BOOKS

ESTÉTICA DE LA EXTINCIÓN

Texts by Rafael Argullol, Félix de Azúa, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Michel Feher, Carles Guerra, Hamidah Glasgow, Laura González Flores, Bill Kouwenhoven, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Walter Benn Michaels, J. T. Mitchell, Crisia Miroiu, Iván de la Nuez [ED.], Diana Padrón, Lorenza Pignatti, Valentín Roma, Andrea Soto Calderón and Paul Wombell.
Publication date: March 2022
Softcover
Spanish edition
Published by Editorial Turner
ISBN 978-84-18895-31-9

“Este libro colectivo parte de un encuentro con la obra de Max de Esteban y es el testimonio múltiple de ese choque. Armado con ensayos o conversaciones entrecruzadas, Estética de la extinción resulta algo más que un libro al uso. Se comporta como una exposición, sin display, de los argumentos que con- forman esta antología en la que autoras y autores de la máxima autoridad en sus campos respectivos han aceptado citarse en un horizonte que es a la vez crepuscular y originario. Punto de llegada y partida de un arte que consigue imaginarnos a nosotros sin el mundo y un pensamiento que anticipa la posibilidad de imaginar el mundo sin nosotros.”

TWENTY RED LIGHTS

Max de Esteban
Texts by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Michel Feher and Max de Esteban
Graphic Design by Max de Esteban and Ramon Pez
Publication date: November 2017
Hardcover
English, Spanish and Catalan editions
Published by La Virreina Centre de la Imatge – La Fábrica
ISBN 978-84-17048-30-3

“Twenty Red Lights explores key aspects of the contemporary financial economy, a subject of great importance that has rarely been analysed rigorously in art or critical thought. The book features three essays which dissect the characteristics of the new financial-digital economy governing our world today, each from a different perspective.”

PROPOSICIONES/PROPOSITIONS

Max de Esteban
Essays by Rafael Argullol, Félix de Azúa, Laura González Flores , Valentín Roma.
Graphic Design by Tres Tipos Gráficos
Publication date: June 2015
Hardcover
English/Spanish
Published by La Fábrica
ISBN 978-84-16248-12-4

“This book brings together for the first time the four photographic series produced by Max de Esteban under the title Propositions. As a body of autonomous lines of work that are at the same time related, they make up a sequence where we can see the variety of subjects, positions, and formats the photographer has developed over the last few years. Each Proposition is preceded by an essay establishing a specific field of thought related to it, reorienting the meaning of the images towards new theoretical and historiographical perspectives.”

HEADS WILL ROLL

Max de Esteban
Essays by Carles Guerra, Bill Kouwenhoven
Graphic Design by Max de Esteban
Publication date: October 2014
Hardcover
English
Published by Hatje Cantz
ISBN 978-3-7757-3899-6

“The compelling photographs of Max de Esteban’s series Propositions pose uncomfortable questions. In Heads Will Roll, part four of the series, the artist uses seductive photo combines made of film stills, flower photos, and fragments of text to convey the essence of the parameters that are penetrated by the contemporary patchwork of our lives. The media define everyday life: we are permanently made to feel insecure by the wars and disasters that are always happening in the world; the individual is in danger of drowning in the masses; genuine and fake have become almost indis­tinguishable; and a vague fear of the East pervades political policy. Reality is largely conveyed as a media experience.”

ELEGIES OF MANUMISSION

Max de Esteban
Introduction by Lourdes Iglesias
Graphic Design by Max de Esteban
Publication date: July 2012
Hardcover
Spanish, French, English, German
Published by Nazraeli Press
ISBN 978-1-59005-337-9

“Max de Esteban’s gorgeous monograph brings together all three parts of his stunningly beautiful Elegies of Manumission series. Making use of portraiture as a conceptual tool, de Esteban’s portraits, of architectural quality and extraordinary craftsmanship, build a narrative beyond the anecdotal and push the boundaries of contemporary portraiture. Open to many interpretations, Elegies of Manumissionquestions the construction of identity of the individual subjects portrayed.”

YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2020

Editors: Shveta Sarda & Raqs Media Collective
Publication date: March 2021
Softcover
Japanese and English
Published by Yokohama Museum of Art
ISBN  978-4-9904417-2-2

LE SUPERMARCHÉ DES IMAGES

Editors: Peter Szendy, Emmanuel Alloa, Marta Ponsa
Publication date: February 2020
Hardcover
French and English
Published by Gallimard/Jeu de Paume
ISBN  978-2-072-5468-2

“En observant les mutations parallèles de l’économie financiarisée à l’ère des cryptomonnaies, les œuvres et les textes ici réunis cherchent à saisir, à penser cette nouvelle iconomie de la visibilité.”

BAUHAUS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
On New Visions in Contemporary Art

Editors: Corina Gertz, Christoph Schaden, Kris Scholz
Publication date: February 2019
Hardcover
English and German
Published by Kerber Verlag
ISBN 978-3-7356-0547-4

“For the first time, the Neues Sehen (New Vision) of the 1930s as well as contemporary photographs, sculptures, and video installations enter in seminal dialogue between the factual exhibition situation and virtual reality.”

13 BIENAL DE LA HABANA

Publication date: March 2019
Softcover
Spanish
Published by Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam
ISBN 978-959-7229-59-9

CAIRO BIENNALE
Eyes East Bound

Publication date: June 2019
Hardcover
Arabic- English
Published by Cairo Biennale

FOTOFEST 2016 BIENNIAL

Publication date: March 2016
Softcover
English
Published by Schilt Publishing
ISBN 978-90-5330-873-8

DARMSTÄDTER TRIENNIAL
Reflexion – Ästhetische Referenzen

Publication date: April 2014
Softcover
German- English
Published by Dubbel Späth
ISBN 978-3-9813629-4-7

THE A-Z OF SPANISH PHOTOGRAPHERS

Publication date: September 2013
Hardcover
English
Published by La Fábrica
ISBN 978-84-15691-28-0

“This is a superbly illustrated and comprehensive encyclopaedia of Spanish photographers, from the 19th to the 21st century. This volume is the first comprehensive dictionary of Spanish photographers published in Spain – an illustrated bibliographical dictionary representing both individual authors and Spanish photography as a whole. Featuring over 500 entries covering all the fields of photography – from classical to contemporary photography, from reportage and street photography to fashion and advertising, from stock photography to portraiture, from architecture to landscape – this volume embraces the history of Spanish photography as a whole, from its beginnings to the present day.”