror of Omen is not that this is happening to someone over there. The horror of Omen is that this is happening to me. This picture was already inside me. I can’t get it out.” Photographs are by Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein and Gordon Parks.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/6/2024Join us September 6–8 for the ICP Photobook Fest, featuring wall-to-wall photobooks from across our list with special selections from Twin Palms Publishers, Steidl, Damiani and RM. We are excited to be hosting ten signings over three days, with photographers including Lyle Ashton Harris, Chloe Sherman and Lucas Blalock, to name a few! We will also be featuring a selection of rare signed copies from our archives.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/3/2024Featured spreads are from Letterform Archive Books’ gorgeous and galvanizing new release, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer, on the legendary Detroit-based letterpress master whose type-driven messages of social justice and Black power have been stating truth and spreading inspiration for the last four decades. “Understand that, for me, printing is commerce, not capitalism,” Kennedy, Jr. writes. “It is a trade between one who practices a skill and another who values it. This trade directly empowers the skilled worker, not the capitalist who profits off that worker.
Understand that my very existence is protest.
The existence of Black people in America is an act of protest, of survival.
Everything I do is a manifestation of that protest.
Understand that my connection with the universe is most present in the printshop—that my deep love of printing for the masses has led me to a deep connection with ALL.
With time, I have realized that my people are actually ALL peoples.
Some folks have told me that my story has changed their lives—that my decision to leave a life as a business bureaucrat in favor of one as a letterpress printer gave them permission to leave the path they happened to be traveling for the path they truly wanted to travel. ‘I must go forth,’ they said.
I feel it is my duty to continue to make these cracks in our inhumane society so that others will have space to live their lives.
And the spaces that they make will expand the cracks for others, just as the space I make expands the cracks made by my ancestors.
One day our growth will rumble down the walls that separate our humanity.
I try to print a world into existence that is as welcoming and nurturing as the universe is to me, and I urge others to agitate, agitate, agitate for a world that is welcoming and nurturing to them.
I print for the glory of my peoples.”
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/1/2024 This weekend, we are all-in to celebrate the universally awesome feeling of a non-denominational, unpoliticized, last-hurrah-style, extra day off before our official work year begins. Let us hope that those of us who must still labor are earning king-size tips or getting overtime. To mark the occasion, we pulled a poster from Reel Art Press’s expertly curated and beautifully produced 640-page labor of love, 1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times. Featured here is French master graphic artist René Péron’s 1953 two-panel poster for Fred Zinnemann’s iconic, multi-Oscar-winning, Hollywood-goes-to-Hawaii wartime melodrama, From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed, among other supporting stars. Happy Labor Day, one and all!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/29/2024Made from recycled leather, seashells, sand dollars, acrylic paint, PVC pipe, galvanized steel, muslin, and recycled poly fibers, Mutasis Moon (2021) is reproduced from new release Tau Lewis, published to accompany the exhibition opening this week at ICA Boston. Book collectors take note: this is the first monograph on the thirty-year-old Jamaican-Canadian artist whose sculptural assemblage addresses Afro-Atlantic diasporic traditions. Of this particular work, ICA Boston curator Jeffrey De Blois writes, “Mutasis Moon stands tenderly with arms outstretched as if waiting for an embrace, a figure of hope and transcendence. Made from found fabric remains, it is as if this being traveled through a portal and arrived, alive and listening. It is infused with spirit, and in its presence, we remember our own smallness, our own vulnerability. In that encounter, even as we move through expansive geographies, reverberating across space and time, through the world of associations drawn together by Lewis’s capacious work, we are ultimately brought into contact with ourselves. Within every work, like hidden objects, is an invitation to consider how we might conserve our own spirit, and how ideas of material transformation always relate to our own.”
