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ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION/ TWO ARTIST'S BOOKS BY LEWIS KOCH * BOMBER, A CHANCE UNWINDINGbears witness to a remote mountaintop World War II bomber crash site, using a variety of visual imagery, collaged from archival film footage, maps, in situ color photographs, and text. Drawing upon curiosity and wonder, this poetic chapbook offers an elegiac metaphor, a meditation on war and the associated loss of life and environmental destruction. Selected as one of 20 notable contemporary photobooks at PhotoIreland Festival 2011, Dublin. Areness Press, Madison, WI, 2011: 40 pp, illus: color, b/w, softcover, perfect-bound/ $20 (and $4 shipping, or $10-int'l). * TOUCHLESS AUTOMATIC WONDER, Found Text Photographs from the Real World. Created as a poetic and visual journey, Touchless Automatic Wonder spans twenty-five years and four continents. These striking photographs capture “found text”: the sometimes mysterious, occasionally humorous, often cryptic presence of words in the everyday landscape. This intriguing approach at the intersection of language, image, and the social landscape will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art and photography, popular culture, and conceptual concerns both literary and visual. A review and gallery can be seen at http://www.lensculture.com/koch.html. Borderland Books, Madison, WI, 2009: 112 pp, 80 duotone illus, hardbound/ $45 (and $5 shipping, or $20-int'l). Inquiries/Orders: Lewis [log in to unmask],or from the following on-line bookstores: Photo-Eye, Vasa-Project Bookstore, or Amazon. “Lewis takes the weird world and makes it look real.”—Barbara Crane, artist/ photographer “Absolutely brilliant! . . . Koch’s camera eye is like a fist that punches the daylights out of the nightmares we call life. His word pictures are the ransom notes we write to death.” —Michael William Doyle, author of Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 70s Drawing upon aspects of photography, assemblage and text, Lewis Koch's work calls attention to often unremarked upon elements of everyday life. Over the years, his work has been shown in garages, on kiosks and billboards, as well as museums andgalleries in New York, London, Brussels, Seoul, Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles and elsewhere, and is in permanent collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie-Paris, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "When Things Dream," the third installation of Koch's Garage Trilogy can be viewed as a virtual tour at www.afsnitp.dk/galleri/garageography/(allow 20 sec to load). As an artist-in-residence at Copenhagen's Fotografisk Center, an earlier web project, "Touchless Automatic Wonder," was the precedent for his recently released book by the same title. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~