Blonde Art Books of NYC is going on tour and their first stop is Washington, DC!

Join BAB, the Indie Photobook Library, Cahiers Intempestifs, and SP Weather Station (Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson) for an informal SHOW&TELL and display of independent publications.

JUNE 13, 2013
7-9pm
Furthermore
52 O Street, NW | 202B
Washington, DC 20001
T: 202.330.1219

The public is invited to attend this free event and BRING their recent self-published projects to participate in an informal SHOW&TELL. Join on Facebook.

***Blonde Art Books will be collecting select publications to be part of an ongoing collection that will travel to future cities on the tour.***

And as always you can donate your book to the iPL at the event as well.

The INDIE PHOTOBOOK LIBRARY will be featuring local photographers and bookmakers with the following titles from the collection:

Twenty/12 (Aaron Canipe, Caroline Carpenter, John Edmonds, Michael Evnen, Nathaniel Grann, Mark Harley, Veronica Melendez, Jordan Swartz, Justine Tobiasz, Liora Valero, Tucker Walsh, Sara Winston), Empty Stretch

Guide, Champneys Taylor

Assembly Affect, Kyle Tata

Transfer, E. Brady Robinson

Monroe Portfolio, (Tim Anderson, Allison Clarke, Dan Rios, Matt Rose, Liora Valero, James Warner, Sara J Winston) Terri Weifenbach / Corcoran

This is Cool & All, But it Ain’t You, Zack Ingram

Garage d’Art, Jeff Bagato

Raleigh, North Carolina Hip-Hop Culture Over Everything, Jared Soares

Grown Up West, Rebecca Drobis

MidNights, Alexandra Silverthorne

The Us and The They, Kay Chernush

Backdrop: The Search for Home, Muriel Hasbun

Destination: Anywhere, Jordan Swartz

The Fighting Season, Louie Palu

Dream Self, Nate Larson

Some Fox Trails in Virginia, Susan Worsham

There’s Treasure Everywhere, Ginevra Shay

Dcist Exposed, Various Photographers, Heather Goss

Too Many Places and Times to Remember, Ginevra Shay and Trevor Powers

Banned in DC, compiled by Cynthia Connolly

Geisha, Satomi Kato

The Waiting Room, Bill Crandall

Pret-a-Porter, John Edmonds

A Psychic Collaboration, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman

Two Months’ Salary, Lee Gainer

A Sense of Place, Susana Raab

A Mid-Western Tragedy, Nathaniel Grann

Box of Ice Boxes, Cynthia Connolly

Here, John Gossage

For the third year in a row, the Indie Photobook Library will be part of the PPAC Book Fair!

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
4th Annual Book Fair
May 18th, 2013
12-6pm
*Free and open to the public

1400 N. American Street #103
Philadelphia, PA 19122

BOOKS:

Selected from the permanent collection of the Indie Photobook Library by MICA photo students Emily Mason, Cameron Vaughan, and Brandon Eddy, these photobooks focus on zines, the curated group photobook, a look into interior mundane life, and the altered image.

Aristotle was wrong, Simon de Reyer
Terrarum, Michael Max McLeod / Goodbye Ranch
FIRE, Lucy Helton
VOL 3: Ada Hamza. ENDLESS VACATION, Ada Hamza / Fibra Casa Editora
Thomas Albdorf / The Velvet Cell Books
destination: anywhere, Jordan Swartz / thefacelesskid
FORWARD SLASH, Matt Austin and EJ Hill / There’s Just No Telling
Natureza, Luz, Homem, Carlos Cancela Pinto / Bad Weather Press
Stil Licht, Ananda Serné / Good Morning Light
Watch Me Jumpstart, Linn Heidi Stokkedal / Pogo Books
Mediations One, Nathaniel Grann / Empty Stretch
A Romance in Pictures, Calvin Lee / Arts & Sciences Projects
Grown Down, Lindsey Castillo & Tuomas Korpijaakko
To See Here, Kerim Aytac / StraightLinePress

Smoke Bath / Seems
Incandescent, A color film zine/ Pine Island Press
Romka Magazine #6 and #7 / Joscha Bruckert
Matter, Jessica Eaton, Matthew Gamber, Bill Sullivan
Twenty/12 / Empty Stretch
The Things We’ve Seen (No. 2) / VUU
Aint-Bad Magazine, No. 2 and No. 5
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind / KEHRER Verlag
collect.give
The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 / Humble Arts Foundation

