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- Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)
- In 2007 the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California asked Jim Dine to make a work in response to a part of their antiquities collection at the “Villa”. Dine carved three large scale wood sculputes, painting them with very bright colors in the ancient Hellenistic way, and surrounded them with a long poem attached to the wall. The entire process was documented for this book with photographs by Diana Michener, Gerhard Steidl and Jim Dine.
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- Darmstätder Werkblock
- At the end of September 2007, the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt closed for renovation. This has also meant a proposed restoration of the seven-room installation by Joseph Beuys known as Block Beuys, 1970–86. The walls of the rooms are famously covered in brown and beige jute and the floors are carpeted. Beuys worked on the installation himself over many years, adding and changing things up to his death. The rooms continue to carry the aura of this activity and so the museum’s decision to remove the jute and carpet has caused great upset among lovers of Block Beuys worldwide. The controversy centers on the fact that Beuys never made particular reference to the jute walls, allowing the assumption that they are not relevant to any question of renovation. Just prior to the museum’s closure, Dean painstakingly filmed the walls, the carpet and any detail of the gallery décor, which was soon to be replaced, seeing them as analogous to the entropy in and of Beuys’s art, whilst carefully avoiding any sighting of the work itself. Working closely with Gerhard Steidl, she is extending the film into an artist’s book.
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- Henry Frank, Father Photographer
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Robert Frank’s father, Henry (1890–1976), was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. Father Photographer makes public for the first time a selection of Henry Frank’s photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes.
A couple of years ago, Gerhard Steidl found at a Robert Frank’s sudio wooden boxes containing the complete archive of his father’s stereophotographs. In 2008 that box and the fragile photographic glass plates within it were handescorted to Steidl in Göttingen, where they were scanned in tritone in preparation for this book. Designed by Robert Frank, Father Photographer reveals Henry Frank to be both a talented photographer and a keen traveller. His pictures include snow-capped Alps and lakes in Switzerland, views of Venice, Pisa and Florence, and depictions of his family and friends including the young Robert. Henry Frank also reveals a passion for modern means of transport in images of aeroplanes, ships, hot-air balloons, and a car fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Father Photographer is a revelation of the unknown photographer Henry Frank, a historical photographic document of the early twentieth century, as well as a new chapter in Robert Frank’s ongoing bookmaking.
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- Schmatz! [∫mats!]* - Lunches at Steidl created by Rüdiger Schellong
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“Schmatz \shmäts\ 1: smacking one’s lips in anticipation of good food; 2: eating noisily; 3: big sloppy air kisses”
An innovative art book that includes recipes, a cookbook that includes art, Schmatz! speaks to the creative practices of publishing and cookery as experienced at Steidlville. Renowned artists from around the world travel to little Göttingen, Germany to collaborate with celebrated publisher and printer, Gerhard Steidl, creating outstanding books of exceptional quality. Personally involved in every stage of their book’s creation, artists make the rounds from image processing, colour proofing, to design, paper choice, and finally to press. While there is a great amount of satisfaction in the process, it is rigorous and highly demanding. The one hour when guests are allowed to slow down is lunchtime at Steidl’s table, enjoying the simple yet spectacularly delicious, lovingly prepared and served meals by chef Rüdiger Schellong.
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- Concentric Circles, A Chronicle of Steidl Publishers
- “Gerhard’s like a Communist. You have to go into the salt mines with him. If you’re willing to go there then you’re like brothers in arms and he’ll do what needs be.” Robert Polidori
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- Lewis Baltz WORKS
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This much anticipated edition is one of the publishing phenomena of the year, encompassing the oeuvre of one of the most significant artists working with photography in the twentieth century.
Limited to 1,100 copies each signed and numbered by Lewis Baltz, this edition contains ten hardback, linen bound volumes, housed in an embossed slipcase.
WORKS celebrates Lewis Baltz’s indelible influence on the development of contemporary photography and contains reissues of Baltz’s most significant books, many of which are now collectible rarities, as well as four as yet unpublished projects. Each of the books has been crafted in close collaboration with Baltz, who oversaw each stage of production with Gerhard Steidl. From scanning of the vintage prints, to book design, selection of paper and binding materials, pre-press and printing, Baltz has shaped the form and aesthetic of these publications. Printed in luminous quadratone, WORKS is a testament to the importance of the book as a primary medium in Baltz’s practice.
“Baltz’s work exemplifies the ways in which photography, beginning some four decades ago, started to loose the bonds of its isolation within its own segregated history and aesthetics and began to take its place as an equal among other media.” Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art.
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- Etoiles, Autocar Volume 6
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I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police’s chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing – like an attitude – are not produced but crafted.
Together with Martin d’Orgeval as the conductor, and Gerhard Steidl as the wizard-publisher, I have ventured to gather these energies and to follow my intuition, to adjoin one by one my spelling mistakes, my un-photogenic works, my pen’s pirouettes, their reverberating souls – to take you with me through mountains of dreams over oceans of laughter and into my life shared with millions whose loving eyes rest on me.
