Wako Book 5 by Wolfgang Tillmans

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Softcover
218 x 153mm
Limited first edition of 1500
Published by Wako, 2014

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Fine art photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has the preternatural ability to orchestrate images of incredible composition and arresting beauty from just about anything, whether it be the mechanical, mundane, or everyday. Issued in conjunction with last year's Affinity show at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo, his latest publication, Wako Book 5, is well worth picking up for fans of the influential images he’s been producing for over 20 years.

—Available from LN-CC

Human – Space – Machine. Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus

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—01. Spector Books, 2014.

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"In 1921, Walter Gropius founded a theater workshop at the Bauhaus. It conducted new research and experiments on the relationship between humans and technology. The central protagonists Lothar Schreyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholoy-Nagy investigated the issues of mechanization, machine industrialization, and rationalization. They sought a new, meaningful relationship with the dynamized, increasingly technically animated environment. In their stage laboratory, they developed abstract motion studies, designed atmosphere machines, and built theater apparatus. They also organized the famous Bauhaus celebrations, where they staged themselves as a collective of 'new humans.' For the first time, an exhibition and a catalog with sketches, drawings, photographs as well as films, figurines, costumes, models, and apparatus are now devoted to the experiments and concepts of the legendary Bauhaus stage."

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—Spector Books

Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park 1971-1973

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—01. Published by Osiris, 2011.

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The Park 1971-1973 "is a social document of the megalopolis of Tokyo in the '70s, raising questions related to human desire, privacy, and voyeurism. In an essay 'Voyeurism and Appropriation in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park,' Marco Bohr accurately described the fabric of this amazing photographic work. 'Yoshiyuki thus sets out a complex dynamic of looking and being-looked-at which can be deduced into this formula: a couple kisses in the park, the couple is watched by voyeurs, the photographer photographs the couples being watched by voyeurs, and finally, the viewer looks at a photograph depicting voyeurs looking at a couple kissing in the park. In other words, not only the photographer but also the viewer of the photograph become incidental voyeurs in the act of looking.'"

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—Osiris

LN-CC Books

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—01. William S. Burroughs: Cut.
—02. Notes from a Revolution: Com/Co, The Diggers & The Haight.

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The London store LN-CC has an extensive collection of interesting and altogether rather rare books for sale. Their focus is on bringing in art books, rare fashion publications and texts about countercultural ephemera from the 20th century. Keep your eyes on their site for fascinating new arrivals.

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COMME DES GARÇONS IN PRINT

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—01. Various Printed Materials.

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The London store LN-CC has collected a range of printed materials related to the seminal Japanese brand Comme des Garçons. While the price of purchasing the original publications may well be prohibitive for some, luckily the store has included plenty of imagery from the various books, calendars and magazines on their website.

—LN-CC
—Via Hypebeast

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