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Batia Suter - Hexamiles (Mont-Voisin)
Isbn 9789492811592
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19344
€ 43.80
This volume is published on the occasion of Batia Suter’s exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland. Suter focuses on her ever-expanding archive of scanned landscape images, which has already played an important role in her earlier publications. Many of the images depict wastelands, alternating between romantic and menacing views which create simultaneous sensations of majesty and disorientation. Through layering, a variety of disparate geological and biological environments merge into composite, dreamlike landscapes in a kind of adventurous journey. The book’s title is derived from the term “Hexameter”, a poetic form of writing used in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Henk Wildschut - Rooted
Isbn 9789082588514
Publisher Henk Wildschut
Idea code 19327
€ 39.00
‘Rooted’ is the third and last part of an unintended trilogy by Henk Wildschut on the lives of refugees and migrants. The exquisitely bound book focuses on the many refugee camp residents who find hope, consolation, and dignity in nurturing a few plants. These miniature gardens are often just a few tin cans planted with flowers, or of a handful of seeds struggling to sprout in a patch of meagre soil. They symbolize a longing for something resembling a normal existence. Wildschut has photographed micro-gardens in refugee camps in Tunisia, Jordan, and Lebanon, and recounts the stories of the gardeners who are now stranded, with little choice but to put down roots in foreign soil.
160 p, ills colour, 19 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Marina Caneve - Are They Rocks Or Clouds?
Isbn 9789490119799
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 19329
€ 35.00
‘Are They Rocks or Clouds?’ addresses the history of hydrogeological events in the Dolomites and, more broadly, how cultural memories of such incidents are shaped. It explores how human habitation persists in locations that have established patterns of landslides, floods, and other catastrophes. A blend of research and archival images, texts, and recent photographs addresses themes of destruction, protection, experience, and resilience in areas with cycles of human vulnerability in the face of natural disasters, asking the reader to consider the risks we take as humans. The collaborative project also involved geologist Emiliano Oddone and anthropologist Annibale Salsa.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Encyclopedia Of Flowers 4 - Makoto Azuma & Shunsuke Shiinoki
Isbn 9784861527388
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19300
€ 29.45
The fourth book featuring works by master Japanese flower artist and botanical sculptor Makoto Azuma, this edition adds five new series to the ones established in previous editions: Earth, Horizon, Ambiguity, Torus, and Matrix. Filled with Shunsuke Shiinoki’s breathtaking photographs of flowers and botanical displays, the book celebrates nature’s diversity and beauty, as well as the poignant, temporal notion of a plant in bloom. It gives an overview of Azuma’s numerous experiments in presentation and new compositions, with hopes that flowers might be seen as a kind of prayer that goes beyond national and religious boundaries, transcending sex, race, and ethnicity.
472 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Fiona Tan - Goraiko
Isbn 9789072532411
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 19363
€ 37.95
Published in conjunction with Fiona Tan’s eponymous exhibition at Sprengel Museum Hannover, which celebrates her being awarded the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Stiftung Niedersachsen in 2019, this book reflects the artist’s differentiated use of photography on a comprehensive scale, taking account of the phenomenon of time and at the interface with the medium of film. ‘Goraiko’ translates as “the coming of the light”, and refers to the sunrise as seen from the top of Mt. Fuji, the highest point in Japan. Page after page is printed with myriad representations of the iconic mountain in a comprehensive and overwhelming visual presentation.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, hb, German/English
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Arjan De Nooy - 99:1
Isbn 9789490119751
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 19314
€ 31.10
This publication is inspired by novelist Raymond Queneau’s 1947 book of the same title, in which Queneau tells a simple story in 99 different ways. Arjan de Nooy’s version applies an analogous principle to a single photographic negative. He took the picture in Paris in October 2007, with no special reason apart from the fact that it has a faint similarity with Queneau’s story. It shows a bus and two young men who appear to be having a conversation about a button. Over the years, De Nooy has revisited this particular image hundreds of times. This book extracts 99 of these variations.
