Social documentaries amid this pist

Mark Borthwick, Social documentaries amid this pist
Softcover, 240 pp., web offset 1/1, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 250
Published by Mark Borthwick (2002)

$150.00 ·

condition: good, minor edge wear, binding intact.

A social documentary. An appropriation of distinctions between elements. Grey area. An essay in images that repeat themselves. An apparent way to dilute the importance of one over another. Black and white photographs, hand written texts, and xeroxed pages.

Aaron Rose, Art, Bernadette Corporation, Bless, Brendan Fowler, Claude Closky, Culture, Desiree Heiss, Elein Fleiss, Ines Kaag, Made in USA, Maria Cornejo, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Olivier Zahm, Photography, Purple, Susan Cianciolo, Used

Here and There 10

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 10
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-88-3
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

“A year ago, I visited Aichi prefecture in the end of summer. It was to reflect on the work of Nobuya Hitsuda, as well as to see the exhibition “In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students” that reflects on the time, in his 40 years of teaching experience, he spent with his students, such as Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Kyoko Murase, Mika Kato and many more.

Although having visited on an assignment, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Even for people who are actively recognized, there are still moments, numerous times in your life, where one needs to spend those blue hours alone. The process, to be alone, to suffer with unsettled emotion, is necessary to move forward.

Around the same time, I was asked by chance to write an essay, and decided to write on raising children. Raising children is also about continuous time that cannot be controlled. In the end of that summer, those were the two things that were on my mind, so I decided to put together an issue for Here and There, focusing on the blue hour that can make our lives colorful, as well as the color blue itself.

I looked up at the blue sky. Blue is a color that represents the beauty of nature, but at the same time, it exists in many things manmade. Blue can be found in clothing you wear against your skin, somewhere near you, and far away. The aim is to seek for a blue in personal emotions and in the growing process of people and to find it scattered in the world. This, hoping that it will be an attempt to sprout something in people’s hearts.”

—Nakako Hayashi

Aki Goto, Akira Minagawa, Akira Onozuka, Aoi Nagae, Art, Bless, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Here and There, Katsumi Omori, Kazunari Hattori, Lactitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Nobuya Hitsuda, Susan Cian, Takashi Homma, Takehito Koganezawa, Yukinori Maeda

Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness

Bless, Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness, Nº00 — Nº29
Softcover, 496 pp., offset 4/1 + fore-edge printing, 185 x 250 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-15-3
Published by Sternberg Press

out of print

Bless came to fame in the winter of 97/98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore Bless wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu. Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, Bless slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising. Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way.

Designed by Manuel Raeder, this fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless’ activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.

Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), and most recently at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Their collaborations with other brands range from Adidas to Levi’s, Nike, Mikli and Droog over to the jewellery designer Bucherer.

Adriano Sack, Art, Barbara Steiner, Bless, Culture, Desiree Heiss, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Graphics, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, Nakako Hayashi, Olivier Zahm, RAM, Stéphanie Moisdon, Sternberg Press, Thimo te Duits, Typography, Ulf Poschardt

Here and There 9

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 9
Softcover, 56 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-69-2
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.

Nakako Hayashi writes: “There are various lives, various moments and various emotions. I wish to capture the ripples of emotion in our daily lives as seeds, right before they turn into fluff and float away. I wish to keep observing what grows from there. I guess this may be what I want to do with Here and There.”

