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Aglaia Konrad - Japan Works
Isbn 9789492811912
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21327
€ 43.80
Aglaia Konrad’s photographic work probes the social, cultural, economic, political, and historical parameters that inform architecture and urbanism. 'Japan Works' is the result of her journey through Japan in the autumn of 2019. Using a pre-compiled list of places with exceptional architecture, Konrad took thousands of photos in Tokyo, Itoigawa, Kyoto, Nagoya and Osaka. In addition to mostly iconic, post-war Metabolist architecture, Konrad also took a large number of photos of nonspecific architectural moments and infrastructure that, with the same intensity, give their own impression of the architectural landscape in Japan. Free associations of full-page photographs alternate with contact sheets documenting her itinerary. These are informed by postscript glosses written by architect and critic Julian Worrall.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Richard Mosse. Displaced | Migration Conflict Climate Change
Isbn 9788894369823
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 21290
€ 62.35
The Fondazione MAST in Bologna presents the catalogue of the first-ever anthological exhibition of Irish artist Richard Mosse, during the summer of 2021. Mosse explores the possibilities of documentary photography today, between the recording of reality and art. Over 100 large-format photographs capture the great visual impact of his early work in Iraq, on the US-Mexico border, in the Balkans, the Infra project taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the imposing Heat Maps of refugee camps on the route to Europe, and finally, to his most recent works shot in the Amazon rainforest.
202 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Robby Muller - Polaroids - Flora
Isbn 9789492811929
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21277
€ 29.15
Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller (1940–2018) was one of the greatest pioneers in modern film history. A new book celebrates the Polaroids taken by this daring “master of light”, who worked as a cinematographer alongside Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Steve McQueen. This delicate, printed collection shows Müller’s sensitivity to light, acute aesthetic eye, and his attraction to natural motifs. Each snapshot of flowers, insects, and trees sparkles like a jewel, exposing such minute details as a translucent petal or a miraculous close-up of a stamp. With a contribution by French cinematographer Agnès Godard, it is designed by Linda van Deursen and edited by Andrea Müller-Schirmer.
56 p, ills colour, 23 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Mathias de Lattre - Mother's Therapy
Isbn 9789492051646
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21333
€ 35.00
Around ten years ago, Mathias de Lattre’s interest in psychedelics led him to begin researching psilocybin, the naturally occurring hallucinogenic substance produced by around 180 species of fungus. He had the intuition that such mushrooms might constitute an alternative to the psychiatric treatment his mother, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, was receiving. His search took him from the prehistoric painted caves in France and traditional medicinal practices in the Peruvian jungle, to scientists researching psilocybin in London and Zurich. Through texts and images, ‘Mother’s Therapy’ brings together science and humanity, providing context for his mother’s “cure”.
136 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Ari Marcopoulos - Heterotemporality
Isbn 9789492811936
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 21374
€ 21.40
Inspired by ‘Tokyo Papers’ by Karel Martens, Ari Marcopoulos arranged his pictures while thinking about what would distinguish inside and outside, public and private. It is an idea that had already become a prevalent thought during the Covid-19 pandemic. The images in colour, hidden on the inside folds of the pages of this publication, are mostly portraits of objects and people, while the black-and-white photographs on the visible pages are recent work, primarily exterior shots taken in January and February of 2021. Envisioning his own photos in book form is “a good way to see how images look together”, according to Marcopoulos. “I even think of the book as a form of a short film”.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Archivio 06: The Eighties Issue
Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio
Idea code 21316
€ 15.00
This issue continues Archivio's journey back through the twentieth century, stopping this time on the fluorescently outgoing, yet such intimate years of the 1980s — so close and yet so far. Because "a day is a year is a lifetime", as the R.W. Fassbinder's biography italian title says. The archives of the 1980s: 23 archives involved, 106 archival documents found, 6 original interviews, 1 horoscope from Gilardi's Phototeca in a poster size.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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See All This 22: A Journey In Paper
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 21279
€ 19.95
In this double-sized summer edition, Edition 22 is curated by the ‘Indiana Jones of Photography’, Iwan Baan. Inside, the Dutch quarterly art magazine travels across the globe, setting out on a soul-stirring journey to the most hopeful places on Earth. See locations where the balance between man and nature is at its most harmonious, or where this equilibrium has been carefully restored. Get swept away by Ethiopia’s magnificent underground churches and otherworldly forests transplanted in Japan, before making a pit-stop at the world’s biggest festival in India. After all, hopeful places built by hopeful people makes for hopeful reading.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Installation View: Photography Exhibitions In Australia (1848-2020)
Isbn 9781922545008
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21380
€ 44.25
At once specific and widely contextual in its scope, this long-term research project from two of Australia’s leading academics and educators in the field enriches our understanding of the diversity of Australian photography by looking at what lies beyond the frame. From colonial records to contemporary art, the book presents a chronology of rarely seen installation views from both well-known and forgotten exhibitions, along with essays that tell the story of the individuals and institutions that have proved intrinsic to the public circulation of photographs. It represents a significant new account of photography in Australia, told through its most important modes of collection and display.
