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Nicolas Floc'h - Deep Sea
Isbn 9789464460124
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22331
€ 31.10
‘Deep Sea’ is a collection of eerie underwater images from the Lampaul Canyon in the Bay of Biscay, France. Made at depths of up to nearly 2,000 metres, these seascapes of otherworldly geologies seem rather barren at first sight, until a lone creature appears, caught by the camera’s flash. The bay’s canyons were formed as the continents drifted apart 120 million years ago, opening up the Atlantic Ocean. These bathyal visions by Nicolas Floc’h are filled with rocky outcrops, cliffs, falls, and folds, where marine particulate “snow” merges with living things, the unseen denizens of the ocean depths. With a text by Michel Poivert.
64 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Ari Marcopoulos - Upstream
Isbn 9789464460155
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22280
€ 35.00
This artist’s book accompanies Ari Marcopoulos’s exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. To create the book, Marcopoulos re-photographed prints of his photographs that he had produced at home using a pigment printer. This process was in many ways a continuation of the period of pandemic isolation in which most of the images were photographed. Closely aligned with his own copious output, the selection is both haphazard and intuitive, leaving room for spontaneity and even mistakes. A portion of the book also focuses on the 2021 video installation ‘Alone Together’, featuring a saxophone performance by jazz legend Joe McPhee, which forms a central part of the exhibition.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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David de Beyter - Build and Destroy
Isbn 9791090306967
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22269
€ 41.95
‘Build and Destroy’ presents David De Beyter’s immersive project from between 2014 and 2020, which focuses on the Big Bangers, a community of stock car enthusiasts who fix up and then demolish vehicles that would otherwise be consigned to the scrap heap. In its combination of artistic and anthropological approaches, the book resonates with the experience of destruction as observed by De Beyter and offers a fragmentary reading of this culture of creation and destruction. Engaging with the pure nihilistic pleasure of the spectacle, it is a visual essay that examines the material as subject as much as it investigates the formal possibilities of the images’ own materiality.
176 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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#ingrid Escamilla Vargas - Zoe Aubry
Isbn 9782492175060
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22268
€ 40.85
This is Swiss artist Zoé Aubry’s third body of work devoted to femicide, its frequent occurrence, and the ways in which this phenomenon in society is addressed (or not) by the media. When Ingrid Escamilla Vargas was brutally murdered by her male companion, the Mexican tabloids and gutter press avidly circulated grisly images of the atrocious crime, plastered across their front pages. The case unleashed a wave of protests in the country, as it exposed once again how deeply rooted violence against women is in Mexican society. Aubry addresses the violent sensationalism and voyeurism of certain media and uses her art to strongly condemn both the violence and complicity.
352 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Inuuteq Storch - Keepers of the Ocean
Isbn 9788797352601
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 22275
€ 48.00
Keepers of the Ocean by Inuuteq Storch is a personal exploration of intimacy with and within the overwhelming nature of west Greenland. The book portrays the close community of Storch’s hometown Sisimiut photographed over the past three years. Everyday images of friends, family, food and interiors form part of the subject matter combined with Storch’s own intervention and experimentation. Unstaged yet absorbing, intimate and vulnerable. His intuitive narrative style draws the viewer into the image, giving us the feeling of being present ourselves. A rare sight when it comes to portrayals of Greenland – exceptional, meaty and sorely needed.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Greenlandic/Danish/English
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Riding Modern Art (pocket ed)
Isbn 9782490077694
Publisher Editions B42
Idea code 22315
€ 19.50
This volume brings together a collection of 50 black-and-white photographs of people skateboarding on sculptures in public spaces. Through his study of the process of appropriation and reuse of these works of art in the public realm – challenging skateboarders to test their limits with new manoeuvres and tricks – artist Raphaël Zarka shifts the approach to a work of art in a way that underlines the dynamism of modern urban sculpture. The idea of movement in these often abstract and geometric pieces is made visible by the skateboarders, translated into pure physics and raw energy. With works by Picasso, Oteiza, Volten, and more. Ten images are missing from this collection, as sculptors have refused to see their artwork reproduced. The spaces dedicated to those photographs remain purposely empty.
152 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Atong Atem - Surat
Isbn 9781922545084
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 22154
€ 35.50
The first photobook by South Sudanese, Melbourne-based artist Atong Atem and the second in the PHOTO Editions series, ‘Surat’ (which translates from Sudanese Arabic as “snapshots”) is a celebration of the visual language of family photographs and photography as an extension of our oral traditions. Atem revisits her family photo albums, which span decades and continents, restaging and reimagining the scenes and people they depict. The result is a performative depiction of photography, a series of self-portraits that utilises the medium’s implicit repetition of dressing, posing, adjusting, and capturing. For Atem, the book is also about movement, both geographic and historic.
