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Michael Bailey-Gates - A Glint In The Kindling
Isbn 9781919635804
Publisher Pinch Publishing
Idea code 21590
€ 50.00
Transgressing set gender roles, Michael Bailey-Gates uses the camera to dissolve binary perceptions of gender, identity, and sexuality. In their intimate, exuberant portraits of themselves and their collaborator friends, nothing is fixed. The labels we are conditioned to use become irrelevant, tossing any and all expectations aside. By confronting the conventions that continue to marginalise so many today, Michael playfully reclaims the postures, objects, roles, relations, and actions we have been told are exclusive to a few. Candidly personal, this series imagines new ways of existing within the confines of a gender binary. Cyrus Dunham contributes a thoughtful text.
74 p, ills bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Mark van den Brink - The Minox Files
Isbn 9789072532497
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 21644
€ 37.00
Photographer Mark van den Brink cuts the polyester film to size himself before loading it into his Minox camera. He bought the camera with the idea that it allows you to photograph the things around you inconspicuously, like a voyeur. During his training at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, he became captivated by the distortion, rough structure, and imperfections that resulted from making prints in the darkroom. It felt self-evident to his way of looking. On a trip through the Alps, he experimented by fastening his camera to binoculars or a telescope, so that the mountains felt close and at the same time even further away. ‘The Minox Files’ embodies this raw curiosity.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Philippe Jarrigeon - Play
Isbn 9782492175107
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 21559
€ 40.85
Filled with colours and tactile moments, Philippe Jarrigeon’s first monograph celebrates fifteen years of a portfolio that is full of expression and deliciously deviant. Published under the artistic direction of Beda Achermann, the book gathers a collection of personal and editorial shots of mixed genres, from portraits to still lifes and landscapes. The title, ‘Play’, hints at the imaginative forces at work; a world saturated in pop fantasy and inhabited by humour, with a keen eye for detail and a cheeky wink towards the offbeat and irreverent. Glam goes hand in hand with art house consumer takes, the exceptional with the trivial, the beautiful with the ugly, the too serious with the too funny.
162 p, ills colour, 25 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Marc Schroeder - Order 7161 (Eng)
Isbn 9789492051691
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 21674
€ 32.00
On 16 December 1944, Stalin ordered an estimated 70,000 ethnic Germans living in Romania forcibly deported to Soviet labour camps as a form of reparations for Germany’s actions during the war. Many perished in the harsh conditions of the camps, infamous for freezing temperatures and rampant malnutrition. Marc Schroeder met with 40 of the last living survivors, and here recounts their stories and memories through eyewitness reports, archival and contextual images, and a selection of recorded testimonials. ‘ORDER 7161’ reveals a frequently overlooked chapter of European history, yet also provides crucial insight into the cultural memory of this collective trauma.
224 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Marc Schroeder - Order 7161 (German Edition)
Isbn 9789492051707
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code
€ 32.00
On 16 December 1944, Stalin ordered an estimated 70,000 ethnic Germans living in Romania forcibly deported to Soviet labour camps as a form of reparations for Germany’s actions during the war. Many perished in the harsh conditions of the camps, infamous for freezing temperatures and rampant malnutrition. Marc Schroeder met with 40 of the last living survivors, and here recounts their stories and memories through eyewitness reports, archival and contextual images, and a selection of recorded testimonials. ‘ORDER 7161’ reveals a frequently overlooked chapter of European history, yet also provides crucial insight into the cultural memory of this collective trauma.
