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What They Saw: Historical Photobooks By Women, 1843-1999
Isbn 9780578932132
Publisher 10 X 10 Photobooks
Idea code 21530
€ 87.75
By presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, this anthology interprets the concept of the photobook in the broadest sense possible. From classic bound books and portfolios, to unpublished works, zines, and scrapbooks, it documents well-known publications, such as Germaine Krull’s ‘Métal’ (1928) and ‘Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph’ (1972), and relatively unknown items, like Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson’s ‘African Journey’ (1945) and Eiko Yamazawa’s ‘Far and Near’ (1962). Moreover, it addresses glaring gaps and omissions, especially the lack of access, support, and funding for photobooks by non-Western women and women of colour.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Raimond Wouda - Polder VIII, Tuindorp Oostzaan, Amsterdam 1920 - 2020
Isbn 9789083165813
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 21544
€ 35.00
Tuindorp Oostzaan was the first real garden village in Amsterdam, intended to offer working-class families light, air and space, and a decent accommodation. Each family has its own front door and a garden at the front and back. Located near the shipyards, but far from the city centre. The village grew and the world changed. The Vegabuurt was added and in the 1950s came Tutti-Fruttidorp and Tuindorp Oostzaan-West. New residents moved to Noord, where thousands of people worked in the yards. Now that heavy industry has disappeared, North is trending and the houses are popular with young city dwellers.
256 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Emile Gostelie - Laws of the Haystack | Wetten van de Hooiberg
Isbn 9789464028911
Publisher Emile Gostelie
Idea code 21522
€ 60.00
During a holiday in France, photographer Emile Gostelie snapped a picture of a haystack. Just an ordinary haystack in a field, except that it kept reminding him of images he remembers but has never seen. He returned a few days later to find the haystack gone. But it stayed with him, along with the urge to discover what this image contains but does not reveal. Inspired by Ludwig Boltzmann’s theories on entropy, Gostelie began cutting the original image into pieces and assembling these into alternative structures and parallel configurations. The myriad realities he uncovered are gathered in this volume, a testament to the boundless possibilities of which we often remain unaware.
600 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 33 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Purple 36: The Mexico Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 21503
€ 42.00
Mexico has always been a place to escape, to disappear, to die, but also to live again. In a period of global control and social conformity, Mexico is a powerful source of creativity, surprise, psycho-magic, cosmic sensations, and time travel. Moreover, Mexico has always opened its doors to the world. Countless artists, writers, political figures, and refugees have spent time there, escaped there. For this oversized issue, ‘Purple’ set up an office in the heart of Mexico City, to connect with the art scene, to meet Mexican artists, designers, photographers, and models, and to explore this baroque world from within, to see how this radiant country is widening its influence.
530 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Arturo Soto - A Certain Logic of Expectations
Isbn 9789492051721
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21486
€ 28.00
This book proposes a counter-narrative of the city of Oxford, England, that resists the visual imperatives of its venerable university. Over five years, Mexican photographer Arturo Soto explored the long-standing division between the town and its academic history through a careful selection of spaces and objects. His visual narrative is loosely structured around a few themes: notions of home and homelessness, the looming presence of Brexit, the conflicted local economy, and the diversity of the city’s neighbourhoods. In short texts, Soto describes his experience of the city along with its history and myths, challenging established narratives of tradition, influence, and power.
144 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Masterworks Of Modern Photography From Moma - The Thomas Walther Collection
Isbn 9782915704938
Publisher Jeu De Paume
Idea code 21534
€ 10.20
This portfolio of the exhibition at Jeu de Paume collects a panorama of the visual inventions of the photographic avant-gardes, in the heart of MoMA's modern photography collection. In 2001 and 2017, The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired more than 350 photographs from the collector Thomas Walther. This collection, which is now one of the pillars of MoMA's modern collection, is presented for the first time in France in an exhibition with 230 images, documented in this publication. Comprising iconic works from the first half of the twentieth century, the exhibition provides a history of the European and American photographic avant-gardes.
56 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Tom Huber - Nguecokh
Isbn 9783952471081
Publisher Cpress
Idea code 21525
€ 39.80
Photographer Tom Huber and bookmaker Christof Nüssli travel to the small Senegalese village of Nguecokh in the Saloum river delta about 200 kilometres South of Dakar. They return with fascinating portraits full of mystical and poetic beauty, a rare vision of rural West-African life from a secluded sub saharan settlement – and many questions. For months, they exchange Whatsapp voice messages with their host Mamadou, the village teacher. They discuss climate change, polygamy, and religion. He describes the challenges in the education and health systems and recounts old folktales of trees and woods, and charts Nguecokh's path to the future.
