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Crimean Snobbism: Boris Mikhailov Published by Flash Productions 2008 (softcover) Price £42
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What might appear at first glance as a vacationer's slideshow quickly reveals itself as a multi-layered monograph, serving as both personal amusement and social indictment. Boris Mikhailov's photographs of a day at the beach with friends gently push and break the boundaries of what he sees as defining societal norms. They frolic and strike airy poses, imitating their self-conscious fellow bathers on this Crimean beach in the Soviet Union, under which Mikhailov suffered oppression as an artist. As they push harder against that very self-consciousness and against the traditions of the past, they begin to blur the intersection of public and private, exposing their bodies in an exhilarating rush of freedom. |
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Portrait of Amercian Bikers - Inside Looking Out Published by Flash Productions 2008 (softcover) Price £25
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The photos within this book were compiled by the daughter of outlaw biker Jim ‘Flash’ Miteff. Each black and white image builds a detailed portrayal of Flash’s fellow members of the Outlaw Motorcycle Club during the sixties. The book is an unparalleled record of a classic alternative American way of life, defined as much by its closely bonded brotherhood as it is its embellished uniforms of denim and leather. |
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Dirk Braeckman Published by Roma Publications 2012 (hardcover) Price £57.95
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Dirk Braeckman is one of Belgiums leading artistic photographers. In each of his monumental photographic works, he creates an enclosed, isolated world that appears endless in its tactility, while at the same time gives short shrift to the illusions of the medium. These images do not aim to convey anything and yet they are suggestive of complete narratives. |
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Lebensmittel: Photographs by Michael Schmidt Published by Snoeck 2012 (hardcover) Price £130
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Photographer Michael Schmidt’s latest obsession is the mechanized, industrialized food system of contemporary Western culture. Using his trademark style combining social documentary and urban topographics, he explores the fascinating topic of how we feed ourselves, from the farm to the table (or the fast-food restaurant). |
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Odo Yakuza Tokyo: Anton Kusters Published by Zabrozas 2011 (hardcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £60
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ODO YAKUZA TOKYO is an intimate personal account of a Belgian photographer documenting the inaccessible subculture of Japanese organized crime: the Yakuza. Anton Kusters teams up with his brother Malik and documents the inside of the Shinseikai family, who control Kabukicho, the infamous red light district, in the heart of Tokyo |
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In & Out of Fashion: Viviane Sassen Published by Foil 2012 (hardcover) Price £35
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Following the success of Parasomnia, this major new book focuses on the fashion photography of Viviane Sassen. |
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Pigs and Papa: Toshiteru Yamaji Published by Foil 2012 (hardcover) Price £45
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A pig peacefully sleeping on the man's belly, or looking at a newspaper over the man's shoulder, when the man plays the guitar, all the pigs gather up and it becomes a impromptu concert - from morning till night, the farm family spend all of their time with those thousands of pigs, more as a family. While farming process tends to become completely automatic in the course of mass-production and consumption, this family does all by hands, pouring their love on each pig, during each work: from feeding to sewage treatment. Beyond merely a relation of livestock and the farmer, the photographs shown in this exhibition clearly represent the bonds with full of love between the farmer and the pigs as, in a sense, partner living together. The photographer has continuously photographed this farmer and pigs over 10 years since he met the farmer as a city-officer. |
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Circulation date place events: Takuma Nakahira Published by Osiris 2012 (softcover) Price £50
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This was conceived as an exhibition project during the Photography Biennial in Paris in 1971, when Nakahira tried to show his photographic exploits of one day on the streets of Paris.
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"Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat": Miyoko Ihara Published by Little More 2012 (hardcover) Price £22
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My grandmother and her cat are always together. 12 years ago, Miyoko Ihara has started to take photographs of her grandmother, Misao. Miyoko wanted to leave a living proof of her. One day, her grandmother found a odd-eyed kitten in the shed..
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The Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds: Luke Stephenson 2012 (hardcover) Price £20
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Britain and the British psyche are at the core of London based photographer Luke Stephenson's work. Stephenson photographs what to many epitomises the eccentricity of Britain.
