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GUP #67 - Performance

Photography and performance are intricately linked, and in the case of constructed portraiture even go hand in hand. The process of taking a photograph and the actions of the subject are all part of that performative process. As UK art theorist Margaret Iversen suggests, such photography can also be a future-oriented, narrated, subjective account of reality, rather than simply a slice of past reality.

In this issue of GUP – which also marks our 15th anniversary – we would like to pay tribute to performative photography, perhaps less a representation of an object than the effect of an event. Such images are, in the words of Iversen, best understood as “a residue of an experience”: the photograph records the action, and the artist is not completely in control of the outcome in advance. This experience is, metaphorically, exactly what has kept us going ever since we launched the magazine in 2005, and so we, the editors, very much feel acquainted with the artists included in this issue:

April Dawn Alison | Samuel Fosso | Isabelle Wenzel | Tania Franco Klein | Alex Blanco | Marisol Mendez | Paul Simon | Joana Choumali | Lewis Bush | Patrick Willocq | Diana Markosian

All of them have sought to redefine the image through photography, spurning the idea of recording a pre-existing object or situation in favour of using the camera as an instrument of experimentation and exploration.

– The Editorial Team

Contributing Photographers:

Alex Blanco

Diana Markosian

Isabelle Wenzel

Joana Choumali

Lewis Bush

Marisol Mendez

Patrick Willocq

Paul Simon

Samuel Fosso

Tania Franco Klein

Tom Butler

Contributing Authors:

Erik Vroons (chief editor)

Azu Nwagbogu

Daniel Boetker-Smith

Linda Zhengová

Patrycja Rozwora (intern)

Frankie – issue 98

need some good news? how about this: issue 98 is officially on sale! it’s winging its way around australia (and beyond), with lots of wonderful stuff tucked away inside. some examples: a lady who’s started a doomsday collection of bread tags. a book club devoted to first nations stories. some old-fashioned insults that are due for a comeback (you slugabed!). a cosy home built inside a former yellow school bus. there are also puzzles to keep your mind chugging along, facts about some of our favourite native birds, and a few nifty – and natural – ways to make your house smell nice. we talk boobs in all their droopy, sensitive, meal-making glory, meet a wellington drag king with an important message, and consider the life lessons that come from learning to ride a motorbike. oh, and just a little thing: you’ll finally meet the winners of the 2020 good stuff awards! they’re a mighty fine bunch, if we do say so ourselves, and we can’t wait for you to get to know them.

#37 uneven ground

The opportunities to encounter the Other – someone other than myself – are transforming dynamically, thanks in part to technological developments and the possibilities for sharing both images and other information. However, we often isolate ourselves in smooth bubbles of sameness and the others disappear. Photography mediates encounters, but it is also a medium that alienates. Uneven terrain is a place where we meet; where our relationships take place, whether they are personal or social and political.

The aim of this issue is to seek out possibilities for encounters and the sharing of emotions through the media of photography and video, which either balance out the unevenness of the terrain or allow both parties to profit from it. As the terrain is uneven, our aim is to give space to works that facilitate encounters with the Other and to revive the function that in this sense can be attributed to the documentary media of photography and film.

The latest edition of Jack Pierson's photobook-cum-artist's book featuring work from some of Pierson's favorite contemporary artists

The fifth volume in Jack Pierson’s celebrated Tomorrow’s Man artist’s book series mixes imagery from all spectrums of the visual landscape into a single meditation on the world around us.

Combining archival material together with contributions by emerging and established artists, Tomorrow's Man 5continues on where the earlier volumes left off. In this edition, the diverse body of art includes Dietmar Busse's enigmatic, almost occult drawings on photography, David Dupuis' delicate, colorful abstractions and Richard Tinkler's bright geometric abstractions, as well as work by Janet Stein, David Carrino, Jeff Davis, Clement Schneider, Paul Stuttman and Jordan Wolfson (now infamous for his shocking work at the 2017 Whitney Biennial Real Violence) is included alongside Pierson's own images.

