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Springs And Wells - Manhattan And The Bronx: Stanley Greenberg
Isbn 9789490119966
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21253
€ 37.50
Between 1897 and 1903, James Reuel Smith rode around Manhattan and the Bronx on his bicycle with a camera and tripod, documenting the springs and wells that were disappearing as the city grew and as water from the Croton Aqueduct reached more residents. He left money in his will for the New-York Historical Society to publish a book of his photos, which they did in 1938. Stanley Greenberg revisited every site in the book, on foot or by bicycle, between 2016 and 2020. ‘Springs and Wells’ combines Greenberg’s pictures with Smith’s original photography and complete original texts.
496 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Issei Suda - My Japan
Isbn 9789490119959
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21251
€ 20.00
For Issei Suda (1940–2019), photography was a means to document the ordinary and reveal the extraordinary. Traditional country festivals were a favourite subject, but he also saw theatre in Tokyo’s street life. Suda had a talent for square format compositions and is known for the technical perfection of his black-and-white prints as well as for his unique and surrealistic visual style. 'Issei Suda – My Japan' is an introduction to his life’s work, from the 1960s until the publication of his final book in 2018. It includes rarely seen photographs from his early stage photographer days for the avant-garde theatre troupe Tenjo Sajiki, and iconic series, such as Fushi Kaden and Waga Tokyo 100.
144 p, ills colour, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Bernadette Mergaerts - Flisvos
Isbn 9789492051684
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21261
€ 35.00
When visiting the Greek island of Corfu in the winter of 2015, Bernadette Mergaerts noticed that, in spite of the cold, many people were swimming at various places along the shoreline. All of the swimmers were adults, some of them elderly. She was impressed by how they seemed to find peace in the Ionian Sea. In the years following, Mergaerts learned more about the lives of these winter swimmers. About how they live day to day, and their shared concerns. With sensuous images, she shows the vitality and decline of nature as well as the bathers. In witnessing their daily swims, their immersion in the elements, she documents this ritual celebration of the winter season.
128 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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548 Days | No Skateboarding By Dela Charles
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Publisher Jb. Institute
Idea code 21250
€ 32.70
Berlin-based photographer Dela Charles Lampacher was bored of studying, so she went on a trip around Europe, Australia, and the US. Her travels turned into a photo project, which turned into a book about skateboarding, architecture, and urbanism. A photobook by a female skateboard photographer is still a rarity these days, and in this one, Lampacher combines her view on architecture and urban structures with her experience as a skateboarder, through a series of images collected during the journey over the course of around 548 days. It comes with a poster of one photo which lists the cities featured, from Amsterdam to Vancouver.
96 p, ills bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Kyungwoo Chun - The Weight
Isbn 9789072532503
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 21248
€ 40.00
Korean photographer Kyungwoo Chun’s blurred images are created through a process of continuous long exposure, a stylistic method to condense time that has become a characteristic trait in his work. His softly controlled treatment of his subjects, blurred portraits that depict people in an unconventional way, intensify the moment of encounter between the artist and his subject while also playing with traditional portraiture. Chun, who is based in Germany but photographs people from all over the world, addresses issues such as identity, physical interactions, and language barriers in his images, where figural forms can be transformed into abstracted colour and shapes.
76 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Stephan Keppel - Soft Copy Hard Copy Enter Enter Zine
Isbn 9789490119942
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21139
€ 8.00
This zine is an experimental layered translation of Stephan Keppel's presentation at project space Enter Enter in Amsterdam, made in collaboration with Hans Gremmen. In this zine Keppel explores the city as a collection of elements which repeat, vary, and multiply. Keppel creates a subjective databank of these elements, which he in turn repeats, varies, morphs and multiplies in such a way that a new perspective on the city is created.
