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N6537.W66 A4 2025
Christopher Wool
Imprint: Wool 101 Greenwich Inc., 2025.
Physical Description: 400 pages: 295 color and black-and-white photographs; 29.3 x 23.0 cm
ISBN: 978-3-947127-55-9
Contributors: Anne Pontégnie, Christopher Wool
Designer: Joseph Logan
Accession Date: January 10, 2026
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at 101 Greenwich Street, New York (2024). Taking the form of an expanded artist's book, this catalogue gathers nearly three hundred candid photographs of the installation taken by dozens of artists, friends, and Instagram users. Includes an extensive interview between Wool and Pontégnie situating the project within the artist's three-decades-long use of photography and installation. Printed by Trifolio, Verona. Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
Keywords: Contemporary Art, Photography, Installation Art, Artist Books, Exhibition Catalogs, New York
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N6537.G38 A4 2025
Theaster Gates
Imprint: Smart Museum of Art, 2025.
Physical Description: 176 pages: 113 color plates; 28.3 x 21.0 cm
ISBN: 979-8-9922160-0-4
Editors: Galina Mardilovich, Vanja Malloy
Accession Date: December 26, 2025
Catalog accompanying the Smart Museum of Art exhibition—the first major museum presentation of Chicago artist Theaster Gates in his hometown. Features five scholarly essays examining Gates's practice of institutional critique and community-building on Chicago's South Side.
Keywords: Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog, Chicago, Community Art, Institutional Critique, African American Artists
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TR647.B57 M8 2025
Lukas Birk
Imprint: Fraglich Publishing, 2025.
Physical Description: 336 pages; 17.5 x 14.0 cm
Edition: Edition of 500
Accession Date: December 23, 2025
An examination of forced identity photography from historic archives, exploring representations of criminals, victims of persecution, political prisoners, and war camp inmates. Part of the Surveillance Index collection.
Keywords: Photography, Surveillance, Criminal Justice, Political Prisoners, Identity, Archives, Documentary Photography
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TR647.P54 A7 2025
Jack Pierson
Imprint: Hassla, 2025.
Physical Description: 168 pages: color photographs; 30.5 x 22.9 cm
ISBN: 978-1-940881-71-3
Edition: Limited edition of 500 copies
Accession Date: December 23, 2025
Jack Pierson's Array (Miami Beach) is a collection of photographic works capturing the essence of Miami Beach. Signed by the artist.
Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Miami, Signed, Limited Edition
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TR647.P54 A5 2025
Jack Pierson
Imprint: Hassla, 2025.
Physical Description: softcover; 19.1 x 14.0 cm
ISBN: 978-1-940881-70-6
Edition: Edition of 500
Accession Date: December 23, 2025
Jack Pierson's Andre is a photographic exploration presented in an intimate format. Signed by the artist.
Keywords: Photography, Contemporary Art, Signed, Limited Edition
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TR647.G66 A4 2024
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Imprint: Radius Books, 2024.
Physical Description: 340 pages: 160 images; 29.85 x 22.23 cm
ISBN: 9798890181107
Accession Date: December 12, 2024
This monograph examines the artist's relationship to portraiture, expanding the genre from static representations of individuals to one with the capacity to change, remain resonant, and encourage collaboration. Co-published with the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords: Art, Contemporary Art, LGBTQ, Photography, Portraiture
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N6537.P745 A4 2025
Richard Prince
Imprint: Fulton Ryder, 2025.
Physical Description: 193 pages: 193 color illustrations; 29.8 x 22.2 cm
ISBN: 9798985236859
Accession Date: November 7, 2025
An artist's book and monograph showcasing Prince's conceptual work across multiple mediums. Features new body of paintings alongside studio photos and documentation of various sculptures and installations from his Upstate series. Works incorporate collage, impasto, and oil stick techniques with close-up shots of eyeballs, sutured skin and mouths with a cigarette.
Keywords: Contemporary Art, Photography, Artist Book, Conceptual Art
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NE2012.G69 A4 2025
Francisco de Goya
Imprint: Madrid: La Fábrica, 2025.