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Dive Dark Dream Slow: Melissa Catanese Published by The Ice Plant 2013 (hardcover) Price £21.95
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Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has recently been editing the vernacular photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, helping to organize this massive curated archive (a trove of 20,000+ prints) into a series of single-theme catalogues. Along the way, she has pursued an alternate reading of the collection, drifting away from simple typology into something more personal, intuitive, and openly poetic. Her magical new artist book, Dive Dark Dream Slow, is rooted in the mystery and delight of the 'found' image and the 'snapshot' aesthetic, but pushes beneath the nostalgic surface of these pictures, re-reading them as luminous transmissions of anticipation, fear, and desire. Like an album of pop songs about a girl (or a civilization) hovering on the verge of transformation, the book cycles through overlapping themes and counter-themes—moon/ocean; violence/tenderness; innocence/experience; masks/nakedness—that sparkle with psychic longing and apocalyptic comedy.
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Hester: Asger Carlsen Published by Morel Books 2012 (hardcover) Price £35
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Following the phenomenal success of “Wrong”, what could possibly topple the notion of truth and further question the photographic medium with all its tongue in cheek gusto and humorous horror. To answer, Asger brings us Hester, his honest take on the classic theme of the female nude. If the traditional nude occasionally intends to bare and reveal a final and ideal form through ad hoc stance or sculptural immortality, Asger revises the study of the female form to ultimately reveal the evolving terrain of photography and its standards of aesthetics and morality. If Wrong aimed to dismantle the gullibility of the photographic subject matter and level all notions of truth, Hester aims to level the historical ideals in the nude and the ultimate beguiling craftsmanship utilized to achieve this ideal.
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Coexistence: Stephen Gill Published by Nobody Books 2012 (hardcover) SIGNED COPIES Temporarily Out of Stock
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Stephen Gill’s latest book Coexistence came into fruition through a commission to photograph a pond by an abandoned blast furnace in the town of Dudelange, Luxembourg. He shot the miniscule pond life through a microscope and then photographed the residents of Dudelange using an underwater camera placed inside a bucket of water from the pond. As in his previous works, here again, Gill shows a great eye for montage and juxtaposion throughout the book. The coexistance of the big and the small, of life in all its forms. Coexistence is a hypotic, otherworldly and beautiful body of work. Whilst looking through the book, one is often thinking not of photography, but in fact of painting. It is this insistence to breack down the barriers between photography and other art forms, consistent through most of his work, that sets Gill out from the rest.
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Bagadadji: Malick Sidibe Editions Gwinzegal 2012 (Hardcover) Price £45
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Taken between 1964 and 1976, this series introduces new portraits of the inhabitants of Bagadadji, popular quarters of Bamako where Malick Sidibe has his studio. The force of the final image, carried out under difficult conditions, dispays the strenght of Sidibe as a portraitist. He paid special attention to each sitter and preserved the memory of each unique yet innumeralbe sittings. With an essay by photo historian Florian Ebner, this book stresses the importance and the originality of his work. Sidibe recieved the Hasselblad Prize in 2003 and the Gold Lion to Biennial of contemporary art of Venice in 2007.
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The Father of Pop Dance: Tiane Doan Self Published 2012 (Perspex ringbound cover) Price £28.50 SIGNED COPIES
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"The book is a reproduction of a photo album that shows my father dancing in a Los Angeles photo studio in 1967."
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NYLPT: Jason Evans Published by Mack Books 2012 (hardcover) Price £35 |
The images in NYLPT are drawn from one body of work, collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, presented in discrete digital and analogue forms. Jason Evans is preoccupied with the tradition of street photography as an aesthetically colonized form, with precedents resilient to re-interpretation; he says, “Sometimes you visit a place and it looks exactly as you expected it to. Like it does in pictures or on TV or at the movies. It’s like a feeling of nostalgia for something you’ve never known.”
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Kodachrome: Luigi Ghirri Published by Mack Books 2012 (hardcover) Price £25 |
In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book, an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Kodachrome has long been out of print and is being rereleased here on the 20th anniversary of Ghirri’s death. Part amateur photo-album, Ghirri presents his surroundings in tightly cropped images, making photographs of photographs and recording the Italian landscape through it’s adverts, postcards, potted plants, walls, windows, and people. His work is deadpan, reflecting a dry wit, and is a continuous engagement with the subject of reality and of landscape as a snapshot of our interaction with the world. This new edition of Kodachrome is published as a facsimile of the original, adopting the original design, text layout and image sequence, but using new image files scanned from Ghirri’s original film to take advantage of modern technology and printing methods.
