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Presenting an enigmatic catalogue of documentary images from a declassified US army archive, 'Fashion Army' charts a visual history of military apparel and its impact on contemporary style.⁠ ⁠ Edited by @matthieu_nicol , the book also includes an essay by renowned fashion critic Angelo Flaccavento (@poeticallypunk ), reflecting on the interplay between military functionality and the fashion industry.⁠ ⁠ 'Fashion Army' is available now via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 US Army Natick Labs Archive

This May, join us in Los Angeles, New York and London for talks, launches and signings at LAABF, ICP Photobook Fest & Offprint 📣⁠ ⁠ More info via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ @printedmatter_artbookfairs @icp @offprint_projects ⁠ ⁠ 📸 Image Credits: ⁠ [1] Keisha Scarville, 'Passports' @scarvillek ⁠ [2] Matthew Connors, 'The Axe Will Survive the Master' @matthewconnors_ ⁠ [3] Keisha Scarville, 'Passports'⁠ [4] Dev Dhunsi, 'Mixed' @devdhunsi

DISPACCIO NAPOLI PRESENTA: IRRATIONAL A Visual Directory to a World with No Reason Di @francesco_jodice & @francescozanot Con Francesco Jodice @selfpublishbehappy (2025) 4.05.26 - H.19:00; V.L.Settembrini 33 “ In ‘’Irrational’’, l’artista Francesco Jodice e il curatore Francesco Zanot analizzano l’ascesa dell’irrazionalità nella vita e nella società moderne attraverso una vasta e stimolante serie di casi di studio visivi. Affrontando temi quali l’intelligenza artificiale, le fake news, la post-verità e il nuovo populismo, questo saggio illustrato mette in discussione la nostra comprensione di un mondo sempre più dominato dall’imprevedibilità. Questo testo offre una visione approfondita delle forze caotiche che plasmano il nostro presente e il nostro futuro, invitando i lettori a riflettere sul fragile equilibrio tra ragione e caos. “ —— “In ‘’Irrational’’, artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot dissect the rise of irrationality in modern life and society through an extensive and thought-provoking array of visual case studies. Addressing topics such as AI, fake news, post-truth, and new populism, this illustrated essay challenges our understanding of a world increasingly dominated by unpredictability. This text offers incisive insights into the chaotic forces shaping our present and future, prompting readers to reflect on the fragile balance between reason and chaos. “ VI ASPETTIAMO! #dispaccionapoli #artbookstore #booksbooksbooks

Listen to Nicholas Muellner talk about his new essay, 'Love in a Time of Allegory', a polemic against contemporary realism in favour of allegory and imagination 🪽⁠ ⁠ 🗓️ Join us at @printedmatterinc on 30 April (tomorrow) for the NYC book launch of 'Love in a Time of Allegory' where Muellner will be giving a visual lecture based on the essay. Starts at 6pm 📌⁠ ⁠ Read more via link in bio 🔗⁠⁠

@matthewconnors_ on 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙭𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 🪓⁠ ⁠ "It's a record of life on a faltering planet, tracing the contours of an era shaped by confrontations with authoritarian power. The book charts an escalatory pattern across these contexts: collective assembly, revolutionary upheaval, totalitarian control, surveillance repression, and outright war. Each is a different register of the same fundamental struggle."⁠ ⁠ Read more about the project via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 Matthew Connors

Introducing SBPH Essay No. 9: 'Love in a Time of Allegory' by Nicholas Muellner💥⁠ ⁠ 'Love in a Time of Allegory' asks how we can still feel, desire, and imagine in an age of relentless realism. Moving between images and text, Nicholas Muellner’s illustrated essay turns to allegory as a way of thinking through politics and love.⁠ ⁠ Join us on Thursday 16 April @artwordsbookshop (Clarence Road) for a conversation between Nicholas Muellner & Tim Clark @1000words_magazine at 6.30pm 📌⁠ ⁠ Learn more via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 Nicholas Muellner

'I grew up between cultures, languages and expectations.' @devdhunsi ⁠ ⁠ Listen to Dev Dhunsi introduce his new book 'Mixed', which experiments with 'mixedness' as both an identity and an artistic approach through layering, contrast, text and mythological symbols 🔉⁠ ⁠ Learn more via link in bio 🔗

What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist @carmen.winant in this new episode of our podcast Thought Pieces 💭⁠ ⁠ Drawing from books, catalogues and pamphlets on bereavement, meditation, sex and childcare, Winant examines these ubiquitous and often strange images with references to Leo Tolstoy, Sylvia Plath and Julio Cortázar.⁠ ⁠ Listen to the podcast now via link in bio 🔗

On 22 July 2011, a right-wing extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo’s Government Quarter, killing eight people. Disguised in a police uniform, he then travelled to the island of Utøya, taking the lives of sixty-nine young participants at a summer camp in a mass shooting. ⁠ ⁠ From that day and in the decade that followed, Ole John Aandal photographed the view from his balcony overlooking the Government Quarter. 'Oslo Arkiv' gathers a selection of this extensive archive, poignantly tracing how a city learns to endure loss.⁠ ⁠ Read more about this project via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 Ole John Aandal, 'Oslo Arkiv'

'Mixed' by @devdhunsi is out now 💥⁠ ⁠ Dhunsi, whose mixed heritage forms the book’s point of departure, builds an experimental, mythical world – a space where bodies, symbols, and words blur and reform. ⁠ ⁠ Composed of photographs, archival fragments, and text, the book unfolds as a hybrid work where tenderness and defiance, intimacy and displacement coexist. Through layering and juxtaposition, it presents a complex vision of identity, sketching out a space for new kinds of humans to exist: fluid, plural, and free.⁠ ⁠ Read more via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 Dev Dhunsi

"Take what is close at hand to reach what lies most distant" is the closing adage to Liz Johnson Artur's recent book 'I Will Keep You in Good Company' ❤️‍🔥⁠ ⁠ Read more about this intimate and tactile project via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 @lizjohnsonartur

'The Axe Will Survive the Master' is an oblique record of life on a faltering planet 🌐⁠ ⁠ Created over twelve years and across continents, Matthew Connors’s photographs trace the contours of an era shaped by confrontations with authoritarian power. From the Arab Spring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Connors traverses scenes of global upheaval marked by disintegrating social contracts and political violence.⁠ ⁠ Bringing together photographs from 2013-25, this volume concludes a trilogy – following 'General Assembly' (2013) and 'Fire in Cairo' (2015) – meditating on power, resistance, and the fragile fate of democratic ideals. The images move between the geopolitical and the intimate, drawn as much from the fabric of daily life as from the front lines of history. They depict a world defined by conflict and uncertainty, yet charged with beauty, threat, and consequence.⁠ ⁠ Read more and pre-order via link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ 📸 @matthewconnors_