Elina Brotherus: Brotherus - Block - Beuys

Elina Brotherus: Brotherus - Block - Beuys

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, 2023
Texts: Thomas Heyden, Antje-Britt Mählmann, Eugénie Shinkle Elina Brotherus, Sarah Lampe and Interviews with René Block, Elina Brotherus, Emil Schult
Design: Tobias Jacob and Torsten Illner
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 256 pages, Hardcover
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-3-96900-148-6

In her analysis of Beuys, Elina Brotherus changes perspectives and plays with the female gaze on the iconic German artist. The well-known Finnish photo and video artist Elina Brotherus (b. 1972) deals with iconic motifs from art history as well as with the reinterpretation of Fluxus actions and event scores, the recordings of performances. In this context, the artist has also restaged Joseph Beuys’s action Kartoffelernte (Potato Harvest), which originally took place in 1977 in front of the gallery of René Block, an important champion of FLUXUS and Beuys.

Marcin Jasik: Everything is Ahead of Us, Nothing is Ahead of Us

Publisher: Published on the occasion of solo exhibition
at STRABAG Kunstforum Artlounge 
Vienna 2023, Austria
Texts: Andreas Hoffer, Paulina Olszewska
Design: Wioletta Kulas
Format: 205 x 280mm
Pages: 112 pages, Hardcover
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-83-966973-0-1

Everything is Adead of Us, Nothing is Ahead of Us
His works emerge out of a consistent confrontation with the history of abstract painting since the beginnings of the 20th century, that is, the repository of knowledge around the formation of a pictorial structure without a symbolic narrative level. Thus, there are quotations in some of his works. Some of the form imprints and materials remind, for example, of the archaic picture compositions of the Catalan artist Antonio Tàpies. Marcin thus refers to the contemporary artist’s being embedded in the context of the history of painting, to his own preferences and to similar questions that preoccupy also his contemporaries.
Marcin Jasik: Everything is Ahead of Us, Nothing is Ahead of Us
Jakub Julian Ziółkowski: You Are Mine

Jakub Julian Ziółkowski: You Are Mine

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2023
Texts: Cecilia Alemani, Bartłomiej Dobroczyński, Delfina Jałowik, Mateusz Marczewski, Kajetan Młynarski, Olga Tokarczuk, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski
Layout: Rafał Sosin
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Pages: 250, Broschur
Language: Polish, English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5458-3

You Are Mine
In Jakub Julian Ziółkowski's wild cosmos of fantastic figures, organic forms and circulatory systems, the Polish painter mixes cultural symbols, the spiritual and the microscopic. His universe full of details is a kaleidoscope of references - from Hieronymus Boschs to James Ensors to Philip Guston - and at the same time a very personal world populated by recurring figures.This publication is the first comprehensive overview of his work from 2005 to the present and provides insights into his work with various media: from painting to sculpture and ceramics to drawing. Essays by Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner in literature, and Cecilia Alemani, curator of the 59th Venice Biennale, an extensive interview with the artist, and texts by philosopher Kajetan Młynarski and psychologist Bartłomiej Dobroczyński, illuminate his surreal visual cosmos.

Jari Silomäki: Atlas of Emotions

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2022
Editor: Asia Zak Persons
Texts: Saara Haclin, Pauliina Pasanen, Andrey Shabanov, Liz Wells
Format: 20,5 x 28 cm
Pages: 240, Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5158-2

Atlas of Emotions
Jari Silomäki’s Atlas of Emotions is the result of an elaborate research process. For this, the artist – who is primarily known as a photographer – studied the stories of people who actively participate in digital discussion forums. Who are the people who hide behind alter ego names on digital platforms? Silomäki researched their backgrounds – also to find out how sometimes bizarre opinions are formed in the first place. He compiled his research in a manuscript and had actors reenact this fusion of imagination and reality in his studio, interpreting the scenes and domestic environments. 


Jari Silomäki: Atlas of Emotions
Joakim Eskildsen: Cuban Studies (2023, Not Yet Published)

Joakim Eskildsen: Cuban Studies (2023, Not Yet Published)

Publisher: Steidl, 2023
Format: 18 x 31,2 cm
Pages: 144, Hardcover/Clothbound
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-95829-704-3

"From my very first journey, Cuba put a spell on me that made me return again and again. It was a time of optimism and uncertainty, and great hopes for the future.”
 
After American Realities (2016, Steidl) and Cornwall (2018, Mare), Cuban Studies (2023, Steidl) will complete Eskildsen’s trilogy on dysfunctional political systems. Accompanied by Cuban journalist Abel Gonzalez, the publication is the result of Eskildsen’s journeys between 2013 and 2016 when he traveled throughout the country during a period of major transition. Depicting the living situation of Cubans population after extensive economic reforms, the photographer notes "The more I learned about Cuba the more difficult it became to understand. It was like learning to see the world from a different angle, so distinct from what I knew that I decided to keep an open mind and take the position of the listener, following my instincts rather than anything else.”

Grey Crawford: Chroma, 1978–85, Vol 1

Publisher: Beam Editions, May 2022
Texts: Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer, Hannah Glauner, and Ashley Gallant
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Pages: 152, Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 978-1-7399865-3-7

Grey Crawford. Chroma, 1978–85, Vol 1
In 1978 Grey Crawford created a body of colour photographic work that was so radical in its aesthetic and technique that few people to this day understand how it was made.
Chroma documents late 70s Los Angeles in a period of radical urban transformation. Scenes of vernacular architecture, demolition sites and everyday places are contrasted with graphic forms that float on the surface and sit within the image.
A student at Claremont and LA native, Crawford’s work shows the influence of radical Californian painters such as Karl Benjamin and John McLaughlin in the medium of photography.
While Light and Space, Minimalism, and Geometric Abstraction, existed firmly within painting and sculpture, Crawford showed the possibilities of photography as an art form and blurred the boundaries between photography, sculpture and installation.
Crawford’s work holds an important place in art history and its visionary aesthetic remains relevant and more familiar than ever in the 21st century.
Featuring essays by Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer, Hannah Glauner, and Ashley Gallant, and a detailed, technical description of the process used to create the images in the darkroom by the artist himself.

Grey Crawford: Chroma, 1978–85, Vol 1
Marcin Jasik: Immidiate Relations

Marcin Jasik: Immidiate Relations

Publisher: Milan Dobes Musuem

Ostrava 2021, Czech Republic
Curator: Lucie Drdova
Interviewed by: Kama Zboralska
Design: Wioletta Kulas
Format: 213 x 297 mm
Pages: 144, Hardcover
Language: English, Polish, Czech

Immediate Relations
Marcin Jasik’s canvases bear many parables and at the same time seek answers to the fundamental questions about the nature of human existence. Their abstract language is transcribed into an intuitive gesture, which, however, is guided by a conscious effort to approach or offer insight into the essential level of meaning of the artist’s paintings.

The relatively recent history of Jasik’s painting narrative begins with a series of canvases where he was inspired  by drawings of mentally ill people, their primitive language and a certain crudeness of unschooled expression. Yet here, for the first time, there are signs of a dualistic space between the sacred and the profane. The contradicting nature of visual values that the painter applies supports the content construction. On the contrary - motifs that appear to be formally contrasting seek unity. The tremulousness of white and dark shades, the basal nature of geometric shapes of blurred edges, the horizontal  as well as vertical division of the picture plan refer to  a higher order or belief in it.

Niko Luoma: For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, June 2021
Texts: Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer
Design: Juha Nenonen
Format: 25 x 30,5 cm
Pages: 184 with 150 illustrations
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-4689-2

For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds
No one uses the camera like the photographer Niko Luoma. He is not interested in capturing the world in front of his lens. He uses light to create his own visual spheres. Using up to a thousand multiple exposures he applies individual elements of color and form to the negative, layer by layer. Meticulous calculations and geometrical skills are the necessary foundation for this. The results are abstract photographs of impressive, colorful intensity and luminosity. This book of photos is based on the series Adaptations, which reproduces famous works by other artists. Luoma presents a fascinating visual game in which the independent charisma of the photographs acts in concert with its reverence toward Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Vincent van Gogh, or Pablo Picasso. With tongue in cheek referencing, Luoma thus realizes the avant-garde’s desire to liberate photography from reproducing reality, allowing it to become an art.
Niko Luoma: For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds
Elina Brotherus: Seabound. A Logbook

Elina Brotherus: Seabound. A Logbook

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Summer 2021
Texts: Elina Brotherus, Nicolai Tangen, Timo Valjakka
Design: Dog Design, Helsinki, Ilona Ilottu
Format: 22,5 x 28,5 cm
Pages: 120 with 57 illustrations
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-96900-033-5

Seabound
A Logbook
Sørlandet, »the Southland«, is the southernmost tip of Norway. Some call it the »Norwegian Riviera«. Going north, the rocky archipelago soon gives way to granitic mountains and mountain valleys. Yet, the sea is never far – Norway has the longest coastline in Europe.
Elina Brotherus’ photographic practice is based on making visual discoveries. When she finds a place that pleases her, she starts to play with the human figure, trying to incorporate it in the image in an intriguing way. Brotherus has a habit of using art history, and in Sørlandets Kunstmuseum’s collection she found entry points for this new body of work: some pieces are based on 19th century Romantic paintings, yet others on performative scores, i.e. by Yoko Ono, Geoffrey Hendricks, VALIE EXPORT, John Baldessari, or the Norwegian performance artist Kurt Johannesen. Seabound is her eleventh monograph.

Nanna Hänninen: Now is Now

Publisher: Kodoji Press, Baden 2020
Texts: Laura Kuurne and Tuomas Nevanlinna
Format: 11,5 x 14,8 cm
Pages: 160 with 56 illustrations
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-03747-099-2

Now is Now
Time is the given in Nanna Hänninen’s conceptual photography practice – as it is in all photography. Photography records an instant and marks too that it has passed and is gone. Furthermore, Hänninen’s book NOW IS NOW and the exhibition it accompanied, How About the Future? at Serlachius Museums Gösta in the pandemic year of 2020, are marked by her investigation of how we conceive of and comprehend time. NOW IS NOW is composed of images by Hänninen, both her own source images and sculptures and works based on found images, interleaved through a text by Finnish philosopher Tuomas Nevanlinna and bookended by an excerpt from curator Laura Kuurne’s essay on Hänninen’s work.

