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Michael Wolf Architecture Of Density - Hong Kong (new ed)
Isbn 9783981980516
Publisher Buchkunst Berlin
Idea code 22648
€ 48.00
Since its first publication in 2012, “Architecture of Density” has become a milestone in the history of the photo book. The series has won many awards and the photographs have also become a symbol for the megacity Hong Kong - the photographer’s adopted home from 2002 to 2019. The new edition also contains 9 additional unpublished images from the photographer's archive. Focusing on the specific visual elements of Hong Kong, Michael Wolf has depicted life in architectural and social densification in one of the most crowded cities in the world and developed a distinctive photographic style. He removes any skyline or horizon from the image, achieving a flattening of space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban development from which the viewer’s eye can no longer escape. With this visual irritation, Michael Wolf conveys the feeling of an expansion of the buildings into infinity, which may also be the spatial experience of Hong Kong residents.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 31 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Johan van der Keuken
Isbn 9789462264540
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22643
€ 45.00
Johan van der Keuken (1938–2001) was a Dutch writer, photographer, and cinematographer who gained recognition both nationally and internationally for images, photobooks, and films that oscillate between visual poetry and documentary. His work is usually considered part of the tradition of Dutch documentary photography and film, in which humanism is significant. His sensitive gaze, which emphasises the importance of concentrated looking and perceiving as well as thinking visually, places him among the standout post-war photographers from the Netherlands. This book is published to mark a large retrospective on Van der Keuken at the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Petra Stavast – S75
Isbn 9789464460254
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22574
€ 30.00
Through the media of photography, film, and text, Dutch visual artist and photographer Petra Stavast unravels and structures complex social issues, often departing from a seemingly insignificant personal observation. ‘S75’ is a project she named after the Siemens S75, a mobile phone that was launched in 2005. It was Stavast’s first phone which featured an integrated camera, with a maximum resolution of 1280 × 960 pixels. All the portraits appearing in this series were photographed by Stavast using the S75 between 2006 and 2022 in Amsterdam, Banff, and Shanghai. The book is designed by Hans Gremmen.
224 p, ills colour, 27 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Cabaret Bizarre
Isbn 9783856169817
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 22613
€ 51.60
Kostas Maros has been accompanying the artists and performers of Cabaret Bizarre since 2013, following and documenting their appearances throughout Europe and taking photographs both during performances and backstage. Intimate and unadorned, his pictures reveal moments of tension before the spotlight and euphoric exhaustion after the show. Cabaret Bizarre was inspired by the sombre variety theatres which appeared in Berlin in the 1920s and early ’30s, as well as by the surreal aesthetic of filmmakers Federico Fellini and Luis Buñuel. This book celebrates that intoxicating night-time world, at once a flamboyant carnival of desires and sumptuous freak show.
192 p, ills colour, 23 x 29 cm, hb, German/French/English
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Manon, Zürich – Paris
Isbn 9783907384039
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 22585
€ 43.00
Manon is one of the first and perhaps also best-known Swiss performance artists. After moving from Zurich to Paris in 1978, she began shooting photographic scenes in staged environments. In these, she often chose to address the social construction of identity. The photographs that comprise this book are mostly based on sketches and notes for her well-known series from the late 1970s entitled “La dame au crane rasé” (The Woman with the Shaved Head). Never before published, they evolved in the period between 1977 and 1980, and were only recently discovered in the cellar of the artist’s house due to a water problem. Edited and designed by Chris Eggli.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, German/English
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Falsification: Photographs by Seba Kurtis with a Story by Hiromi Kawakami
Isbn 9780997359671
Publisher The Gould Collection
Idea code 22658
€ 66.00
Since its inception in 2016, The Gould Collection editors have brought together a diverse group of photographers and writers from around the world. A shared thematic sensibility underlies the editors’ selection of the photographer-writer pairings presented in each volume. There are commonalities but also differences. Somewhere in between lies an ambiguous space that destabilizes reader assumptions—inviting shifting perspectives and a fluid interaction between words and images. For volume six of The Gould Collection, altered realities—by choice or coercion—inform the pairing of photographs by Seba Kurtis with a short story by Hiromi Kawakami. Conflict, whether national or local, transforms and imprints lives. Some flee, others remain, but all are marked by the trauma. Memories of what was are often elusive or completely altered, even after life regains some degree of normalcy.
92 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English/Japanese
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Marta Sellarés - La casa de piedra
Isbn 9788409257362
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22666
€ 15.30
The House of Stone is a project that unfolds through the labyrinth of relationships between places and individuals, reviewing those created and felt imaginaries that are a constant in our memory. Perceived more or less consciously, this sphere is expressed in our interior while, in turn, we express ourselves in it, and thus configure our personal living space. In this way, the work revolves around familiar spaces and what takes place in them. Each element is photographed from an autobiographical point of view, charting an emotional map of a specific way of relating to and with space. Marta Sellarés (Calatayud, 1996) . Having obtained a degree in Fine Arts, Marta currently combines her training with her job as a teacher and her own personal work.
