In the summer of 2005, Steidl published a modest booklet of London-based, German-born, mono.kultur #08 photographer Juergen Teller’s work, titled The Master. This booklet offered a characteristic portrait of Teller’s own world and his persona as a photographer, with a mixture of fashion and commissioned works printed alongside self-portraits, family photographs and scenes from his [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
So the promised snow has finally arrived, nixing my plan to catch the Ooga Booga installation at the Swiss Institute before it closes this Saturday. Instead, I’m home, doing what I love most on dark, stormy nights…. catching up on some photography. Whether you’re trapped in frigid, snowy Berlin, or frigid, snowy New York (or [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Those currently enjoying the winter sun in New York would do well to stop by Cheim & Reid this month, for their William Eggleston and Diane Arbus shows. Titled 21st Century, the Eggleston exhibition showcases the photographer’s most recent body work. The images bear his trademark, showcasing his deep concern for color and surface, as [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
While waiting in anticipation for the arrival of your 2010 mono.kalendar you might be tempted to have a look at the 2010 limited edition calendars at www.found-photographs.com. These calendars are made up of photographs that were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images are now nameless, without connection to the people that they show [...]
‘What is the future of the photo book?’ It’s a question everyone is asking in these dark days for print. Should they exist as luxury objects, beautiful behemoths to look at but not touch? Or cheap broadsheets, more The New York Times than The Americans? Or should they even be physical objects anymore - why [...]
Aoki Takamasa is something of a household name in experimental electronic music – his relentless work on structures and loops have earned him considerable praise among friends of frequencies, culminating in a recent release on Raster-Noton, the venerable music imprint co-founded by mono.kultur’s very first cover star Carsten Nicolai. So we feel lucky to have [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
After coming across the work of Taysir Batniji, a Palestinian-born, France-based multi-media artist, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the anxiety of influence in contemporary photography. Documenting the watchtowers the dot the borders of Palestine, Batniji’s 2008 series ‘miradors‘ is directly indebted to the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, in terms of subject [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
And it’s here. Possibly one of the 10 biggest winter storms on record. The long-johns are out, the parka is prepped. The only solace I’ve found is in this Andrew Moore photo, because no matter how bad New York or Berlin gets, someplace in Russia has got it worse. The upshot is, they have indoor [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Jürgen Teller – who contributed a series of photographs for our mono.kultur issue #08 about German techno pioneer Wolfgang Voigt – returned to Bavaria. Since yesterday his solo show Logisch! is showing at Kunsthalle Nuremberg until February 14th 2010. Download the sold out mono.kultur issue #08 here for free (link is at the bottom of [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Whenever I look at Sandy Kim’s photos, I’m instantly homesick for San Francisco. They capture the best parts of The City - rope swings, Dolores Park, cheap beer, endless vistas, good friends and wild nights and lazy mornings. Basically the opposite of my seven-day work week in New York. The great new Bay Area-based publishing [...]
