“Sleep” by Ted Spagna: Where science meets art, a photo book of humans in their most vulnerable state




Teacher, filmmaker and photographer Ted Spagna was as engrossed in the sciences of sleep and technology as he was in creating art. His sleep project depicts a shift from the…

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“Market Hotel” by Adam Krause: A photographer’s final look at the rock culture and loft-style living at Brooklyn’s alternative-arts venue




Photographer Adam Krause has lived in Brooklyn since 2007 and is well-versed in the young artist lifestyle that the borough so often invites. Growing up in the punk rock scene…

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Touching Strangers: Photographs by Richard Renaldi: NYC publisher Aperature seeks crowd-funding support to bring the photo series to print

Touching Strangers: Photographs by Richard Renaldi


Photographer Richard Renaldi has been working on his latest project since 2007. In creating the “Touching Strangers” series, Renaldi invites total strangers on the street to pose together—touching—and captures a fleeting moment of intimacy, turning the…

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The Magic of M. C. Escher: Exploring geometry and astonishment in a catalog of the artist’s prints

The Magic of M. C. Escher


“Perhaps all I pursue is astonishment and so I try to awaken only astonishment in my viewers. Sometimes ‘beauty’ is a nasty business.” — M. C. Escher Too often relegated to dorm…

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Yue Minjun: L’Ombre du fou rire: Stories and works from the cynical realist’s fascinating career

Yue Minjun: L'Ombre du fou rire


Following a major retrospective last year at Fondation Cartier, a monograph of Chinese artist Yue Minjun’s work is now available through Thames…

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Mark Ryden: The Gay 90’s : The Pop-Surrealist returns with a series of illustrations highlighting turn-of-century problems

Mark Ryden: The Gay 90's


Pop-Surrealist Mark Ryden introduced his creepily precious characters to the contemporary art world in the 1980s to wide acclaim, and in his sixth book, “); return…

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Whitewash: The stark side of sunny LA in a book of contrasts

Whitewash

by Stephen Pulvirent Back in 2002, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope picked up his camera and moved across the country from Maryland to Los Angeles, the city he documents in his new book “Whitewash.” Cope’s LA is one of stark geometric architecture rendered in black and white, a far cry from…

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New York City of Trees: Photographer and Parks Department veteran Benjamin Swett catalogues the city’s majestic branches

New York City of Trees

As spring tries to battle off the last bouts of winter in NYC, we are all anxious to get back to our favorite outdoor spots and explore some new ones. Just in time to answer that itch is Benajmin Swett’s newest release, “New York City of Trees”. The writer…

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