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Locality: Thornbury, Victoria

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25.01.2022 Essential reading: Dr. Gary Foley Goori Reader No.1 (Common Room Editions, Naarm/Melbourne). Getting towards the end of the print run. One of the more important little books of the last year. /// Link to store in bio. /// Goori Reader No.1: History, Memory and the Role of Cultural Organisations in Entrenching Colonisation in Australia and Beyond is an introductory reader of republished texts by Gumbainggir activist, academic and writer Dr. Gary Foley, exploring Australian cultural institutions’ problematic relationship to owning how Indigenous artefacts and artworks are woven into local and global narratives; with an introductory text by Léuli Eshrghi. #perimeterbooks @commonroom.editions

25.01.2022 The brilliantly designed and produced A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think (Kodoji Press, Baden) by Sebastian Stadler. /// Link to store in bio. Free domestic shipping during Melbourne’s lockdown. Enter the code GETDOWN4LOCKDOWN on checkout. /// Sebastian Stadler’s book work A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think combines the artist’s photographic work L’apparition, 20152019 with text generated by image-recognition software. Each of the images, whether single or in a series, is ...a double exposure composition: a relatively generic scene or location is merged with a digital texture or surface. This combination sometimes punctures the image; on occasion it barely makes the viewer aware of the artifice of the reproduction. The photographs are combined with two forms of text: either a tentative description, like the book title, or what reads like an unmoored quotation. Both have been generated or sourced by an image-recognition algorithm that Stadler has employed in other works; this has been fed the images of L’apparation. The algorithm first presents its findings with the modest addendum ‘I think’. In a second step this has been cross-referenced with a huge text database, the Project Gutenberg digital library, in order to source unrelated quotations that accord with the image content identified. A screen-printed mylar cover around the publication further articulates the image-layering process. #perimeterbooks @kodoji_press See more

24.01.2022 TBW Books Annual Series No. 7 (TBW Books, Oakland). /// Link to store in bio. Free domestic shipping during Melbourne’s lockdown. Enter the code GETDOWN4LOCKDOWN on checkout. /// TBW Books' Annual Series returns for the seventh set. This year, four artists were invited to approach the concept of the human form. Implementing stylistically distinct approaches, each book works to challenge the artist's own practice, making room for discovery within not only their own oeuvre but ...within the language of photography itself. While each book is thought of as a stand-alone title, an undeniable dialogue is shared between all four when presented together, allowing viewers to experience the collection as a singular photographic meditation. Book 1: Paul Kooiker Book 2: Mona Kuhn Book 3: Juergen Teller Book 4: Carmen Winant #perimeterbooks @tbwbooks

23.01.2022 Another Perimeter favourite back in stock! Failed Images: Photography And Its Counter-Practices (Valiz, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// Edited by Ernst van Alphen, ‘Failed Images’ attempts to understand the divergence between photography and the reality it portrays, analysing the various ways the photograph transforms that which exists before the camera. Because the photographic medium enables very different practices, which in turn results in many kinds of images, it must also be examined from a perspective outside of the dominant approach to the medium, generally called the snapshot. This book therefore explores the photographic image by focusing on practices which refuse this conventional approach, namely staged, blurred, under- and overexposed, and archival photography. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects

23.01.2022 Perimeter’s CPWBFCMSS (Christmas-Party-Week-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday-Saturday-Sunday) Sale continues today, with 15% off everything online and in-store until Monday November 30, 11.59pm. Be sure to use the code ‘PARTYPARTY’ on checkout to apply the discount! #perimeterbooks

22.01.2022 Back in stock! Robin Boyd: Late Works (Uro Publications, Melbourne). /// Link to store in bio. /// This title unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia’s most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971. Bringing to light material buried deep in the archives of several national institutions, this book documents Boyd’s ambitions and struggles to shape Australia’s understanding of itself as an urban nation during this time. #perimeterbooks @bookshop_by_uro

