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GHava art directed and designed Darfur Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan awarded a silver cube at the 87th Annual Art Directors Club Awards for Book Design: Photography. | |
Celebrate the launch of “Second Place” by Jody Fausett
Celebrate the launch of “Second Place” by Jody Fausett
GHava{Press} & I Heart invite you to a special event at I Heart to celebrate the launch of “Second Place” by Jody Fausett
Thursday, March 6th, 8-10pmDJ’s J.Penry and Max WowchI Heart is located at 262 Mott St. between Prince and Houston, NYC
www.ghavapress.com
PENRY’S PET PORTRAITURE
[...] J. Penry, one of our favorite illustrators, is now offering his services as a pet portraitist. Now you too can own a precious artwork depicting your furry beloved rendered in Penry’s signature style, with a dash of panache and whimsy. Eventually Penry hopes to collect all these portraits in a book. Won’t that make a lovely keepsake? Contact J. Penry for more info and pricing. [...] VIA: http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n2/htdocs/pet_portraiture.php
Also check out J’s first book, Castles and Christians.
Castles and Christians by J. Penry, with forward by Jeffrey Jensen $24.006. 625 x 8.875 inches, Paperback, Gatefolded Cover 96 color pages, Limited edition run: 1,200. ISBN: 0 9716702 1 8. Grab a copy from the newly launched GHava{Press} online shop.
KAYROCK BOOKS
Kayrock Screenprinting, our old neighbors on Kent St., are collaborating with artists on a series of monthly hand-printed books.
Black Slabbath
Stefán Kjartansson has a new display face available called Black Slabbath. We had a chance to use a dub plate / cdr last summer on a poster and felt like it handled very well, getting the crowd at PS1 and agnes b. jumping. (thanks Israel) It really is the heaviest typeface in the world and has razor thin lines cutting through geometric shapes. Nigel says to turn it up to 11 in adobe illustrator for best results.
“Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan” review in print mag.
Review by Brian Sholis
[...]By contrast, unremitting pain characterizes the pictures in Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan, edited by Leora Kahn for the nonprofit organization Proof: Media for Social Justice. The volume presents the work of eight acclaimed photojournalists and the beseeching testimony of aid agency workers, noted writers, and a handful of celebrities; proceeds from its sales will be donated to Amnesty International and the Genocide Intervention Network. If the chilly formalism of the North Korea pictures testifies to the Dear Leader’s control over his population and his country’s visitors, the presence of so many emaciated, fly-ridden bodies mere inches from the camera lenses indicates that whatever order once held in this arid African plateau has now irredeemably collapsed. Yet the photographic depiction of even the most lawless, unprecedented situation adheres to decades-old visual convention: a regular alternation of somber black-and-white and vividly colored pictures; a preponderance of children and the elderly; stark outlines of malnourished, brittle bodies graphically contrasted with sand and dirt; and long lines of displaced people stretching into the distance.[...] via pring mag.
Brian Sholis is an editor at Artforum and is the coeditor of The Uncertain States of America Reader (Sternberg Press, 2006).
The Architecture of Parking
“Car-Park Rotundas, Hamburg Airport”. Photograph courtesy of Von Gerkan, Marg & Partner. Photograph: Thames & Hudson
The Architecture of Parking by Simon Henley has some really nice images.
Flip through of Second Place by Jody Fausett
A beautiful hardbound book showcasing Jody Fausett’s dark and mysterious, personal photography. “Like advertisements for a place you might not want to visit, Jody Fausett’s photographs sizzle with inchoate menace. Fragility and a whiff of violence collide in a body of work centered on Fausett’s kin and the vacant-eyed critters who attest to the family’s favorite avocation of taxidermy” -Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing 9.5×12 inches (landscape bound). 120 color pages. forward by Bret Busch. Q&A with the artist by David Merten of GHava{Press}
About the Author
Atlanta based photographer Jody Fausett works within the overlap of commercial fashion photography and his own fine art visions. “From sewing tree shaped pillows to overturning marble tables in fancy night clubs, from romantic comedies to schlocky slasher films, Jody Fausett is a renaissance man…sort of. His arts and skills are a little more unpredictable then the common definition attributed to such a person. Where as one fitting the “classical” definition might teach you a thing or two about fine wines and seamlessly segue into the history of italian opera, Jody might educate you on the genius of Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls after catching a possum with his bare hands. I have known Jody Fausett for almost a decade now and he is easily one the most interesting characters I have ever met. Unassuming at first glance, it is quickly apparent that there is something slightly askew to Jody in both appearance and personality. With a slightly messed up collar, ever changing facial hair… he is constantly pushing the limits of what is acceptable to the norm. This “other-ness” that is slightly above radar in real life becomes fully amplified in his photographs, yet never becomes deafening.” -David Merten, GHava{Press}
“Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide” wins a Lucie
We are happy to announce that powerHouse books has been given a Lucie award for its new book on Darfur, art directed and designed by GH avisualagency.
IPA awards Lucies to those in the creative community who are an integral part of crafting an image.
The IPA members and Photographers Advisory Board have awarded powerHouse Books – Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide as Photography Book Publisher of the Year at The 5th Annual Lucie Awards.
“Second Place” Coming September 2007
Second Place
by Jody Fausett
Released September 2007.
Jody Fausett’s images brim with dark whimsy. They play with the seemingly impermeable division between life and death.
ISBN: 978-0-9716702-2-8 Published by GHava{Press}
“Like advertisements for a place you might not want to visit, Jody Fausett’s photographs sizzle with inchoate menace. Fragility and a whiff of violence collide in a body of work centered on Fausett’s kin and the vacant-eyed critters who attest to the family’s favorite avocation of taxidermy”
— Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing