"POC"--which stands for "Piece of Cake"--is a group of 21 (at last count) young photographers from across Europe (Helsinki, Rouen, Düsseldorf, Vevey, Arles, Lisbon and London), connected by a shared aesthetic and a groundbreaking workshopping website. Through the nonprofit, artist-funded pocproject.com, created in 2002 by founding member Charles Fréger (Rishiki, 2Nelson, Lux), the members of POC brainstorm and critique as they create. Then, at the same site, they post and sell their works: a new form of structured artistic community and marketplace all in one. The work that this prototype supports riffs on documentary themes, questioning photography as proof or truth. Between miniature ruins, deserted boardwalks, industrial waterfronts, adolescent musicians, battered rugby players and gendarme motorcycle acrobats, the work in Alone Together reminds viewers that imitating nature is the least of art's powers.

Alone Together POC

Arts & Photography

Mouchel, Didier

Photography & Video

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De Ateliers is an independent Amsterdam artists' institute, run by visual artists, that focuses on the development of young, talented artists from within the Netherlands and abroad. Featured here are this year's crop, including Adam Avikainen, Dineo Bopare, Nathan Dilworth, Paul Haworth, Sebastiaan Verhees and others.

Offspring 2007: De Ateliers

Morton, Tom

Kopsa, Maxine

Boogerd, Dominic

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

"I paint myself, and so I paint the whole of mankind." So says this Dutch artist, who has painted nothing but self-portraits since 1981. This 720-page volume includes all 2,314 of the artist's works to date.

Philip Akkerman: 2314 Self-Portraits, 1981-2005

Individual Artists

Yael Bartana (born in 1970 in Israel) makes work largely about her conflicted homeland. She has an exceptionally sensitive eye for public ritual and ceremony, both organized and spontaneous. Her videos document such moments, often slowing them down or editing them in ways that focus on the intimate actions that define a person's public persona and private uncertainties.

Yael Bartana: Videos & Photographs

Wilhelm Sasnal: Paintings & Films ISBN 90-8690-004-6 / 978-90-8690-004-6 Paperback, 6.5 x 8 in. / 56 pgs / 32 color. / U.S. $20.00 CDN $24.00 August / Art

Wilhelm Sasnal: Paintings & Films

Whether photographing his wife and two young sons, sometimes sleeping tenderly together in a sun-drenched bed, other times spacing out by the pool or in the car; the international snowboarding scene, from Japan to Iran; or his peers in the world of dissenting, outsider creativity (filmmaker Harmony Korine and his grandmother, well before the release of Kids; the late monologist, Spalding Gray, who died of suicidal drowning in 2004, eerily photographed floating underwater in 1987), Ari Marcopoulos brings us all the way to the inside of an insider's world. This tight collection of sexy documentary portraits bites off exactly as much as it wants to chew, and features original writing by Will Bradley, Jeremy Sigler and Angelique Spaninks.

Ari Marcopoulos: Flow

Spaninks, Angelique

When Bas Jan Ader's boat, "Ocean Wave," was found unmanned and partially submerged 150 miles off the coast of Ireland by a Spanish fishing vessel in 1976, it was taken to La Coruña for investigation. Days later, the boat was stolen and the cult of Ader, whose body was never recovered, and who was thought by many to have staged this incident, was truly cemented. In this volume, Marion van Wijk and Koos Dalstra, who spent 10 years investigating this unsolved mystery, reproduce the entire police report in facsimile. They also include many pages of eerie written documentation and transcriptions of interviews they conducted during their decade of intensive sleuthing: "The report has 74 pages. It begins on April 27, 1976 and ends on February 1, 1977. It relates the history of the "Ocean Wave" from the moment Don Alferan speaks about his discovery to the authorities until nine months later, when the case is closed. The reason: the authorities cannot find the stolen boat that disappeared from San Diego harbor in Coruña between May 18 and June 7, 1976."

Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous: Discovery File 143/76

Dalstra, Koos

van Wijk, Marion

History & Criticism

Peter Greenaway: Nightwatching: A View of Rembrandt's The Night Watch

Greenaway, Peter

The independent Rotterdam-based graphic design firm 75B started out in the 1990s with projects relating to youth and music culture. Over the past 10 years, the partners in this "quirky, unpredictable and powerful three-headed design monster," who met and began working together when still in design school--Robert Beckand, Rens Muis and Pieter Vos--have designed everything from Nike posters to museum logos to books, magazines, flyers, cards, exhibitions and full-scale architectural interventions. Their work is masterful and playful at the same time, always careful to send the message that the creative team behind 75B takes design very seriously, but not themselves.

75B: 10 x 10

Business & Money

Biography & History

Architecture, street life, pets, laundry lines, fishmongers, commuters, electronics, bikes, ads--this mass of hundreds upon hundreds of images of the people, places and things of the world's fastest-growing economy offers a culture through its surfaces, through the texture of daily life, organized typologically. Otten compares her work to a catalogue: "My book is just as temporary as an Ikea guide. It's about the time now; within a few years it will be outdated. In one month there can be three new owners in a shop. Complete areas are raised and cut down again." This is a mass of images about what things look like in fast-changing China, categorized by subjects like Shopping, Street Food, Hands and Feet, Prostitution, Gated Community and Hong Kong Jungle. It shows what stores look like, what teenagers wear, what you buy in the market, what kind of buildings there are. These are raw images of real life in China.

Reineke Otten: China Daily Life

Koolhaas, Charlie

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