<p>Will Steacy spent five years photographing the newsroom and printing plant of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Through a depiction of The Inquirer's efforts to prevail despite shrinking advertising revenue, falling circulation, lay-offs, buy-outs, and bankruptcy, Steacy reveals the challenges and harsh realities that confront the newspaper industry today. In the first of the two Deadline publications Steacy presents an 80-page newspaper featuring photographs of The Inquirer newsroom and press he made between 2009-2013, along with images from The Inquirer's archive, and photographs, letters, news clips and other ephemera from his own family's five generation newsman history. The Deadline newspaper also features 70 original essays by current and former Inquirer newsroom staff (including 16 Pulitzer Prize winners) discussing The Inquirer's history, its legendary rise from one of the worst papers in America to one of the best, the challenges and triumphs of working in today's newsroom environment, and reflections on the future of newspapers and journalism. We rarely ever get to hear the storytellers tell their own story, but Deadline fills that void as the voices of those who spent their career in the newsroom guide us through Steacy's photographs and archival imagery with first hand accounts of the history of the third oldest daily newspaper in America. Having shed more than 40% of its workforce in the past decade, newspapers are the fastest shrinking industry in America, yet more than half of America has heard little to nothing about the financial struggles that have eviscerated newsrooms. Deadline not only provides us an open window into the realities of an industry in crisis, but also explains how and why we got there.</p>

Will Steacy: Deadline (Vol. 1 - Newspaper) by Will Steacy (2015-08-01)

Arts & Photography

Will Steacy

Photography & Video

B. Frank Books

French conceptual artist Saâdane Afif has gathered hundreds of postcards picturing fountains, thereby constructing an almost daily history of the year 1917. With the development in the early 20th century of mechanical pumps and indoor plumbing, even the most provincial European town could boast a fountain that was no longer functional but purely decorative. Afif connects these advancements to parallel progress in photography and its reproduction, as well as the expansion of the postal service. Altogether, the book with its fascinating mementos of correspondence becomes a keen reflection on the initial stages of globalisation as we know it today. With a text by Tacita Dean.

Saadane Afif - Fountain 1917 Fontaine 1917 Fontane 1917

Tacita Dean

For this book, Danish artist and photographer Kasper Akhøj documented the ongoing restoration of E-1027, Eileen Grays modernist villa in France. Based on photographs taken by Gray which were first published in 1929, Akhøjs photographs are a kind of remake, recreating the perspective and composition of the originals. During several visits to the villa between 2009 and 2017, he produced up to six versions of each of Grays images, but only included one of them here. The overlap of chronologies emphasises the restoration process and references the fascinating influence of a succession of occupants. With essays by Beatriz Colomina and Amy Zion, plus an interview with Akhøj.

Kasper Akhoj - Welcome (to The Teknival) E-1027 By Eileen Gray

Kasper Akhoj

<p>South African artist Nico Krijnos photography exists at the intersection of performance, painting, montage, and sculpture. His photographs are full of visual codes, riddles, patterns, and colour. Krijno builds sculptures using discarded materials and rearranges them over and over, photographing them during this process. The images are then are reprocessed and altered again into new forms through both collage and Photoshop, creating new narratives and meaning. Such explorations are representative of his experimentation with the perceived truths of objects, the medium of photography, and its broader history. Playful, carefully structured, and completely non-linear.</p>

Nico Krijno - How To Leave Your Body Behind

Nico Krijno

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