Aiko Yamada, Art, Culture, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Laetitia Bena, Midori Araki, Miranda July, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Photography, Takashi Homma, Yurie Nagashima

Purple Journal 9

Purple Journal 9
Softcover, 120 pp., offset 1/1, 210 x 275 mm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1766-8840
Published by Elein Fleiss

out of print

Purple Journal
20 rue Thérèse
75001 Paris France

Daniel Bismuth, Elein Fleiss, Giasco Bertoli, Jeff Rian, Laetitia Benat, Mark Fishman, Nakako Hayashi, Purple, Sebastien Jamain

Purple Journal 10

Purple Journal 10
Softcover, 136 pp., offset 4/1, 195 x 240 mm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1766-8840
Published by Elein Fleiss

out of print

Purple Journal
20 rue Thérèse
75001 Paris France

Christophe Brunnquell, Daniel Bismuth, Elein Fleiss, Jeff Rian, Laetitia Benat, Mark Fishman, Nakako Hayashi, Purple

Purple Journal 8

Purple Journal 8
Softcover, 108 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 275 mm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1766-8840
Published by Elein Fleiss

$15.00 ·

Purple Journal
20 rue Thérèse
75001 Paris France

Christophe Brunnquell, Dike Blair, Elein Fleiss, Elizabeth Underwood, Jeff Rian, Mark Fishman, Nakako Hayashi, Purple, Sharon Mesmer

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2
Softcover, 36 pp., offset 1/1 + gold/silver metallic, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

This is an open-end art book project that, like a diary, expresses the present state of COSMIC WONDER in printed form. A fold-out poster accompanies each book.

Comprised of letters from friends ”about light” – Visual collaborations with Elein Fleiss (editor-in-chief of The Purple Journal), Mike Mills (graphic designer/artist/film director) and YOSHIMIO (OOIOO/Boredoms).

Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Nieves, Yukinori Maeda

Here and There 7

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 7
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

Here and There Vol.7 is dedicated to the cities of Paris and Tokyo, looking at them through the eyes of its wide contributors’ family spread around the world. We are taken into a whirlwind of overlapping stories and emotions, through the words and images of Takashi Homma, Elein Fleiss, Susan Cianciolo, Julian Gatto, Kim Gordon, Mike Mills, Benjamin Sommerhalder and most importantly Nakako Hayashi, the mind behind it all.

Anne Daems, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Jeff Burch, Julian Gatto, Kasane Nagawa, Kazunari Hattori, Kenneth Andrew Mroczek, Kenshu Shintsubo, Kim Gordon, Mark Borthwick, Mike Mills, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Pascale Gatzen, Ruthie Doyle, Susan Cianciolo, Takashi Homma, Yukinori Maeda

Here and There 6

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 6
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

Here and There comes back, after two years of absence from the independent magazine scene, with Unexpected Travelling Issue, a sixth issue which counts already familiar but also new illustrious collaborations.

In Nakako’s own words, the vision behind the Unexpected Travelling Issue was: “One day, someone told me her ideal garden is what looks like no one is taking care of, and have so many different pretty flowers in springtime. The other day my friend told me she has an ideal image of bringing up kids even though in reality she has to deal with daily life living in crowded Tokyo. I am into those stories, and new issue must be something related to this ‘ideal’ world. in each people’s minds. Maybe you can talk about ideal books making”

Anne Daems, Bless, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Els Beusen, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takako Minekawa, Takashi Homma, Yayako Uchida, Yoshimi, Yukinori Maeda, Yurie Nagashima

Here and There 5

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 5
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Elein Fleiss, Purple Journal’s editor-in-chief, speaks of Nakako Hayashi and her magazine Here and There: When I met Nakako Hayashi, she was still working for Hanatsubaki magazine. Then, in 2001 she decided to go on her own and started Here and There in the spring of 2002. The first issue came out in March of that year, and the moment I first saw it remains in my memory as an important event in the world of independent magazines.

Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako’s name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.

Bless, Daisuke Miyatsu, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Kazunari Hattori, Mark Borthwick, Midori Araki, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takako Minekawa, Takashi Homma

Here and There 4

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 4
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Katsumi Omori, Kazunari Hattori, Laetitia Benat, Marc Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takashi Homma, Yukinori Maeda, Yurie Nagashima

Here and There 3

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 3
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 297 x 420 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Anne Daems, Bless, Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Susan Cianciolo, Yukinori Maeda