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Naomi Harris - Haddon Hall
Isbn 9786185479114
Publisher Void
Idea code 21443
€ 42.00
This is a touching story that has a Florida hotel as its centre stage. Miami Beach was the winter destination for many seniors throughout the 70s and 80s, when upwards of 20,000 “snowbirds” would migrate to the 2.5 mile stretch of beachfront. A depressed economy and cheap rents in the crumbling Art Deco hotels made it an ideal choice for the mostly Jewish retirees on a fixed income. Harris moved into Haddon Hall to embed herself with the hotel’s residents, becoming their surrogate granddaughter. She shows us an insider’s perspective of the changes that affected the lives of her “bubbehs and zaidehs”.
176 p, ills colour, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Ruben Lundgren - Real Dreams
Isbn 9789090343259
Publisher 200cm
Idea code 21442
€ 47.00
For 'Real Dreams’ Beijing based photographer Ruben Lundgren immersed himself in the Chinese news cycle for six years. The photobook starts with a century old quote in which writer J.R. Chitty explains that China, within the Western mind, is choked with the most ‘ludicrous incongruities’ that need to be assimilated before one can come close to understanding the country. The photographs provide an exceptional wide-range of visual incongruities taken all over the most populous and fastest changing nation on earth. From a robotic bartender, full-automatic pet dryer, to alien whiskey salesman, the book gives a wholly original and humorous insight into present-day China.
160 p, ills colour, 22 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Daan Wubben - Peacekeepers
Isbn 9789090337616
Publisher Studio Daan Wubben
Idea code 21381
€ 35.00
The world of toy guns is an imaginative realm of brightly coloured water pistols and oddly shaped laser weapons. Yet it is also a world of eerily realistic guns that can easily be mistaken for the real thing. ‘Peacekeepers’ is a selection of 100 EU-approved toy guns and forms part of Daan Wubben’s research into toy gun design and regulations in the European Union. Contrary to the many strict technical and biological aspects of toy safety, the laws lack references to either ethics or security. It does not matter what a toy looks like, meaning you must decide which gun-like objects are acceptable as toys. The series progresses from the most outlandish designs to those that appear real. Published by Studio Daan Wubben, in collaboration with graphic designer Pim Waalen.
180 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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The Motif Magazine 002: The Happy Motif
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Publisher The Motif Magazine
Idea code 21328
€ 27.50
The second edition of the hardcover magazine produced by Stockholm-based The Motif Studio is a canvas entirely dedicated to all the things that make people smile. The brainchild of creative director Jakob de Tobon, founder of the magazine ‘Scandinavian S/S/A/W’, its colourful and diverse contents showcase an extensive selection of photographers and contributors. Paintings by Mark Tennant are interspersed throughout, along with quotations, poems, snippets of text, and more. Find your inner joy with street ballet in Nigeria, a solo surfing adventure in the wilds of Canada, celebratory costumes, young love, the bond between mother and child, and a lot of yellow smiley faces.
176 p, ills colour, 25 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Left Hand Right Hand
Isbn 9784907562311
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 21450
€ 28.70
Dutch conceptual artist Fleur van Dodewaard provided the concept and instructions for a project which became actualised in the small mountain village of Kamiyama, located on the island of Shikoku in southern Japan. Fifteen inhabitants of the village were given a disposable camera and asked to take pictures of objects, colours, movement, their loved ones, and their surroundings. ‘Left Hand Right Hand’ is the published outcome, a work referencing and created in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Van Dodewaard’s goal is to celebrate freedom in times of restrictions, creating bonds overseas while travelling in spirit to a place of dreams.
128 p, ills colour, 16 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 46
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 21357
€ 27.65
For Daido Moriyama, it all started 60 years ago, when he arrived in Tokyo with his old Canon camera and snapped his first picture on the square in front of Shinjuku Station’s east exit. Since that day, he has been taking an endless stream of photographs of the district known as Shinjuku. For him, it became an irreplaceable “hometown” for his photography, an inescapable metropolis with its very real and actual presence, wild and erotic charm, and labyrinthine puzzle of storefronts and streets, skyscrapers and scenesters. All the pictures in this volume of ‘Record’ were shot recently in the Kabukicho/Shinjuku area.
