Thursday, May 23, 2013 Last Update: 1:53 pm EDT

TPP checks in with our favorite artists on their inspiration, work in progress and studio practice.

Nicholas Gottlund is a photographer and bookmaker. He founded and runs the small publishing house Gottlund Verlag that produces limited edition artist books with contemporary photographers. His book Wild Prayer was recently acquired by the Whitney Museum Library. He currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland and in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

I have a studio in rural Pennsylvania, which is also home to my book house  – Gottlund Verlag.  I shoot a lot of photos in the area around the studio as well as plan out projects and use the printing presses for my personal book work.

Here we are at the studio around 3am.  It’s a cool, rainy night.  I like to work into the night here because of how quiet it gets.

This is one of the core favorites of my book collection, Dieter Roth’s 96 Piccadillies.  Beautifully printed and bound with perforated pages, a rad book all around!

Another gem!  Lloyd Kahn’s Shelter book.  This one was given to me by my dad, so it’s an old and very used copy.  Beyond the 60s era style of it all, it has an incredible amount of info on DIY construction.  I especially like this last page.

In the corner of the studio are some things to keep the door open with.  Misc wedges and a cast bronze soccer ball my friend Ignacio made.

Driving out Rt. 78 across Pennsylvania on the way back to Baltimore.  It can be monotonous, but I get some of my best ideas out there.  Driving helps my mind wander through ideas and how to resolve creative issues plus there are a lot of old and funny signs.

Recent Works

Nicholas’ work is currently on view through October 23, 2010 at Bodega in Philadelphia, PA.

Earth Is Base
Nicholas Gottlund
Bodega
253 North Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Gottlund Verlag titles are available in The Photography Post Market.

David Schoerner launched Hassla Books in January of 2007. The independent publishing company has released 14 titles to date with another handful in the works. I had the pleasure of looking through the nearly-full collection of Hassla books – several titles have sold out – and asked Schoerner to characterize the project.

DS: I publish small artist books that are limited-edition. I don’t do reprints and I try to keep the books affordable – the majority are around $20.

LN: What was the impetus for starting Hassla?

DS: I’d seen some small artist books that other people had done and I really loved them. I started by making my own very small book and I continued by working with other artists.

From David Schoerner, Hassla, 2007

LN: Since this is The Photography Post, could you speak about the relationship between your press and photography?

DS: Well, a lot of the books I’ve done have been photo-based. I am a photographer, I come from a photography background, so many of the artists I know best are photographers or artists working with photography. I tend toward photographic work, which happens to lend itself particularly well to book form. When you get into drawing and painting it can be difficult to make a publication that functions as more than simply a catalogue, whereas with photography it can very easily stand alone.

LN: In the instances where you’ve published drawing or painting, is there an overt relationship to photography beyond the fact that the work is being selected by you?

DS: Dan McCarthy, for example, is making drawings from photographs of friends, or using magazine images as points of reference. There is definitely a connection, a sensibility that all of the books share.

From Dan McCarthy, Hassla, 2009

LN: Hassla is in part a curatorial project. Are there other small presses that influenced you, where you were aware of a unique sensibility permeating all of the publications?

DS: Nieves is the first small press I was aware of doing this type of artist’s book. They had been around for at least 6 years before I got started and they are involved in the culture of photocopied zines as well, not something I do. Nieves had a really big influence on me, especially Tokyo and my Daughter, a book they published with Takashi Homma.

LN: And you were able to eventually do a book with Homma, First, Jay Comes, a combination of photographs and drawings.

From First, Jay Comes by Takashi Homma, Hassla, 2009

From First, Jay Comes by Takashi Homma, Hassla, 2009

DS: Yes. He told me that he had been working on some new photographs but also a series of drawings, which he seemed to find amusing. They work well together, there is a violence but also an incredible beauty in the photography and seemingly quick, gestural paintings of blood in snow.

LN: Can you speak about working with some of the artists you’ve published?