Physical Description: 176 pages: 80 etchings; 30 x 25 cm
ISBN: 9788410024632
Accession Date: October 28, 2025
Based on the original 1863 edition, this presentation of Goya's 80 etchings decries the consequences of war through his bleak, gruesome and unflinching imagery from the Peninsular War (1808-14). Faithfully reproduces the first edition published 35 years after Goya's death.
Keywords: War, Etchings, Spanish Art, Historical, Political Art, Printmaking
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N6537.V54 A4 2025
Leo Villareal
Imprint: New York: Monacelli Press, 2025.
Physical Description: 336 pages: 350 color illustrations; 32 x 25 cm
ISBN: 9781580936538
Accession Date: October 28, 2025
Expansive monograph of Mexican-American artist Leo Villareal's monumental light installations. Features more than 30 works including Cosmos at Cornell University and Illuminated River along the Thames in London. Includes essays by Molly Donovan, Annie Dell'Aria, and an interview with Sarah Sze.
Keywords: Light Art, Digital Art, Installation Art, Public Art, Contemporary Art
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TR647.W65 A4 2025
David Wojnarowicz
Imprint: Milan: Skira, 2025.
Physical Description: 208 pages: 150 color images; 28 x 24 cm
ISBN: 9788857254067
Accession Date: October 28, 2025
Documents Wojnarowicz's 1978-79 photographs of a man wearing a paper mask of Arthur Rimbaud. Essays by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Nicholas Martin, and Craig Dworkin contextualize the work within punk culture, downtown Manhattan, and queer history. Includes interview with photographer Allen Frame.
Keywords: Photography, LGBTQ Art, Performance Art, Punk, Downtown New York
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N6537.T453 A4 2025
Paul Thek and Peter Hujar
Imprint: New York: Primary Information, 2025.
Physical Description: 192 pages: illustrations, photographs; 9 x 12 inches
Accession Date: October 24, 2025
Explores the relationship between artists Paul Thek and Peter Hujar through over fifty letters, postcards, drawings, and ephemera documenting their travels and creative work from 1956-1975. Includes Hujar's photographs of Thek from the Palermo catacombs and studio portraits during the creation of "The Tomb."
Keywords: Photography, queer art, American artists, artist correspondence, 1960s-1970s, New York art
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PN6728.R49 M37 2025
Kerry James Marshall
Imprint: New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2025.
Physical Description: 1 volume: illustrations (color); 30 cm
Accession Date: October 20, 2025
Marshall's groundbreaking comic series created in the late 1990s as a direct response to the absence of authentic Black characters and authors in mainstream comics. Features Rythm Mastr and his protégé Farell, superheroes whose powers derive from the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon.
Keywords: Afrofuturism, graphic novels, African American art, contemporary art, superhero comics
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TR647 .D58 2025 v.48
John Divola
One Picture Book Two Vol #48
Imprint: Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2025.
Physical Description: 1 volume: color photographs; softcover; 5x7 inch signed print
Accession Date: October 20, 2025
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Divola's contemplative automotive studies explore the intersection of landscape, architecture, and vernacular culture through his distinctive photographic vision.
Keywords: Photography, limited edition, automotive studies, contemporary photography
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TR647 .C37 2025 v.47
Benedetta Casagrande
One Picture Book Two Vol #47
Imprint: Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2025.
Physical Description: 1 volume: color photographs; softcover; 5x7 inch signed print
Accession Date: October 20, 2025
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Casagrande's innovative approach to photography and paper explores materiality and process in compelling ways.
Keywords: Photography, limited edition, paper art, materiality, contemporary photography
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TR647 .H67 2025 v.48
Eikoh Hosoe
One Picture Book Two Vol #48
Imprint: Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2025.
Physical Description: 1 volume: photographs; softcover; 5x7 inch signed print
Accession Date: October 20, 2025
Limited to 500 numbered copies. One of Japan's most celebrated photographers brings his distinctive vision to traditional Japanese garments in this compelling work.
Keywords: Photography, limited edition, Japanese photography, fashion, traditional garments
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TR647 .Z34 2025 v.46
Susan Zadeh
One Picture Book Two Vol #46
Imprint: Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2025.
Physical Description: 1 volume: color photographs; softcover; 5x7 inch signed print
Accession Date: October 20, 2025
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Zadeh's photographic practice explores themes of memory, place, and cultural identity.
Keywords: Photography, limited edition, memory, cultural identity, contemporary photography
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