Life is One Live it Well
Trade book
- Design: Michael Kominek and Henrik Malmström
- Text: Henrik Malmström, untitled epilogue
- Publisher: Kominek, Berlin
- Edition: 375 signed and numbered
- Printing: DZA Druckerei Zu Altenburg, Berlin
- Binding: Full white paper over board, with offset reproductions mounted on the cover and back
- Pagination: 256 pages (21.5 x 30.5 cm) + 1 loose paper (21 x 30 cm)
- Illustrations: 255 color images
- Photographed: 2011-14
- Published: June 2015
Order (69 € / incl. Shipping Worldwide)
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Special edition including three original polaroids
- Edition: 25 signed and numbered, plus 2 artist’s copies
- Prints: 3 polaroids, without titles. 2015 (9.9 x 6.2 cm)
- Published: August 2015
Order (190 € / incl. Shipping Worldwide)
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Newsprint
- Design: Henrik Malmström
- Publisher: Müll im Keller, Hamburg
- Edition: 75
- Printer: Newspaper Club, Glasgow
- Binding: Unbound
- Pagination: 36 pages (29 x 38 cm)
- Illustrations: 28 color images
- Photographed: 2011-13
- Published: October 2013
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Synopsis
Life is One Live it Well takes us back to the dodgy area of St. Georg in Hamburg and to many of its barrooms: Mickey Mouse, Windstärke 11, Zum Frühaufsteher, Rund um die Uhr, Moin Moin, Treff Hamburg-München, also the Vanessa Bar, Dschungel Bar, Rubin Bar, Moulin Rouge,
Zar und Zimmermann and Astra Stübchen.
Somewhere between the bittersweet fatalism of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the deadpan mien
aesthetics of Aki Kaurismäki, Malmström recreates in color a contemporary “Café Lehmitz”.
Its ambiance is imbued with visual stylization and a warm-hearted emotional immediacy towards its people who just want to be left in peace and “drink their bitter cup of broken dreams”, as the famous Finnish tango artist Olavi Virta sings. After all, life is one, so you better live it well.
Thank you for the visit.
This is the first part of the St. Georg book trilogy:
Life is One Live it Well – A Minor Wrongdoing – Ok Cloth Shop
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Press
Rémi Coignet / The PhotoBook Review
Thomas Wiegand / RRB Photobooks
Atsushi Saito / Atsushi Saito Blog
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Past Exhibitions
Fotobokfestival Oslo (G) / Youngstorget / September 8 – 18, 2016
Best Photobooks Kassel (G) / Fotobookfestival Kassel / June 11 – July 3, 2016
Best Photography Books of the Year (G) / Photoespaña / May 31 – September 4, 2016
What´s This Book? (G) / Belgrade Photo Month / April 15 – 29, 2016
Nachbarschaft (G) / Galerie der Stadt Wels / October 25, 2014 – January 11, 2015
Subreale Welten (G) / Port Gallery T / October 17 – November 16, 2014
Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium (G) / Kunsthaus Hamburg / December 9, 2013 – January 12, 2014
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The Portable Document Format of this publication can be downloaded, printed, and shared with others as long as the authorship is credited and there is a link back to the website of the author. This publication cannot be altered in any way or used for commercial purposes nor be displayed or exhibited without the consent of the artist.
CC (BY-NC-ND) / Henrik Malmström
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