22 p, ills bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Herma De Wit - Force Of Nature
Isbn 9789090342597
Publisher Herma De Wit
Idea code 21185
€ 50.00
Herma de Wit’s work, her bronze sculptures, objects, drawings, and etchings, reveal an almost obsessive relationship with nature. The images in this book derive from elements of nature that the Dutch artist has gathered for almost 20 years of travelling across the globe. The leaves, flowers, and seeds she finds and collects become a memory of the city or country. This collection of mainly isolated fragments of flora, thoughtfully bound by cahier-stitching, show the fragility and strength of an object through the medium of the monoprint, a technique she says helps her create poetic images from the most beautiful examples of her collection.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Matilde Soes Rasmussen - Unprofessional
Isbn 9788797052082
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 21209
€ 48.00
Through photography and text, Gothenburg-based artist Matilde Søes Rasmussen explores her time as a professional model. Having spent ten years in this role, she now turns her attention to questioning its power structures, beauty ideals, and objectification. ‘Unprofessional’ is a hybrid book that moves between documentary and fiction, performance and life, wherein she uses her own body to investigate how these structures impact self-image and identity. It is an attempt to find meaning in a career as a model, as an ever-changing character, and as something that is constantly being assessed, bought, sold, and admired. Rasmussen has decided to photograph back.
240 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Takeshi Miyamoto - Spectrum
Isbn 9784907562274
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 21109
€ 44.20
Takeshi Miyamoto visited Iceland annually from 2011 until 2019, during which he documented both masculinity and the Icelandic wilderness. He found its people seem to have a spectrum of fluid masculinity with a vague boundary of roughness and gentleness. His long-term journey of reinterpretation of this masculinity has convinced him that there are resemblances of vibrating energies between the natural environment and the human body. This photobook derives from Miyamoto’s long struggle with his own sexuality and soul-searching to find a balance between his body and his heart through his photographic communication with male subjects.
96 p, ills colour, 21 x 25 cm, hb, English
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The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver
Isbn 9789492051660
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21260
€ 16.00
This collection of photographs and notes on remote Siberian roads and towns seems to have been created by a truck driver named Ivan Putnik. In fact, the images were taken by various amateur photographers who then uploaded them to Google Street View. Fascinated by their visual diversity, the artistic trio Vaste Programme recontextualised the pictures to create a fictional story. Apart from offering a rare look at this remote area, the cropped stills represent universal environmental issues such as pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and the transformation of the landscape. Rather than amplifying the archetypal image of life in Siberia, the book provides both classic and unusual insights.
144 p, ills colour, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Lisbet Nielsen - Siggie
Isbn 9788797052075
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 21180
€ 30.00
‘Siggie’ is a story of transformation, beauty, and complexity. The fluid and quiet come together in a narrative about time, life, and dreams told through 48 Polaroid images. The pictures are captured over a span of seven years during the 1990s, when Lisbet Nielsen lived in three different apartments with her daughter Siggie. We see images of interiors – lamps, pillows, furniture – and different sceneries, like a splash of sunlight on a table or a snowy view with rooftops covered by a violet veil. These are intertwined and bound together by the intimate portraits of Siggie, from the age of twelve until she becomes pregnant at eighteen.
64 p, ills colour, 12 x 14 cm, hb, Danish/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 45
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 20573
€ 26.30
In this issue of ‘Record’, Daido Moriyama reveals that in the spring of 2020 he became slightly ill, and eventually spent some time recovering in a hospital. Following his release, he stayed at his home in Zushi and spent most days walking around its streets, taking occasional snapshots. After years of not staying in Zushi, he writes how wandering through both the city and the seaside Shonan area prompted him to reminisce about the time he spent with photographer Takuma Nakahira, already more than 50 years ago. This issue mainly consists of the pictures that were taken between April and June, the period when Moriyama was hospitalised.
112 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Kaveh Kazemi - Persian Gulf | Scene Of Never-Ending Conflicts
Isbn 9786001523366
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 21118
€ 24.20
Kaveh Kazemi arrived in Baghdad on 14 February, 1991, less than a month after combat to force Iraq out of Kuwait began. Being an Iranian photographer and a freelance photojournalist for international media, he was granted rare access, joining a limited number of foreign reporters on the ground to cover yet another deadly crisis in the Persian Gulf. Kazemi’s eyewitness account of Operation Desert Storm offers a glimpse into how bombardments by the US-led coalition forces killed civilians and caused widespread destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure while Saddam Hussein’s policies brought the country to its knees, forcing people, including many Kurds, to flee their homeland.
