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09/02/2025

Untitled, Lukasz Wierzbowski (2014)

From: “BETWEEN US: THE DIALOGUES OF HUMAN REPRESENTATION”

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09/01/2025

Looking forward to Small Press Fest!!

08/25/2025

Looking forward to the Cincinnati Art Book Fair at the historic Carnegie building in Covington — Sept 6-7. This artist-run fair brings together books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, prints + zines from artists across the Midwest and beyond.

We’ll be there with new releases and surprises from the Fields of Vision series (and artists!) ✨ Come say hi! ✨

08/20/2025

From “Bins, Bales & Batteries,”

08/18/2025

✨ Call for Entries – Blurred Horizons: Fields of Vision 2025 ✨

The second edition of Fields of Vision turns its gaze toward the shifting practices of contemporary photography. How are artists today reframing familiar terrains and narratives while still working in dialogue with the region’s deep visual and cultural histories?

This call seeks contemporary voices working from inside—whether geographically, emotionally, or conceptually—to engage with its evolving realities. In doing so, we ask: What new focal points emerge when we blur the edges between past and present, fact and fiction, documentation and imagination? How do shifting tools and technologies shape not only what we see, but how we see—and who gets to speak?

We invite work that tests the limits of what constitutes a photographic practice—whether through digital manipulation, moving image, archival intervention, artificial intelligence remixing, or hybrid forms—while remaining rooted in the landscapes, communities, and visual cultures of Central Illinois. How can such approaches reveal overlooked perspectives, challenge inherited tropes, or complicate established visual grammars?

📅 Apply now to be part of Blurred Horizons, curated by Tim Hale.

👉 https://www.immaterialbooks.com/fields-of-vision-2025

08/15/2025

📸 Flickr Friday |

We LOVE Flickr, the photo communities it has helped forge, and the people we have met. On “Flickr Friday,” we share one image from our Immaterial Books Flickr group.

08/13/2025

Untitled, Morocco (2016), Sasha Kurmaz

From “Natures: Landscapes of Human Intentions” (2nd Edition)

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07/27/2025

Discover the quiet revolution of mid-century modernism in America’s heartland. Mid-Continent Modern honors the architects who shaped Champaign’s built environment—Baker, Replinger, Williams, Amico, and Poss—and the people who continue to preserve their legacy.

07/15/2025

“The Thread of Water: Ethnography, Photography, & Feminist Ecologies” is a reflexive wandering in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The photographs investigate the colonial politics of the underseas through the eeriness of subaquatic weightlessness and light contrasts: artifacts and bodies are altered, if not disincarnated, in undefined waterscapes that build a narrative of dispossession and perdition.

07/06/2025

Primary Wires, Ryan Searl.

06/29/2025

Thank you, Ann Mitchell, for this wonderful overview of what we’re building at Immaterial Books.

Immaterial Books is dedicated to publishing photo-media-based works that challenge the boundaries between image, text, and theory. We see a growing need for books that resist classification—projects that inhabit the space between visual culture, social theory, and experimental documentary. We publ...

05/30/2025

Inspired by conversations with architect Jeffrey Poss, Phillip Kalantzis Cope’s new book captures the legacy of mid-century architecture in Champaign-Urbana.