International Center of Photography Library
"Home is where the heart is" "Home is where the hatred is" The notion of Home is complicated. Today we are featuring some of our favorite books that examine our relationship to "home." Longing to be back, the home we all share, finding a new home, returning home, dysfunctional homes, and love. AMC² Issue 5:… Continue reading Resource Guide: Home
Tonight I attended a launch party at Field Projects for I Looked & Looked an artist book by Magali Duzant. published by our friends at Conveyor Editions. This one night event was purposefully held on the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the night this project began. I Looked & Looked draws its title from a line in a love letter Alfred Stieglitz wrote to Georgia… Continue reading I Looked & Looked by Magali Duzant
The International Center of Photography is proud to present its inaugural Friends of ICP Library artist book, Act of Faith: A Soldier’s Manda by Brian Paumier, commissioned by the artist as a thank you to supporters of the ICP Library, who selected it by vote from among 4 finalists in 2013. Brian Paumier worked in… Continue reading Act of Faith by Brian Paumier lands in ICP Library
The ICP/Bard MFA artists have increasingly been embracing the hand-made book as a format, and even toppling it over in favor of making what I call “not-books:” small, interactive items that may be multiples, but are decidedly vessels for the artist’s thinking and desire to control their distribution. They find in it a great way… Continue reading ICP/Bard MFA Class of 2012 Making Book, Making Not-Book
In these perilous times for art and culture funding, I find myself thinking a lot about sustainability and creative funding, particularly in the bibliographic realm. One of my fascinations in the few idle moments of the summer was scanning projects on the crowd-source funding site for creative ideas Kickstarter. If you have not looked at projects… Continue reading Summer Funding
Our estimable colleague, curator Christopher Phillips, advised us to secure the artist books of Mo Yi from Three Shadows in Beijing last year. They form a remarkable set, in a variety of shapes and sizes, all laced with red yarn. Many of the covers look like political posters, and in their bold designs and photocopy… Continue reading Mo Yi Artist Books
Monsters & Madonnas 