Nanna Hänninen: Now is Now
Jarosław Kozłowski: Exercises in Imaging

Jarosław Kozłowski: Exercises in Imaging

Publisher: 9/11 Art Space Foundation, November 2020
Texts: Bożena Czubak, Luiza Nader
Design: Natalia Brodacka
Language: Polish, English

This publication was created as complementary part of the Jarosław Kozłowski. Exercises in Imaging exhibition (9th October - 13th November 2020). The exhibition catalogue contains texts by Bożena Czubak and Luiza Nader.
Bożena Czubak writes about Jarosław Kozłowski's works, in particular the series presented at the Piekary Gallery. Luiza Nader provides a part of an unpublished conversation with Jarosław Kozłowski from the year 2004 about the artist's profound interest in language as a part of the creative process.

Eeva Karhu: Polku | Path

Publisher: Parvs Publishing Ltd, August 2020
Texts: Timothy Persons (Foreward), Alistair Hicks
Format: 24 x 22 cm
Pages: 128
Language: English; Finnish
ISBN 978-952-7226-59-9

Polku | Path
Through the layered structure of her photographs, Eeva Karhu reflects on time and its cyclic nature, using multiple exposures as her technique for recording time’s passage. Her art engages in the study of perception and cognition. The human eye and memory are not like a camera, which records everything unselectively, because the experiences relayed by our visual receptors are always coloured by our emotions and other sensory impressions. "I walk in a circle, on a path with no beginning or end. I photograph this path, where each new beginning is the horizon of the previous one. By layering my photographs, they form a collective image that documents my journey. In a sense, I record time and in so doing, I continue its movement forever.” Path is the first book-form presentation of her art.

Eeva Karhu: Polku | Path
Sanna Kannisto: Observing Eye

Sanna Kannisto: Observing Eye

Like a Painting: A Precise Look at Every Detail of a Bird

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, June 2020
Graphic design: Juha Nenonen
Format: 25 x 29 cm
Language: English
Pages: 144 
ISBN: 978-3-7757-4791-2

Sanna Kannisto’s métier is nature photography. Like her role models, she considers herself both a scientist and an artist. And, in fact, her analytical gaze is in no way inferior to her creativity and passion. She creates moments of unusual beauty that also shed light on what has been previously concealed. Kannisto has her own method for taking pictures of birds, photographing the animals in front of a brilliantly lit, white background. Removed from their usual surroundings, every detail appears in matchless clarity, allowing for precise study. At the same time, this results in a unique visual aesthetic: the feathers glow brightly, the beating wings take on a majestic quality, and the deep black eyes of the birds seem to gaze hauntingly at the camera. The patience required to produce these pictures has paid off , since it is hard to imagine more beautiful photographs of birds.

Santeri Tuori – Time Is No Longer Round

Publishing Date: February 2020
Publishing House: Hatje Cantz
Contributions: Santeri Tuori
Graphic Design: Hans Gremmen
Language: English
Pages: 180 pp., 100 ills.
Format: 24.00 x 31.50 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-4701-1

Time Is No Longer Round
"At first glance the photographer Santeri Tuori’s pictorial world appears to be timeless. On second glance, however, it becomes clear what is going on. Tuori’s compositions of trees, tangled branches, and clouds are sophisticated montages made up of countless photos arranged sideby-side or on top of each other. This results in nearly abstract, fascinatingly complex images of nature; because it harmonizes with the sublime depiction of nature, the process of seeing transcends itself. The eye is no longer guided toward a vanishing point around which the image is organized. Instead, viewers luxuriate in an inexhaustible wealth of perspectives that allow them to continue to discover new phenomena. This goes along with the dramaturgy that stages the publication from one page to the next. At the beginning, you look up into the treetops. These are followed by pictures of clouds set at eye level. The final chord consists of a series of photographs that looks back to the abstract entanglement of the treetops. In every respect this is an uplifting illustrated volume."
Santeri Tuori – Time Is No Longer Round
Zofia Kulik - Methodology, My Love

Zofia Kulik - Methodology, My Love

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 
Publishing Date: 10 February 2020
Language: English
Pages: 360
ISBN-10: 8364177591
ISBN-13: 978-8364177590

"Zofia Kulik’s rich artistic career has a dual nature. Between 1970 and 1987, she worked alongside Przemysław Kwiek as a member of the duo KwieKulik, after which she began to develop a successful individual career. While KwieKulik’s work has been well established as central to the East European neo-avant-garde art lexicon of the 1970’s and ’80s, Kulik’s solo work has yet to be examined in depth. The first publication devoted solely to her work, this monograph analyzes the themes of her rich and complex oeuvre, addressing the (post)communist condition, artistic labor, intermediality, and the conditions of working as a female artist. The book forms a portrait of Kulik as an artist whose work is both deeply focused and rich in variations that reflect the socio-political shifts in her native Poland. With contributions from leading art historians, including Edit András, Angela Dimitrakaki, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Suzana Milevska, and Tomasz Załuski."

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The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Vol. 6

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2019.
Ed. Timothy Persons, Asia Zak Persons, text(s) by Grey Crawford, Antje-Britt Mählmann, Timothy Persons, Marja Sakari, graphic design by Full Metal Jacket.
Format: 24 x 29 cm
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-4699-1

Persons Projects is happy to present the new volume of The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Vol. 6. The publication has been launched Saturday 7 November during Paris Photo Fair 2019.
It concentrates on bringing together the various approaches used by the School’s representatives to conceptualize nature visibly. The stated goal is not to limit oneself to purely physical depictions of animals, plants, and landscapes. Nature ought to be expressed through a di¤erent type of unit and with a new way of gauging time. Days, months, and seasons become the points of crystallization for time. Thus, the photographs reflect a Nordic sense about feelings of loneliness, jealousy, or desire. The works provide photographic insight into the complex horizon of emotions that characterize our individual views of nature. They do not portray landscape as such, but the world in which we live.
Since the 1990s the name Helsinki School has been used to describe a group of fine art photographers who studied, taught, or graduated from the Aalto University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture. The term unites a consistent conceptual approach.
The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Vol. 6
Niina Vatanen - Time Atlas

Niina Vatanen - Time Atlas

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Publishing Date: 2019
Format: 17 x 22,5 cm, Cloth hardcover with ribbon bookmark
Pages: 288
Texts by: Keith F. Davis, Vicki Goldberg, Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Graphic Design: Leo Karhunen

ISBN: 978-3-86828-943-5


Time Atlas weaves together images from a variety of sources, from intimate personal archives to Internet imagery, old encyclopaedias, newspapers, guidebooks and manuals. Following an idiosyncratic visual and intuitive logic, Niina Vatanen combines all the different materials creating many new and surprising connections. Inspired by encyclopaedias, Vatanen organizes pictures loosely with thematic categories. She is focusing especially on questions concerning time and our perception of it, and exploring how visual memory, personal experience, and history intertwine. Niina Vatanen is an artist working with photographs, text and archive material. Her works have been on display in numerous galleries, museums and photo festivals in Finland and abroad since 2006. Niina Vatanen has published two books with Kehrer Verlag: A Room’s Memory / Huoneen muisti (2013) and Archive Play (2014).

Anni Leppälä - Hyle | Curtain | Backdrop

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Publishing Date: 2019.
Format: 16,5 x 24 cm, Soft Cover
Pages: 128
Graphic Design: Anni Leppälä, Tuomo Rainio, Liisa Seppo

ISBN: 978-3-86828-942-8


Anni Leppälä’s motives derive from memories, loss, longing, and early adolescence, seeking for an experience of connection and closeness but also for the act of recognizing something vaguely familiar through the images. Things are often veiled, hidden or turning away, but are in their own sphere of intense, remote closeness. Photographs transform their subjects and evoke a feeling of sudden recognition, that is not visible on the surface. The connections between the images are essential for Anni Leppälä’s work. The narrations are not linear but can proceed to various directions and dimensions. The layout of the book refers to this way of working – images are overlapping each other, covering and intersecting with each other.

Anni Leppälä - Hyle | Curtain | Backdrop
Arno Rafael Minkkinen – Minkkinen

Arno Rafael Minkkinen – Minkkinen

Publisher: Kehrer
Publishing Date: 2019.
Format: 27 x 30,5 cm, Cloth hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 330
Texts by: Keith F. Davis, Vicki Goldberg, Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Graphic Design: Kehrer Design und Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Language: English

ISBN: 978-3-86828-922-0


Working with the body in natural and urban landscapes—without assistants and without manipulation—Minkkinen’s self-portraiture stands as one of genre’s longest,  nonstop continuities in the history of photography.

This monograph is spanning five decades of work by the acclaimed Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen (b. 1945).  The 330-page hardcover book depicts over 270 images since 1969 to the present with important works from all 50 years. More than half of the images are largely unpublished, including over 100 recent works since 2005, with numerous discoveries from the 1980s and 1990s, plus significant groundbreaking images from the early 1970s, years before the self-portrait entered the mainstream of contemporary photo-graphy.

Whether he is working along lakeshores or beaches, in cities or forests, from majestic mountaintops or buried in the snow, Minkkinen aims to create a balance between the naked human form and the natural and urban worlds wherein we exist, reminding us that we are foremost beings without clothes. the results can be surreal, spiritual, and transformative, often tinged with a profound sense of humor. Photographed in nearly 30 countries and 20 American States, the comprehensive book also operates as a kind of artistic diary, divided into ten thematic chapters, each with a preface written by Minkkinen, as well as a closing memoir titled Voyage of the Self.

