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Toxic Garden
Isbn 9789657725078
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code 20551
€ 38.00
Appearing at a crucial time in which we are being forced to reconsider our relationship with the planet, this book explores the irony of toxic plants. By exposing the fragile beauty of dried specimens in photographs, we learn of their physical potency in their potential to cause detrimental harm. Part one is an assemblage of archival images of plants which are found in Israel and neighbouring countries. Part two is a philosophical meditation that considers the different facets of reality, providing an opportunity to encounter the speculative aspects of architecture through plantscapes. This collection is presented by Tel Aviv-based collaborative design practice AN+. Foreword by Piet Oudolf.
160 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Trigger#2 Uncertainty
Isbn 9789490119928
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 20558
€ 16.00
This issue explores the possibilities that arise when uncertainty is considered at the centre of documentary photographic practice. Documentary is based on conjecture rather than knowledge, but it is only when this is embraced as the genre’s essence that decentralised and polycentric results can emerge. Uncertainty and the speculative can push the idea of representation through documentary to new levels of experimentation, doubt, and questioning in both form and content. The more than 20 contributions to this issue offer proposals for the document’s new uncertain potentials, whether as life-giving fiction, allegory, or pre-enactment, or even the anti-documentary as care aesthetics.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Stephan Keppel - Soft Copy Hard Copy (Amsterdam)
Isbn 9789490119911
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 20555
€ 35.00
In 2018 Stephan Keppel started collecting works and stories of Amsterdam; the city where he lives, and works. The city is constantly changing, and so are the visible, invisible, social, and historic structures. In ‘Soft Copy Hard Copy’ Stephan Keppel explores and organizes these structures, creating an organic index of the city. This book is part of Keppel's ongoing research on the public space, urban structures and reproduction, and is combining his own photographs with re-photographed archival material, texts, and other (online and offline) found footage.
224 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Francis Bacon | Antoine D'agata Aesthetic Parallel Of Two Visceral Works
Isbn 9791092727425
Publisher The Eyes Publishing
Idea code 20548
€ 48.40
Presented as a double book, this publication combines 27 photographs by Antoine d’Agata and 25 graphic works by Francis Bacon, establishing an artistic parallel between their respective practices. A preface by Bruno Sabatier, text by Léa Bismuth, and poem by Perrine Le Querrec are included as an autonomous insert. The artists’ juxtaposition meanwhile plays on themes of horror and compassion. D’Agata is known for immersing himself in personal universes until he exhausts them, transforming reality into blurred images, where the deformation of bodies occurs in the animality of sexual intercourse and drugs, mirroring Bacon’s deformed, expressionist flesh.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Wiosna van Bon - Family Stranger
Isbn 9789492051479
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 20544
€ 32.00
What if the person you trusted the most ended up in prison? Many people cannot imagine that a close relative would commit a crime. Yet this book offers a photographic series of the families of detainees, who are suddenly confronted with ethical questions that put their relationships under great pressure. And with that, a long process of re-evaluation begins. While the lives of the families continue, the imprisoned persons enter a sort of time capsule. ‘Family Stranger’ aims to create awareness of the struggles that these families endure, shedding light on a topic that is often considered taboo. Just like the criminal relative, the family can be socially convicted as well.
232 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Heleen Peeters - Horse
Isbn 9789492051561
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 20542
€ 40.00
Humans and horses share a long history together, from transport and agriculture to war. Currently they are often seen as domestic pets with a moral status, used for recreation, competitions, and medical therapy. In 1948, the grandfather of Heleen Peeters began a business in what many now consider taboo: horse meat. At that time of post-war recovery, many people were poor, and affordable horse meat was in high demand. But today the production and consumption of horse meat is disappearing. This volume broadly documents the culture and traditions of horse meat in many places around the world, including Belgium, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Argentina, and the United States.
232 p, ills colour, 20 x 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Ellen Sheidlin
Isbn 9784861527807
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 20425
€ 20.25
Russian artist and model Ellen Sheidlin provides an almost limitless exploration of millennial culture with her Instagram feed. Her conceptual self-portrait photography is both whimsical and weird, and the young woman also uses her doll-like appearance to induce more disturbing, bizarre undertones and thought-provoking social commentary in her creations. The many different layers of Ellen’s absurd and beautiful dreamscapes point to the perils of social media and our obsession with technology, or hint at more troubling topics like the situation of LGBTQ+ people in Russia and today’s global existential angst. Escape into her chameleonic fantasy world with this mind-bending collection.
152 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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It Just Happened - Photographs By Bob Colacello 1976-1982
Isbn 9788412090857
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 20397
€ 94.60
'It Just Happened' is a book by the American photographer and writer Bob Colacello, who was editor of 'Interview' magazine between 1971 and 1983 and Andy Warhol’s right-hand. In this publication, he shares photos from his personal album taken between the late seventies and early eighties, bringing alive an intimate and faithful chronicle of the fascinating social circle around the so-called Pope of Pop. Conceived as a photographic album, the book presents Colacello’s photographs chronologically, accompanied by captions handwritten by the photographer, explaining and contextualising the images.
280 p, ills bw, 25 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Paolo Ventura - The Rediscovered Leg
Isbn 9788885449619
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 20495
€ 37.65
Some years ago, Paolo Ventura went to Montebello della Battaglia, where in the spring of 1859 the Piedmontese cavalry and French infantry battled against Austrian troops, forcing them back across the Po River. He had come to photograph the battlefield’s ossuary, but was told the leg of a soldier had been found just a few days before. The bones of the leg and foot still wore the shoe of a Piedmont solider, the ankle wrapped in a gaiter. A few months later, Ventura discovered a photograph at a small market that portrayed a young Piedmont officer who, leaning against a friend, displayed the loss of his right leg. This publication traces the history of this unknown hero of Montebello.