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/26/2024 Featured here is panel 58 of Jacob Lawrence's 1940–41 multi-panel masterwork, The Migration Series, Back in Stock from MoMA at a time when our country is addressing issues of civil rights, antiracism and migration with fresh energy. This particular panel is captioned: "In the North the Negro had better educational facilities." Elsewhere in the book Lawrence is quoted, looking back on the darkest days of slavery from the vantage of 1940: "We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than people today, could conquer their slavery, we certainly can do the same… I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/18/2024Thirty years before broad dating platforms like Match.com, forty years before niche sites like CougarLife and FarmersOnly, and fifty years before the total swipe-right takeover of apps like Grindr, Bumble, Feeld and Tinder, there was Operation Match—the very first computer dating service, developed and launched in 1965 by a curious Harvard undergrad from Auburn, Maine. Spreads here are from Operation Match: Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating, authored by real-time Jeff Tarr authority, Patsy Tarr. Not only does the book—designed by world-renowned consultancy Pentagram—detail the history of Operation Match with a wealth of archival materials, essays and iconic quotations that build a multi-dimensional portrait of the times, but it gets into important moments and societal changes like the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and feminism that would forever change our culture, and thus the dating game.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/15/2024Thursday, August 15 at 5 PM, East Hampton bookseller BookHampton presents Jeff Tarr—creator of the world's first dating service, developed when he was 1962 Harvard freshman—in conversation with Patsy Tarr, author of the new book, 'Operation Match: Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating.' Discover how Jeff transformed college social life and sparked a cultural revolution!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/15/2024Back by popular demand! We are excited to announce the reprint of What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined, Nicole Rudick's remarkable biography of the visionary French artist, assembled from Saint Phalle's paintings, drawings, sketches and writings—many of which had been previously unpublished. "Put together, the distinct works in this book make a non-narrative story," Rudick writes. "I intend them to be read in sequence, cover to cover. Subjects recur and vibrate against and contradict one another. They make meaning through their contiguity, their role in a syntactic construction (each work a word in a sentence, a sentence in a paragraph, and so on). Certain emblematic images reappear, too—trees, monsters, snakes, birds—but shift in meaning, from iteration to iteration, as words do. Each work can be read and understood on its own, but when they come together, we get a bigger picture of Saint Phalle’s inner world. It is a picture I have put together, but who’s to say it wasn’t already there, just needed a different way of reading and looking? This book is an act of cooperation or participation between Saint Phalle and me, and the reader, too. A cooperative, to borrow from Roland Barthes: 'To the United Readers and Lovers.' It contains gaps and breaths, an abiding and uncertain openness that characterizes not only the progress of a conversation but the progress of living."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/13/2024Movie lovers, graphic designers and poster collectors, rejoice! Reel Art Press’s long-awaited, 640-page colossus 1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times has arrived at last. Edited by world film-poster authority Tony Nourmand and featuring 950 color reproductions and 150 black-and-white, this lovingly assembled (if back-breaking) compendium features posters from more than 20 countries and work by more than 140 art directors and illustrators—and includes several posters that have never been published before. Featured here is the 1944 poster for Teen Age, a “zero-budget exploitation flick that recycled footage from Gambling With Souls (1936) and Slaves in Bondage (1937),” according to Nourmand and text contributor Alison Elangasinghe. “The film is unwatchable by modern standards, yet its beautiful poster art is still able to arrest 80 years after it was hastily printed. The film took its title from the hot new phrase of 1944, ‘teen age’—coined to label the distinct spending power of the hormone-fueled 14- to 18-year-old age group. In the April 1945 issue of American Speech, it was listed in the ‘new words’ section, while in 1947 Encyclopaedia Britannica identified ‘teen ager’ as a new word coined in 1944.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/11/2024Featured photograph—taken in Coney Island, NYC, sometime between 1952 and 1958—is from Twin Palms Publishers' revelatory 2024 collection of Garry Winogrand’s rarely-seen color photography, culled from more than 45,000 slides made between the early 1950s and the late 1960s. "Winogrand’s color work confronts us with [an] intimate, flashing mirror," editor Michael Almereyda writes, "disclosing yearning and loss within American commotion and plenitude, all the while serving up sharp glimpses of the commonplace—the face of a sleeping boy gilded with Coney Island sand, a young woman’s profile suspended over a half-eaten plate of eggs—that cross into the realm of lyric contemplation.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/10/2024Saturday, August 10, from 4–5:30 PM, Martha’s Vineyard Museum presents artist Lyle Ashton Harris in conversation with Lauren Haynes, Head Curator at Governors Island Arts, moderated by James Powell. Book signing to follow.