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Mason’s Yard is a new catalogue by exhibition-maker and art director Judith Clark that elucidates designer and curator Duro Olowu’s London boutique. With writings by artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Viscose. Issue 6: TEXT.


The sixth issue of Viscose Journal focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of “writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries.

The fashion writer is a confidant, a storyteller, a forecaster, a mythmaker; they are evocative and poetic, forming words that shape, and in turn are shaped by, the latest fashions. From the salon shows to the pages of fashion magazines, their “expressions may be as ephemeral as the fashions they describe,” as Dorothy Hughes noted already in 1935. Early fashion writing played a key role in the transformation of clothes into fashion each season, and in igniting the machine of fashion itself. The historical roots of fashion writing— which was, at least in an industry context, a distinctly female practice— are grounded in the modernization and seasonalization of industrial fashion. And even today, in an age described by many as image-driven, this remains true: across various media platforms, language not only surrounds fashion but also continuously contributes to its creation.

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Please join us TOMORROW, 6-8pm for the launch of The Art Beneath by Spike Bucklow published by CentreCentre

Through these microscopic cross-sections of thirteenth-to twentieth-century paintings, Spike Bucklow unearths the hidden processes, materials and techniques of Rembrandt, Carravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Walter Sickert, Claude Monet, Marianne North and more.

Within one sample of paint, the size of a pin prick or full stop, lies a vast and complex geological strata; a masterpiece by Titian becomes an abstract landscape of yellowing varnish, crunchy blue lapis, a silken slab of lead white, sea shells floating in chalk, egg mingling with oil atop of taut canvas.

The Art Beneath, reorients painting as three-dimensional and durational, revealing the painter’s patient assembling (and conservators’ quiet retracing) of an artwork from ground up.

Le Dépays - Chris Marker

This is the first English language edition of Chris Marker’s 1982 photo-essay, Le Dépays. Lovingly adapted from the original design, it features Marker’s own translation astride some of his most exquisite, yet rarely seen, black-and-white photography. Realized over the same years as its film companion, Sans Soleil, the book traces similar themes—cats and owls and Japan—but without ever leaving Golden-Gai for Guinea-Bissau. Musing among department store maneki-neko and dreamers on the metro, wandering between Tokyo and no-place at all, this is nevertheless a unique glimpse of Marker feeling very much himself and quite at home; that is, delightfully disoriented.

Thank you for bringing new life to one of my favourite books of all time

Please join us on Tuesday 2 July at 2pm UK time for TenderChats, our ongoing series of live conversations. We invite Charlie Engman to discuss Hello Chaos, a Love Story: The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen, published by MACK

Kitty, the cute and mute cartoon protagonist of Hello Chaos, a Love Story: The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen, embarks on an ill-fated endeavour to win the eyes of her estranged counterpart Mickey in this genre-defying book by Charlie Engman. Through a cat-and-mouse narrative of unrequited attention-seeking, Engman unravels the contradictions of contemporary visual culture as Kitty and Mickey struggle to find each other and themselves amidst the chaos of imagery, technology, and mass production.

TenderChats is an ongoing series of 30-minute musings on the magic and permanence of printed matter. A twice-monthly series of live conversations will be hosted by writer and publisher Dal Chodha on Instagram TV .

Please join us on Tuesday 2 July, 6-8pm for the launch of The Art Beneath by Spike Bucklow published by CentreCentre.

Through these microscopic cross-sections of thirteenth-to twentieth-century paintings, Spike Bucklow unearths the hidden processes, materials and techniques of Rembrandt, Carravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Walter Sickert, Claude Monet, Marianne North and more.

Within one sample of paint, the size of a pin prick or full stop, lies a vast and complex geological strata; a masterpiece by Titian becomes an abstract landscape of yellowing varnish, crunchy blue lapis, a silken slab of lead white, sea shells floating in chalk, egg mingling with oil atop of taut canvas.

The Art Beneath, reorients painting as three-dimensional and durational, revealing the painter’s patient assembling (and conservators’ quiet retracing) of an artwork from ground up.

Hanuman Editions Series One Boxset
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Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, this gold-embossed slipcase features the six inaugural titles from Hanuman Editions, which pay homage to the original Hanuman Books..
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While the titles will remain individually available, this box set will never be reproduced.

