Werner Herzog is amazing. I’m currently reading Herzog on Herzog and finding it absolutely fantastic. Even if you don’t like or know his movies, this is still a fascinating read. So do yourself a favor and check it out.
Erik Kessels puts out wonderful little books through KesselKramer Publishing. One of my personal favorites is “In almost every picture #7”:
“In almost every picture #7 continues with the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery. The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16 year old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize. And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins.This series documents almost every year of the woman’s life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times. Color / black & white, 155 x 200 mm, 128 pages, soft cover.”
If you happen to be in Berlin this coming weekend you can hear Erik Kessels speak at this years TYPO Berlin conference on Friday evening.
Fascinating book project by Pierre Le Hors who compiled black and white images of fireworks into an intriguing study. The final book (you can only see a dummy on his website so far) will be released in July by Hassla Books with a total of 320 pages. That’s a lot of b/w fireworks to look at!!
“It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. And the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.”
I started reading “Just Kids” by Patti Smith last weekend and even though I’m only about halfway through I think it’s safe to say: I like it. A lot. It’s the story of a friendship, Patti Smith’s memoir of her youth with Robert Mapplethorpe and an interesting portrait of a late 1960s and early 1970s period in NYC. Read it!
Miya Saito and Michele Chun run a little publishing hub called Sometimebooks.com. Their latest book consisted of six hand cut and assembled pages and was produced in a limited edition of 25 (sold out, unfortunately!). It’s a funny little masterpiece called PopupPorn. Also check out their flickr set for the making of. Dirty.
