In 1960, photojournalist Ormond Gigli assembled 43 women, dressed them in refined, colorful garb and situated them in 41 windows across the facade of a building. Over 50 years later, the image born of that shoot stands as a triumph within art photography. The “Girls in the Windows” photograph was not an assignment; it was an idea that Gigli envisioned and executed and the history …
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 the second installment of our series of interviews with small art book publishers leading up to the New York Art Book Fair running from 20-22 September, CH chatted with John Jenkins of Seattle-based DECODE. Jenkins weighs in on the ability of crowd-funding to engage with readers in ways like never before—sometimes even driving the direction of content. How did you get your start in …
