Another new release just arrived: “Die Nacht #6″ – this amazing fanzine about photography from Trier. This time with photography by Taryn Simon and her fascinating series “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” and “The Innocents; an interview with the regisseur Wenzel Storch (”Reise ins Glück”); portfolios of Max Ruf and Daniel Stolle (Illustration), photography by Ixone Sádaba; “Der Mensch stinkt, solange er lebt” – the exam of swiss photographer Maya Rochat; an interview with fashion and reportage photographer Frank Horabt - and some of his fashion pictures from the 50th to 80th. See more pictures from inside and get your copy (only 1000) for 5 Euro here.
Hans Aarsman, Claudie de Cleen, Julian Germain, Erik Kessels, Hans van der Meer just collected and edited a new number of Useful Photography: Photography is especially useful when it is aimed at helping the unskilled take better photographs. Useful Photography #009 examines the world of photography manuals and celebrates the pictures used to help us understand our cameras, take better pictures and identify our disastrous mistakes. In this digital age, where mistakes in photography can be rectified in an instant, Useful Photography thought it high time to dedicate an issue to the photography manual; with images sourced from the days when manual also meant the type of camera you were operating. Every manner of what can go wrong, and how to correct it, is explored. Yet, aside from telling us how to correct the double-exposed, the poorly lit, the out of focus or the red of eye, the series within also allows us to see that mistakes – as defined by these helpful brochures – have a rare, never to be repeated beauty all of their own. Learn all about photography, or how dangerous pigeons look in extreme close up in the latest Useful Photography #009. See more pictures and order your copy for 25 Euro here.
If you are into graphic design, illustration or typography - it´s christmas again! The new Slanted magazine just arrived and is again packed (196 pages!) with stunning new works from Edhv (Eindhoven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), Pixelgarten (Frankfurt), Maxime Buechi (Lausanne), Ina Saltz (New York), Erwin K. Bauer (Vienna), Sangho Park (Stuttgart) and many others. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with Sabrina Tibourtine, Christoph Dunst, Sipho Mabona, Gemma O’Brien and Mr. David Carson. Besides a portrait of “Buchstabenmuseum Berlin”, the Slanted Magazine introduces numerous 2d3d-works of professionals and students (Ebon Heath, Yulia Brodskaya, pleaseletmedesign, MWM Graphics). The new issue “2d3d” deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. Get all details, see more pictures and buy your copy for 12 Euro here.
der:die:das: is a brandnew monothematic magazine made in Zurich, which examines items, objects and various “things” from everyday life, trying to get to the bottom of their meaning to newly orchestrate them. der:die:das: calls for the new in everyday life and the ordinary in the novel and assembles the various perceptions of different disciplines in art and design by various artists, designers and authors in one magazine. According to the alphabet the things will be selected, dissected and analysed. The first issue started with the letter A for apple. Contributing artists are Sasha Haettenschweiler, Zürich; Saša Kohler, Basel; Sandi Kozjek, Zürich; Katharina Rippstein, Zürich; Shirana Shahbazi, Zürich; contributing photographers are Véronique Hoegger, Zürich and Flurina Rothenberger, Zürich; and the authors are Valérie Knoll, Zürich; Petra Pan, Berlin/Germany; Aline Rinderer, Basel. See more details, pictures or/and buy your copy here.
Just arrived: um[laut] magazin #5, a small but great magazine from Cologne, about political and young artists - mostly featuring “art, photography, streetart, literature and projects of ambitious, young and creative artists and there way of seeing the world.” The new issue includes work by Slinkachu (the new “Little People” serie - photography), Ute C. Latzke (”Got lost out there” - artwork), Tassilo Sturm (”Findet mich das Glück?” - Installation), Frederic Lezmi (”Arabian Prospects” - photography). See more details and pictures - and order your copy for only 5 Euro here.
