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 €

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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 €

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

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 €
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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

Nocturnes by “AM Projects”

** TIME Magazine chooses ‘NOCTURNES’ by AM Projects as one of the “Photobooks We Loved in 2012″ **
** NOCTURNES was selected by Photo-Eye as one of the best books of 2012 **
** NOCTURNES is included the photobook installation of the ICP TRIENNAL at the International Center of Photography in New York**

** With the occasion of AM Projects’ Exhibiton “All Colours Will Agree in the Dark” at Noorderlicht, a special Edition of 48 copies of NOCTURNES with a signed Inkjet print (12,5 x 18 cm) is now available. For the same price as the regular one. If you place a regular order, you will receive the print, as long as it’s available and mentioned here.**

‘AM projects’ consists of Aaron McElroy, Daisuke Yokota, Ester Vonplon, Gert Jochems, Olivier Pin-Fat and Tiane Doan na Champassak.

NOCTURNES is a unique boxed set of 6 books by the new photography group ‘AM projects’ and published by dienacht Publishing. This book is printed using different papers for each photo essay – one even has an enormous fold-out poster. It is a landmark in photobook production.

NOCTURNES is the first ‘AM’ project and explores 6 different photographic journeys into ‘the night’.

Print run: 600 copies.

NOCTURNES will be mailed within 2 working days after receiving your order. Still, mail services might be quite slow this time of the year, so please be patient! If you wish faster delivery, please get in touch. Thank you!

Bookstores carrying NOCTURNES • FRANCE / Paris » LE PLAC’ART PHOTO • GERMANY / Berlin » 25books, Urban Spree / Hamburg » Buchhandlung in den Deichtorhallen / Köln » Buchhandlung Walther König • Leipzig » Kapitaldruck • ITALY / Milan » Micamera – Lens-based Arts • THE NETHERLANDS / Amsterdam » JOOTBOOKS, De Monsterkamer • UK / London » Ti Pi Tin • USA / Santa Fe » photo-eye • JAPAN » Flotsam Books (online)• Distribution (Japan) » twelvebooks

Kim Thue: DEAD TRAFFIC

*** DEAD TRAFFIC was selected by Photo-Eye as one of the best books of 2012 ***

dienacht Publishing proudly presents: DEAD TRAFFIC by Kim Thue

This book is a raw and bewildering journey through the fringes of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone.
Shot over the course of two separate trips, Kim Thue spent 10 months living in close proximity to a notoriously rough area of the slums, digging deep into the livelihoods and emotions of his subjects. Through a visual stream of unsung tragedies, vulnerable integrity and chance encounters, his efforts leave us with an engaging account of a corner of the world normally unrevealed to most of us.

“Despite Sierra Leone being renowned for its brutal civil war, I didn’t have a hidden political agenda, a specific humanitarian issue or even a clear story in mind whilst making the book. I went to Freetown, not as a photojournalist, but as a stranger with a camera and an open heart. What I hope to have created is something the viewer can tune into emotionally. Something that hits a nerve without being coercive in nature, and without staking a monopoly on a specific kind of truth. A collection of images simply suggesting that the inextricable coexistence of beauty and dread is an ever present theme within this vigorous and inclement city.” – Kim Thue

“DEAD TRAFFIC is a strongly authored black and white experience, which cleverly invites you to lean into sharp places from start to finish.” – Clayton Maxwell, writer and photography critic at Eyemazing Magazine

Includes an interview by Luca Desienna, Co-owner and Chief Editor of Gomma Online and Gomma Books Ltd.

Please note: This is a Limited Edition book. Order now to secure one of only 1000 hand-numbered copies. Mail services might be quite slow this time of the year, so please be patient. If you wish faster delivery, please get in touch. Thank you!

Bookstores carrying DEAD TRAFFIC • FRANCE / Paris » LE PLAC’ART PHOTO • GERMANY / Berlin » 25books, Kisch & Co, do you read me?! / Hamburg » Buchhandlung in den Deichtorhallen • Leipzig » Kapitaldruck • ITALY / Milan » Micamera – Lens-based Arts • UK / London » Donlon Books, Claire de Rouen, Photo8, Ti Pi Tin, LN-CC (online) • JAPAN » Flotsam Books (online), CMBMC (online) • USA / Santa Fe » photo-eye • Distribution (Europe) » Anagram Books

Hard cover, clothbound
offset printed, thread stitched
18 x 24 cm, 96 pages + 12 interview pages, in English
1000 numbered copies
Designed By FLUUT
24.90 €

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