Steidlville

Making books with Gerhard Saturday 7 February, 2010, 5-7pm

To accompany Dayanita Singh's exhibition of Dream Villa at Gallery Morte, New Delhi, the artist will give a presentation about her association with Steidl.
To confirm a seat for this event please RSVP to Geeta - 011 417 40215

Political Pictures. Soviet photographs 1918-1941. The Daniela Mrazkowa Collection

In April 2008 Museum Ludwig – with the help of the State Government of NRW, the Kulturstiftung der Länder, the Kunststiftung NRW and the City of Cologne – succeeded in aquiring the Daniela Mrazkowa Collection. The collection comprises 234 works by the foremost Soviet photographers of the pre-war era. It brings together a broad range of the photographic currents of that time, while giving an outstanding overview of documentary photography and photojournalism in the Soviet Union. The range spans portraits of the intellectual heroes of the Soviet Union in the Pictoralist style of Nappelbaum and Sterenberg, Constructivist photography by for instance Ignatowitsch and Rodchenko, who focused on architecture and industrial innovations, and depictions of workers and the rural populace in the Socialist Realist style adopted by Zelma und Alpert.

Raymond Depardon is showing work from Hear Them Speak at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris.

The exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject unites filmmaker and photographer, Raymond Depardon, and urban planner and philosopher, Paul Virilio, who propose a reflection on the notions of “taking root” in a given place, and of being “uprooted.” It also attempts to address the questions of identity that are linked to these notions. On this occasion, the Fondation Cartier and Steidl are publishing Hear Them Speak, a collection of colour Polaroids by Raymond Depardon. In the course of some ten journeys, from Central America to South America, from Europe to Africa, Raymond Depardon went out to meet small ethnic groups who are hanging on determinedly to their land and their language: the Kawésqar, Chipaya, Quechua, Mapuche, Afar, Occitans, Bretons, Guarani and Yanomami. Their statements were recorded in their mother tongue and are accompanied by Polaroid photographs. In the resulting portraits, these people express the strong bond that ties them to their land and culture, offering a moving demonstration of the way land, speech and memory are intimately interconnected.

An exhibition of works from Leo Rubenfien's Wounded Cities will be exhibited at the following venue in Lianzhou, China.

5 - 10 December, 2009
5th Lianzhou International Photography Festival
The Granary, Lianzhou
(showing with Wie Kultur, Berlin)

Please join Clic Gallery and Steidldangin publishers in the celebration of the US release of Patrick Demarchelier's monograph Patrick Demarchelier

This monograph is the definitive guide to the photographic career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. From his earliest work at Harper’s Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personae of figures ranging from Princess Diana to Madonna.

We are very pleased to announce an exhibition and book launch for John Warwicker's The Floating World: Ukiyo-e

Inspired by the ancient Japanese artists of Ukiyo-e and a polymath’s myriad references, John Warwicker has for over 10 years been one of the most original thinkers in the design and creative industries. As a founding member of Tomato, he established an international reputation in the 1990s and has been formative in shaping popular media. The Floating World: Ukiyo-e is the first monograph of John Warwicker’s work.

Lasting Impressions
The Fine Art & Craft of the Steidl Book

Exhibition:
Musée de l’Elysée
Lausanne, Switzerland
Opening 17 November, 2009 - 21 February, 2010

Everyone knows a beautiful photography book when they see one. But few people realise what a labour of love a fine publication represents, and what diverse and complementary skills combine to ensure the best possible results. For many photographers and curators, the quality of a Steidl publication represents nothing less than the gold standard. It was the intensity of our personal experience of book-making at Steidl, as Musée de l’Elysée curators, which led us to the idea of an exhibition which would unveil the art and craft involved in the production of a Steidl book: the A to Z of the process, from the first rough sketches on a scrap of paper, through the tortured convolutions of “dummy” production, to the (often agonizing) choice of the “right cover” (not to mention the myriad choices of paper, typography and binding). We determined not only to show all these diverse operations in as accessible a manner as possible, but also to give visitors a sense of the experience of daily life at “Steidlville”, where photographers, graphic designers, printers, curators and other photography specialists rub shoulders as they busy themselves with one or another aspect of book production, the combined results of which are destined to expand and enrich the field of art photography.

