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Fw:Books is an independent publisher with a focus on photography and related topics.

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"‘When we pay attention to the world, I believe we have to admit that it is a fearful place down to its smallest details,’ remarks Ashkin. ‘Were it not for’ is a catalogue of such details – a procession of negations and refusals that mirrors the working of capital itself. There is a certain satisfaction in unlocking the conceptual schema of the work – understanding it not simply as a document of disorder but a disordered document with transgression built into it: a refusal of rational space, of narrative time, of customary perception. " — Eugénie Shinkle about 'were it not for' on 1000 Words. @workroom_general @eugenieshinkle @1000words_magazine

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Opening next week in our shared projectspace @enter___enter ‘TESTPRESS — 20 Years of Student Publications’, A project by Henk Groenendijk, Elisabeth Klement and Matthias Kreutzer

Opening Saturday 25th, 17-19:00 🥂📚 @rietveldacademie @elisabeth_klement @henkgroenendijk_lib @our_polite_society

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#Repost @nunztunz 📚
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“Quando sono arrivato in ICCD per visitare la parte di archivio dedicata agli album fotografici sulla quale ho poi realizzato il lavoro, ho sentito per la prima volta una definizione che mi ha colpito: «aggregati di immagini». Ho pensato molto a questo modo di dire rispetto alla possibilità di ripensare i confini di una singola fotografia, immaginando gruppi di immagini che “lavorano” insieme. Quando ho poi iniziato la mia ricerca in archivio non sapevo bene che cosa ci avrei trovato; l’unica cosa certa era che sarebbero stati degli album fotografici del secolo
scorso.” Dalla conversazione con #antonellofrongia in #Album, pubblicato da @fw.books & @iccdfotografie, Amsterdam 2019
#ICCD
#archivio
#fotografia

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Working on a new book with/for/by @marikenwessels #happy2020 📚

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“I have been wondering when there would be a photobook about the Age of Trump. Here it is. As grim as it is, it is nothing but brilliant.”- Jörg Colbergs review on ‘were it not for’ by Michael Ashkin 🔥🔥 https://cphmag.com/nightmares/
@workroom_general @joergmc

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2019 was a great year for us. 💥 Many thanks to all involved 🙏🙏🙏 See you in 2020! @drew_nikonowicz @marinacaneve @thestudiogarden @nunztunz @workroom_general @andresvgonzalez #arjandenooy @lightworkorg @iccdfotografie @cortonaotm @fomuantwerp @yoffypress @stellamaris87 @taco.hidde @frankvdstok @colourandbooks @wilco_artbooks @shanelavalette @marcgijzen @kuinfreek @alex.feenstra #drukkerijrobstolk @ideabooksnl @enter___enter #friendswithbooks #bookswithfriends #supportyourlocalbookstore 📚📚📚

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🎉TIME Magazine Best Photobooks of 2019 📚 “Andres Gonzalez’s uniquely bound American Origami is the book we’ve chosen to highlight, in addition to the 30 others presented here. The 42-year-old photographer from Mountain View, Calif. explores the depth of trauma that follows school shootings in America. Released in September, the book features more than 700 photos, though not a single one depicts the common scenes of shock and grief so routinely captured in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies. Instead, Gonzalez hones in on mostly inanimate objects—mountains of handwritten cards, drawings, paper cranes and other tiny mementos left behind and archived after some of the deadliest school massacres in the nation’s history. […] One virtue of the photobook, compared to the other ways we experience photography, is that it allows us to dig deep into a topic or theme and reveals the unseen details of familiar stories. There is the space and time to sift through all of the elements of a project while creating a tactile experience that stays with us. It’s a lot different than swiping up on a phone."
— TIME Photo Department, images: Jessica Pettway for TIME @time @andresvgonzalez @lightworkorg @timelightbox #supportyourlocalbookstore 🎉🙏

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"I don’t think I have seen a book so rich in the use of text in a very long time if ever. There is something incorruptibly beautiful in Michael’s images of decay and wayward sackcloth and ash forms. I am reminded of a latent New Topographics, but with a bittersweet instead of angry disposition. I guess there is romance in all ruins, but with Ashkin, it feels more like a goodbye and a sigh of relief for it.” — @ordinarylight about ‘were it not for’ by @workroom_general on the best of 2019 selection @deadbeatclub 🔥🔥🙏

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⚡️🎉 ‘When Red Disappears’ by @thestudiogarden and ‘This World and Others Like It’ by @drew_nikonowicz are among the highlights of @awoiska_vandermolen @photobookstore 🔥🔥

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🔥🔥The perfect duo: ‘This World and Others Like It’ by @drew_nikonowicz and ‘Are they Rocks or Clouds’ by @marinacaneve mentioned at the Best of 2019 list of Lensculture. Thanks Taco Hidde Bakker and Arianna Rinaldo 🎉🙏

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🎉Great to see ‘When Red Disappears’ by @thestudiogarden in the 2019 list of @thechrismccall @deadbeatclub 🙏 🔥

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Sean O'Hagan selected 15 books to round up 2019 for The Guardian. Nice to see 'American Origami' is such great company. 🙏🎉— "A complex photobook on every level, American Origami is an exploration of the psychological aftermath of seven American mass school shootings which combines Andres Gonzalez’s own detached, low-key photographs of now familiar towns and communities with a surfeit of statistical and forensic documents. Resembling a packed folder, the book unfolds to reveal a wealth of other related materials: news clippings, handwritten notes, drawings, memorabilia and an inventory of objects that speak of mass grieving. (More than 65,000 teddy bears were sent to Sandy Hook elementary school alone in the wake of the shooting there.) An ambitious attempt at understanding – and visualising – the fallout from a senselessly recurring American tragedy." @sean_j_ohagan @guardian @andresvgonzalez @lightworkorg 🔥