Two and Two, John MacLean / Hunter and James
Simple Matters, Yuta Nakajima
Patterns, Iciar Bravo / Bravo Publishing
five – fremantle prison, Christopher Young
FINDS, Harry Watts / Blackbox Press
In The Kitchen, Janet Delaney
A Narrow Scene of Hypothetical Circumstances, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson / Teknisk Industri AS
509, Pamela Pecchio / Daniel 13 Press
Testament, Peter Riesett
Tempus Incognitus, Brad Carlile
UTILITE, Ellen Korth

Manel Esclusa / Galería El Carme
Aereas, Cassio Vasconcellos / Terra Virgem
Heed, Virginia Echeverria / Naivsuper
Scenes From the Great American Non-Site, Chad Rutter / Mystery Spot Books
WTWML, Anna Bak / Pogo Books
CENSURA, Julián Barón / Editorial RM
He who wants fire must be able to bear smoke, Welmer Keesmaat / Contentement
Paris, Justin Winz / Everymansland
Love, Stephane Leonard and Martin Eichhorn / Naivsuper
The Hibernators, Ruth van Beek / RVB BOOKS
Divine Retribution, Yury Toroptsov
HIRED HAND, Stuart Bailes, Bea Fremderman, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Athena Torri / Vandret publications
75003, Gianluca Tamorri
Lone Wolf, David Schulz / The Book Bakery
Speaking of Names, Christopher Gianunzio and Jenny Tondera

Come join us and browse through the pop-up “reading room”!

The University of Kansas department of Design with support from the Hallmark Corporate Foundation presents: “A Fair”

A free, open and public photobook FAIR brimming with contemporary small, large, experimental, raw unfiltered, handmade, and outsourced books that are self-published, DIY, PoD, inkjet, newsprint, offset, in both open and limited editions made by independent local, national, and international publishers, photographers, and artists.

A FAIR, curated by Travis Shaffer, is a glimpse into the the prevalence of the book-form within contemporary ‘photographic’ practice. This exhibition features the works of Alec Soth’s Little Brown Mushroom, a selection by Larissa Leclair of over 150 books from the The Indie Photobook Library and various works by the members of the Artists’ Books Cooperative, including their recent collaborative work titled ‘ABCED’.

22 January 2013 – 15 February 2013
University of Kansas
Art + Design Gallery
Lawrence, Kansas

GALLERY HOURS
Mon, Tues, Wed 8:30am—4:30pm
Thurs, 8:30am—9:00pm
Fri, 8:30am—1:30pm
Closed Saturday
Sun, 1:00pm—4:30pm

To see installation photo on Facebook, click here.

Panel discussion, February 1, 2013. Larissa Leclair will be part of it via Skype.

Photo Forum at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
1 February 2013 at 7:30pm
university of kansas
art + design gallery
lawrence, kansas
With Elijah Gowin, Larissa Leclair, Travis Shaffer, and moderator April Watson

The following books and magazines will be on view from the Indie Photobook Library:

Self-publishers and Self-publishing Imprints

Aki Tanaka
Sunshine Volition (1/f no Taiyou)
Sunshine Pulse
The Sun Shines In (OYOGU TAIYOU)

Aline Smithson
Counting to Ten in French
Odd and Kinda Beautiful

Allison Clarke
See. come. choose.
Wilton Dance School, 1963
20/40/10

Bill Westheimer
Momento
Manual: The Personalities of Hands
Visions in the Dark with Charles Schwartz

Clara Prioux
America for Sale
Cultural Landscapes Vol. I
Cultural Landscapes Vol. II
WILD PARADE

Clay Lipsky
Atomic Overlook
Macro/Space
The Salton Sea

D. Bryon Darby
Encountered Aircraft

Deanna Dikeman
27 Good-byes
Clothed

Elijah Gowin / Tin Roof Press
Of Falling and Floating by Elijah Gowin

Elizabeth Fleming
Life is a Series of Small Moments (Blurb edition)
Life is a Series of Small Moments (MagCloud edition)

John MacLean / Hunter & James
New Colour Guide
48 Recent Photographs
A to B
Neighbourhood
City: Book One
City: Book Two

John Pitsakis
The Old World
the foreigner.