22.01.2022 Perimeter’s CPWBFCMSS (Christmas-Party-Week-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday-Saturday-Sunday) Sale is on now, with 15% off everything online and in-store until Monday November 30, 11.59pm. Be sure to use the code ‘PARTYPARTY’ on checkout to apply the discount! #perimeterbooks /// Here: a classic from LA-based Japanese artist Misaki Kawai and Nieves (Zurich) back in stock Blueberry Express. /// Link to store in bio. /// @nievesbooks @misakikawai

22.01.2022 Brand new in stock from Nieves (Zurich), the gorgeous Round Midnight by Caro Niederer. /// Link to store in bio. /// Caro Niederer works in a variety of media. Her work encompasses techniques such as painting, photography, video as well as silk tapestries. Niederer is, along with Pipilotti Rist and Sylvie Fleury, one of the most popular contemporary female Swiss artists. Human day-to-day situations from her private life and her immediate environment are the source for most of... Niederer's works. These personal snapshots are then re-worked in paintings or form the template for huge hand knotted silk carpets, which the artist gets produced in China. The transformation of an image through its replication in another media is a core theme of Niederer's work. In an ongoing photo series called Interieurs Niederer photographs her sold works in situ in their new owners' homes and offices. #perimeterbooks @nievesbooks See more

22.01.2022 Hot off the press and brand new in stock. /// No School Manifesto: A Movement Of Creative Education (Valiz, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// The No School movement wants to open up the meaning of learning and fundamentally questions traditional education. Curiosity, experimentation, unrestricted thinking, making, and developing are basic elements of all forms of learning and living together. In the current system these values are often overshadowed by rules, legislat...ion, bureaucracy, a unitary approach, and little attention for intrinsic inquisitiveness. No School aims to provide space for flexibility, 'wild' thinking, cooperation, and more. This book explores the movement’s key concepts, accompanied by examples of students’ work. An essential reference and inspiration for anyone working in (creative) education. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects See more

22.01.2022 Thrilled to announced that Perimeter Editions 057: Dane Lovett Flowers (published in partnership with STATION and designed by Hayman) is now available for preorder through the website. /// Link to store in bio. /// Shipping from November 16, 2020. /// Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the Melbourne-based artist...’s debut book Flowers gesture towards the syntaxes of minimalism and seriality as resolutely as they do the still life. It’s an intriguing dynamic, which expands and further articulates Lovett’s culturally savvy, reference-rich painting practice. Where earlier works saw the artist construct still life arrangements from indoor plants and pop-cultural ephemera VHS cassettes, vinyl records, CDs, ageing tech and the like Lovett’s recent practice has seen him embrace repetition and delicate variation, with an unmistakably reductionist and art historical bent. Here, he recasts French artist Henri Fantin-Latour’s 1864 still life Flowers: Tulips, Camellias, Hyacinths in countless murky, monochromatic iterations a single vase of flowers becoming a site for sustained painterly exploration, variation and rhythm. Extended series of foxgloves and waterlilies in various unnatural tones follow. As the curator and academic Rosemary Forde writes in her essay for the book, Lovett’s repetitions ‘each seem to emote uniquely’, his dark and muddy images allowing us to project ‘our own familiar scenes, moments, memories, aspirations, sorrows’. More than many others in the art world, Lovett seems to recognise the fundamentally democratic nature of meaning. His subjects are everything and nothing, laden and null. He offers us a rich framework, only to leave us to our own devices. #perimeterbooks #perimetereditions @danelovett @stationgalleryaustralia

21.01.2022 One of our most popular books of 2020. Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything: A Journey into Origins and Imaginations (Valiz, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the 21st century a power to be taught, understood, and deployed on all levels of society. In the humanities, however, truly understanding creativity has all but disappeared. Instead, insights into creativity emerge from fields ...such as neurology and theoretical physics, psychology and educational sciences. Using other perspectives has allowed us to deepen our understanding of the concept of creativity. This volume brings together the ideas of Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Benjamin, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Wittgenstein, and many others to open up new perspectives on enforcing creativity in society today. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects See more

