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Hmm. Looks to me like the Irish musician Hozier (Andrew Hozier-Byrne) was "inspired" by Chika and Ichio Usui's photobook, "Communities bound together by a common destiny" for the cover image on his latest album, "Unreal Unearth." But, who are we to judge?
“Guns + America” by Jeff Corwin�
Jeff Corwin's photographs are both beautiful and disturbing. They are a reminder of the power of guns, and the potential for violence that they represent. But they are also a reminder of the importance of gun ownership in American culture.
ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5
Retail Price: $150
12” x 12” (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 pages, color and black-and-white
Limited Edition of 100 copies. Publications are welcome to request a pdf of the book for review purposes by contacting [email protected].
"Guns + America" by renowned photographer Jeff Corwin is a must-see for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between guns and America. It is a book that will challenge your assumptions and make you think about this issue in a new way.
ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5 - Retail Price: $150
12” x 12” (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 pages, color and black-and-white
Limited Edition of 100 copies. Publications are welcome to request a pdf of the book for review purposes by contacting [email protected].
"Guns + America," by artist Jeff Corwin is a powerful and provocative look at the relationship between guns and America.
Corwin's photographs, taken over the course of many years, offer a unique perspective on this complex issue. Corwin presents us with a mind-reeling montage of imagery which reverberates throughout the American political and historical spectrum.
Whether his color plates of the titular subject, or his astoundingly emotive black and white American landscapes, Corwin weaves a tapestry of uniquely American scenes which cut to the core of the issues at hand.
Depending on the viewer’s choice of perspective, the interpretations of these images will differ radically.
ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5 - Retail Price: $150
12” x 12” (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 pages, color and black-and-white
Limited Edition of 100 copies. Publications are welcome to request a pdf of the book for review purposes by contacting [email protected].
“Guns + America” by Jeff Corwin
Corwin's photographs are both beautiful and disturbing. They are a reminder of the power of guns, and the potential for violence that they represent. But they are also a reminder of the importance of gun ownership in American culture.
ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5
Retail Price: $150
12” x 12” (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 pages, color and black-and-white
Limited Edition of 100 copies. Publications are welcome to request a pdf of the book for review purposes by contacting [email protected].
Jeff Corwin's photographs are both beautiful and disturbing. They are a reminder of the power of guns, and the potential for violence that they represent. But they are also a reminder of the importance of gun ownership in American culture.
"Guns + America" is a must-see for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between guns and America. It is a book that will challenge your assumptions and make you think about this issue in a new way.
The 12 inch by 12 inch (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 page book, a limited edition of only 100 copies, is now available for purchase on the Atelier VGI website and at select bookstores at a retail price of $150. ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5
"Guns + America,” by photographic artist Jeff Corwin, is a powerful and provocative look at the relationship between guns and America.
Whether his color plates of the titular subject, or his astoundingly emotive black and white American landscapes, Corwin weaves a tapestry of uniquely American scenes which cut to the core of the issues at hand.
Depending on the viewer’s choice of perspective, the interpretations of these images will differ radically.
The 12 inch by 12 inch (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 page book, a limited edition of only 100 copies, is now available for purchase on the Atelier VGI website and at select bookstores at a retail price of $150. ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5
We're proud to announce the release of "Guns + America," by noted photo artist Jeff Corwin.
"Guns + America" is a powerful and provocative look at the relationship between guns and America. Corwin's photographs, taken over the course of many years, offer a unique perspective on this complex issue. Corwin presents us with a mind-reeling montage of imagery which reverberates throughout the American political and historical spectrum.
The 12 inch by 12 inch (30 cm x 30 cm), 88 page book, a limited edition of only 100 copies, is now available for purchase on the Atelier VGI website and at select bookstores at a retail price of $150. ISBN: 978-1-7321184-8-5
"It was very special for me to experience the individuality of each of the masqueraders in Trinidad. I once again learned the truth that regardless of nationality, people are people, everywhere in the world."
- Makoto Kubota, Artist
From "Carnival!," published by Atelier VGI
"Festivals are similar in spirit the world around: one’s mundane daily life is consumed in fires of excitement and energy. Festivals release one from stress and pressure, and offer prayers for fertility and good harvests. They allow us to forget about the many problems of our modern world, as people dance all night long."
- Makoto Kubota, Artist
From "Carnival!," published by Atelier VGI
"During Carnival, the local people are all able to gather together to share the same experiences and space, something not normally possible in their regular daily lives.
The ecstasy of life is on display.
The once-a-year Carnival allows the kind and gentle people of Trinidad – both children and adults alike - to liberate their minds and set their hearts free."
- Makoto Kubota, Artist
From "Carnival!," published by Atelier VGI
Makoto Kubota is known internationally for his incredible portraits of severely tattooed members of the Japanese underworld, but that world is not the only subculture he has successfully entered in order to create indelible images celebrating the diversity of human beings. "Carnival!" is his book about the celebrants of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival - the world's third largest after Rio and Venice.
For anyone interested in learning best practices in terms of collecting photography, Christie's Education is presenting a five part course conducted by noted expert Alice Sachs Zimet, entitled "Navigating the Photography Market." For far less than the cost of any print you're likely to acquire, it will teach you the ins and outs of the market, and how to purchase photographic art wisely. Some of us at Atelier VGI have worked with Alice, and can confirm she knows her fine art photography! You can contact Christie's at christies.edu.com for more details.
Christie's Education is a leading international art institute wholly owned by Christie's auction house that specialises in the study of the art market.
