'The London Art Book Fair is an annual event devoted to international art publishing. Hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery in association with Marcus Campbell Art Books, The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events'
Mörel Books - very talented publishing group who, I realised, produced the publications for Ryan McGinley's Moonmilk and A Season In Hell Rimbaud - Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe. These can be found in Alison Jaques Gallery, since they actually held 'Moonmilk' and 'A Season In Hell' exhibitions last year. Both were fantastic and I actually got to meet and talk to Patti Smith at 'A Season in Hell's opening night. She did performed several songs and finished off with 'Because The Night' of course (I find it funny; it is still every one's favourite)... so, a massive crowd of guests packed outside the gallery sang with her. Epic evening... I left kind of high.
Books again... more books! Or rather a little bit about publishing in general. I was quite excited about the whole thing for various reasons, mostly for the fact that I love books, I love the texture/smell of books and I love well designed books. So, generally speaking, it was really nice to see that in the fast digitalising world and the web take over... books are still alive. In advance, my apologies for the lack of images and over-explosion of web links, but not too sorry because they're really worth checking out.
I absolutely loved German publishing group Revolver especially because of this amazing find - FUKT magazine. It is a shame it hasn't reached UK yet.
Also would like to quickly pin point Afterall, US based Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Norwegian guys Morten Andersen and Forbundet Frie Fotografer and lovely independent publishers like Laughter.
A spread from Fuji Book by Yasushi Cho (Laughter)
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