MORE COONING WITH COONERS LAUNCH PARTY

Posted on | April 4, 2011 | No Comments

Join us on Thursday 14 April from 6.30pm at Donlon Books, 77 Broadway Market, London E8 4PH for the official launch of More Cooning with Cooners, edited by Kalev Erickson. Copies of the book are available here

Front cover

More Cooning with Cooners

Posted on | March 21, 2011 | No Comments

Our latest book production, Kalev Erickson’s More Cooning with Cooners, pays homage to Otto Keuchler’s 1924 book Cooning with Cooners, which told warm (and sometimes tall) stories of the highs and lows of hunting the racoon. Keuchler’s readers would mostly have been those in the know – enthusiasts who understood the significance and joy of a wet night spent hunting in the woods, when the tracks of their nocturnal prey were easier to spot and the dogs could better find a trail.

To those on the outside, to the more cosmopolitan urban dweller, Keuchler’s book would have provided a glimpse into a strange world that stood curiously unchanging alongside their own modern and fast-moving lives. A world in which the men of a family would join together in a ritualistic game handed down through the generations and imbued with all the rules, codes and lexicon of a priesthood, involving night-time rampages across the countryside in pursuit of a helpless furry creature.

The photographs selected by Kalev Erickson for More Cooning with Cooners date from the 1960s and document one anonymous Ohio family’s racoon-hunting adventures. In the 40 years since Keuchler’s publication, little has changed beyond the style of the hunters’ cars: the rituals and rites – and the love of the hunt – clearly remain the same.

Kalev Erickson More Cooning with Cooners

LDN launch at BookArtBookShop

Posted on | June 11, 2010 | No Comments

The launch of Antony Cairns‘s new book LDN at BookArtBookShop last night drew a lively crowd who gave the limited-edition, handmade book an enthusiastic reception. Only 100 copies have been produced, so get yours here while you can. For more pictures of the party, click here.

LDN launch party

Kuba Dabrowski’s Western

Posted on | June 11, 2010 | No Comments

We’ve been enjoying Kuba Dabrowksi’s new book, Western (ISBN 978-83-928967-5-3). Published in a limited edition of 300, Western is a quiet book, hushed by snowfall. It traces a journey where the world is witnessed as if from the window of a train. It is a Polish world, immersed in winter, and touched throughout by American culture so that you can imagine the tumbleweed blowing from Tombstone, Arizona through a tv screen into a Warsaw bedroom. There’s no need to travel far, it seems to say, when you can stay in bed with your girl, drink coffee, share a Coke and look at the passing scenes remotely, through a plate of glass. It’s cold outside and there are many places to explore.

Launch party for our new book LDN

Posted on | June 3, 2010 | No Comments

Join us on Thursday 10 June from 6.30 to 9.00 pm at BookArtBookShop, 17 Pitfield Street, London N1 6HB for the official launch of Antony Cairns’s book LDN. Copies of the limited-edition, handmade book are available here.

Our new book: Happy Tonite

Posted on | April 28, 2010 | No Comments

It’s been more than a year in the making, but the trouble we took to find the exact look and feel we wanted has paid off. The finished copies of Happy Tonite have arrived, and they are just as vibrant and colourful as we’d hoped. We limited the print run to 1,000 copies, each one hand-numbered and each one containing one of three (also limited edition) Liu YiQing prints which have been stamped and numbered on the reverse side. Get them here while you can!

Grafik Design Awards 2010 nomination

Posted on | April 5, 2010 | No Comments

Cheers all round as another AMC collaborator is nominated for an award. This time it’s Melanie Mues, whose design for our recent book Roger Hilton – Night Letters (back cover below) has been shortlisted for Grafik Magazine’s Grafik Design Awards 2010. The winners are due to be announced on 29 April. Our fingers are crossed.

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010

Posted on | February 14, 2010 | No Comments

We’re delighted to learn that Donovan Wylie has been nominated for this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and to see that Scrapbook, which Donovan edited together with our own Timothy Prus, features in the accompanying exhibition (currently on view at the Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street, London W1, a stone’s throw from Oxford Circus tube).

Draft Magazine issue 006

Posted on | December 16, 2009 | No Comments

Jake and Dinos Chapman, John Ruskin, Jem Finer, Astrid Proll, Anthony Burrill, Donovan Wylie, Lu Zhongguang, Ian Jeffrey, Martin Parr, Jim Campbell, Sophie Spencer-Wood, David Dawson, Stephen Gill, Jeremy Deller, David Evans, Linus Carr, Thom Atkinson, Dr Huw Lewis-Jones, Gary Hume, Scott King – and the Archive of Modern Conflict. All in one limited edition of 1,500. Click here to enquire about availability.

Roger Hilton at Kettle’s Yard

Posted on | November 22, 2009 | No Comments

Yesterday evening we hopped up to Cambridge for the opening of the Roger Hilton exhibition at Kettle’s Yard Gallery, curated by the gallery’s director Michael Harrison and marking the publication of our Night Letters book. Roger’s widow Rose travelled from Cornwall for the occasion, as did the painter and long-time family friend Rod Walker. The book’s editor Timothy Bond and his partner Henry Trantel were also in attendance, along with the book’s designer Melanie Mues and image editor James Welch.