Category: ICI Press

ICI Press publishes books that have been called “rhizomatic verbal-visual webs.” As multi-disciplinary projects, they actualize as much as they analyze the image/text paradigm. Bataille’s Eye (1997) explores Georges Bataille’s novella, Story of the Eye.Benjamin’s Blind Spot (2001) unpacks Walter Benjamin’s difficult concept of aura. Searching for Sebald (2007) looks at W. G. Sebald’s unique method of bringing word and image together and explores the far-reaching impact of his work on the world of art. ICI is currently working on a book that explores Roland Barthes’ last book, Camera Lucida.
ICI also publishes pamphlets, ethnographic studies, and limited artist editions/films. Many of our publications are unique, handmade objects that can be viewed in our library. In this portion of our website you’ll fine documents and ephemera linked to our various publications.

Barthes' Tear, First and Last Lines, Galt/, Library, Photography's History of Us/ February 28, 2012July 5, 2018

LIBRARY SHELF: Landscapes of the Passing Strange

Purcell, Rosamond and Michael Witmore Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (2011) LAST LINE: “From time to time, I do get lucky.” ICI SHELF: Photography ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (02-28-12)

Dirt/, ICI Press, This Could be a Place of Historical Significance/, We Did This All While You Were Watching TV/ September 22, 2011July 5, 2018

EPHEMERA KABINETT: Earth Kit

Epistemophilia/, ICI Press, Image-text gaps/, Sebaldiana/, Thin End of the Wedge/, Things that Glisten/ January 5, 2011July 5, 2018

Mnemosyne Atlas

Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive.

The Archive figured prominently in the ICI’s third title, Searching for Sebald: Photography After W. G. Sebald. In her essay that considered the work of Tacita Dean and Joseph Beuys through the prose fictions of W. G. Sebald, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes compares Dean’s Floh (2001) … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas

Behind the Curtain Technologies/, Benjamin's Blind Spot, Collective Camouflage/, Manual of Lost Ideas/, Photo Cabinet, Workroom October 21, 2010July 5, 2018

Research Team – Manual of Lost Ideas

The ICI Research Team for the Manual of Lost Ideas.

Ephemera Kabinett, Field Work Document, ICI Press, Sebaldiana/ October 21, 2010July 5, 2018

Re-walking the Rings

White pumpkin from East Anglia, UK. In 2004, an ICI research team re-walked W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. The trip became the lynchpin for our third book, Searching for Sebald. The pumpkin caught our eyes as an emblem of Sebald’s chromophobia.

Bataille's Eye, ICI Press, Image-text gaps/ October 21, 2010July 5, 2018

Marcelle by Esteban Chavez S.

“Marcelle” by artist Esteban Chavez S. is part of Oeillet, a limited artist edition created for the ICI’s first book Bataille’s Eye. Esteban also created the covers and binding for the 1994 showing of the AIDS Chronicles at the New Museum of New York.