From September 30 – October 2 EIKON will participate at this year’s NY ART BOOK FAIR and we are looking forward to meeting you there (booth number: L07, 3rd floor)!

The sixth edition of the NY Art Book Fair will be held from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. This year’s focus is set on artists’ photography books. The NY Art Book Fair 2011 will also include special projects, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. The Classroom—a curated series of artist-led workshops, readings, and discussions—and the fifth annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference—a dynamic, two-day symposium on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture—will engage visitors in lively conversation all weekend long.

When: Friday, September 30 – Sunday, October 2, 2011
Where: MoMA PS1, 46-01 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 USA
EIKON booth: L07, 3rd floor

EIKON will be part of this year’s bild.sprachen 2011 – Fair for Applied Photography. From September 30 – October 1 you can find EIKON at the fair’s bookshop.

The fair’s concept is primarily based on the idea to inform about the latest innovations, products, and services in the field of applied photography and to establish a market place of supply and demand. The fair serves as a stage for presentation and aims to discover new forms of visual language to challenge future communication tasks. bild.sprachen gives an exciting overview about photography trends and allows the personal encounter. Besides important questions concerning the application of photography particularly from the entrepreneurial point of view will be subject of discussion.

When: Friday, September 30 – Saturday, October 1, 2011
Where: Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen, Munscheidstraße 14, 45886 Gelsenkirchen, Germany

EIKON sweetens all students their start into the new academic year and offers an EIKON-Special*: Subscribe for an EIKON Student-Special-Subscription (6 issues for only 40 €) and receive a Lomography City Guide Vienna as gift for free!

Write us an email (office@eikon.at) with the subject “Student-Special-Subscription” and become a memeber of the EIKON family!

*This offer is valid until October 30, 2011. The subscription will expire automatically after EIKON issue #80.

The 9th edition of the Backlight Photo Festival, which is held in Tampere/Finland right now, is devoted to the theme “Migration and Nomadic Living in 21st Century – Rural Traditions and Urban Hypes”. Another few weeks with an exciting program awaits you: lectures, workshops and exhibitions with primary documentary photography but also contributions with different artistic approaches can be seen until the beginning of November. Backlight 2011 promotes an intercultural dialogue by focusing on revealing the hidden, the veiled, the lost, and forgotten.

Exhibitions:
Migration And Nomadic Living (till October 30, 2011)
Territories Of Desire (till November 3, 2011)
Migration And Integration Into Ruhr Region Between 1980 – 210 (till October 4, 2011)

Read more about Backlight 2011 in EIKON #75!