Simen Johan

SIMEN JOHAN
Published: 10/2004

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, www.kunstnerneshus.no

11"x12" Cataloge, 25 color plates, 47 pages, Price: $15.00, www.kunstnerneshus.no

Published on the occation of the exhibition Simen Johan at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway. Curated by Malin Barth. Includes essays by A.D. Coleman and Gisle Ledel Johannessen

The Facination of the Uncanny and Simen Johan's Art by Gisle Ledel Johannessen
Gisle Ledel Johannessen is Cand. Philol. He has studied Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the University of Bergen; the University of Oslo; and Universite St. Denis (Paris VIII)

Painting with Photographs: The Hybrid Vision of Simen Johan by A.D. Coleman
A.D. Coleman has written about photography, art and new digital technologies since 1968. Wired Magazine called his 1998 book The Digital Evolution "required reading for today's media-savvy or information-obsessed artist." He is the Executive Director of the Photography Criticism CyberArchive (photocriticism.com), the most extensive online database ever created of writing about photography by authors past and present.



Simen Johan

ROOM TO PLAY
Published: 01/2003

Twin Palms Publishers

11"x12" casebound, 44 color plates, 96 pages, ISBN: 1-931885-09-5, Price: $60.00
Signed Edition of 100 in clamshell box with original print, ISBN: 1-931885-21-4, Price: $750.00

Room to Play includes an essay by Lyle Rexer (read essay in pdf format here), a former Rhodes Scholar who writes regularly about art for The New York Times, Art in America, Art on Paper and Metropolis, among others. Rexer has also written many books, including Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes (Harry N. Abrams, 2002) and American Museum of Natural History: 125 Years of Expedition and Discovery (Harry N. Abrams, 1995).

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