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New Titles in Photography, Performing Arts & Popular Culture 27 January 2022
Futura Proxima - Curated for Gucci

Isbn 9789077745250
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 21688
€ 39.00

‘Futura Proxima’ is a calendar curated for Gucci. But it is simultaneously a glimpse at tomorrow – a map of maybes and a fractal question mark of intriguing possibilities. In these pages, the extremes of utopias and dystopias dissolve, replaced by twelve polyvalent excursions into the near distant future. Exploring the speculative interactions of our human form parsed with aesthetics and architecture, literature, biology, and philosophy, it presents a non-linear loop of creative constructs for our physical and digital realities alike. With contributions by Emanuele Coccia, Natsuko Uchino, Alice Potts, Katie Paterson, Carlijn Jacobs, Aria Dean, Simon Denny, Jeremy Shaw, and more.

130 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English

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Ben Huff - Atomic Island

Isbn 9789083165820
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22013
€ 40.00

Adak island served as the westernmost physical front in defense of democracy from 1934 to 1997. In a few short years during World War 2, the previously uninhabited island of Adak in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bordered to the north by the Bering Sea, was made into the fourth largest city in the territory of Alaska. At the height of the Cold War, six thousand military personnel and their families lived in Adak. In March of 1997, with the Cold War over, the Navy abandoned the island. Today, less than seventy-five people live there amongst the crumbling buildings and fading memory of our past military ambitions.

172 p, ills colour, 24 x 28 cm, hb, English

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Karlheinz Weinberger - Volume 3 Mediterraneo

Isbn 9783906822433
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 21729
€ 40.95

The Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (1921–2006), best known for his edgy archive of queer youth and teenage misfits, also made several trips to the Mediterranean region in his lifetime. A few of the photos he took there are widely recognised, but most have never before been published. Many were shot in and around Agrigento, as well as the Lipari Islands, Lampedusa, Lecce, and Naples. He also visited Tangier in 1963 and 1964. His interest was not limited to men and their physiques, however, as he also documented the traditional life of Southern Europe, in the cities and the countryside, at the ports and the beaches, often imbuing these subjects with a filmic quality.

132 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Erik Kessels: In Almost Every Picture 18 Shepherd Dog

Isbn 9789070478513
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 22051
€ 25.00

During the 1960s and ’70s, the Romanian town of Baile Tusnad, with its hot springs and spas, was famous as a holiday and weekend destination. The pictures tourists took home would frequently include the German Sheperd belonging to local photographer George Nitescu. The dog was a familiar and popular fixture in the town. Hours after capturing their moment with the dog, the pictures could be collected from Nitescu’s urban villa, a place where tourists and locals often mingled. The images collected in this volume show changing faces, the bygone sights of a Romanian town in its prime, and one extremely photogenic German Sheperd whose name remains unknown.

160 p, ills bw, 16 x 20 cm, pb, English

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Rinko Kawauchi - Des Oiseaux (On Birds) Japanese Only

Isbn 9784908062353
Publisher He He
Idea code 22040
€ 67.45

Rinko Kawauchi focuses on swallows in the city of Chiba during the spring season and, in particular, on the tiny nests that the birds build in window openings or on the underside of roof overhangs. The publication is part of a collection that, through the vision of different artists, celebrates the immense presence of birds in a world where they are now often vulnerable. An essay by ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre accompanies the images. Lesaffre writes about the swallows’ way of life, their history, their spring migration from south to north over thousands of kilometres, the season of birth, and their particular relationship with humans that has led them become threatened today.

104 p, ills colour, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese

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Aquanauts - Expedition to the Siljan Ring

Isbn 9789189270268
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21725
€ 37.65

Located in central Sweden, the Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact crater which resulted from a major meteorite impact around 377 million years ago. It is one of the fifteen largest known impact craters on Earth and the largest in Europe, with a diameter of about 52 kilometres. In September 1897, Beata Gardelius, a palaeontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and Inga-Lisa Blomgren, assistant at the Institute of Geology in Uppsala, disappeared during an expedition to the area. The fate of the two women had remained unknown until an anonymous donation arrived at the Ontological Museum in Stockholm, containing notes and diaries, photographic negatives, a strange skull, more…