DS: When I contacted Anne Collier, she was in residence at Artpace San Antonio working on a slideshow of stills from the 1970s film, The Eyes of Laura Mars. Happily, she thought it could work well as a book. I met Dan McCarthy a couple of years before starting Hassla and we’ve since become good friends. I did my second book with him. I liked his work immediately when I first saw it. I am attracted to his visual sensibility. The first pieces I saw were naked women standing on skateboards or surfing. I grew up skateboarding and surfing and the subject matter speaks to me. When I contacted him about doing a book he was working on an exhibition in France, so this became a companion piece.

From Woman With A Camera (35mm) by Anne Collier, Hassla, 2009

LN: How does the conception and layout of a project work?

DS: In many different ways. For The Strangeness of This Idea by Kate Steciw, the most recent publication, it was extremely collaborative. I would shoot her an idea and she would respond. I’d work on pacing and image sequence and show her; there was a lot of back and forth.

From The Strangeness of This Idea by Kate Steciw, Hassla, 2010

LN: What’s it like making an approach to photographers as a Publisher?

DS: It’s one of the best things. Especially when some of the artists whose work I looked at when I was studying to be a photographer love Hassla and want to do a project. It’s fantastic!

LN: What’s on deck for Hassla?

DS: I’m working on a book with New York-based photographer Pierre Le Hors. We’re exploring some unusual printing techniques for this book which will probably be around 300 pages. I’m also hosting a warehouse sale in my apartment tomorrow from 12pm to 6pm (171 Ave C, 2D)! All titles will be half price for one day only!

Lisa Naftolin was most recently Creative Director of Art + Commerce and will be Executive Director, Creative Branding for Nars beginning in September. She has been a visiting artist at Cooper Union, a visiting critic in Design at Yale, and a mentor in the Photography program at SVA.

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, The Photography Post Market column highlights items for sale in our market. We also invite guest contributors to add items to our shops.

There are plenty of books on the man, but once again I am offering a rare collection of work from the great Helmut Newton.  I’ve gushed plenty over Helmut’s photography in earlier market posts, so with this entry I’ll keep it brief.  Sticking to the numbers, I would like to point out how much money Helmut’s body of work generates!  His books come in multiple printing editions and languages, his prints continue to sell well in auctions, and his estate is managed so tightly that you can hardly find traces of his work being bootlegged (which is a huge accomplishment)!  If you check the Helmut Newton listings on eBay, you will find page after page of merchandise…

With this item, I’m offering the rare publication from the Vernissage magazine series,  Helmut Newton in Hamburg.  This publication coincided with a two month show at the Deichtorhallen Gallery in 1993, and was available in limited capacity.

For all the archivists, please don’t get this confused with the hardcover collection, as this publication is listed separately in Newton’s official bibliography, and proved much more difficult to track down.

- Victor Gutierrez

Vernissage: Helmut Newton in Hamburg
1993 Deichtorhallen
Hamburg, Germany
Softcover Magazine
11 x 9in
67 pgs
German text
In near mint condition with original ticket from show

$135+ S&H

Purchase here.

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Today’s Market feature is Brion Nuda Rosch’s book which was released March 2010 by Little Paper Planes. For further information on Brion’s work check out this week’s TPP studio visit.

Brion Nuda Rosch’s works—consisting of collages, paintings, installations, social projects and video—are inviting yet unpredictable. Through basic maskings, removals, and additions, he plumbs the profundity of placing one idea upon another, producing results not unlike a warm, soft chuckle. Rosch’s works function as signposts and touchstones of his own investigation into his singular understanding of the world.

- Foreword by Zachary Royer Scholz

* Photos via Little Paper Planes

Little Paper Planes, March 2010
Foreword by Zachary Royer Scholz
8 x 9.5 in., 90 pages,
Full-color offset printing
100lb matte text / soft 120lb cover
Perfect-bound
Limited run of 1000
ISBN 978-0-615-33090-7

$24 + S&H

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Offering a book from a true “Visionaire”, here is Serge Lutens.  Without comparison, M. Lutens work is the ultimate in beauty, fantasy, and style. Flip though the pages of any vintage Vogue, L’Officiel, or Harpers from the ’70s-’80s and you will definitely find one of Luten’s Dior/Shiseido advertisements.  Immensely successful as a continuous campaign, Serge would do the makeup, style the set, choose the clothes, accessories, art direct, and act as photographer!  His is a singular style characterized by dreams, somehow concise with clarity, and executed to perfection.