Featured Titles
The Ice Storm by John Ashbery
On My Painting by Max Beckmann
Feminine Hijinx by Dodie Bellamy
Bread and Water by Eileen Myles
Garden of Ashes by Cookie Mueller
The Lie of the Truth by René Daumal 🐒

We are closed for a short holiday 10-14 June. 😴
Please expect a little delay with online orders during this time.
Our next shop day is Saturday 15 June.
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A favourite back in stock 🔮 ⭐️ 🌑

The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours , Notes on Subway Psychics - Magali Duzant
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The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is a pocket-sized guide to modern mysticism by way of the New York City subway system. This collection of writing and photography by Magali Duzant includes a short history of psychics in our popular imagination and more than a dozen vignettes about her foray into new age beliefs, alongside a curious collection of artifacts and archival images from the New York Public Library Picture Collection.
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The book follows Duzant on a freewheeling investigation into the rise of contemporary spiritualism in an age of uncertainty. Each chapter is presented in the form of an unanswerable question—Will I find happiness? Is there luck in my future? Will I find love that lasts?—and meanders into the murky world of palm readings and impromptu sauna astrology sessions, to name a few.
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The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours: Notes on Subway Psychics includes a holographic cover, a selection of the colourful psychic fliers found on the subway, and in the back of each book, a scratch-off fortune card awaits the reader.
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Messico 1935/1956 - Josef Albers

Josef and Anni Albers began their travels to Mexico in 1935, drawn to a country very unlike the United States. They were not in search of the exotic but rather of the traces of ancient pre-Colombian civilisations (the Mayans and the Aztecs) and testimonies of the everyday lives of a population that was very poor yet full of vitality. Dressed in dark colours and donning a large black hat, Albers was a non-professional photographer with the gaze of an architect, as may be noted from the great sense of composition and the search for geometries which he digs out even from the millenary archaeological findings. The volume also features an introduction by Brenda Danilowitz, curator and head of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, as well as an essay by Luca Galofaro, Professor (LSGMA) and curator (CAMPO, Rome).

Last days to view our beautiful presentation for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards.

The exhibition of thirty-five books shortlisted for the 2023 award is on view at Tenderbooks until Saturday 1 June. As well as the winning titles the display includes publications by Clifford Prince King, Mikiko Hara, Ruth van Beek, Star Feliz and Christopher Gregory-Rivera. A selection of the books are also available to purchase.

Tenderbooks is pleased to participate in The Artists’ Fair 2024 on Saturday 1 June, 12-6pm at Somerset House Lancaster Rooms. Initiated by the Somerset House Studios community, The Artists’ Fair includes an artist-led market and programme of panel talks, facilitating an informal space for artists and audiences to engage.

Tenderbooks will participate in the artist-led market alongside a diverse community at Somerset House Studios. Residents and artists selling wares include Anat Ben David, Aoibheann Greenan, Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Che Applewhaite, Eloise Hawser, Enore, Ilona Sagar, Imran Perretta, Jessica Rinland, Leila Dear, Louis Morlæ, Maeve Brennan, Paul Purgas, Philomene Pirecki (Gates of Vanitas), Ruth Hughes, Sam Williams, Sian Fan, Zein Majali and more. It offers a unique opportunity to purchase original artworks, objects, and wares directly from artists, and helps to create alternative income streams with 100% of proceeds going directly to the artists. The market will also feature friends of Somerset House Studios, including Arcadia Missa Publishing, Beirut Kitchen, DACS, Fieldnotes, La Grotta Ices, Montez Press, Silver Press, and more.

Throughout the day, there will be food stalls, and the bar will host an evening of DJ sets from the Somerset House Studios community.

For more information and booking visit: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/artists-fair-2024




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Liu Ye: The Book Paintings
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The Chinese artist Liu Ye’s meticulous, colorful canvases convey his love of literature in the first publication dedicated to his paintings of books.

The Beijing-based artist Liu Ye is known for his precise, deftly rendered representational paintings. Drawn equally from contemporary culture and old master painting, Liu’s wide-ranging visual touchstones include Piet Mondrian, Miffy the Bunny, and Prada advertisements. In this new publication devoted to his book paintings, the artist examines the book as both a physical object and cultural totem. Playing with geometry and perspective, Liu creates extraordinary and disorienting portraits of this most familiar subject. 📕

1 2 3 2 1 is a 304-page photo novel by Yao Yuan, that juxtaposes images created during and after Nagakura Nami’s pregnancy and the birth of her child, across 2017-2019. In parallel with images of Yuan’s personal life and journeys between Japan and China, 1 2 3 2 1 contemplates ancient allegories and worldings within the contemporary condition through a q***r intimate vision.

The book portrays multitudes of cinematic cityscapes and natural sceneries, vigorous colors and mundane daily moments, containing the coexistence of rough emotions and banal transience. It ponders on an array of subjects such as time, memories, gender, borders, identity, spirituality, nature, healing, care, reality, magic and mystery. The book speaks in the visual language of poetry and metaphors.

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Heavy Traffic IV


The latest release from acclaimed New York-based fiction magazine, Heavy Traffic. Featuring a star-studded roster of new fiction by Linda Yablonsky, Natasha Stagg, Sam Kriss, Keller Easterling, Sierra Armor, Kyle Chayka, Sedrick Chisom, Sean Thor Conroe, Cara Schacter & Jasper Baydala. Designed by Richard Turley. Edited by Patrick McGraw.