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Roxane: Viviane Sassen Published by Oodee Books 2012. Limited Edition of 700 copies (hardcover) Out of Print Price £45 |
‘Roxane’ is a visual journal intime by photographer Viviane Sassen. Roxane’s body and expressions follow the artist’s direction in a sequence of poses and moods collected over a number of years. The viewer is offered a glimpse of Sassen’s creative process through the relationship between the photographer and her muse.
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Vanilla Partner: Torbjørn Rødland Published by Mack Books 2012 (hardcover) Price £35 |
Torbjørn Rødland's photography is direct but idiosyncratic, pushing at the boundaries of aesthetic and social norms. His fifth book, Vanilla Partner, continues in this vein, combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books.
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There's a place in Hell for me & my friends: Pieter Hugo Published by Oodee Books 2012 (hardcover) Price £45 |
Pieter Hugo’s There’s a Place in Hell for Me & My Friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa home.
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Michael Wolf: Tokyo Compresion Three Published by Peperoni Books 2012 (hardcover) Price £30 |
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 two editions of this book are sold out.
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Mårten Lange, Another Language Published by Mack Books 2012 (hardcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £25 |
The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality of things are recurring themes in Mårten Lange’s work and in Another Language, his first major publication, Lange delves even deeper with this fascination for the natural world. Combining images of flora, fauna and natural phenomena in an intimate and beautifully crafted book, Lange teases out a subtle narrative - a meteor crashes, a landmass is visible and a distant planet occupies the final page - but the book is more akin to the workings of a scientist collecting specimens. Together the photographs create a cryptic and heterogeneous index of nature, with recurring shapes, patterns and texture, where the clarity and simplicity of the individual photographs contrasts with the enigmatic whole.
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Alec Soth - Looking For Love 1996 Published by Kominek Gallery 2012 (hardcover) Price £28.50 |
Alec Soth‘s photobook „Looking for Love, 1996“, including his photo series of the same name, looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently falls into place. It‘s the phase of the beginning, that forms the basis not only of a new love, but also of each new photographic project. It‘s a book about searching, about the curious and intuitive approach to people and their stories. About falling in love to a medium that opens insights to worlds that would otherwise stay hidden – intensive and haunting like an interminable night at the bar.
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Walter Pfeiffer - Scrapbooks 1969 - 85 Published by Edition Patrick Frey 2012 (hardcover with slipcase) SIGNED COPIES Price £75 |
Walter Pfeiffer’s Scrapbooks from 1969 to 1985 are a very unique Wunderkammer. Pfeiffer’s Polaroids and photographs alternate with miscellaneous objects – newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets – and brief punning notes. Pfeiffer assembles all of this into a large collage full of surprising references and comparisons that is both a visual diary and creative foundation of his artistic work. In his scrap books, Pfeiffer’s keen view of Eros, Zeitgeist and popular culture, his disrespectful humor as well as his appreciation for the poetry in the mundane and banal, are sharply revealed. They offer a view into Pfeiffer’s meandering and playful universe and are a contemporary document that captures the Zeitgeist of the 1970s and 1980s with ephemeral elegance.
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Wolfgang Tillmans - Neue Welt LIMITED NUMBER OF SIGNED COPIES Published by Taschen 2012 (Softcover) Price £27.95 |
For this collection of photos, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for several years by focusing his lens on the outside world—from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea. He describes this new phase simply as “trying out what the camera can do for me, what I can do for it.” The result is a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles. Says Tillmans, “My travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I'm in.”
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Gasho Yamamura : The Children Living in Washington Heights 1959-1962 Published by Yagisha 2012 (Softcover with black hardcase) Price £78 |
On January 2012, Yusaku Hosoya found Yamamura’s secret photographs that he took between 1959 – 1962. They are portraits of childrens living in Washington Heights (now called Yoyogi –Park). Washington Heights was built for GHQ and American Soldier’s families. At the age of 20, Yamamura Gasho went there and took many photographs of the children. As time moved on it seems he forgot these images, but before he died, he printed them again and again….like he wanted to go back to a young generation. |
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Antoine d'Agata - Ice Published by Images en Manoeuvres Editions 2012 (Hardcover) Price 48 |
Covering Antoine d’Agata’s work for the last 5 years, the book combines pictures and texts in a disturbing testimony, showing the commitment of a photographer documenting drug-generated fictions… Until he loses control. In December 2007, Antoine d’Agata arrives in Phnom Penh and falls in love with Ka, a Vietnamese prostitute–a dealer also. In January 2008, they begin to share a small and dirty flat downtown. Here starts the oblivion. The addiction to methamphetamines takes over the photographic work and the frontiers between fiction and reality start to melt. This is where ICE comes from. The horror that permeates the pages is not so much the “journey to the end of the night“ of a photographer as it is the violent filth and hypocrisy of a system that grinds the flesh of those who were refused speech.
