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Scheltens & Abbenes - Zeen
Isbn 9784908526237
Publisher Case Publishing
Idea code 19126
€ 30.00
Artist duo Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes are considered among the most progressive still-life photographers in the Netherlands today. With the creative craftsmanship of artists, they produce images that draw viewers into a sense of wonder at the things we encounter in everyday life. At once fascinating and demanding, their meticulous examination brings overlooked details into sharp focus, in turn both flattening the pictured objects and bringing them to life. This publication coincides with a retrospective exhibition in Amsterdam covering eighteen years of colourful, minimal, and challenging work by Scheltens & Abbenes. With a text by Louise Schouwenberg.
418 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Karianne Bueno - Doug's Cabin
Isbn 9789492051431
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 19142
€ 38.90
In 2010 Karianne Bueno met Doug on his campsite deep in the forests of Canada’s Vancouver Island. Two years later she returned with her camera to document his life away from society. Doug built his cabin on the foundations of a pioneer’s house and worked as a carpenter at a military radar station. To better understand Doug, Bueno immersed herself in the history so dear to him. Over time, her once tangible photography project about living away from society turned into a labyrinth of stories across multiple layers of time and reality. Through photos, diary fragments, and found footage, she takes us deeper into the forest, questioning if we actually have control over our lives.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Isabella Hunts - Photographing Hunting Cultures
Isbn 9789082722116
Publisher Isabella Rozendaal
Idea code 19129
€ 37.95
“The hunting experience is a difficult thing to translate into words or images, because the hunt has countless faces.” Isabella Rozendaal has had a lifelong fascination with hunting and its cultural differences around the world and the immense contradictions it engenders. She travelled with her camera through the United States, Abu Dhabi, Germany and the Netherlands, and even into the Brazilian Amazon in pursuit of learning more about practices around hunting non-human animals, whether for sustenance or livelihood, as an age-old aristocratic pursuit, or custodial management of wild animal populations. The images promote reflection on the romantic and moral notions of hunting.
64 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Ari Marcopoulos - Entropy
Isbn 9789492811486
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19173
€ 24.35
Ari Marcopoulos was born in Amsterdam in 1957 and moved to New York in 1980, at the height of the city’s art scene. An artist, filmmaker, and photographer, his body of work includes portraits, street scenes, and landscapes from places as diverse as Tokyo, Lebanon, New Orleans, Brooklyn, and the California coast. His subjects have been musicians, celebrities, artists, and friends, as well as the anonymous denizens of the boroughs he has wandered. His images are saturated with movement and transformation, with outsiders, the underground, and the periphery, with discontinuities and amnesia.
64 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Erik van der Weijde - Bollenveld
Isbn 9789492811493
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19175
€ 12.15
Erik van der Weijde presents a series of photographs of Bollenveld, a futuristic housing project by Dutch architect Dries Kreijkamp, situated in a residential area of 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The 50 ‘bolwoningen’ (“ball-” or “bulb-houses”) were built in 1984 using prefabricated spheres of glass-fibre reinforced concrete. Each has a diameter of 5.5 metres and total living area of 55 square metres. They are the last examples of houses that were funded by the Dutch subsidy for experimental building, which was created in 1968.
32 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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How We See: Photobooks By Women
Isbn 9780692144299
Publisher 10 X 10 Photobooks
Idea code 19065
€ 70.20
This anthology documents ‘How We See’, a travelling public reading room comprising 100 photography books by an international range of female photographers. Although women have made significant contributions to the rich history of photobooks, their numbers in prominent publisher inventories and among widely promoted books are relatively small when compared to their male peers. This close examination of the distinctive qualities of these books by women, such as content, design, and intellectual attributes, offers a means of understanding and re-establishing their place within the photobook practice and genre. Includes an annotated history, essays, and reference lists.
306 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Omnipresent | Beyond Borders
Isbn 9789081005944
Publisher Birgitta De Vos
Idea code 19157
€ 65.55
Birgitta de Vos presents her third book of pictures and poetry, for which she crossed borders of time, mind, culture, and country. By visiting places both near and far, she connects with the soul of the soil, and with the very building blocks of our world. A self-professed avid adapter of new technologies, De Vos explains how half of the photographs in the book were taken with a drone flying high above the earth, while the other half were made close up, using a macro lens. From the combination of stunning images of countless kinds of rocks, minerals, and landforms with her thought-provoking words, a dialogue of creation emerges, its beauty resonating within and around us.
416 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Drew Nikonowicz - This World And Others Like It
Isbn 9789490119744
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 19149
€ 38.00
Thousands of explorable realities exist through imagery from rovers and probes, virtual role-playing, and video games. Within the contemporary wilderness, robots have replaced photographers as mediators, producing images completely dislocated from human experience. This suggests that the sublime landscape is now only accessible through the boundaries of technology. Drew Nikonowicz investigates the role of the 21st-century explorer by combining computer modelling with analogue photographic processes. Drawing upon the language of survey images from the 19th century, he questions the relationship with current methods of record making.
