Indie Photobook Library

Hoarder House

iPL — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:07:36 +0000

Title: Hoarder House

Photographer/s: Dave Hebb

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: Phoenicia, NY

Dimensions: 5.25″ wide x 7″ high

Edition size: unlimited – print on demand

Type of binding: brochure paper, stapled

Number of pages: 14 (16 counting front and back cover)

Type of paper: brochure paper

Number of pictures: 9 including cover

Type of printing: full color inkjet

Printer: self – inkjet

Publisher: self

Language: English

ISBN: none

Category: zine

Price: $ 6

Summary: On September 22, 2011 I had the opportunity to document a house in Plattekill, NY that had been reported to the Ulster County SPCA as having feral cats living in it by the new owner of the house. The situation appeared to be an extreme example of animal hoarding and neglect. This series of photos documents the interior of the house, but cannot begin to describe the smell and oppressive feeling of being in the space. It was apparent that at least one person was living in this house with over 30 cats, as there was fresh milk and food in the refrigerator. The entire house was filled with garbage, feces, mold and the intense and highly concentrated smell of ammonia and rotting organic matter. Most of the garbage bags seen in the photos are completely filled with cat feces. After my initial reactions of horror, anger and disgust, I found myself feeling pity and sadness for whomever was living under these conditions; human and animal alike. As of the publishing date of this book no one has been identified or apprehended for any crime related to charges of animal cruelty; the investigation is ongoing.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: born 1966, Detroit, MI

Website: http://davehebb.com/

Book link: http://davehebb.com/recent/hoarder-house/

Donated by: Dave Hebb

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Monitor

iPL — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:12:51 +0000

Title: Monitor

Photographer/s: Dave Hebb

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: Phoenicia, NY

Dimensions: 5″ wide x 8″ high

Edition size: unlimited – print on demand

Type of binding: softcover, perfect binding

Number of pages: 38

Type of paper: publisher grade

Number of pictures: 91

Type of printing: full color

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: self

Language: English

ISBN: none

Category: POD

Price: $ 9.99

Summary: This book has been produced as a companion to the conceptual video and photographic art project “Monitor” completed in 2010 by Dave Hebb. The book consists of 90 images from the project and is self-published by the artist. The cover image is a blended composite from 50 images of the series. If you would like to view the video and more images from the photo series, please visit the project website at monitor.davehebb.com where can also contact the artist directly.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: born 1966, Detroit, MI

Website: http://davehebb.com/

Book link: http://monitor.davehebb.com/

Donated by: Dave Hebb

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Light Source

iPL — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:53:27 +0000

Title: Light Source

Photographer/s: Deena Feinberg

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: California

Dimensions: 8×10 inches

Edition size: uneditioned

Type of binding: soft cover

Number of pages: 20 pages

Number of pictures: 18

Publisher: Blurb

Category: photography book

Price: $22.00

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1973, Ann Arbor, MI

Website: www.deenaphoto.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2536433

Donated by: Deena Feinberg

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Uncommon Beauty

iPL — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:28:25 +0000

Title: Uncommon Beauty

Photographer/s: Chad Weckler

Contributor/s: Andrew Nelson, designer

Date of publication: October 2011

Place of publication: Blurb

Dimensions: 7″x7″

Edition size: on demand

Type of binding: hard or soft

Number of pages: 30

Type of paper: gloss

Number of pictures: 27

Type of printing: press

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: Blurb

Designer: Andrew Nelson

Language: English

ISBN: none

Category: artist book

Price: $19.95 softcover

Summary: Compilation of recent work

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1953 California

Website: www.victorypix.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2602587

Donated by: Chad Weckler

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Parking Garages

iPL — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:57:02 +0000

Title: Parking Garages

Photographer/s: Willson Cummer

Date of publication: 2008

Dimensions: 8×9.5″

Edition size: unlimited

Type of binding: hard cover

Number of pages: 31

Number of pictures: 28

Type of printing: on-demand

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: Blurb

Language: English

Category: POD

Price: $50

Summary: Some urban planners have argued that parking garages destroy the architectural assets of urban cores.
Parking lots and garages displace street-level shops, office space and cultural centers.
Those complaints may be true, but I have found unexpected visual joy in parking garages.
They offer an urban version of the hikes and sublime views that lead me to the Adirondack mountains.
I climb the stairwells to the top decks, often photographing multiple garages in one outing.
The roofs offer unusual views of nearby buildings and far-off valleys and hills.
The tops of garages are places of surprising beauty and calm.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 5/25/68 Haverford, PA, USA

