Mack Books

This voluminous monograph 'Doug Aitken. Works 1992-2022' traces the US american multimedia artist's path from his earliest works in the 1990s to the present, reflecting the way he has approached the present in his conceptual, cross-media work.

'Stable Vices' by Joanna PIOTROWSKA is an ambitious photo volume that focuses on the concepts of protection, freedom and oppression, crystallizing a spectrum that runs like a thread through the Polish photographer's work and keeps driving her.

The out-of-print 'Soho' by Anders PETERSEN documents the life of the London neighborhood in a typical manner. This part of his series 'City Diaries' is a testimony to the dynamics & diversity of the neighborhood and the people who frequent and live there.

In photo volume 'Socorro!' Lucy RAVEN documents the shockwaves at an explosives range in New Mexico as silver gelatin shadowgrams on large format photosensitive paper and negative film. The results are subtly inflected abstractions in this artist’s book.

Inspired by Valerie Solanas' tract SCUM, Justine KURLAND presents her own feminist initiative: the 'Society for Cutting Up Men's Books'. Her volume 'SCUMB Manifesto' contains collages created by cutting up and reconfiguring photo books by male artists.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

For 'Slant,' Aaron SCHUMAN interweaves newspaper clippings from the police reports section with his own photos. What began as an affectionate look at small towns reveals the rise of 'post-truth' politics & paranoia that gradually followed 2016 US election

This volume on Eikoh HOSOE shows photos, but also introduces the most important protagonists of the art of Japan after 1945. It also contains essays that offer new perspectives on the work, as well as reprints of a selection of previously published essays

In the 1970s and 1980s, Italian photographer Luigi GHIRRI pursued a project characterized by empathy for the changing everyday spaces of his time. During his short career he created a large number of color photographs as well as influential essays.

Photo book 'In Veneto' contains a selection of hitherto unpublished works that Guido GUIDI took between 1984 and 1989. The visited places in provinces of Treviso, Vicenza, Padua & Venice, bearing testimony to the process of change of rural area in Italy.