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Leon Kirchlechner: Nowhere | Pre-order

dienacht Publishing and Der Greif proudly present Leon Kirchlechner’s NOWHERE. Pre-order until June 1st and receive your signed copy on the release date, June 6th!

»Nothing […] is anywhere ever simply present or absent.« – Jacques Derrida

Was there something? Or nothing?

With no horizon, one’s view into the distance is impeded. Scanning, searching, one’s gaze comes to a standstill in Leon Kirchlechner’s photographs. The eye may slow, but it doesn’t find repose. The peace is not contemplative: it is restless. The restricted field of view has a narrowing effect. It makes the room strangely dislocated, denies me the geographical coordinates that would give me a feeling of safety. And so, even as the onlooker, I remain dislocated in the usually centrically, often symmetrically composed images. I can’t make sense of this centrality. Nor is it reassuring. Although it gives me pause, it doesn’t offer anything for me to grasp. It’s not the enjoyable, thought-provoking stillness that many works of art inspire. Rather, it’s an oppressive, constricting stillness, one that causes alarm.

»I was immediately enthralled by what I saw,« explains Leon Kirchlechner. »An inky black hole opened up suddenly and incomprehensibly in the cold, bare ground. It appeared to swallow the light. The unstructured, almost two-dimensional black was deceptive; the thought of falling into it made me shudder. How deep was it? What was in it? Was there anything? Or nothing? I expected something. I suspected something. I knew that nothing would happen and yet I was as if hypnotised. Filled with an illusory fear I stood still – and looked at what I could not see.«

This experience has become encoded in his images. The unknown that prompts these seemingly so unremarkable existential tremors within us. That what one sees before oneself is not what one senses. Namely that what appears in the image is not even present. But that absence is exactly what arrests the gaze. The actual subject of the photograph, its raison d’être, is beyond the picture. “The absence of the imaged subject is nothing other than an intense presence, receding into itself, gathering itself together in its intensity,” wrote Jean-Luc Nancy. This is addressed fundamentally and unremittingly in Leon Kirchlechner’s images.
What is present in the image is, in fact, what is absent.
Text: Prof. Ulrich Fleischmann 

Co-Published by dienacht Publishing and Der Greif. The pre-orders will be shipped on June 1st.

Hard cover, clothbound
offset printed, thread stitched
30 x 22 cm, 64 pages
Print run: 800 copies, numbered
PREORDERS ARE SIGNED!
29.80 €

Please choose:

Nowhere – Limited Edition – Book + Print

Get a signed, numbered copy of Leon Kirchlechner’s photobook »NOWHERE« together with a limited, signed print. You can choose one of the four following photographs (see above). All four photographs are available as a limited edition of 5 copies, size 50 x 33 cm.

In case of purchase please indicate the photograph of your choice (№ 1 to № 4) in the comments field.
All orders will be shipped by June 6th.

BOOK: 30 x 22 cm | 64 pages | numbered & signed
PRINT: Inkjet Print
Image size: 50 x 33 cm
Paper size: 52 x 35 cm
Print run: 4 x 5 copies | signed
4 photographs to choose from
300 €

dienacht #13 is there!

Dear all, the brand new issue of dienacht is now available! It showcases on 128 pages fantastic Photography by Chad Moore, Ingar Krauss, Daisuke Yokota, Johan Bävman, Sylvia Ballhause, Verena Brandt, Francesco Merlini, … Illustration by Poste Aérienne, an article about the underground filmmaker Shirley Clarke, a Graphic-Design Portfolio by Xavi Garcia, book and photozine reviews…

Get your copy here (worldwide shipping): www.dienacht.bigcartel.com

1000 copies, numbered
128 pages, 15 x 18 cm
offset print, in English and German

7,00 Euro

Gabriel Orłowski: Anti-accent

dienacht Publishing · Edition proudly presents Anti-accent, a limited book (100 copies) by Gabriel Orłowski, every copy arrives with a numbered Print!

“(…) I don’t really want to know whether the characters read beatniks, nihilists, right-wing journalists, liberal gibberish or SF writers. Neither do I feel the need to identify them with the music they listen to. We can guess that they probably don’t listen to club music, for example (although they seem to enjoy the disco ball). (…) I think that Anti-accent, even though it portrays people involved in the ‘punk scene’, with all their artistic influences, this aforementioned ‘fall’ of the ideas has a marginal meaning. These photographs ‘are punk’ more than they ‘show punk’. They seem to rather invite you to ‘punk’, than guide you through all the sweaty rehearsal rooms. ‘Punk’ understood as a certain idea, an ethos, a rebellion, showing your bruised ass off to the middle-class conventions. ‘Punk’ that pushes you into action, that has you co-create a community. So, not to repeat anything, Anti-accent rather is a rehearsal room, than shows you one. A rehearsal room that’s familiar to anyone, who doesn’t come back home before the evening cartoons. These photographs seem to come alive with whatever we put into them ourselves.” – Mateusz Romanowski

Gabriel Orłowski was born in 1989; he lives in Warsaw, Poland, and is a member of Merkabah and Acid Lindgren, experimental hardcore bands.

Softcover, 100 pages, full colour
Size: 15 x 21 cm, thread stitched
Print run: 100 copies
Will arrive with ONE out of five numbered prints, 13 x 18 cm
Designed by FLUUT

28,00 Euro

Neu im Shop: TISSUE Magazine #3

TISSUE Magazine is a biannually bedroom-produced art and sex manual.

A colourful eruption! (400% more colour)

132 pages (33.3% more content) on fine coated and uncoated paper contributions by the likes of Miroslav Tichý, Lukas Gansterer, Leigh Ledare, Martin Eder, A.activities, Adrian Crispin, Elena Kholkina, Steve Oklyn, Hanna Putz, Hans Petri, Magazine, Peter Kaaden, Fee Romero, Maxime Ballesteros, Thomas Bayrle, Andy Warhol, Walter Dahn.

