Dear Thank You Yours Sincerely This book is a collection of 77 letters received by the artist in reply to his incessant applications over a period of three years. From these most prosaic documents a kind of bittersweet poetry emerges, a sustained and repetitive meditation on the politics and the poetics of rejection. Author: Atsuhide Ito Dear Reader, Thank you for your interest in buying this book. However we regret to inform you that despite your impressive credentials, competition in this field is extremely fierce and unfortunately we are unable to grant your request at this time. Best of luck in the future. Yours Sincerely, Pocko
Yamanote Iñigo Asis’s photographs, taken on Tokyo’s circle line, exploit the sense of ‘curtains opening’, when the unsuspecting passengers momentarily confront the waiting photographer. Standing in front of the camera has never been so annoying. But the point is that from this uncomfortable situation the most fascinating facial expressions emerge: hidden details of the contained anger created by the impotence to do anything about it. Author: Inigo Asis
Powersmile Privately collected by two German teenagers in the 70's, the press-photos of US Senators and Governors in ‘Power-Smile’ are a miniature archive of a period when media-friendliness became the establishment's key survival strategy, evidence of the then-emerging reality that a good PR shot is worth a thousands votes. Clean as my teeth, straight as my tie. Here in all their greasy glory are the power-hungry political chameleons of Nixon's America, flossing for office and combing for Capitol Hill. What do you see in the mesmerised stare? Learned or lobotomised? Groomed or doomed? Author: Adam Lowe