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Kim Thue: Dead traffic Published by DNCHT Publications 2011 (Hardcover) Price £24.95 |
"This book is a raw and bewildering journey through the fringes of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone. Shot over the course of two separate trips, Kim Thue spent 10 months living in close proximity to a notoriously rough area of the slums, digging deep into the livelihoods and emotions of his subjects. Through a visual stream of unsung tragedies, vulnerable integrity and chance encounters, his efforts leave us with an engaging account of a corner of the world normally unrevealed to most of us."
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YUTAKA TAKANASHI Published by Editorial RM 2011 (Hardcover) Price £47.50 |
Yutaka Takanashi has always photographed the city—from close up, from far away, even very far away, from a moving car—sometimes on the lookout for an image charged with poetry, sometimes “picking up” a scrap of reality. As he has often repeated, these two approaches confront each other in his work: poetry/realism, mirror/window, visible/invisible. The important thing for him is to make his way over the terrain, to “walk on the ground” in order to take “anonymous pictures.”
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Shannon Philayne Ebner and Dexter Sinister: The Sun As Error Bootleg Published by Printed Matter 2011 (Softcover) Price £15 |
Los Angeles artist Shannon Ebner extends her exploration of photography, sculpture and language in this remarkable book, The Sun as Error. In collaboration with Dexter Sinister (design duo David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), The Sun as Error re-investigates the meaning and language of photographs, creating both an open-ended reading of her practice and also rethinking the idea of an artist’s monograph. Far from straightforward, the book interweaves her bodies of work, previously unseen one-off pieces, with the language of technical diagrams, optical illusions, and graphic design. One of the persistent motifs through the book’s sequence is an asterisk and, specifically, one imbued with the legacy of the graphic designer Muriel Cooper. As the first design director for MIT Press and the cofounder of the Visible Language Workshop, Cooper’s legacy for reorienting and repositioning the direction of an artist’s monograph is imaginatively explored in the creative partnership of Dexter Sinister and Shannon Ebner. This 2011 reprinted bootleg version of the original monograph is printed in a black and white paperback book.
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Pierre Molinier Published by Les Presses du réel 2010 (Hardcover) Price £75 |
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
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Vince Aletti: MALE Published by PPP Editions 2008 (Hardcover) Price £80 |
MALE features photographs and artifacts from the collection of the renowned photography critic, curator and collector, Vince Aletti. Amassed over the last 30 years, the collection features a blend of anonymous and iconic imagery from the present back into the nineteenth century. This visual cacophony distinguishes Aletti's taste and appetite as a collector. He surrounds himself with his collection in his apartment, but for the first time, in February, 2008, Aletti assembled a selection of images at White Columns in New York. A sampling from this public display is featured in MALE along with a gatefold documenting the collection as it is installed in his home.
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Watanabe Katsumi: Gangs of Kabukicho Published by PPP Editions 2006 (Hardcover) Price £42 |
Watanabe Katsumi was an itinerant portrait photographer working primarily in Shinjuku in Tokyo. Gangs of Kabukicho reproduces 155 photographs taken in the 60s and 70s in the blue light district of Shinjuku called Kabukicho. The title of the book reflects the title of his first book published in 1973 called simply The Gangs of Shinjuku. The subjects in Watanabe s photographs are the prostitutes, street people, Drag Queens, entertainers and gangsters (Yakuza) that populated Kabukicho at night.
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Antoine d'Agata: Situations Published by Hysteric Glamour 2007 (Hardcover) Price £68 |
Strange, unusual nudes by french Magnum photographer Antoine D'Agata. Sexually provocative images, distorted bodies embracing in acts of intercourse. Both disturbing and brutal, yet beautiful and moving, depicting the fragility of human existance.
