01/2009 - Blown Canadian Style
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01/2009 - The New Yorker
01/2009 - Monocle highlights Rubbish
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12/2008 - Creative Review on AE
11/2008 - Andrew Hetherington Interviews The Auditorium
11/2008 - What's the Jackanory? on Auditorium Editions
View the kind words of Andrew Hetherington. http://www.whatsthejackanory.com
11/2008 - Auditorium Editions at The National Arts Club
The photographs on exhibit at the NAC from October 17 - November 11 are a selection from the first three titles to be released by the imprint: Blown,
by Christopher Griffith, Blackline, by Christian Weber and Rubbish, by Jake Chessum. They document respectively, blown out tire fragments retrieved from highways, the aftermath of wildfires in California, and trash discarded on the street. The three subjects, although linked by a similar theme of rejection and destruction, are approached by the photographers in distinctly different ways.
Reception 11/07/08 6 to 9 pm
11/2008 - Blown + Rubbish
Christopher Griffith's Blown and Jake Chessum's Rubbish are now shipping!!!!
11/2008 - ICP
The International Center of Photography is now stocking all titles by Auditorium Editions. http://shopping.icp.org/store/
11/2008 - Creative Review
Creative Review features Auditorium Edition's Blackline, Rubbish, and Blown.
10/2008 - Dashwood Books + Auditorium Editions
Dashwood Books now stocking Blown and Rubbish. http://www.dashwoodbooks.com/
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Christopher Griffith
Auditorium Editions, 2008
ISBN 9780981788401
hardcover in slipcase
edition size 2000 copies 17 x 14 inches
Part of a series of three books depicting starkly minimal subject matter to launch Auditorium Editions by founders, Jake Chessum, Christopher Griffith and Chistian Weber. Griffith's Blown is a slipcased oversized volume in black and white depicting the sculptural forms of shredded tires gathered from Americas highways and dragged back to the studio.
09/2008 - CR + AE
Creative Review discusses new titles by Auditorium Editions in the September issue.
08/2008 - Refinery 29
Thanks Refinery for the nice article. refinery29.com
Beautiful Decay: Pretty Pictures for an Endangered Planet
People are always going on about our endangered environment. Save the coastlines from oil and trash! Save trees from acid and overharvesting! Save the polar bears from drowning between melting ice caps! But all these glass-half-empty types never really talk about all the lovely artistic opportunities that our dying planet affords talented photographers. While three new monographs from Auditorium Editions may not make take the place of endangered flora and fauna, at least they take a bad situation and use it for the best reasons.
Coming this October, Blown by Christopher Griffith, Rubbish by Jake Chessum, and Blackline by Christian Weber document destroyed tires found on America's highways, trash in vacant locales, and the detestation caused by a California wildfire respectively. Depressing subjects, perhaps, but the photos themselves are hauntingly alluring. Griffith's work in particular seems to rescue road waste and turn it into something very reminiscent of the high-contrast jewelry shots featured in fashion magazines and websites (you know…like this one). The beauty of the images never excuse the slights against nature they imply, but they do have enough power to make the viewer stop, look, and think about the sort of detritus they might normally pass by without a thought. Really—from dirty interstates to the over populated California hills—a moment's pause is perhaps the best we can ask.