Jordan Sullivan
roadsongs
May 22
More Pricks Than Kicks
Life Is Disappearing, Volume I
The Ghost Country with Pamela Love

Harry Watts
Studio
FINDS

Lindsey A. Beal
Reproduction(s) To-Go: A Pocket Guide to Contraceptives
Reproduction(s): A Comprehensive Guide to Contraceptives

Lex Thompson
Cave Drawings
Greetings from Colma

Misako Oba
Pactum
The Gift of Loss

Nicholas Venaglia
Pictures
Wandering

Photographer Hal
Couple Jam
Pinky&Killer DX

Stephen Grebinski
Chlopak
Stad

Tammy Mercure
April 2012
May 2012
June 2012
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012

Todd M Walker
Mornings/Evenings
Weld

Stephen Gill / Nobody Books
A Series of Disappointments (red/blue)
Anonymous Origami
Archaeology in Reverse
Invisible
B-Sides
Hackney Flowers
Coming Up For Air

Indie Publishers

1%ofONE Verlag (Germany)
Variationen by Franziska Opel
Freuden-Stadt by Michel Lamoller and Simone Hirth
Untitled by Mitko Mitkov and Franziska Opel
Die Schatten by Yuki Terasaka
Maut by Mitko Mitkov
16 bilder by Eva Michallik
16 bilder by Morten Andersen
16 bilder by Calin Kruse
16 bilder by Hernan Campos

BurnBooks (US)
Burn.01
Burn.02
(based on a true story) by David Alan Harvey

Candela Books (US)
Gita Lenz
Salt & Truth by Shelby Lee Adams

Cesura Publish (Italy)
The great grain from Painhell by Luca Baioni
Found Photos in Detroit by Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese
Dark Indigo by Federico Carpani

Cold Green Tea Press (US)
Amnesia Hat, Issue 01 by Kenneth Traynor
Amnesia Hat, Issue 02 by Kenneth Traynor
Living with Myself Forgetting by David Agasi

Daylight (US)
Suburbia Mexicana by Alejandro Cartagena
Los Restos de la Revolución by Kevin Kunishi

Doubleplusgood Books (UK)
downcasting by beau brashares
Unknown Land by Louis Porter
Abstract Polaroids by Stuart Woodman

Empty Stretch (US)
Vacilando by Jordan Swartz
Am I Bleeding by Tim Anderson
Eden by Aaron Canipe
Empty Stretch no. 1: home by Aaron Canipe, Nathaniel Grann and Jordan Swartz
Mediations Three: My Country by Ahmed Hayman
Mediations Four: In Arms Reach by John Edmonds
Mediations Five: Strabismus by Mark Harley

Lay Flat (US)
Lay Flat 02: Meta
Dune by Misha de Ridder
Visible Library by Sam Falls

PogoBooks (Germany)
Attention Seekers by Miriam O’Connor
Flamboyant by Anya Schiller
Motion Stickiness by Alain Marciano
Svart Hvitt by Robbert Geens
There is Another Star by Sarah Duncan
When We Milk Each Other by Viktoria A. Lisbet
Stranger Tongues by Jordan Carroll
I didn’t see it coming by Emanuele Cardesi
Thanks for coming. by Jackson Eaton
3 Months in Another Place by Daniel Evans
A Nos Amours by Ariane Geffard and Michael J. DeMeo
It’s raining Patty Simcox by Emma Parry
Locals by Ale Formenti
Adam Revington
Lukasz Wierzbowski
Mark Peckmezian

Poursuite Editions (France)
L’ILLUSION DU TRANQUILLE by François Deladerrière
Tangente by Laurent Chardon
Autre Eden by Philippe Lopparelli
Antikira by Kristof Guez

Reccollective (Turkey)
Transformer by Sevim Sancaktar
289KD by Selim Süme

RVB Books (France)
Image System by Geoffroy de Boismenu
The Hibernators by Ruth van Beek
The Significant Savages by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine

The Velvet Cell (UK)
Botanica by Sander Meisner
At the Airport
Psychic Hearts by Sandra Croft
Brooklyn by Luke Swenson
Eanna Freeney
Urban Satori by Nykoh

Zen Foto Gallery (Japan)
Nekopathy by Masayuki Nakaya
Night Crawler 1995 2010 by Takehiko Nakafuji
Showa 88 by Kazuyoshi Usui
Yamabito (The Mountain People) by Osamu Sato

Zimmer177 (Germany)
Fused Minds
Zimmer117 Magazin #2

Indie Photo Magazines

BLINK (Kim Aram)
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19

Conveyor Arts (Jason Burstein and Christina Labey)
Spring 2011, Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
Issue 4