The Serge Lutens book is a collection of these images and inspirations, organized by M. Lutens with accompanying notes.  He pays homage to the handful of women he collaborated with, and the book goes as far as crediting the music that accompanied the process (Kurt Weil, Ravel, Gershwin, Miles Davis fuel the fire).  All together, this is an insightful and rare look into the mind of an aesthete.

- Victor Gutierrez

Serge Lutens by Serge Lutens
1998 Assouline Paris
English
First Edition
11.5 x 15in
152 pgs
Slip Cover in good condition with color shift at spine. Book in very good condition with minimal handling.
$275+ S&H

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Looking to share something more recent but still scarce, I am offering a special Paris Vogue supplement shot by The Sartorialist aka Scott Schuman.

What was once the realm of Bill Cunningham and ID magazine, The Sartorialist blog set an early precedent on the web for fashion journalism.  With nothing more than attention to natural light and a Canon 50mm L series lens, Schuman has inspired a multitude of aspiring fashion addicts to pick up the camera, start a blog, and put extra effort into their outfit.  All the American and European stylists, who used to play the background at fashion shows and magazines, are now stars with paparazzi / endorsements thanks to Schuman.

In Paris Vogue’s “Top Models – La Nouvelle Vague”, Schuman is commissioned to take the portraits of the ever changing cast of top tier models.  If this strikes your fancy, you will find Anja Rubik, Ali Stephens, Angela Lindvall, Carmen Kass, Catherine McNeill, Coco Rocha, Dotzen Kroes, Du Juan, Freja Beha, Hye Park, Isabeli Fontana, Iselin Steiro, Jessica Stam, Kasia Struss, Lara Stone, Lily Donaldson, Magdalena Frakowiak, Mariacarla Boscono, Maryna Linchuk, Natasha Poly, Raquel Zimmerman, Sasha Pivovarova, Suvi Koponen, and Vlada Roslyakova.

24 in all, Schuman runs them around various street locations looking like they just got out of bed – it’s actually endearing!  The portraits are then set next to examples of their editorial work from past issues of Paris Vogue.

- Victor Gutierrez

Paris Vogue
“Top Models – La Nouvelle Vague” (Supplement)
Condé Nast 2008
58 Pages
8.75′ x 11.25′ inches
Like New Condition
$25+ S&H

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Kate Steciw

The Photography Post Market has teamed up with Hassla Books to bring you the latest in Hassla titles.

Since its’ inception in 2007, Hassla has released 14 titles and 2 limited edition posters by artists such as Nicolai Howalt & Trine Sondergaard, Takashi Homma, Marcelo Gomes and Anne Collier. Owner David Schoerner’s impeccable taste and careful curation, along with an intensely collaborative editing process, yields an intimate insight into each artists’ work. With forthcoming releases from Pierre Le Hors and Lucas Blalock, David has got a busy summer ahead of him.

On Wednesday, June 16th Hassla announced the release of The Strangeness of This Idea by Kate Steciw, an editor/founder of The Photography Post. We are offering The Strangeness of This Idea as a standalone for $20 [+ S&H] but also as a TPP exclusive paired with Sam Falls’ Color Dying Light for $30 [+ S&H].

Sam Falls

Purchase The Strangeness of This Idea & Color Dying Light here.

Purchase The Strangeness of This Idea here.

Over the course of the next few months, we will be offering more selections and exclusives from Hassla so stay tuned and, better yet, if you are in NYC next Thursday, July 15th join Hassla, Four & Twenty Blackbirds and TPP at Four & Twenty Blackbirds in Brooklyn for Kate’s book launch & signing plus pie eating! Festivities begin at 7:30pm.

