Book days Publisher

artbeat publishers (ABP) is dedicated to promoting cutting-edge contemporary visual art via the media of art books to Japanese and international audiences. It is the publishing section of G/P gallery, a contemporary photography galler y founded in 2008 and based in Tokyo. ABP is directed by Shigeo Goto and Sawako Fukai from G/P gallery and publishes a wide variety of books, working in collaboration with artists including Viviane Sassen, Stephen Gill, Kishin Shinoyama, Mika Ninagawa, Daisuke Yokota, Taisuke Koyama and Takashi Kawashima. Its recent editorial work includes Hanatsubaki culture magazine (–2015, Shiseido) and the Japanese edition of Photography is Magic by Charlotte Cotton (2015, Aperture). ABP also organized the Photo/Books
Hub in 2011, 2012 and 2014.

www.a-b-p.jp

SAT 1 OCT, 2:30 pm
LIVE PRESENTATION

Live Presentation Daisuke Yokota, Matter

b.frank books was founded in 2011 by Zurich-born photographer Roger Eberhard and has been based there ever since. The Swiss publishing house is run by Roger Eberhard and Ester Vonplon and currently publishes four to six independently produced and designed books each year. b.frank books’ main focus is the photographic ar tist’s book, featuring the work of young artists from all over the world, including Will Steacy, Jenny Rova and Marianna Rothen.

www.bfrankbooks.com

SUN OCT 2, 12:30 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / TALK

Live Presentation Roger Eberhard talking with Benedict Wells, presented by Christina Landbrecht

Böhm/Kobayashi are photographers Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, who collaborate as an artist duo in a studio in Düsseldorf. They first published the photography project Frau Böhm, which later developed into Böhm/Kobayashi. Their publications feature their collaborative and individual work in the form of artists’ books and bookzines. Since 2010, Böhm / Kobayashi have curated the annual exhibition ANT!FOTO at Kunstraum Düsseldorf and Künstler verein Malkasten. In 2016 they are curating the main exhibition at the Festival der Internationalen Photoszene in Cologne, entitled Innere Sicherheit / The State I Am In. In
addition to producing books and curating, the duo exhibit their work at international museums and fairs, give lectures and have participated in numerous artist-in-residence programs. Böhm / Kobayashi also teach at universities in Germany and Madrid. They recently won the LUMA Book Dummy Award in Arles for their joint project You and Me.

www.boehmkobayashi.de

FRI SEPT 29, 3 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / Q & A

Live Presentation „You and Me“, after wards Q & A at Böhm / Kobayashi table with Katja Stuke + Oliver Sieber

Founded in 2008 by bookseller Jessica Reitz and designer Mark Kiessling, DO YOU READ ME?! offers a selected assortment of over 1,000 magazines, journals and books from over 20 countries in the areas of fashion, photography, art, architecture, interiors and design as well as culture and society in the widest possible sense. Its headquarters are situated in Auguststraße in Berlin-Mitte with additional “satellite” branches opening over the years at C/O Berlin in Amerika Haus, as well as at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. The team helps tailor subscription models which are as individual as they are uncomplicated - whether for a gift or work—and advises shops, agencies, hotels and museums on their selection of titles. In addition, DO YOU RE AD ME?! regularly takes care of temporar y displays at art and design fairs both in Germany and internationally, including abc - art berlin contemporar y and Design Miami / Basel.

www.doyoureadme.de

SAT 1 OCT, 14 h
LIVE PRESENTATION / TALK 

Presentation & Talk THE SMART VIEW

http://www.doyoureadme.de/

Edition Patrick Frey has published over 200 books since it was founded in 1986. The publishing house works closely with mainly Swiss and also international artists, producing publications in small print runs. Edition Patrick Frey provides young artists with a platform and the opportunity to have their work published for the first time. The publishing house has also been involved in long-standing collaborations with renowned artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Karen Kilimnik, Annelise Coste, Peter Fischli & David Weiss and Andreas Züst. With an output of around twenty books per year, Edition Patrick Frey focuses on photography, art and projects dealing with pop culture and ever yday life.

www.editionpatrickfrey.com

FRI SEPT 29, 2:30 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / SIGNING

Live Presentation Andreas Tschersich „peripher“, followed by book signing at Edition Patrick Frey table

Edition Taube is a publishing house for contemporar y ar t and ar tists’ books and editions mainly published in limited runs. It promotes work on paper by new international artists, such as Alec Barth, Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes, Ella Littwitz and Erik van der Weijde. Edition Taube was founded by Jonas Beuchert, Tilman Schlevogt and Jan Steinbach in 2009 and is based in Zurich and Munich. In addition to a residency at HomeBase Project Berlin 2010, Edition Taube regularly presents at exhibitions and organizes book launches throughout Germany.

www.editiontaube.de

FRI SEPT 29, 3:30 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / SIGNING

Live Presentation Peter Granser + Hank Schmidt followed by book signing at Edition Taube table

