PHG Publications

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
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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
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"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)

Available now! $25.00

Fragments
Photographs 1981-1985
Roy Arden

Catalogue of the exhibition held at PHG in the spring of 2000.
Edited and with a forward by Bill Jeffries.
Essay by Peter Culley. Notes by Roy Arden

Arden's 6x6 colour images are a search for a mode of photography that functions as a lyrical but realist poetry. Fragments reflects his experience of the world; personal but not autobiographical, it reveals a time and space overlooked by means-end rationality.

47 pages, 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 vertical
Reproductions: 19 (16 colour, 3 duotone)

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

ISBN: 0-920293-53-0

**This book has been selected as a finalist in the fourth annual Mohawk Show, a celebration of graphic design. The Mohawk Show Exhibit will appear around the USA in 50 venues betwen July and December 2003.

Available now! $15.00

Touring Home From Away
Jin-me Yoon

Catalogue of the exhibition held at PHG in January/February 2002.

Texts by Annette Hurtig and Shauna McCabe with eighteen colour reproductions of this work.
Jin-me Yoon's work explores the mechanisms and functions of identity construction. This catalogue documents and analyzes her research from a 1998 residency on Prince Edward Island. Touring Home From Away is a project that explores the cultural functions of landscape, and representations of place as they pertain to the body and subjectivity. Re-working PEI’s imaginary presentation of itself, Yoon explores the ways in which the myths of the Island are manifested. The catalogue Jin-me Yoon: Touring Home From Away presents three works generated from this image series: two wall-mounted works, and an installation comprised of eighteen images mounted in nine suspended double-sided lightboxes.

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

40 Pages, with 21 colour reproductions
ISBN: 0-920293-54-9

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Reader
Selected Work by Jan Peacock

Karen Love, Editor and Curator.

A review of work by this Halifax video-based artist, with particular attention to the major work, Reader by the Window, which was exhibited at PHG in early summer, 1997. A video projection and sound environment which draws on a personal archive of video landscape walks recorded over 6 years in Canada, Japan, France, the U.K. and U.S., Reader by the Window "explores the common experience of 'the familiar' in unfamiliar places, where the boundaries of our identities blur into our surroundings and the strange becomes unrecognizably ours" (the artist). The publication also includes two videoscripts by the artist, and an essay by Peacock about the making of Sirensong.

Essays by Paula Levine (San Francisco), Robert Sherrin (Vancouver), and Jean Gagnon (Montréal).

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

64 pages, 9" x 7" approx., colour and b/w reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-50-6

$8.00

Land, Relationship and Community –
A Symposium

Symposium proceedings from a conference held in 1998 at the time of Sandra Semchuk’s exhibition how far back is home…

Texts by Ron Burnett, Rod Slemmons, Ellie Epp, Daisy Sewid-Smith, Sandra Semchuk and James Nicholas.
The speakers at the conference addressed issues related to the symposium’s title from six very different angles, in effect ‘working around the subject’ and in the process creating a composite portrait of our relation to the land and the role that art and communication can play in it. The is a key document for anyone with an interest in the land claims process, the role of land imagery in art and the nature of the complex relations that exist between ethics and way land shapes perception.

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

44 pages, text only
ISBN: 0-920293-47-6

$15.00

By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge)
Marion Penner Bancroft

By Land and Sea: Prospect and Refuge is an artist’s project and publication which addresses the relationship to landscape as being at the heart of both art and identity. As an artist using photography Bancroft situates herself in various geographies, not as representative of the omnipotent view, but as an individual among others and within a personal and social history. Her own views are made up of the experience of being an artist, a tourist, and a descendent, each view with its own evolved conventions.
Text by Marian Penner Bancroft, poem by Fred Wah and essay by curator Karen Henry.

In conjunction with an exhibition toured by Presentation House Gallery

38 pages with 10 colour and 11 black & white reproductions, paperback.
ISBN: 0-920293-51-4

 

$30.00

War Zones

WAR ZONES represents photo and media-based work by Barbara Alper, Dominique Blain, Willie Doherty, Eugenio Dittborn, Jochen Gerz, Johan Grimonprez, Jamilie Hassan, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, John & Yoko, Roy Kiyooka, Allan Harding MacKay, Nam June Paik, Nancy Paterson, Edward Poitras, Martha Rosler, John Scott, Barbara Steinman, Hiromi Tsuchida and Gu Xiong, who look at memories and ideologies associated with war.

Essays by Sue Malvern, Zdenka Badovinac, Bob Sherrin and an introduction by the curators, Karen Love and Karen Henry.

Sponsored by Janice Dillon and David Gibbons, The Royal Bank, Preferred Service Customs Brokers, the Hamber Foundation, the Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation, VanCity Savings Credit Union, the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

119 pages, 44 b&w reproductions, 38 color reproductions. Paperback.
ISBN: 0-9200293-49-2

Published by Presentation House Gallery in association with Collapse: a view from here, a publication of the Vancouver Art Forum Society.
Distributed in the USA and internationally by Distributed Art Publishers, 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, N.Y., 10013

 

$35.00
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Running Fence
Geoffrey James


Running Fence is a photographic document by Toronto artist Geoffrey James, focusing on the first 14 miles of the border fence that separates the United States and Mexico, beginning at the Pacific Ocean and ending at the Otay Mountains. With its ironic reference to the famous project by Romanian-born artist Christos, James’s Running Fence explores the iconography of the border, at a time when the world hastens towards greater globalization and a new century. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, John O’Brian, The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation, and Furthermore, the publication program of the J.M Kaplan Fund.