Follow us on Facebook where we will announce new publishing partnerships all summer!

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This article was originally published on March 25, 2010.

This issue of Print magazine is the BEST (I’m having a difficult time separating myself). Published in 1976, this issue is an exposé on fashion and photography. There is an amazing article on editorials coming out of Oui magazine, Viva, Playgirl, Playboy, New York Times Fashion…. all with photos from Helmut Newton, Deborah Turbeville and Francis Giacobetti. Most important, it includes interviews with photo and fashion editors from each magazine! Another article documents the progression of fashion through the decades, with images by Horst, Hoyningen-Heune, Beaton, Dahl- Wolfe, Sieff and Hiro.

Thrown in the mix of fashion, there is an awesome article of the best cinematographers of the period, discussing their film processing and lighting techniques: Conrad Hall (Butch Cassidy, The Professionals, Marathon Man, In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Day of the Locus), Gordon Willis (Klute, Parallax View, The Godfather, All the President’s Men, The Drowning Pool) , & Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe and Mrs Miller, Deliverance, The Long Goodbye, Close Encounters). Also, Robert Altman discusses his directing process and some of his films (Nashville, Three Women, The Long Goodbye, etc). As a photographer, this information is invaluable. Every one of the movies in discussion are unique and considered classic, and the cinematographers are masters of style.

Finally there is an article on the fashion Illustrator Antonio Lopez that tracks his evolution and celebrates his work. Through the ’60s to the ’80s, Antonio was a prolific illustrator and photographer. He was initially brought to my attention by old Valentino and Missoni ads, then by his Polaroid work. Surprisingly, this magazine article is the most comprehensive collection of his illustrative work through the ’60s and ’70s, full of rare illustrations I wish I had in large format! Some of these images, you will not see unless you own the original drawing or track down the released publication.

Without a doubt, this is a special magazine! Cinematography, illustration, photography… extremely rare, and full of gorgeous references all in one place. You will not be disappointed. More Antonio Lopez to come!

- Victor Gutierrez

Print magazine, July/August 1976
9 x 12in
113pgs
Very good condition
$150 + S&H

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In April 1977, Robyn Davidson set out with four camels and a dog to cross the deserts of Western Australia–1700 miles from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. Her sponsor, National Geographic , arranged for photographer Rick Smolan to meet her at various locations along the way. Davidson’s riveting account of her journey, Tracks, won awards and became a bestseller. Here, Smolan presents his color photographs alongside excerpts from Tracks. It is a rewarding combination that dramatizes the hardships Davidson encountered and the stark beauty of a hostile landscape. Smolen, creator of the Day in the Life series, photographed tourists, aborigines, scenery and Davidson with her animals–riding, resting, playing. His images make a great adventure even more memorable. – Publishers Weekly

From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback
Hardcover
Condition: Good

$50 + S&H

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Continuing with a bit of Norman Seeff, I’m offering a rare copy of the Rolling Stones Unauthorized Biography.  Released originally in 1972, this book is a collection of Stones photos and songs up to their “Sticky Fingers” album.  Though not exclusively shot by Norman, he gets credit for the dust jacket cover and a few interior shots, other notable photographers include Jim Marshall and Dominique Tarle.

This title is a Japanese edition I found in a mall in Tokyo.  At the time I picked it up, I was going through this intense fascination of the pre-disco Stones; their infamous stories surrounding Altamont, Rock and Roll Circus, Cocksucker Blues, Villa Nellcote, Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Bianca… It’s all in here.  The first 2/3 of the book is purely image, the final third an actual songbook with all the lyrics and chords laid out for you and your guitar.

Almost forty years old, this book is fragile and rare.  It has a split seam where the glue has dried (see photo), a tiny tear in the dust jacket, but otherwise in very good condition.  All pages are present with no signs of mishandling.

- Victor Gutierrez

The Rolling Stones:  An Unauthorized Biography
1972 Amsco Music
First Japanese Edition
Softcover
8 x11in
360pgs

$75 + S&H

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