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Irina Ionesco: Eva Eloge De Ma Fille Published by Editions Treville 2012 (Hardcover) Price £84 |
In 1965 the esteemed photographer Irina Ionesco began photgraphing her young daughter, Eva Ionesco. Thus began a collaboration which culminated in this extraordinary testament to the beauty of a girl child as witnessed through the lens of her mother's eye. Never before in the history of photography has an artist of this magnitude photographed her child to such stunning effect. Weaving threads of baroque orientalism, gothic eroticism and surrealist fantasy, these mysterious images might well be controversial, but only if removed from the crucible of "dark love" which so ably contains and ferments them. Ionesco insists "The liberty I took in baring her is innocent....in my gaze the greatest love of all took place" Ionesco's photographs of her daughter Eva have been widely acclaimed since the 1970's. "EVA: Eloge de ma Fille" gathers 124 of these images into the definitive volume of Eva photgraphs.
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Glen Denny: Yosemite in the Sixties Published by T Adler 2007 (Hardcover) Price £44.95 |
The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley have drawn a lot of visitors over the years. In the late 1950s and through the 60s, they galvanized a dedicated group of rock climbers, who saw their glacier-polished faces as the purest challenge. Photographer and filmmaker Glen Denny was among its denizens, and captured his fellow climbers' personalities and parties, aspirations and preparations, loves and dreams in absolutely stunning, and sometimes death-defying, black-and-white. This majestic visual record of Yosemite in the 60s includes a foreword by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, an introduction by Rick Ridgeway, whom Rolling Stone has called "the real Indiana Jones," and a wealth of previously unpublished photographs. |
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Erik van der Weijde: Bonsai Published by 4478 ZINE 2012 (Softcover) Price £17.50 |
ll images are Bonsai photo reproductions, printed 'in negative'. The book refers to last years published Der Baum, as it's also fruit of a two month stay of Van der Weijde in Japan. The books aims to raise questions on the reproduced object, the photobook as an object, the authorship of the found image and the fetishistic quality of printed matter. |
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Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order Published by Nazraeli Press 2012 (Hardcover) Price £45 |
In the summer of 2006, Lucas Foglia set out to photograph a network of people who had left cities and suburbs to live off the grid in the rural southeastern United States. Many were motivated by environmental concerns, others were driven by religious beliefs or predictions of economic collapse. While everyone he photographed was working to maintain self-sufficiency, none lived in complete isolation from the mainstream. Instead, they chose which parts of the modern world to embrace and which to leave behind. Included with the book is an anonymously authored, illustrated ‘zine titled wildlifoodin. Part journal, part survival manual, it reads like a poet’s version of the Whole Earth. |
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Wolfgang Tilmans: FESPA Digital / FRUIT LOGISTICA Published by Walter Koenig 2012 (Softcover) Price £20 |
About one year ago, Wolfgang Tillmans was prompted by his own curiosity to visit Fruit Logistica in Berlin, the most important convention for the international fruit trade. 'I was left open-mouthed by the crazy displays and the variety and complexity of the international fruit trade and its processing machinery. I reacted with my camera straight away, but left the pictures for a while so I could look at them with a bit of distance, although I was immediately thinking of an artists' book in the format of Concorde.' (Wolfgang Tillmans) The resultant 66 pictures are published now for the first time – as an artists' book in the format of his bestselling classic 1997 Walther König book Concorde. |
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Takashi Homma: Mushrooms From The Forest Published by Blind Gallery 2012 (Softcover) SOLD OUT |
Photographer Takashi Homma takes us on a journey deep into densely wooded areas in search of the many different types of fungus that grow there. More the collection of a curious wanderer than a serious hobbyist, the unidentified mushrooms are photographed against sterile white backgrounds as if recently plucked from the forest floor, with soil, bark and even small creatures still attached. The fungal portraits are interspersed with images of the forest itself, as if providing a natural context – a sense of actually being there – with surroundings of lichen covered trees, dense leafage, and the natural interplay of shadow and light. |
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The Park 1971-73 Kohei Yoshiyuke Published by Osiris 2011 (Softcover) SIGNED COPIES £25 |
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Kohei Yoshiyuki The Park' at BLD Gallery Tokyo June 29 - July 18 2011.
