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R O Y G B I V sees artist and publisher David Schoerner photograph a spectrum of falling coloured papersin a series that pairs a rigorous approach to photography with a joyous and playful subject matter. Presented at a scale that calls to mind the polaroid studio test shot, Schoerner''s images tumble jubilantly across the folded pages of this accordion booklet.

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Assemblage under quarantine: new works from the celebrated Boston School photographer and artist Jack Pierson’s (born 1960) latest book, New Pieces, features new assemblage works that the artist started making during quarantine in his Ridgewood, Queens, studio. Assemblage has long played a role in Pierson’s career, from his early verité installation pieces to his iconic “word pieces.” These new works consist mainly of items found in and around his studio building, which were then pinned directly to the wall. As Bonnie Morrison writes, “These are things that Pierson has accumulated as well as the things that have no doubt accumulated around him. To be fabricated in the year everything took on different meaning is also to take every fabricated thing’s meaning different(ly).”

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Anya Phillips, James Chance''s former manager and girlfriend, took photo portraits of James from the late 70''s until her death in 1981. During the late 70''s through the mid 80''s in New York City, various combinations of factors such as experimental music, experimental video, performance art, and contemporary art burst forth and gave rise to the No Wave movement. In the middle of the vortex, occurring during that time of freewheeling stage performances and amidst the gathered public attention was the saxophonist James Chance. So too, his manager and lover Anya Phillips, the eponymous co-founder of the legendary nightclub, the Mudd Club, whose huge influence was echoing across the city''s underground culture even as she left the world at the tender age of 26. But really, who was Anya? In that chaotic time in New York City, with its New Wave centered in overflowing anger at commercialism, what manner of things could James and Anya have been seeing, and what kind of tho

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Daisuke Yokotapresented to the public an immense installation of 100,000 photographic prints coated in wax at theAichi Triennial held in August 2016. Yokota's work Matter', a work whereby photographs had been printed on rolls of paper, had become a sensation. MATTER / BURN OUT' is an extension of the work Matter' which was exhibited in Xiamen in remembrance of70 years after the war between Japan and China. Once the exhibition had come to a close, the work was burnt in thevacant space in the area. This burn out' process was documented in 4,000 photographs, whereby the data was processed, manipulated and revived to form a brand new, large scale work called MATTER / BURN OUT, and edited inthis new book.  

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Facepots focuses on the recent ceramic work of New York–based artist Dan McCarthy (born 1962)--highly animated and emotionally charged objects formed through an immediate, hands-on process. The volume situates McCarthy's ceramics historically and includes a visual essay by the artist himself, featuring images and icons that served as inspiration.

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Photograph and artistMakoto Oonoapproaches thecollection of organic andchaotic spaces via picture-taking and createsthe works that have been shownin Tokyo and overseas. Focusing on the breeding as well as observation, he oddly expresses discovered habits and details of the organism. This ishis first photo book on hisaccumulation of traps, named SEPARATE HIDDEN RULES. While isolating the viewer in the cage with various life forms, each work makes us confused and collapse our imagination one after another. He shows new possibilities of nature photography in urban circumstances and contemporary life.

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