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Datz Press is an art book press that works with photographers, designers, and bookmakers. We create, publish, and exhibit books centered on photography. We advocate for the growth of participatory artistic activity through exhibiting and publishing art, as well as art education.
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Arranging Life
Seongyeon Jo studied the process of growth and extinction of plant seeds for a long time with the attitude of a botanist as she took on the life of an urban farmer a few years ago. Jo has worked on sophisticated static photography by expanding her viewpoint, noting the order of nature and materiality as she cultivated her own crops. The abandoned and once dead beings gained new breath and are reborn through the book Arranging Life. This book carries the result of her meditated observations, her embracing of the process of life—perceiving the birth and extinction of nature as one.
Speaking about this particular work, Jo says: “One day as I looked at a germinated bean sprout, it occurred to me that a seed is not the trace of a life that has ended, but a condensation of infinite energy carrying a new beginning. The seeds, which seemed breathless and made not the slightest movement, were preparing to encounter the world, with just the help of light, air and water. Filled with warmth, they were small universes embracing the force of life.”
Special edition includes one original print, signed and numbered copies.
Publisher: Datz Press
Artist(s): Seongyeon Jo
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 19.7 × 27.8 cm
Pages: 104
ISBN: 978-89-97605-36-1
Price: Limited Edition $50; Special Edition $150
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About Author(s)
Seongyeon Jo is a photographer; she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Photography from Sangmyung University.
Jo's artistic process consists of taking introspective pauses with objects. In her recent work, she experiments with the process of cultivation in which the activities of life and art come together under the order of nature.
She has held 12 solo exhibitions at Space So (Seoul, South Korea, 2018), B-cut Gallery (Seoul, South Korea, 2016) and more, along with numerous group exhibitions. Her works are housed in a number of companies and art galleries, including the Art Bank of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA, Korea), The Datz Museum of Art, the Korean Consulate General in Sendai, Japan, and SK Group.
Black Wind
“As single trees come together to be a forest, this work comes to us as a ‘wind-rising landscape.’ The creative, free spirit escapes the artist, sweeping into the world of the unconscious to travel beyond the bounds of the sky and earth, mountains and water, people and events, to become a wind of ideas, with nature as its spirit.” – The Other Side of the Moon by curator Kwan Hoon Lee
Gap Chul Lee is renowned for his intense images that convey the inward energy and spirit of Korea. While respecting the unique language of photography, Lee approaches the medium with an unconventional attitude.The photographs in Black Wind are a mixture of new work.
Prefaced with the poem At the Edge of the World by Seung-ja Choi, Black Wind carries the silence of an unseen world through a tuned flow of black and white.
Publisher: Datz Press
Artist(s): Gap Chul Lee
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Softcover with Slipcase, Perfect binding
Dimensions: 33 × 22 cm
Pages: 88
ISBN: 978-89-97605-22-4
Price: $50
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About Author(s)
Gap Chul Lee graduated from Shingu University and started as a documentary photographer. He soon escaped the boundaries of the genre to build his own style. Renowned for his original approach to photography and its visual expression, Lee captures the Korean sentiment of ‘han’ and the otherwise intangible tenacity embedded in Korean identity.
Lee has participated in a number of solo exhibitions including the Gyeongin Museum of Art (Seoul), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul), Le Musée du Louvre (Paris), Montpellier Photo Gallery, Houston Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Australian Center for Photography (Sydney), and the GoEun Museum of Photography (Busan).
He has also won the Donggang Prize for Photography, Photo City Sagamihara Asia Photo in Japan, and the Lee Myung-dong Photo Award. His works are housed in a number of prestigious institutions in Seoul, including Kumho Museum of Art, Hanmi Museum of Photography, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary.