20.01.2022 Essential reading: Design in Conservative Times (Onomatopee, Eindhoven). /// Link to store in bio. /// What constitutes the role of the supposedly progressive and innovative design-field and the designer within our current, conservative landscape? Whether concerning our ecologies, technologies, economies, ethics, politics, or social norms, we appear to be stuck somewhere between outrageous production and excessive preservation. Within this radically contrasting landscape of o...ppositions, discussion, frictions, questions, hopes, dreams and whatnot we ask ourselves: have we reached the epitome of a quid pro quo within our designed society at large? Engaged makers and thinkers coming from the field of both graphic design and fashion design explore and reflect upon the conservative currents and cadence within our design(ed) culture today: reflecting through texts of practice based experiences of engaged approaches in design, on fracture of thoughts and doings. The focal point of this reflection-at-large ranges from hands-on issues within specific practices to the broader, more fundamental motivations that fuel them. By inviting both graphic design and fashion design professionals to comment, reflect, promote, critique, provoke and/or contemplate on conservative culture in relation to their own visions, design practice, designed goods, Design in Conservative Times wishes to lay bare the intricacies and dynamics of design(er) in society today. #perimeterbooks @onomatopeenet

19.01.2022 So excited to have this brand new book, edited by Luke Wood and RMIT’s Brad Haylock, in stock! One And Many Mirrors: Perspectives On Graphic Design Education (Occasional Papers, London) brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It holds a vivid mirror up to the ways in which graphic design is imagined, taught, received, and reproduced. Edited... by two designer-educators (Brad Haylock and Luke Wood), One and Many Mirrors provides an urgent overview of the field of contemporary graphic design education for all those concerned with its past, present, and possible futures. Features Melbourne luminaries Paul Mylecharane, Megan Patty and Vincent Chan, amongst a remarkable cast of others Na Kim, Radim Pesko, Richard Hollis, James Langdon and countless more. A must. Link to store in bio. Be quick! It won’t last! #perimeterbooks @occasionalpapers @bradhaylock @__lifewithbooks @p_mylecharane @matterofsorts @nananananananakim See more

19.01.2022 Back in stock! Social matter, social design (Valiz, Amsterdam). Link to store in bio. /// This publication challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social realm by emphasising the role of materiality. The field demands that design incorporates a more nuanced and complex reading of how the social is intertwined with the material, which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of social design and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement in today’s world of mounting social contradictions. Essays by more than 25 contributors explore and unveil connections, assumptions, and more, and focus on critical junctures for transformation. The analyses centre around four major themes: the body, the earth, the political, and technology. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects

18.01.2022 Kicking off tomorrow! UNFOLD: Shanghai Art Book Fair. /// Perimeter is excited to be taking part in the UNFOLD 2020 Shanghai Art Book Fair, October 1618, held at M50, Shanghai. Organised by Bananafish, the fair will involve 150 local and international publishers. At our table you can find a range of titles from the Perimeter Editions catalogue, including Figures of slippage and oscillation by Izabela Pluta, Coo-ee! by Claudia Van Eeden, End Street by Noel McKenna, Peli Mano...r by Sarah Walker, Paris Drawings: The Most Elaborate Disguise by Tom Polo, and many more. You can find Perimeter Editions at Booth 2-19. Come say hi to Yonny and Bruce! UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair 2020 October 1618, 2020 M50 Creative Park (50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai) Booth 2-19 #perimeterbooks #perimetereditions @shanghaiartbookfair

