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Xiaoxiao Xu - Shooting the Tiger
Isbn 9789492051783
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22480
€ 32.00
Discover the traditional festival known as Shèhuo, which takes place in Northwest China. Through theatrical performances, songs, and acrobatics, farmers invoke blessings for an abundant and fruitful harvest in the coming season. In a world where the connection between people and the soil has become frail, this book celebrates an aspect of Chinese culture that seems to be disappearing, but might instead be evolving. It follows Xiaoxiao Xu on her journey into the colourful world of Shèhuo as she travels from village to village, is welcomed into homes, and experiences preparations for the events. Xu shows that there is still comfort in traditions, even when they are not ours.
96 p, ills colour, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Youqine Lefèvre - The Land of Promises
Isbn 9789492051837
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22510
€ 40.00
‘The Land of Promises’ tells the intimate and personal stories of people living under the restrictions of China’s one-child policy. The policy has had huge and far-reaching consequences, particularly for hundreds of thousands of Chinese girls who have been separated from their families and registered for adoption. Photographer Youqine Lefèvre sets out to portray the journey of her own adoption through the story of six Belgian families. In doing so, she relates it to a broader context of international and transracial adoptions and other stories told by those she has met in the course of her travels. The changes in their lives resonate to this day and will continue in the future.
244 p, ills colour, 23 x 29 cm, pb, French/English
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Jürgen Bergbauer - Le Chiffonnier (The Rag-Picker)
Isbn 9789464460261
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22484
€ 40.00
Over a period of 11 years, Bergbauer photographically collected "image rags" and "object scraps" at flea markets in 11 European countries. He was particularly attracted to art reproductions. For a moment the long-gone aura of "pictures of pictures" seems to be recharged by being unconsciously staged. In the immediate vicinity of reproduced "masterpieces", almost everything turns into an equally seductive sensation. For the concept and design of this book, two particular publications have been inspirational: Le Musée Imaginaire (1947) by André Malraux, and the Xerox Book (1968) by Seth Siegelaub.
372 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Thomas Mailaender - Time Travellers
Isbn 9782492175152
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22503
€ 12.90
The eighth instalment in the series of albums by Thomas Mailaender devoted to amateur practices identified on the Web, Time Travellers brings together a set of images posted online showing strangers striking a pose in front of iconic paintings. Selected for their resemblance (sometimes a bit far-fetched), the models reenact the poses seen in the paintings and offer us a new way to look at the history of art.
54 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, no text
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Purple 38: The 30yrs Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 22509
€ 41.60
Purple celebrates its 30th anniversary and for this issue interweaves new editorial content with facsimiles of pages from past issues to show how different moments in time resonate and connect to each other. This issue tells the story of 30 years devoted to artists, designers, photographers, writers, cities and other facets that define the Purple World - such as night, philosophy, diversity, avant-garde, sex and politics. Throughout 30 parts full of photography, fashion, cool kids and nostalgia, the 30YRS issue features Elein Fleiss, Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Maurizio Cattelan, Dash Snow, Juergen Teller, Marlene Dumas and many many more. Accompanied by a special Urs Fischer Purple Book.
544 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Footprint — Gerco de Ruijter and Peter Delpeut
Isbn 9789083225159
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22505
€ 27.50
‘Footprint’ explores ways of mapping information and aerial and satellite photography of the landscape. Together with writer and filmmaker Peter Delpeut, artist Gerco de Ruijter set out on a visual investigation into a phenomenon they encountered on Google Earth while looking at airports. In the winter, planes are stripped of ice. The stencil of an aeroplane remains on the concrete, just long enough for the satellite to photograph it. Do these giant drawings of aeroplanes really belong on a map, or is Google Earth not a map, but a unique image of the world? Designer Hans Gremmen created a folding “map” that provides a range of combinations between image and text.
64 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Émeric Lhuisset: Ukraine – Hundred Hidden Faces
Isbn 9782492696114
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 22486
€ 47.85
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine – in reality a war of aggression, a reaction to the rapprochement of a sovereign country to the West. For many Ukrainians, this came as no surprise. Their resistance to the Russian invasion was fierce, courageous, and surprisingly strong. Not only did the regular army fight back, civilians also armed themselves and engaged the enemy. In this volume, Émeric Lhuisset presents over 100 civilians who are part of the resistance movement. He photographed them from behind, since the danger of them being recognised with frontal portraits would be too great. He hopes someday that their faces can be shown.
