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Hassan Hajjaj
Isbn 9791090306912
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 19444
€ 37.65
Hassan Hajjaj blends artistic themes and genres from a diverse range of influences. He creates a whimsical, eccentric universe, initiating a dialogue between tradition and modernity, culture and pop culture. Known for his colourful portraits, somewhere between documentary and fashion, Hajjaj also integrates African prints and textiles and manipulated logos in compositions, a visual re-appropriation of global consumerism and a critical interpretation of oriental exoticism. This first major monograph of his work coincides with a retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. It includes his best-known and celebrated series along with previously unpublished works.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Marcelo Brodsky - Poetics Of Resistance
Isbn 9783874485098
Publisher B. Kuehlen Verlag
Idea code 19460
€ 2.00
Marcelo Brodsky’s practice is situated at the crossroads between visual arts, poetry, and human rights activism. Using images from documentary archives, he manipulates them by adding handwritten comments and highlighting details with bright colours, stimulating a dialogue between the pre-existing narratives conveyed by the original photographs and his own interpretations. ‘Poetics of Resistance’ features two major groups of works created between 2014 and 2019, on the international protests of 1968 and on the process of decolonisation in Africa in the 20th century, plus ongoing inquiries into anti-Franco resistance in Spain and today’s urgent topic of migrants and refugees.
134 p, ills colour, 31 x 25 cm, hb, German/French/English
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Luce Lebart - Inventions 1915-1938
Isbn 9791090306882
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 19445
€ 41.95
Between 1915 and 1938, thousands of films and photographs were produced in France as part of a national policy encouraging new scientific and industrial research. These largely unknown images stand as visual witnesses to the analogue archives that trace the nation’s history of innovation, anchored at first in war and national defence, and later shifting towards civilian and domestic life. The pictures also present a narrative that is still unfolding today – that of the institutionalisation of research. From the outset, a systematic archiving policy was implemented that resulted in the collection of administrative yet aesthetically remarkable images reproduced in this book.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Clement Lambelet - The Happiness Is The Only True Emotion
Isbn 9791090306899
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 19521
€ 40.85
The Pain Expressions Set, established by the University of Stirling, is an emotion database containing 599 portraits of thirteen women and ten men, probably actors. Each person expresses six basic human emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise), plus ten expressions of pain. Systems or devices that can automatically recognise and interpret human emotions are the subject of this work, for which visual artist Clément Lambelet chose one emotion per person and cropped the pictures to retain only the face. Each image was then submitted to the Microsoft Emotion API to test its accuracy. Happiness was the only emotion it could recognise with certainty.
544 p, ills colour, 15 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Bec Parsons - Lone Dove
Isbn 9780987637192
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 19573
€ 35.75
Bec Parsons has built an international career around her sensitive negotiations of the ever-elusive space between photographer and muse. Chiefly known for her work in fashion, the photographer’s output radiates with a rare collaborative dynamic. Both her photographs and her subjects share agency and voice; their underpinning is one of connection, subtlety, and spontaneity. 'Lone Dove', takes this collaborative quality to new depths. Shifting her gaze to young model and champion equestrienne Lauren DeVaney, Parsons joined DeVaney and her family on their biannual pilgrimage from their home in Arizona to the Music Meadows ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado.
160 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Koen Van De Wouw - Dutch Palm Lovers
Isbn 9789090319506
Publisher Koen Van De Wouw
Idea code 19570
€ 15.90
Palms are not native to the Netherlands, yet many have found themselves on Dutch soil. There are over 3,000 species of palm trees, but only a few of these can survive the freezing winter temperatures of northern Europe. The solution is to wrap them up and prevent them from getting frostbite. Like giant pieces of art, these wonky, wild sculptures are littered across the country’s wintertime landscape. This book documents Dutch photographer Koen van de Wouw’s fascination with these exotic plants, and the touching and tender steps Dutch people will take to save their piece of sunshine, no matter how cold it gets. Far from home, the palm perseveres – but with human help, it can thrive.
