Stanley / Barker is a British publishing house dedicated to photography.
Stanley / Barker publishes photobooks in often combined trade and limited editions, and also artsit books (or "portfolios") in a very limited print run. They also produce silk screen posters.
The publishing house has worked multiple times with several artists: Bill Henson ("1985" in 2014, "Particle Mist" in 2015, "Kindertotelieder" in 2017), Mark Steinmetz ("Fifteen Miles to K-Ville" in 2016, "Past K-Ville" in 2018, "Carnival" in 2019), Tod Papageorge ("Studio 54" in 2014, "On the Acropolis" in 2019) or Christopher Anderson ("Approximate Joy" in 2018, "COP" in 2019.)
Presentation by Stanley/Barker: " In the late 50's, New York's Washington Square was a place of rebellion, nicknamed junkie row and described by Simone de Beauvoir as « A cosmopolitan chorus of tourists, ‘intellectuals’, students and a dubious collection of beatniks, hippies and bohemians who gather while in the dimly lit night clubs and coffee houses,...
Publisher's presentation: "15 Miles to K-Ville is a poetic journey around the outskirts of K-Ville: a fictional town somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia, where graves dot the terrain and a sense of forbidding hangs heavy in the air. This collection of darkly humorous and melancholy portraits and landscapes date from the early 1990s...
.Sold out. Presentation by Stanley / Barker: "During the 1980s by the Siberian artist Nikolay Bakharev worked as a mechanic and communal services factory photographer in the USSR. To supplement his income he would solicit work as a black market portrait photographer on the public beaches of Eastern Russia. If the shoot went well, he would invite his...
.PLEASE NOTE : One new copy available, but with top of binding bumped (offered at 50 € instead of 60 €).Publisher's presentation: "In 1980, the American photographer Larry Fink received a grant from the Seattle Museum of Art, or as he tells the story, ‘My star was starting to rise. I was called’ and so, already a logger of sorts himself, Fink made a...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Particle Mist draws together works from three of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series: Untitled 1974, Untitled 1975 with additional previously unseen photographs from an unfinished work begun in 1976. Together they form a portrait of an artist as a young man. The series shows Henson’s recognised and celebrated...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Studio 54 brings together a collection of photographs by renowned photographer, Tod Papageorge, taken in the late 1970s. They are a filled with all the decadency, vibrancy and glamour of New York’s most infamous club. In Papageorge’s own words, «The 66 photographs in this book were made between 1978-80 in Studio 54, a...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "At the age of 33, one of Australia’s foremost photographers, Bill Henson, produced some of the most evocative portraits and powerful dreamscapes of his career. Now nearly 30 years on STANLEY/BARKER has published this transcendental body of work for the first time. Shot at dawn or dusk, in the suburbs of Melbourne,...