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Ryan McGinley Published by Twin Palms 2012 (Hardcover) Price £TBC
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Ryan McGinleys first retrospective monograph. For this beautifully realized volume the artist has selected the best photographs from his first decade of work. The first edition is sure to become one of McGinley's most collectable books. Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of his friends, a group that forms part of New York’s Lower East Side youth culture. He uses photography to break down barriers between public and private spheres of activity. His subjects are willing collaborators: drawn from skateboard, music, and graffiti subcultures, they perform for the camera and expose themselves with a frank self-awareness that is distinctly contemporary. The results form a portrait of a generation that is savvy about visual culture and acutely aware of how identity can be communicated through photography. McGinley’s newest work signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which he is best known; he has been working in natural settings outside New York City, creating specific situations for his subjects to lose themselves in the moment. McGinley embraces nature as a site of freedom and captures a sense of buoyancy and release. |
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Shirana Shahbazi - Then Again Published by Steidl 2011 (Softcover) Price £42
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“Photography is always suspended between authenticity, construction and selection … a balancing act that is, to me, its quintessential justification as an artistic medium” Shirana Shahbazi |
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HUBER.HUBER - Universen Published by Patrick Frey 2011 (Hardcover) Price £64
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Universen’, an unconventional mix between an art book and an oeuvre catalogue with picture register, is huber.huber’s first major publication. The two artists (Markus and Reto Huber) from Zurich draw the observer into a wonderfully luxuriant realm of images that they created using their virtuosic – analogue – collage technique. A selection of collages and ink drawings from the large group of works titled ‘Mikrouniversum’ (2005-2011) is presented in a relatively chronological order as a “guiding series” through the collected works. |
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Les Amies De Place Blanche Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing 2011 (Hardcover) Price £35 |
'This is a book about insecurity. A portrayal of those living a different life in that big city of Paris, of people who endured the roughness of the streets. This is a book about humiliation, about the smell of whores and night life in cafes. This is a book about the quest for self-identity, about the right to live, about the right to own and control one's own body. This is also a book about friendship, an account of the life we lived in the place Blanche and place Pigalle neighbourhood. Its market, its boulevard and the small hotels we resided in. These are pictures from another time. A time when de Gaulle was president and France was at war against Algeria. These are pictures of people whose lives I shared and whom I think I understood. These are pictures of women - biologically born as men - that we call 'transsexuals'. |
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Christian Patterson - Redheaded Peckerwood Published by Mack Books 2011 (Hardcover) Price SOLD OUT |
“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land” Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way. From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate and reference the techniques of photojournalism, forensic photography, image appropriation, reenactment and documentary landscape photography. On a conceptual level, they deal with a charged landscape and play with a photographic representation and truth as the work deconstructs a pre-existing narrative. |
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Terry Richardson: Mom & Dad Published by Morel Books 2011 (Softcover) SOLD OUT |
There’s little need to say anything about Terry Richardson as everything has already been said...! But once again, with this stunning series of images Terry delves deeply and indiscriminately into the world with his camera revealing the all too personal nature of his life... his family life. Terry’s images don’t desist to shock, be it following his colourful yet frail mother or tracking his father’s life and the decline of his mental health though his last days.... Terry’s camera has no boundaries, no judgement, just the simple truth of the snapshot, an intimate portrait of his family and in turn more or less a self-portrait of Terry Richardson the son. The double book in a sleeve is immaculately art directed by Suburbia Media and comes in a limited edition.
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Katsu Naito: West Side Rendezvous Published by Wildlife Press 2011 (Softcover) Price £24.95 |
A collection of photographs by Katsu Naito, documenting the transvestite and transsexual street-walkers of New York’s Meatpacking District in the early 1990s.
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Watabe Yukichi: A Criminal Investigation. From the Wilson Centre for Photography. Published by Xavier Barral / LE BAL, 2011 (Hardback) SOLD OUT
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A Criminal Investigation is Watanabe Yukichi's documents of the investigation of the murder and dismemberment of Sato Tadashi. A few of Sato's remains were found in an oil vat in Irabaki Prefecture, Japan and the young photojournalist Watanabe was allowed access to the investigation. Like a Hollywood movie, his images wind through factories, streets and the offices of the investigators to come to the final noir ending, a not so happy resolution with the apprehension of capturing the murderer and the revelation of other heinous crimes.