112 p, ills colour, 17 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Paulien Oltheten - Non
Isbn 9789492811585
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19316
€ 19.45
Visual artist Paulien Oltheten presents a work in book form, inspired by a graffito found in the Les Olympiades area (13th arrondissement) in Paris. The area appealed to her because of its lively social dynamics set against the backdrop of utopian modernist architecture from the 1960s. The book consists of a series of photographs of people walking past the roughly spray-painted word “non” (no), as well as an audio transcript in which the random passers-by give the word new meanings. With her camera and microphone, Oltheten playfully explores what happens when this compact statement is taken from a concrete wall and allowed to travel freely between the social and the political.
84 p, ills colour, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Misha De Ridder - High Up Close By
Isbn 9789492811561
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19348
€ 43.80
Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk, consecrated in 1306, is one of the oldest buildings in the city. After the iconoclasm in 1566, the church slowly gained a serene, sober appearance. Over the course several hundred years, it was enlarged and renovated until the building achieved its current form. Misha de Ridder explored the tactility of the walls and the diversity of shapes in the Oude Kerk with a high-resolution digital camera. The series brings us closer to the centuries of hands that constructed and altered the church with exceptionally detailed images of painted walls illuminated by soft daylight falling through the tall windows. Even the ink’s scent on the pages recalls this spatial experience.
84 p, ills colour, 24 x 35 cm, pb, English
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Chan Dick - Chai Wan Fire Station
Isbn 9784908526145
Publisher Case Publishing
Idea code 19325
€ 61.45
Chan Dick works as a commercial photographer, yet has perhaps gained more recognition through his personal projects. The series ‘Chai Wan Fire Station’ utilises a fascinating birds-eye view to great effect. Chan discovered at some point that the small window in his workshop toilet overlooked the yard of the fire station next door. Over a period of fifteen months he observed the routine there, watching morning training sessions, evening volleyball games, the washing of the trucks, school field trips, and the occasional official inspection. Originally published in 2015 in a limited edition, the successful series of 30 carefully selected photographs is now available in a new edition.
88 p, ills colour, 25 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/Chinese/English
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Toshiko Okanoue - The Miracle Of Silence
Isbn 9784861527142
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19310
€ 27.65
Toshiko Okanoue was active in the 1950s, producing eye-catching collages made from magazine clippings. The parallels between her compositions and aspects of European surrealism was purely coincidental at first, but after meeting Shuzo Takiguchi, the leader of the surrealist movement in Japan, her keen sensitivity to shape and distinct feminine sensibility evolved further. She began to use photos to form backgrounds to her images, in which buildings, landscapes, and other elements combine to create bizarre and mysterious spaces where dramas unfold. Her expressive fragments, mementos of society and fashion which in turn reflect the era, are a major element in her creativity.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Bardhi Haliti; May 25 Is Now October 1
Isbn 9783952471050
Publisher Cpress
Idea code 19294
€ 34.50
With more autonomy in 1974, Kosovo saw an upsurge in urban planning and architectural freedom, enabled by modernism and in turn expressed through competitive sports and a shift away from ethnic particularities, which signalled a shift West. This image collection by Bardhi Haliti is the result of seven years of research in Kosovar newspapers published between 1974 and 2018. The images have been variously cropped, zoomed, and paired by similarity. The choreography is not meant to render them valuable objects, but rather to help find their meaning beyond that which is found within the now unfashionable sports halls constructed throughout Kosovo during the Yugoslavian period.
662 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Takeshi Yamagishi Tohoku Lost, Left, Found
Isbn 9784864800402
Publisher Lixil
Idea code 19243
€ 67.60
Architecture photographer Takeshi Yamagishi’s first monographic collection presents his recordings of virtually every aspect of the collisions between architecture as the edge of artificiality and various forces of nature. The extensive series covers a period from the immediate aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 to the ongoing restoration efforts today, including measures against future catastrophes. It contains roughly 200 ultra-high-resolution images captured using 4 x 5 film, rather than digitally, and forms an impressive homage to the resilience and tenacity of the Japanese people, expressed through the built environment and augmented landscapes.
