Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2014
Format: ca. 17 x 21 cm, Hardcover
Pages: ca. 64 pages, ca. 38 color illustrations
Texts: Mirjami Schuppert, Monika Fagerholm
Artists: Hertta Kiiski, Niina Vatanen
Language: English
Design by: Kehrer Design
ISBN 978-3-86828-588-8
Kehrer
This book is a playful, tentative and imaginative exploration into the photographic archive as generator of multiple meanings and plentiful source of inspiration.
The bodies of work, Present (Thank You Helvi Ahonen) by Hertta Kiiski and Archival Studies / A Portrait of an Invisible Woman by Niina Vatanen, were created as a response to the Helvi Ahonen collection, housed at the Finnish Museum of Photography. The 5,000 negatives that make up the original collection tell a touching story about the amateur photographer Helvi Ahonen’s life, with all its joys and sorrows.
Archive Play is a joint effort between the curator Mirjami Schuppert and the artists Hertta Kiiski and Niina Vatanen. While it is a culmination of an intensive research and collaboration project, the documentation of the exhibition Glimpses of the Unattainable (Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, spring 2014), it also is an independent work on its own. To accompany the photographs, a further interpretative layer is created by a fictional story written by Monika Fagerholm, an esteemed Finnish author.
Published: Kehrer Verlag in 2013.
Format: 20×24,5 cm, Hard cover
Pages: 160 pages, 90 color illustrations
Preface: Pari Stave
Essay: Pessi Rautio
Design: Jussi Karjalainen
Language: English/Finnish
ISBN 978–3-86828–420-1
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/de/niina-vatanen-978-3-86828-420-1.html
Niina Vatanen’s first monograph, A Room’s Memory, includes four bodies of work created between 2006 and 2012: A Room’s Memory, The Red Letter (and Other Confessions), A Seamstress’s Notes and Grey Diary. Vatanen builds layers into her images through e.g. painting, cutting, bonding, staging and re-photographing. The images emerging interweave into a layered tapestry of time and memory.
Published by: Musta Taide 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 143 Pages
Artist: Santeri Tuori
Language: Finnish
Musta Taide
Published by: Lugemik, Tallinn, 2016
Format: ca. 19,5 x 14,5 cm, Softcover
Pages: 150 pages
Texts: Harry Salmenniemi
Artists: Mikko Rikala
Language: English / Finnish
Design by: Tuomas Kortteinen
ISBN 978-9949-9781-6-8
It feels as if there is no time or
place. It’s possible that there is no time or place. I feel like saying:
as if they were floating.
Harry Salmenniemi
Towards Nothing is a book of visual and textual poetry. The title indicates a journey with an unidentified destination, but it is more likely an attempt to reach a state of pure being. Mikko Rikala’s first book is a monograph juxtaposing his photography-based works with a text by the Finnish writer, Harry Salmenniemi.
In his works, Mikko Rikala often investigates the boundaries between rationality and irrationality. The images in the book depict a certain tone of objectivity and reveal a meditative state through Rikala’s way of observation. Harry Salmenniemi’s poetic, diary-like text equilibrates and complements Mikko Rikala’s pictures creating a delicate balance between the sense of rationality and irrationality.
Rikala often utilizes the act of repetition as a metaphor of the passing of time. The content and structure of the book are constructed by the reappearance of certain themes and images. In the work Morning Is Evening in Reverse the traces of sunlight indicate the cycle of a day, measured by the passing of time and the changes of light between sunrise and sunset. As if time would exist in a constant loop; it opens up our senses towards a new way of perception.
Judit Schuller
Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2009.
Format: 31 x 24.5 cm, hardcover
Pages: 88 pages, 60 color illustrations
Text by: Andréa Holzherr
Artist: Riitta Päiväläinen
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-86828-080-7
Kehrer Verlag
Finnish photographer Riitta Päiväläinen’s work could be defined as the emotional archaeology of the ordinary. Using old clothes she finds in secondhand shops and flea markets, Päiväläinen creates installations in landscapes and photographs them. For Päiväläinen, the clothes are vestiges of human beings, retaining traces of the history of the person who wore them long after being discarded. The garments represent both the presence and the absence of their former owners. Päiväläinen uses the properties of the landscape in Finland, England or Japan, as a stage for displaying the clothes. By soaking them in water and placing them outside in the Finnish winter, for example, the garments freeze solid, filling out as if someone were wearing them. This gives them a sculptural quality and opens manifold metaphorical and narrative possibilities.
