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Dark Room: San Francisco Sex And Protest 1988-2003
Isbn 9781912570072
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 22085
€ 31.00
‘Dark Room’ is a rare collection of lesbian erotic and protest photographs taken by Phyllis Christopher during the period of her life spent living in San Francisco. This explosive and tender body of work connects struggles for lesbian visibility, sex positivity, and bodily autonomy to expressions of gender subversion and queer community. At the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, amid mainstream censorship and misinformation about sex, Christopher captured a countercultural insistence on the politics of pleasure – a community fighting for sexual and artistic freedoms in both public and intimate settings. The book brings together fifteen years of Christopher’s work.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Annegien van Doorn - Biophilia
Isbn 9789090355238
Publisher Annegien van Doorn
Idea code 22066
€ 35.00
From fluorescent flamingos to golden pineapples, from giraffes on the wall to fish-like pens in the aquarium, we humans seem to surround ourselves with all kinds of “design” objects that remind us of nature. But do these things bring us closer to nature or make that distance greater? This phenomenon inspired Dutch visual artist Annegien van Doorn to create ‘Biophilia’, a photobook full of strange and artificial encounters with nature, but also its personification. Through her wry reflection on the absurdity of the world we create, she hopes to encourage a revaluation of actual nature. Do flowers compare colours? Do fish want to be kissed? Van Doorn thinks perhaps they just might…
116 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Cristiano Volk - Laissez-Faire
Isbn 9789083165837
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22056
€ 31.60
Alienation is often found at the heart of Italian photographer Cristiano Volk’s work, wherein the human experience is always central. Described by Volk as “a single, neon-hued hallucination”, ‘Laissez-Faire’ is a meticulously curated meditation in which he uses his camera to capture the signs and symbols of capitalism and commodity culture. Individuals no longer experience reality directly, but instead live their entire lives behind screens. He collapses the usual parameters that shape our worldly existences – day and night, inside and outside, public and private, digital and real – into a feverishly imagined new universe, vaguely menacing and drenched in a cyberpunk sheen.
216 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 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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Wijnanda Deroo - Behind The Walls Of The Hermitage
Isbn 9789462264298
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22059
€ 40.00
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is unfathomably vast and filled with infinite objects. Amazingly, behind the walls of its galleries, completely hidden from view, are infinitely more objects in floor upon floor of storage rooms and laboratories. In four trips to Russia in 2018-2019, Wijnanda Deroo moved through these outer-worldly environments with her camera, using available light, not displacing a thing. This book shares her revelations.
144 p, ills colour, 27 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Bianca Hester - Groundwork
Isbn 9781922545053
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 22035
€ 39.85
‘Groundwork’ finds its footing in the volcanic terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand. It is an expanded sculptural project by Sydney-based artist Bianca Hester that grew out of a series of research residencies in 2015, and is both social and geological in scope. Focused on a series of sites across the city where human activity, geology, and ecology have converged in fraught and revealing ways, the book maps connections between various landscapes. It encompasses walking, sculptural production, exhibition, archival research, and writing that took place between 2015 and 2020, and proposes ways to apprehend the complex sedimentations of a city.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Stephan Zaubitzer - Cines Mediterranee
Isbn 9782492680014
Publisher Building Books
Idea code 22029
€ 29.55
For almost two decades, Stephan Zaubitzer has travelled the world in search of cinemas, both operative and inoperative, to capture them with a large-format camera. ‘Cinés Méditerranée’ presents a photographic journey through five countries on the southern coast of the Mediterranean sea – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon – each of which holds an exceptional architectural heritage. From the pristine to the dilapidated and even ruined, this extensive collection of images features numerous examples of classic 20th-century cinema architecture, design, and ornamentation. It also includes cartographic documentation and a preface by French film critic Alain Bergala.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Arabic/French/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 47
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 22037
€ 27.65
In his editorial, Daido Moriyama writes about how the two-man show with works by himself and Shomei Tomatsu at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris, which was repeatedly postponed due to the spread of Covid-19, is finally opening. He also expresses regret that Tomatsu, who passed away unexpectedly about a year after proposing the idea for the show, is not around to see it. But the photographs in this volume show scenes in the area around Tokyo Tower, an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice structure painted white and international orange and located in the city’s Minato ward. Shot during the pandemic, it is again a set of “cityscapes with face masks”.
