Christine Davis Projections

An exhibition catalogue for Christine Davis's exhibition, "DRINK ME" exhibited at PHG in 2005.
Introduction by Helga Pakasaar with essays by Barry Schwabsky and Janine Marchessault

46 page colour catalogue
7 3/4" x 10 1/4"

Richard Prince Lynn Valley

Published by Presentation House Gallery and Bywater Bros. Editions
September 2006
48 pages, softcover, edition of 2000
10.5” x 7.75”, 26.5 x 19.75 cm
colour cover and inner pages

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Jeremy Shaw DMT

An exhibition catalogue for Jeremy Shaw's video installation, DMT shown at PHG in 2004.
Foreword by Helga Pakasaar with essays by Clint Burnham and Monika Szewczyk

400 page black and white catalogue
8.5" x 7"

Kevin Schmidt Fog

This CD is representative of an artist talk for the Kevin Schmid installation, Fog, exhibited at PHG in 2004 and curated by Helga Pakasaar.

CD booklet contains an introduction by Helga Pakasaar followed by an essay by Corin Sworn
Lyrics to 6 songs written, performed and produced by Kevin Schmidt

4.75" x 4.75
edition of 500

Unfinished Business : Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985

Contributors: Marie Anneharte Baker, Roy Arden, Michael Barnholden, Dick Bellamy, Rob Brownie, Adrienne Burk, Clint Burnham, Wayde Compton, Gordon Cornwall, Michael de Courcy, Jack Dale, Christos Dikeakos, Fred Douglas, Svend-Erik Eriksen, Brett Enemark, Robbert Flick, Greg Girard, Fred Herzog, Curt Lang, Garry Morse, N.E. Thing Company, Stephen Osborne, Meredith Quartermain, Jamie Reid, Henri Robideau, Sharla Sava, Brian Stablyk, Bruce Stewart, Robert Sherrin, Derek Simons, Annabel Vaughan, Cory Verbauwhede, Fred Wah, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Petra Watson, Tony Westman, Bob Williams, Paul Wong.

284 page colour catalogue
6.5" x 8"

EVAN LEE CAPTURES: Selected Works 1998 - 2006

Evan Lee’s photographs are explorations of the extraordinary within the ordinary. Lee’s work specifically addresses the presence of ‘the phenomenal’ in the detritus of our secular world. The catalogue is an overview of all of Lee’s projects since 1998, including his most recent body of work focussed on the forms of the ginseng root. Texts by Christopher Brayshaw, Peter Culley, Jeff Wall and William Wood.

68 page colour catalogue
8" x 10"

JULIE HENRY GOING DOWN

Julie Henry's dual-screen dvd projection captures the sociology and religious fervour of sport while also linking it to reception theory and reader response criticism. Texts by Steven Bode and Bill Jeffries

36 page colour catalogue
5.5 " x 5.5"

NINA TOFT "The one I think I am..."

Nina Toft's dvd installation examines the questionable work of the paparrazzi and public portraiture.Texts by Shane Danielsen and Bill Jeffries

36 page colour catalogue
5.5 " x 5.5"

Available now for $20.00

AKBAR NAZEMI Unsent Dispatches from the Iranian Revolution, 1978 - 1979

Akbar Nazemi's extraordinary colour photographs of the streets of Tehran during the period of the Iranian revolution. Co-curated by Pantea Haghighi & Bill Jeffries. Texts by Asef Bayat, Pantea Haghighi, Nikki R. Keddie, Akbar Nazemi, and Bill Jeffries.

64 page colour catalogue
8" x 10" , vertical

Available now for $20.00

DOUGLAS CURRAN The Elephant Has Four Hearts: Nyau Masks and Ritual

PHG's January 2005 exhibition of photographs by Douglas Curran documenting the rituals of the Chewa people from Malawi. Texts by Douglas Curran and Bill Jeffries. Includes extended captions detailing the subjects of the colour photographs.Curated by Bill Jeffries

48 pages
8.5" x 8.5”, vertical
22 full-page colour reproductions,plus several Black & White

Available now for $15.00

DAVID ROKEBY

Co-published with the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the catalogue of David Rokeby's 2001 exhibition at PHG and subsequent exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Essays on David Rokeby's work by Dot Tuer, Shirley Madill and Karen Henry.

54 pages, colour
6.5" x 8.5”, vertical

Available now for $20.00

SPHERE

The catalogue of PHG’s autumn 2003 group exhibition with works by: Deanne Achong, Holly Armishaw, Susan Coolen, William Eakin, Lynda Gammon, Lisa Klapstock, Daniel Lee, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Michael Euyung Oh, Lindsay Seers, Laurie Simmons/Allan McCollum, Geoffrey Smedley. Essays by Arif Babul, Anna Carlevaris, Cheryl Cooper, Leanne Fulton, Bill Jeffries, Laiwan, Robin Laurence, Lucy R. Lippard, Melanie O'Brian, Helga Pakasaar, Lisa Panting, Ben Portis and Ian Wallace.
Curated by Bill Jeffries

80 pages, colour
6.5 x 9.5”, vertical

Available now for $15.00

Eileen Leier Grosse Île: The Immigrant Quarantine Station

Eileen Leier's 2003 exhibition of her investigation of Canada's primary point of immigration from Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Reproductions of 30 of Leier's photographs, texts by Anna Carlevaris, John Bryden, Eileen Leier & Bill Jeffries.

