WALKER EVANS

Incognito

Until now, Walker Evans’ legendary 1971 interview with Eakins Press founder Leslie Katz has been unavailable, except in anthologies. In Incognito, a new, limited-edition tribute to the great American photographer, Eakins Press Foundation has finally reprinted this candid interview, in which Evans speaks freely about his photography and philosophy with his longtime friend Katz. The eight photographs included were selected by Evans himself to illustrate pivotal moments in his career. This buckram-bound edition, with luscious tritone prints and letterpress-printed text, is truly a masterpiece of the printer’s and book binder’s art.

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WALKER EVANS

A Gallery of Postcards

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KATJA EYDEL

Schattenfuge/Shadow Gap

Berlin-based artist Katja Eydel’s photography often focuses on environments or situations characterized by crisis. Gathered together in this extensively illustrated monograph are photographs from numerous series she produced over the past 10 years including Long Jumpers (1993/2000), What If I Could Be Anything (2004), Model v Sembol: The Invention of Turkey (2005), Habitus (2011) and others dealing with communities and their fringes, proxies and symbolic representations as manifested, for example, in forms of protest or religious garments. Eydel uses her camera to look not only at what is being photographed but the context and political environment in which her subjects are effected. Insightful essays by artist Ariane Muller on “The Subjective,” art historian Clemens Krummel on “Self-Reflectivity,” to theorist Kathrin Peters on “Spaces of Governance” and critic and curator Helmut Draxler on “The Formation of Habit” explore the social structures and spatial logic of images in Eydel’s thoughtful work.

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KATJA EYDEL

Model ve Sembol. The Invention of Turkey

Katja Eydel

Modern Turkey, teetering on the brink of entry into the European Union for several years now, invented itself after World War I, trying to create a new national political identity through radical Westernization. Based on a photographic project by Katja Eydel, this extensively illustrated book documents the visionary and utopian framework underlying the formation of modern Turkey almost a century ago, and the much more complicated social reality of the current state. Several engrossing essays discuss the comprehensive integration of architecture and new media (such as photography), in an attempt to convince the Turks and the outside world of the dynamism of the newly created republic. A fascinating approach to political and social history.

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FACE TO FACE

Portraits in Contemporary Photography

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FACING AUSTRIA

Österreichbilder

Rainer Iglar, Michael Mauracher, Eva Mitterndorfer & Nadine Weixler (Eds.)

Commissioned by the Austrian government, Rainer Iglar and Michael Mauracher, co-heads of Fotohof, the Salzburg center for photography, matched 20 contemporary Austrian photographers with 20 Austrian-based curators, scholars and critics to open up a panoramic view of Austria through its fine art photography community. This massive publication is unique in that almost all the images were taken between spring and autumn of 2016. Instructions were given to create a portrait of contemporary everyday life in Austria, free of platitudinous nationalistic attitudes, involving all generations, a balance of gender and geographic distribution. Photographs by noted artists such as Seiichi Furuya, Paul Kranzler and Katharina Gruzei are matched with essays by art historian and curator Monika Faber, Kunsthaus Wein; curator/art historian Verena Kasper-Eisert; and Walter Moser, director of photography at the Albertina Museum, in this rich compilation of diverse voices and visions.

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SISSI FARASSAT

Sequence

The richly embroidered photographs presented in Sequence, the new artist’s book from artist Sissi Farassat, are a unique combination of Persian and Viennese art and design influences. Born in Tehran in 1969, Farassat moved with her family to Vienna in 1978. Her largely autobiographical works reveal her personal history not only in their imagery but in their technique of hand-weaving—in this case with thread, sequins or semiprecious stones, into her analog color photographs, or embroidering their reverse sides with the image’s silhouette. Encountering Farassat’s works, one quickly sees that hundreds of hours have been spent weaving threads as one might a carpet, thus slowing down the instantaneous photographic process and changing what is traditionally a multiple into a unique object. Text by New York-based visual artist and photographer Daniel Blochwitzco on the artist’s process and 38 color images complete this slender and elegant book.

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Jeanne Faust

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Günther Förg

Photography

Since 1982 Günther Förg has devoted himself to large format photography alongside the paintings he is best known for. The Kunsthalle Bremen recently compiled Förg’s extensive photographic oeuvre for exhibition and the publication of this impressive catalog. In total, this presentation creates a eloquent picture of an important aspect of the artist’s career. Sequenced by Förg himself, the catalogue reads as an artist’s book, and an enticing engagement with photographic representation. The photographs capture a range of modern and classic European architecture from across the continent. The buildings Förg seeks are not without purpose, they are symbols of political engagement and remnants of a past lost. Förg captures the monumentality of these buildings, communicating this architecture as it seeps with a feeling of failed modernist utopia.

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FRAME AND FOCUS

Photography as a Schooling Issue

Maren Gröning (Ed.)

From the Photoinstitut Bonartes’ ongoing series on photography, Frame and Focus addresses the issue of education in relation to photography in Germany, the United States, Croatia and France between 1900 and the present. Starting with the school Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, founded by Austrian photochemist and photo historian Josef Maria Eder in Vienna in 1888, this reader explores important topics including the independence of photography from other disciplines, photography as art or applied technology, photography as science, hobby and profession, and, currently of the rampant exchange of images through mobile devices and the Internet, as a “de-skilled” activity. Created and edited by Vienna-based director of the Photoinstitut Bonartes, Monika Faber, with Maren Gröning, Ulrike Matzer, and director of photography Walter Moser of the Albertina Vienna. Contributors include Julia Blume, Michael R. Peres, Klaus Hentschel, André Gunthert, Rudolf Scheutle, Marija Tonkovic, Anne McCauley, Ann Thomas, John Fleetwood, Christine Frisinghelli, Walter Seidl and Alfred Holzbrecher.

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