54 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Isivumelwano - Sabelo Mlangeni
Isbn 9789083225142
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22281
€ 35.00
South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni’s documentary work reflects his conscious choice of themes, subcultures, and minority groups that usually remain invisible. The title of this collection of images, ‘Isivumelwano’, comes from Nguni, a Southern African language group. The word means “contract”, “agreement”, or “alliance”, and here it is synonymous with the marriage ceremonies in Black communities that Mlangeni has documented over nearly 30 years. The series is both a celebration and critique of the relationships we maintain with others. According to Mlangeni, the project magnifies “the systems we exist in (and against)”. Love becomes a force of liberation.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Jaap Scheeren - Flipping the Bird (English version)
Isbn 9789083165882
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22308
€ 25.00
‘Flipping the Bird’ is the narrative visual report, a photo novel actually, of a long and intensive walk in the dunes, in which the main character tries to reconnect with nature. During this walk he slowly falls in love with the landscape, the flora and the fauna and he thinks that this love is mutual. A special, surreal, humorous and confrontational dialogue is created between people, flora and fauna. At the climax the main character finds out if the love is reciprocal and chooses his path… The story is set in the dunes in connection with the continuous threat of the sea to The Netherlands. Human actions and the choices we make now and in the future are of great importance in this regard.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Jaap Scheeren - Flipping the Bird (Dutch version)
Isbn 9789083225135
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code
€ 25.00
‘Flipping the Bird’ is the narrative visual report, a photo novel actually, of a long and intensive walk in the dunes, in which the main character tries to reconnect with nature. During this walk he slowly falls in love with the landscape, the flora and the fauna and he thinks that this love is mutual. A special, surreal, humorous and confrontational dialogue is created between people, flora and fauna. At the climax the main character finds out if the love is reciprocal and chooses his path… The story is set in the dunes in connection with the continuous threat of the sea to The Netherlands. Human actions and the choices we make now and in the future are of great importance in this regard.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, Dutch
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Dirk Reimes - sous un ciel partagé entre nuages et éclaircies
Isbn 9783907112533
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 22304
€ 43.90
Written during a research year in Brussels, the book brings together found photographs and texts. It combines autobiography with fiction, notes of everyday experiences with found contemporary testimonies. The photographs depict people looking directly at the viewer. In this moment of eye contact, those who lived decades ago come alive again. The texts imagine some of these encounters with a counterpart, in whose presence one's own existence is also reflected: We, the other person and I, are both, here and now, alive. This moment is precious and fleeting, and the fact that we cannot hold on to it does not mean that we do not try. And that is what this book is about.
328 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, German/English
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Nicolas Provost - Savage
Isbn 9789492574176
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 22270
€ 26.90
Nicolas Provost is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. His work uses the language of film to manoeuvre and influence the interpretation of images and stories. Tapping into our collective filmic memory, he manipulates time, codes, and form, twisting and shaping new narratives that tightly bind visual art and cinematography. The photographs appearing in ‘Savage’ were all taken in New York between 2016 and 2018. Intensely cinematographic, the majority of these images draw the eye to a solitary figure caught in a moment of action, which in turn evokes a deep narrative impulse – familiar scenes that at the same moment exude a sense of underlying conflict and alienation.
48 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Attilio Solzi - HOLE HOSE HOPE
Isbn 9783907384008
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 22273
€ 37.40
Attilio Solzi brought his camera and a block-shaped pedestal to Roma Pride in 2019. Positioning himself in the midst of an endless stream of exuberant participants on the wide plaza in front of the central train station, he invited all kinds of people to pose by themselves or with a friend or friends and snapped a picture. In many shots, the subject is only seen from the waist down, leading us to contemplate all manner of footwear, hosiery, skirts, and shorts. The result is ‘Hole Hose Hope’, a photobook that both documents the members and supporters of the LGBTQI+ community and acts as a happenstance window on a specific spot during one of the largest pride events in Italy.
256 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Rune Peitersen - RAABJERG
Isbn 9789492852571
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 22318
€ 29.20
‘Raabjerg’ emerges from the changing landscape of northern Jutland in Denmark. Due to climatological shifts and the extraction of resources by humans, the landscape has gradually altered over time. Attempts have also been made to “restore” and “re-establish” the natural situation. The book’s narrative focus is on the violent sand drift which has occurred here between the 16th and 19th centuries; how it manifested and completely transformed a once fertile region into a barren wasteland. After two centuries of struggle, humans have “succeeded” in re-transforming the landscape into a controlled state. With this project, Rune Peitersen asks: How do you preserve transition?
