STANISLAVA PINCHUK
As an artist specialising in data mapping global conflict zones, Stanislava Pinchuk, a.k.a Miso, shares the titles that have helped formulate her taste and visual vocabulary.
1. VILLE DE CALAIS: HENK WILDSCHUT (GWINZEGAL, 2017)
“This book has been a huge touch-point for me. It covers the settlements of the Calais ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in France, which I’d been data mapping over the six months of its forced evacuation, in my last big project. Not only is it a brilliant testament to the site and its residents, but it’s also an invaluable one-stop reference to what was there before, since I was working in the now empty land.”
2. PATTI SMITH: CAMERA SOLO (YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011)
“Memories and tokens, arranged in Smith’s own world, across a million cities. It makes living like I have been a little less lonely when you think of women like Smith carrying her camera, poems and notebooks over decades, combining her photos and writing all into one vision.”
3. DISOBEDIENT BODIES: JW ANDERSON AT THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD (IN OTHER WORDS, 2017) BY J.W. ANDERSON
“This book is so smart, elegant and funny. It’s such a natural crossover between fashion and art, which I’ve always sensed in J.W. Anderson’s fashion, too. Everything about the beat of images, contrasts and empty spaces is really playful and builds these wonderful links and worlds.”
4. LIVING (YVON LAMBERT, 1998) BY JENNY HOLZER
“Everything about this book is a perfect experience of words: the dimensions, the transparent pages, and the order. I’ve taken to picking up this book, reading a single page and thinking about it for the rest of the day.”
5. LOOKING FOR LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK: ED VAN DER ELSKEN (AMAN IMAN PUBLISHING, 2013)
“The drafts and process of Ed van der Elsken’s seminal Love on the Left Bank (1954) are revealed on these pages. The original work set up some of the visual language of the photo books that we know today. I prefer this version: messy, B-rolls, writing, edits and scratches. It feels much closer to the chaotic beatnik Paris Rive Gauche life that he was shooting.”
6. AFGHANISTAN: 0 RH (MOUSSE PUBLISHING, 2018)
BY GIOVANNA SILVA
“I’ve always seen this book as a really amazing, fragmented piece of photojournalism. It shows the military perspective of Afghanistan: from cars, up high, through dusty windows, from trucks. It’s claustrophobic and totally detached from place.”
7. DREAMING GEORGIA (ROCKIN’ ON INC, 1994) BY KURT MARKUS
“Dreaming Georgia is a constant reference for me. These are photographs by Kurt Markus taken of model Cynthia Antonio, sometimes clothed, sometimes nude. It feels like a love letter to her, but also to Alfred Stieglitz’s photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico and to their love.”