440 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Muddy Dance - Erik Kessels
Isbn 9782492175077
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 21315
€ 36.50
‘Muddy Dance’ celebrates the movement in a game of football (aka soccer). The players perform a seemingly choreographed dance on a muddy pitch, leaping, twirling, and tumbling in their pursuit to control the ball. The athletes’ normally acrobatic endeavour is only further complicated by rainy weather and a waterlogged field of grass. Erik Kessels has made a football photobook for art lovers which is simultaneously an art book for every football fan. With vintage action shots of famously muddy matches dug from football and sports archives, Kessels demonstrates yet another act of reappropriating vernacular photography.
80 p, ills bw, 22 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Francesco Merlini - The Flood
Isbn 9786185479084
Publisher Void
Idea code 21364
€ 35.75
Francesco Merlini’s project is a reminiscence of the flooding disaster that hit Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2015. People died, families became homeless, and the zoo was destroyed. More than 300 animals were lost, while survivors transformed the city into a wilderness full of dangerous beasts. An influential head of the church blamed the flood on the “sins” of the former communist regime. More realistically, its cause can be found in the river’s diminished capacity due to deforestation, poorly maintained Soviet-era infrastructure, and extensive and often illegal development. Merlini blends together a documentary account of the tragedy’s aftermath and a visual reflection on today’s Georgian panorama.
80 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Cammie Toloui - 5 Dollars For 3 Minutes
Isbn 9786185479169
Publisher Void
Idea code 21365
€ 38.80
In the early 1990s, Cammie Toloui worked as a stripper in San Francisco to fund her photojournalism degree. Customers who paid to view her naked body and watch her perform sex acts on herself were offered a discount if they consented to being photographed. These images, published here for the first time, are free of any prejudice. Instead, they are imbued with a deep sense of curiosity and understanding, revealing a broad spectrum of sexuality, fetishes, and often private aspects of masculinity. Today, the series retains a deeply powerful urgency because of how she took control of and inverted the male gaze at a time when it was an overarching, dominant force in daily life.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Daniel Szalai - Novogen
Isbn 9789492051714
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21369
€ 30.00
The Novogen is a breed of chicken that was developed in order to use its eggs in the production of pharmaceutical products such as medicines and vaccines. Through an investigation of the industrialised farming of the Novogen White Light variant, Dániel Szalai raises questions and dilemmas regarding technology and our relation with nature. The book centres around an extensive series of portraits of individual chickens along with images which document the production of vaccines. Szalai believes that the way these birds are “conceptualised” serves as a metaphor for human positions in the job market or political domain. With a reflective text by philosopher Fahim Amir.
96 p, ills colour, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Sander van Wettum - Hibernation
Isbn 9789492051677
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21285
€ 32.00
Within just half a century, the sun-drenched coastlines of Southern Europe have been transformed into a global tourist destination. The agglomeration of overdeveloped beach towns resulting from this unceasing mass tourism no longer shows any discernible relationship with the surroundings, country, or history. Sander van Wettum’s ‘Hibernation’ is an exploration of the off-season state of these places, a journey through surreal architecture, spaces, and atmospheres, photographed at times when their intended functional context has dissolved and new realities appear. We are invited to envision our own narratives, while also seeing the detrimental consequences of mass tourism.