LPV (Bryan Formhals)
Issue One
Issue Two
Issue Three

Diffusion (Blue Mitchell)
Vol II, 2010
Vol IV, 2012

“A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks”
curated by Darius Himes and Larissa Leclair

FotoWeekDC
The Warner, 1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

November 9-18, 2012, 11-6pm

The Indie Photobook Library’s 3rd feature-length exhibition curated by Darius Himes (Assistant Director, Fraenkel Gallery and Co-Founder, Radius Books) and Larissa Leclair (Founder, Indie Photobook Library) will travel from Gallery Carte Blanche in San Francisco to FotoWeekDC. The exhibition titled “A Survey of Documentary Styles in early 21st century Photobooks” draws from the Indie Photobook Library collection and features 70 photobooks along with a selection of photographs from the books (Eliot Dudik, Matt Eich, McNair Evans, Erica McDonald, Michael Jang, and Lacey Terrell) selected by Gwen Lafage (Founder, Gallery Carte Blanche).

The exhibition “A Survey of Documentary Styles” looks at the “documentary tradition” through the lens of a 21st century, global photographic community in which the lines between journalism, art and the long-term documentary project have blurred, morphed and continue to feed off of each other.

The books selected for this exhibition present a range of subject matter, each coupled with a particular visual language drawn from a pool of diversity. There are books that speak a more traditional documentary language, while there are those that explicitly critique that very same tradition; there are diaristic books and titles that overlay a typological structure; other books rely primarily on found and vernacular imagery; and there are many books that borrow heavily from an art-photography storehouse. The goal of this exhibition is to survey the field before us and to foreground questions of authorship, voice, style and content.

You will not be disappointed.

 

The EXHIBITION CATALOG, designed by Patrick Aguilar of Owl & Tiger Books, can be purchased through the Blurb bookstore.

 

T H E   B O O K S :

Estaría Bien Poner un Título Aquí, Alba Yruela

Ohio, Alec Soth and Brad Zellar

Uncommon Intimacy, Amy Stein, Amy Touchette, Erica McDonald, Juliana Beasley

The Kaddu Wasswa Archive, Andrea Stultiens and Arthur Kisitu

Woman With a Camera (35mm), Anne Collier

Odo Yakuza Tokyo (second edition), Anton Kusters

Hose Variations, Bjarne Bare

BURN.01

Memory Traces, Cary Markerink

The Distance Between Us, Christopher Capozziello

Concresco, David Galjaard

27 Good-byes, Deanna Dikeman

574 Views of Johnstown, Ed Panar

Road Ends in Water, Eliot Dudik

French American Trip, Eric Tabuchi

This is Not My Wife, Erik van der Weijde

How Terry Likes His Coffee, Florian van Roekel

Sadkids Number 5: Gonerfest Edition, Geoffrey Ellis

No Destiny (Transitions-Rochester), Gregory Halpern

A Falling Horizon, Heidi de Gier

Butte, America: A Vernacular History. Vol. 1, Ian van Coller

10, in-public

Cityscapes + Birdmen, Jacquie Maria Wessels

Unmarked Sites, Jessica Auer

My Brother’s War, Jessica Hines

Found Piles & Other Topograhica, John Steck Jr.

Last Call, Judith Stenneken

CENSURA, Julián Barón

The Color of Hay, Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

offSET, Lacey Terrell

The Ninety-Nine Percent, Mathieu Asselin

Carry Me Ohio, Matt Eich

Ramadan in Yemen, Max Pam

See You Soon, Maxwell Anderson

A Journal of Southern History, McNair Evans

Summer Weather, Michael Jang

No Man’s Land, Mishka Henner

Geolocation, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman

The Pier, Nils Petter Löfstedt

Gone Quickly, Noah Beil

Visitor, Ofer Wolberger

There is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, Paccarik Orue

Donovan Wylie One Day Taking Photographs in Belfast, Peter Mann

Muddy Treads, Peter Sutherland

Grassland, Phil Underdown

The Constant Change, photo.circle

Firework Studies, Pierre Le Hors

Preston Bus Station, Preston is My Paris

Crime Victims Chronicle, Ray Meeks and Deborah Luster

Stay Cool, RJ Shaughnessy

Alpine Star, Ron Jude

Thrashers, Sacha Maric

May the Road Rise to Meet You, Sara Macel

9/11 Flipbook, Scott Blake

Owner of this World, Shawn Records

The Election Project, Simon Roberts

Hackney Wick, Stephen Gill

Vedove / Widows, Takashi Homma

Cathedral Cars, Thomas Mailaender

Looters, Tiane Doan na Champassak

Behind the Curtains, Tomas van Houtryve

Gomorroh Girl (second edition), Valerio Spada

Qaammaqqivaar, Verena Bruening

Empty Bottles, WassinkLundgren

Tokyo Tokyo, WassinkLudgren

Parking Garages, Willson Cummer

Kitintale, Yann Gross

Before Tomorrow, Yannik Willing

The Story of Four Generations, Yee Ling Tang

Featured as one of the TOP TEN Things to do at FotoDC in Feature Shoot!