Published and exhibited worldwide, Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s works are held in over 75 prominent collections including among others, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Sandra Kantanen - More Landscapes

Sandra Kantanen: More Landscapes

Publisher: Hatje Cantz 
Publishing Date: 2019. 
Editor: Nadine Barth, text(s) by Marjaana Kella. 
Graphic Design: Kaisa and Christoffer Leka

Language: English

ISBN: 978-3-7757-4593-2

Sandra Kantanen - More Landscapes
Ragna Róbertsdóttir Works: 1984 - 2017

Ragna Róbertsdóttir Works: 1984 - 2017

Publisher: DISTANZ, 2018
Artist: Ragna Robbertsdóttir
Texts: Markús Thór Andressón, Gregory Volk
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3954762269
ISBN-13: 978-3954762262

El Mirage

Published by: Hatje Cantz, 2018
Format: Hardcover
Artist: Grey Crawford
Texts: Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexler
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-4518-5

Grey Crawford created his series El Mirage from 1975–78, in the Mojave Desert in California. The photographs feature configurations that were constructed from a contrast of materials, glass, steel and aluminum sheets, combined together to pull upon their sheer weight and balance to expose their natural vulnerabilities. El Mirage reflects upon the artist’s interaction with nature and embodies the spirit of performance and land art during the 1970s. These unseen photographs from 40 years ago are being published for the first time.

Besides the black-and-white photos that Crawford is famous for, this volume also contains color photography, an introduction by Timothy Persons, and an essay by Lyle Rexer.
El Mirage
Finding Bones

Finding Bones

Published by: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Texts: Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexler
Artists: Grey Crawford
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-86828-779-0

Finding Bones is a book introducing a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It’s an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970’s was an island of its own creation. A mixture of surf and sea, concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural climate that was challenging our assumptions of what art is. Crawford chooses his selected backgrounds with a sense of austerity as a means for introducing these hard edge shapes and using them as the building blocks for his own language.

The thirty photographs are silver vintage prints, using Crawford’s hand masking technique in the darkroom to create a new synthesis of imagery and the abstract. (From the forword by Timothy Persons)

Ville Lenkkeri: Medical Records of a Small Town

Publisher: Kerber Verlag, June 2017
Texts: Ville Lenkkeri
Design: Réka Király
Format: 24 x 22 cm
Pages: 156 with 86 colored illustrations
Language: English, Finnish
ISBN 978-3-7356-0390-6


Medical Records of a Small Town / Pikkukaupungin sairaskertomus
Medical Records of a Small Town is a study of an eccentric man: For the son, the artist Ville Lenkkeri (*1972), he is a dad, quite impossible to access. For the people in the small town deep in the Finnish woods he is a doctor in good reputation, always at service and known to be funny in a morbid manner. He is one of the last of that kind. For over thirty-five years he received the town folks and filled a large cabinet with their ailment records. He passed away on Sunday, after accomplishing his work on Friday. The publication tells the story of this man not only with photographs but also with stories of the inhabitants and writings of this eccentric. Ville Lenkkeri created a very personal homage to his father.

Ville Lenkkeri: Medical Records of a Small Town
Jarosław Kozłowski: Neither East Nor West, Neither North Nor South

Jarosław Kozłowski: Neither East Nor West, Neither North Nor South

Publisher: Profile Foundation, 2017
Texts: Bożena Czubak, Szymon Wróbel
Design: Iwo Rutkiewicz
Format: 20,5 x 25,5 cm
Pages: 168
Language: English
ISBN 978-83-938056-6-2

The catalogue of the Neither East Nor West, Nei­ther North Nor South exhibition from the Mu­seum and Exhibition Center "Worker and Kolk­hoz Woman” presents a summary of the most important works of Jarosław Kozłowski. Richly illustrated, it contains an essay by Szymon Wró­bel, titled ‘Jarosław Kozłowski’s Devices and Devising Art’ and an interview with the artist.

Ville Lenkkeri: The Petrified Forest

Publisher: Kerber Verlag, November 2016
Texts: Ville Lenkkeri
Design: Réka Király
Format: 27 x 24 cm
Pages: 160 with 92 colored illustrations
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7356-0257-2


The Petrified Forest / Kivettynyt metsä
"The Petrified Forest” is a set of photographs and texts that reflect the memories and mental images Ville Lenkkeri has of the little town in the Finnish woods where he grew up. The photographs are stages but they spring from the emotions and memories that he has and which cause him to still call the place his hometown today. The short texts in the book represent missing pictures in the series and they deepen the understanding of the given situations and thus guide the viewer. "The Petrified Forest” is a series that deals not only with subjective memories and growing up in an industrial small town, but also with the structure of truth and nature of representation – a strong link to Lenkkeri’s earlier work. The book is the artist’s fourth impressive monograph.
Ville Lenkkeri: The Petrified Forest
Mikko RikalaTowards Nothing

Mikko Rikala
Towards Nothing

Published by: Lugemik, Tallinn,  2016
Format: ca. 19,5 x 14,5 cm, Softcover
Pages: 150 pages
Texts: Harry Salmenniemi
Artists: Mikko Rikala
Language: English / Finnish
Design by: Tuomas Kortteinen
ISBN 978-9949-9781-6-8

It feels as if there is no time or place. It’s possible that there is no time or place. I feel like saying: as if they were floating.                               

Harry Salmenniemi 

Towards Nothing is a book of visual and textual poetry. The title indicates a journey with an unidentified destination, but it is more likely an attempt to reach a state of pure being. Mikko Rikala’s first book is a monograph juxtaposing his photography-based works with a text by the Finnish writer, Harry Salmenniemi.

In his works, Mikko Rikala often investigates the boundaries between rationality and irrationality. The images in the book depict a certain tone of objectivity and reveal a meditative state through Rikala’s way of observation. Harry Salmenniemi’s poetic, diary-like text equilibrates and complements Mikko Rikala’s pictures creating a delicate balance between the sense of rationality and irrationality.

Rikala often utilizes the act of repetition as a metaphor of the passing of time. The content and structure of the book are constructed by the reappearance of certain themes and images. In the work Morning Is Evening in Reverse the traces of sunlight indicate the cycle of a day, measured by the passing of time and the changes of light between sunrise and sunset. As if time would exist in a constant loop; it opens up our senses towards a new way of perception.

Judit Schuller

Joakim Eskildsen
American Realities

Published by: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen,  2016
Format: ca. 24 x 20 cm, Hardcover
Pages: 120 pages
Texts: Joakim Eskildsen, Natasha del Torro, Barbara Kiviat
Artists: Joakim Eskildsen
Language: English
Design by: Joakim Eskildsen
ISBN 978-3-86930-734-3
Steidl

In 2010 more Americans were living below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. In 2011, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at Time, commissioned Joakim Eskildsen to photograph this growing crisis affecting nearly 46.2 million Americans. Based on census data, Eskildsen, together with journalist Natasha del Toro, travelled to the places with the highest poverty rates in New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota and Georgia over seven months to document the lives of those behind the statistics. The people Eskildsen has portrayed — those who struggle to make ends meet, who have lost their jobs or homes and often live in unhealthy conditions—usually remain invisible in a society to which the myth of the American Dream still remains strong. Many of Eskildsen’s subjects hold there is no such dream anymore — merely the American Reality.

Joakim EskildsenAmerican Realities
Jarosław Kozłowski: Sensations of Reality and Conceptual Practices 1965–1980

Jarosław Kozłowski: Sensations of Reality and Conceptual Practices 1965–1980

Publisher: MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, 2015
Texts: René Block, Bożena Czubak, Luiza Nader, Maria Anna Potocka
Design: Anna Hegman, K+S, Grzegorz Laszuk, K+S
Format: 17 x 23 cm
Pages: 232
Language: Polish, English
ISBN 978-83-62881-48-2

The catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the leading Polish Conceptualist Jarosław Kozłowski which includes early works by the artist, never to date seen elsewhere. The publication contains a curatorial text by René Block, an interview with the artist conducted by Bożena Czubak and essays by Luiza Nader and Maria Anna Potocka. The catalogue and the exhibition have been the fruit of collaboration between MOCAK and Signs of the Time Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń.

Where the Earth Ends: Missa Maa Loppuu

Publisher : Gwin Zegal, 2014
Language : English
Paperback : 34 pages
ISBN-10 : 1094060003
ISBN-13 : 978-1094060002
Where the Earth Ends: Missa Maa Loppuu
Dominik Lejman: Painting with Timecode

Dominik Lejman: Painting with Timecode

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2014
Texts: Doris von Drathen, Timothy Persons, Anda Rottenberg
Format: 24,2 x 29,7 cm
Pages: 192 with 130 illustrations
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3813-2

As early as in the late nineties, Dominik Lejman (*1969 in Gdansk) began re-exploring the boundaries of painting by combining videos with paintings. Timothy Persons characterized it as follows: "These mergings provoke and confront our prejudices of what we think a painting should be in the same manner as the Suprematists did in using collage as a technique to defy the boundaries of their generation’s assumptions of what a painting was.” In his work, Lejman pays particular attention to architecture and spaces as well as to the question of how they influence or even determine people’s patterns of movement. The structures that the Polish artist uncovers in the process and presents in his installations are extremely fragile, often last only for several moments, cause the limits of space to blur, and in part directly involve the viewer.

Hertta Kiiski & Niina Vatanen Archive Play

Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2014
Format: ca. 17 x 21 cm, Hardcover
Pages: ca. 64 pages, ca. 38 color illustrations
Texts: Mirjami Schuppert, Monika Fagerholm
Artists: Hertta Kiiski, Niina Vatanen
Language: English
Design by: Kehrer Design
ISBN 978-3-86828-588-8
Kehrer

This book is a playful, tentative and imaginative exploration into the photographic archive as generator of multiple meanings and plentiful source of inspiration.

The bodies of work, Present (Thank You Helvi Ahonen) by Hertta Kiiski and Archival Studies / A Portrait of an Invisible Woman by Niina Vatanen, were created as a response to the Helvi Ahonen collection, housed at the Finnish Museum of Photography. The 5,000 negatives that make up the original collection tell a touching story about the amateur photographer Helvi Ahonen’s life, with all its joys and sorrows.

Archive Play is a joint effort between the curator Mirjami Schuppert and the artists Hertta Kiiski and Niina Vatanen. While it is a culmination of an intensive research and collaboration project, the documentation of the exhibition Glimpses of the Unattainable (Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, spring 2014), it also is an independent work on its own. To accompany the photographs, a further interpretative layer is created by a fictional story written by Monika Fagerholm, an esteemed Finnish author.