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II

In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II, Zanele Muholi explores and expands upon new personas and poetic interpretations of personhood, q***rness, Blackness, and the possibilities of self. Since the publication of the first volume in 2018, Muholi has continued to photograph themself in a range of new international locations. Drawing on material props found in each environment, Muholi boldly explores their own image and innate possibilities as a Black individual in today’s global society, and—most important—speaks emphatically in response to contemporary and historical racisms. Renée Mussai, curator and historian, brings together written contributions from more than ten curators, poets, and authors, building a poetic and experimental framework that extends the idea of speculative futures and the potentiality of multivalent selves. Powerfully arresting, this collection further amplifies Muholi’s expressive and radical manifesto. As they state in the first volume, “My practice as a visual activist looks at Black resistance—existence as well as insistence.”

Helmut Lang Archive - Joachim Andreasson

Baron presents an immersive book edited from more than 10,300 photographs of original Pre-Spring / Summer 2005 Helmut Lang designs photographed by Joakim Andreasson over the course of three years, between 2015-2017, as well as related documents. The book encompasses a visual encapsulation of apparel and accessories that were salvaged from a now infamous 2010 fire that ripped through the SOHO (New York) building that housed the former designer’s archive and were years later sold off. The photographs by Andreasson, candidly prepared as visual support for these sales, serve as an important and inimitable survey of Helmut Lang designs, with an edit pre- determined by catastrophic circumstances.

Workbooks is an extensive book that gathers together a creative lifetime of collecting, imagining, sketching and recording by British artist Nigel Shafran from 1984-2024.

Please join us on Saturday 18 May, 6-8pm for the launch of The Long Shadow: Unwrapped ~ Marion Post Wolcott’s Labour and Love by Odette England published by Libraryman.

The Long Shadow: Unwrapped ~ Marion Post Wolcott’s Labor and Love reveals the unpublished life and images of the American photographer Marion Post Wolcott1 (b. 1910, d. 1990). Wolcott was the first woman hired as a full-time photographer for the Farm Security Administration in 1938 during America’s Great Depression.

The Long Shadow is a homage-style reflection on a female icon of photography. Drawing from Wolcott’s archive of unseen intimate portraits and through conversations with her family, Anglo-Australian photographer Odette England (b. 1975) juxtaposes them with her photographs and prose rewritten from interviews and historical records.

The book contains a preface and prose written by Odette England as well as 19 unpublished photographs by Marion Post Wolcott.

Tenderbooks is pleased to announce an exhibition of the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, the first presentation of the annual prize for photobooks to take place in the UK.

Now in its eleventh year the awards honour excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing, with 2023 awards given for First PhotoBook, Tender by Carla Williams (BW Books, Oakland, California); PhotoBook of the Year, The Drawer by Vince Aletti (SPBH Editions, London); and Photography Catalog of the Year, The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by Diwas Raja Kc and NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati (Nepal Picture Library / photo.circle, Kathmandu, Nepal).

An exhibition of thirty-five books shortlisted for the 2023 award will be on view at Tenderbooks until Saturday 1 June. As well as the winning titles the display includes publications by Clifford Prince King, Mikiko Hara, Ruth van Beek, Star Feliz and Christopher Gregory-Rivera. A selection of the books will also be available to purchase.

The exhibition continues until Saturday 1 June, Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6pm.

Please join us on TONIGHT, 7-9pm for a book signing with photographer Lina Scheynius.

After the boxed edition of her first 11 photographic autobiographies in 2019, we celebrate the new release of singular volumes opuses 12, 13 and 14 of the My Photo Books collection by Lina Scheynius published by JBE Books. An invitation to witness the everyday, but also to encounter and transcend many formal limits, these books deploy the contemplative carnation so characteristic of Lina Scheynius.

The Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards exhibition continues until 1 June. Tenderbooks is pleased to host the first exhibition of the annual prize for photobooks to take place in the UK.

An exhibition of thirty-five books shortlisted for the 2023 award will be on view at Tenderbooks until Saturday 1 June. As well as the winning titles the display includes publications by Clifford Prince King, Mikiko Hara, Ruth van Beek, Star Feliz and Christopher Gregory-Rivera. A selection of the books will also be available to purchase.

Pictured here are a selection of the beautiful titles that are available to purchase in store and online.

Mountain of Salt - Bindi Vora

Recaptioning Congo. African Stories and Colonial Pictures.

Dialect - Felipe Romero Beltrán

Statues Also Die - Jan Mammey & Flak Messerschmidt

Please join us on Thursday 16 May, 7-9pm for a book signing with photographer Lina Scheynius.

After the boxed edition of her first 11 photographic autobiographies in 2019, we celebrate the new release of singular volumes opuses 12, 13 and 14 of the My Photo Books collection by Lina Scheynius published by JBE Books. An invitation to witness the everyday, but also to encounter and transcend many formal limits, these books deploy the contemplative carnation so characteristic of Lina Scheynius.