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Jochen Lempert - Paare / Pairs
Isbn 9789464460148
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22158
€ 31.10
Jochen Lempert’s photographs begin with an encounter: his meeting with plants and animals, real or artificial representations in urban or rural settings, museum displays, scientific books, and more. The resulting images display a certain ease, a proximity that speaks to his comfort around his subjects. Rather than applying his scientific knowledge to what he photographs, he visually invites meaning through the act of seeing. ‘Pairs’ appears with an exhibition of Lempert’s work in Frankfurt am Main, curated by Yasmil Raymond and Deborah Müller. The juxtapositions in this series might be two pictures of the same subject, a pair of animals, or visually evocative matches.
112 p, ills bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English/German
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Fleur van Dodewaard - The Fold
Isbn 9789083227405
Publisher Free Pony Press
Idea code 22212
€ 36.00
With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production: folding, cutting, binding. Like a “making-of” documentary, the book displays its own structural mechanisms, revealing both artistic premises and systems of construction in an exploration of the creative process. An upside-down section in the middle suggests another way to parse its contents.
284 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Désirée van Hoek - Notes on Downtown – Los Angeles 2007-2022
Isbn 9789082414929
Publisher Desiree van Hoek
Idea code 22197
€ 45.00
Downtown Los Angeles has undergone a spectacular transformation over the last decade. The historic city center was given a face-lift, with new museums, skyscrapers, designer stores, restaurants and bars. In 2018, DTLA was the most rapidly gentrifying area in the US, putting pressure on many of its long-standing residents and businesses. The photographer Désirée van Hoek, who had been working in the area since 2007, has recorded the changes in the district in over 135 images. The book contains interviews with the international experts Adrienne Brown, Cody Hochstenbach, Norman M. Klein, Saskia Sassen, Jennifer Wolch and Sharon Zukin, as well as an essay by the architect and urban planner Hans Teerds
112 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Jason Dodge - Cut a Door in the Wolf
Isbn 9789464590296
Publisher BILL
Idea code 22145
€ 30.00
‘Cut a Door in the Wolf’ is an exhibition in the form of a single, site-specific artwork by Jason Dodge. In exploring systems made up of organic and inorganic matter, he is interested in the refuse that humans shed every day: micro- and macro-landscapes made up of the familiar and often discarded things that result from our individual and collective habits. Dodge recognises this not as a singular artistic process, but rather as a shared landscape in which cause and effect are circular phenomena that belong to everyone. He therefore investigates the potential of his audience as producers of meaning. This publication documents the work through a series of photographs.
68 p, ills colour, 30 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Christien Meindertsma - Checked Baggage (limited ed)
Isbn 9784990717377
Publisher Thomas Eyck
Idea code 22202
€ 46.20
‘Checked Baggage’ is the first of two graduation projects by Christien Meindertsma for Design Academy Eindhoven. The book is an exhaustive catalogue of all the items confiscated from travellers in a one-week period at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Everything from cutlery, boxcutters, and pocket knives, to hairdressers’ scissors, wrenches, and nail clippers were among the items seized and later photographed in taxonomic arrangements for the book. Meindertsma captures the strangeness of this situation – the confiscation of sometimes very personal items at a time of heightened security. Each limited edition copy comes packaged with an actual item confiscated at the airport.
335 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English/Japanese
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It Don't Mean a Thing - Photographs by Saul Leiter with a story by Paul Auster -
The Gould Collection Volume Two
Isbn 9780997359640
Publisher The Gould Collection
Idea code 22083
€ 38.50
‘The Gould Collection’ is a series of books that brings together contemporary photographers with writers. The second volume presents 58 photographs by Saul Leiter with the story “It Don’t Mean a Thing” by Paul Auster. Black-and-white and colour photographs by Leiter from 1947 through the 1970s – with many images never before published – are paired with Auster’s tale of interconnected life events and chance encounters. Reflections on New York City, with its urban rhythm, people, and places, feature prominently in the work of both photographer and writer, providing a unifying focus for the book. This reprint of the original 2017 edition has an updated binding and cover.
98 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Two Men Arrive in a Village Photographs by Jo Ractliffe with a story by Zadie Smith -
The Gould Collection Volume Five
Isbn 9780997359664
Publisher The Gould Collection
Idea code 22084
€ 60.50
The fifth volume of ‘The Gould Collection’ contains a selection of photographs made by Jo Ractliffe between 1985 and 2019 that depict South Africa, from the Great Karoo and the northern provinces of Gauteng and Limpopo to Zimbabwe, and from the Western Cape up the coast to Namibia and Angola. The dialogue between Ractliffe’s images and Zadie Smith’s parable is simultaneously a forthright and subtle commentary on injustice and imbalances of power. Together they work to displace familiar narratives of violence and unsettle clichéd depictions of the African region in favour of a more nuanced interplay between the real and allegorical.