24 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Archivio 04: Hidden Memories - The Unreal Issue
Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio Magazine
Idea code 19561
€ 15.05
What we know about reality could dissolve at any moment, and it’s because of this that archives exist. But archives themselves entail manipulating reality. When archivists choose what to preserve and what to discard, they redefine and condition our future memory. Contributors to this issue deal with the language of power, the alteration of the body on stage, the cinematic illusion of another reality, and how the gaze changes perception in psychology and art. Included are iconic shots of post-war stars and stripes suburbia by Bill Owens, Enrico Deaglio’s story of racial persecution and anti-Semitism in Milan, and Ricordi’s 19th-century battle against piracy in the pre-digital era.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Unseen Issue 7
Isbn 9789082264258
Publisher Unseen
Idea code 19429
€ 9.70
The seventh instalment of ‘Unseen’ magazine offers a diverse range of contemporary projects, collaborations, and commissions. Among its offerings are Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol, who introduces us to life in his artist community; Amsterdam-based writer and curator Karin Bareman considers work from a range of artists dealing with decoloniality; Indian photographer Bharat Sikka constructs an intimate portrait of his father; contemporary digital artist Tabita Rezaire opens a portal to her complex, futuristic universe; and much more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Mirjam Wirz - Sonidos
Isbn 9783906213293
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 19502
€ 25.00
Mirjam Wirz’s ‘Sonidos’ is part of an extensive research project and ongoing publication series revolving around the culture of cumbia music and its specific forms of representation. While previous books have dealt with the genre’s complex social structure and imagery, this one turns the spotlight on the architecture of Mexican sound systems, documenting their versatile configurations through photography. The social potentiality inherent in the equipment, which Wirz usually depicts in empty rooms and on vacant streets or sidewalks – fully operational but not actively in use – underlies these images of imposing speaker stacks, gaping bass bins, and snaking cables.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Inuuteq Storch: Flesh
Isbn 9788797052020
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 19480
€ 44.00
Flesh is a both fun and heart-throbbing book about trying to be two places at once. One with the body, another with the mind. Young photographer Inuuteq Storch based this series on a formative time of his life, when he lived in New York. Through 72 full-colour pictures, captured with his little sister's pink plastic analogue camera, the reader is taken on a journey of lurking fortune tellers, mysterious cats and freaky red bar toilets. In each picture lies a fascination with the city's façade, but behind it there’s a longing for the nature that Storch has grown up in. Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) grew up in Greenland in the 1990s. His photographic work involves studies of his own nationality and cultural heritage.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Greenlandic/Danish/English
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M.h. Froslev: Unsettled City
Isbn 9788797052013
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 19479
€ 53.00
'Unsettled City' is a dark photographic essay on the encounter between a human and a restless metropolis. It is a personal depiction of a claustrophobic environment with the cityscape as framework, captured in the cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow over the last ten years. Here we meet bulldogs, street fights, and abandoned roads alongside loving glances, intimate moments, and faded buildings, waiting for the night to pass so the light can rise again. Through disquieting atmospheres and raw sensitivity, the book shows how the people of the night alternately love and fear both the city and each other.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Rob Becker - How They Look
Isbn 9789462263581
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 19484
€ 28.00
Although they take photos of other people for a living, professional photographers generally do not like to be photographed themselves. Yet most of the photographers portrayed in this book were actually keen to take part in this series, precisely because they are usually the ones taking the photos. 'How They Look – Photographers’ Portraits' presents over 100 photographers from all corners of the profession and from 30 different countries of the world.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Tutta La Famiglia - Portrait Of A Sicilian Cafe In America
Isbn 9789462263352
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 19483
€ 35.00
Paul Cary Goldberg started photographing in Caffé Sicilia in the spring of 2007. He had been working at this corner establishment located in the port city of Gloucester, Massachusetts, for eight years, and knew many of the regulars: mostly men of Sicilian descent. He had first brought his new digital photo camera to the café to become familiar with it. After using film for 30 years, it seemed to him that the café, with its people, activities, and intimate space, offered an ideal place to learn. He soon discovered how complex and rich this small, modest café is, and how deeply culture is woven into the personality and life of the people. A deep mutual respect and affection arose.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Brice Krummenacker - Robert Maurice Debois
Isbn 9791092265828
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 19477
€ 35.50
This book project comes from here and elsewhere. Comprising a collection of photographs made by the human named Brice Krummenacker, it tells the adventures of our hero: Robert Maurice Debois, the classiest being in the Milky Way, interstellar traveller, and extraordinary alien. Upon arrival on our planet, the space invader soon realised that the conquest of this world, where reality is increasingly virtual, could only happen via social networks. He enlists a photographer to open various accounts – Facebook, Instagram, even Tinder – and makes himself real in the collective imagination. Incongruous, strange, and unexpected are the adjectives that best describe this trip and this book.
86 p, ills colour, 25 x 31 cm, hb, French/English
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Colette Pourroy - Red Was Her Color
Isbn 9791092265842
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 19475
€ 23.65
Photographer Colette Pourroy’s visual universe is fuelled by very personal emotions. A portrait of a young woman and the staged appearances of her counterpart reinforce the sensuality, strength, and femininity of the protagonist of this story about a mother who loved the colour red. Her daughter has chosen to translate this into black and white. From the outset, the tone alludes to a love story overshadowed by a dark omen. Lightness of emotion is muted by the appearance of closed doors and closed bodies. Her inner journey overturns memories and breaks taboos, but also repairs. As it progresses, her singular and haunting approach succeeds in making the invisible visible.
