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New Titles in Photography 15 September 2016
Ari Marcopoulos Rome - Malibu

Isbn 9789491843785
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 16499
€ 35.00

Photographs taken by Ari Marcopoulos in Rome (February - March 2016), and Malibu (August 2016). With a text contribution by Kara Walker. "Rome. (...) Here, no image or structure is complete without symbolic framing devices, which also require framing devices, and so on. Ad infinitum. Malibu. Rockstars and fallen rocks and the edge, here is where the European conquest of the New World meets its fountain of youth endgame. We have reached the end, and it is vast."

368 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Johannes Schwartz - The Athens Recorder

Isbn 9789491843792
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 16500
€ 60.00

What do people do, if they are out in the street? Reading? Waiting? Can we recognize the inhabitant, the stranger, the traveller by his actions and deeds in an urban setting? This is the premise of Johannes Schwartz’s exploration, which was set in Athens in the fall of 2015. The result are photos of streets, public squares, museums, ruins and shops, places of culture and consumption. Devided in 17 chapters everything passes by in a set of chance driven encounters. Designed by Experimental Jetset.

545 p, ills colour & bw, 27 x 38 cm, pb, English

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Mohamed Bourouissa Horseday

Isbn 9789491843730
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 16477
€ 15.00

Algerian-born photographer Mohamed Bourouissa is interested in systems, in how society—and particularly subcultures—are structured. For his project Horseday (2013), he worked with a local Afro-American horse riding community in Philadelphia. He was fascinated by the status of these “urban cowboys” and organised a competition with artists and riders to find the best decorated horse. Bourouissa translated this event into a series of photos, a two-part video, and several sculptures. Both scenes from everyday life and the staged event were recorded. In his preparations, Bourouissa made many sketches and draft compositions, which are also included in this book.

32 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

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Whole - Freudenthal / Verhagen

Isbn 9789082543902
Publisher Freudenthal / Verhagen
Idea code 16474
€ 4.00

Dutch photographers Carmen Freudenthal and Elle Verhagen began their collaboration in 1989. Their approach is based on fashion photography combined with strong visual concepts. A collaboration between designer and art director Karen Heuter and Freudenthal/Verhagen, this book includes material spanning the duo’s entire body of work. It is a journey into a surreal, colourful, and unorthodox universe, which is presented in an alternative way. Each image is decontextualised from the original series and chronology to which it belongs, and is instead arranged depending upon colour. With texts by Erik Kessels, Berhard Willhelm, Mo Veld, and José Theunissen.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English

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Rinko Kawauchi - The River Embraced Me

Isbn 9784907562045
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 16429
€ 35.95

This book is published on the occasion of an exhibit of recent photographs by Rinko Kawauchi at the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto. Inspired by individual memories of Kumamoto’s inhabitants, the commissioned exhibition combines their stories with works of photography. An open call resulted in photographs shot at more than 40 locations around Kumamoto and its environs, from parks and the seashore to a train station, empty road, and pond with koi. The series marks a collaborative effort between Kawauchi and the city’s people that chronicles memories in an evocative and personal way. With a booklet insert featuring an extensive text by curator Haruko Tomisawa.

80 p, ills colour, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Japanese/English

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Cy Twombly Photographs Lyrical Variations

Isbn 9784907562069
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 16430
€ 49.40

The catalogue for an exhibition at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, this volume features a selection of 100 photographic works by American artist Cy Twombly that span six decades, from the 1950s until his death in 2011. Several other works from Twombly’s oeuvre are also included, such as paintings, prints, and sculptures. The exhibition introduces for the first time the full scope of the artist’s photographic works, which offer important insight into understanding his unique vision and body of work. They show us how Twombly observed his everyday surroundings and the approach this brought to the creation of his artworks. With an essay by curator Kiyoko Maeda.

192 p, ills colour, 23 x 27 cm, hb, Japanese/English

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Xiaoxiao Xu - Aeronautics in the Backyard

Isbn 9789492051196
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 16512
€ 32.00

'Aeronautics in the Backyard' is a catching, fairytale-like photo series about the dream of flying, freedom, and creativity. In China, in the most unexpected of places, farmers rise up to build their own aircraft from recycling scrap metal. Some of these aeronauts have worked for decades but never achieved to get airborne. Xu is driven by questions of why, of all people, Chinese farmers have the guts and skills to become aeronauts, even though they lack both education and resources. Their stories, pictures, original sketches, and technical documents are brought together in the book, unveiling the hidden world of Chinese aeronautics in full detail for the first time.