224 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German
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Georg Lutz - Intrusion
Isbn 9783945900802
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21641
€ 28.60
Almost imperceptibly, our maps are systematically subordinated to fixations, perspectives hermetically sealed to fend off intrusion, presumably in order to preserve themselves unchanged. ‘Intrusion’ tracks traces of migration in cartography. As part of his research for a project in Calais, Georg Lutz shows how various traces of migration gradually vanished from Google Maps. The same locations are presented in duplicate: in one we see people walking or resting; in the other, recorded later, they are absent. The clues Lutz draws together tell a story of landscape and placemaking, of hope and despair, and of uneven power relations interwoven with European and global politics.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 20x29 cm, pb, English
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Heinz Peter Knes - E.m.t. In Msp
Isbn 9783945900833
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21638
€ 32.70
The story of the reception of E.M.T. in MSP is a curious one. While still a student in the mid 90s, artist Heinz Peter Knes began photographing his younger siblings in the small town of Fellen in Lower Franconia. The photos were plucked by various fashion magazines from the early 2000s forward and presented in a variety of concepts. The images contained something that the editors craved: youth and a sense of intimate outsiderness. Named aftert the siblings, Eva, Mirjam and Thomas, and the district of Main- Spessart, the complexity of E.M.T. in MSP can be seen as an organizing principal designed to save it from a too-quick revelation.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 23x32 cm, pb, English
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Peter Granser - 88 Stones
Isbn 9783945900840
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21640
€ 32.70
Themes such as time, emptiness, nature, and consciousness have been the focus of photographer Peter Granser’s personal projects of the past several years. Hence ‘88 Stones’, a meditative reflection on the beauty of geological processes. The series consists of 88 stones collected by Granser and his wife, Beatrice Theil, near the village of Kamiyama on the island of Shikoku, Japan. Arranged in order from the largest to smallest, the individual stones exhibit an astounding variety of colours, veins, and striations. Shikoku is famous for the Henro, a pilgrimage path connecting 88 temples, as well as for its eye-catching stones, which are used in many Japanese gardens.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Saskia Groneberg - Vesuv, Venus
Isbn 9783945900857
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 21639
€ 40.85
In ‘Vesuv, Venus’, Saskia Groneberg focuses on one of Europe’s most well-known garden monuments, Wörlitzer Park. She embarks on a fragmentary photographic journey in search of the dream of a paradise on Earth – the harmonious coexistence of humankind and nature. Moving through the park, space and time grow indistinguishable. Winter follows spring, detail follows sequence, dream leads to deconstruction. In fine gradations of grey, ultimately interwoven into a subtle narrative, she plays with the contradictory yet dreamlike spaces of this artificial nature, oscillating between utopia and reality, earthly and divine, dark and light, male and female.
160 p, ills bw, 24x30 cm, hb, German/English
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Tereza Zelenkova - The Essential Solitude
Isbn 9786185479145
Publisher Void
Idea code 21548
€ 41.00
Czech artist Tereza Zelenkova works mainly in black-and-white photography to create series based on ephemeral and poetic relationships between images. Her interest lies in the mythologies surrounding particular places or people, blending facts and fiction, and scrutinising the limits of photographic representation. ‘The Essential Solitude’ shows an apartment where time has always had its way, an interior where corruption and decay mark its every surface. With death comes renewal; past, present and future co-exist together within the folds of decomposing upholstery, and life and its counterpart can no longer be perceived as contradictions, but only as an eternal cycle of things.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Shawn Bush - Between Gods And Animals
Isbn 9786185479152
Publisher Void
Idea code 21609
€ 40.95
Inspired by personal experience and present-day revelations, Shawn Bush’s ‘Between Gods and Animals’ addresses the forthcoming shift in the definitions and politics of gender through the lens of a culture in flux. The series reflects the pursuit by straight white American men to sustain power and their inability to live by their own set of codes. In a culture where patriarchal structures are eroding, the struggle to maintain the influence, control, and liberties of bygone days remains constant for their imagined empire. For Bush, the dismantling of historical icons and everyday definitions of virility mark a timely subversion to the outdated socio-political hierarchies embedded in social myths of the West.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Kata Geibl - There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
Isbn 9786185479138
Publisher Void
Idea code 21608
€ 38.80
Photographer Kata Geibl’s first monograph is a reflection on contemporary culture and the world in which we live. Carefully planned images are mixed with stream-of-consciousness texts, while a poetic approach emerges through allegories, personal stories, and pairs of images. Her project deals with the rampant individualism that underpins our contemporary social, political, and economic system, and in particular, the environmental impact this has. Geibl takes the viewer on an associative journey where there are no clear answers but instead ambiguous questions. Her storytelling approach aims to guide these themes towards a deeper exploration of the rapid changes around us.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Óscar Monzón - Order
Isbn 9782492175039
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 21616
€ 41.95
The book 'Order' covers a body of work carried out between 2014 and 2019, which centres around a subjective hypothesis about the influence of advertising images on appearances and human behaviour in urban life. Following the classic methodology of street photography, the proposal fuses its formal qualities with features typical of advertising shoots. Using locations in various cities around the world, Monzón extracts fragments entering into direct dialogue with advert’s images that prevail in these locations.
120 p, ills colour, 26 x 42 cm, pb, no text
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Chas Gerretsen - Starring
Isbn 9789462264069
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 21591
€ 35.00
Published with the first retrospective exhibition of the work of photographer Chas Gerretsen, this book presents all of the photographs from the exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum together with archival material. Showing a penchant for adventure from a young age, Gerretsen worked as a war photographer in Vietnam and was on the ground during the 1973 Chilean coup d’état. He later settled in Hollywood, where he shot numerous celebrities and was also present on the set of Francis Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’. With an essay by curator Iris Sikking, who combed through thousands of images to produce a selection accurately reflecting Gerretsen’s multifaceted career.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Danielle Mericle - The Dark Wood
Isbn 9781922545022
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21589
€ 45.25
Danielle Mericle’s 'The Dark Wood' explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient Sequoia forest and the artist’s own texts, Mericle invites us to consider history as a fluid process rather than a static truth. The once highly valued casts – which appear in the book as original and archival photographs – were rejected as worthless copies during the early part of the 20th century, under the belief that they lacked the artistry and aura of the originals, despite the fact that many of the 'originals' were in fact Roman copies of Greek artefacts.
