Mirzoyan Library

Our Collection of Zines and Artist Books

Michael Yeghyan: Beirut (_17_18)

“The book essentially documents my two trips to Beirut, Lebanon in August 2017 and January 2018. Beirut is a city that's given me many interesting faces and places to photograph, and will forever hold a special place in my heart as the locale where l've grown as a person and as a photographer. There is no specific agenda that this book follows, make of it what you will. I hope in these moments you will find some inspiration, as I did when I was capturing them.”

We’re happy to have your zines and artist books in our collection and MAGAZIN for sale.

Book’s Day: Typology and Difference

February 4-11

Typology is a certain artistic project thinking, where the main tool for the photographer is the repetition or variation of certain similar visual structures and objects in a series of images. Typology is carried out in a variety of samples, where each subsequent photograph is a kind of ‘analogy’ of the previous one. Typological photographs definitely routinize the viewer's gaze, which can cause the viewer to experience a certain fatigue as the receptors of perception are saturated with the intensity of the repetition of simulacrums. In this regard, for fruitful contemplation, the viewer needs to make a pause and to differentiate. The significance of typologized projects is learned precisely through differentiation, not analogization, since the value of the unique identity of each photograph is formed in its difference, which is the basis of repetition, where there is no place for concepts like “original and copy” or “beginning, middle and end”.

Dear friends, we invite you to hang out at our Book’s Day about Typology and Differentiation.

Shellburne Thurber: Analysis
Lee Friedlander: A second look. The Nudes
Vivian Maier: Self-portraits
Marco Anelli: Portraits in the Perspective of The Presenceof Marina Abramović
Tseng Kwong Chi: Self Portraits 1979-1989
Cindy Sherman
Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies
Katharina Roters: Hungarian Cubes
Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published work
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes.. and many-many other

A new book in the Library!

In this book, Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of the 20th century, writes about his own life and work.

In Search of Greatness, reflections by Yousuf Karsh, is donated to the “great Mirzoyan Library by Hagen Schweinitz”.

Thank you, dear Hagen! You’re always welcome!

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Our Collection of Zines and Artist Books Wall (стена). 2020 by Ilya Rodin ()

Self-Published

This zine consists of pictures of murals/graffiti ordered by the city hall of Moscow. The «Wall» is the collection of these murals appearing and disappearing from time to time all around the city. The project was finished in 2020, presenting the idealistic sceneries of the country and its culture by that moment in time.

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