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Matt Dunne - The Killing Sink
Isbn 9786185479213
Publisher Void
Idea code 22371
€ 40.85
In 2017 an Australian man called the police to report that he had murdered more than 400 eagles over the previous two years at the instruction of his boss. The news coverage of the criminal trial for this act was the starting point for artist Matt Dunne to explore the wider deliberate killing of the wedge-tailed eagle, the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. Dunne’s visual testimony is both a true crime story and a public act of grieving for what has been lost. Each photograph depicts a place where eagles have been killed, the animals themselves, or the tools of their demise. Collectively, the images intertwine the birds with the intention, psychology, and history of their killing.
88 p, ills bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Joselito Verschaeve - ‘If I call stones blue it is because blue is the precise word’
Isbn 9786185479220
Publisher Void
Idea code 22369
€ 42.90
Joselito Vershaeve’s personal experiences interweave black-and-white photographs of both everyday encounters and staged fictions from archives of the artist’s own work, in the process creating visual short stories of optimism and dystopia which defy conventional interpretation. It involves precious attention to the photographic craft, a unique poetic voice. The images are drawn from the artist’s ever-growing archive, selected and arranged in a rhythmic pattern that mimics the act of writing a poem or short story. The recurring motif of the bird in many forms is interspersed with images of textured rocks, the moon, and paths which lead and disappear off the page.
80 p, ills bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Harold Strak – Verdigris
Isbn 9789072532510
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 22366
€ 45.00
Harold Strak builds his own cameras, prepares his own film material, and approaches photography in an almost scientific, technically perfectionist way. He experiments with traces of time in his work, thereby exposing the tension between control and chance. ‘Verdigris’ presents an associative visual narrative in which recent and early work, such as daily images of an old plane tree and traces and remains on glass and other surfaces, are alternated with city views and subsequently merged into high-quality printing ink and paper. The title is a reference to the green or bluish deposit, especially of copper carbonates, that forms on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Dieter De Lathauwer - It didn’t take me long to realize the escape, once again, wouldn’t work
Isbn 9786185479107
Publisher Void
Idea code 22372
€ 40.85
This photobook by the Belgian photographer and visual artist Dieter De Lathauwer is a reflection on place and walking as a solution for inner problems. It was a failed attempt to escape, which started as a known approach to the landscape and ended with the landscape turning out to be an obstacle. An intimate and poetic work, De Lathauwer’s collection of images is about accepting failure and weakness, but also about turning it into something new. It is simple in its elaboration, and was produced in a single afternoon on an island that has a turbulent history. The work follows a clear and linear course in which the misty afternoon slowly slips into darkness.
96 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Emily Graham - The Blindest Man
Isbn 9786185479206
Publisher Void
Idea code 22370
€ 42.90
In 1993 an anonymous author buried a golden treasure, which has lain undiscovered for more than 25 years. This unsolved mystery has obsessed treasure hunters ever since. Many continue to search, guided by a book of allusive clues originally released by the late author when it was first buried. In the making of ‘The Blindest Man’, Emily Graham joined in this pursuit. The artist was less interested in solving the puzzle than in various individual interpretations of the clues: the notion of treasure hunting itself, the dreams, fantasies, and obsessions of individual searchers. Through enigmatic images, the book explores the contradictions of a pursuit with no answers and no end.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Stephan Keppel — Immer Zimmer
Isbn 9789083225111
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22365
€ 20.00
‘Immer Zimmer’ is the published manifestation of visits to the 2021 exhibition ‘Hard Copies’, curated by Taco Hidde Bakker and held at Camera Austria in Graz. Stephan Keppel’s first-ever international solo exhibition, it raised the crucial question: “Who is the master and who is the copy?” It is an underlying theme in Keppel’s production over the last decade, where in recent years he experiments with physical objects and their representations. This interplay of visual correspondences is reflected within a wide selection of the many different works made, printed, and collected by Keppel since 2011 for his “city series”, which entails his processes of scanning, printing, and reprinting.