96 p, ills colour, 17 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Harry Woodrow #selfies
Isbn 9789198672008
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 21323
€ 29.70
Harry Woodrow likes to take selfies. But he does it while wearing a specially constructed reflective box on his head. The artist therefore becomes a mirror, leaving us with an image in which the mirrored box can often be seen clearly, along with the iPhone taking the picture and the scene of whatever is in front of him. This book contains 76 examples of these recursive images, part of an ongoing project that Woodrow started in 2015 by posting them on a dedicated Instagram account. In addition, ‘#selfies’ includes a conversation between Woodrow and curator Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl on the role of the selfie in today’s society, plus an essay by artist and writer David Price.
144 p, ills colour, 15 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Ellen Thorbecke - From Peking To Paris
Isbn 9789462264175
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 21308
€ 45.00
Journalist and photographer Ellen Thorbecke (1902–1973) spent most of the 1930s in China, working as a correspondent for newspapers in Berlin. She made series of portraits and photographed street scenes in Peking (now Beijing), Shanghai, and Hong Kong, as well as in rural areas. This material formed the basis of five books that reflect an unbiased and unbridled curiosity about people at all levels of Chinese society. Her energy and wealth of artistic talent led to an unconventional life of global travel and prolific camera work, both during and after the turbulent interwar period. Many of her pictures from Palestine, Paris, and the Netherlands also appear, some for the first time.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Tinted Lines - Fumi Ishino
Isbn 9784907562281
Publisher Torch Press / Fumi Ishino
Idea code 21194
€ 52.30
Following his 2017 publication, ‘Rowing a Tetrapod’, and his limited-edition artist book, ‘Index of Fillers’ (2021), ‘Tinted Lines’ extends Fumi Ishino's interest in cultural intersection, displacement, hybridity, and the gaze, through a walking tour of Los Angeles. This new photobook of thick, ebony pages features fragmented scenes captured in the city. The images gesture towards categorized social structures and issues of class, race, immigration, urban development, housing, and public facilities. Ishino examines how our perspectives and interpretations change when distinctions of ideology and symbolism are blurred and relationships of “inside” and “outside” are made ambiguous.
128 p, ills bw, 23 x 27 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Andreas Herzau - Liberia
Isbn 9783038500797
Publisher Nimbus
Idea code 21283
€ 34.40
Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's famous essay "How to write about Africa", the photographer Andreas Herzau travelled to Liberia in 2019 and tried to see the country without European prejudices. The result is a photo-book that shows Liberia not as a land of wars and crises, but as an exciting, versatile country on the move.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, hb, German/English
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Motorcycle Family Circus 3: Alberto Garcia-Alix
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Publisher Cabeza De Chorlito
Idea code 21287
€ 36.15
The third issue of the super-large-format magazine by motorcycle devotee Alberto García-Alix once again delivers high-octane thrills and great visual imagery. It features selections from an image collection built up throughout his career, from 1975 to the present. The black-and-white photographs feature portraits of a motley cast of characters, interposed by extreme closeups of polished chrome, chipped paint, and spoked wheels. The pictures are a window into a personal universe of fast camaraderie and racing, where vintage bikes, the open road, and a love of motorcycles takes centre stage in what is ultimately an expression of life, passion, and the passage of time.
80 p, ills bw, 34 x 48 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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The Mullet Atlas - The Hague The Netherlands
Isbn 9789462264120
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 21280
€ 45.00
Some call it a mullet. The Flemish call it a neck carpet. The Dutch refer to it as “de mat”. And the iconic hairstyle continues to be a trend in The Hague, where photographers Daniel Heikens and Rein Langeveld have been collaborating with designer Joost Nijhuis on a project about “De Haagse mat”. It started as a hobby but quickly got out of hand, and the resulting photo book captures a large number of mullets and the cultural phenomena behind it. Designed like a true atlas, it includes geographical maps, pictograms, and statistics based on interviews with the gentlemen. The so-called “Matlas” is born!
160 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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