18.01.2022 One of the significant photography books of 2020 Christian Borchert: The Tectonics of Remembrance (Spector Books, Leipzig). /// Link to store in bio. /// The catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective on the work of photographer Christian Borchert (19422000). Borchert was born in Dresden and did most of his work there and in Berlin. His most important groups of photographs are presented in a representative selection, supplemented by th...e documentation of significant print and archive material. The accompanying text reconstructs the photographer’s life and work. Besides considering key clusters of his work, it also analyses Borchert’s archival practice, which had a decisive influence on his understanding of photography. This provides an opportunity to rediscover Borchertas an author of images who engages with the world, while at the same time dedicating himself to the archive; as a cautious and precise chronicler; as a dynamic figure in the GDR photography scene and as a sceptically distanced observer of the post-reunification period. Christian Borchert: The Tectonics of Remembrance is the first complete presentation of his photographic work. #perimeterbooks @spectorbooks See more

18.01.2022 An advanced copy of Dane Lovett Flowers (Perimeter Editions 057, published in partnership with STATION and designed by Hayman), from the artist’s studio. /// Link to store in bio to preorder, shipping next week. /// Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the Melbourne-based artist’s debut book Flowers gesture toward...s the syntaxes of minimalism and seriality as resolutely as they do the still life. It’s an intriguing dynamic, which expands and further articulates Lovett’s culturally savvy, reference-rich painting practice. Where earlier works saw the artist construct still life arrangements from indoor plants and pop-cultural ephemera VHS cassettes, vinyl records, CDs, ageing tech and the like Lovett’s recent practice has seen him embrace repetition and delicate variation, with an unmistakably reductionist and art historical bent. Here, he recasts French artist Henri Fantin-Latour’s 1864 still life Flowers: Tulips, Camellias, Hyacinths in countless murky, monochromatic iterations a single vase of flowers becoming a site for sustained painterly exploration, variation and rhythm. Extended series of foxgloves and waterlilies in various unnatural tones follow. As the curator and academic Rosemary Forde writes in her essay for the book, Lovett’s repetitions ‘each seem to emote uniquely’, his dark and muddy images allowing us to project ‘our own familiar scenes, moments, memories, aspirations, sorrows’. More than many others in the art world, Lovett seems to recognise the fundamentally democratic nature of meaning. His subjects are everything and nothing, laden and null. He offers us a rich framework, only to leave us to our own devices. #perimetereditions #perimeterbooks @danelovett @stationgalleryaustralia @haymandesign

17.01.2022 Back in stock! The brilliant Creative Theories of Just About Everything (Valiz, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the 21st century a power to be taught, understood, and deployed on all levels of society. In the humanities, however, truly understanding creativity has all but disappeared. Instead, insights into creativity emerge from fields such as neurology and theoretical physics, psychology and educational sciences. Using other perspectives has allowed us to deepen our understanding of the concept of creativity. This volume brings together the ideas of Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Benjamin, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Wittgenstein, and many others to open up new perspectives on enforcing creativity in society today. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects

16.01.2022 Essential reading. In/search Re/search: Imagining Scenarios through Art and Design (Valiz, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// Solid research skills are crucial for artists and designers hoping to contribute viable and alternative ways of thinking to counter neoliberalism. This volume presents projects that shift the perspective, alter understanding, and open up new possibilities in the quest to discover what is not yet known or understood. This research strives for a m...ore transdisciplinary way forward, outside the bubbles of graduation shows, gallery openings, and funding cycles. The projects are structured into twelve topical themes, each embedded in a recent news story that positions how that topic is approached by mainstream media. Responses from various academic contributors conclude each chapter. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects See more

16.01.2022 Fresh back in stock! One of our bestsellers of the year from one of our favourite publishers. Be quick! Link to store in bio. /// When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era (Valiz, Amsterdam). Politics and media are constantly dealing with the shifting definitions of facts, truth, reality, and fiction. Yet this is something the field of documentary art has been addressing for much longer. The contributions in this volume are from and about artists who explore... the boundaries between fact and fiction by playing with the notion of the documentary. The book draws from a wide range of documentary art practices, such as working with archival materials or scrutinising one’s own subjective stance as an artist. It observes how artists deploy the fine line between fact and fiction as a means to imagine versions of the future, and how it can still have an impact in the world of today. #perimeterbooks @valiz_books_projects See more