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/9/2024Don't miss Pacita Abad—on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2 and a “thrilling” recent critic's pick in the New York Times. Spreads here are from the Walker Art Center's superbly-designed, first-ever retrospective catalog on the exuberant, internationally itinerant Filipino textile-plus artist. “Textiles, for Abad, were more than a material consideration,” Walker curator Victoria Sung writes. “They constituted a theoretical modality—one that incorporated feminist, transnational and decolonial strategies—in their maker’s insistence on fabric as painting, stitching as labor and ornamentation as objective. Just as the Congolese sapeurs (and present-day sapeuses, as the women are known) mixed and matched different articles of European clothing into defiantly bold yet elegant ensembles, Abad created her own compositional aesthetic using the technique of trapunto (from the Italian word trapungere meaning “to embroider”). Abad described trapunto in straightforward terms: ‘I paint, using either oil or acrylic, on canvas and then collage. This top layer carries the design. To this I add a backing cloth and stuff polyester filling in between. The two layers are then joined with running stitches.’ Yet, the medium was far from straightforward. … Abad practiced a defiant form of bricolage that art historian Patrick Flores has described, tongue in cheek, as the work of a ‘flaneur bricoleur.’”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/8/2024It's a thrill to finally have our own copies of Distinguishing Piss from Rain, Hauser & Wirth Publishers' whopping 400-page collection of interviews and writings on art, history, race, sexuality and popular culture by the noted American artist Glenn Ligon. Weighing in at 400 pages, with 80 color and 20 black-and-white reproductions, this beautifully produced volume is edited by Primary Information publisher James Hoff with Introduction by MoMA curator Thomas (T.) Jean Lax. “Reading these essays when they were first published gave me a pathway through the art world as a younger curator,” Lax writes. “Reading them anew, I sometimes had the feeling of being told a story I had heard before but whose meaning I hadn’t fully understood the first or second time around. It was as if their full significance was still emerging, not unlike the way you know the unmistakable feeling of true love the first time you feel it, but nevertheless must practice receiving it, repeatedly over time. Love is a subtext and refrain in this volume. At least twice, Ligon invokes a phrase from bell hooks: ‘Love will take you places you might not ordinarily go.’ De Kooning’s ‘Flesh [is] the reason . . . oil paint was invented’ is also reprised across the writings. Who knew hooks and de Kooning had so much in common?”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/4/2024Featured spreads are from JRP|Editions’ exciting new book on the previously under-examined performative aspects of the legendary, ultra-liberated and often explicitly sexual Berlin-based American artist Dorothy Iannone, whose sometimes outrageously confessional artworks tackled themes like unconditional love, the celebration of matriarchy and the myth of Eros. M KHA curator Joanna Zielińska quotes the artist, from a 1970 Robert Filliou publication entitled Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts: “Never mind what they say about the nature of ecstasy, I’ve got a feeling one could limit oneself to such an extent that it would be possible half the time—and that’s like all the time. At thirty-six I am down to (in a passionate way) eating, drinking, sleeping, smoking, only the greatest friends, love and sex. Work is no longer a constant matter of being alive happily. It’s a method of expression waiting for those times when I am not being a beauty in other ways (today, for example).”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/4/2024August 4–6, 2024, from 9 AM–6 PM, visit us in Booth N102 at New York’s most refined independent home and gift show. You'll find our book stand on the ground level at the fair's beautiful Broome Street location, Skylight at Essex Crossing!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/2/2024On the occasion of the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, we present a few spreads from God Made My Face a collective portrait of the singular American writer and truth-teller edited by Hilton Als and presenting artworks and essays by some of the greatest, and most relevant, voices of our time—including Diane Arbus, Beauford Delaney, Alice Neel, Kara Walker, Teju Cole, Barry Jenkins and Darryl Pinckney, to name a few. Jamaica Kincaid writes, “When we make art, we don’t know how it will work out, what it will mean. The writing, the novels, the essays: He did them in a place and in a time, in a country, that has no real love of certain people and certain things and no real love of literature, no real love of Black people doing anything, really, that can’t be appropriated. We must remember that there are a great many things that African Americans have done, making something out of the despair and the horror of the mess they found themselves in, and that they’ve been simply lifted up out of their culture. The blind faith he had in just saying these things, writing these things, doing, living this life and not knowing how it would go. Would it be remembered? Would it vanish? He got inspiration, it seems to me, from the essential life that was going on in the country at the time, the essential life of America, which is something Americans would like to forget. The essential existence of America is the African American. Toni Morrison said that Baldwin was her brother and her ancestor, and that’s what he is for all of us.”
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