80 p, ills bw, 10 x 14 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Ruth M. Anderson - En el Viejo Mundo / In the Old World
Isbn 9788412394962
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 22640
€ 20.30
In 1926 Ruth Matilda Anderson, staff photographer for the Hispanic Society of America, New York, travelled throughout Spain to take pictures for their museum. The book contains a smashing collection of the photos she took during four weeks in the province of Zamora. She produced almost 650 images ranging from scenes of Holy Week to those of rural life. The work proved so fruitful that, as she later recognised, the province of Zamora had provided “the richest source so far for our kind of material.” Although she was following specific instructions from the Hispanic Society as to what to record, she demonstrated such talent that her pictures afford a remarkable glimpse of life at that time, vividly evoking this world with great humanity and artistry.
105 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Nordine Makhloufi - Quand la Ville Dort
Isbn 9781739881320
Publisher KAHL Editions
Idea code 22618
€ 43.00
A tribute to queer friendships, ‘When the City Sleeps’ is a personal collection of photographs by Parisian photographer Nordine Makhloufi. Featuring his close friends, Dustin, Nix, Raya, and other friends who are also queer artists, Makhloufi’s intimate portraits celebrate their queerness, pride, courage, and creativity. The bold images take you on a journey through their lives and offer honest glimpses into moments of vulnerability and community around Paris, France. This is the artist’s first book, and includes a poem by his friend Hugo Kreit, who is also featured in the photographs.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Fumi Nagasaka - Marching Wolves
Isbn 9781739881337
Publisher KAHL Editions
Idea code 22617
€ 48.40
New York-based photographer Fumi Nagasaka presents ‘Marching Wolves,’ a personal project and photographic collection. On a trip to New Orleans in 2017, she caught the performance by school band Saint Paul’s Marching Wolves at the Mardi Gras Festival. Greatly inspired by their energy and style, she reached out to band director Andrew Moran, who agreed to let her photograph the band during Mardi Gras 2017, 2018 and 2020. Nagasaka provides a specific view of American youth culture with this book, and also has other photography books with similar subjects published. She was born and raised in Nagoya Japan, before moving to the United States in 2002.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Mònica Roselló y Jordi Guillumet - Registro pendiente
Isbn 9788409413386
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22571
€ 30.65
The evocative and poetic black-and-white photographs in this book show fragments of the world, alluding to memory and storytelling. It is less about the meaning of the images, but rather the embodiment of the human spirit. With text by Marta Gili, she writes that this work is “an exaltation in images of the immense value of life, while it lasts.” It is the winner of the sixth edition of the Fotocanal Photography Book Contest 2021, organized by the Community of Madrid and Ediciones Anómalas.
118 p, ills bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Camilla de Maffei - Delta
Isbn 9788409411764
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 22543
€ 35.75
Camilla de Maffei presents a subjective reportage made in the region between Romania and Ukraine, where the Danube ends its journey before flowing into the Black Sea; Europe’s largest river delta and also its last frontier. She spent almost four years exploring this remote and historically isolated place, hoping to discover the relationship between the landscape and the identity of the people who inhabit it. ‘Delta’ mixes images of this wild and labyrinthine territory with portraits of the people she met during her travels. As part of her research, De Maffei worked with concepts of psychogeography and drifting, as well as the idea of the field diary, adapting its format to her needs.
244 p, ills colour, 19 x 24 cm, pb, Catalan/Spanish/English
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Conradin Frei - Dorade Royale
Isbn 9783907333020
Publisher Cpress
Idea code 22572
€ 48.40
In the economic boom from the 1950s to the 1970s, beach holidays became affordable for the masses. On the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Atlantic coasts, a gigantic infrastructure was built to create a stage set for the good times. Conradin Frei has photographed these dream factories on the beach for a number of years. He revels in the artifice of these places, their incongruous admixture of nature and civilisation, their crudely eclectic mixture of architectural styles. 'Dorade Royale' is a poetic and playful visual travelogue, whose subtle mastery of colours ironically evokes the elusive utopias of bygone summers.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Eva Nielsen - Chroma
Isbn 9782492175138
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22586
€ 64.50
Eva Nielsen’s hybrid practice explores the boundaries between painting and photography while embracing the potential for permeability between these two mediums. Through the use of overlays, by combining painting techniques with those of silk screening she brings together landscapes and architectural elements in sequences of strata, evoking the sedimentary mechanisms hinted at by the territorial fragments they represent. Nielsen was invited for the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Métiers d’Art residency at Les Tanneries Roux, where she worked for six months to develop new works combining the contrasting materials of leather and silk. ‘Chroma’ documents her findings.
152 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 51
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 22611
€ 27.65
Award-winning photographer Daido Moriyama returns with his usual attitude and a collection of images of crowds of people in the streets of Tokyo, Japan. He had been working on a close-up shot of a woman’s voluptuous lips for a billboard when he was inspired to walk over to the nearby entertainment district to continue shooting. These black-and-white photos capture the spirit of the Nishi-Shinjuku neighbourhood, the area where they were shot. He dedicates this instalment of ‘Record’ to Nishi-Shinjuku, and reflects that it had been a while since he had walked and shot in the area.
104 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Tube Station Anthology 1900 – 1933
Isbn 9781999759650
Publisher Art Deco Magpie
Idea code 22625
€ 36.40
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, London was revelling in a new transport phenomenon, the world's first underground railway. By the turn of the century, a construction boom was underway as competing companies operating below the capital's streets sought to expand as rapidly as possible. 'Tube Station Anthology (1900-1933)' documents the surviving station buildings from this period, covering the now iconic work of Leslie Green and his contemporaries through to the designs of Charles W. Clarke for the Metropolitan Railway during the inter-war years.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 18 cm, hb, English
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