40 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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I Don't Recognize Me In The Shadows / Thana Faroq
Isbn 9789462263932
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20502
€ 30.00
Thana Faroq is a Yemeni documentary photographer, storyteller, and educator who left her warn-torn homeland to seek asylum in the Netherlands. Her work mirrors her life and provides a visual echo of her voice as she gracefully negotiates themes of memory, boundaries, and violence. Faroq has a unique approach to working with her subjects, in that she regularly returns to them to continue sharing their journey. Many of these migrant, stateless individuals were with Faroq during her transitional period. ‘I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows’, her first book, traces her journey and explores how everything happened: the war, the escape, the transition, and the unfamiliar.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Andre Aciman Jeannette Montgomery Barron - Roman Hours
Isbn 9788412090840
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 20396
€ 24.80
'Roman Hours' is the first publication in collaboration between writer André Aciman and photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron. The idea for this project grew out of a series of conversations between the two authors and their shared desire to capture Rome. The book brings together a selection of images that, put together, offer a reflection on the contradictions, colours, and sounds of Rome, where the ancient is glimpsed through the modern and the bright colours fade into the characteristic ocher tones of the Eternal City.
120 p, ills colour, 12 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Past Nij Altoenae - Rob Severein
Isbn 9789462262324
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20445
€ 40.00
In 1968, photographer Rob Severein’s grandparents rented a cottage on the Nieuwe Bildtdijk, just a few hundred metres from the Wadden Sea in north-west Friesland, the Netherlands. They would go on living there for 30 years, and their young grandson would often journey from Amsterdam to visit them. They have since passed away, but over the past few years Severein travelled numerous times to this landscape, known as the Bildt. Summers there are really wonderful, yet it transforms into a grim country in winter, with merciless winds and picturesque roads that become muddy paths. This photo series is Severein’s homage to its emptiness and the feeling of being totally alone.
132 p, ills colour, 22 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/Bildts/English
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Jorg Winde - Baluty
Isbn 9789462262379
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20547
€ 30.00
Bałuty is a district in the Polish city of Łódź. During World War II, one of the largest and most horrifying Jewish ghettos existed here. What the Nazis did not destroy has become residential again. Jörg Winde’s photos taken in Bałuty show in a stark yet beautiful way the hard life of the people who live in the district today. We see how people have lovingly decorated the rooms in their home with memories and desires. Jörg Winde has captured this special world. The history of the Holocaust is described in the Bałuty district, but only in traces that we can discover by looking at these photos.
144 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, hb, German/English
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Giovanni Zaffagnini - Stairway To Heaven | Interior With Books
Isbn 9788885449640
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 20494
€ 34.40
In this book, Italian photographer Giovanni Zaffagnini collects the shots he has taken of a number of private libraries, wherever they may exist. Some are obviously situated in living rooms, studies, ateliers, or attic spaces, while the locations of others might be a bit more surprising. These fascinating images of densely packed auxiliary spaces, overflowing cabinets, or shelves of books from floor to ceiling are certainly any bibliophile’s dream, yet depending on the type of books and how they are organised, Zaffagnini’s photographs also leave us searching for clues as to the individuals behind these collections. Libraries, after all, can be deceptive. With a text by Eugenio Baroncelli.
64 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Mario Diacono - Objtexts 1967-1977
Isbn 9788885449497
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 20493
€ 26.90
“Poetry was supposed to give meaning to language, language to give shape to poetry, poetry to give a name to Things. This state of affairs has been swept away by mass communication, by the massacre of communication.” Born in Rome in 1930, poet and gallerist Mario Diacono also took to creating sculptural objects in the decade between 1967 and 1977. Pieced together from found materials, letterforms, and other items, these transformative “objtexts” feature in this volume of three-dimensional poetic works. Things become words, and words become things, taking shape in thing-ideas and ideograms wherein the personal converges with the political and the historical.
76 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Rotterdam Works! Commissioned Photography 1864-Present
Isbn 9789462263833
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20416
€ 35.00
'Rotterdam Works' creates a varied and often still unknown image of the city on the river Maas, with commissioned photography by Rotterdam based companies, institutions, and media. Discover the prolific field of tension between applied and autonomous photography in realtion to the economic growth of Rotterdam during the past hundred and fifty years.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Gup New Dutch Photography 2021
Isbn 9789083106205
Publisher Xpublishers
Idea code 20530
€ 30.00
This 10th edition of 'GUP New Dutch Photography' contains selected works by 100 talented newcomers currently living in the Netherlands, either self-taught or recently graduated. Selected by a jury of six experts, these gifted artists kick-starting their careers are showcased here in this directory, serving as a useful overview and unique guide to the next generation of photographers.
420 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Hozumi Nakadaira - Jazz Giants 1961-2013
Isbn 9784903883038
Publisher Tokyo Kirara
Idea code
€ 151.15
Hozumi Nakadaira’s dual passions of photography and jazz came together at a young age, when he first watched Art Blakey perform in Tokyo in 1961. Later that year, at the height of Japan’s enthusiasm for jazz music, he would open his own jazz café. In 1966, he attended the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, where he saw John Coltrane and took photos of him – what he describes as the most memorable experience of his life. From there he went on to New York City, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, all the while with his camera in hand. Over a period of more than 50 years, Nakadaira has visited countless jazz clubs and festivals around the world. This book is his legacy.
200 p, ills bw, 27 x 37 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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