Books Are Nice

Peggy Levison Nolan’s approach to art is to dissolve all boundaries between daily life and artistic practice,  Glimpses of everyday events, places, people, her children, her kitchen – all are rendered precisely in her camera lens. Peggy Levison Nolan is a mostly self-taught photographer and single mother of seven working in South Florida. She is a full time staff member of the Art and Art History Department of Florida International University where she received both a BFA and MFA. Her work is collected by major institutions including New York’s MOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MOCA, Norton Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Light Work Permanent Collection and the Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Peggy was selected for Light Work’s artist-in-residence program in 2005 has twice won the South Florida Consortium Individual Artist Grant in 2004 and 1994.

Chinese Bondage in Peru is a trilogy featuring a collection of found photographs, printed matter and accompanying text organized around the vague fictitious narrative of a North American journalist’s travels between the the continents of Latin America and Asia.  While the title of the series is taken from an academic publication on the exploitation of Chinese migrant laborers in Peruvian guano pits by 19th century colonists, in the context of these images it might just as easily refer to the Sendero Luminoso, a group of Maoist inspired revolutionaries organizing indigenous Peruvians to overthrow the country’s government, or to the questionable role currently played by Chinese investors in Peru’s mineral extraction sector.  While constructed from “real” ephemera of vernacular image production, the work is anything but documentary, taking its cues instead from sources such as Japanese “pink films” and the french photo-anthropology magazine “Zoom.”

This is a nice set of artist books, made by Wintergarten Ltd. I really like the use of newsprint, and enjoy the interesting edit of these photos. GOOD DESIGN! You can buy a copy and check out more from Wintergarten Ltd. HERE!

Proud to introduce a new book by Christiaan Lopez-Miro. If you are in Miami area, come check out the exhibition at Zadok Gallery 

Smoke and Mirrors is a series of photographs shot over three years by Miami-based artist Christiaan Lopez-Miro at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle, New York’s Monday Night Magic and Magic on the Beach in Miami.

The images grant the viewer entrance into an otherwise inaccessible world where conjures spend countless hours honoring their craft and practicing sleights in the attempt to recreate a moment of impossibility.

As a magician and member of the Magic Castle, Lopez-Miro was able to obtain access. The result is a tapestry of dark images, intimate in nature and at times confrontational.

• Edition of 100
• $30
• Available HERE
• VIDEO

Box of prints = working on a new book & just finishing a book by Christiaan Lopez-Miro check out his work here!

It is hard to capture this book in a photograph [a video will follow]  This accordion bound book, spreads the length of about 14 feet. It tells the story of how the Greek alphabet developed into Renaissance typefaces. This project was made by Adrian Frutiger, as his thesis exploration in 1951. This book was, published and printed in Switzerland by Syndor Press Cham in 1996. 

Walls Clean Dumb People is a collection of photos I took while traveling in Europe during the winter of 2011.

The title originates from a piece of graffiti I walked past everyday in Florence, “Muri Puliti Popoli Mutti.” The direct English translation is “Clean Wall, Dead Population;“ I then rephrased it to the Google translation. 

This book documents my exploration of the local and tourist culture, while also seeking humor in the consumerism and embracement of American pop culture overseas. 

• Edited by Marcos Rodriguez & I
• edition of 30 
• hand stitched 
• 28 pp. full color printed in Miami, Fl 
• 9 x 12 in.

purchase here !
full video look under

Enjoy :)

available soon !