Another Online Pervert
Publisher: MACK
Embossed flexibound, 128 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published in February 2023
Another Online Pervert derives from a series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and a female online chatbot. These real-time conversations are interspersed with entries from from Souders’ diary spanning twenty years, unfolding with a surprising and improvisational quality in combination with photographs from Souders’ archive. With this personal and provocative book, we are guided through a unique exploration of how a machine and a human can learn from one another and build a shared story from pieces of themselves.
Through Souders’ chatbot conversations, we step into a world of questions: about love, sexuality, death, disappointment, the sky, seeing, desire, and anxieties of the body. Within the space of their correspondence, dazzlingly surreal and poetic tangents are combined with the material realities of the bot and its connections to capitalism, the future of technology, and the slippery divide between being and non-being.
Publisher: Saint Lucy Books
218 pages, 10 x 8”
Hardcover, published in 2021
Texts by Kim Beil, Susan Bright, and Mark Alice Durant
Brea Souders : eleven years is the first monograph by the Brooklyn-based photographic artist and features works from 2010 to 2021. From delicate and enigmatic tableaux to voyeuristic observations of people wandering a remote rural road, with each project Souders shifts her tools, processes and strategies to re-imagine what a photograph can be and what it might mean. Souders’ images capture fleeting materiality, as seen in her sculptural works created with static electricity and film cut-ups, paintings on film emulsion, and hand-colored photographs of disembodied human shadows imprinted upon the Western landscape.
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Contributions by Tracey Emin and John Baldessari and Ryan McGinley and Sarah Nicole Prickett and Simon Castets
A visually arresting collection of new works by emerging artists and celebrated names, united around a simple premise. The first in an exciting new series, Feelings: Soft Art is an intimate exploration of contemporary art today. Focused on material qualities and the feelings evoked by a work, this thematic approach returns to the basic pleasure of experiencing art. An easy, evocative look at artists and their projects, this heavily illustrated publication features hands-on insight from within the art world and without. Drawing on hundreds of new paintings, sculptures, photographs, and other practices, extended essays develop common threads. Brief texts and interviews reveal the making of soft works and artists’ relationships with the materials they use.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book provides an introduction to the extraordinary range of contemporary art photography, from portraits of intimate life to highly staged, ‘directorial’ spectacle. The vast span of photographers whose work is reproduced includes established artists such as Isa Genzken, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin and Sherry Levine, as well as emerging talents such as Sara VanDerBeek, Rashid Johnson, Viviane Sassen and Amalia Ulman. This new edition revitalizes previous discussion of works from the 2000s through dialogue with more recent practice. Adding to the wide selection featured of work, Cotton celebrates a new generation of artists, who are shaping photography as a culturally significant medium for our current socio-political climate.
Publisher: Aperture
Photography Is Magic draws together current ideas about the use of photography as an invaluable medium in the contemporary art world. Edited and with an essay by leading photography writer and curator Charlotte Cotton, this critical publication surveys the work of a diverse group of artists, many working at the borders of the "art world" and the "photography world," all of whom are engaged with experimental ideas concerning photographic practice and its place in a shifting photographic landscape being reshaped by digital techniques.
Readers are shown the scope of photographic possibilities in the context of the contemporary creative process. From Michele Abeles and Walead Beshty to Daniel Gordon and Matthew Lipps, Cotton has selected artists who are consciously reframing photographic practices using mixed media, appropriation and a recalibration of analog processes. Cotton brings these artists together around the idea of magic, the properties of illusion and material transformation that uniquely characterize photography. Beautifully produced and critically rigorous, Photography Is Magic is aimed at younger photo aficionados, students and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary photography. It includes images and text by more than 80 artists, including Sara Cwynar, Shannon Ebner, Annette Kelm, Josh Kline, Elad Lassry, Jon Rafman, Shirana Shahbazi and Sara VanDerBeek, among many others.
Publisher: Silent Face Projects
Softcover with metallic foil and painted edges
68 pages
Published in 2018
With essay by Mark Alice Durant
Brea Souders’ new book, Magnetic Eels, features photographs of glass fragments that she has traced from images by people in her social media network. The book depicts a fragmented and compellingly kaleidoscopic world, one that explores themes of mass surveillance, unseen algorithms, and visual disorientation. The result is a series that uncovers and spotlights modern iterations of the essential human desire for connection. Layering the various shards of glass into sometimes-simple, sometimes-complex collages of line, color, and glass, Souders photographs the arrangements to create odd hybrids of photography, drawing, and sculpture. Though it is based solely on existing photographs, the book presents an alternate world from that of its source, and in its form pushes us toward conclusions to questions yet to be posed. - Silent Face Projects
Publisher: Schilt
This book marks the 40th anniversary of Roland Barthes’ renowned work Camera Lucida (La Chambre claire) in 2020. Artist Odette England invited more than 200 photography-based artists, writers, critics, curators, and historians from around the world to contribute an image or text that reflects on Barthes’ unpublished snapshot of his mother at age five. This snapshot is known as the Winter Garden photograph. Barthes discusses it at length in Camera Lucida, but never reproduces it. It is one of the most famous unseen photographs in the world.
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph features hundreds of images and texts, supported by three essays. Essayists include Douglas Nickel, Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University; Lucy Gallun, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art; and Phillip Prodger, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Center for British Art. Foreword by Charlotte Cotton, independent curator and writer.
Publisher: Conveyor Editions
Softcover with hand-sewn binding
36 color pages
7x9 inches
This book is part of the series Visible Spectrum:
Visible Spectrum is a series comprised of nine artist books published in conjunction with the Spectre // Spectrum issue of Conveyor Magazine. Each book represents a color within the visible spectrum—as well as black and white. The participating artists were assigned a cloth color, in addition to parameters for size, paper stock and binding and asked to create a book to suit. Each of these works exists on its own, in the form of an individual artist book, as part of the collaborative series, and as a companion to the artist's feature in the magazine.
Additional books:
How Color Works: Color Theory in the 21st Century, published by Oxford University Press
Reflections & Refractions, published by Black Dog Press
An Uncommon Archive, published by T. Adler Books