112 pages with 46 duotone reproductions, paperback with a dustjacket.
ISBN: 0-920293-45-X

Distributed in the USA and internationally by Distributed Art Publishers,
155 Sixth Avenue, 2^nd floor, New York, N.Y., 10013

Winner of Outstanding Achievement for Design,
David Clausen, Designer, Canadian Museums Association, 2000

Winner- Second Prize, Exhibition catalogues,
Association of American Museums, 2000

Nominee for The Roloff Beny Annual Photography Book Award, 2000
(One award presented annually; 5 shortlisted nominees

out of print
$27.95

First Son
Portraits By C.D. Hoy

First Son is an extraordinary collection of photographs by C.D. Hoy, a Chinese-Canadian photographer whose startling, evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and European people in small-town British Columbia taken between 1909 and 1920, form an important historical and cultural document about the roots of "otherness" in Canada.

Essay by Curator, Faith Moosang; Preface by Paul Yee.

7X10.5 paper with dustjacket 170 pages. Includes 96 duotone photgraphs.
ISBN 1-55152-071-0

Supported by the British Columbia Heritage Trust and Barkerville Historic Town, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Hamber Foundation, with assistance form Emily Carr Institute Media Arts Section.
Co-published by PHG and Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver.

Winner of : Outstanding Achievement for Research Faith Moosang,
Curator/author Canadian Museum Association, 2000

Winner- First Prize, General Trade Books: Pictorial Book,
Alcuin Society Publication Awards, 2000

Nominated for: The Bill Duthie Bookseller's Choice Award B.C. Book Awards, 2000
and The Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize (B.C. Book Awards)

 

$12.00

Transient Moments
Vancouver and the Performance
Photograph

Essay by Guest Curator Ann Pollock

A look at the relationship between photography and
performance art in Vancouver,  from the 1960s to 1980s.

16 pages, with approx. 25 b/w reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-43-3

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

 

$15.00

 

Projections – Mise en abyme
Judith Barry

Essay by Brian Wallis; Interview/conversation with Judith Barry, Brian Wallis and Mark Wigley.

A 96 page book addressing the work of New York artist Judith Barry.  Published in connection with an exhibition at PHG in 1993.

Acknowledgement by Guest Curator Helga Pakasaar.

96 pages, 75 black & white reproductions.
ISBN:0-920293-38-7

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Vancouver Foundation.

Bill Cunningham, Denes Devenyi, Fred Herzog, Dick Oulton and Foncie Pulice

$8.00

The Just Past of
Photography in Vancouver

Essays by Guest Curator Helga Pakasaar and Peter Culley.

A look at the work of five Vancouver photographers who worked in the 1960s, primarily in areas of commercial, studio or newspaper photography. Published in connection with an exhibition at PHG in 1994.

30 pages with 40 black and white reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-44-1

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

$14.00

Death and the Family

Gisele Amantea, Marian Penner Bancroft, Wyn Geleynse, Paula Levine, Toby MacLennan, Ross McElwee, Lani Maestro, Dennis Oppenheim, Larry Sultan, Bill Viola.

A project which looks at family relationships and how they shape our understanding of mortality.

Essays by Deirdre Boyle, Bruce Grenville, Russell Keziere, with a foreword by curator Karen Love.

Artists’s projects by Marian Penner Bancroft and Sandra Semchuk.

96 pages; 11 colour and 54 black & white reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-39-5.

Supported by the Canada Council, the Vancouver Foundation, Hemlock Printers and Opus Framing & Art Supplies.

Publication Date: July, 1997

$12.00

 

Urban Fictions

Lorna Brown, Margot Butler, Ana Chang, Allyson Clay, Dana Claxton, Andrea Fatona, Melinda Mollineaux, Shani Mootoo, Susan Schuppli, Karen Ai-Lyn Tee, Cornelia Wyngaarden, Jin-me Yoon.

Texts by Lynne Bell, Guest Curator and Rosa Ho.

Prose works by Larissa Lai and Marilyn Dumont.

64 pages; 10 colour, 6 black & white reproductions.
ISBN: 0-920293-41-7

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

regular $24.95
on Sale for $12.50

It Pays to Play
British Columbia in Postcards, 1950s -1980s

Author, Peter White.
Co-published by Presentation House Gallery and Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver.
Distributed by Arsenal Pulp Press, 103-1014 Homer St.,Vancouver, B.C. V6B 2W9
In conjunction with an exhibition toured by Presentation House Gallery.

112 pages; 139 colour reproductions.
Isbn: 1-55152-037-0

Publication Date: November, 1996

Honorable Mention: Book Design in the 1996 Alcuin Society Awards