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Light Streams

Launch party for Light Streams, a photo book published by Nieves

Via Copyshop. I really like this artist statement:

Half Letter Press is a publishing imprint and an experimental online store initiated by Temporary Services. Temporary Services is a group of three people (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer). We have published booklets as an element of our collaborative work since 1998. We created Half Letter Press to publish and distribute book and booklet length works by ourselves and others. We are interested in using this endeavor to build long-term support and expanded audiences for people that work creatively in experimental ways. We are particularly interested in supporting people and projects that have had difficulty finding financial and promotional assistance through mainstream commercial channels.

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To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book examines how sequencing manifests itself within artists’ books, highlighting a diverse range of conceptual strategies and formal processes. The exhibition constitutes the first large-scale museum survey of artists’ books in Los Angeles since 1978, presenting work by a range of artists, from emerging artists who have begun to experiment with this genre to established artists who view bookmaking as an integral part of their practice. Borrowing its title from a limited-edition ’zine by Raymond Pettibon, To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book presents many different book forms, some with corresponding wall-mounted works that suggest the relationship of books to other aspects of an artist’s practice.

Photography by Michael Wells. View all images here.

Municipal de Fútbol is a collaborative Edition about amateur soccer in Los Angeles — the everyday experience of playing in pick-up games, weekend and night park leagues. The Edition includes two books, one poster, nine artist lithographs and a fútbol jersey. Jennifer Doyle (Frieze) has contributed two essays to the books, both with Spanish translation. Edition design by Jonathan Maghen, with Photography by Michael Wells. Municipal de Fútbol is co-published by Christoph Keller Editions (DE) and Textfield (US), and Distributed by D.A.P. (www.dapinc.com).

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