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Viviane Sassen: Die Son Sien Alles Published by Libraryman 2012 (Hardcover) 2nd Edition (700 copies) Price £42 |
Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) photographed the series Die Son Sien Alles in the townships of Cape Town during several visits between 2002 and 2004, looking at the interior decoration of people's homes, shops and bars. |
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Hiroshima: Miyako Ishiuchi Published by Shueisha Inc 2008 (Softcover) Price £35 |
In 2007, Miyako Ishiuchi photographed clothing and personal items that belonged to people killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and that are part of the permanent holdings of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Says Ishiuchi: "I found myself overwhelmed by the bright colors and textures of these high-quality clothes. Countless threads of time drift in the light, intersect and create fountains of memory."
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Anders Petersen: City Diary Published by Steidl 2012 (Softcover) 3 Books inside card envelope. SOLD OUT |
Since the 1960s Anders Petersen has been documenting life beyond the margins of polite society, a world including prostitutes, transvestites, alcoholics, night-time lovers and adult conflict. Petersen photographs his subjects with a candid somewhat detached eye, and is able to disclose unpleasant realities such as drug abuse with a sense of bewilderment and currency. City Diary is an ambitious series of books ahowing Petersen's ongoing photographic engagement with life in the shadows in cities including Stockholm, Tokyo and St Petersburg. The first three volumes of City Diary appear here together; the others will follow as and when they are ready - just as life unfolds around Petersen on his travels. |
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Candy Magazine: Issue 04 Published by Luis Venegas 2012 (Softcover) Limited edition of 1500 copies Price £40 |
Candy is the first fashion magazine completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, crossdressing and androgyny in all their glory. Candy is a style magazine about fashion, art, culture, make-up, glamour, icons, amazing transformations and fun. Candy is a magazine for everybody. It’s a space for individual freedom, and a publication that pushes people to take on the persona they’ve always wanted. ISSUE 04 includes: Tilda Swinton by Xevi Muntané
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Rinko Kawauchi: Illuminance Published by Foil (First Japanese Edition) SIGNED COPIES 2012 (Hardcover) Price £60 |
10 years from the simultaneous publication of three books UTATANE, HANABI, HANAKO - Co-published with American publisher Aperture, this new book Illuminance presents new photographs of Rinko taken over 15 years, which are sublimating the world of UTATANE. Light and dark, life and death - Rinko Kawauchi carefully takes up and captures fragments of beauty and sadness connoted in such elements. Transcending limitation of time or places, this book nobly and quietly inspires universality and makes you open the door in your mind to the new world. |
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Rinko Kawauchi: Hanabi Published by Little More 2012 (Softcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £28 |
Second collection of photographs in Kawauchi's trilogy of photo books which depict the photographer's vision of different fireworks (hanabi) shows. |
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Rinko Kawauchi: Utatane Published by Little More 2012 (Softcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £50 |
A chick, horse, dog, turtle and human beings… |
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Rinko Kawauchi: Aila Published by Roma Publication 2012 (Hardcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £49.50 |
A chick, horse, dog, turtle and human beings… |
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Rinko Kawauchi: Smear Published by Foil 2005 (Softcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £49.50 |
A century has passed since the first Japanese Immigrants arrived to Brazil. |
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Rinko Kawauchi: Cui Cui Published by Actes Sud 2005 (Softcover) SIGNED COPIES Price £52 |
The works in "Cui Cui" are memories of Rinko's family which she has been shooting for 13 years.There are scenes of, family gathering in New Year's Holidays, wedding of older brother, grandfather's death, birth of a new life, and so on. The photographs evoke the scenery of hometown with smell of people and earth.Repeating the encounter and separation, the family will keep alive in one's memory. It could be your family album, which will stir a memory of days gone by. |
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Jan Kemperaers Picturesque Published by Roma Publication 2012 (Hardcover) Price £32 |
Picturesque is Jan Kemperaers first publication since the acclaimed Spomenik and likewise is part of Kemperaers practice based research on contemporary picturesque. The book contains 45 images of landscapes and architecture that promote the viewer to contemplate what beauty is be it natural or man made. Each photograph is hauntingly still, the views are unimpeded and the lighting neutral adding to the intensity of the views. Text has been submitted by Dirk De Meyer who expands of the themes within the book. |
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Christian Patterson - Redheaded Peckerwood Published by Mack Books 2012 3rd Edition (Hardcover) £40 |
“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. |
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Karlheinz Weinberger: Jeans Published by Swiss Institute/Presentation House Gallery/Mu 2012 (Hardcover) Price £35 |