Hertta Kiiski & Niina Vatanen Archive Play
Ville LenkkeriExistence Doubtful

Ville Lenkkeri
Existence Doubtful

Published by: Kerber Verlag in 2014
Format: ca 27,00 × 23,00 cm, hardcover, bound
Pages: approx. 208 pages, with numerous illustrations
Edited by: Ville Lenkkeri
Artist: Ville Lenkkeri
Languages: English
Graphic design: Réka Kiraly / Petter Jacobson
ISBN: 978-3-86678-975-3
https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/photography/ville_lenkkeri/product-3037.html

The third book of Ville Lenkkeri "Existence Doubtful” consists of pictures from Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego as well as of a text that uses the physical journeys as a frame, but takes side steps to subjects like humanism, colonialism, greed, representation and the potentials of photography. The book celebrates the matters and events of doubtful nature as well as illusions and uncertainties that shake the reality based world order and save us from the expected, safe and control. Ville Lenkkeri's pictures move inside the disturbing, unfocused zone between reality and fiction.

Tiina Itkonen
Avannaa

Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2014
Format: 30 x 24 cm, hardcover
Pages:  ca. 112 pages, ca. 64 color illustrations
Texts: Jean-Michel Huctin
Artist: Tiina Itkonen
Language: English
Design by: Juha Nenonen, Patrik Söderlund
ISBN 978-3-86828-512-3
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/en/tiina-itkonen-978-3-86828-512-3.html

Avannaa is a selection of Tiina Itkonen’s photographs of Greenland’s landscape in 2002 – 2010. Itkonen has traveled over 1,500 kilometers in the west coast of Greenland by small plane, helicopter, cargo ship, oil tanker, sailboat, small fishing boat, and dog sled. Along the way she has spent time in small villages. Despite the timeless beauty captured in these photographs, there is also a subliminal awareness of the threat to the environment due to global warming.

Tiina Itkonen (b. 1968) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Since 1995 Itkonen has traveled regularly to Greenland to photograph polar landscape and people. Her work has been exhibited internationally such as at the 54th Venice Biennial, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Danish National Museum of Photography, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Ludwig Museum and New York Photo Festival. Itkonen’s first book Inughuit was published in 2004.

Tiina ItkonenAvannaa
PotrettiPhotographs and Literaturefrom Finnish Artists and Writers

Potretti
Photographs and Literature
from Finnish Artists and Writers

Published by: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, 2014
Format: Softcover
Pages: 159 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Elina, Brotherus, Santeri Tuori,
Nelli Palomäki, Ulla Jokisalo
Language: English / German
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-3-00-047240-4

The Helsinki School: From the Past to the Future

Published by: Hatje Cantz, 2014
Format: 29.50 x 24.50 cm, hardcover
Pages: ca. 256 pages, ca. 180 illustrations
Texts: Holger Broeker, Alistair Hicks,Erika Hoffman-Koenige,
Andréa Holzherr,Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer, Pari Stave,
Christoph Tannert, Jyrki Parantainen
Language: English
Graphic design by: Hannes Aechter
ISBN 978-3-7757-3901-6
Hatje Cantz

I find it amazing that after twenty years of existence, the Helsinki School cannot be defined by any one fixed point of view. Conceptually there is a red thread connecting one generation to another in the way they perceive and present their ideas but not necessarily in how they apply them.

– Timothy Persons (introduction)

The Helsinki School: From the Past to the Future
A Book of LiesVäritettyjä totuuksia

A Book of Lies
Väritettyjä totuuksia

Published by: Aalto Arts Books, 2013
Editors: Aukusti Heinonen, Teemu Lehmusruusu
Format: 170 x 235, pages, Softcover
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Eeva Hannula, Eeva Karhu, Tanja Koljonen
Language: English / Finnish
Musta Taide
ISBN 978-952-292-002-7

Niina Vatanen
A Room’s Memory / Huoneen Muisti

Published: Kehrer Verlag in 2013.
Format: 20×24,5 cm, Hard cover

Pages: 160 pages, 90 color illustrations
Preface: Pari Stave

Essay: Pessi Rautio
Design: Jussi Karjalainen
Language: English/Finnish 
ISBN 978–3-86828–420-1
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/de/niina-vatanen-978-3-86828-420-1.html

Niina Vatanen’s first monograph, A Room’s Memory, includes four bodies of work created between 2006 and 2012: A Room’s Memory, The Red Letter (and Other Confessions), A Seamstress’s Notes and Grey Diary. Vatanen builds layers into her images through e.g. painting, cutting, bonding, staging and re-photographing. The images emerging interweave into a layered tapestry of time and memory.

Niina VatanenA Room’s Memory / Huoneen Muisti
Maanantai CollectiveNine Nameless Mountains

Maanantai Collective
Nine Nameless Mountains

Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2013.
Format: 17 x 21 cm, Linen softcover with open spine
Pages: 104 pages, 70 color illustrations
Editor: Maanantai Collective
Authors: Maanantai Collective
Artists: Maanantai Collective
Designed by: Maanantai
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-86828-422-5
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/detail/de/maanantai-978-3-86828-422-5.html

Maanantai is formed by a group of young photographers from Helsinki. It all started after a succession of Monday meetings, when they decided to escape North to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where Nine Nameless Mountains became their story. Challenging the notion of authorship with a body of work made by one common author with 16 eyes, it is a poetical and absurd topographical exploration of the notion of distance and scales – latitude versus altitude.

The book follows the group experimentations, with the mountain as a "leitmotif”, the escaping horizon as a metaphor for life and the impossibility to reach an absolute goal; it revisits the genre of the road-trip with an impish attitude and curiosity towards the unknown. On their way North, the artists played together with natural elements -stones, waves, light, sand, clouds – to create a playfully confusing story, their motive for the celebration of friendship, photography and chance.

"The book was more than any other aspects of the project a space for experimentation, our common territory for tries and surprises. A place where each of us was confronted with the visions of the others and where we could go beyond any individual copyright. We perceived the book as a strong medium; it has its own weight on the ground, like a rock.”

Further information:
www.deutscher-fotobuchpreis.de/html/sieger.htm
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/de/aktueller_verlagstip.html
http://cargocollective.com/maanantaicollective

nordic now!

Published by: Musta Taide, 2013
Editors: Kragelund, Camilla; Strand, Nina; Shakya, Hannamari
Format: 27 x 22 cm, softcover
Pages: ca. 262 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 978-952-292-005-8
Musta Taide

nordic now! features portfolios by over fifty established and upcoming Nordic artists, and zooms in on five tendencies governing of photography in the Nordic countries today.

The publication includes essays by leading critics and curators from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, and interviews with representatives from Nordic institutions that support and promote photography. These are complemented by an interview with the legendary picture editor Kathy Ryan from the New York Times Magazine, who gives an outside view of Nordic contemporary photography.

nordic now! is based on a seminar that took place during the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012. The publication is the result of a unique collaboration between the photo magazines Filter, Photo Raw and the art journal Objektiv, and is published by Musta Taide, which is part of Aalto University’s publishing house Aalto ARTS Books.

nordic now!
Zofia Kulik & Przemyslaw Kwiek: KwieKulik

Zofia Kulik & Przemyslaw Kwiek: KwieKulik

Published by: JRP | Ringier 
Format: Hardcover
Artists: KwieKulik (Zofia Kulik, Przemyslaw Kwiek)
Authors: Jacek Dobrowolski, Maciej Gdula, Klara Kemp-Welch, Lukasz Ronduda (Editor), Georg Schöllhammer (Editor)
Language: English
Year: 2012
ISBN 978-3037642993

Niko Luoma
And Time is No Longer an Obstacle

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2012.
Format: 24.50 x 28.50 cm, Hard cover
Pages: 136 pages, 60 color illustrations
Foreword: Timothy Persons
Texts: Daniel Marzona & Lyle Rexer
Design by: Juha Nenonen
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3339-7
Hatje Cantz

In his first monograph, And Time is No Longer an Obstacle, Niko Luoma invites the viewer to his universe of light and repetition, including works between 2006 and 2012. Inspired by mathematics and geometry, Luoma focuses on the process as content and creates fascinating, abstract compositions through multiple exposures. With his analogue series based on light and abstract imagery, he is expanding the boundaries of the photographic process.

Niko LuomaAnd Time is No Longer an Obstacle
Face to Face

Face to Face

Published by: Statoil art programme, 2012
Format: Softcover
Pages: 112 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Nelli Palomäki, Anni Leppälä
Language: English / Azerbaijani
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-82-92940-19-8

Elina Brotherus: Artist and Her Model

Published by: Le Caillou Bleu, 2012.
Format: 21 x 25cm, Hardcover
Texts: Susan Bright and Timo Kelaranta
Pages: 224 pages
Artist: Elina Brotherus
ISBN 978-2-930537-15-3
Elina Brotherus: Artist and Her Model
Mathemágic

Mathemágic

Published by: the Artist, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Artist: Mikko Rikala

Jorma Puranen, varjoja ja heijastuksia = shadows and reflections

Published: Sinebrychoff Art Museum, 2011
Format: hardcover, bound
Pages: 78 pages
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN: 978951533383-4
Jorma Puranen, varjoja ja heijastuksia = shadows and reflections
Sandra Kantanen
Landscapes

Sandra Kantanen

Landscapes

Published: Hatje Cantz in 2011.
Format: 24.60 x 28.90 cm, Half cloth
Pages: 128 pages, 70 color illustrations
Foreword: Timothy Persons
Texts: Alistair Hicks & Tomas Träskman
Graphic design: Inger Kulvik-Kantanen
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3191-1
http://www.hatjecantz.de/sandra-kantanen-2973-1.html

Sandra Kantanen’s monograph Landscapes, presents works created between 2001 and 2010. Strongly influenced by traditional Chinese landscape painting, Kantanen combines two media and utilizes painterly means to achieve the poetic expression of her works. First printed on hand-painted metal grounds and then digitally processed – creating distortion, blurring, or streaking – the works of Kantanen investigate and expand the boundaries of photography itself.

