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We live in a visual world. How we display the visual matters. We believe that publishing books on the visual world deepens our perception on what is a photograph, what is a piece of art, what is good design and good architecture.

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Frontiers of Another Nature, Pictures from Iceland

Frontiers of Another Nature – Pictures from Iceland is a unique selection of the works of 50 Icelandic photographers spanning 150 years. It examines how the photographic arts are essential to examine...

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Birds of Iceland

Benedikt Gröndal Near the end of the 19th century, the eccentric poet, draughtsman and scholar Benedikt Gröndal Sveinbjarnarson (1826-1907) drew every bird ever seen in Iceland. This fun...

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Without a Passport - Travel Essays

Einar Falur Ingólfsson Every place has its own story worth telling, but in some places it is like history poses for a photograph. In the last decades Einar Falur Ingólfsson has travelled around the ...

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Nara - The Crated Rooms in Iceland

Yoshitomo Nara For Yoshitomo Nara's exhibiton at the Reykjavík Art Museum in 2009, Nara partnered as in all his recent exhibitions with the Graf group and his partner Hideki Toyoshima, who helped pre...

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June

Harpa Árnadóttir Not an ordinary book, June is rather like a collection of newly painted watercolours and journal pages slipped into a folder, a pile of enchanting texts and images...

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Equivocal

Katrín Elvarsdóttir The series Equivocal is everyday yet exotic, creating a complex world through different viewpoints and the passage of time. Photographed by Elvarsdóttir over the course of sever...

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Cars in Rivers

A wanted ad brought 35 photographs to artist Ólafur Elíasson. Using these photographs he formed the series Cars in Rivers in 2009. By orchestrating the photos sent to him by jeep driving adventurers,...

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Path - Journey to the Center

Elín Hansdóttir Rebecca Solnit In the book Path, the subjective and objective aspects of the installation PATH come together, through the interaction of text and images. The book is suggestive of t...

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Trust us! We are artists

Gallery Crymo opened in downtown Reykjavík in June 2009 as an exhibition space and gallery for young artists. Though Gallery Crymo was only in operation for two years, it held an impressive number...

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The National Flag of Iceland - Use, Respect and Conduct

Hörður Lárusson The National Flag of Iceland - Use, Respect and Conduct is a visual representation of the laws and regulations concerning the protocol for the Icelandic national flag. Various miscon...

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Last Days of the Arctic

Ragnar Axelsson Text by Mark Nuttall The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on earth. This rapid climate change is having a devastating effect on the region’s ecology and, consequently...

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7/20/2011
PATH

In early August Crymogea Publishers will publish the book, PATH by Elín Hansdóttir, which also features the essay Journey to the center by Rebecca Solnit, the acclaimed author of Wanderlust and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. The installation PATH consists of a narrow passageway that zigzags through a relatively small space in a gallery or a museum, aiming to fill it up completely. Light shines on...

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