Gudberg #06 features big names of the international street art scene like: Boxi, Dave the chimp, Miss Van, Zezao, Bronco, Herbert Baglione, Vitché, Daim, Daniel Man, Os Gemeos, Zevs, Banksy, Daniel Tagno, Mark Jenkins, Blu, Tilt, Victor Ash and Heiko Zahlmann. Gudberg is a DIN A3-magazine about art, design, illustration and photography, based in Hamburg, and available here for 5 Euro.
A new magazine project from Berlin: Aufstieg und Fall (”rise and fall”). Released the 15th june and coming quarterly in a circulation of 10 000 copies to selected bookstores and kiosks this magazine celebrates “the exciting and often tragic rise and fall of life” and “the wild roller-coaster around every corner”. Chiefeditor Iván Aránega Tortosa explains in the editorial: “Aufstieg und Fall investigates the curious human behavior and extravagant details that lie under the headlines dominating the media and the conversations in the cue of the supermarket. As the old saying goes: what goes up must come down. True, but boring. Long before the information age, Flannery O‘Connor took it a step further and wrote ‘everything that rises must converge’. Life is and will be a journey and all what we see, hear and feel along the way come together and form who we are. People come and go, trends rise and fall, ideas heave and ho and the best we can do is hold on and enjoy the ride.”
The quality of the paper creates multiple orgasms, the pictures are amazing and very emotional (Frank Kalero is documentating the indish Holi Varanasi ritual and Casper Dalhoff photographed people with psychoses), also the illustrations of Herr Müller (who did also the cover artwork) are original and a facinating new visual approach. The layout (art director is Christian Schneider) is playful and stylish, but readable; and finally the texts: they are no revolution or will win a Pulitzer Prize, but they are very amusing and diversified (Ariadne von Schirach is writing about sleeping yourself to the top, there are last words from pilots before the crash, an interview with trend scout Jozo Juric). After all a great new launch! We hope that you´ll rise to the magazine heaven and are already curious about the next issue. More details, more pictures and you can order your copy for immediately 5,80 Euro here.
Dear Elmar Bambach, Julia Marquardt and Birgit Vogel, you dedicate each issue of your Magazin über Orte to a new place. The current issue is about the “Tatort” (crime scene). What inspired you?
The “crime scene” was a new aspect for the magazine. A place that is in principle defined after a happening, namely the action. And we wish to show a variety of places in our magazine.
Concentration camps, crimes, accidents, battlefields - this issue is very dark and sinister.
This is exactly what interested us. The last themes like “kitchen”, “park” or “desk” were not so clearly bonded with a certain association. The crime scene on the other hand is a place of a crime, a homicide; so definitely a negative thing. It was a challenge for us to make a multifaceted issue, with uncommon and unexpected perspectives.
Are you misanthropes? Or how did you came up with the idea to make a magazine only about places?
We are interested in places. Places are full of traces and they also tell many things about people. You can search for something, discover and find things there. Places as a theme suit to this way we see the magazine: a bit mysterious, often indirect and remote.
What does a place need that you dedicate it a whole issue?
We actually think that every place would work for a complete issue. For us the spectrum and the series of the magazine is more import and we choose places we are interested in. The borderline question appears every time: where does a place begin? And where does it ends? Is the “dream” also a place? Or the “flipside”? This are the questions we are faced up to. And it is important for us to answer them anew over and over.
The next issue is about “home”. Can you already tell us something about it?
“Home” is for us again a kind of enlargement of the term place. “Home” is mainly a personal feeling, an attachment to a familiar place. Concomitant it is also understood as homely and concrete, as your own four walls. We find this ambiguity interesting and both sides should be found. But the issue will surely tell more about the association as of the concrete place, in contrast to the issue “desk” or “kitchen”, that are also placed in a homely environment.
How long do you need for the production of the issue? How do you proceed?
