James Benning: Two Cabins (2011)

“This project based publication edited by Julie Ault documents and analyzes a body of work by the critically acclaimed filmmaker.

Benning reconstructed Henry David Thoreau’s and Ted Kaczynski’s iconic cabins, and uses these structures to reflect on utopian and dystopian versions of social isolation. Mounted on the walls of each cabin are copies of paintings by so-called outsider artists, also made by Benning. On the surface Benning’s two cabins are night and day, invoking contradictory sets of reclusive intentions and divergent paths leading back out. Deeper inquiry reveals the Thoreau / Kaczynski equation to be inspired. Benning’s engagement makes discernable a multitude of contacts between their motivations, beliefs, and experiences of seclusion. Benning’s armature artfully unfolds a complex articulation of practices of dissent, nonprescriptive ways of living, and the politics of solitude.

The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Julie Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from Thoreau’s and Kaczynski’s writings.”

Edited by Julie Ault
Publisher Art Resources Transfer, New York, 2011
ISBN 0923183485, 9780923183486
175 pages
via juleslineal, HT Auditory Scenes

Interview with author (Brian Sholis, Artforum, 2012)
Publisher
WorldCat

PDF (10 MB)
Film (2011, 31 min)

Crack Cloud: Swish Swash (2017)

Made by Crack Cloud, 2017
From the work known as Anchoring Point

via Crack Cloud

MP4 (68 MB)

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972)

A monograph composed of 80 photographs, edited and designed by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus’ friend and colleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus.

Text edited from tape recordings of a series of classes given by Diane Arbus (1923-1971) in 1971 as well as from interviews and some of her writings.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the photographs of Diane Arbus at the Museum of Modern Art.

Publisher Millerton, New York, 1972
ISBN 0912334401, 9780912334400
15 pages, 80 unnumbered leaves of plates, 29 cm

Publisher
Open Library
WorldCat

PDF (44 MB)

See also

Going Where I’ve Never Been: The Photography of Diane Arbus, documentary, dir. John Musilli, 1972, 28 min. MP4 (65 MB), via