200 p, ills colour, 29 x 41 cm, pb, Ukrainian/French/English
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Oriane Thomasson - Paradis
Isbn 9789492051844
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22463
€ 30.00
Inspired by the Wunderkammer and its particular notion towards the rare, eclectic and esoteric, Oriane Thomasson created ‘Paradis’, where science and art, natural and artificial, come together to produce a new fiction. The collection is a mosaic of photographic work and archival materials, from images she made during her Asian travels, to botanical and mineralogical illustrations. It questions the concept of nature and the myths from Western societies that stem from those. A fictional text woven through the images leads to mysterious and unknown lands. The work is thus an invitation to rediscover nature’s ability to make us imagine, dream, and build new stories.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Oriane Thomasson - Paradis (French edition)
Isbn 9789492051851
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code
€ 30.00
Inspired by the Wunderkammer and its particular notion towards the rare, eclectic and esoteric, Oriane Thomasson created ‘Paradis’, where science and art, natural and artificial, come together to produce a new fiction. The collection is a mosaic of photographic work and archival materials, from images she made during her Asian travels, to botanical and mineralogical illustrations. It questions the concept of nature and the myths from Western societies that stem from those. A fictional text woven through the images leads to mysterious and unknown lands. The work is thus an invitation to rediscover nature’s ability to make us imagine, dream, and build new stories.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, French
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Marijke van Warmerdam - Then, Now and Then
Isbn 9789464460247
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22483
€ 25.00
‘Then, Now, and Then’ consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image qualities, Van Warmerdam celebrates the hidden order of chance that makes street life so colourful throughout the centuries. This collection of stills and summaries brings the films to life.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Marijke van Warmerdam - Then, Now and Then (Dutch edition)
Isbn 9789464460230
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code
€ 25.00
‘Then, Now, and Then’ consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image qualities, Van Warmerdam celebrates the hidden order of chance that makes street life so colourful throughout the centuries. This collection of stills and summaries brings the films to life.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 29 cm, pb, Dutch
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Christiane Büssgen - The Silver Table Book
Isbn 9789083213224
Publisher House Publishing
Idea code 22477
€ 45.00
A collection of daily moments. The Silver Table Book contains a selection of 100 pictures of ingredients taken during the first lock-down in the pandemic of 2020. This is not a cookbook, as there are no recipes. This is also not the body of work of a photographer, as Christiane doesn’t define herself as such. Instead the book celebrates the beauty of this unclear in-between, like an ongoing investigation into the relation between living and capturing life. The Silver Table Book is about the beauty of the food we eat every day. It is about seeing and celebrating beauty in the most ordinary.
236 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English
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C’è tempo per le nespole - New Stories from the First World War
Isbn 9788885449831
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22469
€ 40.85
Exactly a century after the establishment of commemorative monuments and parks built in Italy in the aftermath of the First World War to honour the fallen, the exhibition initiated by the ICCD in Rome, curated by Francesca Fabiani and Alessandro Coco, raises questions around the theme of the monument and memory by proposing a selection of contemporary works. These are the result of heterogeneous projects ranging from performance to installation, and from documentary photography to illustration. The eight participating artists, each through their own language, have activated new narratives for exploring not only military but also cultural and social aspects of the First World War.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Roger Ballen
Isbn 9788885449954
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22470
€ 26.90
Roger Ballen is one of the most important and influential art photographers today. He is best known for his probing, often challenging images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation, and photography. Through the 1990s he developed a style he describes as “documentary fiction”, and after 2000 the people he discovered and documented living on the margins of South African society increasingly became a cast of actors in his signature aesthetic. This book presents a wealth of the strange and extreme images he makes, confronting the viewer and challenging them to accompany him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own.