88 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Suzanne Schols - Polite Fictions, Behind The Public Face Of Diplomatic Gifts
Isbn 9789090346199
Publisher House Publishing
Idea code 21602
€ 35.00
Throughout history, the exchange of gifts has played a central role in the conduct of international relations. While the rules, traditions, and culture of gifting evolve, it remains a universal ritual that often reveals deeper truths about what it means to be human. Suzanne Schols examines this ritual in the diplomatic field, where gifts have the power to initiate negotiations, ease tensions, or deliver subtle messages. She uncovers new understandings of these gifts and their fate, part of a system of conflict avoidance and securing interests. Contrasting what the public sees and what happens behind the scenes, the prudence, practicality, and paradoxes of diplomacy are explored.
138 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English/French
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All The Things You Are - Livio Baumgartner
Isbn 9783907112489
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21571
€ 33.70
In the aptly titled ‘All the Things You Are’, photographer Livio Baumgartner steps voyeuristically into his father’s home, camera at the ready. In this small apartment in Bern, everything has its place. Things are stacked, leaned against each other, or placed in relation to other objects, forming a temporary array of everyday scenes which Livio secretly documented between 2009 and 2012. It is precisely the unplanned randomness and intuitiveness of these arrangements as they are caught in the camera’s flash that potentially reveals something about the individual who inhabits this space. Poems by Simone Lappert complement this long-running documentary series.
172 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 19 cm, hb, German/English
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Serge Najjar - Beirut
Isbn 9780995761186
Publisher Kahl Editions
Idea code 21561
€ 51.60
Serge Najjar captures abstract architectural images featuring human figures in the urban environment of his hometown of Beirut. He skilfully makes use of shadow and light in geometric, minimalist images in which a lone person often appears, either as a static observer among the architecture or actively traversing the frame. His photographic style is arresting due to its clean lines, deep shadows, and sharp angles. Each image in this series offers a glimpse into the remarkably geometric urbanism of the Lebanese capital, showing a revitalised and modernised city of surprising depth and nuance. An extensive conversation with Najjar about his work is also included in the monograph.
124 p, ills colour, 26 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Regula Ehrliholzer - Means To An End
Isbn 9783952489482
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 21517
€ 41.95
Since the global pandemic began in 2020, Regula Ehrliholzer, together with René Wäger, has documented hundreds of places. These diverse and very specific locations all have one thing in common: attempting to communicate the latest rules of conduct to the public. The result is an abundance of arrows, lines, points, boxes, footprints, installations, counting systems, disinfection stations, and more, mostly executed by individuals without any professional background or experience in how to visually communicate this matter. The massive collection of images reflects the virtually endless variety of efforts and solutions which are now a familiar part of our everyday surroundings.
256 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Stereographic Switzerland
Isbn 9783856169602
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 21569
€ 62.35
Invented around 1850, stereoscopy is a process in which the illusion of three-dimensional depth is created in images by viewing them through a binocular apparatus. As an early tourist destination, Switzerland offered a wide array of popular motifs for stereo imaging. In this way, Swiss landscapes and landmarks reached an international audience with breath-taking vividness. This book presents the unique stereoscopic image collection of Donald G. Tritt, which today forms part of the collection of the Swiss National Museum. It even includes stereo glasses, enabling you to marvel at since melted glaciers, vanished sights, and long deceased women in traditional Swiss costume.
200 p, ills colour, 23 x 28 cm, hb, German/English
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Michele Buda - Sul Confine
Isbn 9788822907479
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21617
€ 34.40
In 2021 the municipality of Cotignola and the Luigi Varoli Civic Museum hosted photographer Michele Buda as an artist-in-residence. This publication presents the images which emerged, born from a long exploration of this Italian territory and its landscape. We witness an almost exotic geography, a portrayal of a living environment made up of simple and essential things like houses, farm buildings, trees and plants, cracks in the pavement, a furrowed field, weathered stucco, utility poles, and fallen apples on the ground. All of these things can be seen as traces of the past and transformations of the present, deposits of the many landscapes that coexist here, on the border.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Italian/English
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