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Title Description - Each page of this beautifully designed and produced book moves the reader slowly and mysteriously through an image of an empty hanging dress into a similarly ghostly building and then out through the back of the dress. The text,…

Title Description - In these square black and white photographs of the Svit plant in Zlín, Veronika Zapletalová shows the formalist architecture of the industrial building under attack by its own ventilation system. The pipes and ducts…

Title Description - In this photographic amble down the winter streets of New York and Long Island the artist brings our attention to the city-dweller's chilly ritual of discarding the Christmas tree in the gutter. Straightforward and a little sad.…

Title Description - 670 color images document the making, firing and installation of handmade fire brick in this artist's book from Adam Welch. Through the fabrication and subsequent sculptural installation of the bricks, Welch tries to balance…

Title Description - Over a period of twenty-eight minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the artists photographed pedestrians with a camera "adapted so that it had an open slot of one millimetre as its aperture. Behind this the film is run in a single…

Title Description - Produced during Sophie Tottie's residency at the DAAD Berliner Kunstler program in Berlin, Germany in 2000-2001, this book consists of more than 33 image series with integrated texts printed in four-color offset. The images are…

Title Description - How does Templin propose to ease the rigidity of an overbuilt megolopolis? Just add water. In Three Feet Six Inches Deep, Templin ponders the outdoor urban pool as the light blue "negative architecture" needed to ground a…

Title Description - Beat Streuli photographs passers-by mid-movement and then presents them at a large scale in projected slide shows. This book scales them down, slows them down and contextualizes them with the critical voices of Rupert Pfab and…

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Title Description - Muntadas writes, "Cities are defined by their architecture, urbanism, monuments, activites, signs- all references to identity and characteristic historical landmarks. Yet, in a way, signs become increasingly generalized and…