Gagosian iPad app, issue #4, Taryn Simon

The images above are iPad screen grabs.

Format: iPad app with in-app issues.

Price: Free

Links: iTunes and Gagosian

Comment: Gagosian's iPad app consists of downloadable in-app issues. Each issue feature the work of a number of Gagosian artists. Issue 4 has a great feature about Taryn Simon's work, for example detailed and interactive views of Contraband and A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. There's also texts, detailed info about the works, installation views, videos and much more to be found. In issue #4 there's also a good feature on Thomas Ruff.

Screen Grabs: Shashasha / Fragments by Daido Moriyama

iPad screen grabs of the Shashasha app and its in app purchase Fragments by Daido Moriyama.

Format: iPad app (apps for iPhone, Android and a web application are under consideration.)

Price: Free app / In app purchases are $0.99

Links: iTunes and Shashasha

Le Parc Automobile Européen by Annelise Coste

The images above are iPhone screen grabs.

"Download and collect your favorite Nieves Zines, carefully edited and adapted

for the multi-touch retina display. Leaf through each Zine from front to back, identical to the original, all in a single app optimised for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad."  Nieves

Format: In App Purchase in the Nieves App, compatible with iPhone and iPad.

Price: $0.99 for In App Purchase. The Nieves App is free.

Links: iTunes and Nieves

Comment: There isn't much information about this project online and maybe it isn't needed. It's only 9 b&w photos of parked cars. The photos appear so neutral that it's easy to forget about the make and model and just focus on the shapes and the soft light hitting the lacquer and the windows. Whatever one might think of it, this is the playfulness and spontaneity a zine or sometimes digital publishing can provide. It's hard to compare a zine to a book in terms of the strength of content and design, but it has other strengths that are hard to rate.

RATING:

Content: 10/20

Design: 7/15

Value: 4/5

TOTAL: 21/40

One a Day by Ari Marcopoulos

Nieves App. All of the images above are iPhone screen captures.

"The immediateness is what makes the Zine such a beautiful medium to work in. An idea comes up and the next day you can have a Book done. Doing it with Nieves is so great because the Zines find themselves all over the world and of course swiss precision printing even on a Xerox machine makes them beautiful objects." 

Ari Marcopoulos

"Download and collect your favorite Nieves Zines, carefully edited and adapted
for the multi-touch retina display. Leaf through each Zine from front to back, identical to the original, all in a single app optimised for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad."  Nieves

Format: In App Purchase in the Nieves App, compatible with iPhone and iPad.

Price: $0.99 for In App Purchase. The Nieves App is free.

Links: iTunes and Nieves

Comment: One a Day zine was published in 2004 in an edition of 100 and today it's naturally out of print. 

Like with Tokyo Suburbia by Takashi Homma, making it available digitally is a good way for people to see the work. The photographs on the 28 pages are very diverse, ranging from landscapes to celebrity portraits to very personal snaps.

The Nieves App with multiple cheap In App Purchases is an interesting way to distribute zines digitally.
Four pages of each zine can be previewed before deciding to purchase. 

RATING:

Content: 14/20

Design: 8/15

Value: 5/5

TOTAL: 27/40