Category Archives: Book events

Notes on Queering the Collection(s) @ the ICP Library

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Bernard Yenelouis

from the publisher “Throughout 2018, the ICP Library collectively produced more than six in-house library installations and events considering representation in libraries at large. The success of this initiative resulted in an increase of the ICP Library’s holdings of queer, … Continue reading →

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Some Photobooks I liked in 2018 (Part Two)

Posted on November 2, 2018 by matthew carson

    Aleksey Kondratyev’s Ice Fishers (London: Loose Joints, 2018) is a slim and quiet edition of only fifty two pages with a one page insert of colophon and text. The images are placed on such a perfect whiteness that it … Continue reading →

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OMG, Bring a Book! The Library Goes to Critical Jamming

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

Yours truly and ICP Head Librarian and Archivist Matthew Carson participated in the recent panel From X-Files to The Matrix: Reality Disintegrated, held on Sunday, March 4 at the ICP Museum. In the words of organizer Claudine Boeglin: The 90s. … Continue reading →

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“I am in Paris.”

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Bernard Yenelouis

Following conversations with my colleagues at the ICP Library  about an event related to our current photobook display Je est un autre: The Vernacular in Photobooks, I decided to present selections from a small collection of films stills I accumulated … Continue reading →

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All at Once: Artist Books and Zines by the ICP-Bard MFA Class of 2016

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Liz Sales

ICP Library Window Exhibition April 1 – May 22, 2016   A selection of artist books and zines by the ICP-Bard MFA Class of 2016 is on display in conjunction with the group show, All at Once. As diverse as … Continue reading →

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Teeny Academy with William Boling

Posted on March 9, 2016 by icplibrary

William Boling joined the ICP Library  recently to share Debbie Fleming Caffery’s photobook Alphabet with some of our teeniest patrons. Caffery’s book features 26 gorgeous black & white photographs from her archive. Each image broadly corresponding with letters of the alphabet. The crowd, children age 4-12 … Continue reading →

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LA Report: Beyond the Book Fairs (11-14 February)

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Russet Lederman

  The weekend of February 11 – 14 turns Los Angeles into a paradise for photobook lovers. Two book fairs descend on the city: Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles … Continue reading →

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