146 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Stefan Canham - The Town
Isbn 9783000695773
Publisher Stefan Canham
Idea code 22257
€ 45.00
Photographer Stefan Canham has visited the provincial town of Sapa in northern Vietnam repeatedly since 2011. Speaking with women from the surrounding mountain villages, he became obsessed with the small rectangular patches of cloth they were selling. Cut from traditional jackets and embroidered in abstract geometric patterns indicating the wearer’s village, the patches have become objects in transition between rural customs and international tourism. The town itself is also in transition: scores of slender new houses with eclectic facades are being erected, catering to the influx of tourists. Canham explores these two significant facets of material culture in a carefully thought out artist’s book.
80 p, ills colour, 33 x 24 cm, hb, German/English
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Useful Photography 15
Isbn 9789070478544
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 22247
€ 25.00
The global pandemic forced many people to set up an office at home. For this edition of ‘Useful Photography’, Marlies Swinkels researched the websites of real estate agents across Europe and collected images of the corner of the room usually reserved for remote working. It is a space where the view is often not as important as the background, which is of course what the outside world sees during the endless Zoom and Teams sessions. From sharing a room with exercise equipment or the washer and dryer to a small table next to the bed, a desk in a closet or attic storage space, or even setting up in the kid’s bedroom, the future workplace is not quite what we imagined it to be.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Ryosuke Toyama - Leading Light
Isbn 9784909932099
Publisher Neutral Colors
Idea code 22240
€ 40.75
In 2008, Ryosuke Toyama embarked on a journey around the country to portray Japan’s next generation of traditional artisans. Born into a family specialising in Yuzen dyeing and fascinated by crafts, Toyama decided that in ten years’ time he would also create photographs worthy of being considered crafts. He experimented with techniques from the early days of photography, seeking to produce images that have a strong sense of presence as objects. Revisiting the same artisans a decade later, he used ambrotype and a homemade camera to capture them once more. ‘Leading Light’ is a collection of essays and works that describe his fifteen years of trial and error.
580 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 19 cm, pb, Japanese
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Tangier / Something is Possible | Guillaume de Sardes / Mounir Fatmi
Isbn 9781739881313
Publisher KAHL Editions
Idea code 22351
€ 51.75
Two photographers, one city. Mounir Fatmi and Guillaume de Sardes experience Tangier from different perspectives, yet together reproduce the sense of a city. Their approach is subjective, sensitive to the passage of time, balancing documentary and fiction. Fatmi’s images are brimming with details, capturing the atmosphere of a constantly changing city where bodies literally blend into the background. De Sardes, by mixing image and text, brings into question the relationship between photography and literature. In doing so, he positions his work adjacent to that of another traveller who lingered in Tangier more than 60 years ago, the poet and philosopher Allen Ginsberg.
114 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Kon Michiko - philia
Isbn 9784336072658
Publisher Kokushokankokai
Idea code 22219
€ 36.80
Japanese photographer and artist Michiko Kon has garnered critical attention both in Japan and internationally for her imaginative combinations of ordinary items and the enigmatic character of her creations. She uses everyday items such shoes and hats and sea creatures like fish and squid to create objects and stage scenes from a strange otherworld. Published to accompany Kon’s eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, ‘Philia’ features over 100 works, offering an extensive overview spanning her early career to more recent endeavours. The book includes an interview with the artist and essays by Nakamori Takafumi and art critic Mizusawa Tsutomu.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Sean Lotman - Middle Life Notes
Isbn 9784909932013
Publisher Neutral Colors
Idea code 22241
€ 37.30
“Somehow, unbeknownst to me, I arrived at middle age”, writes Sean Lotman. A photobook based on this theme, ‘Middle Life Notes’ comprises a collection of 26 prints shot with the Lomography Diana F+ camera, accompanied by waka poetry and an essay. A Los Angeles native, Lotman once dreamed of running a comic book store or becoming a novelist, but became fascinated with photography and travelled around the world with the woman who would later become his wife. He settled in Kyoto in 2003. Inspired by Kerouac, his background is in narrative fiction. Here, carefully cut out mental landscapes and the strings of his own drawings gradually overlap and strike a chord.
66 p, ills colour, 12 x 20 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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