Sanna Kannisto: Fieldwork

Published by: Aperture Foundation, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  96 pages
Language: English
Artist: Sanna Kannisto
ISBN-10: 159711152X
ISBN-13: 978-1597111522
Sanna Kannisto: Fieldwork
Liisa IhmemaassaAlice in Wonderland

Liisa Ihmemaassa
Alice in Wonderland

Published by: The Finnish Museum of Photography, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 179 Pages
Texts: Sheyi Bankale, Reetta Haarajoki, Elina Heikka,
Kati Lintonen, Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Tiina Rauhala,
Erja Salo
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Elina Brotherus, Anni Leppälä, Ulla Jokisalo, Susanna Majuri,
Nelli Palomäki, Riitta Päiväläinen, Tuomo Rainio
Language: Finnish / English / Swedish
The Finnish Museum of Photography publication 34
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-951-9086-82-8
ISSN 1239-6141

The Helsinki School
Vol. 4 - A Female View

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2011.
Format: 29.00 x 24.00 cm, hardcover
Pages: 192 pages., ca. 190 color illustrations
Edited: Aalto University - School of Art and Design
Texts: Andrea Holzherr, Timothy Persons
Artists: Elina Brotherus, Nanna Hänninen, Maarit Hohteri Wilma Hurskainen, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Aino Kannisto, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Marjaana Kella,
Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Jaana Maijala, Susanna Majuri, Riitta Päiväläinen, Nelli Palomäki, Marjukka Vainio, Ea Vasko, Niina Vatanen, Saana Wang, Pernilla Zetterman
Designed by: Margarethe 'Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3211-6
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-2991-1.html

The fourth volume of the books of the Helsinki School focuses on female artists, inquiring into the possibility of a special female point of view. Innovative concepts and techniques as well as a variety of forms distinguish the work of this generation of photographers – the spectrum ranges from Tiina Itkonen´s documentary style pictures of Greenland and Anni Leppälä´s theatrically staged interiors to the painterly nature studies by Sandra Kantanen.

The Helsinki SchoolVol. 4 - A Female View
Katarzyna Kozyra: Casting

Katarzyna Kozyra: Casting

Publisher: Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2010
Texts: Maryla Sitkowska, Hanna Wróblewska
Design: Klaudia Polak-Szewczyk
Format: 21 x 23cm
Pages: 336
Language: Polish, English
ISBN 978-83-60713-45-7

The publication illustrates Katarzyna Kozyra's exhibition, which took place at Zachęta at the turn of 2010 and 2011. The book contains a calendar of the artist's life and work, authored by Maryla Sitkowska, and fragments of her autobiography constituting materials for the script of the film. It is the first publication of this size on Katarzyna Kozyra. The richly illustrated catalog is an excellent opportunity to learn about the artist's work to date, and it is also a compendium of knowledge about her, both factual data and personal notes.

Jarosław Kozłowski: Quotation Marks

Publisher: Profile Foundation, 2010
Texts: Bożena Czubak, and others
Design: Iwo Rutkiewicz
Format: 26 x 21 cm
Pages: 400
Language: English
ISBN 978-83-931657-2-8

Quotation Marks is an attempt to talk about Jarosław Kozłowski’s artistic practice, to talk about it with the voices of ten authors — art historians and critics, scholars of contemporary culture and international curators. The essays collected in the volume have been written from various research perspectives and give insight into different aspects of the artist’s practice. Regarded as a leading figure of the conceptual art movement, Jarosław Kozłowski is an author of artistic books, initiator of many significant events, co-author of the international artistic exchange NET, founder of the Akumulatory 2 Gallery in Poznań, curator of exhibitions, professor at numerous universities and, above all, an artist whose work has become an important point of reference for a younger generation of artists inspired by Conceptualism. Some of the myths regarding this tradition are debunked by the authors of this volume in their reinterpretations of Kozłowski’s practice, especially in their analyses of themes abandoned or never taken up due to affiliations with the axioms of the ‘conceptual paragraphs’. The Quotation Marks are a polyphony of voices, situating Kozłowski’s art at the points of contact of various artistic and historical discourses. Essays written from the viewpoint of different cultural experiences enable us to look at his art from a broader perspective and in the context of an artistic geography constructed outside the hierarchy of universal canons.
Jarosław Kozłowski: Quotation Marks
Jari Silomäki – My Weather Diary

Jari Silomäki – My Weather Diary

Published by: the artist, Helsinki 2010
Pages: 208 pages
Artist: Jari Silomäki
ISBN 9789529273744

4. Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin 2010

Published by: Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, 2010
Format: Softcover
Pages: 224 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Niina Vatanen, Pernilla Zetterman
Language: German
Exhibition catalogue
4. Europäischer Monat der Fotografie Berlin 2010
Vuoden nuori taiteilija 2010 / Young Artist of the Year 2010 Anni Leppälä

Vuoden nuori taiteilija 2010 / Young Artist of the Year 2010 Anni Leppälä

Published by: Tampere Art Museum, 2010
Format: hardcover
Pages: 215 pages
Edited: Laura Köönikkä
Artists: Anni Leppälä
Series: Tampereen taidemuseon julkaisuja 142
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN 978-951-609-451-2

Ulla Jokisalo - Guises of Play

Published: Musta Taide 2010
Format: hardcover, bound
Pages: 91 pages
Text: Anna Kortelainen
Artist: Ulla Jokisalo
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN: 9525818152, 9789525818154
Musta Taide

Ulla Jokisalo - Guises of Play
Highlighted - Uitgelicht

Highlighted - Uitgelicht

Published by: Nieuw Dakota, 2010
Artists: IIkka Halso, Nanna Hänninen, Ari Kakkinen, Sandra Kantanen, Aino Kannisto, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Anni Leppälä, Pekka Luuukkola, Susanna Majuri, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Riitta Päiväläinen, Mikko Sinervo, Santeri Tuori, Miklos Gaál, Pilvi Takala.
Exhibition Catalogue
Language: English / Dutch

Daegu Photo Biennale 2010: Helsinki School

Published by: Daegu Photo Biennale 2010
Format: Softcover
Text: Walter Bergmoseer,  Timothy Persons
Artist: Joonas Ahlava, Joakim Eskildsen, Ilkka Halso, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Aino Kannisto, Hannu Karjalainen, Kalle Kataila, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Janne Lehtinen, Jouko Lehtola, Niko Luoma, Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Susanna Majuri, Nelli Palomäki, Jyrki Parantainen, Riitta Päiväläinen, Jorma Puranen, Heli Rekula, Mikko Sinervo, Niina Vatanen, Saana Wang.
Exhibition catalogue
Daegu Photo Biennale 2010: Helsinki School
Next Level Helsinki Issue

Next Level Helsinki Issue

Published by: Next Level projects Ltd, 2010
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Jorma Puranen, Niko Luoma, Santeri Tuori,
Elina Brotherus, Ola Kolehmainen, Hannu Karjalainen,
Ulla Jokisalo, Jyrki Parantainen, Pertti Kekarainen,
Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Susanna Majuri
Language: English
ISSN 1476-4369

Polku valokuva- ja videotaidenäyttely Ways Often Wandered Photography and Video Art Exhibition

Published by: Honkahovi taidekeskus, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 87 Pages
Text: Leevi Haapala, Janne Salminen
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Elina Brotherus, Janne Lehtinen, Jouko Lehtola,
Anni Leppälä, Niko Luoma
Language: Finnish /English / Swedish
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-952-67402-1-8
Polku valokuva- ja videotaidenäyttely Ways Often Wandered Photography and Video Art Exhibition
Photography matters: The Helsinki School

Photography matters: The Helsinki School

Published by: StatoilHydro art programme, 2010
Text by: Jens R Jenssen, Timothy Persons
Artists: Anni Leppälä, Elina Brotherus, Aino Kannisto,
Hannu Karjalainen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen,
Susanna Majuri, Tiina Itkonen, Ilkka Halso, Kalle Kataila,
Language: English
Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue

Helsinki 10

Edited by: Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, NO, 2010
Artists: Elina Brotherus, Ilkka Halso
Tiina Itkonen, Aino Kannisto
Hannu Karjalainen, Kalle Kataila
Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen
Anni Leppälä, Susanna Majuri
Language: English
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 9788292940037
Helsinki 10
In Natura: A Finnish Trilogy

In Natura: A Finnish Trilogy

Published by: Photology, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 80 Pages
Artist: Ilkka Halso, Janne Lehtinen, Jorma Puranen
Language: Italian
ISBN-13: 978-8888359403
ISBN-10: 8888359400

Santeri Tuori
Metsä Forest

Published by: EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 2009
Format: Softcover
Pages: 126 Pages
Artist: Santeri Tuori
Publication series of EMMA 21/2009
Language: English / Finnish
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-952-5509-21-2
Santeri TuoriMetsä Forest
Riitta PäiväläinenImaginary Meetings

Riitta Päiväläinen
Imaginary Meetings

Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2009.
Format:  31 x 24.5 cm, hardcover
Pages: 88 pages, 60 color illustrations
Text by: Andréa Holzherr
Artist: Riitta Päiväläinen
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-86828-080-7
Kehrer Verlag

Finnish photographer Riitta Päiväläinen’s work could be defined as the emotional archaeology of the ordinary. Using old clothes she finds in secondhand shops and flea markets, Päiväläinen creates installations in landscapes and photographs them. For Päiväläinen, the clothes are vestiges of human beings, retaining traces of the history of the person who wore them long after being discarded. The garments represent both the presence and the absence of their former owners. Päiväläinen uses the properties of the landscape in Finland, England or Japan, as a stage for displaying the clothes. By soaking them in water and placing them outside in the Finnish winter, for example, the garments freeze solid, filling out as if someone were wearing them. This gives them a sculptural quality and opens manifold metaphorical and narrative possibilities.