88 p, ills bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Italia in-attesa. 12 Racconti Fotografici / 12 Photographic Stories
Isbn 9788885449961
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22472
€ 37.65
The Italy depicted by these twelve photographers is an “Italy-in-waiting”, an unexpected Italy as it existed during the most challenging period of the first pandemic lockdown. Their investigations capture Italy’s cultural heritage and its context, urban and non-urban landscapes, all suddenly free from human presence, particularly the mass tourism that had come to alter the natural balance. Whether it is an empty piazza, a detail of an artwork, a mountainous or seaside landscape, or a portrait, each photograph conveys with impressive immediacy the disorientation of the observer. Includes works by Mario Cresci, Olivo Barbieri, Paola De Pietri, Ilaria Ferretti, Walter Niedermayr, and others.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Erik Kessels - Complete Amateur
Isbn 9791254930137
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22508
€ 33.45
A celebration of amateurism by Erik Kessels, one of the most original figures in today’s art and design scene, 'Complete Amateur' explains how to let go of everything you know and embrace things you know nothing about. Full of brilliant masterpieces by absolute beginners (and also by artists who have kept experimenting with a beginner’s approach), this photographic guide invites you to exercise your amateur muscle and escape the traps of professionalism.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Avant-Garde Rising: The Photographic Vanguard in Modern Japan
Isbn 9784336073679
Publisher Kokushokankokai
Idea code 22418
€ 33.00
Despite the rich discourse surrounding it and the dynamic practice that it engendered, the photographic avant-garde in Japan only existed for a brief period during the 1920s and ’30s. Yet it also contributed to the continuation of the production of radical visual arts and played a key role in the education of a post-war generation of Japanese artists who came of age in the 1950s and ’60s. Initially centred around Osaka and the Kansai region, the movement was inspired by contact with the work of photographers and surrealists overseas, at first through magazines and photobooks and later by touring exhibitions in Japan. This catalogue presents an impressive visual history of the movement.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Migrations - Givors - Alexandre Guirkinger
Isbn 9782492175206
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22512
€ 26.90
The twenty-one landscapes featured in this book were conceived in March 2022 during a photography workshop led by Alexandre Guirkinger and arranged by the exhibition space and resource center Stimultania in partnership with the CADA Le Moulin reception center for asylum seekers and the non-profit organization Forum réfugiés. Eight migrants having recently settled in Givors took part in the workshop. Ali Rahmani, Fkadu A., Habibollah R., Nasim Rahimi, Nicole M., Nuhas K., Omid M. and Souleyman N. first identified the places that made an impression on them when they arrived in the city, that they visit every day, that they especially like, or that typify France for them. Following an initial scouting phase, the landscapes were produced using an 8-by-10-inch view camera in dialogue with Alexandre Guirkinger. All of the participants printed contact sheets for their photographs and then wrote captions for them in their native languages.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 32 cm, hb, French/English
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Kourtney Roy - The Other End of the Rainbow
Isbn 9782492696060
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 22490
€ 69.90
British Columbia, Canada, has experienced an unending cycle of killings and murders over the past 50 years. Since 1969, dozens of women and girls, many of them indigenous, have gone missing. Some were later found dead, scattered along a 720-kilometre corridor of road known as the “Highway of Tears”. The majority of the disappearances and crimes remain unsolved. By replacing direct evidence with absence, photographer Kourtney Roy highlights the impossibility of any obvious way of speaking about these “lesser valued” lives. Roy’s account mixes facts, personal stories from local people with a connection to these women, and images of this isolated and remote area.
432 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Bas Medik - Hook Echo
Isbn 9789083227429
Publisher Free Pony Press
Idea code
€ 45.00
A hook echo is a radar signature for the part of a supercell tornado wherein the clouds come together with maximum force. Its name derives from the hook-shaped formation with which it shows up on a weather radar. In 1974 a supercell tornado hit the city of Xenia, Ohio (US), demolishing around 1400 buildings. This publication, printed on newspaper, juxtaposes two sequences of found collections: a set of 48 photographs that capture the aftermath of the Ohio tornado, and 22 pages from an album of compiled crochet samples. In this new context, the images relate to each other as a series of structures that become physical matter, accumulations of material. One original print from 1974 is enclosed in each publication, sealed in a plastic sleeve.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 28 x 38 cm, pb, English
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