128 p, ills colour, 23 x 16 cm, pb, Persian/English
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The Valley Between Peaks And Stars - Marina Caneve & Gianpaolo Arena
Isbn 9788822906373
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21060
€ 30.10
This volume presents Osservatorio Cortina 2021, an artistic research project in which the territory and the events planned for the 2021 Alpine Ski World Championship in Cortina, Italy, were examined through photography. Two artists, Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve, spent three years documenting the key moments in the construction of the sports event, while at the same time observing the territory and its history with an open, inquisitive, and exploratory attitude. An investigation into alpine modernism, it focuses on our conception of mountains and how their appreciation and use has changed over time. Included are various essays and a conversation with the artists.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Toshiteru Yamaji - A Life With Pigs
Isbn 9784861528255
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21096
€ 16.60
Toshiteru Yamaji started taking photographs in the 1960s while working for the Marugame municipal government in Japan’s Shikoku region, mainly at farms. The work connected him with Hiroshi Kamimura, a pig farmer. After retiring in 1997, Yamaji continued to take pictures of Kamimura for about ten years. His images give an intimate and heartfelt glimpse of a man whose dedication and kindness to the animals in his care became a lifelong passion. According to him, raising pigs with love every day not only gives them a good life but also provides the best quality pork. A text by Hitsuko, his daughter, fondly remembers her father, who passed away after a struggle with cancer.
32 p, ills bw, 20 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Myr Muratet - Paris Nord
Isbn 9782956781578
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 21117
€ 26.90
Myr Muratet’s first monograph offers a sensitive look at the fragile, precarious, and inventive forms developed by populations living on the margins. Through his images, we discover the interstices of the city as so many places in which the personal and private are nestled, where the wild and the forgotten coexist with the domestic and the everyday. This intimacy is opposed by massive and anonymous forms, which fill in the loopholes to prevent occupation, pushing further the communities that depend on it. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Zone de confort” at Le Signe (National Center for Graphic Design) in Chaumont.
240 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, pb, French/English Introduction
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Spiriti. Eight Photographers Recount Giancarlo De Carlo In Urbino
Isbn 9788875708924
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21229
€ 44.20
Coinciding with the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, eight internationally-renowned photographers describe Giancarlo De Carlo's work in Urbino. They are also professors at Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche. Paola Binante, Luca Capuano, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Jason Fulford, Stefano Graziani, Armin Linke, and Giovanna Silva explore and recount the essence of the Italian architect's work through their own photographs of the spaces he designed, adding written accounts of their interpretation. De Carlo is quoted as saying a place is a space "experienced, consumed, perennially transformed by human presence".
256 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Mashid Mohadjerin - Freedom Is Not Free Deluxe Edition Signed And With A Print
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Publisher Royal Academy Fine Arts Antw.
Idea code 21208
€ 150.00
What does freedom mean? Through the lens of her camera and through a kaleidoscope of history of women in resistance, Mohadjerin put together a multidimensional work which takes the viewer on a dreamlike journey bound by neither space nor time. The art-book accompanies an exhibition focusing on the private and public world of Iranian women who grew up after the Revolution of 1979 and on places of significance from the artist’s childhood. Her works are part of an Artistic Doctoral Research at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Antwerp, which started as a research on female freedom fighters and culminated in a very personal journey to her native Iran.
184 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Julie Chovin - The Place To Be: Nightclubs In Berlin 2013-2020
Isbn 9783907112298
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21174
€ 32.70
Julie Chovin photographed around 220 nightclubs scattered throughout Berlin – from 1a Lauschgift to Berghain, from Puro Sky Lounge to Zur Klappe. Looking head-on at the facades and locked club doors, Chovin captures her subjects in daylight. Her focus is on the exterior facades and inconspicuous entrances that line the streets. Through this focus, the clubs become part of an everyday urban environment rather than staged as places of raucous ecstasy. Some no longer exist-or will soon fall victim to gentrification.
220 p, ills colour, 12 x 30 cm, pb, German/French/English
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City Of Darkness Revisited
Isbn 9781873200889
Publisher Watermark
Idea code 14475
€ 67.00
After several failed attempts, Kowloon Walled City was finally demolished 20 years ago, leaving behind a legacy of fascination that continues to grow, fuelled in part by the extraordinary community’s many urban legends. Designed and edited by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot, the team behind ‘City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City’, this new publication questions those myths and explores the reality behind the Walled City’s extraordinary architecture and development. Through photographs, drawings and documents, many previously unpublished, plus an extended article by Hong Kong-based writer and journalist Fionnuala McHugh, the full story is revealed.
356 p, ills colour & bw, 28 x 28 cm, hb, English
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