PUBLISHER
BYWATER BROS. EDITIONS

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 128 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/5/2020

CROSSINGS

Built around the theme of “crossings”, those that hamper and those that bind, this edition gathers 10 portfolios and shines a light on the same number of photography books to help us towards a better understanding of a question that is at the heart of current events.

In November 2019 Europe celebrates the 30-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that in its time symbolized hope, a  sign of a new freedom for all nations. And yet today, there is an ever-increasing number of walls dividing us. In 1989 there were 11 such walls in the world; there are now 65, of which more than a dozen have sprung up since 2010. Since 1991, 26,000 kilometres of new international borders have been created, and these ideological ramparts now span 40,000 kilometres overall.

From the very beginning of photographic history, explorer-photographers have sought to demonstrate that national and geographic borders are always  pushed  further. Inevitably, photographers were intrigued by these lines of separation: borders are material and emblematic outlines that question photographers and challenge their ability to portray, explain and deconstruct physical, judicial and dogmatic separations.

For this 10th edition of  The Eyes, we have chosen to address the issue of the space these limits occupy in a world that is animated by both the need and the temptation to cross. Here, photographers show the multitude of cuts, divisions and separations by using documentary image-making, cartography and more symbolic perspectives. Political demonstrations, social degradation and attacks on freedom of movement all confront us with the pernicious and often devastating effects of divisions. Others invite us to look beyond the acceleration of the movement towards separation, and to consider the notion of border as an opportunity to bring together: how can photography then be considered as a meeting ground?

Délio Jasse, Seba Kurtis, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Dornith Doherty, Tanya Habjouqa, Jim Goldberg, Salvatore Vitale, Hassan Hajjaj, Patrick Tournebœuf and Michal Iwanowski… A multitude of points of view that speak of systems of domination and conflicts of interest, as well as circulation, openness and attempts at togetherness.

Poster Boy is a quarterly print poster magazine that features six models that have been captured in modern minimalist forms.

Each poster offers a distinct allure that results in a compelling, modern pin-up. All six posters combined form the magazine.

Off The Rails - Too Fast For Love Issue 17 

Inside The Magazine

We spent the last 4 issues gearing up for Issue 17. This whole season was about exploring how our followers accepted all the genres of art we wanted to showcase. It's the most perfect collection of everything we love. Still with the same ethos of presenting works of the well known or the unknown, in the same light. With light at the end of the 2020 tunnel almost in sight, people have been reevaluating their lives and specifically the concept of time and time they've lost. 'Too Fast For Love' is our title for this collection. We haven't all been able to explore the things we love. Work, gigs, relationships, creating, hanging out with friends, going away on trips. Despite mostly being on lock down, time has still managed to move too fast. When we emerge on the other side, we will look at everything, including the mundane, in a very different way.

Our cover story is a thing of beauty. A collection of photographs of Jess Johnshot by our own, Matthew Comer, we've been sat on for a long time. We were waiting for the perfect artist to collaborate with. In comes Courtney Mc in slow mo through fire and brimstone. Her only instruction was, do whatever you want. Her unique style is impossible to ignore. With the biggest feature in the magazine as well as a double foldout cover, she's clearly the rock star of this show!

We have some new team members join our group of misfits. LA based Sarah Pardini, who you may remember shot our last cover story, has come on board and instantly smashes three of the best stories in this mag. Manchester based creative duo Eleanore Chetcuti and Sian Nuttall present their first story with us and hit a home run with local lass and musician, Charlotte OC.

We interview some of the most influential people on the block right now. Talk Art is the world's leading art podcast. Presented by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, we join forces with them to talk art with Yinka Ilori in London. We talk with Sara Frazetta and how she's keeping the dark arts of her Grandfather Frank Frazetta, well and truly alive. Rahm Carrington tells us about his project documenting the infamous, lawless town of Slab City.

