"Over the past two decades, Roy Arden has become one of Canada's most respected artists. Along with that of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham and Stan Douglas, his work has contributed to Vancouver's reputation as a vital centre for contemporary photographic art. This important book looks at Arden's unique approach to photography and his investigations into modern city life.Arden's work can be divided into three periods. From 1981 to ..."
"This title contains an essay by Roy Arden. In "Birgit" (2006), Hans-Peter Feldmann has made colour snapshots of a friend applying her make-up from beginning to end. As in Feldmann's other projects, he is concerned here about the relation of the individual to society, how that without others, there wouldn't be a concept of 'looking good'. "In its attention to artifice, "Birgit" is connected to Feldmann's hand coloured photocopy pictures ..."
"Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons. Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists begins where Warhol left off. Presenting visually striking and conceptually diverse works in a range of mediums, Likeness is the first exhibition and catalogue to propose a recent history of artists’ representations of other artists--of friends, peers, and ..."
RoyArden Fragments--Photographs 1981-1985 by Peter Culley, RoyArden, Bill Jeffries Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 2003 by Presentation House Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-920293-53-9, ISBN: 0-920293-53-0
"As a young artist, Roy Arden produced a body of 6-by-6 color transparencies in his search for a mode of photography that could function as a lyrical but realist poetry. Fragments reflects his experience of the world in a fashion that is personal but not autobiographical, essentially melancholic, and revealing of a time and space overlooked by means-end rationality. Edited and with a forward by Bill Jeffries.Essay by Peter Culley.Notes b ..."
RoyArden by RoyArden, Jeff Wall Paperback, 26 Pages, Published 1993 by Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-920751-47-3, ISBN: 0-920751-47-4
"Exhibition catalogue focusing on the prints and drawings of Bauhaus master Josef Albers. Monograph No. 8 in the series American Graphic Artists of the Twentieth Century published by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Includes 42 illustrations. 64 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. small 8vo.."
Taking pictures RoyArden, Sorel Cohen, Angela Grauerholz, Susan Schelle, Howard Ursuliak : Presentation House Gallery, July 28 to August 27, 1989 by Keith Wallace, RoyArden, Presentation House Gallery Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 1989 by Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-920293-21-8, ISBN: 0-920293-21-2
Heinrich Zille(1st Edition) Old-Time Berlin. Photographs 1890-1910 by Jeff Wall, RoyArden, Wolfgang Kemp Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Schirmer/Mosel ISBN-13: 978-3-8296-0713-1, ISBN: 3-8296-0713-X
"Heinrich Zille (1858-1929) was Berlin's most popular artist, printmaker, and photographer--with famed "milieu" studies that reflected the lived reality of the small man on the street, the heroes of everyday life in late 19th and early 20th-century Berlin. This book presents photographs taken between 1890-1910, classic works in the history of photography and early testimonies of social documentary phtoography in Germany. Documenting his ..."
"Product Description: Started in 1993, the "Caisse des Dépots" is building up a collection of photography. At the date of publication of this catalogue (1997) the collection summed up 400 images. The purpose of this patronage is to bring a new dimension in favor of emerging young creation and give priority to plastic or creative photography rather than photoreportage or applied photography."