Kominek Books presents two new Collectores Editions : A Minor Wrong Doingand Life is One Live it Well by Finnish photographer Henrik Malmström (1983).
A Minor Wrong Doing
Slowly but steadily we become immersed in what Henrik
Malmström saw and photographed from the window of his
living room. The pages of A Minor Wrong doing unfold as a
hypnotic sequence of candid shots taken at the
neighbourhood of St. Georg in Hamburg, between 2011
and 2014. Hundreds of them, they record the last remains
of street life in an urban area that is currently undergoing
fierce gentrification after recent official law enforcement
against street-based prostitution.
Malmström used a cheap
digital camera forcing its ISO levels to reproduce in each
scene the raw effect of a surveillance cam. The grainy
monochromatic material of his voyeuristic enterprise has
been put together in this voluminous book replicating a
messy police report archive. Printed in sharp dots, the grain
adds a grade of unprecedented abstraction and beauty to
the sequence whereas the quantity of images breaks with
the conventional linear story structure. There is an uncanny
feel in it. And obsession: the unconfessed obsession of a
photographer who happened to be in the right place at the
right time
BOOK
Henrik Malmström – A Minor Wrong Doing
Collectores Edition
163mm x 210mm / Softcover with embossing and silver ink on black paper / 288 pages book + 700 pages original photocopies, housed together in a transparent vinyl box
Design and editing by Henrik Malmström and Misha Kominek
Limited Edition of 25 copies + II AP
Includes 700 original photocopies + signed and numbered book
price: 250 €
Life is One Live it Well
Life is One Live it Well takes us back to the dodgy area of St. Georg in Hamburg and to many of its barrooms: Mickey Mouse, Windstärke 11, Zum Frühaufsteher, Rund um die Uhr, Moin Moin, Treff Hamburg-München, also the Vanessa Bar, Dschungel Bar, Rubin Bar, Moulin Rouge, Zar und Zimmermann and the Astra Stübchen.
Somewhere between the bittersweet fatalism of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the deadpan mien aesthetics of Aki Kaurismäki, Malmström recreates in colour a contemporary “Café Lehmitz”. Its ambience is imbued with visual stylization and a warm-hearted emotional immediacy towards its people who just want to be left in peace and “drink their bitter cup of broken dreams”, as the famous Finnish tango artist Olavi Virta sings. After all, life is one, so you better live it well. Thank you for the visit.
BOOK
Henrik Malmström – Life is One Live it Well
Collectores Edition
210mm x 300mm / hardcover with embossing / 256 pages + 1 loose paper + 3 unique original Polaroids
Design and editing by Henrik Malmström and Misha Kominek
Collectores Edition of 25 copies + II AP / signed and numbered
Each edition includes 3 different original Polaroids, when ordering let us know the edition number of your choice, subject to availability.
price: 250 €
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