We jump feet first into our homie Nadz Banaag's take on youth culture and pushed candid photography, the grunge edge of Mara Weinstein, the bold colours and provocative nature of Nicoline Aagesen aka @mycameramyrules, and the cinematographic mind blowing stills of Theo Gosslin.

Our gallery, Maze present some killer artists. Incredible dot work from Dimitri Likissas, Tony Roos has some of the boldest brightest pages in the magazine with his take on the female form, and Jonathon Ouisse shows us some hyperreal surrealism paintings inspired by Italian Renaissance.

If all that wasn't enough, there's another 30+ stories including a self shot series by the skaters and people that hang at Hackney Bumps. Eartheaterhits the beaches of New York in the only way we'd expect. Pip brings us insane imagery that could have been torn straight from art work of The Streets, Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) tells us how saving Manchester's key live music venues & launching a nostalgic vibe TV show in 'Gorilla TV' will counter the covid attack on the hospitality industry, and friend / babe Antonina Kosior aka Nrata shows us how she's planning on being the new Emrata.

Altered States is about cultural innovation and authenticity. A loosely arranged collage of new editorial, photo essays and archival photography, that outlines a sincere appreciation of the authentic niches and artistic experiences, within hair and beauty.

Katsu Naito, Drew Jarrett, Bob Recine, Nathan Farb, Gary Gill, Samuel Bradley, Frank B, Jonathan De Francesco, Kristina Ralph Andrews, Stuart Williamson, Clare Shilland, Josh Hight, Michael Harding, Hannah Elwell, Daniel Cuifo, Moritz Tibes, Jimmy Owen Jones, Emily Lipson, Kirby Marzec, Erol Karadag, Raisa Flowers, Parker Woods, Tiago Goya, Ben Beagent, Erin Green, Eliot McQueen, Joe Skilton, Marie Bruce, Henry Gorse, Xavier Scott Marshall, Amidat Giwa, Beck Davenport, Kyanisha Morgan

200 pgs, 35 × 25 cm, Softcover, 2020

EIKON #112

Viktoria Binschtok | Brigitte Borchhardt-Bidbaumer | Simon Bowcock | Pia Draskovits | Nela Eggenberger | Carla Susanne Erdmann |Brigitte Felderer | Barbara Filser | Jana Franze | Stefan Gronert | Beate Gütschow | Jochem Hendricks | Ruth Horak | Barbara Horvath | Peter Kunitzky | Christina Leber | Maren Lübke-Tidow | Cathrin Nielsen | Danièle Perrier | Uta M. Reindl | Roland Schöny | Claudia Slanar | Jan Stradtmann | Nadine Wietlisbach

Sprachen | Deutsch / Englisch
Format | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-904083-05-8
108 Seiten

Cereal – Issue 20

AW 2020

In our AW 2020 issue we look to the restorative power of art and nature. 

We meet with artists Torkwase Dyson, Anish Kapoor and Edmund de Waal. We visit Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory and the home of master stonecutter Masatoshi Izumi in Japan, MONA in Tasmania, and Pavillon Le Corbusier in Switzerland. We traverse the expanses of the Atacama Desert and Patagonia in Chile, and unwind by the ocean in Broome, western Australia.

Sixteen Journal 

Volume 4

288 pages
245x315mm
Glossy Dust Covers
Printed on uncoated paper

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Roe Ethridge, Jack Davison, Chadwick Tyler, Laurence Ellis, Arnaud Lajeunie, Anthony Blasko, Alexandra Leese, Joe Cruz, Xavier Encinas, Pat Martin, Drew Vickers, Marcus Schaefer, Caleb Stein, Gareth McConnell, Elizaveta Porodina and Mariette Pathy Allen.

 

Sixteen Journal 

Volume 3

28 pages
289x380mm
Printed black on cyclus offset 100gr paper
Limited edition of 300 copies

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Jack Davison, Chadwick Tyler, Mel Bles, Laura Coulson, Chloé Le Drezen, Drew Vickers, Bennie Julian Gay, Virginie Katheeb, Quentin de Briey, Sølve Sundsbø, Delphine Chanet, Jerry Pigeon, Niall O’Brien, Marcus Schaefer, Lucie Rox, Maxime Imbert, Anthony Blasko, Ward&Kweskin and Jeff Boudreau.