184 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English

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Richard Dawson - Slightly Scented

Isbn 9781527285644
Publisher Happy Retouching
Idea code 21751
€ 36.90

Adding to the history of art inspired by found objects are Richard Dawson’s flower works. The origins of these works were visits to an East London street market, where Dawson noticed the myriad discarded blooms that comprise much of the market’s detritus after closing, many trodden down onto the road and pavement. Intrigued, he sought to recreate them as images by using a scanner. As a result, no cameras, film, or photo development were part of the production of these images. It is a kind of technological reproduction which is unusually faithful, capturing the fine detail of the distressed yet still stunning flora and tapping into the history of botany as well as Victorian arts and crafts.

176 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, hb, English

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This Naked Incident - Alexander van der Heide & Sander Coers

Isbn 9789492852502
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code
€ 30.00

This Naked Incident is a deep dive in search of the place that 'masculinity' holds in the lives of young people today. Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers spoke with five peers; all assigned male at birth and all with very different experiences of masculinity and equally different gender expressions. Because what is masculinity? Where it sometimes seems that we have no more than stereotypes to resort to in our efforts to make this tangible, it turns out there are specific moments, charged by the people around you, and the places where you are, that suddenly allow for room to modify the way you express yourself.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 26 cm, pb, Dutch/English


Atsushi Fukushima - I Deliver Bento Boxes to the Houses of Old People Living Alone

Isbn 9784861528552
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21632
€ 33.15

After graduating from the Photography Department of Osaka University of Arts in 2004, Atsushi Fukushima spent ten years working part-time as a delivery driver of ready-made meals for elderly people living alone in the city of Kawasaki. At first he was shocked by the dismal living conditions of the people for whom he provided food each day, and he began to take his camera with him to record the situation. His compassion and care eventually allowed him to build relationships with them as a friend. Through his photographs, Fukushima challenges us to consider some undeniable truths surrounding an aging society, caring for the elderly, facing death, and life in old age.

160 p, ills colour, 26 x 22 cm, hb, English/Japanese

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Chance Encounters In The Valley Of Lights - Rik Moran

Isbn 9781916412163
Publisher Centrecentre
Idea code 21752
€ 44.25

'Chance Encounters in the Valley of Lights' tells the story of an unsolved extra-terrestrial case from 1980s Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Photographer Rik Moran combines original imagery with never-before-seen archival material to investigate the possible alien abduction of PC Alan Godfrey. In illuminating one of small-town England's most unlikely protagonists, 'Chance Encounters' unearths another other-worldly mystery along the way. Todmorden's ancient standing stones and intricate local folklore have long proclaimed the West Yorkshire market town a site of strange and sinister happenings. In more recent years, Todmorden has become famous for its abundant UFO sightings.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English

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Noah's Ark - An Improbable Space Survival Kit

Isbn 9789198533569
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 21630
€ 69.90

Inspired by the survival kits used in the Apollo and Mercury space missions, ‘Noah’s Ark’ advances a set of conceptual and artistic tools to be used in a crisis situation like our present times, and to imagine the future. Vanishing bio-resources, the acceleration of global climate change, and the effects of the Anthropocene pose the urgency of survival in stronger and stronger terms. Nowadays, leaving the Earth and colonising outer space is becoming a potentially viable alternate reality. Yet ethical questions abound regarding the inhabitation of space, as well as concerning human responsibility towards this new realm. Will we also contaminate and destroy the worlds we encounter?

280 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, hb, English

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Ulrike Bruckner - Wire Drawings. Utilitary Photography

Isbn 9783907112304
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21452
€ 23.50

In ‘Wire Drawings’, Ulrike Brückner appropriates functional photographs used on sales platforms such as eBay. These leftover cable scraps are often tossed in boxes or piles for sale and presented in private rooms, lying on the floor. Brücker’s photographs move beyond this mundanity to recall virtuoso drawings or paintings with an expressive style. She experiments with motifs and the space of the image, replacing the original surroundings with black, partially processed backgrounds. The contextual shift changes our view of the object, allowing the multifaceted beauty of the cable arrangements to emerge through the serial representation of the new visual worlds she has composed.