120 p, ills bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Osamu Matsuo - What are you looking at from inside the photograph
Isbn 9784909932020
Publisher Neutral Colors
Idea code 22239
€ 18.65
Why do people take pictures? What is a good photograph? Through practical images and profound essays, Osamu Matsuo approaches these and many other fundamental questions surrounding photography in a series of intimate and personal reflections, referential contemplations, and artistic musings. While recognising that his thoughts on photography are ever-changing, he informally writes about a range of topics and themes such as premonition, absence, animation, photography and time, and camera size. Our lives today are overflowing with photography, but Matsuo hopes that, when confronted with obvious principles, the medium’s enigmatic appeal returns to the surface.
240 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Keita Noguchi - Flower
Isbn 9784909932044
Publisher Neutral Colors
Idea code 22242
€ 40.75
The first photobook by Keita Noguchi is based on the theme of unconscious beauty. Inspired by the close and highly personal experience inherent in placing a sample on a glass slide and observing it through a microscope, he photographs a variety of flowers as if seen through glass. Appearing sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, the flowers seem to be floating in suspension, a watery medium of varying clarity, colour, and light. The book is made like a “white box”, with as little design as possible.
64 p, ills colour, 21 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Venice Unclocked
Isbn 9788412279269
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 22163
€ 25.85
In their first collaborative effort, writer Rachel Spence and photographer Giacomo Cosua gaze with fresh eyes at the city of Venice. Having both lived there, they share a desire to capture the essence of this Italian city. The images focus on the walls of buildings, their colours, and the play of light. References to the past are interspersed with scenes from everyday life. In her text, Spence invites the reader to delve into the various layers of time that can be experienced in Venice. Together, text and images present an unexpected impression of the city, a personal and calm vision, away from the hustle and bustle of visitors. It is the third instalment in the Ivorypress Cities collection.
92 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 20 cm, hb, English
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Androids & Crayons
Isbn 9789072532534
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 22259
€ 20.00
In the 19th century, portrait photographs were often touched up with pencil or crayon. Irregularities were corrected, but it also went further; for example, by adjusting the hairstyle or colouring the clothing. Fine lines were drawn to improve the image or black retouching paint was applied in an early version of Photoshop. This created an idealised version of the subjects, just as androids can be seen as perfected replicas. Wanda Tuerlinckx takes photo portraits of androids with a wooden view camera from 1880, the same type used for many of the portraits from more than a century ago. Appearing side by side, her images and the portraits play with our perceptions and the uncanny valley.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Vali Asr - Faces of a street in Tehran
Isbn 9789462264328
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22160
€ 40.00
Valiasr is the longest street in the Iranian capital of Tehran, stretching twenty kilometres across this metropolis of fourteen million people. It is a centre of cultural life and a major commercial hub and nightlife area. Photographic anecdotes by Jörg Winde depict the people who live and work along the street. The images reflect an attentiveness and closeness to the subjects, and attest to the contradictory lives of people in Iran today. Interspersed are street views against the scenic backdrop of the snow-covered Alborz Mountains. With contributions by writer and social observer Mahmoud Doulatabadi and Charlotte Wiedemann, journalist and author of books on Islamic culture.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Kaveh Kazemi - Return of the Taliban
Isbn 9786001523571
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 22214
€ 33.00
The work of Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Kazemi is prolific, from covering the Iranian Revolution and conflict throughout the Persian Gulf to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. With ‘Return of the Taliban’, Kazemi captures the mood of Afghanistan a month after the United States military ended its two-decade occupation and left the country for the Taliban to retake power. Travelling with his wife, Colombian journalist Catalina Gomez Angel, the two crossed the border and made their way to Herat, alert for any perceptible changes in the land, its people, or political atmosphere. Over a twelve-day period, they also visited Kabul and Kandahar to record rare glimpses of life in the aftermath.
168 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Persian/English
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Simona Rota - Instant Village
Isbn 9788494011580
Publisher Fabulatorio
Idea code 22090
€ 20.45
‘Instant Village’ is a collection of anti-postcards offering alternative and perhaps opposed images to the fictions constructed and propagated by the tourism industry. Simona Rota confronts the collective imagination in addition to her own mental fabrications in relation to the concept of “island”, which often rely on platitudes such as palm trees, virgin beaches, exuberant natural beauty, a promise of escape, and so on. The series is a photographic essay about the use of land on the Canary Islands, an environment that, due to its almost exclusive economic dependence on tourism, has been subjected to increasing pressure and wholesale cloned urbanisations.