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William E. Jones: Killed - Rejected Images of the Farm Security Published by PPP Editions 2010 (Hardback) Price £52 |
Killed reproduces a suite of 157 images "killed" by Roy Stryker, director of the FSA, and are organized alphabetically by photographer: Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn and John Vachon. Alongside these images, Jones includes a selection from John Collier, Jr., Russell Lee and David Myers that illustrate possible evidence of homosexuality within the main stream. He states: "Many (perhaps even most) viewers would find in the archive not a trace of homosexuality, but I refused to believe that it was completely absent from the visual record of the Great Depression. An historical queer presence must have been documented, if only unconsciously or accidentally, by the photographers of the FSA." |
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Paloma al aire: Ricardo Cases Published by Photovision 2011 (Hardback) Price £27.50 |
Ricardo Cases' third photobook deals with an unusual subject: the practice of pigeon racing in the Spanish regions of Valencia and Murcia, a game consisting of releasing one female pigeon and dozens of male pigeons that chase her trying to get her attention. None of them ever gets too intimate, but the winner is the one that spends the most time close to her. The winner is not the most athletic, the toughest or the purest in breed but the more courteous, the one showing more constancy and having the strongest reproductive instinct. The macho. The present series examines the game as a symbolic act, a projection and a way of relating to the world. A group of men running through the countryside behind their male pigeons, observing their mating performances, discussing the rules and arbitrations? It refers to the ethnographic documentation of remote tribes rituals or to the group of children who invent a game while discovering the world. Ricardo Cases at his purest.
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Ishiuchi Miyako: Sweet Home Yokosuka - 1976-1980. Published by PPP Editions 2011 (Hardback)
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Sweet Home Yokosuka revisits Ishiuchi’s three early works that in retrospect may be considered as a trilogy. Apartment (1978), Yokosuka Story (1979) and Endless Nights (1981). Together the photographs manifest a personal document primarily of her hometown Yokosuka, a place of compromised identity, accommodating two large American Naval bases since the late 1940s.
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Michael Wolf: Tokyo Compression Revisited Published by Peperoni Books 2011 (Hardback) Price £31 |
With 'Tokyo Compression' Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers, have won many awards and were shown in exhibitions around the globe. The first edition of this book was sold out after a few weeks. And the topic kept haunting Michael Wolf as well. He returned to Tokyo in order to immerse in the subsurface insanity once again and this time even deeper. Now with 'Tokyo Compression Revisited' the second, completely revised edition of the classic is published, with many so far unreleased images and an entirely new 'hidden track' at the end of the book.
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William Eggleston: For Now 2010 (Hardback) Price £45 |
For Now is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda’s year-long rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising. |
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Boris Mikailov: The Wedding Published by Morel Books 2011 (Hardback) Price £35
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Challenging and provocative, Mikhailov's photographs document human casualties living in post communist Eastern Europe after the demise of the Soviet Union. They are unflinching and ruthless depictions of poverty and the homeless living in the margins of Russia's new economic regime without social support or care. This series presents a simulated wedding between two homeless people often naked and in sexual poses, set amongst their own surroundings. “The Wedding” is bound in imitation of a traditional wedding album, with faux-leather and gold-debossed lettering designed by calligrapher John Stevens. It is further finished off with a text by Adrian Searle |
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Jan Kempenaers: Spomenik 2010 (Hardback) Price £31 |
During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called 'Spomeniks' – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer's enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture. |
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Mark Morrisroe Published by JPR Ringier 2010 (Flexicover) Price £36 |
The extraordinarily diverse work of the American photographer Mark Morrisroe has until now mostly been exhibited and discussed in connection with his famous Boston colleagues Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. Like them, Morrisroe documented his circle of friends, whose lifestyles were inspired by punk and bohemia. He captured his friends in painterly portraits and nude photographs; the Polaroid camera became a mirror of his own body, reflecting its illness and decay. During the three years leading up to his death he transferred his photographic experiments more and more to the darkroom, where he used pages from porn magazines and X-ray images of himself as negatives.
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Diado Moriyama: Record No.16 48 pages Price £24.95 |
Moriyama, a major figure in 20th and 21st century Japanese photography, continues the personal journey of his ‘Record’ series. The full-colour photographs in No. 16 are culled from a two-day wander through Hokkaido, and contrast bustling street life with desolate, wind-blown moments of meditation. |
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EZKIOZALEAK edited by Julia Montilla Price £12.50
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A photographic account of the followers of the Ezkioga Apparitions |
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Tereza Zelenkova: Supreme Vice Morel Books 2011 Edition 150 copies SOLD OUT |
Tereza Zelenkova’s gnostic vision is fused with occult symbolism and interwoven with bleak and mysterious landscapes. “Do what though wilt shall be the whole of the law” was undoubtedly the maxim driving this series, which seems no less then a visual diary of an Thelemite, alchemist, mystic etc. This series seems not only a personal journey in the most poetic of senses, but through the driving philosophy, Tereza has managed to tread a photographic path unlike that of any other. |