As soon as one issue is released we begin working for the next one. We learn new things every time. The start is a soon as possible agreement of the new theme. Then we start with the research of already existing works that we can imagine in the issue. This phase is very important for us because only like this we can win a feeling about how the theme can work and where the hassle is. Crucial is for us if we can wangle the balance between the individual works. A kind of river should be generated, in which every work, equal if famous or not, short or long, should find it’s place and is presented in an adequate way. Decisive for the magazine is the choice and the combination. The issue is working if we are establishing a collective ambiance at the end and if the individual works do not appear isolated. This is our goal. To reach that we are testing a lot, we discuss about the choice and the order and work intensely on the layout. We are often firmly in the last weeks deciding which works are being shown in the issue. This process is very exhausting but also exciting and we are having lots of fun doing it. What is difficult is when we have to reject some authors, whose work we liked, but finally did not fit in the combination. We are making an effort to be as honest and fair as possible.
Who are your readers?
Many readers are surely coming from fields like photography, art, graphic design and literature. Others are interested in a certain issue or a place. And there is also an international interest because the magazine appears bilingually.
What are you favourite magazines?
Three examples: “Archivo”, “mono.kultur” and “The Purple Journal”.
What would be your wish for the magazine?
We would love to find more partners that we can enthuse for our magazine. It can only survive when we find people that can identify themselves with the concept and can also financially support us. We can imagine a collaboration bounded by the theme or also a long-term cooperation. We would love to work together with institutions and to accompany each issue with a discussion meeting or a workshop. And certainly we want to develop the magazine first of all.
And finally your statement to the media crisis: is print going to die? What will happen to magazines? Are we going to read in 2020 only with Kindles?
With the media crisis the realization of smaller projects, like our magazine, is becoming more difficult. Some things in the society are concomitant winning proportionality. Thereby the people are becoming more awake, more open and more sensitive. And maybe this social climate is a special chance for the acceptance of remote things and exceptional things. Probably the reading and the reading custom will really change a lot. Precisely classic print media like newspapers, where the more important thing is the actuality, will disappear more on the internet or they will be available through other electronic forms. But on the other hand there will also be a return. The haptic experience with paper and print will win some estimation. This will surely happen in an always smaller becoming niche, but the quality will further exist. Translation: Alexandra Bieber
We are really happy that we can welcome a new brilliant magazine on board: Kaugummi. Kaugummi is the collective art magazine curated by Bartolomé Sanson - made by the independent publishing house Kaugummi Books, based in Rennes, France. Kaugummi is publishing and promoting artist books and zines since 2005 and focuses on contemporary drawing and photography. The contributors of issue #4 are: Thomas Bernard (cover), Documentation Céline Duval, Christian Aubrun, David Horvitz, Vanessa Dziuba, Sumi Ink Club, Mathieu Renard, Yu Matsuoka, Linus Bill, Daisuke Tamano, Julien Carreyn, Alexis Zavialoff, Ann Guillaume & Leylagoor, Camilla Candida Donzella, Massimiliano Bomba, Peter Sutherland, Anne Laure Draisey and Geoffrey Ellis. This new issue is limited at 500 copies and can be ordered here for 10 Euro.
With a Big Bang the new issues of two great magazines about photography arrived at our GuteSeiten headquarter: the fabulous geo-located media magazine - Ein Magazin über Orte #5 - and the magazine for photography, design and subculture: Die Nacht #5. This issue of Magazin über Orte is about crime scenes and features great pictures of explosions (Sarah Pickering), a story about the former concentration camps Gusen I and II, disturbing pictures of urban places where people died, car wash photography from Peter Piller, contemporary pictures from ancient battlefields (Bleda y Rosa) and much more. And Die Nacht #5 features an interesting article about the history of artzines, and amazing photo portfolios from Ronald Brul, Alice Smeets, Joachim Froese, Olaf Martens, Pernille Koldbech Fich and illustrations from Eric Nyquist and Olivia Bargman. Both have around 1000 copies - so you better order your copy immediately.