Exhibitions of works from several of Dayanita Singh's books will be on show at the following:

2 Sunny House , 16/18 Mereweather Road
Behind Taj Mahal Hotel
Colaba, Mumbai 400 001

Dream Villa 13 Jan, 2010 - 16 February 2010
Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi

We are very pleased to announce the following exhibitions and book signings for Mauro D'Agati's Palermo Unsung and Alamar

Book launch and slide show at Steidlville Rome
13 November, 2009, 7pm
Steidlville Rome, s.t. foto libreria galleria, Via degli Ombrellari, 25 - Rome

A significant overview of Roni Horn's work to date, showing the full range of her practice as a photographer, draughtsman, installation artist and writer.

A Steidl catalogue (co-published with Tate and the Whitney) accompanies the show

Fazal Sheikh will be exhibiting photographs at the following venues:

Ladli, Moksha, The Circle, Portraits
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Oct 10, 2009 - January 31. 2010
Beloved Daughters: Photographs

Han van der Meer will be giving a talk on his body of work, European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football at Host Gallery, London, this Friday, 23rd October.

Date: Friday 23rd October
6:30 Drinks, 7:00pm Start

An Exhibition of works from Jim Goldberg's Open See will be on show at The Photographers' Gallery, London from 16 October, 2009 - 17 January, 2010.

Open See tells of the journeys of refugee and immigrant populations who travel from war torn and economically devastated countries, often leaving AIDS ravaged communities or totalitarian regimes to make new homes in Europe.

An exhibition of works from Torbjørn Rødland's I Want to Live Innocent will be on show at galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium from 8th October.

With I Want to Live Innocent, Torbjørn Rødland takes a break from the nomadic lifestyle reflected in his first book and returns to Stavanger, the city he grew up in. He doesn’t revisit old haunts and the images aren’t dominated by the geography of the region but Stavanger becomes a generous theatre for Rødland’s exploration of the incongruous complexities both of his own mind and that of our culture. The centre of Norway’s oil industry, this Protestant coastal city has seen a tremendous economic growth since the late 1960s and Rødland utilises a diverse array of pictorial languages to reflect on the paradoxes which arise with the addition of newfound wealth and materialism.

Photographed entirely in Brazil, mostly in the rainforest and city surroundings, Native employs the green, gold and pink underlying palette of the country.

“This work began as a personal journey. Metaphorically, I was thinking of a bird that flies back into the forest, searching for its childhood nest. The images here are a creation of my abstracted wishes and dreams. As I was searching, instead of home, I found an empty past, just traces of it. Yet, my journey was filled with new friendships, and discoveries made along the way.” (Mona Kuhn)

An exhibition of works from Antony Gormley's monograph published by SteidlMack will be exhibited at Musee d’Art Moderne St Etienne touring to Artium Museum, Spain in 2009.

BETWEEN YOU AND ME, European touring exhibition

Joakim Eskildsen's, The Roma Journeys [Le romané phirimàta] will be on show in various galleries across Europe.

Cia Rinne and Joakim Eskildsen travelled to meet Roma in seven different countries between 2000 and 2006, often staying with families for long periods in order to learn about their life, their culture, and their situation. The Roma Journeys is a very personal document of these encounters, giving a contemporary view of the lives of the Roma people and their situation today.

Images of The Roma Journeys will be screened at the Internationa Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan on September 6th, 2008.

Cia Rinne and Joakim Eskildsen travelled to meet Roma in seven different countries between 2000 and 2006, often staying with families for long periods in order to learn about their life, their culture, and their situation. The Roma Journeys is a very personal document of these encounters, giving a contemporary view of the lives of the Roma people and their situation today.