VIOLET ISLE
This Fall, Radius Books is proud to publish Violet Isle, a photographic duet about Cuba, by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. Ricco Maresca Gallery, in New York's Chelsea District, is launching the book with a wonderful exhibition of photographs by both artists. The book launch party and reception will be Thursday, November 5th from 6–8 pm followed by a gallery talk and booksigning on Saturday, November 7th from 4–6 pm.

Ricco Maresca, New York City: Nov 5–Jan 2, 2010

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BRIAN RUTENBERG

In 2008, Radius Books published, Brian Rutenberg, a comprehensive collection of Rutenberg's nature inspired paintings. Rutenberg draws inspiration from the landscape and creates work that elicits a profoundly visceral experience. In his paintings, he reinvests abstraction with a sense of spirituality that revitalizes the medium. The landscape, complex in its layers, has continued to guide Rutenberg’s approach to composition and color in his new work. TEW Galleries of Atlanta and the Gibbs Museum of Art in Charleston, SC are presenting Rutenberg's recent paintings and works on paper that characterize his unique representation of the landscape through abstraction.

TEW Galleries, Atlanta: Oct 8–Nov 8
Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston: Oct 21–Jan 10, 2010

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ED MOSES

Arriving in our warehouse this November, Ed Moses, presents the work of one of the most forceful and consistently challenging modernist artists. Rather than maintain one distinct style, Moses has repeatedly embraced new approaches to his art. The constants in his work are an emphasis on gesture, on mark-making, and on an intimate connection with his materials. In addition, almost all of Moses’ work has a sense of three-dimensionality to it. One doesn’t just look at an Ed Moses painting: one enters it, almost in the way that one enters the subconscious during meditation. Moses has been a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism for much of his life, and this influence, the sense of living in the moment, is evident in his work. He says it most succinctly: “I don’t visualize and execute. Every breath is brand new. Don’t think of the future, don’t think of the past, the only factor is now.”

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MICHAEL LUNDGREN: TRANSFIGURATIONS

Throughout its history, landscape photography has transitioned from scientific exploration to the idealization of nature and the spectacle of human progress. Lost along the way was a sense that photographs of the land can speak to an ecstatic experience. Borne of this lineage, Transfigurations is an atavistic contemplation of the origin, embracing photography’s duality, veracity and transformation.These photographs are a lust for the primitive. They seek to understand beauty and terror, which are inseparable. In the desert, nothing remains static; even the rocks move. The landscape is discernible only because of the presence of what is fundamentally absent. Myth and metaphor remain unfixed, open.

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BEAUMONT'S KITCHEN

Considered by many to be the father of the history of photography, Beaumont Newhall was known by his intimate circle as a great chef and gracious host as well. This beautifully designed volume contains a substantial selection of Newhall’s articles and recipes culled from his weekly column, “Epicure Corner,” which appeared in The Brighton-Pittsford Post in Rochester, New York, from 1956–1969. Accompanying the columns is a selection of photographs made by some of the “Newhall Circle,” which included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, and many other twentieth-century photographic luminaries, as well as reminiscences from his many colleagues and friends who enjoyed Beaumont’s efforts in the kitchen. This tribute publication to a seminal figure in the history of the medium was edited by David Scheinbaum, who worked with Newhall for 15 years as his assistant, until his death in 1993. Scheinbaum lovingly introduces the book with a personal essay.

The limited edition of Beaumont’s Kitchen is limited to 30 copies, each of which comes with 1 signed and numbered photogravure. The print, titled Prints and Fruit, measures 14 x 17 inches (with an image area of 8 x 10 inches) and has been printed by master printer Jon Goodman. $600

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OTTO DONALD ROGERS

Clement Greenberg once said of the young Otto Rogers, that he is “an artist of amazing talent, worthy of an international reputation.” Widely collected throughout the entire breadth of Canada, Otto Rogers is considered one of that country’s mature, leading artists. His work is an inspired exploration of landscape and abstraction, rooted in a profound understanding of the history of modern art. Rogers’ own personal beliefs in the transcendence of the soul and the physical world as a reflection of spiritual realms have always factored heavily in his work, lending an exquisite dimension of refinement and subtlety to his paintings.This first major monograph will make his work accessible to a wide-ranging audience. Beloved to his students and known as an engaging public speaker, Rogers contributes an essay that interweaves his ideas about art and both artistic and spiritual practice, shedding illumination on his entire process.

The limited edition of 75 includes one unique, signed “constructed monotype print, derived from woodblock imagery” plus a book in a clamshell box. $800

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The deluxe edition of 20 Includes an original artwork plus a signed and numbered book in a clamshell box. $1,750

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Newly released by Anthropy Arts is a DVD documentary featuring Debbie Fleming Caffery and her work from the 2009 Radius book, The Spirit & The Flesh. Also indcluded in this DVD is Cafrey's documentation of the Louisiana sugar cane harvest, the plight of prostitutes in Mexican brothels, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  The documentary travels with her through the mud of the sugar cane mills, to the devastated homes of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, and to the South of France for the Les Rencontres Arles Photography Festival. In the Photo Commentary, she divulges the stories behind some of her most touching and poignant images.  Plus, the Bonus Feature provides further insights to her creative process.

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JULIE BLACKMON nominated for the Prix BMW Paris Photo Prize

Arguably the best and most elegant of all the photography fairs around the world, Paris Photo happens every November in the Carrousel Du Louvre. Bernstein & Andriulli will exhibit Blackmon's photographs at this years' Paris Photo, from November 19–22. Radius Books published Blackmon's first monograph, Domestic Vacations, in the Spring of 2009. Raised as the oldest of nine children, with three herself, Blackmon takes an approach to her work that is at once autobiographical and fictional. Blackmon sees life’s most poignant moments as a fusion of fantasy and reality, the mythic amidst chaos. Anne Wilkes Tucker of the Houston Museum of Fine Art has said of her work, “she’s taken a subject that is ripe for cliché—mother photographing children—and through the subtle, digital manipulations, the use of color and highly graphic images, she’s given it humor and edge and taken the subject somewhere fresh.”

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