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Gay Interest, Noir & Erotica
Robert Mapplethorpe:
Almodóvar’s Gaze
LA fábrICA/GALeríA eLvIrA GonzáLez
Text by siri hustvedt.
taking as its point of departure the meeting of two
artists at a tumultuous moment in the 1980s, Almodovar’s
Gaze explores how the photographic and filmmaking
lens can fruitfully overlap. american
photographer robert mapplethorpe (1946–1989) and
Spanish filmmaker pedro almodóvar (born 1949) first
met in madrid in 1984, when the photographer was
there on a visit occasioned by his first exhibition in
the city. mapplethorpe was already an accomplished
artist, 38 years old and sure of himself and his sensibility.
pedro almodóvar was a well-known filmmaker
in the Spanish underground, and the best-known international
representative of the madrid–based countercultural
movida movement that arose after
general Franco’s death in 1975. mapplethorpe and
almodóvar had gone out partying in madrid, which
at the time was particularly receptive to young artists
closer to the underground than to the establishment.
the later impact that mapplethorpe’s retrospective
exhibition at the Whitney museum of american art
had on almodóvar in 1987 was tremendous. this intimate
arrangement of mapplethorpe’s seductive and
powerful images was carefully selected by almodóvar
from over 1,700 of mapplethorpe’s photographs.
978-84-15303-58-9
Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 70 pgs / color.
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00
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Alvin Baltrop:
Dreams Into Glass
ConTeMPorArY ArTs MuseuM housTon
edited and with text by valerie Cassel oliver. Introduction
by douglas Crimp. foreword by bill Arning.
Dreams into Glass accompanies the first major museum
exhibition of african-american photographer
alvin Baltrop (1948–2004), whose career unfolded in
the late 1960s amid a period of turbulent social and
political upheaval. Following a stint in the navy,
Baltrop returned to new York in the 1970s and
immersed himself in the city’s decaying landscape,
documenting a post-industrial wasteland of vacant
manufacturing buildings that included the piers
located along the Hudson river in lower manhattan.
It was here that Baltrop captured his most iconic
images of nocturnal danger and despair alongside
intimate and voyeuristic portraits of the homeless,
teenage runaways, prostitutes and clandestine sexual
encounters. During this period, Baltrop captured
gordon matta-Clark’s monumental piece “Day’s
end” and the work of graffiti artist, tava, now lost to
history. this survey features over three decades of
vintage and reprinted photographs as well as archival
material—from Baltrop’s intimate portraits of navy
friends and other enlisted men to his poetic body
abstractions and street photography to the documentation
of an era of gay sexual abandon between the
Stonewall riots and the aIDS pandemic.
978-1-933619-39-2
pbk, 10 x 8.5 in. / 60 pgs / 10 color / 30 b&w.
U.S. $14.95 CDn $14.95
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Culture/gay & Lesbian
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
Houston, tx: Contemporary arts museum Houston
07/20/12–10/21/12
Mark Morrisroe:
Mark Dirt
PAPer ChAse Press
Introduction by stuart Comer. Text by Lia
Gangitano, ramsey McPhillips.
the photographs of mark morrisroe (1959–1989) are
steeped in fragility, both as material objects scored
and pockmarked by the vicissitudes of time, and as
forlorn commemorations of brief moments in all too
brief lives. In this sense, the photographs are also objects
of ephemera, of a piece with morrisroe’s equally
fragile magazines, collages and drawings, which this
volume compiles for the first time. Containing much
previously unpublished work, Mark Dirt includes
spreads from morrisroe’s punk zine Dirt (“he sort of
invented the Boston punk scene,” Jack pierson later
recalled of his former lover), as well as correspondence
and notes by the artist, sketches and even his
last will and testament. all of these documents have
been assembled by morrisroe’s longtime partner
ramsey mcphillips, and represent the most complete
survey of the artist’s non-photographic works.
978-0-9852044-1-9
Flexi, 8 x 11 in. / 40 pgs / 30 color.
U.S. $24.00 CDn $24.00
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exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
new York: participant Inc., Fall 2012
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Mark Morrisroe
9783037641217
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Nobuyoshi Araki:
It Was Once a Paradise
refLex edITIons
Text by Marcel feil, robbert roos.
arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer and
the author of over 425 books to date, nobuyoshi araki
(born 1940) is internationally known for his erotic images
of tied-up, beautiful nude women. It Was Once a
Paradise presents araki’s most recent photographic
series, 40 diptychs that offer a meditation on sex and
grief. each diptych couples a new color photograph of
a semi-nude woman in bondage with a black-andwhite
still life from his personal diary, a somber
image taken on his tokyo balcony: the site of his former
private paradise haunted by his deceased wife
Yoko and his cat Chiro. nostalgic ruins contrast with
erotic hope, forming a contrast that is echoed in the
packaging of the book, which has been designed to
be read in either direction, and comes with a choice of
two different dust jackets.
978-90-71848-12-4
Hbk, 9.75 x 13.75 in. / 100 pgs / 41 color / 46 tritone /
Limited edition of 750 copies.
U.S. $110.00 CDn $110.00
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Also Available:
Araki: Love and death
9788836617371
Pbk, u.s. $65.00 Cdn $65.00
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Morton Bartlett:
Secret Universe III
wALTher könIG, köLn
edited and with foreword by udo kittelmann,
Claudia dichter. Text by Lee kogan.
When the freelance photographer and graphic
designer morton Bartlett (1909–1992) died at the
age of 83, his relatives found 15 chests among his
possessions. each chest contained a half-life-size
doll and its accessories: 12 girls and three boys,
a wardrobe of hand-sewn clothes, black-and-white
photographs of each doll as well as countless studies
and archival materials. Bartlett began designing
these dolls in the mid-1930s, studying anatomy books
and histories of costume, and learning to sew and
mold with clay to make them as true to life as
possible. each doll entailed a huge amount of labor,
taking up to a year to complete; Bartlett created
costumes and wigs for each one and then staged
them in lifelike scenarios and photographed them,
documenting a family he had never had and creating
a body of work that would remain unexhibited during
his lifetime. the third installment in the Bahnhof
museum’s series on outsider artists, this volume
examines Bartlett’s extraordinary lifelong obsession.
978-3-86335-162-5
pbk, 8 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 36 color.
U.S. $39.95 CDn $39.95
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Watabe Yukichi:
A Criminal Investigation
edITIons xAvIer bArrAL/Le bAL
Text by Titus boeder.
on 13 January 1958, the grotesquely disfigured body
of a man was discovered near Lake Sembako in
Japan. two investigators from tokyo came to help
the local police in resolving what at first appeared to
be a banal case, but which soon proved to be something
more complicated. For the first time, a photographer
was authorized to accompany the police to
document the investigation. press photographer
Watabe Yukichi (1924–1993) followed the inspectors
as they questioned witnesses (workers in a tannery
factory, local police officers) and pounded the streets
of the most insalubrious neighborhoods in tokyo—
its bars, bridges, alleyways and hospitals—in search
of the killer. Like the haunted film stills of a newly
discovered noir classic, Watabe’s images record
much more than simply a police investigation, and
reveal a tokyo of the 1950s in a way that has rarely
been depicted.
978-2-9151-7382-6
Clth, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 200 pgs / 70 duotone.
U.S. $85.00 CDn $85.00
June/photography/asian art & Culture
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