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@stefano_de_luigi “Televisiva” design by @visionairstudio Televisiva tells the story of the Italian television universe from 1994 to 2008. Why these years? Because during this period, Italy witnessed the rise, peak, and fall of a man, Silvio Berlusconi, whose influence had a dramatic impact on the country’s life. The television magnate who chose to enter politics was the precursor of all the populisms that now invade the public life of Western societies. A striking example of how the media, even before social networks, shaped us and introduced behavioral models that have now spread into society. Beautifully designed by @visionairstudio under the curatorship of @lauraserani, with a text by @pietrogrossi_me this book is the culmination of a visual rewriting project based on Stefano De Luigi’s archives of Berlusconi’s Italy, and it is being released now to allow the necessary distance for proper historical reflection.

Thanks to all our amazing photographers and to @phtsdr for the hospitality! Image courtesy @maddalenagracis

Grazie Mille! Had fun paneling at @phtsdr_books with my colleagues from @lartiere - all of our books are available for sale at @phtsdr in Chelsea! Authors: @gregmillerfoto @loistrueblue @hollylynton @mrtoledano @andreamodica.photo @hollylynton @kristenjoyemack Special thanks @alexander_laurent

Our talk with L’Artiere @lartiere is today at 4 pm! Send us an email if you’d like to get a spot last minute. Reading Morandi is a collection of photographs taken by Mary Ellen Bartley @maryellen_bartley during her artist residency at Casa Morandi, Giorgio Morandi’s home and studio in Bologna, and at his summer home in nearby Grizzana. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books at Museo Morandi. The folded images, outtakes and incidental photographs taken during her stay, draw attention to the peripheral, as what was in the center moves to the edge of the page. These pages bound together offer a quiet dialogue between the traces Morandi left, the books he studied, the objects he painted, and the atmosphere of his most intimate spaces.

Tomorrow at 4 pm is our talk with eight @lartiere artists and our final event of the year! Among the artists is Phillip Toledano @mrtoledano who will be speaking about his two books, We Are At War and Another America. Both question the threshold between reality and fiction by exploring the possibilities of AI. We Are At War imagines the contents of one of the lost film rolls Robert Capa shot on D-Day in 1944. “We are at a cultural turning point -our relationship with the image, and the idea of image as truth -has fundamentally changed,” Phillip Toledano says of the work. “What better way to illustrate this than by convincingly reinventing one of the most significant moments of our own near history?” Phillip’s exploration of the topic extends to his book Another America whose AI-generated images are set in 1940s and 1950s New York. This was a time when photographic imagery held a unique sense of veracity, and Phillip’s project transports viewers to a parallel universe where historical events take unexpected turns.

Our talk with @lartiere this Saturday is sold out, but please email us if you’d like to snag a spot! Lois Conner @loistrueblue is among the artists joining us. Her recent book with L’Artiere, To Be, offers a reflection on the nature of pregnancy. The artist shares about her work: The oldest known depiction of pregnancy is the Venus of Willendorf (c. 25,000 BC), discovered in Austria in 1908. It’s a limestone figurine with pendulous breasts and fertile hips. One night in the summer of 2023 when I was developing the last negatives for this project the temperature in my darkroom reached 100 degrees. Overwhelmed by the heat and the intensity of these images, I left the negatives in a water holding bath overnight. When I went to hang them up the next morning I was horrified when the emulsion began sliding down the plastic base of the film. I hurriedly held up one of the sheets of film to the light box and took a photograph. Suddenly, there was a Venus of Willendorf of my own. Now, I see the shape or spirit of Venus in each one of these portraits, images of seen and unseen transformations that give rise to human life. I also see my own inspiration to understand and describe the pregnant form — fertility, fecundity, hope, birth, precarity and even time itself.

We’re only six days away from our celebration with @lartiere ! Eight artists who have published with the imprint will be in attendance, including Kristen Joy Emack @kristenjoyemack . Her 2023 book, Cousins, chronicles girlhood through the experiences of her daughter, Apple, and her nieces. RSVP via link in bio! “I’ve been photographing my daughter and nieces for a decade. There’s something sacred about the lives of girls, and their innocent, confident relationships to themselves, their world and one another is gravitational. Between them is an intimate and spiritual knowledge, both ordinary and extraordinary, and I aim to capture the brilliance of their communion. I hope when they look back on this work, they’ll see their beauty, and their devotion to each other, and find themselves here, in this work we made together, reflected with love.“