176 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, hb, German/French/English
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Andri Pol - 24 Knechte, 5 Bauern Und 1 Hirt
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Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 21510
€ 48.40
Swiss photographer Andri Pol is widely known for his work as a freelance photographer for various newspapers and journals. Yet he also engages in personal and documentary projects centred on human subjects, like this series portraying the life of farmers trying to make a living in the Emmental region of Switzerland. Their deeply lined faces and advanced years tell a story of a slowly disappearing group that lives a rugged life of tradition and hard labour. Set against a backdrop of alpine peaks and villages, the individuals Pol has sought out in this sheltered corner of the world seem out of place in contemporary global life, recalling a simpler, purely agrarian time instead.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, German
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Shinoyama - A New Fine Day
Isbn 9784838106134
Publisher Mitsumura Suiko Shoin
Idea code 21425
€ 29.85
When his graduation project was featured in ‘Camera Mainichi’ magazine in 1963, Shinoyama Kishin soon became one of the leading photographers of his generation. His early works featuring nudes were widely regarded as a new form of expression, while later he would generate “pop idols”. Published with a broad retrospective exhibition at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, this collection shows how throughout his career Shinoyama effortlessly kept pace with the rapidly changing times, from the transformation of Tokyo during the bubble economy and the destruction of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, to iconic portraits, magazine covers, and visual storytelling.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Patrick Bienert - East End Of Europe
Isbn 9780995761162
Publisher Kahl Editions
Idea code 21496
€ 43.00
In ‘East End of Europe’, German photographer Patrick Bienert travels to Georgia and its capital city of Tbilisi, in search of its identity. Situated at the point where Europe meets Asia, this captivating region holds a rich and unique history, yet still seems somewhat lost in the present. Here, on the fringes of Europe, the Soviet era still casts a long shadow. The formidable faces Bienert encounters are full of pride and archaic beauty, yet every demeanour and gaze seems haunted by a fleeting sense futility. Crumbling Soviet concrete monuments and housing blocks are contrasted with portraits of young women and youths, rugged landscapes and elderly visages.
164 p, ills colour, 22 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Tova Mozard Cops, Psychics And Comedy
Isbn 9789198606539
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 21462
€ 49.50
Tova Mozard has always been interested in how people act and the games that they play in group settings. When visiting Los Angeles for the first time, finding these kinds of improvisations right there in front of her, she realised that she’d found her subject matter. Cops, psychics, and comedians might seem to be well known and understood as archetypes, but Tova Mozard wants to go deeper: to find uncharted territories within these categories of work and being. The distance from her own culture gave her a different perspective, allowing her to get inside the seemingly familiar and discover its workings.
84 p, ills colour, 23 x 28 cm, hb, 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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Letizia Le Fur - Mythologies
Isbn 9791097416201
Publisher Rue Du Bouquet
Idea code 21313
€ 44.35
Photographer Letizia Le Fur has initiated what she calls the ‘Mythologies’ cycle. The series stems from two of Le Fur’s fascinations from a young age: classical mythology and the search for beauty. This initial work comprises its first two chapters, “Origin” and “Golden Age”. The former explores the world’s creation, while the latter addresses the harmony between the gods, nature, and humans. Ovid and Hesiod, in particular, have guided her sensitive and aesthetic approach as she revisits mythology through mysterious landscapes, hostile nature, alchemical elements, and dreamlike flora. Eventually, a human figure emerges to roam through the world, a wandering soul akin to Ulysses.
88 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, hb, French/English
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Historical Streetscapes In Japan - Morita Toshitaka
Isbn 9784838106097
Publisher Mitsumura Suiko Shoin
Idea code 21338
€ 28.75
For this spectacular photo series, Toshitaka Morita travelled throughout the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa to capture picturesque scenes seemingly untouched by time. These streetscapes, each with a explanation about its history, together express the ancient heritage of Japan: traditional wooden houses and buildings, agricultural fields, tidy stone streets, vibrant autumn foliage, mossy walls and streams, and snow-covered villages. Born in 1946, Morita started out working for the photography section of a map publisher before becoming a freelance photographer in 1975. He has been taking pictures of national parks in Japan for about 50 years.
142 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Kotori Kawashima - Ohayo, Moshimoshi, Aishiteru
Isbn 9784866950112
Publisher Tsutaya Books
Idea code 21426
€ 43.10
Japanese photographer Kotori Kawashima’s trademark candid photography fills this volume, cover to cover, with literally hundreds of images. From bustling street scenes and flowers unobtrusively blooming in the city, to starred and blurry night skies, bird’s-eye urban vistas, and high-rises huddled watchfully together, this collection of meditative, hopeful glimpses of the everyday is an expression and celebration of life at its most contentedly mundane. Carefree yet inquisitive, Kawashima peers through his camera at the world around him with fresh eyes and an intuitive gaze, and never misses the chance to photograph a cat.
300 p, ills colour, 15 x 22 cm, pb, no text
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Masataka Nakano - Tokyo
Isbn 9784866950020
Publisher Tsutaya Books
Idea code 21430
€ 91.75
For three decades, Masataka Nakano has patiently captured with his camera a Tokyo that seems unimaginable: a bustling metropolis completely devoid of people. ‘Tokyo’ looks back at his past work, a time capsule that traces a changing city only by documenting its streets and architecture – vibrant urban scenes that at the same moment feel odd and otherworldly in their emptiness. Broad avenues without a single vehicle in sight, construction sites lying dormant, waterfront promenades without joggers and cyclists, eerily serene corporate towers, and arcade game bars gone silent and dark are just some of the scenes to discover among this collection of riveting photographs.
172 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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