160 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

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Stella Maris

Isbn 9789492051172
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code
€ 25.00

Stella Maris is a long-term project on Eastern European migrant workers in the Netherlands. The former monastery Stella Maris on the edge of the small village Welberg houses 400 mostly Polish guest workers. It was bought and renovated by a specialized employment agency for migrant workers. Welberg has about 1,100 inhabitants, the average age of these residents is high and there is a busy social life. Although the group of East European guest workers is necessary, they are not necessarily welcome.

112 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English


Martino Marangoni: Nonni's Paradiso - An Olive Tree Story

Isbn 9788898120871
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 16436
€ 32.00

In the mid eighties after living between New York and Florence for twenty years, Martino Marangoni returned to his family home and started to photograph the place where he grew up. He took walks through the large property with his son, wandered down paths among olive trees and artichokes, reliving childhood memories of when he used to escape into the fields to contemplate the land, gather its fruits and flowers. Nonni's Paradiso - An Olive Tree Story is a walk through an olive tree garden, through time, through personal memories and essentially trough the aging seasons of life.

200 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

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Janine Graubaum Kosmos Train

Isbn 9783941825987
Publisher Peperoni Books
Idea code 16388
€ 36.20

Thousands of kilometres by rail from Albania to Belarus and beyond. Attracted by the charm of old Soviet trains, photographer Janine Graubaum travelled to Eastern Europe in 2010, and again from 2013 to 2015. Her discoveries about the everyday life of travellers, who often spend days and nights in the trains, are published in this long-term documentary photo project that covers multiple journeys and places. Making her way through Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan, and more, whether in a sleeper car or a luxury carriage, she is fully aware of the microcosms inherent to train travel, as people and goods are transported across vast distances and landscapes.

96 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, hb, German/English

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Josee Schryer Sur-La-Rouge

Isbn 9783941825963
Publisher Peperoni Books
Idea code 16387
€ 35.20

After a twelve-year separation from her father, photographer Josée Schryer returned to Grenville-sur-la-Rouge in Quebec, Canada, with a daughter that he had never met and a deep longing for the landscape of her childhood. Through the uncomfortable weight of their past mistakes and decisions, the artist and her father reconnect. The narrative is framed by green, forested hills and narrow roads. Winter arrives and snowy landscapes form a backdrop for scattered deer and a cosy, wood-panelled house. We observe a young girl as she discovers this new world, wandering among the rocks outdoors or sitting patiently, piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. Slowly, the distance melts away.

70 p, ills colour, 21 x 25 cm, hb, English

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Andreas Trogisch - Vineta 1985/1990

Isbn 9783941825949
Publisher Peperoni Books
Idea code 16469
€ 35.20

Andreas Trogisch has made photographs for the better part of three decades, but only recently have any of his images been published. This book combines two series he shot in the streets of East Berlin, just before and shortly after the fall of the Wall. Portraits from 1985 – serious and uncertain children, optimistic young people, and older men and women who seem disheartened and disappointed – are juxtaposed with the deserted cityscapes of 1990. The demise of the GDR is tangible: advertising has lost its meaning, facades and vehicles are without a future. Trogisch documents a visually stunning parable about ongoing, unstoppable social development and processes of change.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, hb, German/English

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Julia Steinigeweg - Ein Verwirrendes Potenzial (A Confusing Potential)

Isbn 9783941825925
Publisher Peperoni Books
Idea code 16391
€ 39.20

This series by Julia Steinigeweg is based on the relationships humans can form with silicon dolls. Such a circumstance lacks the emotional element of a physical human counterpart, but also causes a feeling of unease through a strong objective presence, which has been designed by manufacturers and artisans to be eerily lifelike. Perhaps the main reason for acquiring such a doll is its sexual attractiveness, yet the couples portrayed in the series tend to have a soothing relationship, free of fear and loss of control. Do love and coexistence require the exchange of feelings? Or do we ultimately feel and love by ourselves, detached from each other despite a physical counterpoint?

48 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, hb, German/English

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Stefano Graziani Fruits And Fireworks

Isbn 9788887071634
Publisher A+m Bookstore
Idea code 16452
€ 26.90

Stefano Graziani is a photographer living and working in Trieste. Trained as an architect, he teaches the history and technique of photography at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Trieste and has been working for five years in the photographic lab of the Design and Art Faculty at IUAV, Venice, as well as organising different workshops at universities throughout Europe. The Cavallino-Treporti Fotografia initiative selected Graziani its chosen photographer this year because he has contributed both new images and a new language to the medium, creating meaningful links between the fascinating physical properties of nature and the ethereality of fireworks.