30 duotone photographs
48 pages
$15.00

Available now for $15.00

H.G. COX British Columbia Pictorialist

In the summer of 2003, PHG showed the photographs of a once-famous, but completely forgotten British Columbia Pictorialist, H.G.Cox. The book for this exhibition, covers the entire range of Cox's practice. Texts by Sylvia Grace Borda, Neil Wedman and Bill Jeffries, reveal a new slant on life in British Columbia in the 1920s and 1930s.

30 duotone photographs
Includes biographical information on the artist, an explanation of the chemical processes used by Pictorialists and information on Cox's involvement in the international salon movement.
$15.00

PHG is also offering a limited edition (26) cloth-bound version of the book with the purchase of a Cox digital print made in 2003, for $200.

(click here to view prints available)

Available now for $10.00

From Stills to Motion & Back Again
Texts on Andy Warhol's
Screen Tests & Outer and Inner Space

Bill Jeffries, Editor

From Stills to Motion and Back Again, contains texts by Callie Angell from the Whitney Museum, J.Hoberman from the Village Voice, Geralyn Huxley Curator of Film & Video at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and Bill Jeffries. This book also contains the first transcription of the words spoken by Edie Sedgwick in Warhol's Outer and Inner Space, transcribed by Lisa Dillon Edgett.

48 pages
6" x 9”, vertical
5 images

Available now for $8.00

Unfinished Business:
Vancouver Street Photographs
1955 - 1985

Bill Jeffries, Editor

Featuring photographs by: Dick Bellamy, Michael de Courcy, Jack Dale, Christos Dikeakos, Fred Douglas, Svend-Erik Eriksen, Robbert Flick, Greg Girard, Fred Herzog, Curt Lang, N.E. Thing Company, Henri Robideau, Brian Stablyk, Bruce Stewart, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Tony Westman and Paul Wong.With texts by Stephen Osborne and Bill Jeffries.

36 pages
8 x 11”, vertical
69 photographs

Available now! $20.00
Save $15.00 by purchasing this book & "Running Fence" by Geoffrey James for only $40.00 total!!

Mark Ruwedel : Written on the Land

Karen Love, Editor

Catalogue of Ruwedel's September 2002 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery. The book covers Ruwedel's work from 1990 to the present, divided into three sections: The Ice Age; Pictures of Hell; and Westward The Course of Empire. These three series are interrelated, as archeological history, land use and the act of naming places combined to form a picture of human interaction with the land.

With texts by Barry Lopez and Ann Thomas.

Mark Ruwedel's work from the past decade.

64 pages
9.5 x 10”, horizontal
Reproductions: 49 b&w

Available now! $29.95
Save $15.00 by purchasing this book and
"It Pays to Play" by Peter White for only $40.00 total!!

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver
Karen Love, Editor

Artists in the exhibition: Ray Allan, Alvin Armstrong, Artray, Glenn Baglo, Doug Ball, Marian Penner Bancroft, Percy Bentley/Dominion Photo Company, Steve Bosch, Ralph Bower, David Buchan, Corrine Corry, Kate Craig, Croton Studio, Bill Cunningham, Max Dean, George Diack, Fred Douglas, Diane Evans, Jochen Gerz & Esther Shalev-Gerz, John Helcermanas, Brian Kent, Robert Keziere, Roy Kiyooka, Una Knox, Mike Love, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Arnaud Maggs, Kyla Mallett, John McGinnis, Al McWilliams, Robert Minden, Al Neil, N.E. Thing Co Ltd., Wendy Oberlander, Ann Park, Jerry Pethick, Colin Price, Foncie Pulice, Judy Radul, Chick Rice, Henri Robideau, Carol Sawyer, Gordon F. Sedawie, Sandra Semchuk & James Nicholas, George Smith, Ian Smith, Michele Smith, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Colette Whiten, Jin-me Yoon, Sharyn Yuen. Billboard artists: David Buchan, Allyson Clay, Judy Radul, Henry Tsang, Paul Wong.

Writers: Robin Blaser, Colin Browne, Wayde Compton, Tom Cone, Nicole Gingras, Bruce Grenville, Karen Henry, Robert Hunter, Brian Jungen, Russell Keziere, Laiwan, Karen Love, Liz Magor, Roy Miki, Sarah Milroy, John O’Brian, Helga Pakasaar, Jerry Pethick, Rick Rhodes, Marina Roy, Carol Sawyer, Bob Sherrin, Henry Tsang, Michael Turner, Betsy Warland, Paul Wong, Rita Wong.

160 pages
8 x 10-1/2”, vertical
Reproductions: 140 (43 colour, 97 duotone)