Heaven, Wind, Stars and Poems
“The night is clear. The Milky Way bright. A slight breeze reminds me I am moving through the universe. Every clear night of the summer my father would go out for a walk to look at the night sky. Many nights I would join him. We knew the North Star and the Big Bear but the rest became our own. At times we stood still for an hour or more to watch for shooting stars. We had no agenda. It was all about the amazement of a sky full of stars.” – Barbara Bosworth
Photographer Barbara Bosworth confronts disappearing things and ponders on the subject of life and death through photography. Korean poet, Yun Dong-Ju, who lived during the Japanese colonial empire and died in prison, touched the hearts of Koreans as he agonized over human existence through lyrical poetry.
In this title the two artists, who are from different eras and places, contemplate the notion that all human beings are living in a limited timeline of an infinite universe. Barbara Bosworth’s photography beholding the universe and all its wonders is bound together effectively with Dong-ju Yun’s poetry that deeply contemplates man and the universe in Heaven, Wind, Stars and Poems.
Publisher: Datz Press
Artist(s): Barbara Bosworth
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 33 × 44 cm
Pages: 64
ISBN: 978-89-97605-27-9
Price: $100
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About Author(s)
Barbara Bosworth received her Masters in Fine Arts in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (New York) and currently works as a Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth sees photography as a language of continuous light and darkness, an act of grasping disappearing things and a method for considering the meaning of life and death.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum (Colorado), Peabody Essex Museum in (Massachusetts), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), plus the Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona). She has published four artist books with Datz Press.
Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again
“Three windows in an old school house. Four, if you count the camera as a window, too.” – Amanda Marchand
Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again focuses on three windows in a century-old schoolhouse and their subtle surprises including nautical twilight, a bird, the sudden sun. Following the movement of light across the minimal landscape, the serial images contemplate human, geologic and cosmic time. The square windows double as the camera frame – the photographs were made with a medium format, analog camera that produces a square negative. Different papers are used in the book, reflecting the shades of snow. The cover is embossed and hidden inside the dust jacket, where the image titles also double as a poem. As the title suggests, no two books are exactly alike.
The special edition box, limited to 30 copies, is a hand-crafted wooden box housing the book and a signed print. The wooden box reminds us of the square window that the artist looked at and can serve as a frame for original prints and books.The plexiglass cover opens like a window.
Publisher: Datz Press
Artist(s): Amanda Marchand
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Dimensions: 29.5 × 25 cm
Pages: 84
ISBN: 978-89-97605-45-3
Price: Limited Edition $85, Special Edition $550
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About Author(s)
Amanda Marchand is a New York based Canadian photographer and writer who received her Masters of Fine Arts in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work explores the human condition through the poetics quality of the landscape, through an experimental approach. She has been recognized internationally with various awards, art books, grants and residencies.
The monographs Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again (2019) and Night Garden (2015) were published by Datz Press as well as her artist books, The World is Astonishing with You in It (2019), The Book of Hours (2018) and Because the Sky (2017).
Her works are exhibited internationally; True North was exhibited at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California and At the Violet Hour was exhibited as a site-specific installation in Margate, England.
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Still-Life
Still-Life is a work from when Lee studied photography under Bernd and Hilla Becher at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. Lee took still life subject matter and interior spaces and processed them through the act of ‘photographic restructuring of the real’ and ‘photographic seeing.' Transcending the boundaries of frame structure and architecture by utilizing photographic light and color, Lee creates two-dimensional planes from three-dimensional spaces. Her photography shows the architectural composition in formal rigor of the German photography tradition, as well as her unique and precise sensitivity.
Publisher: Datz Press
Artist(s): Yoonjean Lee
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover, Perfect binding
Dimensions: 22 x 30 cm
Pages: 108
ISBN: 978-89-97605-14-9
Price: $100
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About Author(s)
Photographer Yoonjean Lee majored in photography at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and earned the Meisterschueler and the Akademiebrief at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. Lee presents a formative language by reconstituting mundane scenes and objects with a specific structural viewpoint from the German School of Photography, differentiated by the sensitivity of her perspective. She was invited to major photography events and exhibitions in Korea, including the Busan Biennale and the Seoul International Photo Festival, and has participated in a number of art galleries' group exhibitions in Seoul, including at Daelim Museum of Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.