Mirzoyan Library

12/02/2025

Our Collection of Zines and Artist Books

Michael Yeghyan: Beirut (_17_18)

“The book essentially documents my two trips to Beirut, Lebanon in August 2017 and January 2018. Beirut is a city that's given me many interesting faces and places to photograph, and will forever hold a special place in my heart as the locale where l've grown as a person and as a photographer. There is no specific agenda that this book follows, make of it what you will. I hope in these moments you will find some inspiration, as I did when I was capturing them.”

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05/02/2025

Our Collection of Zines and Artist Books

“I still couldn’t remember the dream of wild ponies dancing, no matter how hard I tried.”

Credits: photos on pages 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 23 + drawings + collages: quito ziegler. wild animals by peter beard, wild ponies by robert dutesco, art by tara cronin, cathy opie, ryan mcginley and anselm kiefer. dream elephants, barnett newman, rod stewart, old men and the sponge via the internet. thank you ericat, little wings, aleza bear, lizxnn's special cleansing energy, sister emma, brother amy, uncle naz, the magic mirrors and the wild pony club, special thanks to uncle george for making this all possible. 

We’re happy to have your zines and artist books in our collection and MAGAZIN for sale.

04/02/2025

Book’s Day: Typology and Difference

February 4-11

Typology is a certain artistic project thinking, where the main tool for the photographer is the repetition or variation of certain similar visual structures and objects in a series of images. Typology is carried out in a variety of samples, where each subsequent photograph is a kind of ‘analogy’ of the previous one. Typological photographs definitely routinize the viewer's gaze, which can cause the viewer to experience a certain fatigue as the receptors of perception are saturated with the intensity of the repetition of simulacrums. In this regard, for fruitful contemplation, the viewer needs to make a pause and to differentiate. The significance of typologized projects is learned precisely through differentiation, not analogization, since the value of the unique identity of each photograph is formed in its difference, which is the basis of repetition, where there is no place for concepts like “original and copy” or “beginning, middle and end”.

Dear friends, we invite you to hang out at our Book’s Day about Typology and Differentiation.

Shellburne Thurber: Analysis
Lee Friedlander: A second look. The Nudes
Vivian Maier: Self-portraits
Marco Anelli: Portraits in the Perspective of The Presenceof Marina Abramović
Tseng Kwong Chi: Self Portraits 1979-1989
Cindy Sherman
Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies
Katharina Roters: Hungarian Cubes
Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published work
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes.. and many-many other

28/01/2025

Our Collection of Zines and Artist Books

Carla & Paul: Erlebnispark

Dienacht Publishing, 2023

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&Paul

27/01/2025

Photographer of the week: Helga Paris

“I've always been drawn to the everyday, the unspectacular. But I didn't photograph it clinically, aseptically; rather, I tried to reproduce it as realistically and as hauntingly as possible.”

Շաբաթվա լուսանկարիչ` Հելգա Պարիս

«Ինձ միշտ գրավել է առօրեականը, ոչ տեսարժանը: Ես այն ուղղակի չեմ լուսանկարել ակնհայտ ասեպտիկ կերպով, այլ փորձել եմ պատկերել հնարավորինս իրական և հուզիչ»:

24/01/2025

A new book in the Library!

In this book, Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of the 20th century, writes about his own life and work.

In Search of Greatness, reflections by Yousuf Karsh, is donated to the “great Mirzoyan Library by Hagen Schweinitz”.

Thank you, dear Hagen! You’re always welcome!

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23/01/2025

A new book in the Library!

“Inventing Japan is just another way of getting to know it . . . Trust appearances, consciously confuse the decor with the drama, never worry about understanding, just be there—dasein—and everything will come your way. Well, something, at least . . .”

Chris Marker’s 1982 photo-essay Le Dépays is a present from lovely Sona Karapoghosyan! Thank you, Sona, for your refined cinefile taste!

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22/01/2025

Our Collection of Zines and Artist Books Wall (стена). 2020 by Ilya Rodin ()

Self-Published

This zine consists of pictures of murals/graffiti ordered by the city hall of Moscow. The «Wall» is the collection of these murals appearing and disappearing from time to time all around the city. The project was finished in 2020, presenting the idealistic sceneries of the country and its culture by that moment in time.

20/01/2025

Book’s Day: Surrealism and Photography
(January 21-28)

Susan Sontag, in her key book “On Photography”, defines the nature of photography as surreal: “Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic than the one perceived by natural vision.” No matter how accurate the metaphor about the surrealism of photography is, we cannot show all the books of the Library within the framework of this Book’s Day, so we decided to show surrealism as a phenomenon in photography.

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
From the “Manifesto of Surrealism”, 1924

Man Ray
Diane Arbus
Guy Bourdin
Chema Madoz
Roger Ballen

 

20/01/2025

Photographer of the week: Antoine d’Agata ()

“I always try to use cameras that I don’t know, I feel uncomfortable with.”

Շաբաթվա լուսանկարիչ` Անտուան դ’Ագատա

«Ես միշտ փորձում եմ նկարահանել այնպիսի տեսախցիկներով, որոնցով աշխատելիս` ես ինձ զգում եմ անհարմար»։

16/01/2025

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14/01/2025