Artists at 5 aims to take a look at artists' before they had any realisation of their future selves, taking into account the innocence of
childhood alongside Ryan Gander's preoccupations with the understanding of time, divergent historic potentials, "what-if" para-possible
futures and the privilege of hindsight and retrospect.
Presented chronologically alongside a date and place in which the photograph was taken, it gives an history of amateur photography
across all continents.
Starting from the early 20th century to the most recent generation of artists whose photographs were taken in the early 21st Century,
the book show also progression in technology and attitudes toward the camera.
Artists at 5 includes artists such as Alexander Calder, Anicka Yi, Arthur Jafa, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Elliot, Ceal Floyer, Cindy Sherman,
Cornelia Parker, Gabriel Kuri, Gary Hume, Holly Hendry, KAWS, Lawrence Weiner, Marcel Broodthaers, Marina Abramović, Olafur Eliasson,
Prem Sahib, Ragnar Kjartansson, Richard Deacon, Sarah Morris, Stuart Middleton, Susan Hiller, Uri Aran, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
This book is published for the 10th anniversary of Institut Imagine.
All profits will go to curing genetic diseases.
Founded in Tokyo in 2010, twelvebooks is a distributor specializing in art books.
As the exclusive Japanese representative for selected international publishers, twelvebooks manages the distribution
and promotion of their publications with a vision of making art books more widely accessible.
twelvebooks is also involved in various art book initiatives, including organizing the TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR.
In November 2024, twelvebooks opened SKWAT/twelvebooks in Nishikameari, Katsushika, a space that offers public access to its storage warehouse.