13.01.2022 Back in stock: Fiona Tan’s incredible Goraiko (Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// Published in conjunction with Fiona Tan’s eponymous exhibition at Sprengel Museum Hannover, which celebrates her being awarded the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Stiftung Niedersachsen in 2019, this book reflects the artist’s differentiated use of photography on a comprehensive scale, taking account of the phenomenon of time and at the interface with the medium of film. Goraiko translates as 'the coming of the light', and refers to the sunrise as seen from the top of Mt. Fuji, the highest point in Japan. Page after page is printed with myriad representations of the iconic mountain in a comprehensive and overwhelming visual presentation. #perimeterbooks

12.01.2022 mono.kultur #48 Eyal Weizman / Forensic Architecture (Berlin). /// Link to store in bio. /// Made up of architects, lawyers, journalists, scientists, designers, and more, Forensic Architecture is part investigative research lab, human rights activism hub, political think tank, journalism bureau, artists’ collective, and detective agency. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the group investigate the wider repercussions of human rights and environmental violations by the... means of architectural thinking. In 10 years of work, they have researched illegal detention sites in Cameroon, examined police shootings in Chicago and elsewhere, modelled a prison in Syria using victims’ memories of sound, and digitally recreated the fires at Grenfell Tower in London. At its forefront is Eyal Weizman, a British Israeli architect. Born in 1970 in Haifa, Weizman studied at the Architectural Association in London before gaining international recognition with an exhibition of models of Jewish settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territories. The work spoke of his projects to come: of his use of architecture as a means of investigation, and refusal to be silenced by those in a position of power. Forensic Architecture has since used a range of pioneering techniques, from reading the ‘fingerprints’ of smoke clouds left behind by missile strikes, to programming algorithms to sift through thousands of online videos. Their research is used mainly as evidence in court cases and tribunals, but has also leaked into the public spheres of museums and art exhibitions including their contribution to last year’s Whitney Biennial in New York, where they exposed the vice chair of the Whitney board as owner of Safariland, a corporation earning their fortunes with the manufacturing of ‘less-lethal weapons’. With mono.kultur, Eyal Weizman talked about obsessing over split seconds, information as a form of power, and the smell of tear gas. #perimeterbooks @mono.kultur

10.01.2022 The second day UNFOLD: Shanghai Art Book Fair is in full swing at M50 Creative Park. Come by and see Yonny and Bruce at the Perimeter Editions stand 2-19 if you’re in town! #perimetereditions #perimeterbooks @shanghaiartbookfair @yonny_wy_quan

10.01.2022 Essential reading: Ryuji Fujimura The Form Of Knowledge: The Prototype Of Architectural Thinking And Its Application (TOTO, Tokyo). /// Link to store in bio. /// Tokyo-based architect Ryji Fujimura approaches his field as creative relationships between knowledge and form (the materialisation of knowledge), thereby examining and exploring all aspects of design as the prototype of architectural thinking. This volume features Fujimura’s recent architectural designs and essays..., tracing his attempts to redefine architecture as a dynamic intellectual tool for the realisation of more tolerant societies that appreciate diversity. It is set against the background of today’s social context, where people fluctuate between democracy and populism, while algorithms and artificial intelligence handle an ever-increasing volume of information. #perimeterbooks See more

10.01.2022 Compassion: A Paradox In Art And Society (Valiz, Amsterdam). /// Link to store in bio. /// This publication was developed in close collaboration with artist Rini Hurkmans, initiator of a conceptual art work called the 'Flag of Compassion'. The book aims to show what space an artwork can occupy in the public domain, as well as a network of philosophical notions, art theory, societal institutions, collective identity formation and individual experience. Through its hybrid character it wants to form a case study for a new form of art analysis. Simultaneously, it deals with the social effectivity of art and questions how art nowadays can be relevant on a social and political level. #perimeterbooks