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- Poaime, Autocar Volume 7
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I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police’s chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing – like an attitude – are not produced but crafted.
Together with Martin d’Orgeval as the conductor, and Gerhard Steidl as the wizard-publisher, I have ventured to gather these energies and to follow my intuition, to adjoin one by one my spelling mistakes, my un-photogenic works, my pen’s pirouettes, their reverberating souls – to take you with me through mountains of dreams over oceans of laughter and into my life shared with millions whose loving eyes rest on me.
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- Follow me, Autocar, Volume 8
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I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police’s chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing – like an attitude – are not produced but crafted.
Together with Martin d’Orgeval as the conductor, and Gerhard Steidl as the wizard-publisher, I have ventured to gather these energies and to follow my intuition, to adjoin one by one my spelling mistakes, my un-photogenic works, my pen’s pirouettes, their reverberating souls – to take you with me through mountains of dreams over oceans of laughter and into my life shared with millions whose loving eyes rest on me.
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- A 2 Doigts, Autocar Volume 9
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I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police’s chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing – like an attitude – are not produced but crafted.
Together with Martin d’Orgeval as the conductor, and Gerhard Steidl as the wizard-publisher, I have ventured to gather these energies and to follow my intuition, to adjoin one by one my spelling mistakes, my un-photogenic works, my pen’s pirouettes, their reverberating souls – to take you with me through mountains of dreams over oceans of laughter and into my life shared with millions whose loving eyes rest on me.
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- Pense á moi, Autocar Volume 11
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I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police’s chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing – like an attitude – are not produced but crafted.
Together with Martin d’Orgeval as the conductor, and Gerhard Steidl as the wizard-publisher, I have ventured to gather these energies and to follow my intuition, to adjoin one by one my spelling mistakes, my un-photogenic works, my pen’s pirouettes, their reverberating souls – to take you with me through mountains of dreams over oceans of laughter and into my life shared with millions whose loving eyes rest on me.
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- Optimism, Autocar Volume 10
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I have always had the dream to make books that would mirror a life formed by the wind pushing us, by the fires I always ignite much to the police’s chagrin: books that, like my photographs, my drawings, my writing – like an attitude – are not produced but crafted.
Together with Martin d’Orgeval as the conductor, and Gerhard Steidl as the wizard-publisher, I have ventured to gather these energies and to follow my intuition, to adjoin one by one my spelling mistakes, my un-photogenic works, my pen’s pirouettes, their reverberating souls – to take you with me through mountains of dreams over oceans of laughter and into my life shared with millions whose loving eyes rest on me.
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- How to Make a Book with Steidl
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Not for sale in the USA, Canada and Japan.
When we ran into Alex Rühle, he was loading his weekend groceries into his bike’s child trailer. He looked tired, more than usual. All the same, he immediately began telling us about the crazy time he’d had researching a piece on legendary photographer Robert Frank for his “At Work” column in the Süddeustche Zeitung. He’d spent the last three days travelling all over the place with Frank’s publisher Gerhard Steidl – to Göttingen, Paris and Nova Scotia! He’d then slept on the train for the entire return journey from the airport. And it was only because the conductor had woken him in Munich that he hadn’t ended up in the train depot. Now he quickly had to write a good article, a full page in the arts and culture section. The piece had to do justice to his great encounter with Frank and Steidl. Perhaps it wouldn’t even be an article about Robert Frank, but rather about the work of his amazing publisher?
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- Paper Passion
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Paper Passion fragrance by Geza Schoen, Gerhard Steidl, and Wallpaper* magazine, with packaging by Karl Lagerfeld and Steidl.
“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.”
Karl Lagerfeld
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- Beuys Book
- Joseph Beuys was photographed extensively during his life, whether at work, while travelling or at home. But only a few photographers had the privileged access and tenacity of Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl. Graphic artist Staeck and printer/publisher Steidl accompanied Beuys with their cameras from 1970 until his death in 1986. Staeck and Steidl were part of Beuys’ entourage, worked closely with him to produce his multiples and objects, and documented intimate aspects of the life of this unmatched artist-performer. These photos reveal Beuys’ unique charismatic personality that influenced not only those he met, but society and art in general.
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- Hello Yellow Glove
- Jim Dine’s status as a master draughtsman is unquestioned and this book presents the best of his most recent drawings. Hello Yellow Glove opens with one of Dine’s most treasured motifs, Pinocchio. Using dense charcoal and dripping washes, Dine depicts the sinister edge to Carlo Collodi’s story and Pinocchio’s isolation in his quest to become a real boy. With similar dark layers and dissolving forms Dine also depicts botanical motifs such as the thistle and catalpa tree. In addition to these bodies of work, Hello Yellow Glove presents Dine’s portrait of Gerhard Steidl, an ambitious suite of nine drawings made by the artist in his Göttingen studio. Alongside reproductions of the drawings are photographs of Dine taken by Steidl during the sittings, which form both a candid portrait of the artist and offer a rare glimpse into his working processes.