A collector’s item of timeless beauty

TISSUE is magazine full of oversexed newcomers and the shaky old hands of erotic photography taking sex to the unsexiest of places.
132 pages

18,00 Euro

Neu im Shop: Caspar Saenger

On the 12 pages of the book you can see 10 of the artist’s milk teeth on a black background that  highlights their sculptural shape, amplified through caries and being wornout. The images make one  think of object photography of  human relics and astronomical photographs of celestial bodies.

Size: 23 x 34 cm
4c offset print & letter press
Edition of 300 copies

9,00 Euro

Claudia Eschborn: 1520/21

dienacht Publishing proudly presents: a very special, limited Artist Edition (40 copies) by Claudia Eschborn.

The fascination for Albrecht Dürer’s graphic work and – as a result of this – an intense curiosity, lead through a variety of ways to the reading of Gerd Unverfehrts book „Da sah ich viel köstliche Dinge“, which tells about Dürer’s travel to the Netherlands in the years of 1520/21.

This journey, narated and interpreted in that book, together with extracts of the journal Albrecht Dürer wrote during his travels, are basis to the presented photographic series under the title of 1520/21.

The places that Dürer once visited, the things he saw, formed the route the photographer traveled – and while trying to find something of what the artist had seen, had experienced those days, the photographer tried to capture the own personal impression of these scenes.

The series of work splits into sketchy, vaguely seeming polaroids and very concentrated large format photographs – an involvement of diverse intensity, according to the respective places and personal emotions.

– With a text by Christoph Tannert –

Print run: 40 copies + 5 AP, signed and numbered

Single Prints in an artist-made cardboard box | 45 large format photographs printed on 300g Lessebo Design natural, and 43 polaroids printed on 170g Lessebo Design natural | Print sizes: 23 x 26,5 cm and 12 x 12 cm (Polaroids) | 98.00 €
Please choose:

Neu im Shop: Schlaflos

Ein Fotozine von Christian Conrad, Lars Kiss, Susann Probst und Yannic Schon, die auch bei Zimmer/117 mitwirken! Sehr schön und liebevoll gemacht ist diese Sammlung aus 4 einzelnen Heften zum Thema Schlaflos.

4 Hefte, Format: je 11 x 16 cm
insgesamt 104 Seiten, in Schuber
Offsetdruck
Auflage: 200 Stück

18,00 Euro

Neu im Shop: Der Greif Magazin #6

100 pages, 133 photos, 17 texts from 130 artists coming from 27 countries. Again, we’re happy to present to you a sensitively layouted magazine containing carefully curated image and text.

 

25 X 35 cm
100 Seiten
Auflage: 2000 Exemplare, nummeriert

10,00 Euro

Neu im Shop: Romka Magazin #7

Das unabhängige Fotomagazin bietet seit vier Jahren eine Plattform für die Bilder, die wirklich etwas bedeuten. Menschen aus aller Welt zeigen ihre persönliches Lieblingsfotos und erzählen die Geschichten, die sich dahinter verbergen. romka ist ein kollektives Fotoalbum, in dem Amateure und Profis ihre Erinnerungen zusammentragen. Die Leser sind eingeladen, ihre eigenen Favoriten einzureichen und an dem Projekt teilzunehmen.

Ausgabe 7 zeigt die persönlichen Lieblingsbilder von 58 Fotografinnen und Fotografen aus 21 Ländern, von Japan über Belgien bis Argentinien. Zwischen Hobbyknipsern und international renommierten Fotokünstlern wird dabei kein Unterschied gemacht. Die ukrainische Journalistin Maria Kazvan teilt sich eine Bühne mit dem gefeierten Dokumentarfotografen Alec Soth, dem südafrikanischen Künstler Roger Ballen kommt die gleiche Aufmerksamkeit zu wie dem Theologiestudenten Ryan Becker.

Auflage: 1500 Exemplare
112 Seiten
18,2 x 22,5 cm
Alle Texte in Englisch.

11,50 Euro

dienacht Special Issue: Young Polish Photographers out now!

(5 different Covers – same content!)

From amongst all the works of young photographers from the Polish National Film School in Lodz – representing the classes of: documentary, portrait, report, multimedia, creative and art photography – this Special Issue showscases 14 of the most representative of various conventions and aesthetics. The young artists presented in the publication are at the start of their careers.

The artistic work of those young photographers influences the scene of Polish photography and reflects the direction of its development.

In many cases, thanks to the prizes won at prestigious international competitions, such as Leica Oscar Barnack Award, Sony World Photography Awards, International Photography Award, Le Festival Voies Off des Recontres d’Arles, etc, their careers assume international character.

(For orders from outside Germany: www.dienacht.bigcartel.com)

14 Fotografen auf 144 Seiten,
15 x 18 cm, 500 Exemplare, Offsetdruck, vollfarbig
englisch, deutsch, polnisch
ACHTUNG: Sie bestellen hiermit nur 1 Exemplar mit einem beliebigen Cover!

10,00 Euro

Neu im Shop: Calin Kruse – Alles OK

Artist Photobook, with a text by Olivier Pin-Fat.

Special Edition (no. 001-020) with a signed and numbered C-Print available.  The Special Edition with Print is now sold out! The Regular Edition is still available.

Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies
open thread stitching
15 x 20 cm, 88 pages (16 pages printed on red paper)
poster as half-cover
– 80 regular + 20 special edition (including a 13 x 18 cm signed and numbered C-Print) –

20,00 Euro