Jorma Puranen
Icy Prospects

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009
Format: 30.90 x 27.60 cm, hardcover
Pages: 120 pages, 77 illustrations, 69 in color
Texts: Jorma Puranen, Liz Wells
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English
Design by: Jorma Hinkka
ISBN 978-3-7757-2472-2
Hatje Cantz

"In Icy Prospects I have expressly reflected on the nature of the painterly, the sublime, and the mysterious.” Jorma Puranen

His latest series, Icy Prospects, was inspired by the ways the great explorers as well as today’s tourists to the North Pole are fascinated by the arctic landscape. Puranen painted a board with black, high-gloss acrylic and then took long exposures of the icy landscapes mirrored in this wooden surface. The results are extremely painterly, highly aesthetic, fragmented impressions of nature in which the ground, the brushstroke, and the reflection are inseparably superimposed. In this way, the photographer creates a relationship between the philosophical concept of the "sublime terror” of the forces of nature and his own experience of life in these regions, typifying the north as a projection surface for fantasies and the imagination.

Jorma PuranenIcy Prospects
Ville LenkkeriThe Place of No Roads

Ville Lenkkeri
The Place of No Roads

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009.
Format: 27.80 x 23.60 cm, hardcover
Pages: 144 pages, 75 color illustrations
Text by: Ville Lenkkeri
Artist: Ville Lenkkeri
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-2399-2
Hatje Cantz

The artist Ville Lenkkeri made several visits to two Russian towns on Spitzbergen. To him, a now-deserted mining settlement appeared "not as a depressing . . . scar on the Arctic landscape, but as a formerly just and happy commonwealth . . . where competitive hierarchies had been abolished in favor of equality.” The journey became a "personal quest for alternative ways of living,” the place itself "a utopia in many respects, not least for having failed to exist” (Ville Lenkkeri).

Hatje Cantz published Lenkkeri’s debut book, Reality in the Making, in 2006, and the reception was enthusiastic: "If the strength of Finnish photography is in gathering together irony, skillful craftsmanship, humor, and reflection on media, then it has found one of its most talented representatives in Ville Lenkkeri,” wrote PHOTO International.

Janne Lehtinen
Night Shift

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009.
Format: 30.50 x 22.80 cm, hardcover
Pages: 112 pages, 80 color illustrations
Text by: Ritva Röminger-Czako
Language: English
Out of Print
ISBN 978-3-7757-2196-7
Hatje Cantz

Hatje Cantz is pleased to be able to present Night Shift, the Helsinki School photographer’s third publication with Hatje Cantz, after Sacred Bird and The Descendants. The setting of Lehtinen’s latest project is a small city in Finland. Between January and December 2006, the photographer prowled its streets at night, camera in hand, and in the process, he also took portraits of the father at six o’clock in the morning, just as he was coming off his night shift at a paper mill. Reality and fiction are blended; real events from the past are revived in staged images. As in his earlier, autobiographically tinged series of works, Lehtinen photographs poignantly reveal the actualities of childhood and make the bonds between the generations visible.

Janne LehtinenNight Shift
355 memories

355 memories

Published by: Musta Taide 2009.
Artist: Milja Laurila
Language: English
ISBN 9789529851959

Junge finnische Fotografie: Aino Kannisto, Eva Persson, Tiina Itkonen

Published by: Ludwig Museum, 2009
Text: Beate Reifenscheid, Timothy Persons
Artists: Aino Kannisto, Eva Persson, Tiina Itkonen
Exhibition catalogue
Junge finnische Fotografie: Aino Kannisto, Eva Persson, Tiina Itkonen
Internal and External LandscapesHelsinki School

Internal and External Landscapes
Helsinki School

Published by: Shiheido Gallery /
Shiseido Corporate Culture Department, Tokyo, 2009
Texts: Timothy Persons
Language: English /Japanese
Artists: Tiina Itkonen, Sandra Kantanen,
Susanna Majuri, Anni Leppälä

Helsinki School:
Neue Fotografie aus Finland

Published: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Hatje Cantz, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 230 pages
Texts: Holger Broeker, Andréa Holzherr, Timothy Persons
Artists: Joakim Eskildsen, Tiina Itkonen, Pertti Kekarainen,
Ola Kolehmainen, Anni Leppälä, Pernilla Zetterman
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 3775718885
ISBN 9783775718882
Helsinki School:Neue Fotografie aus Finland
AletheiaPositions in Contemporary Photographies

Aletheia
Positions in Contemporary Photographies

Published by: Helsinki Art Museum, 2009
Format: Softcover
Pages: 78 Pages
Text: Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén, Elina Heikka, Jan-Erik Lundström
Artist: Nanna Hänninen, Jari Silomäki
Helsinki City Art Museum's Publications N:o 107
Language: English / Finnish
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 978-951-8965-80-3

The Helsinki School Young Photography by TaiK

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009
Format: 29,50 x 24,60 cm hardcover
Pages: 192 pages., ca. 192 color illustrations
Edited: University of Art and Design, Helsinki (TaiK),
Now: Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Texts: Timothy Persons, Katrin Hiller von Gaertringen and Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén
Artists: Pasi Autio, Wilma Hurskainen, Hannu Karjalainen, Kalle Kataila, Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Susanna Majuri, Nelli Palomäki, Tuomo Rainio, Mikko Sinervo, Ea Vasko, Niina Vatanen, Saana Wang, Dagmar Weiss / Carsten Benger, Pernilla Zetterman
Language: English
Design by: Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
ISBN 978-3-7757-2404-3
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-2309-1.html

"Do we need a fresh wind? Then hold on, here it is. Even more, it is a literal storm of images that is blowing our way from Finland." This is what the German Press Agency wrote about the first two volumes of the Helsinki School series, which triggered a great deal of enthusiasm, even outside of the photography scene. The new third volume continues in this vein, introducing promising young photographers from that talent forge way up north, TaiK, the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. The school teaches a very special approach to photography: not just particular ways of thinking about it, but also the notion of the camera as a conceptual tool - and all of this allows each generation a chance to reinvent itself. In this new volume, Timothy Persons and Katrin Hiller von Gaertringen introduce seventeen young artists and their incredibly multifaceted, experimental works of great technical perfection.

The Helsinki School Young Photography by TaiK
Rose Boréal : Photographies de l`Ecole d`Helsinki

Rose Boréal : Photographies de l`Ecole d`Helsinki

Edited by: ENSBA, Paris, 2008
Pages: 228 pages
Artists: Joonas Ahlava, Pasi Autio,
Hannu Karjalainen, Kalle Kataila, Milja Laurila,
Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Susanna Majuri,
Tuomo Rainio, Jari Silomäki, Mikko Sinervo,
Santeri Tuori, Ea Vasko, Niina Vatanen, Pernilla Zetterman
Language: French
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 9782840562702

Garten Eden
Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900

Published by: Kunsthalle Emden, 2007
DuMont Buchverlag
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 303 Pages
Artists: Ilkka Halso, Sanna Kannisto
Language: German
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 3-935414-23-4
Garten EdenDer Garten in der Kunst seit 1900
Katarzyna Kozyra: In Art Dreams Come True

Katarzyna Kozyra: In Art Dreams Come True

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2007
Texts: Katarzyna Kozyra, Hanna Wróblewska, Harald Fricke, Dorothea Olkowski, Marek Puchala
Design: Klaudia Polak-Szewczyk
Format: 12,2 x 21,1 cm
Pages: 240 with 244 illustrations
Language: Polish, English
ISBN 978-3-7757-2011-3

Katarzyna Kozyra captured the attention of the art world with the video of her intrusion into an all-male bathhouse, earning her honorable mention at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Since 2003 she has been working on In Art Dreams Come True, which consists of a series of performances, quasi-theatrical productions, and films. In creating the individual works, Kozyra has acted as director, chief performer, and as "raw material” in the hands of two master guides who assist her in assuming various roles. Gloria Viagra, the Berlin-based drag queen whom the artist sees as a model of "true femininity,” and the voice coach Grzegorz Pitulej, known as the Maestro, introduce Kozyra into worlds saturated with artificiality, convention, and posing. These features are central to each of Kozyra’s artistic characters, which include an opera diva, a drag queen, a cheerleader, Olympia from Offenbach’s opera, and Snow White.

Janne Lehtinen
The Descendants

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2007.
Format: 29.70 x 23.80 cm, hardcover
Pages: 80 pages, 42 color illustrations
Foreword by: Jan Kaila
Texts by: Oiva Lehtinen, Janne Lehtinen, Juha Lehtinen
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-2052-6
Out of print
Hatje Cantz

In Janne Lehtinen's  autobiographical project, artist takes us to Lehtiskylä, his hometown in the south of Finland, where people believe that all residents will eventually meet with a sad, usually sinister, and absolutely inevitable fate. The images and the accompanying memories—his sick uncle’s little bottles of pills, the corpse in the river, the last meal eaten by Veikko the old horse, a schoolmate’s accident—do not promise better things to come, yet there is a certain beauty to the "curse” of Lehtiskylä. This is a very personal, melancholy album, whose quiet images show Lehtinen and his cousin's journey to the house and places of their childhood.

Janne LehtinenThe Descendants
Joakim EskildsenThe Roma Journeys / Die Romareisen

Joakim Eskildsen
The Roma Journeys / Die Romareisen

Published by: Steidl 2007 & 2009
Format: 23.3 cm x 26.6 cm,
hardcover with a CD of field recordings and music recorded on the journeys
Pages: 416 pages, 274 photographs
Texts: Foreword by Günter Grass, Text by Cia Rinne
Music recordings by Cia Rinne
Music editing by Sebastian Eskildsen
Artist: Joakim Eskildsen
Language: English and German (separate editions)
Design by: Joakim Eskildsen
ISBN: 978-3-86521-371-6 (English)
ISBN: 978-3-86521-429-4 (German)
available (German) from Steidl Publishers
http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Books/1520424349.html

The Helsinki School New Photography by TaiK

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2007.
Format: 
29,50 x 24,50 cm hardcover
Pages: 
232 pages, 187 color illustrations
Edited:
University of Art and Design, Helsinki (TaiK)
Texts:
Andrea Holzherr, Timothy Persons
Artists:
Joonas Ahlava, Joakim Eskildsen, Miklos Gaál, Veli Granö, Ilkka Halso, Nanna Hänninen, Maarit Hohteri, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Jan Kaila, Ari Kakkinen, Aino Kannisto, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Milja Laurila, Janne Lehtinen, Ville Lenkkeri, Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Niko Luoma, Susanna Majuri, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Riitta Päiväläinen, Heli Rekula, Nanna Saarhelo, Pentti Sammallahti, Jari Silomäki, Mikko Sinervo, Marjukka Vainio, Ea Vasko, Pernilla Zetterman
Designed by:
Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
Language:
English
ISBN 978-3-7757-1888-2
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-1825-1.html

Based on the success of volume one, the latest installment of The Helsinki School represents one of the most unique approaches to the state of conceptual photography today. Volume two is dedicated to sustaining the dialogue between one generation and another who have either taught, graduated, or attended the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. It will accompany an exhibition with venues all over the world. This unique, richly illustrated publication, based on a concept by Timothy Persons and Jorma Puranen also looks ahead to the emerging next generation.