54 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English

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Genda 1: Body As Packaging

Isbn 9788887071641
Publisher A+m Bookstore
Idea code 16451
€ 16.15

Sometimes the human body becomes just another object. The body used as any other material, deprived of its sexual, moral, and social aspects. The body without rhetoric, history, or ethics, stripped of that recognition that pertains to a living person, ambiguous and perhaps discomfiting. Thinking of the body as packaging raises new questions. Has the relationship between social tensions and imagery of the body subsided? Does the formal staging of the body make it an inert, inhuman element? How can the representation of a body stripped of its vital and sexual energy be critically interpreted? ‘Genda’ introduces 21 international photographers whose work is situated in this curious territory.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Engish/Chinese


Josef Sudek: The Window Of My Studio

Isbn 9788072155071
Publisher Torst
Idea code
€ 63.85

Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was Prague’s Atget. From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Sudek photographed everything – the Gothic and Baroque architecture, the streets and objects – usually leaving the frame free of people. Because he was reclusive, a large portion of Sudek’s work was captured through his studio window: he was particularly fond of how the glass refracted light. 'The Window of My Studio' series, spanning from the beginning of the Second World War to the first half of the 1950s, presents the series, which was of fundamental importance to Sudek, for it caused his work to move further into a surreal or Magic Realist style, with blurred images and strong shadows.

88 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English


Terence Donovan Speed Of Light

Isbn 9780957618862
Publisher Photographers Gallery
Idea code 16472
€ 33.20

This is the first major retrospective of Terence Donovan (1936 - 1996) one of the foremost photographers of his generation. Donovan rose to prominence in London as part of a post- war renaissance of the creative industries and came to represent a new force in fashion and, later, advertising and portrait photography. He operated at the heart of London’s swinging sixties, socialising with and incisively capturing the scene’s chief protagonists and actors. Gifted with an unerring eye for the iconic, Donovan was a master craftsman commanding both the technical and compositional to redefine studio photography.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 24 cm, pb, English

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Heiko Sievers 1980.in Berlin.

Isbn 9783941825956
Publisher Peperoni Books
Idea code 16392
€ 32.15

According to Heiko Sievers, who was born and grew up in Berlin, his photographs of West Berlin in the early 1980s “testify to three things: my state of mind in that city at that time; people in the subway or on the street who were unknown to me; and a specific city atmosphere.” With pictures that are neither portraits nor documentary, the project amounts to his own narrative and experience of that time and place, offering a record of moments of life through fleeting impressions in shades of grey. Sievers recognises these images as history; nothing more than an extract, an intriguing memory of a city that has not existed since more than two decades ago.

82 p, ills bw, 24 x 22 cm, hb, German/English

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Ima English Edition 2016 Vol 1: A New Chapter Of Japanese Photography

Isbn
Publisher Amana
Idea code 16401
€ 47.00

The art photography magazine publishes its first English edition, wherein a showcase of upcoming Japanese talents is the main feature. These photographers, such as Daisuke Yokota, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Nerhol, Mayumi Hosokura, and more, have already won international acclaim through their highly individual approaches. The magazine also includes a special feature on Nobuyoshi Araki consisting of selections from his photobooks and a dialogue with photographer Alec Soth. Other highlights include Yusuke Nishimura’s ‘The Folk’, wherein the elaborately costumed realm of Japanese folk entertainment is explored, and the rise of cute in “kawaii” photography.

216 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 33 cm, pb, English

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Extra Extra 7 (Nouveau Magazine Erotique)

Isbn 22140581
Publisher Extra
Idea code 16475
€ 15.00

Celebrating sensual city life 'Extra Extra' explores eroticism and culture in the urban context. This new issue offers intimate conversations between creative minds of all disciplines and lustful imagery. Wander through the streets and linger in the parks with us to find crisp surprises and taste the sweet delights of Beijing, Brussels, Cornwall, Istanbul, London, New York, Oxford, Rotterdam, Shanghai, and Zagreb. With contributions by Srécko Horvat, Lucy Stein, Simon Stephens, Billy Sullivan, Fatos Ustek, Ari Versluis, Ivar Wigan, Lin Zhipeng (aka No. 223), and Övül Durmuşoğlu, among others.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

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