Vapour Momenta Books is
the pocket-
sized publishing arm of photographer and artist Bruce Connew
and designer/
typographer Catherine Griffiths. The website displays
our artist books, along with other titles of interest to us, and maybe
you, as well as the odd snippet of news that involves our work.
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For Like Ever /
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Bruce Connew
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Fine Art Gallery
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Stopover was nominated in the 2008 D&AD Awards under Entire Books category / Jury: Irma Boom (Jury Foreman), Phil Baines, Nick Bell, Gareth Howat, Piotr Karczewski, Chip Kidd, Amanda Renshaw / Included in Eye magazine under Books Received / Awarded a silver at New Zealand’s BEST Design Awards in 2007
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Designed by Catherine Griffiths, A Short History of Photography by Harvey Benge with Gerry Badger, recently won Best Cover at New Zealand’s book design awards
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EXHIBITION Stopover by Bruce Connew, opens at Two Rooms Gallery, 6pm, Thursday 24th May / 16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand. As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, Bruce will also be speaking at Crossing Borders Symposium 10:30am, 2nd June, Aotea Centre, Auckland.
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SELECTED I Must Behave by Bruce Connew, the TypeSHED11 programme, For the record, typo/sound installation AEIOU, and wall work Sound Tracks, were selected for the ZGRAF 11 exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia earlier this year. Catherine won an Honorable Mention for AEIOU.
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EXPERIMENTAL DANCE An Unfortunate Willingness To Agree Oliver Connew, Gareth Okan, Fleur Cameron and Marike Pratley, co-produced by The Wanderer Productions and Salted:Singlet for the NZ Fringe Festival 2012, BATS Theatre, 27 February — 2 March, 6:30pm, Tickets $14/$16 at www.bats.co.nz / Proudly sponsored by VMB
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EXHIBITION I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon, new work by Bruce Connew, the third in the ‘I trilogy, SUITE Gallery, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, March 24, 5.30-7.30pm, until Saturday, April 16. Others in the trilogy: I Saw You (2007), I Must Behave (2009). The artist book will be published this year.
Design: Connew/Griffiths
Typography: Catherine Griffiths
Case-bound cover, 82-panel concertina
190x140mm, upright
24 four-colour photographs
printed by EBS, Verona
NZ$65 (600 signed, numbered edition)
NZ$190 (50 signed, numbered
edition of book with
signed, numbered archival
pigment print of image #1,
120x180mm, on Hahnemuhle
Photo Rag)
Published by Vapour Momenta Books
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AWARDED ... the ‘tricolour of awards was collected by Catherine Griffiths at New Zealands 2010 Best Awards: GOLD for the TypeSHED11 programme, For the record, SILVER for Bruce Connews I Must Behave; and last of all, BRONZE for AEIOU, a typo/sound installation
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ON SHOW Karma Police and The Way We Live Now: a medley of Bruce Connews recent and not-so-recent works, curated by Melanie Moreau, is on show at Suite Pop Up Gallery. Join Bruce and Suite for a shot of ZUMWOHL at 5pm, Tuesday 14 September, 108 Oriental Parade, Wellington, NZ >> VIEW
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AWARDED PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris, Bruce Connew was awarded 3rd prize in the PX3 2010 Competition: Books, Fine Art category >> VIEW / PRESS RELEASE / BUY
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SURVEILLANCE I
Saw You is the
first in the series of three artist books, observing social behaviour
and control. A 52-image surveillance series, this
pocket-sized beauty precedes the exquisite and unsettling I
Must Behave, a
sideways glance at behaviour / NZ$65 / BUY
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BOOK
SIGNING at Paris Photo
with Slavica
Perkovic:
artist book Matea has 220 friends,
designed by Vier5; and Bruce
Connew: artist book I Must Behave, designed by Catherine
Griffiths,
at 14h, Saturday November 21, 2009 / Schaden.com bookstore
/ PARIS PHOTO /
CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE / PARIS
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ARRIVED! I
Must Behave / by Bruce Connew
/ A sideways glance at behaviour / 2nd in the series, published by
Vapour Momenta Books, June 2009 / printed in Verona / NZ$85 / BUY
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EXHIBITION I Must
Behave was first exhibited in full at Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery June-August 2009, along with Mark Adams
and John Miller (Photo
HiStories curated by Mercedes Vicente)
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to Bruce
Connew: images and censors / an interview with Kim Hill,
Radio NZ
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in support ...
BOOK Joseph Churchward /
A new publication presenting an overview of the work of Samoan-born New Zealand-based
alphabet and advertising designer Joseph Churchward [1932]/ Edited and designed
by David Bennewith / NZ$140 / available from Clouds
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BOOK For the record /
TypeSHED11 programme / edited and designed by Catherine Griffiths / NZ$25
/ available here
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