The Helsinki School New Photography by TaiK
Santeri Tuori: Posing Time

Santeri Tuori: Posing Time

Published by: Kerber Verlag, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 88 pages
Artist: Santeri Tuori
Language: German / English
ISBN-10: 3938025425
ISBN-13: 978-3938025420

Riitta Päiväläinen

Published by: Galleri Andersson Sandström, 2006
Format: Softcover
Text: Hasse Persson
Artist: Riitta Päiväläinen
Language: English
Exhibition catalogue
Riitta Päiväläinen
Jorma PuranenIcy Prospects

Jorma Puranen
Icy Prospects

Published by: Gallery Anhava, 2006
Format: Softcover
Pages: 43 Pages
Text: Marjatta Levanto
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English /Swedish
Exhibition catalogue

Jyrki Parantainen: unelmia ja pettymyksiä

Published by: Amos Anderson Art Museum, 2006
Edited: Amos Anderson Art Museum
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 71 Pages, 28 color illustrations
Texts: Ritva Rominger-Czako, Kaarina Gould, Andreas Vowinckel
Artist: Jyrki Parantainen
Language: English/Finnish
ISBN 9529531648, 9789529531646
Jyrki Parantainen: unelmia ja pettymyksiä
Ville LenkkeriReality in the Making

Ville Lenkkeri
Reality in the Making

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2006.
Format: 30.20 x 23.10 cm, hardcover
Pages: 144 pages, 60 color illustrations
Texts by: Harri Laakso, short story by Robert Enoch
Language: English
Out of Print
ISBN 978-3-7757-1880-6
Hatje Cantz

Before Ville Lenkkeri (*1972) began studying photography at the University of Art and Design (TaiK) in Helsinki, he studied film in Prague and also briefly in London. To this day, cinematography and film influence his artistic approach. In an early series titled Movies, the Finnish artist investigated the relationship between cinema and photography by integrating the factor of time. In his latest work complex, The World As We Know It, Lenkkeri employs a cinematic trick: he photographs settings, such as dioramas in natural history museums or murals in waiting rooms, so that his works move inside the disturbing, unfocused zone between reality and fiction. Reality in the Making presents this cycle of works by the young "Helsinki School” photographer, who already enjoys an international reputation.

Breaking the Ice
Contemporary Art from Finland

Published by: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2006
Format: Softcover
Pages: 112 Pages
Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Veli Granö, Tommi Grönlund/
Petteri Nisunen, Marja Kanervo, Tea Mäkipää, Esko Männikkö,
Jaakko Niemelä, Pertti Kekarainen, Jorma Puranen,
Seppo Renvall, Charles Sandison
Language: English / German
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 3-929790-74-2
Breaking the IceContemporary Art from Finland
Aino Kannisto

Aino Kannisto

Published by: Galería Colón XVI, 2006
Format: Softcover
Pages: 39 Pages
Text: Ramon Esparza
Artist: Aino Kannisto
Language: Spanish/English
Exhibition catalogue

Aino Kannisto

Published by: Transit Art Space, 2006
Format: Softcover
Pages: 27 Pages
Text: Einar Borresen
Artist: Aino Kannisto
Language: Norwegian/English
Exhibition catalogue
Aino Kannisto
Nordic Cut - The Helsinki School

Nordic Cut - The Helsinki School

Published by: Croatian Photographic Union; First edition
(October 19, 2006)
Pages: 92 pages
Artists: Ari Saarto, Niko Luoma, Hannu Karjalainen, Nanna Hänninen,
Ola Kolehmainen, Jouko Lehtola, Aino Kannisto
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9789537371012
ISBN-10: 9537371018

Janne Lehtinen
Sacred Bird

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2005.
Format:30.80 x 23.70 cm, hardcover
Pages: 80 pages, 35 color illustrations
Text by: Didier Mouchel
Edited by:Le Château d'Eau
Graphic design by: Philippe Le Bihan
Language: English, French, Finnish
ISBN 978-3-7757-1681-9
Hatje Cantz

"German Photo Book Award," 2005

The desire to fly is as old as humanity itself. Icarus dreamed of it, Leonardo da Vinci became one of the first to invent and build flying machines, and for half a century, people have been flying into outer space. Finnish photographer Janne Lehtinen (*1970 in Karhula) has also dreamed of defying gravity. In his series Sacred Bird, he constantly presents himself with a peculiar flying machine, just about to take off into the air like a bird. Yet considering the simplicity of the makeshift machine, the young man's attempts seem as absurd as they are stirring. Lehtinen's father is a famous Finnish glider pilot, and so the photographs are not just an homage to the myth of flying and the Finnish landscape, but can also be interpreted as an autobiographical investigation. The Sacred Bird series, which Lehtinen worked on for several years, is presented for the first time in this volume.

Janne LehtinenSacred Bird
Ilkka Halso

Ilkka Halso

Published by: Gallery Anhava, 2005
Artists: Ilkka Halso
Exhibition catalogue

Zofia Kulik: From Siberia to Cyberia and Other Works

Publisher: Museum Bochum, Kunsthalle Rostock 2005
Texts: Bożena Czubak, Hans Günter Golinski, and others
Design: Reschke, Steffens & Kruse Berlin/Köln
Format: 28,5 x 24,5 cm
Pages: 118
Language: German, English
ISBN 3-8093-0231-7

This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition Zofia Kulik - From Sibiria to Cyberia and Other Works at the Museum Bochum (26th February - 17th April 2005) and the Kunsthalle Rostock (22nd May - 3rd July 2005). The exhibition catalogue contains texts by Bożena Czubak, Hans Günter Golinski, Sarah G. Wilson, and others.
Zofia Kulik: From Siberia to Cyberia and Other Works
Ulla JokisaloFort-da

Ulla Jokisalo
Fort-da

Published by: Musta Taide, 2005
Text: Arja Elovirta
Artist: Ulla Jokisalo
Graphic design: Jorma Hinkka
Portfolio with ten pigment prints and two appended sheets,
issue of twenty numbered and signed copies
Musta Taide

Die Vierte Generation – The Helsinki School

Published by: PPS Galerie, Hamburg, 2005
Text: Trixi Rossi, Anke Koppe
Artists: Ari Kakkinen, Ville Lenkkeri, Susanna Kekkonen, Jari Silomäki, Maria Lähteenmäki, Wilma Hurskainen, Noomi Ljungdell, Pernilla Zettermann, Tuomo Rainio, Pasi Autio, Joonas Ahlava, Milja Laurila und Ea Vasko.
Exhibition catalogue
Die Vierte Generation – The Helsinki School
The Helsinki School - Photography by TaiK

The Helsinki School - Photography by TaiK

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2005
Format: 30 x 24 cm, hardcover
Pages: 240 pages., ca. 180 color illustrations
Edited: the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK)
Now: Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Texts: Andrea Holzherr, Rupert Pfab, Timothy Persons,
Ferdinand Protzman, Jorma Puranen
Artists: Nanna Hänninen, Ilkka Halso, Ulla Jokisalo, Aino Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Janne Lehtinen, Niko Luoma, Riitta Päiväläinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Pentti Sammallahti, Jari Silomäki, Santeri Tuori
Language: English
Design by: Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
ISBN 978-3-7757-1575-1
SOLD OUT
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-1533-1.html

Photography is one of the most successful items of cultural export in Finland. Now, for the first time, the internationally acknowledged artists are gathered together in one extensive book accompanying an exhibition travelling around the world. The Helsinki School presents works from over thirty different artists who have been studying or teaching at TaiK, the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. The goal is to introduce a new approach to where photography is in Finland today. Based on a concept by Timothy Persons and Jorma Puranen the amply illustrated volume presents an astounding overview.

The New Painting Elina Brotherus

Published by: Next Level & Creative Scape, 2005
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 74 Pages
Text: Susanna Pettersson, Andrea Holzherr
Artist: Elina Brotherus
Language: English /French
ISBN 0-9546008-1-9
The New Painting Elina Brotherus
Aino KannistoStaged Photographs

Aino Kannisto
Staged Photographs

Published by: Kunstverein Münsterland, 2004
Format: Softcover
Pages: 103 Pages
Text: Uwe Schramm, Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Artist: Aino Kannisto
Language: German / English / Spanish
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 3-923791-31-3

Tiina Itkonen - Inughuit

Published by: Libris Oy, 2004
Artist: Tiina Itkonen
Language: English / Finnish
9529169671
Tiina Itkonen - Inughuit
LandscapePhotographs of Time and Place

Landscape
Photographs of Time and Place

Published by: the National Geographic Society, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 167 Pages
Text: Ferdinand Protzman
Artists: Ola Kolehmainen, Jorma Puranen, Ilkka Halso,
Riitta Päiväläinen, Arno Minkkinen, Jari Silomäki
Language: English
ISBN 0-7922-6166-6

Nanna Hänninen
Fear and Security

Published by: Forlaget Bjerggaard, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 71 Pages
Text: Anna Krogh
Artist: Nanna Hänninen
Language: English
ISBN 87-91132-00-2
Nanna HänninenFear and Security
Sanna KannistoSnake in Heliconia

Sanna Kannisto
Snake in Heliconia

Published by: WSOY in 2002
Format: 29,5 cm x 22,5 cm
Pages: 160 pages, 148 colour photographs
Texts by: Jan Kaila, Kalle Ruokolainen, Sanna Kannisto
Artist: Sanna Kannisto