48 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, German/English

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Navigating Music Technology

Isbn 9789491444678
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 22023
€ 39.95

Music and technology are ubiquitous. In recent decades, developments in music-listening technology have ensured that our personal music is everywhere and accessible at all times. But how does the coupling of these two phenomena work in therapeutic contexts? In this groundbreaking handbook, Carola Werger, Marijke Groothuis, and Artur Jaschke investigate the various opportunities that music technology can bring to the profession, the field, and the development of music therapy in general. The book provides a theoretical framework in which the practice-based approach is embedded, but it can also be used in education or as a guide in everyday clinical practice.

256 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

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Cooking With Scorsese - The Cookbook

Isbn 9781910239476
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 21747
€ 55.95

A collection of recipes including savoury, sweet and drinks created by 46 internationally acclaimed chefs in response to filmic moments that bring them culinary joy. Its pages are illustrated with screenshots from the films that inspired each recipe, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the moments that captured each chefs response. From Wong Kar-wai’s intoxicating scenes in 'In the Mood for Love' to Wes Anderson’s delicate pastries in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', restaurants and chefs have embedded the gestures, imagined aromas, flavours and memories from these scenes into their menus.

208 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 21 cm, hb, English

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Fieldings Propositions For 3rd Cycle Research In The Performing Arts

Isbn 9789071681554
Publisher Das Publishing
Idea code 21625
€ 20.00

This collection of propositions is an attempt to differently inhabit, expand, and reimagine a field that can roughly be called performance. It is also a portrait of Third, a peer community committed to collective study. This experimental programme was set up to inhabit the gap between current educational possibilities and an imagined third cycle degree in the performing arts. The practices therein are presented here through the lens of exchange and collaboration with cross-boundary practitioners who define performance and research in risky, diverse, and ambitious ways. ‘Fieldings’ seeks to open up further horizons for artistic research in and beyond institutional contexts.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

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Cellula - An Anatomy Of Stage Space

Isbn 9788822906830
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 21619
€ 26.90

An unprecedented way of talking about theatre emerges in this volume, an approach focusing on the analysis of the creative process which brings artworks to fruition. Interweaving the voice and thought of Enrico Pitozzi, a philosopher of theatre, with that of the artist Ermanna Montanari, it begins by identifying central facets of the work of Teatro delle Albe, which Montanari co-founded. Presenting photographic images drawn from over four decades of experience in dialogue with philosophical and art historical considerations by Pitozzi and Montanari, the chapter by chapter exploration visits specific themes such as the diaphanous, tactility, colour, the vegetal, and geometry.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English

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Simone Forti News Animations

Isbn 9788880561330
Publisher Nero
Idea code
€ 26.90

The volume collects Simone Forti's News Animations from 1980 to 2018—through the transcriptions of the performances, images, and drawings—seeking to capture their spirit, their poetic stance and, mostly, understand how they manage to describe the society and the world we live in.

232 p, ills bw, 13x19 cm, pb, English


Tamara Maggi - Until I'm Rich

Isbn
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 21682
€ 16.15

‘Until I’m Rich’ is Tamara Maggi’s visualisation of an unrealised dream: to possess the world’s most expensive luxury watches. From Rolex and Omega to Patek Philippe, Cartier, Hermès, Bulgari, and more, she pictures how each timepiece would look wrapped snugly around her wrist by making paper cut-outs and snapping a photo with her iPhone. Her hand, meanwhile, is engaged in ordinary activities, such as grasping a handbag, opening a car door, resting on a cloth, clutching a banana, or tracing a wall. On the opposing pages, Maggi makes clear just how unachievable owning such a watch is for the vast majority of people by listing the model’s retail price in several currencies.

88 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English

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Photobooks & - A Critical Companion To The Contemporary Medium

Isbn 9789493148659
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code
€ 20.00

Photobooks & presents and interrogates key themes of the contemporary photobook — from the medium’s post-digital and post-photographic situation, to the purposes of publishing, issues of accessibility and the act of reading. Informed by extensive research, interviews with key individuals* from the photobook ecology and his experience with The Photobook Club project, Johnstonexamines current trends and practices, emphasising connections (made and missed) between makers and readers.

210 p, ills ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English


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