104 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Spectre 3: Contemporary Ruins
Isbn 9782491039066
Publisher Cosa Mentale
Idea code 21416
€ 40.85
The third issue of ‘Spectre’ invites various artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins. Ruins are necessary because they question our historical records, making us fleetingly aware of a distance between a past meaning, which has been abolished, and a present perception, which is incomplete. They introduce a temporal doubling, where the present is no longer the epicentre of our perceptions. It is uncertain whether future history will be capable of generating new ruins, but the contemporary capacity to leave significant ruins is undoubtedly certain. Our era has and will continue to produce abandoned, unfinished, deteriorated, and rapidly obsolete spaces.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Of Sand And Stones - Architecture By Tvk & Tolila + Gilliland
Isbn 9791097416225
Publisher Rue Du Bouquet
Idea code 21314
€ 38.95
‘Of Sand and Stones’ is a journey into the construction of a building in Paris by two firms also based in the city, TVK and Tolila+Gilliland. It offers an alternate vision of architecture and time, spanning landscape and earth, geometry, and craft and construction in a format that recounts the material and cultural stories entangled in the project, through drawing, photography, and literature. Deepening the story the book proposes, it contains excepts from more than fifteen authors distributed across a broad range of interests and backgrounds, such as Reyner Banham, Marie Richeux, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Italo Calvino, Robert Smithson, and Marguerite Duras.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, French/English
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Lidia Bagnara - Jerusalem
Isbn 9788885449756
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 21439
€ 25.80
Lidia Bagnara’s early morning photographs of Jerusalem are poignantly beautiful. Absent are the hordes of pilgrims, the tourists snapping pictures and buying trinkets, the controlled chaos and fervour of this holiest of cities. It is recognisable, familiar, but different. Freed of their ostentations, the empty pale stone avenues and arcades offer only glimpses of Jerusalem’s inhabitants, captured in a delicate and sober light. Bagnara is a traveller who immerses herself in destinations, and has visited this particular city many times. But in her series of Jerusalem photographs, she deftly sidesteps its overwhelming energies and hidden power to reveal the city in all its clarity and pureness
70 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Pierre Descamps - Monuments
Isbn 9783000694776
Publisher Jb. Institute
Idea code 21399
€ 44.00
Because he started skateboarding in the late 1980s, Pierre Descamps cannot help seeing the city and its forms as an infinite playground. He started taking photographs of architectural spaces that skaters could use in 2006, and soon realised that his pictures recall specific codes of skateboarding photography: their focus, lighting, and perspective are arranged to magnify the space where the action is taking place. Although the figure itself (people, cars, etc.) does not make an appearance in his images, the shadow of its presence lingers. ‘Monuments’ reflects a well-defined, geometric focus; a portrait that emphasises the formalism of urban constructions and objects the city.
144 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Forming Cityscapes #7 Seating
Isbn 9789811470462
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 21395
€ 8.00
In the Forming Cityscapes project, graphic designers Jamie Yeo and Gideon Kong obsessively observe and photograph minor urban occurrences in Singapore which possibly challenge popular ideas about the city being “clean and green” or inauthentic. The images reveal creative forms of appropriation (or resistance) that indirectly critique top-down design implementations or suggest other micro-possibilities of use. Seating is the theme of this chapter of the project, which portrays plastic chairs, park benches, railings, footstools, bicycles, and more. A compendium of quotidian objects throughout city which, whether temporarily or permanently, function to fulfil a very specific need.
60 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Forming Cityscapes #8 Plants
Isbn 9789811420733
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 21396
€ 8.00
In the Forming Cityscapes project, graphic designers Jamie Yeo and Gideon Kong obsessively observe and photograph minor urban occurrences in Singapore which possibly challenge popular ideas about the city being “clean and green” or inauthentic. The images reveal creative forms of appropriation (or resistance) that indirectly critique top-down design implementations or suggest other micro-possibilities of use. In this instalment, plants are the focus. Whether growing wild or carefully tended, vegetation in the city is often taken for granted. Here we see them serve dual functions as drying racks, shoe hangers, trash receptacles, and seasonal holiday decorations.
60 p, ills bw, 13 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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Tomoko Sawada - To Be Bewitched By A Fox
Isbn 9784861528361
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21307
€ 23.95
Despite its small dimensions, this book contains the artistic journey of Tomoko Sawada, including many pivotal series and themes which she has addressed over the years. It is published in conjunction with Sawada’s first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum, the Tokyo Photographic Museum. The feminist artist has consistently used her own figure and face as a means of expression in various methods of self-portraiture and extensive series of characters. In addition to unveiling new works, the book focuses on her art production and how it has evolved through questioning the differences between “interior” and “exterior,” illustrated by her influential debut piece and representative works.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Uruma Takezawa - Boundary
Isbn 9784861528316
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21303
€ 55.25
Breath-taking natural landscapes in Iceland. Human activities in Africa, South America, Tibet, Jerusalem, and elsewhere. Often taking the symbolic freedom of a bird’s-eye view, photographer Uruma Takezawa goes back and forth between the “boundaries” between these two worlds, the majestic, sublime chaos of nature and our grasping attempts to instil order upon our existence. Here the world of black and white, waves and snow, striations and cracks, religion and borders all collide. In gorgeous pictures where serenity and entropy trade places and boundaries dissolve, Takezawa questions the significance of the boundary, showing how humans are also part of the earth.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Luke Le - What Are You Looking For?
Isbn 9781922545015
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21406
€ 35.55
In his first major artist book, Sydney-based artist Luke Le reroutes notions of diarism and the impromptu to broach new aesthetic and philosophical terrains. As a kind of open letter to a former life in Melbourne, the book forms both an intensely personal gesture and a wider provocation toward the subjectivities and assumptions that underpin photography itself. These raw, intuitive images created from scans of degraded Risograph prints are at once rooted in – and free of – place. Their dynamic gaze veers toward specificity, but never quite lands. Amidst the noise of their gritty, fine grain, Le’s images leave as many questions as answers.
170 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Cyanotote - Solar Print Cyanotype Tote Bag
Isbn 9783906213330
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 21278
€ 24.50
Cyanotype is an early photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Now you can design and produce your own blueprint on the Cyanotote bag. All you need are some objects of your choosing, sunlight, and water to imprint shapes onto the bag’s cotton fabric, which is coated with a light-sensitive solution. Depending on the intensity of the sun and your chosen exposure time, the green colour of the fabric will turn silvery. The design will appear as a photogram, a negative shadow image resembling an x-ray. Imprints will vary in tone, depending on the transparency of the objects used. Your creation is both permanent and water-resistant.
no ills, 16 x 20 cm, sheet, English
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