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February 2019

TOKYO

Dutch artist Paul Kooiker’s photobook ‘Tokyo’ (published by Japan-based Artbeat publishers) is based on a single photo session Kooiker held during a brief stay in Tokyo in 2015. Kooiker then adjusted the image to a square format that put the focus on the model’s behind and experimented with various digital image manipulation techniques. 106 thusly altered images were selected for to make up the Tokyo series. “The book presents the widest array of pos
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March 2019

GARAGE

The publication ‘Garage’ shows work of Jan Adriaans which he made out of the fascination for the relation between the car and the garage. Henry Ford reportedly said that his ‘Tin Lizzie’ could be delivered in any colour, as long as it was black. In truth, no one ever actually heard him say these words and between 1913 and 1926 Ford customers could choose between Brewster Green, Red, Blue and Grey. Nearly a century after Ford’s b
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March 2019

MORNING GLORY

A postcardbox with landscape pictures of brothels and swingersclubs in the Netherland, photographed at morning glory. The photography is combined with reviews of disappointed customers which they published on hookers.nl, a Dutch review site for the well informed prostitution consumer. Analogue photography, combined with the best founded footage of the internet: the best of both worlds.
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March 2019

OUT OF GRIP

Two years after her disappearance in a boating accident on the Mahakam River, on her way to explore deep forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia, the first solo exhibition of work by young Dutch artist Danaë Moons was realised in Amsterdam. Published for the occasion, this book gathers her diverse oeuvre, from prints and film stills to sculptural objects, in turn reflecting her fascination with nature, stones, and the jungle. Through abstract and organic forms, she sou
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March 2019

QUEEN ANN. P.S. BELLY CUT OFF

Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off is the unfolding of a melancholic narrative of a woman, whose life seems to be dominated by her obesity. Yet the reader is never turned into a voyeur. ‘Queen Ann’s’ peculiar and touching photo collages of herself, expressing a longing for another ‘being’, are fused with the image that the book evokes around her persona.
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March 2019

SCREENDUMP #2

The Screendump project is an ongoing investigation and exploration of photography in the virtual world. In Screendump #1 (2011) the use of Google Street View was examined as a source of material for artists. In Screendump #2, the authors continue their exploration of the virtual photography with a closer look on the appropriation of photos found online. The publication shows the work of artists that run off with footage from amateurs. The overwhelming amount of online pictures cha
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