Here is a snapshot of Chika Usui, co-author of Atelier VGI's recently released photobook, "Communities bound together by a common destiny." She is posing with the subjects of her latest project, "World of Kakashi" (Japanese for "scarecrows"). If you're in Kyoto this weekend, stop by the Daimaru department store and you can get your photo taken with Chika and some of the scarecrows!
Our photobook artist Chika Usui (co-author with her husband Ichio of "Communities bound together by a common destiny") is currently exhibiting in Kyoto as a participant in KG+, the satellite event to the world-famous Kyotographie photo festival. If you're in the area, stop by.
Chika has arranged for a special promotion this weekend at Kyoto's Daimaru department store for her exhibit of "Kakashi World," based on life-size "scarecrows" used to "repopulate" a remote village where the younger people have left for jobs in the cities, and the elderly residents are slowly passing away. This is a demographic phenomenon taking place through Japan.
Her work is a poignant response to the growing loneliness of the elderly in Japan, especially in these rural areas. We're proud that this is the second year in a row Chika has been selected by world-famous photography experts such as Simon Baker (former photo curator of the Tate) to appear at KG+.
This was the gallery installation at KG+ 2019 in Kyoto which initially attracted our attention to Chika & Ichio Usui's work, "Communities bound together by a common destiny."
After seeing this, and meeting the artists again at Foto Fever later in the year, after they won the Paris Gallery First Floor Award for this project, Atelier VGI proposed a collaboration with Chika & Ichio to publish our newest fine art photobook release of the same name.
We're happy that Chika was invited back to KG+ this year as a solo artist for her work on a separate project, "The Beautiful Kakashi World." It is on display in Kyoto as part of the KG+ Select 10 exhibit until October 18, 2020. We're also proud to know that the judges for her selection included Simon Baker, the previous curator of Photography and International Art at the Tate in London, and currently the Director of Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, as well as Pascal Beausse, the Head of Photographic Collections, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, among other internationally recognized critics and gallerists.
Congratulations to both of the Usui's for their amazing vision and creativity!
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Atelier VGI is very happy to announce that Eriko Kaniwa's "Texture of Absurdity" (which we published earlier this year) has just been awarded two silver prizes from the 2020 Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris ("PX3") competition, in the Fine Art Book category. Congratulations, Eriko! For a free catalog of Atelier VGI books, just email us at [email protected].
For many years, and culminating most recently in 2019, Hong Kong witnessed a series of protest activities which mobilized millions of participants in total, over weeks of marches and “parades.” Originally begun to protest a controversial proposed extradition law favoring the interests of Beijing over the civil liberties assumed by many Hong Kong residents to be enshrined in China’s “one country, two systems” promise to Great Britain during the 1997 handover, the protests now bring into question existential issues confronting Hong Kong in both the short and long term: Can it remain an autonomous city-state, or will it become even more tightly integrated into the legal and political systems of mainland China, perhaps against its will?
Almond Chu’s hauntingly prophetic images give rise to a futuristic vision of a mass-controlled and mass-oriented political order. It is a world in which anonymity is the only protection of the citizen from surveillance, even as this anonymity is steadily stripped away by artificial intelligence programs scouring petabytes and exabtyes and zettabytes and yottabytes of data, stored in ever-expanding data warehouses around the world, in both government and private hands. Who is doing this watching, and why, are questions not currently well-answered, or well-supervised.
As you peruse the images in Parade, you should be reminded that one of the world’s most iconic photographs, Jeff Widener’s “Tank Man at Tiananmen Square, June 5 1989,” is almost unknown in mainland China, due to heavy state censorship. It is precisely the danger posed to totalitarian states by such photos as these which makes it essential to widely distribute them now, while we still have the freedom to do so. May Almond Chu’s warnings of these possible futures help us avert them.
Purchasers are eligible to receive a complimentary limited edition 8x10 inch print of “Curious Police” (cover photo) dated, signed and numbered by Almond Chu. Only 100 of these prints exist, the same as the number of copies of the book. Contact AVGI for details at [email protected].
We're proud to announce our newest release, "Texture of Absurdity" by renowned Japanese digital artist Eriko Kaniwa. Her manipulation of photographic source material via computer processing results in stunning images of beauty, leading one to question, "What is reality, really?" Available in a limited edition of only 100 copies. Contact us at Atelier VGI ([email protected]) for ordering or other inquiries.
We're happy to announce the publication of our newest limited edition fine art photobook, Anthroposcenics, by Michael James Murray. Available in a limited edition of 100 copies, for $150 retail price. Contact us at "[email protected]" to place your order!
From the Publisher's Note: “A transition in time, from pristine nature to global cityscape…”
Michael James Murray’s “360 degree, spherical panoramic photographs” brought this thought to mind as I sorted through the images chosen for this limited edition release of his Anthroposcenics portfolio.
“Spherical panoramas as a platform” was a new idea to me when I first encountered Murray’s work. They work perfectly for his ongoing investigation of the interrelationships between nature and the world of man. They provide a sublimely unique visual perspective, reorienting the viewer’s perceptions of geophysical space.
Using this platform to view the man-nature event boundary is illuminating, in both an aesthetic and environmental manner. Cautionary, also. Very cautionary.
It is up to us - the “Anthro’s” in the ongoing Anthropocene - to discern the messages “within the spheres,” and to take appropriate action.
Our Atelier VGI artist Vin Kitayama has been getting incredible reviews in Japan for his photobook we published, "Micro x Universe." Here is an article from today's Shinano Mainichi Newspaper.
One of our Atelier VGI artists, Vin Kitayama, was just written up in Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun. The article is entitled "Beauty Found in a Microscope," and shows Vin with his new photobook, "Micro x Universe," published by Atelier VGI.
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