84 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Géraldine Jeanjean - Rock-paper-roots
Isbn 9789464460186
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22375
€ 25.00
The small French village of Aumont, where Géraldine Jeanjean’s grandmother lives, is filled with childhood memories and has been a subject for the photographer’s work for many years. Her photos are proof of what her stories contain and identify the places that have almost become imaginary. By observing them, she noticed similarities between her children and her grandmother. While the children discovered reality, her grandmother, suffering from memory problems, lost touch with it. A search for reality has developed like a game of rock-paper-scissors.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, French/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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Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. A Dialogue with the Fondation Beyeler
Isbn 9791254930007
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22407
€ 18.95
'Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar' investigates the mutual influences and intense exchanges between the two artists, bringing to light Maar not only as the object of representation for Picasso, his lover, and muse, but as a multifaceted artist in her own right, a photographer at the height of her career and a major intellectual reference point for the Spanish artist. Focusing on the years 1935-1944, the publication explores the interpretation of their artistic partnership through essays by Raphaël Bouvier, curator at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, and Emma Lewis, assistant curator at Tate Modern.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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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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Tine Guns - Watching the Black between the Stars
Isbn 9789492574169
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 22362
€ 26.00
In the oeuvre of Belgian artist Tine Guns, which ranges from films and books to photographic installations, the transience of human perception occupies a central place. The effect of our memory on what we perceive means that images never have a conclusive meaning. Her work seeks to repeatedly open up our linear historiographic visual meanings by posing new combinations. In focusing on the constant metamorphosis we undergo as humans and the impossibility of capturing the fleeting reality, she shows us there is always something more to see, something more to know, something more to understand. ‘Watching the Black Between the Stars’ is one such journey.
98 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Dutch
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From the Pot to the Earth at Rochester Square
Isbn 9783956796241
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22399
€ 24.00
“Rochester Square is an oasis between the trundling traffic of Camden Road and busy York Way that welcomes people of all ages, at all hours and in all weathers, to be together to grow and make things. The three animating words – clay, food and garden – summon the organism that Francesca Anfossi and Eric Wragge have fostered. The square has become a nest of creativity that extends an invitation to dwell, make and be happy. In this book, you will find excellently unusual ways of preparing food, examples of many of the wondrous things made and the thoughts and passionate solidarity of neighbours and friends.” — Antony Gormley
136 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 22 cm, pb, 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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Daido Moriyama: Record 50
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 22354
€ 27.65
Daido Moriyama confesses that, towards the end of 2021, he was becoming a little tired of publishing only his trademark street snaps in the ‘Record’ journals and had begun to consider doing other things, like female portraits. One evening in December, he met a woman named Yaco and discovered that she displayed a unique kind of sensitivity. He immediately decided to make the next volume all about Yaco. Starting in the dusky Ginza and Yurakucho neighbourhoods in Tokyo, the photographer and his newfound muse took numerous pictures before moving inside to do a series of nude shots. The striking results of that intimate evening appear in the 50th volume of ‘Record’.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Sakiko Nomura - Blue Water 1967-2022
Isbn 9784898155530
Publisher Little More
Idea code 22320
€ 35.35
Published on the occasion of a large-scale solo exhibition in Sakiko Nomura’s hometown of Shimonoseki, this photobook features older as well as completely new photographs by one of Japan’s most distinguished female photographers. A former assistant to Nobuyoshi Araki, Nomura is known for pictures which glow with strength and intensity and are rooted in stillness and delicacy. Whether she portrays withering flowers, shifting fabrics, flashes of skin, palpable absences, or heavy gazes, Nomura’s images play with longing, eroticism, and allusions. With its generous selection of works from her entire 30-year career, ‘Blue Water’ captures the essence of Nomura’s photography.
104 p, ills bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Japanese
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Shinichiro Shiraishi - Samsara
Isbn 9783945900598
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 22226
€ 38.80
Shot in Dungeness, on the coast of England, this series by Berlin-based photographer Shinichiro Shiraishi is influenced by memories of his childhood visits to his grandparents’ home in the Japanese countryside. It also reflects a realisation that emerged from his time there: that natural and human-made are both part of the landscape and a part of nature. The duality of Dungeness is replicated by the book’s design – images shimmer, black pages balance white, adder stones puncture paper. To visualise the coexistence between natural and artificial objects, 90 photos have been subjected to analogue and digital processes, bringing us closer to the emotions of this peripheral place.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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