Spring 2016 Spring 2016 Contents New Titles 5 Collector’s Editions 45 Toiletpaper 59 Backlist 65 Photography 66 Fashion & Lifestyle 75 Contemporary Art 76 Music 79 Urban Art 80 Architecture & Design 81 Antiques & Collectibles 82 Contacts 86 Distributors 88 New Titles Photography Joel Meyerowitz Morandi’s Objects In spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at a work table in Giorgio Morandi’s Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied, and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi’s objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans. In the photographs, each object sits on Morandi’s table, which still bears the marks the painter drew to set the positions of his subjects. In the background is the paper that the artist left on the wall, now brittle and yellow with age. Meyerowitz’s portraits of these dusty, aged objects are not only works of art themselves, but they offer insight into the humble subjects that Morandi transformed into his subtle and luminous paintings. Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is a street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer. The New York Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett native began photographing in color in 1962 and was an 25.4 x 32 cm | 10 x 12 ⅝ inches 116 pages, 65 color, clothbound early advocate of the use of color at a time when there was ISBN 978-88-6208-453-6 significant resistance to the idea of color photography as $50 | £35 serious art. Many of his photographs are icons of modern photography, and he is considered one of the most influential modern photographers and representatives of the New Color Photography of the 1960s and 70s. His work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions around the world and is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and many other museums worldwide. New Titles 7 Toiletpaper Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari The pocket-sized booklet was so popular among Toiletpaper Volume II: Platinum Collection bar patrons that the Guinness Brewery hired twin brothers Ross and Norris McWhirter, who owned a fact-checking bureau in London, to expand it into a book. The brewery started a publishing subsidiary, and in 1956 joined forces with Boehm for the North American edition. The annual compendium of facts is published in 23 languages and is distributed throughout the world, including Mainland China where it was sold for the first time this year. It has set a record of its own: 43 million copies have been sold since 1956, making it the best- selling copyrighted book in the world. Last year, it surged past the World Almanac in the number of copies sold. “I had no idea that the book would ever turn out to be such a huge success,” says Boehm. The volume has spawned other ventures. There are now five Guinness World Record Museums in the United States, as well as more than half a dozen In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first Toiletpaper in Europe. In September, Boehm started a bi- monthly newsstand magazine of Guinness records, anthology, Toiletpaper Volume II: Platinum Collection presents publishedin conjunction with Dell Publishers. And British personality David Frost hosts a television a selection of the best images from the past five issues of show licensed by Guinness, which is aired on ABC national television here. Besides the waterbed and bicycle feats, the book Toiletpaper magazine, the creative collaboration of Maurizio lists some truly remarkable feats. One record-holder whose name appears often in Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. The book also includes special the volumn is Peter Dowdswell of England who holds eating records in 10 Guinness categories, projects shot by Cattelan and Ferrari for such publications as including: beer (2 liters in 13.7 seconds); eels (1 pound in 13.7 seconds); hard-boiled eggs (14 in 58 Purple, New York Magazine, Kenzine, Le Monde and Dazed & seconds); prunes (144 in 53.5 seconds); and shrimp (3 pounds in 4 minutes, 8 seconds). Then there is Jay Gwaltney, from Chicago, who ate Confused. Along with the outrageous and inventive images, a tree. Responding to a local contest on radio station Toiletpaper Volume II contains an eclectic collection of texts, WKQX entitled “ What’s The Most Outrageous Thing You Would Do?” Gwaltney, 20, last year ate ranging from Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose to an excerpt of a the branches, leaves and trunk of an 11-fobt birch tree over a period of 89 hours. Boehm’s favorite record is held by a man who has California law regarding frog jumping to a list of inventors been struck by lightning seven different times. The man, a forest ranger, once was hit on the head by killed by their own inventions. This is a limited edition a lightning bolt, which ripped a hole in his ranger hat and burned off his shoes. publication of 1,000 copies, each of which is accompanied William Fuqua, a professional manequin, holds the record for standing motionless for the longest time, five hours and 40 minutes. by a watch created by the Toiletpaper team. 23.8 x 34.5 cm | 9 ½ x 13 ½ inches 16 17 240 pages, 200 color, hardbound Limited to 1,000 copies Includes Toiletpaper watch ISBN 978-88-6208-445-1 MAN EATS QUEEN-$150 | £100 SIZE WATERBED By Stephen G. Bloom The Medecine Hat News October 30, 1981 EW YORK—“They’re all nuts,” take place soon in Tokyo: for $10,000, he intends said a man who has heard it all. to eat a helicopter. David Boehm is editor and publisher Boehm says he receives 10,000 calls and letters a of the North American edition of year, many of them from people who try to fool the Guinness Book of World Records. their way into the book. “After 26 years in the The most recent nut, Boehm says, business, we get a sense of who’s for real and who’s is a French man who ate a waterbed, piece trying to pull the wool over our eyes.” by piece, in an Amarillo, Texas, department Take, for example, the 1980 pogo stick jumping 30 31 store this summer. title of 120,715 times held by Jeff Michel Lotito, a Grenoble Kane of Oak Lawn, III., in 16 stuntman who goes under the hours, 12 minutes. name of Monsieur Mangetout “To verify that record,” says (“Mr. Eat-All,” in French), ate Boehm, “we called up local a queen-sized waterbed by disinterested people to check out taking it apart and filing down what happened. We also asked the bedboards and cutting the the boy how many rubber tips mattress into thin strips. His he went through while on the act was a promotional gimmick pogo stick. Then by calling up sponsored by a store called the manufacturer, we were able Lifestyles Bedrooms, for which to find out if the record was he received $5,000. possible.” Lotito’s waterbed feat will be Boehm, a bespectacled man with included in next year’s Guinness white hair and a bushy goatee, Book, Boehm says. Lotito is listed works from a plush office on in this year’s volume for eating the 26th floor of a Park Avenue a bicycle over a 15-day period skyscraper with a panoramic in 1977 by stewing the tires and view of midtown Manhattan. He grinding down the frame. had worked as a reporter for the New York Daily “The chain was the tastiest part and the grease News before setting up his publishing company made it slide down easier,” Lotito told a French in 1955. Twenty-five years ago, he saw a booklet newspaper reporter after he finished. of odd facts put out by the Guinness Brewery in But Lotito’s most extraordinary achievement is to Dublin, Ireland, to settle barroom arguments. 14 15 New Titles 9 Contemporary Art Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Series Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships—with lovers, children, friends—and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness, and solitude. As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts “the battle around the family . monogamy . and between the sexes.” Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist’s words “unrequited love.” Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists. In a Text by Sarah Lewis and Adrienne Edwards 24.8 x 34.3 cm | 9 ¾ x 13 ½ inches career spanning over 30 years, she has investigated family 86 pages, 34 b&w, hardbound relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, ISBN 978-88-6208-462-8 and the consequences of power. Weems’s complex body of $50 | £35 art employs photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video.