64 p, ills bw, 17 x 22 cm, hb, French/English
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Marie L. Borgia - Encounters With Amnesia
Isbn 9791092265835
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 19476
€ 2.00
Marie L. Borgia’s project touches the most engaged part of therapeutic art: to show a dignified portrait of those living with amnesia. She selects images that seem to be burning with an inner light, overexposed by the omissions in them. She produces light-grey prints that appear to have been created practically inadvertently. To properly document her subjects’ everyday lives, which always take place in the moment, she remains always within their comfort zone. The compositions fragment an expression or disposition, the sketch of a face. With these carefully constructed images she is able to give form to their feelings, to their emotions and, ultimately, to the singularity of their being.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, French/English
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Andrei Krasilin: Sanatorium
Isbn 9789493069008
Publisher Dostoevsky Society
Idea code 19466
€ 48.60
‘Sanatorium’ centres on a researcher who finds himself at a conference in the half-empty Anapa Sanatorium on Russia’s Black Sea coast during the off-season. He sets off in pursuit of an understanding of the place that humans and matter occupy. With its unique concept and binding, this photobook intersperses photographs of deserted beaches with images of matter as seen through electron microscopes. It consists of overlapping white and black pages, visually clear depictions, and inscrutable abstractions, making the viewer both an accomplice in the researcher’s quest and a co-author of the resulting compositions.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Julien Lelievre - Art D'autoroute
Isbn 9782956781509
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 19467
€ 41.95
Julien Lelièvre trekked thousands of kilometres and spent years researching in order to document and photograph 71 works of art scattered about the French motorway network. This pictorial inventory, organised into twelve itineraries, is introduced by a collection of photographs that form an intimate diary of his travels. Taken as a whole, the images offer surprising insight into the peculiar world of the motorway and provide a broad perspective on a sometimes disparaged and often unrecognised public art form. The volume includes route maps, meticulous documentation on each photographed object, and additional texts about the phenomenon by four authors.
218 p, ills colour, 29 x 24 cm, hb, French/English
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Letter to Bruno Manser - Isabelle Ricq and Christian Tochtermann (Eng)
Isbn 9783906822242
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 19452
€ 84.95
This tribute to the Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser is the first collaboration between Isabelle Ricq and Christian Tochtermann. Specialised in documentary photography, Ricq spent several years in Borneo following the destruction of the forests and their replacement by gigantic palm oil plantations. There she first heard of Manser, who spent six years among the Penan, the island’s last nomadic people, sharing their struggle against logging companies before he disappeared without a trace in May 2000. The book is styled as a photographic letter addressed from the place where he was last seen, a place where it can be seen just how relevant his claims still are today.
260 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Letter to Bruno Manser - Isabelle Ricq and Christian Tochtermann (Ger)
Isbn 9783906822273
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code
€ 84.95
This tribute to the Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser is the first collaboration between Isabelle Ricq and Christian Tochtermann. Specialised in documentary photography, Ricq spent several years in Borneo following the destruction of the forests and their replacement by gigantic palm oil plantations. There she first heard of Manser, who spent six years among the Penan, the island’s last nomadic people, sharing their struggle against logging companies before he disappeared without a trace in May 2000. The book is styled as a photographic letter addressed from the place where he was last seen, a place where it can be seen just how relevant his claims still are today.
260 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, German
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Letter to Bruno Manser - Isabelle Ricq and Christian Tochtermann (Fr)
Isbn 9783906822280
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code
€ 4.00
This tribute to the Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser is the first collaboration between Isabelle Ricq and Christian Tochtermann. Specialised in documentary photography, Ricq spent several years in Borneo following the destruction of the forests and their replacement by gigantic palm oil plantations. There she first heard of Manser, who spent six years among the Penan, the island’s last nomadic people, sharing their struggle against logging companies before he disappeared without a trace in May 2000. The book is styled as a photographic letter addressed from the place where he was last seen, a place where it can be seen just how relevant his claims still are today.
260 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, French
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Andre Kertesz - The Art Of Poise
Isbn 9782915704877
Publisher Jeu De Paume
Idea code 19506
€ 10.20
One of the twentieth century's great photographers, André Kertész (Budapest, 1894–New York, 1985) left a prolific body of work spanning more than seventy years, from his earliest Hungarian photographs to the blossoming of his talent in France, and from his New York years to international recognition. The album published in conjunction with the exhibition organised by the Jeu de Paume and the Château de Tours surveys his extraordinary career through around forty images, whose compositions are marked by Europe's avant-garde art movements, forming a visual narrative of interwar Europe and almost fifty years spent in the United States.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Valerie Phillips - Alice In Londonland
Isbn 9780954340377
Publisher Longer Moon Farther
Idea code 19491
€ 29.20
Welcome to 'Alice in Londonland' is the tenth book by Valerie Phillips, and marks a return to the single subject. Now presenting landscape as well as portraiture, the book is a step change for Phillips, an evolution of her art. Alice and Valerie take you on a journey through London, pie and mash shops, Victorian dinosaurs, Lycamobile-branded shopfronts, and dragons galore. This is what London looks like – really looks like. Consider it a break from the glossy tourist images of the Royal Parks, West London terraces, beefeaters at the Tower, and the royal family.
192 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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