10.01.2022 Back in stock! One of our photobooks of the year and another sensitively designed document from Hans Gremmen: Awoiska van der Molen The Living Mountain (Fw:Books, Amsterdam). Link to store in bio. Don’t snooze! /// A collaboration between photographer Awoiska van der Molen and musician Thomas Larcher, The Living Mountain is the third publication in which she probes deeply into the essence of the remote worlds where her images are created. Larcher asked Awoiska to photograph... his homeland, the Zillertal Alps in Austria, which in turn became the starting point for him to compose a piece during his residency at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The monochrome landscapes she produced are mixed with sketches and thoughts by Larcher. Moving beyond initial appearances to gradually uncover the identity of the place, Awoiska allows us to patiently experience the landscape in a new way. #perimeterbooks @fw.books @awoiska_vandermolen See more

09.01.2022 The first title in MACK’s DISCOURSE series: Sally Stein Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender. /// Link to store in bio. /// Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and colour imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens. #perimeterbooks

09.01.2022 Ryuji Fujimura The Form Of Knowledge: The Prototype Of Architectural Thinking And Its Application (Toto Publishing, Tokyo). /// Link to store in bio. One copy left! /// Tokyo-based architect Ryji Fujimura approaches his field as creative relationships between knowledge and form (the materialisation of knowledge), thereby examining and exploring all aspects of design as the prototype of architectural thinking. This volume features Fujimura’s recent architectural designs and... essays, tracing his attempts to redefine architecture as a dynamic intellectual tool for the realisation of more tolerant societies that appreciate diversity. It is set against the background of today’s social context, where people fluctuate between democracy and populism, while algorithms and artificial intelligence handle an ever-increasing volume of information. #perimeterbooks See more

08.01.2022 One of the most remarkable, unusual photo books of the last year. Charlie Engman MOM (Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich). /// Link to store in bio. /// The book’s title reveals the identity of its protagonist: Kathleen McCain Engman has been posing for her son Charlie since 2009. And yet MOM shows us a face we never really get to know: while we soon become acquainted with her freckled complexion and intense gaze, her position in the images becomes increasingly unclear. Engman fi...rst began shooting his mother because she was available, ever-willing to meet the demands of one of her children. But what began as a casual, organic process evolved into an intense collaboration. The result is neither a family album nor a filial tribute but a much deeper and far more complex interaction: one that raises questions about the limits of familiarity, the rules and boundaries of roles and representation, vulnerability and control, and what it means to look and to be seen. #perimeterbooks @editionpatrickfrey See more

06.01.2022 Perimeter’s CPWBFCMSS (Christmas-Party-Week-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday-Saturday-Sunday) Sale starts right now, with 15% off everything online and in-store until Monday November 30, 11.59pm. Be sure to use the code ‘PARTYPARTY’ on checkout to apply the discount! #perimeterbooks

05.01.2022 There is so much to devour in these images. Details from Mark Ruwedel’s quietly brilliantly Seventy-Two and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles, offered a sensitive treatment by MACK, London. /// Link to store in bio. /// For this project, Mark Ruwedel travelled across Los Angeles between 2011-2014, following in the footsteps of friend and author Nigel Raab. His carefully planned route spanning 72.5 miles began at his house in Westchester and ended at the Metro station in San Bernardino; a route chosen to cross as many geographic, economic, political and cultural boundaries as possible. The views and sights we see here reflect several legacies: from Raab’s own journey, to that of LA photographer Ed Ruscha, whose photobooks provided an inspiration throughout the course of the project. #perimeterbooks @mack_books @_morgram

