Lyle Rexer

Will Steacy

Includes brief biographies of the contributors.

Photographs Not Taken

David Mitchell

Jim Kempner Fine Art (Gallery)

The Dog Must Howl : New Large Scale Photographs

Renata Buziak

Victoria Garnons-Williams

Text in English & Polish. QCP is launching it's 6th publication featuring the highly innovative and experimental work of Renata Buziak, the first in a series of smaller monographs. This 48-page bilingual (English/Polish) book includes all of Buziak's Afterimage series, as well as a comprehensive essay by Dr Victoria Garnons-Williams and a foreword by renowned American author Lyle Rexer; translations by Małgorzata Sady.

Around the year 1910, a patient at State Lunatic Asylum No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, who referred to himself as The Electric Pencil, executed 280 drawings in ink, pencil, crayon and colored pencil. These beautiful drawings of animals, people and buildings were executed on both sides of 140 ledger pages, each bearing the name of the hospital in official type across the top, thus dramatizing the interface of the institutional and the creative. The Electric Pencil's drawings were sewn into a handmade album of fabric and leather, which shortly afterwards was lost--for a century. Now that album is presented publicly for the first time since its making, displaying for contemporary audiences the strange and poignant beauty of the drawings. His many portraits--head-and-shoulders or just heads--feature formal, sometimes dazed-looking men and women with elaborate hats or razor-parted hair who stare out of the page with wide, piercing eyes that suggest both a possible chilling regime of "mental health" treatment and the unblinking, unsettling gaze of those who haunt the margins of sanity and society. The handsomely designed hardbound format of The Drawings of the Electric Pencilfeatures an art folio book block within that opens flat. An essay by Lyle Rexer places the work in the broader context of outsider art, in which The Electric Pencil emerges as an artist of singular brilliance.

The Drawings of the Electric Pencil

A visual introduction to the culture and evaluation process of outsider art showcases numerous works, including several previously unpublished pieces by such artists as Henry Darger, William Hawkins, and Adolf Wölfi, in a volume complemented by discussions on the rising influence of outsider art and the role of mental illness in its creation. Original. 12,500 first printing.

How to Look at Outsider Art

And now, for the first time in book form, Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde charts this full-blown rebellion of contemporary photographers against the advent of digital technology and their reversion to photographic methods used in the nineteenth century.".

The New Wave in Old Processes

Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Aperture is pleased to release this book in an affordable paperback edition. Author Lyle Rexer examines abstraction at pivotal moments, starting with the inception of photography, when many of the pioneers believed the camera might reveal other aspects of reality. The Edge of Vision traces subsequent explorationsfrom the Photo-Secessionists, who emphasized process and emotional expression over observed reality, to Modernist and Surrealist experiments. In the decades to follow, in particular from the 1950s through the 1980s, a multitude of photographersEdward Weston, Aaron Siskind, Barbara Kasten, Ellen Carey, and James Welling among themtook up abstraction from a variety of positions. Finally, Rexer explores the influence the history of abstraction exerts on contemprary thinking about the medium. Many contemporary artistsmost prominently Penelope Umbrico, Michael Flomen, and Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarinreject classic definitions of photographys documentary dimension in favor of other conceptually inflected possibilities, somewhere between painting and sculpture, that include the manipulation of process and printing. In addition to Rexers engagingly written and richly illustrated history, this volume includes a selection of primary texts from and interviews with key practitioners and critics, such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, László Moholy-Nagy, Gottfried Jägger, Silvio Wolf, and Walead Beshty.

The Rise of Abstraction in Photography

The Edge of Vision

Serge Tisseron

James Christen Steward

Ernestine Ruben

Illustrated with reproductions of Ruben's photographs.

Photographs

In Human Touch

Timothy Persons

Alistair Hicks

Christoph Tannert

The fifth volume in the "Helsinki School" series, this publication looks back at the development of this group of photographers over the past 20 years. In a collection of essays, international curators, critics and museum directors describe their encounters with the Helsinki School, from the first exhibitions in the late 1990s to the work of the youngest generation. A discussion between Timothy Persons and Alistair Hicks concludes these contributions. The texts are accompanied by installation shots of exhibitions, archival material and recent work by the artists. Not only a history, the book also looks toward the future of the Helsinki School. This volume includes work by Elina Brotherus, Ilkka Halso, Tiina Itkonen, Sandra Kantanen, Timo Kelaranta, Ola Kolehmainen, Tanja Koljonen, Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Janne Lehtinen, Niko Luoma, Susanna Majuri, Nelli Palomäki and Jorma Puranen.

From the Past to the Future

The Helsinki School

Melissa Meyer

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

Wiegand Art Gallery

Works on Paper, 1984-1994

Melissa Meyer in Black & White

Silvio Wolf

Over a period of 20 years, Milan-based artist Silvio Wolf has encountered and photographed places that lie somewhere between the east and the west, the city and the desert, conflicting conceptions of space, void, presence and absence. His pictures, devoid of human beings, present the symbolic representations of their ritual spaces, journeys and frameworks.

le due porte

Stephen Wilkes's extraordinary panoramas depict our most famous landmarks from dawn to dusk. He captures thousands of single exposures, carefully editing and blending them into one seamless composition that shows the passage of time. With details highlighting the individual stories captured within each multi-moment image, this collection...

Stephen Wilkes. Day to Night

Peggy Anderson

Ongoing portrait series of Swedes wearing bathrobes after their morning swim in the sea

Lyle Rexer

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