Published by: Pohjoinen Publications, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English / Finnish
ISBN 9517493274
A book by Jorma Puranen, inspired by and drawing on an archive of late 19th-century portraits of the Sami people of Lapland at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris. Puranen traveled to the original source of the images in Northern Norway and reinserted his rephotographed images of the portraits in the Northern landscape, creating a sort of dialogue between past and present, and both a tapestry and continuum of existence, with portraits standing in for present-day Sami and appearing on trees, rocks, water, snow. Like much of contemporary Finnish photography that is conceptual, the body of work is extremely layered and resonant, both intellectually rigorous and emotional.
Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009
Format: 30.90 x 27.60 cm, hardcover
Pages: 120 pages, 77 illustrations, 69 in color
Texts: Jorma Puranen, Liz Wells
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English
Design by: Jorma Hinkka
ISBN 978-3-7757-2472-2
Hatje Cantz
"In Icy Prospects I have expressly reflected on the nature of the painterly, the sublime, and the mysterious.” Jorma Puranen
His latest series, Icy Prospects, was inspired by the ways the great explorers as well as today’s tourists to the North Pole are fascinated by the arctic landscape. Puranen painted a board with black, high-gloss acrylic and then took long exposures of the icy landscapes mirrored in this wooden surface. The results are extremely painterly, highly aesthetic, fragmented impressions of nature in which the ground, the brushstroke, and the reflection are inseparably superimposed. In this way, the photographer creates a relationship between the philosophical concept of the "sublime terror” of the forces of nature and his own experience of life in these regions, typifying the north as a projection surface for fantasies and the imagination.
Published: Hatje Cantz in 2013.
Format: 24.60 x 29.10 cm, Hard cover
Pages: 136 pages, 66 duotone illustrations
Texts: Peter Michael Hornung, Estelle af Malmborg & Timothy Persons
Graphic design: Mikko Varakas
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3455-4
http://www.hatjecantz.de/nelli-palomaeki-5355-1.html
Nelli Palomäki’s first monograph Breathing the Same Air presents works taken between 2007 and 2012. Palomäki’s timeless black-and-white portraits of children and young adults deal with themes as growing up, memory and mortality. They reveal the fragility of the moment shared with her subject. In Palomäki’s own words: "What I desire to find and reveal might be someone’s secret. These secrets, finally shown to the viewers, as they were mine.”
Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2012.
Format: 24.50 x 28.50 cm, Hard cover
Pages: 136 pages, 60 color illustrations
Foreword: Timothy Persons
Texts: Daniel Marzona & Lyle Rexer
Design by: Juha Nenonen
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3339-7
Hatje Cantz
In his first monograph, And Time is No Longer an Obstacle, Niko Luoma invites the viewer to his universe of light and repetition, including works between 2006 and 2012. Inspired by mathematics and geometry, Luoma focuses on the process as content and creates fascinating, abstract compositions through multiple exposures. With his analogue series based on light and abstract imagery, he is expanding the boundaries of the photographic process.
Published by: Kehrer Verlag in 2013.
Format: 17 x 21 cm, Linen softcover with open spine
Pages: 104 pages, 70 color illustrations
Editor: Maanantai Collective
Authors: Maanantai Collective
Artists: Maanantai Collective
Designed by: Maanantai
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-86828-422-5
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/detail/de/maanantai-978-3-86828-422-5.html
Maanantai is formed by a group of young photographers from Helsinki. It all started after a succession of Monday meetings, when they decided to escape North to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands, where Nine Nameless Mountains became their story. Challenging the notion of authorship with a body of work made by one common author with 16 eyes, it is a poetical and absurd topographical exploration of the notion of distance and scales – latitude versus altitude.
The book follows the group experimentations, with the mountain as a "leitmotif”, the escaping horizon as a metaphor for life and the impossibility to reach an absolute goal; it revisits the genre of the road-trip with an impish attitude and curiosity towards the unknown. On their way North, the artists played together with natural elements -stones, waves, light, sand, clouds – to create a playfully confusing story, their motive for the celebration of friendship, photography and chance.
"The book was more than any other aspects of the project a space for experimentation, our common territory for tries and surprises. A place where each of us was confronted with the visions of the others and where we could go beyond any individual copyright. We perceived the book as a strong medium; it has its own weight on the ground, like a rock.”
Further information:
www.deutscher-fotobuchpreis.de/html/sieger.htm
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/de/aktueller_verlagstip.html
http://cargocollective.com/maanantaicollective
Published: Musta Taide, 2001
Series: Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseon julkaisuja, n:o 71.
