Editions 2023
Penumbra Foundation is releasing limited edition portfolios, prints, and digging into the archives to make available the very last copies of handmade artist books produced and published by Penumbra.
All of the editions sold directly benefit Penumbra Foundation’s Workspace Program, Risograph Residency, Artist Lecture Series, the year-long Photobook Program, Youth programs and Scholarship, the Project Gallery and our newly opened Exhibition Space, which allow us to truly be a vital presence and voice in Photography, in New York and beyond.
Empire – Andrew Moore
Limited edition portfolio
Empire is a special edition portfolio by photographer Andrew Moore of photographs made over the winter of 1995–96 in the defunct theaters along 42nd Street in New York City. The work bridges both a particular time in New York’s cultural and architectural history– between the old glamour of a city that no longer existed and the as-of-yet-to-come transformation of the aughts, as well as shift in the artist’s practice from experimental darkroom work to “straight” photography.
“A theatre is not unlike a photograph. They both frame a scene. And they both leave so much hidden, out of sight. Within these photographs, made after all the final curtain drops and rolling of end credits, the 42nd Street theaters perform their grand finale.” –Andrew Moore
Empire
by Andrew Moore
Included in this portfolio:
Red Chairs, Selwyn Theater, 42nd Street, 1995
Theater Boxes, Times Square Theater, 42nd Street, 1996
House Main, Selwyn Theater, 42nd Street, 1995
Grand Luncheonette, Liberty Theater, 42nd Street, 1996
Crooked Stair, Liberty Theater, 42nd Street, 1996
Empire Theater, 42nd Street, 1996
Fire Curtain, Liberty Theater, 42nd Street, 1995
The original 8x10 negatives were digitized using a drum scanner. New 8x10 negatives were produced with Light Valve Technology. All images are direct contact silver halide prints (C-Prints) made by Andrew Moore in New York City at LTI-Lightside.
Concept: Andrew Moore & Leandro Villaro
Paper size: 8in x 10in
Image size: 7.25in x 9.25in
Edition: 7
Boxes: Clara Gevaert
Publisher: Penumbra Foundation, 2023
Aaron Turner – Photogravure
This limited edition photogravaure was produced on the occasion of Aaron Turner’s solo exhibition, Black Alchemy: Resolve (attempt #1) in the Penumbra Exhibition Space July 6th – September 30th, 2023.
In the pursuit of abstraction to create speculative narratives, Turner uses various photographic techniques and processes, including reflective and archival materials, and in-camera and darkroom manipulation. The exhibition combined works from multiple series within and outside of Turner’s series Black Alchemy, forming a non-representational response to and visual analysis of objective and subjective ideas in photography as it relates to the individual lived experience of everyday life and internal contemplations.
Title: Untitled (self, extended), 2020
Photograph: Aaron R. Turner
Gravure plate and prints: Beth Ganz
Edition: 10 (2AP)
Paper Size: 11in x 14in
Image Size: 6.5in x 8.5in
Publisher: Penumbra Foundation, 2023
Scene In A Library – Mary Ellen Bartley
Last copy available
In 2019, Bartley spent six weeks at Penumbra making hundreds of prints, using a toner-based copier machine. All images were forged using the Taubman collection of 19th and early 20th century photographic manuals, treatises, and monographs, housed at the Foundation’s location in New York City.
In her image-making process, Mary Ellen Bartley playfully explored the possibilities that the surface of these historical objects offer, both visually and tactilely. The result, Scene in a Library, is a limited edition artist book containing 28 images in six leporello signatures, a fold out and a photogravure, presented in a foil stamped slipcase.
“Here, in your hands” writes art historian Kim Beil in her text, “is a book of books, an index, a codex. […] The photographs that last longest are the ones that are hidden from the light of day. They are pasted in albums or bound in books, like secrets. A photograph of a book is a question, whispered with exquisite patience.”
Photographs: Mary Ellen Bartley
Edition: 40
Concept: Mary Ellen Bartley & Leandro Villaro
Six leporellos with 28 photographs
Size: 8.25 x 11 inches
Publisher: Penumbra Foundation, 2021
Penumbra Risograph Residency Complete Set – Vol. 1
The Penumbra Risograph Residency Complete Set – Vol. 1 is a unique collection of all nine risograph publications from the first three years of the Penumbra Risograph Residency Program.
Each photographic artist book is handmade by our residents and produced in small editions at Penumbra’s Risograph facilities in New York City. Many of the titles featured are completely sold out.
2021
James the River – Eva Alcántara
Pages: 120 | Binding: Spiral | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Loop | Size: 6in × 8in | Edition: 60
Printing: Risograph, Foil Stamp (cover)
The Weight of Slumber – Ryan Frigilana
Pages: 68 | Binding: Perfect | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Loop | Size: 10in × 12.25in | Edition: 60
Printing: Risograph, Screenprint (cover)
They Name a Street After Him – Erik Hagen
Pages: 64 | Binding: Wire-O | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Carnival I Size: 14in × 9.5in | Edition: 60
Printing: Risograph, Screenprint (cover)
Of the Night, By the City – Alex Mctigue
Pages: 40 | Binding: Perfect, with pocket pages
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Arches | Size: 10in × 12in
Edition: 54 | Printing: Risograph, with embossed cover, and one silver gelatin print.
2022
Down A Stream – Jenica Heintzlman
Pages: 78 | Binding: Perfect (PUR) | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Via, Neenah Astrobright, Newsprint | Size: 9.75in × 12in
Edition: 100 | Printing: Risograph (Purple, Gold, Red, Yellow) Typeface: Burgess by Colophon
This Place I Call Home Whispers Fragments of Secrets to Me – Cince Johnshon
Pages: 88 I Binding: Hand Sewn (Kettle Stitch, Linen Thread) Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Leader Basis Vellum
Size: 7.5in × 10in | Edition: 80 | Printing: Risograph (Black), Foil Stamp (cover) | Typeface: Sabon by Tschichold
2023
EL GOBIERNO TE ODIA – Christopher Gregory-Rivera
Pages: 92 | Binding: Screwpost | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, and Carnival | Size: 9in × 12in | Edition: 150
Printing: Risograph (Black), Foil Stamp (cover)
Design: Alejandro Torres Viera | Typeface: Quadrant Text – Vincent Chan & Public Sans – USWDS
How to Grow un flor en el desierto – Alina Patrick
Pages: 88 | Binding: Perfect | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, and Via | Size: 9in × 12in | Edition: 96 | Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Yellow, Purple, Gold), Foil Stamp (cover)
Typeface: Adobe Jenson – Robert Slimbach
How to Understand a Rock – Kate Schneider
Pages: 72 | Binding: Perfect | Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Via, and Keaycolour | Size: 9in × 12in | Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Purple, Yellow), Screenprint (cover) | Design: Cristian Ordóñe | Cover Printing: Jo Yetter
Typeface: Domaine – Klim Type