04.01.2022 From MACK’s new DISCOURSE series: Duncan Forbes An Interview with Lewis Baltz. /// Link to store in bio. /// The tension implicit in any photograph is the tension between an inert, black-and-white, two-dimensional object, and an event that actually existed in the phenomenal world. A successful photograph mediates, though never completely resolves that tension. In 1972, as his career was beginning to take off, Lewis Baltz conducted a revealing interview, his first consider...ed statement about photography. Never published, the interview has recently resurfaced, and is printed here for the first time. In an increasingly sardonic exchange Baltz describes the character of his practice, articulates his position within and against the world of photography, and comments on his intellectual heritage and professional ambition. A penetrating exploration of the character of his medium, Baltz’s artistry and mercurial presence are strikingly laid bare. Baltz’s interview is fully annotated with an introductory essay by Duncan Forbes. #perimeterbooks

03.01.2022 Back in stock! The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making (The Exhibitionist, NY). Link to store in bio. /// The Exhibitionist is an anthology of the first 12 issues of the journal about contemporary curating that bears the same name. Collected together in a monumental omnibus edition, the complete run of the journal is accompanied by a new introduction by founding editor Jens Hoffmann, and a critical approach to a theory of the exhibition by senior editor Julian Myers-S...zupinska. Modeled after the iconic French film journal Cahiers du cinema, The Exhibitionist has served a critical role in examining current curatorial practices by focusing specifically on the exhibition format as a site of experimentation and inquiry. The Exhibitionist has historicised, analysed and critiqued a phenomenon it is itself symptomatic of -- the rise of the curator since the 1960s, the ensuing explosion of curatorial creativity and the growing fascination with the discipline of curating.Over the six years of its run, The Exhibitionist has published writings from many of the most prominent curatorial voices in the field, offering a who's who of curatorial practice; contributors include Okwui Enwezor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mary Jane Jacob, Nato Thompson, Jessica Morgan, Maria Lind, Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy and Massimiliano Gioni, to name just a select few. With the publication of this volume, The Exhibitionist closes a chapter of its existence as a print magazine and shifts its activities to the-exhibitionist.com. #perimeterbooks See more

03.01.2022 Back in stock, the brilliant The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 (The Japan Architect, Tokyo). /// Two copies available. Link to store in bio. /// Since the end of World War II the Japanese have experienced far-reaching social and environmental changes encompassing the post-war recovery period, rapid economic growth, the bubble economy and its collapse, and natural disasters. Commissioned by individual homeowners, Japanese architects have responded in turn by offering potential solutions for social issues, as well as ideas for new ways of living, via the small-scale architecture of the house. This book presents 75 houses designed by over 50 architects, divided into thirteen themes, from Earthy Concrete and Play to Redefining the Gap. Richly detailed with more than 400 models, plans, and photographs. #perimeterbooks

01.01.2022 This personal favourite is back in stock. Link to store in bio. /// Wolfgang Tillmans Concorde (Walther Koenig, Cologne). /// With no text other than the inner-front flap’s description, Wolfgang Tillmans’s now iconic book, first published in 1997, consists of 62 colour photographs of the Concorde airplane taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky. The photographs speak of both the beauty and the environmental devastation produced by this fabled French airplane, both sides of which Tillmans captures in his casual yet formally elegant signature style. #perimeterbooks

01.01.2022 Down to the final copy of yesterday’s restock already: Wolfgang Tillmans Today Is The First Day (Walther Koenig, Cologne). /// Link to store in bio. /// Conceived and designed by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, this richly illustrated artist’s book explores the latest developments in Tillmans’s work over the last three years. The publication conveys his richly diverse approach to image-making, video, performance, music and political activities, and also features newl...y commissioned texts from contributors author Olivia Laing; historian and essayist Brian Dillon; curator Catherine Wood; and geologist Dr David Chew. The book includes over 30 pages featuring his set design for the English National Opera’s production of 'War Requiem'; recent portraits such as his now iconic image of Frank Ocean; and detailed installation views that allow us to see in-depth Tillmans’ imaginative approach to exhibition installation. #perimeterbooks See more