NEW BOOKS
	Balthasar Burkhard, Omnia Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard‘s oeuvre continues the tradition of his compatriots Robert Frank and Jakob Tuggener, their ever-questioning search for the truth hidden in the surfaces of the world and their contemplative precision. This monograph provides the first comprehensive overview of his work from the 1970s to 2004. Burkhard’s black-and-white photographs are characterized by rich details, perfect focus, and a mastery of craft that translates technical perfection into conceptual precision. Burkhard transforms the objective reality of his motifs into autonomous visual worlds with an immediacy and tender-sharp sensuality of their own. He carefully chooses detail and large-scale views of the visible world that are capable of asserting their presence in the most intimate realms of the viewer‘s mind. With an essay by Matthias Frehner Balthasar Burkhard, Omnia US$ 58.00 Order now at the online-shop Hardcover with dust jacket 264 pages, 189 tritone 10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm) Scalo Books ISBN (English) 3-03939-001-5 ISBN (German) 3-908247-88-8
	Wendy Ewald, American Alphabets The new book by Wendy Ewald offers an astonishing, playful, and profound look at written language and its power from various cultural perspectives. Ewald raises provocative questions on contemporary society and its divisions and the social power of language, at once liberating and oppressive. In this artist’s book, Wendy Ewald (Secret Games, Scalo, 2000), a conceptual photographer, investigates the ability of language to create barriers or alliances between groups according to gender, age, and race. In collaboration with children she created four alphabets: a Spanish alphabet with English-as-a-Second-Language students in North Carolina, an African-American alphabet with students at an elementary school in Cleveland, a White-Girls alphabet at a boarding school in Massachusetts, and an Arabic alphabet with students at a middle school in Queens, New York. The book combines language with photographic images allowing us to see ourselves in a fresh light! Wendy Ewald, American Alphabets US$ 58.00 Order now at the online-shop Hardcover with dust jacket 168 pages, 110 color and duotone 10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm) Scalo Books ISBN 3-908247-81-0

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	Anne Chu; Modes, Manners and Monsters In 2004, Scalo publisher Walter Keller suggested to New York artist Anne Chu to create a series of watercolors exclusively for an artist‘s book. Chu, “who bases her work both on classical forms and souvenir-shop knockoffs” (Holland Cotter in The New York Times), started to look for inspiration and chanced upon an old four-volume book called Modes and Manners. As always in her work, both on paper and in sculpture, she uses her wide-ranging sources to trigger her imagination, leaving behind their initial references. The exquisite outcome is a series of watercolors, some of them with allusions to classical motifs such as “The Birth of John the Baptist,” “Masquerader,” “The Wise Virgin,” or “The Knave.” Their phantasmagoric counterpart are watercolors with titles like “Hellish Spirit,“ “Standing Marmet,” or “Bowing Chimpanzee.” Anne Chu was born, lives and works in New York City. Her work is shown in galleries and museums internationally. In 2004 she took part in the “54th Annual Carnegie International Exhibition” in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2005 she had a solo show at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida. Anne Chu; Modes, Manners and Monsters US$ 58.00 Publication date: August 2006 Hardcover with dust jacket 144 pages, 65 watercolors 10 x 13” (25 x 33 cm) Scalo Books ISBN 3-908247-96-9
	Danwen Xing, Wo-Men Photographs 1993-1998 A Personal Diary of Chinese Avant-Garde Art in the 1990s Danwen Xing was born 1967 in Xi‘an, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. In 1989, she moved to Bejing to study at the Central Academy of Fine Art. Soon, she immersed herself in the Bejing underground art scene and started to document it with her camera. The 1990s were a transforming moment for the Chinese art scene: artists who worked as painters suddenly took off their clothes, and performed naked in public. They revolutionized traditional Chinese art, searching for ever more radical ways of expression. “Conceptually, my idea was to create a body of work on the generation born in the 1960s, which is about, and related to, myself. Many of the photographs were taken because the artist invited me personally to document their action; and others were photographed for European magazine publications. (...) ‘Wo-Men’ are two separate Chinese characters. ‘Wo’ means ‘I,’ ‘Men’ means ‘We.’ So this book is about the artists and me.” More than 250 photographs tell the story of Xing’s participation in the art scene and explore the generation born in the 1960s in China. In an accompanying essay, she tells of her personal explorations and struggles at the time, and describes the artists, their lives, the social situation, and the political background. “I wish this book was not only a unique publication on Chinese contemporary art with both photographs and art history, but also an honest portrait of myself in my twenties.” Violent and tender, beautiful and disturbing, these photographs convey an urgency and passion hard to comeby in contemporary Western art circles. This book received the best publishing project award at the 2003 Arles International Photo Festival. Danwen Xing, Wo-Men US$ 49.95 Publication date: August 2006 Hardcover 484 pages, 280 b/w and color 6 x 8.25 in. (15 x 21 cm) Scalo Books ISBN 3-908247-83-7

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