98 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Bill 2
Isbn 9789492811417
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19101
€ 22.65
Edited and designed by Brussels-based graphic designer Julie Peeters, this second issue of ‘Bill’, an annual magazine of photographic stories, presents new or previously unpublished work from twelve contributors. The magazine prioritises visual reading without distraction, and the images appearing in it are printed without accompanying text. The issue features work by Jiajia Zhang, Ann Woo, Linda van Deursen, Megan Francis Sullivan, Reto Schmid, Bart Julius Peters, Raimundas Malašauskas, Jochen Lempert, Tadanori Yokoo and Tadashi Kurahashi, Inge Ketelers, Hans Hollein, Jason Dodge, and Gintaras Didžiapetris. An index of the featured images is included.
184 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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The Photographic Ii: Signal or Noise
Isbn 9789492811424
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19115
€ 8.00
To a large extent, photography is produced by machines, and knowledge of the technological development of the discipline is crucial to the reading of an image. Readable, manipulated, and hidden information are increasingly difficult to distinguish from one another, yet are of equal importance in our visual culture. This exhibition catalogue presents a selection of artists who recalibrate the “photographic” as an artistic field of research and experiment, playing on the functions, processes, and spaces of photography via hybrid forms. Featuring Tony Cokes, Louise Lawler, Seth Price, Thomas Ruff, Sondra Perry, David Horvitz, Hana Miletić, Forensic Architecture, and more.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Ruud Van Empel - Making Nature
Isbn 9789071139352
Publisher Museum Belvedere
Idea code 19085
€ 24.25
The distinctive style of photographer and visual artist Ruud van Empel has evolved through an ongoing exploration of the tension between the camera and digital technology. He digitally dissects and reconstructs hundreds of diverse fragments taken from his own photographs to create synthesised, hybrid works that portray dreamlike scenes and natural utopias. Following in the romantic tradition, Van Empel’s stylised collages seek beauty, serenity, and the sublime; a subjective experience of the natural world fuelled by a disenchantment with our contemporary reality. ‘Making Nature’ is published on the occasion of an exhibition of his recent work at Museum Belvédère.
80 p, ills colour, 25 x 20 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Douglas Mandry - Equivalences
Isbn 9791090306790
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 19107
€ 42.00
In a digital age of ever-faster technological innovation, Douglas Mandry explores the photographic medium using analog methods. For 'Unseen Sights', published in the book 'Equivalences', the Swiss photographer was inspired by early 20th-century postcards from the Middle East. Using acrylic paint and an airbrush, he colourized black-and-white prints of landscapes in Cappadocia, Turkey, then re-photographed the compositions. Rather than merely reproducing images, the book offered the artist an opportunity to re-interpret the pictures. Playing with layers of colour in print, the artist created a new representation – using, this time, a mechanical process.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, French/English
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Marion Verboom - Ester
Isbn 9791090306813
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 19109
€ 64.50
The book 'Ester' recounts the six months Marion Verboom spent immersed at the Manifattura Thélios, experimenting and creating artworks for the third LVMH Métiers d’Arts Residency. Here, in the Dolomites, at the foot of the Vajont Dam, the French artist allowed herself to soak up the geographical, historical, and cultural context of the region, becoming particularly interested in the mechanics of the rocks and the interaction with human activity. In her work, she juxtaposes depictions of the mountains by Old Masters like Bellini, Giotto or Cima da Conegliano with images of the Manifattura’s cutting-edge modernity.
160 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Lili Tanner - Wild Thing
Isbn 9783906822259
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 19156
€ 37.25
Lili Tanner admits that she began photographing cowboys by chance. Her brother-in-law is part of the team that organises the “Wild Thing” bull riding competition in Gallup, New Mexico, which is also her family’s hometown. The Swiss-American artist and photographer was soon captivated by the extreme physicality of the sport, for both human and animal, but even more so by the timeless looks and colourful styling of the men and women who ride bulls. The denim and leather radiate frontier masculinity and authenticity. Over the course of four years, Tanner documented the bull riders and the iconography and mythology of the American West that prevails at the competition.
96 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Fountain - Vanessa Billy & Thogdin Ripley
Isbn 9783906213255
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 19019
€ 11.00
Vanessa Billy is a Swiss artist whose work utilises a wide variety of materials, such as bronze, silicone, bio-resin, metals, glass and plastics. Within her practice she addresses broader concerns regarding human consumption by including industrial products and objects, drawing parallels between physical and mental constructs and thereby also posing questions about the impact of human activity and its effects on life on our planet. ‘Fountain’ comprises a series of highly detailed, close-up and abstract images of various surfaces and shapes that have a fluid quality, reminiscent in colour and form to water or ice. The series is accompanied by a commissioned text by Thogdin Ripley.
