インタビュー: フランツ・ケーニッヒ(Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 現代表) ゲルハルト・シュタイデル(Steidl設立者) ラース・ミュラー(Lars Müller Publishers設立者) マイケル・マック(MACK設立者) ロジャー・ウィレムス(グラフィックデザイナー、Roma Publications設立者) ハンス・グレメン(グラフィックデザイナー、Fw: Books主宰)
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A book documenting 15 years of activities since the opening of the Tokyo-based art bookshop POST. Since opening in 2011, POST has regularly rotated its stock to focus entirely on a single publisher at a time.
Spanning over 900 pages, this volume is a vast archival record featuring cover images and commentary for approximately 2,000 titles from around 50 publishers exhibited at POST to date. Simultaneously, it offers a comprehensive overview of the evolving landscape of art books since the 2000s through the history of the shop.
- POST opened in Ebisu, Tokyo, in 2011, as a bookshop specializing in art books. We have run the shop in a format where, at regular intervals, we change the books in the shop and present the work of a single publisher at a time. Rather than individual titles, we wanted to show the work of a publisher as a whole—its editing, design, printing and binding, and its collaborations with artists and designers—over that period. We continue this as one way of distributing books.
We began with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König in Germany, and have since presented about 50 publisher features. Some of these publishers, like Phaidon, Thames & Hudson, Aperture, and Gestalten, are internationally known houses; others, like The Eriskay Connection and Nazraeli Press, are independent imprints run by artists, designers, or individuals; and still others, like Book Works and AA Publications, are publishers rooted in non-profit organizations or educational institutions. They are based in many countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This book compiles a record of every publisher featured since 2011, arranged in the chronological order in which they were presented. Each feature includes images of the books introduced, along with captions and commentary. Between the features, we have inserted texts that trace, in five-year intervals, the shifting landscape of the art book since 2000. The book is structured so that it serves not only as an introduction to each publisher, but also so that, by following the pages in sequence, the reader can glimpse, indirectly, how the art book has changed over these 15 years.
Interviewee: Franz König (current representative of Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther and Franz König), Gerhard Steidl (founder of Steidl) Lars Müller (founder of Lars Müller Publishers) Michael Mack (founder of MACK) Roger Willems (graphic designer, founder of Roma Publications) Hans Gremmen (graphic designer, director of Fw: Books)
- Pages: 912 Size: 240 × 180 mm Softcover Color, black and white Japanese–English bilingual