Commencing his career in the 1950s as a self-taught photographer working primarily for the gay underground Zurich club and magazine Der Kreis, Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006) took candid shots of lovers, friends and strangers on the street with an overt erotic investment in his subjects. He soon developed a fixation with the working-class youth culture known as the "Halbstark" (or "half strong"). Its members demonstrated their anti-establishment stance with embellished outfits of denim and leather, in an exaggerated and homemade version of the popularized American bad-boy style of the time. In his stark, posed photographs of these young rebels, Weinberger focuses on individual figures, exploring both a personal erotic obsession and the cultural symbolism of blue jeans, whose scarcity in post war Switzerland implied not just a fashion statement but a badge of pride. This publication reproduces a rare portfolio of these works that Weinberger designed himself in the mid-1950s. |
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Punks Dead: Simon Barker Published by SIX 2012 (Hardcover) Price £30 |
In 1976, when I moved into the St. James Hotel in London, I bought myself one of the cheapest pocket cameras available. Fully automatic, with no controls or settings, it just required a simple slot-in film cartridge. An idiot could use it - and I did. I knew I did'nt want to be like other photographers, so I chose never to take a black and white photograph or focus the camera. Subconsciously I concentrated on the women and artists at the heart of what would later be known as 'punk' in London. Women such as JORDAN, SIOUXSIE, DEBBIE JUVENILE, TRACIE O'KEEFE, ARI UP, POLY STYRENE and NICO. Artists and writers such as MALCOLM MCLAREN, HELEN WELLINGTON-LLOYD aka HELEN OF TROY, BERTIE MARSHALL aka BERLIN and DEREK JARMAN. |
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Keizo Kitajima 1979 Photo Express Tokyo Published by Steidl 2011 (Box Slipcase with 13 zines) Price £45 |
Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima on the occasion of his exhibition “Photo Express: Tokyo” at CAMP gallery in Tokyo in 1979. The booklets were numbered from one to twelve and one was released each month for a year. Each contained sixteen pages of photographs from Kitajima’s legendary nocturnal wanderings in Tokyo and conveys the spirit of the happenings he organized at the time. Kitajima’s original booklets have now become cult objects, and this new edition is set to become a collector’s item. |
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Hitch-Hikers: Doug Biggert Published by Husson Editions 2007 (Softcover) Price: £25
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Good Samaritan and amateur photographer, Doug Biggert, photographed nearly 500 pictures of hitchhikers he picked up on his 40 year long journey, in Northern California between the 1970s and today. Biggert first assembled a substantial number of pictures, carrying a binder full of them in his car,he showed them to hitchers he picked up and wanted to photograph--doing so, he said, "made explanation simpler." Himself an outsider, Biggert obsessively collated his images of roadside Americans, which now retrospectively ,and inadvertently, chronologically documents the changing face of America itself. |
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The Tulsa Reader 1971 - 2010 - Chelsea Spengemann Published by Printed Matter 2010 (Softcover) Price £38 |
This artist book is the result of extensive research around Larry Clark's controversial photo series, Tulsa. The Tulsa Reader 1971-2010 is a compilation of photocopied reproductions of the extensive material, interviews, articles, press releases, gallery memos, letters to the editors all surrounding Larry Clark's 'Tulsa'. |
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Watabe Yukichi: A Criminal Investigation. From the Wilson Centre for Photography. Published by Xavier Barral / LE BAL, 2012 2nd Edition (Hardback) Price £48 |
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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Ryan McGinley Published by Twin Palms 2012 (Hardcover) Price £55 |
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 |
“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 £58 |
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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Katsu Naito: West Side Rendezvous Published by Wildlife Press 2011 (Softcover) Temporarily Out of Stock |
A collection of photographs by Katsu Naito, documenting the transvestite and transsexual street-walkers of New York’s Meatpacking District in the early 1990s. The 45 images, largely portraits, intimately capture the unexpected beauty of the subject’s day-to-day lives. Naito does not pass judgement, rather observes, and it is evident that he is trusted by his subjects. Street-walkers of all races and backgrounds, each with a different story to tell, are photographed in their immediate environment, the empty streets of “West Side” New York. |
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William E. Jones: Killed - Rejected Images of the Farm Security Published by PPP Editions 2010 (Hardback) £75 |
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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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) Temporarily Out of Stock |
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 Published by Twin Palms 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) Out of Print Price £45 |
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 Published by Roma Publications 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
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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. |