18 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Okashimaru - What You See Then
Isbn 9784907562168
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 19010
€ 20.95
Japanese sweets are like memories condensed in a small universe, a landscape of emotions experienced through sight and taste. Based in Kyoto, Sayoko Sugiyama puts this invisible sensibility into a very special form of confectionary, a modern twist in an otherwise rather traditional world. This book presents 25 Japanese sweets together with short, enlightening texts that describe each meticulously crafted confectionary, detailing aspects such as colour, ingredients, season, origin, and the memories and particular enjoyment they evoke.
96 p, ills colour, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Otto Snoek - Rotterdam Vruchtbare Grond
Isbn 9789072532381
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 19139
€ 29.00
Rotterdam is perhaps the most ethnically and culturally diverse city in the Netherlands, which also makes it an ever-changing city, a place under constant construction. Photographer Otto Snoek was born and raised in Rotterdam, and has a certain fondness for the both city’s boundless ambition and its rougher edges. In this photobook, pictures from the late 1980s and early 1990s narrate the emergence of a new skyline at breakneck speed, documenting the city’s reconstruction through stark views of demolition sites, construction pits, and endless cranes. Snoek prefers the fringes: mountains of sand, ruins of demolished buildings, and muddy sites lined with grim fences.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 27 x 11 cm, pb, Dutch
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The Lines Of The Landscape
Isbn 9789461400673
Publisher Architectura & Natura
Idea code 19134
€ 23.85
When we look at the Dutch landscape, what do we see? It is completely man-made, which is actually something that the Dutch are proud of. The dead straight ditch, the dyke round the polder, and the channelled stream are all drawn lines, hence lines charged with time. You follow them with your gaze, instead of taking them in at a glance, these typical medial lines with a telluric effect. More than 25 contributors – photographers, artists, educators, writers, poets, designers – offer their personal analyses and interpretations of the particularities of the Dutch landscape in this publication. A landscape whose beauty is found in its adaptability, and in the fact that it never stands still.
62 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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G1710 Gafpa, Maarten Van Den Driessche, Aglaia Konrad, Bert Huyghe, Primary Structure
Isbn 9789493146037
Publisher Art Paper Editions
Idea code 19111
€ 25.00
In architecture’s reception the focus is often on the built reality. In practice, however, the realm of the studio is of equal importance. ‘G1710’ is the result of a cooperation between the Ghent-based office of GAFPA, architecture critic Maarten Van Den Driessche, artists Aglaia Konrad and Bert Huyghe, and graphic designer Arthur Haegeman. In addition to their contributions, it also contains a selection of recent research by students in the Primary Structure studio, taught by GAFPA and Olivier Goethals at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Ghent. These diverse perspectives present an oblique reading of the work, but they all agree on the importance of the studio environment.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Gijs Assmann - For H
Isbn 9789493146006
Publisher Art Paper Editions
Idea code 19110
€ 40.00
On a daily basis, Gijs Assmann sends his lover, H., a handmade collage by post. Assmann started this ritual in November 2009. These collages are a daily exercise for Assmann, which give us an insight in the dazzling head of the artist. Furthermore, the collages show us that love is versatile, and more complex than we sometimestell ourselves. Assmann shows us that love is not static and clear-cut, but that it is alive and should never be considered as a self-evident truth. For this publication H. selected her favourite ‘declarations of love’.
336 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Teun Hocks - Early To Late
Isbn 9789073920286
Publisher Torch Gallery
Idea code 19084
€ 31.60
Dutch photographer Teun Hocks envisions pictures conceived primarily as conceptual constructs and develops them into theatrical tableaus that are at once amusing, bizarre, and unsettling. His ability to seamlessly manifest contradiction, idiosyncratic dysfunction, and psychological turmoil in his surreal and absurd images emerges from pictorial devices and allusions in which the central figure is the artist himself; an actor who expresses familiar behaviours, but translated into the language and terms of the cartoon. This catalogue is published in conjunction with retrospective presentations of work by Hocks at the Stedelijk Museum Breda and Torch Gallery in Amsterdam.
96 p, ills colour, 24 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Extra Extra 12 (Nouveau Magazine Erotique)
Isbn 22140581
Publisher Extra Extra
Idea code 19143
€ 15.00
The twelfth issue of ‘Extra Extra’ offers a tantalising selection of contributions and fantasies. Eight writers contribute short stories on hotels, choreographer and dancer Boris Charmatz talks about permeability and contradictions, Manuel Betancourt interviews artist Carlos Motta on the ways the flesh is both politicised and a political tool through desires, photographers Alex Baczynski-Jenkins and Deana Lawson contribute images, Sam Steverlynck presents a pervert’s guide to architecture filled with juicy anecdotes, Rosa de Graaf dives into Urbex in Manchester, filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong speaks about cinematography, ruptures, and non-places with Paul Dallas, and much more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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