Texts: Tuula Karjalainen and Arja Elovirta
Artist: Ulla Jokisalo
Graphic design: Kari Paajanen
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN-13: 978-952-9851-35-5,
ISBN: 952-9851-35-9
Musta Taide
Published: Musta Taide 2010
Format: hardcover, bound
Pages: 91 pages
Text: Anna Kortelainen
Artist: Ulla Jokisalo
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN: 9525818152, 9789525818154
Musta Taide
Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2005
Format: 30 x 24 cm, hardcover
Pages: 240 pages., ca. 180 color illustrations
Edited: the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK)
Now: Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Texts: Andrea Holzherr, Rupert Pfab, Timothy Persons,
Ferdinand Protzman, Jorma Puranen
Artists: Nanna Hänninen, Ilkka Halso, Ulla Jokisalo,
Aino Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen,
Janne Lehtinen, Niko Luoma, Riitta Päiväläinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma
Puranen, Pentti Sammallahti, Jari Silomäki, Santeri Tuori
Language: English
Design by: Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
ISBN 978-3-7757-1575-1
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http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-1533-1.html
Photography is one of the most successful items of cultural export in Finland. Now, for the first time, the internationally acknowledged artists are gathered together in one extensive book accompanying an exhibition travelling around the world. The Helsinki School presents works from over thirty different artists who have been studying or teaching at TaiK, the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. The goal is to introduce a new approach to where photography is in Finland today. Based on a concept by Timothy Persons and Jorma Puranen the amply illustrated volume presents an astounding overview.
Published by: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2016
Format: ca. 24 x 20 cm, Hardcover
Pages: 120 pages
Texts: Joakim Eskildsen, Natasha del Torro, Barbara Kiviat
Artists: Joakim Eskildsen
Language: English
Design by: Joakim Eskildsen
ISBN 978-3-86930-734-3
Steidl
In 2010 more Americans were living below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. In 2011, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at Time, commissioned Joakim Eskildsen to photograph this growing crisis affecting nearly 46.2 million Americans. Based on census data, Eskildsen, together with journalist Natasha del Toro, travelled to the places with the highest poverty rates in New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota and Georgia over seven months to document the lives of those behind the statistics. The people Eskildsen has portrayed — those who struggle to make ends meet, who have lost their jobs or homes and often live in unhealthy conditions—usually remain invisible in a society to which the myth of the American Dream still remains strong. Many of Eskildsen’s subjects hold there is no such dream anymore — merely the American Reality.
Published by: Musta Taide, 2013
Editors: Kragelund, Camilla; Strand, Nina; Shakya, Hannamari
Format: 27 x 22 cm, softcover
Pages: ca. 262 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 978-952-292-005-8
Musta Taide
nordic now! features portfolios by over fifty established and upcoming Nordic artists, and zooms in on five tendencies governing of photography in the Nordic countries today.
The publication includes essays by leading critics and curators from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, and interviews with representatives from Nordic institutions that support and promote photography. These are complemented by an interview with the legendary picture editor Kathy Ryan from the New York Times Magazine, who gives an outside view of Nordic contemporary photography.
nordic now! is based on a seminar that took place during the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012. The publication is the result of a unique collaboration between the photo magazines Filter, Photo Raw and the art journal Objektiv, and is published by Musta Taide, which is part of Aalto University’s publishing house Aalto ARTS Books.
Published by: Steidl 2007 & 2009
Format: 23.3 cm x 26.6 cm,
hardcover with a CD of field recordings and music recorded on the journeys
Pages: 416 pages, 274 photographs
Texts: Foreword by Günter Grass, Text by Cia Rinne
Music recordings by Cia Rinne
Music editing by Sebastian Eskildsen
Artist: Joakim Eskildsen
Language: English and German (separate editions)
Design by: Joakim Eskildsen
ISBN: 978-3-86521-371-6 (English)
ISBN: 978-3-86521-429-4 (German)
available (German) from Steidl Publishers
http://www.steidl.de/flycms/en/Books/1520424349.html
Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2007.
Format: 29,50 x 24,50 cm hardcover
Pages: 232 pages, 187 color illustrations
Edited: University of Art and Design, Helsinki (TaiK)
Texts: Andrea Holzherr, Timothy Persons
Artists: Joonas Ahlava, Joakim Eskildsen, Miklos Gaál, Veli Granö,
Ilkka Halso, Nanna Hänninen, Maarit Hohteri, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla
Jokisalo, Jan Kaila, Ari Kakkinen, Aino Kannisto, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra
Kantanen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Milja Laurila, Janne
Lehtinen, Ville Lenkkeri, Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Niko Luoma,
Susanna Majuri, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen,
Riitta Päiväläinen, Heli Rekula, Nanna Saarhelo, Pentti Sammallahti,
Jari Silomäki, Mikko Sinervo, Marjukka Vainio, Ea Vasko, Pernilla
Zetterman
Designed by: Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-1888-2
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-1825-1.html
Based on the success of volume one, the latest installment of The Helsinki School represents one of the most unique approaches to the state of conceptual photography today. Volume two is dedicated to sustaining the dialogue between one generation and another who have either taught, graduated, or attended the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. It will accompany an exhibition with venues all over the world. This unique, richly illustrated publication, based on a concept by Timothy Persons and Jorma Puranen also looks ahead to the emerging next generation.
