Books published by Heni Publishing

Ralph Gibson's career-long passion for the printed page culminates in his amazing life storySelf-Exposure is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection in his life and work and decided to put pen to paper.Writing in candid prose, Gibson takes the reader through his life and career from his earliest memories of growing up in California (the son of a Hollywood director, Gibson's childhood is touched by the old glamour of the silver screen: the likes of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth make appearances) to his time in the navy and his continuous love affair with photography.Gibson's memories are filled with rich characters and period details. Often moving, the narratives of his at times troublesome childhood provide a rich background to the charismatic artist Gibson has become. Gibson covers a range of topics such as music, Catholicism, his wife, Mary Jane, and a long line of fellow artists and photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank. His ruminations on his life so far display a deep, thoughtful understanding and self-awareness that make this book a fascinating read in itself as well as an illuminating companion to his work.What emerges is an insight into the mind of an incredible, highly decorated artist. Evocatively illustrated, Self-Exposure presents Gibson's life story alongside his photographic work. Designed and produced in close collaboration with Gibson, this large-format publication--as much a biography as it is an artist's book--is Gibson's most personal book to date.Ralph Gibson was born in Los Angeles in 1939. In 1956 he enlisted in the navy, where he began studying photography. His work is widely exhibited and held in public collections around the world, such as the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He lives and works in New York.

The first monograph on the world-renowned contemporary artist and muralist MadC, whose practice moves dynamically between the street and the studio to capture the energy of painting.

There is a layer of the public architecture that has become so familiar that we barely notice it. Street furniture has the capacity to define a city, to locate it and to anchor us within it. Benches, bollards, streetlights, signs, barriers, post boxes, phone booths ? they are the physical manifestation of public infrastructure, a network of goods between architecture and the body.00In this book, Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic of the Financial Times, looks at the cultural impact of street furniture using photography as a measure of how these things have become indispensable components of the cityscape. Based mainly in and on London ? but including New York, Paris and Budapest ? Heathcote uses history, personal reflection and the lenses of photographers to examine the status of these urban artefacts in both the contemporary imagination and the city streets themselves. It looks at the changing landscape of the cityscape and the way in which street furniture has been adapted to address new technologies, the culture of surveillance and shifts in taste, orthodoxy and material culture.00On the Street looks at the language of street furniture reflected through the glaze of photography and contemporary culture. It is a book about the elements of the streetscape which can exert an increasing impact on our interaction with the cities we inhabit --

The first book documenting the work of London-based Iraqi artist and painter Suad Al-Attar, a personal account of her life and art. Written by Al-Attars granddaughter, Nesma Shubber, giving thereader unique access to the archive of a sensational artist.

The Richter Interviews collects together a series of conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter over the course of more than two decades of discussion and collaboration.

An epistolary collection of paintings by French painter and philosopher Eugenie Paultre, Matter of Life is a diaristic account of the artist's six-month residency at Damien Hirst's workshop where she discovered and documented new possibilities in her painting, as well as a more profound connection to the work of her host.

The first collection of essays by one of America's decisive and most lucid critical voicesFollowing on from the much-lauded Robert Storr: Interviews on Art, Heni presents the first in a two-volume publication featuring the collected writings of Robert Storr, one of the world's leading art critics and curators. Featuring the best of Storr's criticism--reviews, articles and essays--from the 1980s to the mid-2000s, this publication includes texts on a wide range of artists such as Jean-Michel Baquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Carroll Dunham, Eva Hesse, Ilya Kabakov, Martin Puryear, Louise Lawler, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper, Jackson Pollock, Chéri Samba, Nancy Spero, Yvonne Rainer and Rachel Whiteread (among many others). Writings on Art offers fresh insights on some of the most influential artists of our era, and is a must-read for curators and students, artists, exhibition-goers and all those interested in the art and culture of today. Robert Storr (born 1949) is a renowned American critic, curator and artist. His writing has appeared in countless books and exhibition catalogs. He was curator and senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for more than a decade, and became the first North American curator of the Venice Biennale in 2007. Storr led the Yale University School of Art as Dean from 2006 to 2016, and continues to teach there as professor of painting.

The most comprehensive collection of artworks by world-renowned artist Brian Clarke to date. Designed in close collaboration with the artist himself, featuring stunning photography that captures Clarke's revolutionary approach to the medium of stained glass, with an introduction by Norman Foster and an essay by Paul Greenhalgh.

Martin''s work is characterised by a unique freedom, expressed through the possibilities of her chosen canvas - a piece of paper or textile, a sculptural surface, wall or screen. She interrogates ''who we are at the core, as people'', and since her beginnings with live performance drawing in the mega clubs of Tokyo she has navigated creative worlds to interrogate and play with the role of artist and viewer. This monograph charts her career and includes early pieces, larg-scale murals and commissions, and collaborations with museums, technical institutes, museums and fashion brands.

This publication, one of the only books in print on Belfast-born artist Cathy Wilkes, features a new set of drawings related to the highly anticipated work for the Venice Biennale 2019, and providing rare insights into Wilkes' creative process.

In Lead White Zarina Bhimji explores the history of Zanzibar. Filtered through Bhimji's artistic vision, national archives and found documents become a poetic exploration of numerous topics including national health, education and contemporary Africa.