Join the Indie Photobook Library and Little Brown Mushroom in Guatemala City for GuatePhoto’s “Libros de fotografía” – NOVEMBER 7 – 25, 2012.

Captured by a Portrait
20 Photobooks from the Indie Photobook Library
Curated by Larissa Leclair and Leslie J. Ureña

GuatePhoto
Edificio OEG
Vía 6, 3-56 zona 4, Segundo nivel
Guatemala City, GUATEMALA
November 7 -25, 2012

“Captured by a Portrait” is a selection of books that illustrate the different ways in which portraiture can be variably defined. The photographers and makers of these books grapple with and expand the definition of the genre through their photographs of strangers, family members, friends, or even new locations.

Judith Erwes stages her sitters in the style of wedding photography of the 1970s and 1980s, while Tammy Mercure presents Elvis Presley through images of impersonators and commemorative portraits of the deceased singer. Eric Bessel’s work shows the interaction between the photographer and the photographed in a selection of compelling portraits.

Igal Permuth, Jaime Permuth, Mario Permuth turn to the complex history of Guatemala as they portray their family. As does Tony Luong, in Two Roofs, who photographs his family and their homes and spaces, as he tries to come to an understanding of his family background. Nguan turns to the bustling Tokyo neighborhood of Shibuya, seeking to define it through its people and landscape. Alejandro Cartagena turns to the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, capturing the identical homes stacked one next to the other, to the incursion of high-end brands.

Being at the edge of an urban center allows Miquel Llonch to capture the seemingly remote woods, through the glow of the city. Morten Andersen takes viewers deep into the forest, devoid of homes and people, and composes a multi-faceted portrait of place.

Whether through following the traditional trappings of portraiture, or subverting them, these books question the definition of a portrait, its role in society, and its place in photographic history.

Larissa Leclair is a writer, curator and collector and Founder of the Indie Photobook Library. Leslie J. Ureña holds an MA and PhD in Art History from Northwestern University, and is an art curator and critic based in Washington, DC.

Blå Skog/Blue Sky, 2009
Morten Andersen

Found Photos in Detroit, 2012 (Cesura)
Arianna Arcara / Luca Santese

He Was There, 2012
Mariken Wessels

Archive {2005-2010}, 2011 (Conveyor)
Eric Bessel

Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus, 2011
Sarah Carlier

Suburbia Mexicana, 2011 (Daylight, Photolucida)
Alejandro Cartagena

Imitation of Lives, 2011
Judith Erwes

Rhapsody for my Wretched Little Universe, 2010 (Zen Foto Gallery)
Han Chao

Speaking of Names, 2012
Christopher Gianunzio and Jenny Tondera

LOOK At Me, 2012
David Lykes Keenan

In the fields of gold, 2012 (Poursuite)
Miquel Llonch

Two Roofs | 2008-Present, 2012
Tony Luong

Elvis, 2012
Tammy Mercure

The Amnesia Pavilions, 2011 (A-Jump Books)
Nicholas Muellner

SHIBUYA, 2010
Nguan

FC Volga United, 2011
Sergey Novikov

Re-trato de Familia, 2004
Igal Permuth, Jaime Permuth, Mario Permuth

Interior Relations, 2011 (Charles Lane Press)
Ian van Coller

11-21, 2007
Jan von Holleben

No Thoughts #7, 2012
Alyssa Noches / Amber Chavez / April Lea Hutchinson/ Ariane Geffard / Brad Elterman / Dan Zev / Edgar Berg / Evan Tetreault / Jesse Untracht Oakner / Jim Herrington / Jimmy Fontaine / Johan Kleinjan / Joseph Zentil / Martina Simkovicova / Maurizio Di Iorio / Megan McIssac / Michael Barolet / Michael J DeMeo / Mike Schreiber / Olivia Locher / Peter Puklus /Ray Potes / Rhiannon Adam / Samantha Casolari / Theo Gosselin / Xiang Ting Huang