Published by: StatoilHydro art programme, 2010
Text by: Jens R Jenssen, Timothy Persons
Artists: Anni Leppälä, Elina Brotherus, Aino Kannisto,
Hannu Karjalainen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen,
Susanna Majuri, Tiina Itkonen, Ilkka Halso, Kalle Kataila,
Language: English
Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue
Published by: Hatje Cantz, 2014
Format: 29.50 x 24.50 cm, hardcover
Pages: ca. 256 pages, ca. 180 illustrations
Texts: Holger Broeker, Alistair Hicks,Erika Hoffman-Koenige,
Andréa Holzherr,Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer, Pari Stave,
Christoph Tannert, Jyrki Parantainen
Language: English
Graphic design by: Hannes Aechter
ISBN 978-3-7757-3901-6
Hatje Cantz
I find it amazing that after twenty years of existence, the
Helsinki School cannot be defined by any one fixed point of view.
Conceptually there is a red thread connecting one generation to another
in the way they perceive and present their ideas but not necessarily in
how they apply them.
Timothy Persons (introduction)
Following the first four volumes of the Helsinki School, this new publication looks back at the development of this group of photographers over the past twenty years and traces the emergence of the photographic tendency bearing this name.
In a collection of essays, international curators, art critics, and museum directors describe their encounters with the Helsinki School, from the first exhibitions in the late nineties to the youngest generation of photographers. A discussion between Timothy Persons and Alistair Hicks concludes these contributions. The texts are accompanied by installation shots from numerous international exhibitions, archival materials, books, posters, invitations, and most recent works by the different generations of artists.
Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2011.
Format: 29.00 x 24.00 cm, hardcover
Pages: 192 pages., ca. 190 color illustrations
Edited: Aalto University - School of Art and Design
Texts: Andrea Holzherr, Timothy Persons
Artists: Elina Brotherus, Nanna Hänninen, Maarit Hohteri
Wilma Hurskainen, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Aino Kannisto,
Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu, Marjaana Kella,
Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Jaana Maijala, Susanna Majuri, Riitta
Päiväläinen, Nelli Palomäki, Marjukka Vainio, Ea Vasko, Niina Vatanen,
Saana Wang, Pernilla Zetterman
Designed by: Margarethe 'Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-3211-6
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-2991-1.html
The fourth volume of the books of the Helsinki School focuses on female artists, inquiring into the possibility of a special female point of view. Innovative concepts and techniques as well as a variety of forms distinguish the work of this generation of photographers – the spectrum ranges from Tiina Itkonen´s documentary style pictures of Greenland and Anni Leppälä´s theatrically staged interiors to the painterly nature studies by Sandra Kantanen.
Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009
Format: 29,50 x 24,60 cm hardcover
Pages: 192 pages., ca. 192 color illustrations
Edited: University of Art and Design, Helsinki (TaiK),
Now: Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Texts: Timothy Persons, Katrin Hiller von Gaertringen and Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén
Artists: Pasi Autio, Wilma Hurskainen, Hannu
Karjalainen, Kalle Kataila, Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Noomi
Ljungdell, Susanna Majuri, Nelli Palomäki, Tuomo Rainio, Mikko Sinervo,
Ea Vasko, Niina Vatanen, Saana Wang, Dagmar Weiss / Carsten Benger,
Pernilla Zetterman
Language: English
Design by: Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
ISBN 978-3-7757-2404-3
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-2309-1.html
"Do we need a fresh wind? Then hold on, here it is. Even more, it is a literal storm of images that is blowing our way from Finland." This is what the German Press Agency wrote about the first two volumes of the Helsinki School series, which triggered a great deal of enthusiasm, even outside of the photography scene. The new third volume continues in this vein, introducing promising young photographers from that talent forge way up north, TaiK, the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. The school teaches a very special approach to photography: not just particular ways of thinking about it, but also the notion of the camera as a conceptual tool - and all of this allows each generation a chance to reinvent itself. In this new volume, Timothy Persons and Katrin Hiller von Gaertringen introduce seventeen young artists and their incredibly multifaceted, experimental works of great technical perfection.
