TRIGGERED SOUND launched last month at X Marks the Bökship (a project space in East London which promotes contemporary publishing and brings together individual practitioners creating a local publishing community) and is now available for purchase from Ti Pi Tin too.

TRIGGERED SOUND is Palaver Press’ first print publication, having originally been established in 2011 to publish sound works. This book is a collection of commissioned photographs taken by sound artists, documenting the various objects in our world that playback pre-recorded sounds at the push of a button or the winding of a gear. Alarms, toys, tape players, megaphones, subway speakers, automated messaging systems, samplers, etc. The objects of triggered sound are photographed in environments both familiar and foreign, domestic and subterranean, calling to mind the ways in which we interact with them in our daily lives either by choice or by chance. These visual portraits reflect an intriguing range of silent moments despite the contrasting function of these objects to provide timed passages of recorded audio.

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I finally got around to put up online these two amazing zines by young Brooklyn based Turkish-American book artist Soner Ön, whose work is rooted in the cultural symbolism of his upbringing as well as traditions from his native ancestry.

All images in The Light In The Dark With The Neon Arms are from a curated selection of Google image search results for ‘God’. Risograph printed, this publication was inspired by a Kate Bush’s song Symphony in Blue and is an artist’s search for the universal.

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The second book presents a collection of altered reproductions of covers and pages of the comic book character Richie Rich, depicted as an African-American boy. Designed by Other Means and self-publsihed by Soner himself, Richie Rich questions consequences of iconography in popular culture, such as stereotypical assumptions regarding social class, identity and prosperity.

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Our Teen-Age Boys and Girls by Maggie Lee presents images of students from 1970′s negatives found a thrift store in Ohio alongside texts taken from Lester and Alice Crow’s Our Teen-age Boys and Girls, case studies of wayward youth, which was published in 1945.

The book was published by Gottlund Verlag, check out a selection of their titles in our online shop.

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We have a selection of publications by Valerie Phillips, including her most recent zine A Fantastic Kitten.

A Fantastic Kitten
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Amber is for Caution
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I Can’t Believe A Girl Is Playing Me Metallica
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Monika Monster, Future First Woman on Mars
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I Don’t Warna Grow Up is the first book of photographs by artist Sean Vegezzi, who began documenting his explorations in New York City in 2000. Wandering through abandoned subway tunnels, constructions sites, alleyways, rooftops and other spaces of abject industrial insignificance, Vegezzi struck out for the liminal and in between spaces of his environment. Photographs presented in the book both document this experience and immortalise the adventurous spirit of adolescence.

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Graduations by Sara Glahn is a self-published booklet with portraits of former students from the period 1974-1978 at the Dutch Art & Design Academy, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, all found in an unpublished archive at the academy. Along with the portraits a collection of fictional text, which touches upon the time after graduating and the education as an artist/designer.

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Edited by photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese, Dive Dark Dream Slow is an artist book “rooted in the mystery and delight of the ‘found’ image and the ‘snapshot’ aesthetic.

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Within this publication Tobias Zielony documents the teenagers who live in Trona (a small remote community in San Bernardio County, California – formally a settlement for those working in the chemical industry, it is now infamous for hosting small Crystal Meth laboratories) and who face small prospects and meagre alternatives. The publication is divided into two parts, Zielony’s photographs and text he quoted from a blog about Trona.

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Surfer by Magali Reus is reflecting on the abstraction and use of images from a series of pictures of surfers collected by the artist for years. The book was published following artist’s exhibition at La Salle de bains, Lyon and includes Background, a supplement with texts from Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, Jill Gasparina and Pierre-Lin Rénié.

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PARIS 88/89 contains twenty one of Daido Moriyama’s photographs taken in Paris, whilst living there in 1988 and 1989 without speaking a word of French or knowing anyone. The book is accompanied by the translation (into French) of photographer’s memories dedicated to Paris and an unpublished interview with Jean-Kenta Gauthier.

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