Website: www.WillsonCummer.com

Book link: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/185647

Donated by: Willson Cummer

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Confections

iPL — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:32:14 +0000

Title: Confections

Photographer/s: Amy Stevens

Date of publication: October 2011

Dimensions: 10″x8″

Edition size: POD

Type of binding: hardbound / dust jacket

Number of pages: 80

Type of paper: lustre finish paper

Number of pictures: 80+

Publisher: Blurb

Language: English

Category: artist book

Price: $47.64

Summary: Confections

The Confections series began as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original idea was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my thesis show, but I sure got a lot of ideas from those first cakes. I ordered a kit from Martha Stewart.com and watched an instructional video on decorating cakes. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video and the pamphlet, I decided they were better off in their exuberantly imperfect states.
Cakes are the centerpieces of celebrations and symbolic trophies evoking nostalgia and awe. Historically, cake has played a significant role in women’s lives. Women have used cake as both an outlet of creativity and a symbol of female power politics. The woman who made the best cake held a certain power over the other women in the community, according to Sherrie Inness in Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food.
Six years later, this series has evolved into less about birthdays and more of a humorous feminist criticism. In my constructions of these photographs, I am commentating on not only cake itself as a rich cultural symbol, but of the domestic fantasy world of contemporary home decorating and cooking magazines and television shows. It’s a fantasy world where entertaining, cooking and decorating unite. It’s a place where one needs to have a beautiful home, decorated seasonally, in order to entertain friends with gourmet meals and elaborately concocted desserts.
My email subscription to Martha Stewart Craft of the Day has inspired much of the background props in the newer Confections (adorned) series. Most everything in these backgrounds is also handmade, with the exception of found antiques.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1975, Phoenix, Arizona

Website: www.amystevensart.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2569734

Donated by: Amy Stevens

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Half-Life: a portrait of Lauren

iPL — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:28:17 +0000

Title: Half-Life: a portrait of Lauren

Photographer/s: Jay Muhlin

Date of publication: October 2008

Place of publication: Boston

Dimensions: 8×10 inches

Edition size: 100

Number of pages: 147

Type of printing: hp indigo

Language: English

ISBN: 0-89822-125-0

Category: Artist Book

Price: $75

Summary: half life: a portrait of Lauren, focuses on the life and suicide of a close friend and my relationship to her. The project is comprised of photographs and collected writings that Lauren and I shared throughout the six years we knew each other, and photographs and documents created now, after. Having been confronted by a haunting absence, I want to make evidence of her with my photographs.

Website: jaymuhlin.com

Donated by: Jay Muhlin

iPL Notes: This book was part of the exhibition “bookMARKS” (SPE November 2011) curated by Carlos Loret de Mola and Willson Cummer.

Murmures

iPL — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:21:45 +0000

Title: Murmures

Photographer/s: Viola KOROSI
Yoann HAGNERE

Date of publication: 2011

Place of publication: France

Dimensions: 16 x 23 cm

Edition size: 50 copies

Type of binding: cloth bound and silkscreened hard cover, handsewn binding

Number of pages: 108 pages

Type of paper: Munken 115g

Number of pictures: 72

Type of printing: digital

Printer: Ordigraphie, France.

Publisher: Viola Korosi and Yoann Hagnere (Où est passée la journée d’hier)

Designer: Viola Korosi and Yoann Hagnere

Editor: Viola Korosi and Yoann Hagnere

Language: French and English

Category: artist book

Price: 39 euros

Summary: Murmures, is a project finalized after a trip we did beginning of 2011 in Budapest. The book is a visual poem where fragments of a city are brought together to depict a double vision of a personal experience. Things are partially shown and people are suggested by their absence, allowing the spectator to construct his own narration.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 31/05/1983 Budapest, Hungary (Viola Korosi) and 03/07/1985 Rouen, France (Yoann Hagnere)

Website: http://violakorosi.ultra-book.com/book and http://photoyoann.ultra-book.com/book

Book link: www.ouestpasseelajourneedhier.com

Donated by: Viola Korosi and Yoann Hagnere

Pure Photography

iPL — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Title: Pure Photography

Photographer/s: from the Robert E. Jackson Collection

Date of publication: December, 2011

Place of publication: Portland, Oregon

Dimensions: 5.75 x 7.75 inches

Edition size: 100

Type of binding: Perfect bound paperback

Number of pages: 98 pages

Type of paper: Mowhawk Superfine

Number of pictures: 60

Type of printing: digital

Publisher: Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books

Designer: Carey Schleicher-Haselhorst

Language: English

Category: Book

Price: $25 standard copy; $85 signed w/ vintage photo.

Summary: Our latest publication features a selection of found photographs curated by Robert E. Jackson from his extensive collection of vintage snapshots. Having been actively collecting for well over a decade, Jackson is a superb example of one who collects not merely to accumulate, but to seek out, arrange & ultimately form the images he finds into groupings that make statements about photography & culture at large. In Pure Photography, Jackson provides visual evidence of the uncanny manner in which snapshot photography isolates aspects of the world in a way the human eye alone cannot. “Some alchemy of chance,” Jackson writes, “a misreading of surface detail, a mechanical error within the camera, or emulsion issues have caused these photographs to exist outside the standard notion of what a snapshot is meant to be. Being pure in the sense that they are visually unencumbered by a photographic intent which can be easily understood, one must approach the photos from a personal point of view. As aesthetic objects which cannot be read in the traditional sense, they steadfastly recoil from interpretation & exist simply to be experienced.”

Website: www.ampersandvinage.com

Book link: http://www.ampersandvintage.com/Ampersand_Vintage/Pure_Photography.html

Donated by: Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books