Today we finally had the privilege to visit our dearest friends @datzpress ! What an amazing space full of inspiration ❤️❤️❤️

“The people I photograph work with their hands. They include beekeepers who wear no protective clothing, catfish noodlers who grab eighty-pound fish, and shrimpers who sort out bycatch from the shrimp they will sell,” Holly Lyndon @hollylynton says of her astonishing book about modern agrarian life in America, Bare Handed. Lyton traveled across the U.S. and returned to the same communities year after year to make what became her debut book with @lartiere . Bare Handed comprises 85 gestural portraits depicting people working barehanded in tandem with their environments and using tools mostly replaced by mechanization. Lynton is among eight artists joining us in the studio on Saturday, Dec 7 to celebrate the work by L’Artiere Edizioni. Full line up and RSVP via link in bio!

Repost• @publishyourphotographybook ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, December 3rd, 8 pm EDT (online): Let’s talk photobooks! Request the link from selma@laluzworkshops.com Are you an image maker or a visual storyteller interested in bringing your photographs and photo-related media to the book form? Or perhaps a book maker, educator, historian, curator, or collector looking to expand your knowledge of contemporary photobooks and handmade artists’ books? NEXT TUESDAY EVENING, lens-based artist @susankaegrant and I will introduce you to our 2025 Photobook Symposium for @laluzworkshops entitled “The Art of Photographic Bookmaking: Inspiration, Creation & Acquisition.” Together we will share the content and the structure of the Symposium, discuss the contributions of our esteemed roster of Special Guests and answer any questions you may have. In our 4-day event held online on Saturdays in May/June we will explore the many options available to artists when considering the book form, including small press, fine art press, self-published, and handmade artists’ books. We hope you will join us on Zoom at 8 pm EST next Tuesday to learn more about our upcoming Symposium and all that this learning experience offers. Thank you. Captions for books on the table in front of SkG + MVS, clockwise from top: 1) Yu-Ming Chiu, “Apart”, Artist’s Book (2010) 2) Amy Friend, “Stardust”, L’Artiere Edizioni (2017). 3) Book stack: Top: Julia Borissova, “Looking for Dimitry” Artist’s Book (2020); Middle: César Rodriguez, “hoja dorado”, KWY Edicìones (2024), Bottom: César Rodriquez, “Montaña roja”, KWY Edicìones (2022). Photo © Richard Klein. @susankaegrant @laluzworkshops @amyquerin @lartiere borissovajulia @cesar_rodriguezb @kwy_ediciones #susankaegrant #theartofphotographicbookmaking #photographicartistsbooks #publishyourphotographybook #laluzworkshops

On a cool February day, more than 20 years ago, Greg Miller @gregmillerfoto asked a New Yorker why they were wearing ashes on their forehead. Fascinated by the juxtaposition of the ancient ritual against the backdrop of contemporary New York City, Miller began exploring Ash Wednesday every year using his large format 8-by-10-inch view camera. “I encounter my subjects on their way to an important meeting or running to catch a train, meanwhile, they wear the mark of an ancient ritual. And it’s a tangible reminder itself that we are mortal, human and that speed and efficiency are not everything.” This body of work evolved into the book Unto Dust, published with @lartiere. Greg Miller will be speaking about the work Saturday, December 7 during our end of year celebration with the imprint. The full line-up and RSVP link are in link in bio ❤️

Angela Cappetta @angelacappetta_ spent the late 90s photographing the youngest daughter in a family on the Lower East Side. The work from that series about girlhood in pre-gentrified New York is behind Glendalis, Cappetta’s book with @lartiere . Cappetta is among the eight artists we’re hosting on Saturday, December 7 who have published with the much-beloved imprint, L’Artiere. RSVP via link in bio! Here’s what Cappetta says about her work. Shot exclusively in the fields, buildings and apartments of that neighborhood, the family occupied a multigenerational tenement. This family system echoes my own. I grew up the same way. Multiple generations lived on the same block, neighborhood or house, with everyone all on top of each other. I was a city kid — independent from a young age just like the daughters in these pictures. Shooting this work felt real and authentic, a call back to who I was as a city kid in New Haven, one of the most economically stratified cities in America. Blind Mag referred to me as an “enfant sauvage”-wild child in English. However, even though I constructed a beatific family narrative in my pictures, the 90’s were not beatific at all. Crime, incarceration, gangs and death surrounded these neighborhoods, informed by my own upbringing.