Founded in Amsterdam by photographer, publisher and researcher Delphine Bedel, Meta/Books is a publishing and research platform that works closely with emerging artists, writers and designers to develop cutting edge projects. It promotes a wide variety of publishing practices, from print to digital, and experiments in hybrid publishing by working closely with artists and researchers, media critics and designers, printers and programmers to establish lasting communication pathways for the future. It also organizes a series of public programs, lectures and workshops. Meta / Books has edited and (co)published over 60 books including titles by Bedel herself and by Maya Rochat, Vianney Fivel and Adrien Guillet. It works from the concept and design stage right through to the manufacturing process and distribution. Its publications have won awards, are part of museum and private collections and have been exhibited internationally.

www.delphinebedel.com

FRI SEPT 29, 4 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / SIGNING

Presentation / performance „Out of the Blue“ by Virginie Rebetez, followed by book signing at Meta/Books table

Since its foundation in 2014, more than 100 books have been released by photobook publishing house Peperoni Books, including books by world-renowned artists such as Thomas Hoepker and Michael Wolf as well as newcomers from Europe, Asia, Russia and the USA. No catalogues, no artist portfolios, but each an individually designed book with a topic-artistic, documentary, poetic, serial, without words or with extended texts by assor ted writers. In his photobook shop 25books, Peperoni-founder Hannes Wanderer presents a curated selection of handpicked photobooks from around the world. New photobooks are presented regularly with the artists present and accompanied by an exhibition in the showroom. In the online shop all book recommendations come with a short personal review by Hannes Wanderer himself.

http://www.peperoni-books.de
http://www.25books.com

FRI SEPT 29, 2 pm  
LIVE PRESENTATION / SIGNING

Live Presentation Four New Peperoni Books: 
Heiko Sievers, Andreas Trogisch, Janine Graubaum, Torsten Schumann, followed by book signing at Peperoni Books table

Polly’s Picture Show was founded in Amsterdam in 2011 by artists Anne Huijnen, Anna de Jong, Suzanne Posthumus and Isabelle Wenzel, all graduates from the photography department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. It has continued since 2015 with Anne Huijnen and Anna de Jong. “Polly” is the artists’ alter ego and acts as a collective, gallery, platform and podium as well as being a photographer. Polly’s Picture Show works as an umbrella under which multiple collaborations are possible, whether with fellow artists or public bodies and companies. It has realized several projects within the field of contemporar y photo-
graphy such as exhibitions, installations and publications including innovative catalogues for the group exhibitions Rear View (2011), Confetti Generation and Artefacts (both 2012) and Out of Shape (2015).

www.pollyspictureshow.com

FRI SEPT 29, 4:30 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / SIGNING

Founded in 2014 in Bolzano in northern Italy, Rorhof Press is a studio and publishing house producing books, exhibitions and workshops on photography. Recent publications include Hidden Islam (2014), Nicoló Degiorgis’ photo-essay of makeshift places of worship for Muslims in northern Italy. With an introduction by Martin Parr, the publication won the Rencontres d’Arles’ Author Book Award and the Paris Photo/Aperture First Book Award in 2014. Its follow-up, Hidden Islam – 479 Comments (2014), also by Degiorgis, presents the vivid discussion appearing below the line on the The Guardian website in response to an article about the original book and was also published by Rorhof, as was The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel (2015), which comprises screenshots from CCT V cameras monitored by Caviezel over a period of 15 years and which was selected as one of Photo-Eye’s Best Books of the Year in 2015.

www.rorhof.com

FRI SEPT 29, 5 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION

Live Presentation Yokota & Pinckers

Founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010, the London-based Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) helps photographers to self-publish their books. It also holds a librar y of 3,000 publications donated by self-publishers, and promotes self-published photobooks through an ongoing program of workshops, events, and on/offline projects, including at Tate Modern and The Photographers’ Galler y, London; C/O Berlin; and MoMA, New York. In 2012, the company set up SPBH Editions to publish photography books by artists including Broomberg & Chanarin, Cristina de Middel, Mariah Robertson and Lorenzo Vitturi. The SPBH Book Club sells publications as part of a yearly subscription; Self Publish, Be Naughty (SPBN) publishes books of intimate pictures. Ceschel’s Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto was published by Aperture in 2015. SPBH publication Fire in Cairo by Matthew Connors won the Artist’s Book Award at the 2016 Infinity Awards in New York.

www.selfpublishbehappy.com

SAT 1 OCT, 3:30 pm
LIVE PRESENTATION

Live Presentation Lucas Blalock + Peter Puklus

The design for White Press’ custom-made photographic artists’ books takes its cue from photography; these books are published so that photographers can make their work available to a wider audience—since both media, photography and print are made to be reproduced. According to Helge Schlaghecke, publisher and designer for White Press: “Using the most delicate papers and materials, binding the books by hand, little irregularities are inevitable and not to be considered as a defect. These aberrations let your book stand out as a unique object.” White Press collaborates with artists such as Koji Onaka, Annabelle Fürstenau and Janko Woltersmann.

www.whitepress.com

SAT 1 OCT, 1:30 pm 
LIVE PRESENTATION / TALK 

Live Presentation of CONCORDIA with artist discussion & making-of