Graphic design by: Juha Nenonen & Sanna Kannisto
Printed by: Erweko Painotuote Oy
Languages:  English, Finnish
ISBN 951-0-26565-9

Minä Sinä Me
Parcours Photographique Finlandais
Suomalaista Valokuvataidetta

Published by: Finnish Embassy Cultural Section and
Finnish Institute in Paris, 2002
Format: Softcover
Pages: 95 Pages
Text: Anne Durez, Emmanuel Hermange,
Andréa Holzherr, Marja-Terttu Kivirinta, Pirkko Siitari
Artists: Maarit Hohteri, Marjaana Kella, Heli Rekula,
Ilkka Halso, Aino Kannisto, Sanna Kannisto, Pekka Turunen
Language: Finnish / French
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 2-9518850-0-8
Minä Sinä MeParcours Photographique FinlandaisSuomalaista Valokuvataidetta
Santeri TuoriVallan kuva - Pictures of Power

Santeri Tuori
Vallan kuva - Pictures of Power

Published by: Musta Taide 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 143 Pages
Artist: Santeri Tuori
Language: Finnish
Musta Taide

Harjoitelmia aikuisuuteen = Rehearsals for Adulthood

Published by: Turku Polytechnic, Finland, 2001.
Artist: Jari Silomäki
Hardcover
Harjoitelmia aikuisuuteen = Rehearsals for Adulthood
Ulla Jokisalo. THE MEMORY OF MY IMAGES/KUVIENI MUISTI.The Years 1980-2000/Vuodet 1980-2000

Ulla Jokisalo. THE MEMORY OF MY IMAGES/KUVIENI MUISTI.
The Years 1980-2000/Vuodet 1980-2000

Published: Musta Taide, 2001
Series: Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseon julkaisuja, n:o 71.
Texts: Tuula Karjalainen and Arja Elovirta
Artist: Ulla Jokisalo
Graphic design: Kari Paajanen
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN-13: 978-952-9851-35-5,
ISBN: 952-9851-35-9
Musta Taide

Dokumentteja dokumentarismista
Documents of documentary photography

Published by: Musta Taide, 1/2000
Format: Softcover
Pages: 78 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Tiina Itkonen, Sanna Kannisto
Language: Finnish /English
Musta Taide
ISSN 0788-2467
Dokumentteja dokumentarismistaDocuments of documentary photography
Suomalainen valokuva 1998-1999Finnish photography 1998-1999

Suomalainen valokuva 1998-1999
Finnish photography 1998-1999

Published by: Musta Taide, 1999
Format: Softcover
Pages: 111 Pages
Artists: Ilkka Halso, Tiina Itkonen, Jyrki Parantainen,
Riitta Päiväläinen, Marjukka Vainio
Musta taide 1/1999
Language: Finnish /English
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-25-1

Imaginary Homecoming

Published by: Pohjoinen Publications, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English / Finnish
ISBN 9517493274

A book by Jorma Puranen, inspired by and drawing on an archive of late 19th-century portraits of the Sami people of Lapland at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris. Puranen traveled to the original source of the images in Northern Norway and reinserted his rephotographed images of the portraits in the Northern landscape, creating a sort of dialogue between past and present, and both a tapestry and continuum of existence, with portraits standing in for present-day Sami and appearing on trees, rocks, water, snow. Like much of contemporary Finnish photography that is conceptual, the body of work is extremely layered and resonant, both intellectually rigorous and emotional.

Imaginary Homecoming
Burning (of) Ethics of the Passions Contemporary Art as a Process

Burning (of) Ethics of the Passions Contemporary Art as a Process

Published by: University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, 1999
Text: Mari Krappala
Hardcover: 211 pages
Artist: Jyrki Parantainen
Language: English
ISSN 0782-1832
ISBN 951-558-051-X

Joakim Eskildsen
iChickenMoon

Published by: Opus 38 (self-published) in 1999.
Format: 32 cm x 20 cm, Softcover with a CD of field recordings
and music recorded on the journeys
Pages: 64 pages, 61 color photographs
Texts by: Cia Rinne
Music recordings by Cia Rinne
Music editing by: Sebastian Eskildsen
Artist: Joakim Eskildsen
Layout by: Joakim Eskildsen & Cia Rinne
Languages:  English
Edition 1700
ISBN: 951-9086-57-9
Sold Out (ask artist)
Joakim EskildseniChickenMoon
Magnetic North: Current Installation Photography in Finland

Magnetic North: Current Installation Photography in Finland

Published by: New Art Gallery Walsall (Jan. 1 1999)
Edited by: Caryn Faure Walker
Hardcover: 128 pages
Artists: Elina Brotherus, Marjaana Kella,
Ola Kolehmainen, Andrei Lajunen, Jyrki Parantainen
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9515580846
ISBN-13: 978-9515580849

Dokumentti
11 valokuvaajaa

Published by: Musta Taide, 3/1998
Format: Softcover
Pages: 128 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Ulla Jokisalo, Timo Kelaranta,
Jouko Lehtola, Jorma Puranen
Language: Finnish
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-22-7
Dokumentti11 valokuvaajaa
Side / Bond

Side / Bond

Published by: WSOY, 1998
Author: Anja Snellman
Images: Ulla Jokisalo
Graphic design: Marja-Leena Muukka and Ulla Jokisalo
ISBN 951-0-22887-7

11x98 taik

Published by: University of Art and Design UIAH, 1998
Format: Softcover
Artists: Tiina Itkonen, Kim Simonsson, Mirka Mustonen, Matti Pyykkö, Camilla Maria Björkman, Merja Ranki, Chikako Harada, Elina Brotherus, Riitta Päiväläinen, Andrei Lajunen, Santeri Tuori
Language: English
Exhibition catalogue
11x98 taik
Rumpu ja KameraThe Drum and the Camera

Rumpu ja Kamera
The Drum and the Camera

Published by: Musta Taide, 2/1997
Format: Softcover
Pages: 100 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Ilkka Halso, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Timo Kelaranta,
Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Ari Saarto
Language: Finnish
Exhibition catalogue
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-14-6

Suomalainen valokuva 1996-1997
Finnish Photography 1996-1997

Published by: Musta Taide, 1997
Format: Softcover
Pages: 99 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Tiina Itkonen, Ola Kolehmainen,
Jouko Lehtola, Juha Nenonen, Jorma Puranen
Musta taide 1/1997
Language: Finnish
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-12-x
Suomalainen valokuva 1996-1997Finnish Photography 1996-1997
Joakim Eskildsen: Bluetide

Joakim Eskildsen: Bluetide

Published by: the Artist / Opus 33, 1997
Format: 23.5 cm x 30 cm, Softcover
Pages: 52 pages, 69 b/w photographs
Text: Cia Rinne
Artist: Joakim Eskildsen
Language: English / Portugese
Layout by: Joakim Eskildsen & Cia Rinne
ISBN: 952-90-8814-0

Valokuvan taide: Suomalainen valokuva 1994-1995

Published by: Musta Taide, 1995
Format: Softcover
Pages: 122 Pages
Artists: Ulla Jokisalo, Ilkka Halso, Timo Kelaranta
Musta taide 2/1995
Language: Finnish
ISSN 0788-2467
Valokuvan taide: Suomalainen valokuva 1994-1995
Joakim EskildsenNordic Signs

Joakim Eskildsen
Nordic Signs

Published by: Opus 29 (self-published) in 1995
Format: 35 cm x 27.5 cm, Softcover
Pages: 72 pages, 65 b/w photographs
Texts by: Joakim Eskildsen
Artist: Joakim Eskildsen
Layout by: Joakim Eskildsen
Languages:  English, Danish
Edition 800
ISBN: 952-90-9465-9
Sold Out (ask artist)

Ulla Jokisalo:
Cutting

Published by: Kuopio Art Museum, 1993
Text and edited by: Arja Elovirta
Graphic design: Saku Heinänen
Catalog published in conjunction with
the retrospective of Ulla Jokisalo
Ulla Jokisalo:Cutting
Ulla JokisaloANIMAlis

Ulla Jokisalo
ANIMAlis

Published by: The Museum of Contemporary, 1992
Artist: Ulla Jokisalo
Exhibition catalogue

Jyrki Parantainen: MAA (1991)

Persons Projects is pleased to introduce the edition box MAA by Jyrki Parantainen, which is a dedication to his photographic Earth-series (1981-1991).

Published by: Jyrki Parantainen
Year of Publishing:1991
Medium: Edition Box with eleven photographic prints 
Signature: Hand-signed by the artist
Format: 62 x 47 cm
Edition: 400

"In the Earth series, Parantainen’s artistic intervention into the Finnish landscape takes place in a highly individuated way. Indeed, the sites are chosen and staged as subjects within the idiom, or genre, of Land Art. The work process involves a careful integration of various organic media, ranging from fire-lit torches, over liquids like milk, to dry materials like chalkstone. Unlike traditional approaches, however, Parantainen’s landscapes are captured and reproduced visually in form of photographs, thus adding a new aspect of mobility to the otherwise site-bound location of the physical landscape. Though perhaps not concerned with issues of "environmental sustainability” in the conventional sense of the word, Parantainen’s Earth works do fulfill an ecological effect of recycling, with regard to traditions of using and representing nature in art."

Jyrki Parantainen: MAA (1991)
Jyrki Parantainen: MAA (Earth)

Jyrki Parantainen: MAA (Earth)

Published by: the artist, Opus 18, 1991
Format: Offset lithography/ handmade covers/ size 64 x 49 cm
13 photographs.
Artist: Jyrki Parantainen
Edition 400

Alfa & Omega

Published by: Opus 12, 1989
Format: Softcover
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: Finnish / English
ISBN 952-90-1408-2
Alfa & Omega
Jordi Guaridor(alias Jyrki Parantainen):Uns Tretze Petits Catalans

Jordi Guaridor
(alias Jyrki Parantainen):
Uns Tretze Petits Catalans

Published by: Jordi Guaridor (Jyrki Parantainen), 1987
Format: Offset lithography/ handmade covers/ size 18 x 20 cm.
13 photographs.
Artist: Jyrki Parantainen
Edition 55