Now in its ninth year, the New York Art Book Fair—hosted by Printed Matter at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City—gathers together the most important and influential book and zine publishers in the industry for what has become a mecca for art book lovers everywhere. Unrivaled in its scope, the fair not only provides the opportunity to discover gems from small publishers worldwide which would …
This year the New York Art Book Fair sprawled into the courtyard and filled the three floors of MOMA’s PS1 building in Long Island City. The fair, which is one of the largest art book fairs in the world, welcomes a wide array of publications—from artists’ books, to catalogs and monographs, to periodicals and zines. We scoured the many thousands of publications and selected some …
In our third and final installment of interviews surrounding art book publishing, which leads into the New York Art Book Fair this weekend, we talked to Christian Patterson—the artist behind one of the most successful photographic books in years “Redheaded Peckerwood”—and photographer Paul Schiek—founder of the Oakland, CA-based independent publishing company TBW Books. TBW is known for its quarterly limited-edition project “Subscription Series,” which invites …
