Arcatecture: Swiss Cat Ladders Ruby Press Published by the brilliant 3-Ply

Published by the brilliant 3-Ply (Melbourne)

" writes the AA Chairman Alvin Boyarsky in 1981 in the opening pages of the first issue of the long-running journal

Variations for Troubled Hands – which won the 2017 Australian Photobook of the Year Award –leveraged the long history of hands in art and film in presenting more than 200 photographs of the fingers

By drawing upon the diverse perspectives of a group of curators

it heralds a telling new voice in the contemporary art vernacular

Arcatecture: Swiss Cat Ladders Ruby Press Published by the brilliant 3-PlyThey come in all shapes and sizes, and somehow the phenomenon is especially prevalent in Switzerland: homemade cat ladders. Taking the city of Berne as an example, photographer Brigitte Schuster shows the variety of ways humans facilitate the comings and goings of their feline friends in the context of the surrounding architecture. From a simple wooden plank to complex, scaffold like constructions rising up to four storeys in a zigzag fashion, they