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"I suspect when artificial intelligence starts to use photography to inform us of our world, the early results will look a bit similar to This World and Others Like It, as no other book I have held has felt less human. This might seem like a negative critique but it is meant as high praise. Look at the work. Marvel at the design. Don’t let the essay influence you. Use your brain. First book? Fucking hell.” — Jeffrey Ladd about ‘This World and Others Like It’ by @drew_nikonowicz (Best of 2019, Photobookstore Magazine) @yoffypress @hans.gremmen @photobookstore

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@raffaele.vertaldi picks ‘are they rocks or clouds’ by @marinacaneve as one of the books of 2019 for the holidays by @domusweb

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@raymondmeeks lists ‘were it not for’ by @workroom_general as one of his favorite books of 2019. 🙏💫

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💫 Great to see @jackiecbates mentioning ‘American Origami’ by @andresvgonzalez as one of the highlights of 2019 @deadbeatclub

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Michael Mack’s Favorite Book from 2019 (PhotoEye) 🙏 "In recent times the best photography book publishing has appeared to travel, virus-like, from one host location to the next, transmitted through small conglomerations of publishers, designers and artists. The infection does linger at these nodes of activity, but the feverous heat of the photobook realm moves on. Over the past year or more, the most consistently stunning and challenging books have come out of Amsterdam, through the publishing of ROMA and Fw:books. I could have selected a number of books by each of these publishers as my favourite of the year but settled on Michael Ashkin’s were it not for by fw:books. As with ROMA, all Fw:books are notable for an exquisite tension between cool design and dexterity of form which puts to shame the over-wrought publishing we see too much of. I was approached by Ashkin about this project and whilst I regret not taking it up, I would not have had the clarity of vision the designer and author bought to this final version, in particular through the confident and decisive integration of text with image." @mack_books @photoeyebooks @workroom_general

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Tote Bag Power ⚡️ Fw:Books supporting @post_books supporting Fw:Books #supportyourlocalbookstore

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✨ ‘were it not for’ by @workroom_general selected by @timcarpenter as one of the highlights of 2019 at @deadbeatclub 🎉

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🙏🙏⚡️Thanks @robhornstra for selecting ‘Are They Rocks or Clouds’ by @marinacaneve ‘American Origami’ by @andresvgonzalez and ‘Trigger’ as highlights of 2019 ✨

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⚡️’were it not for’ by @workroom_general selected as one of highlights of 2019 by @ordinarylight for @photobookstore #📚💥

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✨American Origami by @andresvgonzalez selected by @kevinkunishi for @photoeyebooks @lightworkorg #🙏

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For those who enjoy Xmas in the sun 🏖🌲 Repost @perimeterbooks ・・・
The remarkable Album by Nicola Nunziata in collaboration with Hans Gremmen (published by Fw: Books and ICCD). In store and online now! Last days of Perimeter Xmas Party Week tomorrow in store and Sunday online. 15% off everything — enter the code SANTA on checkout for your discount. #perimeterbooks

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💥”For my photo-eye book of the year, I chose American Origami by Andres Gonzalez. The title, the design of folded papers revealing a deeper inside and insight, and the content, are perfectly matched and support this inquiry into America's deepest psychological plague of mass shootings. It not only offers the facts but the mystery as well. And it's only in that mystery that we can find within the creases and the crevasses how the epidemic started to spread, manifested and metastasized itself, finds remission and recurrence. Andres Gonzalez took a picture of that which can not be seen by the naked eye and made it into this book for all to see." — Jason Eskenazi about 'American Origami' by Andres Gonzalez (Best of 2019, PhotoEye) @andresvgonzalez @lightworkorg @photoeyebooks @jasoneskenazi

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✨Michael Ashkin’s quiet and austere images of the damaged landscape of the Mojave desert have a disquieting beauty perfectly attuned to our fraught moment. Pairing image and poetic text, were it not for is an urgent and timely book as we slowly awaken from the lies and empty promises of 20th-century hypercapitalism. Whereas the titular refrain speaks of limits and excuses—forestalling possibilities, hope, and progress—the accompanying photographs are a tragic foil of unfettered excess and ruin. — Adam Bell about 'were it not for' by Michael Ashkin (Best of 2019, PhotoEye) @workroom_general @perpetualmirage @photoeyebooks #friendswithbooks #bookswithfriends

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Current desktop view, happily scanning away for my upcoming book, due to be published by @fw.books in 2020 ✨ Some Limited Edition Folios still available #limitededitionfolio #constructedlandscapes #fwbooks

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Support your local bookstore: our books @postpoetics in Seoul💥📦📚 Repost @postpoetics ・・・
Restocked! 📚
#fwbooks

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🥐☕️Goodmorning indeed: ‘When Red Disappears’ by @thestudiogarden listed as one of ten best Dutch photobooks @de_volkskrant — Nerdy note: the book is NOT printed on black paper, but on ‘regular’ white paper by the print masters of #drukkerijrobstolk #blackfriday

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Launch of TRIGGER at FOMU @dieuwertje_komen @wilcoversteeg @joachimnaudts @tom.viaene.31 @kabkphotography

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Were it now for the daunting brilliance of Michael Ashkin-I don’t think i’ve felt this way over text and image before...

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... and going back again. Merci @offprint_projects #📦💥

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See you tomorrow for the last day of @offprint_paris 11-18hrs 🍷

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@andresvgonzalez signing ‘American Origami’ @offprint_projects

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