The Logic of the Stairwell
poetry Marc Atkins
As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces and scenarios. Here, in his writing, that world is disclosed in meticulous detail. It amounts to a reserve collection of the felt unknown, a whole new dimension that lies just beyond the familiar, on the edges of the utterly strange — Rod Mengham
Published: 15 February 2011
Publisher: Shearsman Books
ISBN 9781848611610
Paperback, 80pp, 8x5ins, £8.95 / $15
Warszawa
photographs of Warsaw by Marc Atkins
with poetry by Tadeusz Pioro and Andrzej Sosnowski
After Liquid City, a book about London, Atkins has taken on Warsaw, which he calls "a place of endless fascination". Readers who have been to Warsaw will be surprised at what Atkins saw and shot here. Those who have yet to visit this city will have their perception of it unalterably changed by Warszawa, a landmark in urban photography.
Publisher: WIG - Press, Poland
Published: 2005
300 mm x 245 mm paperback with
flaps, 200 pages, 182 duotone illustrations
ISBN 83-87014-99-0
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Thirteen
photography by Marc Atkins with text by 13 writers
"13’ is a unique juxtaposition of imagery: photographic nudes by Marc Atkins ‘illustrated’ with text specially commissioned from thirteen internationally acclaimed writers. The authors‘illustrating’ Atkins’ photographs in‘13’ range from twice Booker Prize nominated novelist Julian Rathbone to New York columnist Maggie Estep via Bill Drummond (best known for his part in pop/art unit KLF) and Groupie author, Jenny Fabian. Some, like Nicholas Royle and Stella Duffy, are rising stars of British literature; others, such as writer and biographer James Sallis and writer/journalist Mick Farren are relatively seasoned veterans. All thirteen were given a nude portrait and asked to write about what they saw. The results are revealing, occasionally disturbing and very often breathtaking - descriptions which also fit Atkins' images perfectly.
Publisher: The Do Not Press
Published: 2002
234 mm x 156 mm paperback.
176 pages, 100 black and white images
ISBN 1-899344-86-1
Liquid City
by Marc Atkins and Iain Sinclair
The eccentric, manic, often moving collaborative explorations of London's hidden streets, cemeteries, parks and canals by photographer Marc Atkins and writer Iain Sinclair were first recorded in Sinclair's highly acclaimed 1997 book Lights Out for the Territory, praised in the Guardian as 'one of the most remarkable books ever written on London'. Liquid City documents Atkins and Sinclair's further peregrinations, focusing on the city's eastern and south-eastern quadrants. The title Liquid City is meant to evoke the Thames, which flows silently through the photographic and textual narrative, and to suggest the changes London has undergone and, like all cities, is constantly undergoing.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1998
234 mm x 156 mm paperback with flaps
224 pages, 180 duotone images
ISBN 1861890370
The Teratologists
photography and text by Marc Atkins
A selection of Atkins's lith monochrome studio images.
Publisher: panoptika
Published: 1998
210 mm x 298 mm paperback, 16 pages, 14 duotone images
ISBN: 0-9534371-0-8
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Faces of Mathematics
photography by Marc Atkins and text by Nick Gilbert
Photographic portraits of 20 of the top mathematicians working in Britain. Each image is accompanied with text by Nick Gilbert and statements by the mathematicians themselves.
'Faces of Mathematics' website: www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~nick/fom.html
Published: 2000
size: 210 mm x 210 mm paperback.
48 pages, 20 duotone images
Price: £5.00, ISBN: 0-9534371-1-6
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Equivalents
Exhibition catalogue 2001
A selection of images from Atkins's solo exhibition at Gallery FF in Lodz, Poland.
Publisher: Galeria FF
210 mm x 210 mm paperback
12 pages, 7 colour, 2 black & white images
ISBN 83-87398-43-8
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Interstice
Exhibition catalogue 2002
Funded by The British Council
A selection of images from Atkins's solo exhibition at The British Council in Prague, Czech Republic
Published: 2002
210 mm x 149 mm paperback
12 pages, 8 colour, 2 black & white images
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The World’s Top Photographers: Nudes
International photography collection
(also including images by Guy Bourdin, Bettina Rheims, Robert
Mapplethorpe and Rankin)
Publisher: RotoVision
Published: October 2005
250 x 250 mm hardback, 176 pages, 100 black and white and colour images
Co-editions in French, Italian and Russian
ISBN: 2-88046-823-X
London - from Punk to Blair
Image & prose collection by Joe Kerr and Andrew Gibson.
Contains "End of the Line" photographs of London Underground, with text by Rod Mengham
Publisher: Reaktion
Published: 2003
Nudes
International photography collection
(also including images by Bill Brandt & Ralph Gibson)
Publisher: RotoVision
Published: January 2001
260 x 228 mm mm paperback, 144 pages, 100 black and white and colour images
Co-editions in French, German, Italian, Spanish
ISBN: 2-88046-533-8
Fabs: 1999-2002
catalogue of Fabs Association organised exhibitions and performances
"Marc Atkins: Morphing by the Second"
(Fabs) 2003
Erotica
International photography collection
(also including images by Bob Carlos Clarke & Petter Hegre)
(Constable & Robinson Ltd, London) 2001 www.constablerobinson.com
(Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York) 2001 www.carrollandgraf.com
Cutting it Fine
Solo images of London's‘Soho Soho’ restaurant
with text by Andrew Parkinson & Jonathon Green
(Jonathan Cape) 2001 www.randomhouse.co.uk
Winter - New York
exhibition & performance catalogue
(So What) 1996
Blind Montage
catalogue (‘Great Britain Performances’)
(So What) 1992
Masses Lacing Masses
collab. with Anet Van Den Elzan
(So What) 1992
Marc Atkins’ photography, video, performance and text works
have also been reproduced and reviewed in many other catalogues,
magazines and newspapers worldwide
(see: Curriculum Vitae).