462 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Fresh Eyes
Isbn 9789082483390
Publisher Xpublishers
Idea code 19298
€ 30.00
Every year promising photographers graduate from schools throughout Europe. And for self-taught photographers, these days it is easier than ever before to find inspiration and share their work. Standing out from the crowd, however, is another matter. ‘Fresh Eyes’ gives this fresh talent a platform and is intended to help new photographers make their first foray into the real world. This first edition spotlights a carefully selected group of 100 emerging photographers from across Europe while also offering an overview of the latest trends in photography today. This fresh group of names is ready to be discovered by collectors, curators, publishers, and photography lovers alike.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Rebecca Fertinel - Ubuntu I Am Because We Are
Isbn 9789462263109
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 19211
€ 35.00
In august of 2015 photographer Rebecca Fertinel was invited to a wedding by her friend Tracy Tansia. Here, she was introduced to the warm, unabashed life-approach of the Congolese community in Belgium and the Bantu concept ‘Ubuntu’: that you really only become human when you are connected to everything and everyone. In Fertinel’s photographic documentary, the concept of Ubuntu seems to intertwine with the desire to belong to a group and maintain a group identity in a changing environment. Focused on the joy and the ritual and not on a need for a perfect venue. This project wants to place the viewer inside an environment that most have experienced at one time or another for a wedding, party or a wake.
164 p, ills bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Remsen Wolff - All American Girls
Isbn 9789462263383
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 19265
€ 25.00
A self-taught street and studio photographer, Remsen Wolff rarely exhibited his work. In the 1990s, while struggling with his own identity and gender, he became fascinated by the beauty and talent of transvestites and transgenders in Amsterdam and New York. A number of the models he photographed have since become world famous, such as Kabuki Starshine and Amanda Lepore. Wolff left his archive to his last assistant, the Dutch photographer Jochem Brouwer. Recently rediscovered, this treasure trove spans four decades and contains some 200,000 images. ‘All American Girls’ shows a selection of his portraits for the first time as a fitting tribute to this talented photographer.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Mari Katayama - Gift
Isbn 9784908600043
Publisher United Vagabonds
Idea code 19190
€ 48.45
This first book by Mari Katayama is both a retrospective and a document of her evolution as a photographer and artist. Katayama, who was born with tibial hemimelia, a rare deficiency that prevented growth in the lower legs and caused a cleft left hand that resembles a crab’s pincers, amputated her legs at age nine. She explores the possibilities of her own body by creating situations that manipulate the way we see her and painting tattoo-like designs on her prosthetics. Intricately embroidered, pillow-like objects in the shape of limbs and mannequins combine with self-portrait photography to elucidate uncanny and alluring expressions of a DIY aesthetic and notions of beauty.
136 p, ills colour, 22 x 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Yoshida Akhito - The Absence Of Two
Isbn 9784861527197
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19356
€ 35.00
Over the years, Akihito Yoshida took countless photographs of her cousin and his grandmother, who lived in a small and peaceful rural town located in the Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. The grandmother had raised and cared for Daiki from the time he was a child, living and eating together, and always sleeping with him in the same room. ‘The Absence of Two’ documents this little family, two people who cared dearly for each other and could not be separated. The pictures show how their roles shifted over time, as Daiki, now an adult, took on the burden of dutifully caring for his ailing grandmother. One day, after she had gotten better, he went out on his motorcycle and never came back.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Parliaments Of The European Union - Nico Bick
Isbn 9789462083615
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19186
€ 69.00
In 'Parliaments of the European Union' Dutch photographer Nico Bick presents a photographic view of the plenary chambers where the European democracy is actually realized. The book features photographs of the plenary chamber in the parliaments of the twenty-eight European Union member states and the two European Parliaments in Brussels and Strasbourg. Each plenary chamber is photographed from one viewpoint, from the floor itself, in three or four photographs and presented in a triptych or tetraptych fold out. As a series this project makes the European democratic landscape and its significance visible. Key element of the project is to allow the observer of the photo series a feeling of being ‘part of the room’.
242 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 38 cm, hb, English
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Watching The World Cup - Jane Stockdale
Isbn 9781916412101
Publisher Centrecentre
Idea code 19213
€ 19.90
A photo essay by Jane Stockdale. This book turns the lens away from the football to show the faces and emotions of the supporters at the 2014 World Cup. Brazil is synonymous with football. Even so, no one knew what to expect. Massive street protests during last year's Confederations Cup revealed frustration with stadium spending and a deep-rooted desire for change in the country. This year, the authorities braced themselves for more. But when football fans from all over the world arrived, Brazilians threw away their troubles and set about hosting one of the happiest, most exciting World Cups ever.
64 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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