Sleeper is a publishing project working with photography, design, and text to realize artists’ ideas in printed form. While books will always be a core part of our output, we identify more as a studio than strictly as a publisher. As a studio we can cultivate a fluid and experimental practice that is more concerned with bringing certain ideas to life than it is about producing a particular kind of object.
Sleeper is Ben Alper and Ross Mantle and operates out of Carrboro, NC and Pittsburgh, PA.
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Sleeper is Ben Alper and Ross Mantle and operates out of Carrboro, NC and Pittsburgh, PA.
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MOVES FROM THE ARCHIVE
Photographs by Aaron R. Turner
Essay by Terence Washington
86 pages, 57 plates
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm.)
Open spine binding with a tri-folded and die cut hardcover
First Edition: 500 copies
MISPLACED FORTUNES
Photographs by Ross Mantle
Short story by Edith Fikes
164 pages, 86 plates
9 x 6 1/4 in. (22.86 x 15.87 cm.)
Hard cover, smyth sewn with a two-color foil stamp
First Edition: 500 copies
A NEW NOTHING No. 1-3 BUNDLE
Three books, edited by John Pilson, Dan Paz and S*an D. Henry-Smith
Varying lengths
8 x 6” each
Perfect bound with a foil stamped softcover
Open Editions
A NEW NOTHING No. 3
Edited by S*an D. Henry-Smith
64 pages, 38 plates
8 x 6”
Perfect bound with a foil stamped softcover
Open Edition
A NEW NOTHING No. 2
Edited by Dan Paz
56 pages, 27 plates
8 x 6”
Perfect bound with a foil stamped softcover
Open Edition
A NEW NOTHING No. 1
Edited by John Pilson
78 pages, 29 plates
8 x 6”
Perfect bound with a foil stamped softcover
Open Edition
PROOF
Photographs from the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
Introduction by Ben Alper
Fiction and Observations by Edith Fikes
Proof, 1st Ed.
PROOF Collector’s Edition
12 different custom color covers
1 Original Proof Print from the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
$125
SOLD OUT
MISPLACED FORTUNES T-SHIRT
Bella Canvas, 4.2 oz 100% combed and ringspun cotton
HEADSTONE T-SHIRT — BLACK + WHITE
Gildan T-Shirt, 4.5 oz pre-shrunk 100% ringspun cotton
HEADSTONE T-SHIRT — GREEN + GOLD
Bella Canvas, 4.2 oz 100% combed and ringspun cotton
HEADSTONE T-SHIRT — ORANGE + BLUEBella Canvas, 4.2 oz 100% combed and ringspun cotton
SOLD OUT
CLOUD BEANIE
Blue-Gray short height beanie with an embroidered cloud
SOLD OUT
June 2023
Here’s some sleepers from the
collection of Robert E. Jackson
collection of Robert E. Jackson
Light Reading (JK—it’s a dense theoretical essay!!)
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
by Okwui Enwezor