Handbook to the Stars

by Peter Puklus

There is a reason why Peter Puklus’ first publication is called Handbook to the Stars, a subtle manifesto of his Ars Poetica. With this handbook he attempts to portray his own universe and provide insight into how his photographic works relate to each other: like galaxies in relative proximity to one another that are bound together by their own gravitational force. The images function alongside one another and through one another, have no sequence or chronology, but exist individually even as they form interconnections and follow their own patterns. Hence they do not necessarily fit on a page in this book; the imaginary distances keep the images in place. This implies that they may appear fragmented, sometimes small, sometimes large, precisely as they coexist in Puklus’ universe of images.
(extract from the book, text by Claudia Küssel)


Technical details:
Title: Handbook to the Stars
Author: Peter Puklus
Type of publication: Book
64 pages, hardcover, 16 x 21 cm, offset print

Concept: Claudia Küssel and Peter Puklus
Text and selection: Claudia Küssel
Graphic design: Palo Bálik
Edition: 300 copies
ISBN: 978-80-89587-00-1
Tags abstract, artists book, city, conceptual, found object, landscape, large format, still live
Technique Photography
Peter Puklus (Peter Puklus)

Images

  • Book cover
  • Spread
  • Spread
  • Spread
  • Book's concept can be shown as a map
  • Installation test
  • 3077, 2011, B.St. 41 x 56 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • 3036 (Positive-negative portrait), 2011, B.St. 34 x 41 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • 5077 (Giant Baked Beans Can), 2011, B.St. 34 x 41 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/5, Signed and numbered on the back
  • A TDK cassette with songs of PJ Harvey, 2010, Budapest 64 x 76.5 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/5, Signed and numbered on the back
  • A dual polyhedron with cube, 2011, Budapest 102 x 140 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • How to build a sun, 2011, Budapest 102 x 140 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • 5130 (Tatlin), 2011, B.St. 80 x 106 cm Archival Pigment Print 2/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • Three tulips and a cake in the bathroom, 2009, Budapest 140 x 102 cm Archival Pigment Print 2/5, Signed and numbered on the back
  • 0175, 2011, B.St. 80 x 106 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • Sunlight, 2011, B.St. 42 x 48 cm Archival Pigment Print 1/3, Signed and numbered on the back
  • Construction and perspectives, 2009, Budapest 50.5 x 45 cm Archival Pigment Print 2/5, Signed and numbered on the back

Videos


Jörg Colberg: Presenting Handbook to the Stars by Peter Puklus

Flipping through my first book 'Handbook to the Stars'

Links

indie Photobook Library   > http://www.indiephotobooklibrary.org/2012/06/handbook-to-the-stars/
Conscientious   > http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2012/05/review_handbook_to_the_stars_by_peter_puklus/
Self Publish Be Happy   > http://www.selfpublishbehappy.com/2012/07/book-du-jour-handbook-to-the-stars-by-peter-puklus/
The Independent Photobook   > http://theindependentphotobook.blogspot.hu/2012/05/peter-puklus-handbook-to-stars.html
Little Brown Miscellanea   > http://littlebrownmushroom.tumblr.com/post/24138946539/recently-recieved-handbook-to-the-stars-by-peter
i like this art   > http://ilikethisart.net/?p=13008
One Year of Books   > http://oneyearofbooks.tumblr.com/post/21375538259/peter-puklus-handbook-to-the-stars

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