For anyone contemplating adopting Gareth here, just be aware that he is always hungry. As long as you have a good supply of snacks, you'll make him very happy. To support monsters and buy the book, get notified of launch here: buff.ly/RzCUUDN #monsterart #cutemonster #goblincore #art #artbook

Chester is very proud of his pink bottom and insists on making sure it's well polished most days. He is one of the many monsters I have up for adoption next month. If you'd like to adopt, or support a monster by buying the book, then get notified here: buff.ly/RzCUUDN #monster #goblincore #artbook

Ernest appeared in my studio recently and I have promised them that I will do my best to find a new home for him. He's been eating my favourite biscuits and will occasionally chew on my old paintbrushes. You can find out more here: buff.ly/RzCUUDN #artbook #monster #cute #cutemonster #goblincore

Beletage: Ansichten eines Fensterputzers - A book featuring portrait photographs of people in their homes. These people are clients of Lars Nickel, a photographer who earns his living cleaning windows.

Lars Nickel does not choose the people he photographs. You hire the window cleaner and get a photographer thrown in for free. This is what creates the wonderful serenity and normality of these photographs. They show the residents and what lies behind their front doors. Pictures, accessories, furniture, carpets – all these things naturally tell us something about the people who surround themselves with them. But there is no particular agenda behind this, just a little curiosity. The normal curiosity about one's neighbours. But what looks so normal in the pictures does not happen by itself. It is precisely the seemingly simple things that require great experience and photographic skill. Light, decorum, linearity, the technical aspects. Above all, however, the eye contact between the photographer and the subjects, the agreement between the two not to harm each other. This can certainly be understood as a kind of counter-programme to the current desire for visual revelation. In any case, I am not aware of any comparable project in contemporary portrait photography.

Matthias Flügge

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I enjoy reading this kind of #ArtBook. I think many people might find books like this shallow and never going into depth on a artist or #artwork but books like these are a great way to find new #artists to look at.

And I quite like the simplistic, straightforward way books like this describe art. Sometimes all you really need is a brief explanation and the rest you can ponder on yourself.

Books like this can get boring if you read them for too long. They are good for dipping into occasionally. But I enjoy being taken on a journey through different artists' practices.

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I think I've got my cover sorted now for the next book, launching next month! I'm so excited for this one, the little terrors are already causing havoc in my studio! They're very anxious to go to their new homes. Get notified here: buff.ly/RzCUUDN #monsters #monsterfun #cutemonster #artbook #cute

some ghostly liminal photos from daisuke yokota’s book site/cloud. I feel lucky to have ran into this second hand. #photography #ghosts #ghostly #haunting #forests #liminal #artbook #photographer