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—01. Stacey Peralta by Craig Stecyk.

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Recently launched by Tom Adler and Evan Backes, Archiv-e offers a beautiful selection of gallery quality open-edition prints. Many of the images have been featured in publications released by T. Adler Books over the years, and the list of photographers whose work is available includes Craig Stecyk, Don King, John Vachon, Jeff Divine and Glen Denny, to name a few.

—Archiv-e

The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969

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Hardback, 168 pages
12 x 8.25 inches
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery, 2015

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I posted about the What Nerve! exhibition when it opened at the Matthew Marks Gallery in July, prominently featuring works from the Hairy Who and other similar artists. Now the gallery has released all of the outsider collective’s art books in one volume, with the following snippet of the press release shedding more light than I could:

"Much of the Hairy Who’s legacy rests on four self-published books made to accompany their exhibitions. These comic books, as the artists called them, are among the first artist’s books executed in full colour, and they are exemplary models of artistic collaboration. The pages teem with unforgettable characters (including Juan Dollar, Poodle Woman, and Lotte Da) rendered in energetic lines and intense colours. The artists’ formal inventiveness and penchant for wordplay are on full display in these illustrations. Even the group's name is a pun. At one of the first meetings, the younger members were discussing Harry Bouras, a Chicago artist and critic, and they delightedly riffed on Karl Wirsum’s repeated question “Harry who?”

The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969 gathers these seminal books for the first time in a single hardcover volume, reproducing them at actual size and in full colour. Accompanying them are a scholarly essay by Dan Nadel and an extensive archive of Hairy Who posters, exhibition photographs, and ephemera.”

Head over to the gallery's store to pick up a copy before this limited title is sold out.

—Matthew Marks Gallery

Jay DeFeo Catalogue

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Hardcover, 86 pages
9 x 11.5 inches
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash

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Originally produced to coincide with last year’s retrospective at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery, this catalogue centred around the late avant-garde artist, Jay DeFeo, chronicles the bulk of her working life. It features 50 key works from 1965 to 1989, including paintings, drawings, photographs and little-seen photocopy pieces, as well as an essay by Walead Beshty entitled The Ritual of Everyday Life: On the Migrating Objects of Jay DeFeo. For anyone fascinated by the Beat movement and Semina-associated artists, it is sure to be a must.

—Available from Artbook

Sneeze N°25 Summer-Fall '15: The Excuse Me Issue

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—01. A$AP Rocky by Kenneth Cappello.

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Sneeze just released its 25th issue, an accomplishment for any independent publisher. Featuring A$AP Rocky on the cover, the latest edition also includes Mark Flood, Kevin Tierney, Shay Semple and an essay by the publication's editor-in-chief celebrating Stussy New York's 25th anniversary. In addition, Sneeze have produced a logo T-shirt which is now available from their online store, alongside the magazine, a sticker set and their Virus skateboard collaboration.

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Depression Catalogue

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94 pages, 18 foldouts
9.5 x 12 inches
Designed by Eric Wrenn
Published by Ramiken Crucible

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Last year I saw some photos from an amazing group show entitled Depression, put on at the François Ghebaly Gallery in LA. At the time I didn't know that the exhibition was organised by Ramiken Crucible, so when I saw this catalog for sale on the Lower East Side gallery's website, I was pleasantly surprised. Alongside work from an impressive list of artists including Lucas Blalock and Andra Ursuta, the catalog's accompanying text offers insight into a serious issue that many people find themselves affected by.

—Available from Ramiken Crucible
—François Ghebaly Gallery

Online Feature: Takahiro Kinoshita

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—01. Photography by Ryan Willms.

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The influential Japanese magazine, Popeye, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2016. There aren’t many fashion titles that make it to this landmark, and fewer still that remain relevant to contemporary culture. Over the last decade this wasn’t always the case, but with the addition of current Editor-in-Chief, Takahiro Kinoshita, in 2012, Popeye received a refocus, a redesign and, as a result, a significant renewal. Having previously worked as an editor for Brutus, he brought a wealth of knowledge and a strong vision for the publication’s rebirth when taking over the reins. This eventually lead to Popeye’s reemergence as one of the preeminent men’s fashion monthlies from Japan. We had the opportunity to ask Kinoshita about his relationship with the magazine, as well as delving into what interests him most about the current fashion landscape.

—Online Feature: Takahiro Kinoshita

Wolfgang Tillmans – The Cars

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Softcover, 128 pages
6.5 x 9.5 inches
First edition
Published by Walther König, 2015

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"I wanted to show how cars appear in typical street view, which is rarely the subject of photographs. Cars are usually avoided in photography - one waits until a car has exited a view. The ordinary presence of cars is rarely worthy of representation. It's always the special car, or the extreme traffic jam or, of course, the exciting crash that is being pictured. The Cars pays tribute to the shapes and forms we look at every day. How much time we spend with them, sitting inside them, the endless hours we stare at a dashboard. Even if we don't own a car ourselves, their presence is unavoidable. Cars are everywhere. Their sheer number is the most crazy thing about them. They appear in our lives with excessive omnipresence. In their volume cars intrude upon public space, and the way they occupy streets and open areas is rarely challenged. Virtually wherever there are people, there are cars and they are visually intermingling in whatever we see. We are looking at the world from a car and cars are in the foreground, the background or in between of what is in our view. Where they are, they add a tone, a note, a presence, a noise to the setting they're in." – Wolfgang Tillmans

—Available from Donlon Books

City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

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320 pages, 105 B&W photos
8.5 x 8.5 inches
University of Minnesota Press, 2014

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University press books on specialized subject matter are probably not widely recognised as captivating reads, but I absolutely love their in-depth approach to a solitary theme and the information to be gained from reading them. Alison Bick Hirsch's volume on Lawrence Halprin fits that description perfectly. The landscape architect was at the forefront of '60s and '70s West Coast experimentalism, and if more people took notice of his ideas about participating in our created environments, the world might be in a better ecological state than it is today.

—Available from University of Minnesota Press