102 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, hb, English
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TAPAS #1: A Fraction of the Whole
Isbn 9788412426007
Publisher Fabulatorio
Idea code 22106
€ 5.10
Between 1953 and 1959, lithographer and artist Luis Seoane compiled some of the illustrations and artwork appearing on the covers of books that he had worked on as a publisher and printed them in three volumes. These books were created while in exile during the Spanish Civil War, a time when many European artists and intellectuals found shelter in Argentina, and they encapsulate his contribution to the “golden age of Argentine book publishing”. Seoane’s cataloguing work inspired the ‘Tapas’ project, which ventures into a line of inquiry tracing back to this compilatory effort. In this first edition, the boundaries between artistic creation and editorial design become blurred.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 35 x 57 cm, pb, Spanish/Galician/English
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Tokuko Ushioda: My Husband (Two Volumes)
Isbn 9784907562359
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 22140
€ 53.25
Tokuko Ushioda launched her career as a photographer around 1975, befriending figures such as Shigeo Gocho and Fusako Kodama, who became important inspirations. While studying under Kiyoji Otsuji, she crossed paths with Shinzo Shimao, who would later become her husband. In 1978, Ushioda and Shimao had a daughter and got married. The next year, the family moved into a single-room unit in a historic Western-style house. In this intimate setting, she continued to photograph, resulting in a wealth of images with a nostalgic familiarity and refined calmness. Published as a set of two books, this collection can be considered the starting point to her photography.
ills bw, 19 x 24 cm, hb, Japanese/English, two volumes
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Daido Moriyama - Tales of Tono (new edition)
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 22222
€ 83.95
Daido Moriyama’s ‘Tales of Tono’, which takes its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, was first published in 1976. Its black-and-white photo diptychs and spreads were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan. The book was reissued in different versions in 2007 and 2012, but both the original and later versions were pocket-size paperback editions in which the limited format seemed to detract from the pictures. This new edition, which Moriyama says is definitive, appears in a larger format and includes 49 previously unpublished photographs. In characteristic Moriyama style, the deep blacks and casual framing of the pictures is noticeably palpable.
100 p, ills bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb, no text
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Daido Moriyama Record 49
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 22167
€ 27.65
Daido Moriyama recounts how it was more than 60 years ago that Seiryu Inoue (1931–1988), a documentary photographer who started out in Osaka’s run-down neighbourhoods in 1950s, taught him what street photography was all about. Rather than verbal lectures, this happened by simply following and watching Inoue as he swiftly captured scenes in the area of the city around Kamagasaki street. The experience left such a deep impression on Moriyama that the street inevitably became his own early hunting ground. Shifting ahead to the present moment, this volume of ‘Record’ contains recent photographs taken in the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo.
136 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Eriz Moreno - Berlin (America)
Isbn 9783000714733
Publisher Jb. Institute
Idea code 22210
€ 27.50
Seeking to grasp the historical dimensions and landscapes shaped by humanity, Eriz Moreno interweaves history and the present day in his work. He embarks on a quest to discover all 30 towns in the United States named Berlin. After all, the mythos of America’s settlement by immigrants from all over the world, including Germany, was founded in its Midwest, on the wide open spaces of the prairie. Over a period of 43 days, Moreno’s road trip of more than 20,000 kilometres takes him across 27 states. This resulted in a compendium of 600 slides, with 20 motifs from each place. A selection of 240 images was made for this book, accompanied by a text by Franziska Schmidt.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, hb, English
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Mikael Olsson: Olsson Mikael
Isbn 9789198672022
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 22164
€ 34.40
Mikael Olsson’s self-portraits/selfies challenge the narcissistic use of selfies as well as the status of influencers. Further he destabilizes the composition of a traditional selfie where the eye line is recommended to be one-third down from the top frame. Through tireless play and intuition, Olsson’s images are marked by both intimacy and distance, the role of his own physical presence and the perceptive relationship to the surroundings. Olsson Mikael includes an essay by writer and psychoanalyst Sinziana Ravini.
64 p, ills colour, 21 x 15 cm, hb, English
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Michael Yuan - The Bridge
Isbn 9789492051769
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22233
€ 35.00
Photographer Michael Yuan paints an intimate portrait of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, challenging accepted perspectives of the monument, which is most often observed in its mind-blowing entirety and completeness. This is the bridge in all its characteristic faces that have never been presented before, a study of its form, lines, shapes, and familiar colour. The book is a loving tribute to the imposing towers, stylised street lamps, gigantic cables, bolts, and plates, each with their own distinctive geometry and shape, colour, sound, and light. As the bridge’s chief engineer, Joseph B. Strauss, once wrote, “At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun”.
96 p, ills colour, 22 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Yukiko Sugiyama - Crash Phases
Isbn 9784861528842
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 22125
€ 41.45
Yukiko Sugiyama’s collection ‘Crash / Phases’ is a collision between objects and nature, between the human and the extra-planetary world. The first part consists of dystopian pictures of artefacts and machinery abandoned in nature. The use of a near-infrared camera highlights the contrast between the decaying metal and the natural plant life. The second part is a series that records sci-fi challenges, from early spacesuits and experimental mannequins to the suborbital X-34 prototype and satellite dishes aimed into the depths of the galaxy. Nostalgic future images crop up, like a defunct NASA laboratory, and collide with the ongoing material reality to create a new future image.
92 p, ills colour, 30 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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