 

OVER Journal – Issue 1

Artists featured Becks Butler, David Farrell, Eva Kreuger, Francesca Catastini, Garry Loughlin, Guerrilla Girls, Heather Agyepong, Hiro Tanaka, Mark McGuinness, Shia Conlon, Teresa Eng, Theo Ellison, Vera Ryklova, and Yvette Monahan.

With texts by Aidan Kelly-Murphy, Alison Nordström, Amelie Schüle, Anna Ehrenstein, Benedetta Casagrande, Duncan Wooldridge, Erik Vroons, Gloria Oyarzabal, Jörg Colberg, Julia Gelezova, Natasha Christia, and Yining He.

Interview featured Marion Hislen.

Co-editors Julia Gelezova and Ángel Luis González
Designed and produced by PhotoIreland
160 pages
184 × 254 mm
Softcover

TERRIBLE Magazine No.02

TERRIBLE Magazine was founded by Nina Kammerer and Vrinda Jelinek 2019 in Vienna. We noticed a lack of representation for small and conscious brands in magazines. Therefore we dedicated ourselves to slow and responsible brands that create beautiful pieces and care about the environment, aswell as the people behind the items. We combine fashion with art and atmospheric photography to create an overall aesthetic and inspiring product. We want to bring conscious fashion closer to the reader and support those to create a clean, yet outstanding closet for themselves over time.

This issue contains:

9 editorials, 13 art/ photography contributions, 2 interviews on 184 pages, 23,5 x 28cm

participating photographers:

Diana Lange, Katia Wik, Lea Gugler, Maxime Cardol, Vrinda Jelinek

contributiors:

Adrian Hazi, Alina Zamanova, Anne Puhlmann, Catherine Hu, Celia Esterlus, Denise Rudolf Frank, Dina Bukva, Erika Lee Sears, Katharina Hoeglinger, Lea Sonderegger, Livia Falcaru, Masha Reva x Nadiia World, Mary Stephenson, Nina Kammerer, Noemi Ticia Kirics, Susanna Hofer, Yelena Yemchuk

Aperture 240: Native America

This fall, as debates around nationalism and borders in North America reach a fever pitch, Aperture magazine releases “Native America,” a special issue about photography and Indigenous lives, guest edited by the artist Wendy Red Star.

“Native America” considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism. Several contributors revisit or reconfigure photographic archives—from writer Rebecca Bengal’s look at the works of Richard Throssel and Horace Poolaw, to artist Duane Linklater’s intervention in a 1995 issue of Aperture, “Strong Hearts,” the magazine’s first volume devoted to Native American photographers.

“I was thinking about young Native artists,” says Red Star, “and what would be inspirational and important for them as a road map.”

That map spans a diverse array of intergenerational image-making, counting as lodestars the meditative assemblages of Kimowan Metchewais and installation works of Alan Michelson, the stylish self-portraits of Martine Gutierrez, and the speculative mythologies of Karen Miranda Rivadeneira and Guadalupe Maravilla. “Native America” also features contributions by distinguished writers and curators, including strikingly personal reflections from acclaimed poets Tommy Pico and Natalie Diaz.

With additional essential contributions from Rebecca Belmore and Julian Brave NoiseCat, as well as a portfolio from Red Star, the issue looks into the historic, often fraught relationship between photography and Native representation, while also offering new perspectives by emerging artists who reimagine what it means to be a citizen in North America today.
Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 09-08-2020
Measurements: 0.6 inches
ISBN: 9781597114851

Lead support of the “Native America” issue of Aperture magazine is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation. Further generous support is provided by the Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Significant support of Aperture magazine is provided by The Kanakia Foundation. Additional lead support is provided by Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović.

