Anouk Kruithof’s series Becoming Blue comprises 21 portraits and three spatial stills. They are presented in different formats and reveal Kruithof’s highly exceptional approach to the topic of portrait photography. During extended sessions, which Anouk Kruithof calls one-to-one performances she did not usually work behind the camera but in the rest of the room, frequently pressing the trigger by remote control. At the same time, she made constant but minor physi

In 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Photography commissioned American photographer Michael Schmelling to make a new series of photographs about music in his hometown of Chicago. First shown as the solo exhibition Your Blues in 2014 (curated by Karen Irvine), this ambitious body of work now takes form of an artist book, co-published by The Ice Plant and Skinnerboox. Schmelling spent eighteen months immersed in the project, crisscrossing Chicago alone at night, making his way into bas

Forty-five years after its publication, Primary Information brings Yvonne Rainer’s classic book back into print in an exact facsimile, the only change is the small addition of new notes at the back of the book. In 1974, Yvonne Rainer published Work 1961–73, an illustrated catalog of her performance works up to that point. In these years, as the art world turned toward minimalism, Rainer and her Judson Dance Theater colleagues were engaged in a paral

Osservatorio Cortina 2021 is an artistic research project in which the territory and the events planned for the 2021 Alpine Ski World Championship in Cortina were examined through photography. In their artistic research, which took three years, two artists, Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve, documented the key moments in the construction of the sports event, while at the same time observing the territory and its history with an open, inquisitive, and exploratory attitude, seeking links between spo

Journey between soul and reason, psyche and universe, science and legend - Le distese interiori del cosmo -  the last book that Joseph Campbell brought to completion before his death, is a collection of essays in which history, anthropology, analysis of myth, Spirituality and analytical psychology converge in a richly documented and always current speculation. Beliefs, rites, myths, practices and artistic and literary expressions of peoples, figures and cultures that can be traced back to distant eras and geogra