Swimmers Books and Films is a

Books and Films is a tribute to Frank’s diverse and influential bookmaking practice

The type has been set in Berthold Quality Bemba and Perpetua in reference to Katy Homans’ original design for William Eggleston's 1978 book

Matthew Barney

Produced by Jiazazhi

One can capture the traces of painting and photography at the same time in Developer Paintings

Swimmers Books and Films is aI wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill conceived I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures. Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black and white documentary photographs he found in a Red