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March 2021

Trial and Error

Trial and Error is an accumulation of artworks, photographs, videos and installations that Reinis Lismanis has made over a period of six years. Lismanis has been exploring photographic production and the traditional systems that lie behind the scenes of its processes and methods. In a self-reflective manner, his work both acknowledges and challenges the conventional structures of image making, exhibition display systems and artistic production in general. This publication is a comprehensive overview of the
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May 2021

ANNUAL SERIES No. 7 – Body Index, The Nipple, Study, Business of Fashion

Each year TBW Books curates four individual books by four artists who are deemed to be pursuing compelling work within the field of photography. For the seventh edition of the TBW Annual Series, four artists have been invited to approach the concept of the human form. Implementing stylistically distinct approaches, each book works to challenge the artist's practice, making room for discovery not only within their own work, but also within the language of photog
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November 2019

NOTES ON ARCHIVES 1 – OBTUSE, FLITTING BY, AND IN SPITE OF ALL – IMAGE ARCHIVES IN PRACTICE

Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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November 2022

Notes on a Masculine Image

His work uses photography, text, and installation to investigate historical representations of queerness, with a particular focus on the codification of queer desire and the construction of gay identity. In Notes on a Masculine Image, Meneghello utilises a variety of print formats to reflect upon the hidden past of homoerotic imagery in photographic archives, exploring the competing notions of display and concealment as found in a group of vintage Super 8 bodybuilding films. Eschewing a tra
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September 2020

Edition Patrick Frey – Uklanski – Real Nazis

Glamorous impersonations of evil: In the fall of 1999 Edition Patrick Frey published The Nazis, which soon became a legendary cult book. It has long since been out of print and remains highly coveted to this day. While The Nazis showed stills of actors playing Nazis in various Hollywood movies, Polish artist Piotr Uklanksi has now juxtaposed them with the real thing: Nazi party bigwigs, decorated โ€œwar heroesโ€ and war criminals. Painstakingly culled from a gre
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January 2020

DUTY FREE ART – L’ARTE NELL’EPOCA DELLA GUERRA CIVILE PLANETARIA

Gigantic secret museums crop up nowadays in no-manโ€™s-lands that circumvent national sovereignties and are closed to the public. They are duty-free storage facilities where works of art โ€“ albeit sealed in their packing cases โ€“ are used as alternative currency for the circulation of assets worth billions from one end of the world to the other: a borderless art trapped in permanent transit zones; an art exempt from tax but not from the requirement to be
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