AVERSIVE ADHESIVES

No matter where we look, we are surrounded by beautiful images. Yet, with this excess in beauty all around, why should we bother to remember any of it? Aversive Adhesives looks into the other direction and explores the icky, the disturbing, the unsettling, or in some way 'aversive' images that repel upon sight. However, because of their repulsive nature, even when looking away these images become adhesive to you. Aversive Adhesives shines a light on a number of individuals who approach photography in new and unusual ways, who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty to create images that will stick with you.

Concept: Max Siedentopf
Photographers: Roger Ballen, Olaf Breuning, Jesús Monterde, Thomas Mailaender, Yumiko Utsu, Jaimie Warren, Beni Bischof, Parker Day, Thomas Rousset, Pieter Hugo, Jaap Scheeren, Andy Kania, Olya Oleinic, Chris Maggio 

Format: 24 x 22 cm
Umfang: 34 Seiten
Sticker: über 200 Aufkleber
Isbn: 978-3-944960-16-6

Self Service N°53

Self Service is French style for international filles and garcons. Stylish to the extreme, this coffee-table-worthy mag is packed to its spine with a mix of gloss and matte pages featuring fashion’s biggest names and most exciting designs. This is a title to delve into, to ponder, to come back to and read again. Cool, classy and bold, this is a title for lovers of the European Vogues, Purple and Fantastic Man.

Mirage No.5 Voyage Lumière

Voyage Lumière. Sometimes we need to decide how we want to travel: through space, or through light. Travel, for example, to the sheer luminosity of childhood summers, to the majesty of the sun setting in the Mediterranean. This issue of Mirage explores how light is in a constant flux. We can’t know a place alone, we know it under a certain light, and that changes everything. This issue of Mirage is an invitation to appreciate not how bodies and landscapes are illuminated, but rather how light manifests itself in a much more profound way. A sensorial journey that will take us to Capri, Formentera or Bali, to glimpses of the present made from bright bits of the past, or of dreams we had forgotten.

Frankie – issue 97

looking for a little extra joy and inspiration? well, good news: frankie issue 97 is officially on sale in australia, and it’s got both those things by the bucketload. for instance, there’s a fellow making a zoo’s worth of creatures out of (biodegradable) balloons, and the world’s first professional hijabi ballerina. you’ll also find art inspired by nostalgic things like gameboys and old-school arcades, plus a whole bunch of tips to help you grow yummy tea at home. we talk fun products for pets, making gin, and setting up a makeshift darkroom in your house – that is, when we’re not ogling lovely clothing and throws. need more incentive? how about a tour of north korea from a local’s perspective, some lovely rainbow families, and a bunch of retro recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth? plus, there’s all the usual laughs and real-life tales, of course. hope you enjoy, frankie friends. 

Studio Magazine – Issue 1

A magazine published biannually showcasing art and fashion in contemporary culture. 

Garage – Issue 19

How much wider are our eyes, and how important is it that we use them to see and be seen? How powerful and beautiful are our voices, and how awesome and boundless is the work that we can do when we use them in unison?

Issue 19 is a time capsule, a reflection of the people, the art, the music, and the fashion that we returned to again and again in the past six months. We were emboldened by our icons and idols, those who brought us a measure of hope as the world became more apocalyptic around us. On our two covers are the writer, actress, and director Michaela Coel, photographed in the streets of London by Liz Johnson Artur; and Mary J. Blige as seen by Hood By Air, photographed by Renell Medrano, and in conversation with Shayne Oliver.

Auslöser Issue 3

Content:

• Interview with Paul Albert Leitner, Nadia Morozewicz, Daniel Chatard, Katrin Koenning
• Behind the scenes: Vienna Secession
• In detail: Apple QuickTake

Hard facts:

• 160 pages
• Bilingual (German & English)
• 16 x 22 cm
• Printed on Amber Graphic 300g & 120g
• Offset LED-UV print
• Bound as Swiss brochure with open thread stitching
• Available since March 2020