144 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 48
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 22038
€ 27.65
Yokosuka sits at the mouth of Tokyo Bay, and it was there that a 25-year-old Daido Moriyama decided to devote himself to his signature street snap style. He recently felt the urge to revisit the city, arriving there in the evening. But due to the ongoing pandemic, the normally crowded shops were all dark. The streets at night had turned into a bleak, dimly lit place, and the usually vibrant nightlife was absent. More than 50 years had passed since he first wandered with his camera through the streets of Yokosuka. This volume is the result of two days of shooting, with many references to the presence of the US military there, but also a reflection on the passage of time and its transformations.
144 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Sometimes I feel like a Bulgarian not a European - 11 Bulgarian reports by Désirée Good and Sava Hlavacek
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Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 22097
€ 27.95
With the series Sometimes I feel like a Bulgarian and not a European, Zurich-based photographer Désirée Good and Sava Hlavacek is looking for clues in Eastern Europe. In 2005, shortly before the eastward enlargement, they photographed residents from all regions of Bulgaria. 13 years later, they visit the people portrayed again. What has happened in the region in the meantime and what is the transformation from the Balkans to Europe like?
112 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Private Views - A High Rise Panorama Of Manhattan (Reprint)
Isbn 9788027091256
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 22064
€ 76.60
Many want to see Manhattan from above, but very few can do it from their own living room. Andi Schmied’s ‘Private Views’ will satisfy that incessant curiosity about an elite, hidden world we can only observe from the outside. Posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionaire named Gabriella, she accessed and documented Manhattan’s most exclusive high-rise properties, from Trump World Tower and One Madison to the Ritz-Carlton Central Park and the Woolworth Building. The book showcases the surreal strategies of persuasion used by real estate agents, features samples of the world’s most luxurious materials, and is complemented by essays from twelve authors.
228 p, ills colour / bw, 23 X 31 cm, hb, English
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Mariken Wessels: Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor (Reprint)
Isbn 9789490800345
Publisher Mariken Wessels
Idea code 15306
€ 59.00
'Taking Off' is a real picture story of a failed marriage, of sexual frustration and voyeurism. An extraordinary amount of photographs and cut-up collages comprise an archival vertigo of amateur nude art. Through people she met on a journey through the United States, Mariken Wessels gained access to the studio and the entire archive of Henry, as well as full consent over its use. She started redacting the work and rearranging it, so to form an artist's book, in which the audience will be invited to a journey into Henry’s vision of his wife and muse, and to discover the photographic obsessions of Henry, which through encountering them in the book could become our obsessions too.
330 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Obelisks - Gary Green
Isbn 9788885449893
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22047
€ 34.40
What makes obelisks so irresistible to the builders of empires? From Roman emperors to Charles X, and from Queen Victoria to William H. Vanderbilt, throughout history much expense and effort has been dedicated to acquiring, moving, and emplacing obelisks at key sites in the West. Gary Green’s photographs explore the relationship between Rome, its Egyptian obelisks, and the people who move through the city’s piazzas and streets as part of a constantly changing urban environment. Meanwhile, Gianluca Rizzo’s poems contemplate the forms this ancient symbol has taken across the United States, from the imposing Washington Monument to Boston’s Bunker Hill.
62 p, ills bw, 13 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Tina Farifteh - Names Unknown
Isbn 9789083213200
Publisher House Publishing
Idea code 21636
€ 25.00
Names Unknown is a physical translation of Tina Farifteh’s audio-visual project ‘The Flood’. The publication combines video stills from the installation with the names and causes of death of the deceased with images of boat migrants. By hiding these names and images in foldouts, the publication tries to create a sense of urgency and respect that is hard to find in our current political environment. Names Unknown is an attempt to offer some of our time and consideration to the actual people that died and suffered because of their desire for a better life.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Visions By 3
Isbn 9789493148765
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code
€ 14.00
VISIONS BY Issue No. 3 is conceptually organized around a spiral, representing the distance that the featured content presents in relation to the human body. From “deep” to “under” we find Dr. Naomi’s surgical work and understandings. Going from “under” to “between” Sara Bastai explores the relationship between objects and bodies and all the way around. Arriving at “on” we find Carlos Sáez and his Techno no aware hardware. Passing from “on” towards the unknown “?”, Luca Dobry presents a future sameness. From the “?” to the ununderstandable we have Riccardo Badano’s naturing borders and Toni Navarro’s proposals and challenges for a planetary politics, what a future to be alive in.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 28 cm, pb, English
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