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New Titles in Photography 6 December 2022
Bharat Sikka – The Sapper

Isbn 9789083225197
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22667
€ 40.00

Bharat Sikka’s 'The Sapper' is as multi-layered as the relationship that it narrates between a father and an adult son. Through photography, Sikka creates the possibilities for observation, recollection, close comparison, and collaboration, and gives this long-term project a title that both describes and belies its substance. 'The Sapper' is an entitling that offers up a cue for the viewer: an explanation of the circumstances, behaviours, and predilections that we can read into the portrayal of this former “sapper” of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. It suggests a double-edged understanding of this father—the push and pull of his sense of selfhood—as both held in his public, now-historical role, and despite of it. The title could be read as holding its subject at an observable distance and implies, perhaps, the urge of an adult child to adopt a vantage point of parity from which to see their father as another adult.

192 p, ills colour, 24 x 28 cm, pb, English

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The End of Books

Isbn 9783907384022
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 22727
€ 50.95

Between 2019 and 2022 the authors Alberto Vieceli and Sebastian Cremers collected more than 2,000 images of bookends. The diversity of books calls for a certain order. How we order something also reflects our way of thinking. 'The End of Books' represents a subtle dramaturgy of the entire cosmos of book genres. Diverse objects relating to each other are depicting a story of thoughts and our existence.

288 p, ills bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English

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Wouter van de Voorde - Death is Not Here

Isbn 9786185479251
Publisher Void
Idea code 22694
€ 45.95

‘Death is Not Here’ is a personal time capsule for a particularly significant period in Wouter van de Voorde’s life. Coinciding with the Covid-19 lockdown, the photographer was also about to become a father for the second time. He reflects on the convergence of life and death. Exploring and photographing the areas surrounding his adoptive homeland give him a sense of belonging. Having studied painting before, Van de Voorde approaches lighting and photography with a painter’s eye. The monochrome images in this book were created on the lands of the Indigenous Ngunnawal people, the First Nation and Traditional Custodians of the Canberra, Australia, region.

220 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Julie van der Vaart – Blind Spot

Isbn 9786185479244
Publisher Void
Idea code 22693
€ 42.90

'Blind Spot' was made over the course of six years by photographic artist and educator Julie van der Vaart, who deals with the concepts of imaginary time, questioning if our perception of time is real or a constructed concept that we cannot seem to break free from. She wants to show possible connections and correlations between different elements of life and question our place in the larger scheme of things. The artist shoots most of her work in black and white analogue film, focusing on nature and the human body combined with cosmic themes. She has multiple publications and exhibitions under her belt, and is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

220 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English

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Tiane Doan na Champassak: Paris - Hollywood

Isbn 9782492175183
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 22703
€ 34.40

Tiane Doan na Champassak revisits a number of issues from the iconic magazine “Paris-Hollywood”, launched in France in the 1940s. In the middle of its pages, the original magazine had the particularity of offering pin-ups in relief or on tracing paper that the readers could undress. By using his extensive arsenal of postmodern tools, Doan na Champassak cannibalizes the original content with his own photographs, creating a hypnotic dialogue between then and now, recto-verso, dressed-undressed, Bangkok-Paris, Paris-Hollywood. In addition, the alternation between censoring the genitalia and hiding the identity adds a thought-provoking rhythm to the whole.

72 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 34 cm, pb, French/English

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Sari Soininen - Transcendent country of the mind

Isbn 9789492051899
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 22688
€ 30.00

In her early twenties, photographer Sari Soininen regularly and excessively experimented with LSD, which eventually led to an extended psychotic episode that impacted her life in a profound way. ‘Transcendent Country of the Mind’ is a deep dive into encounters with alternative dimensions of reality and perceptions of otherworldly signs around us. Through a kaleidoscope of mesmerising landscapes, unfamiliar portraits, and more, it tells a story of subconsciousness, about the world that resides in the back of our minds. Soininen’s colourful body of work shows our vivid surroundings in all their beauty and darkness, and embraces a journey towards the undiscovered.

80 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

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Petra Noordkamp – Better not Move

Isbn 9789461400727
Publisher Architectura & Natura
Idea code 22700
€ 39.50

In ‘Better not Move', Petra Noordkamp explores a recurring theme in her work – the influence of dreams, experiences, and memories on the perception of architecture in the public space – on a very personal level. The photographs were made during a residency in Japan, soon after the death of her beloved. Images of stones, walls, moss, tree roots, tea rooms, and architectural spaces are interspersed with memories of her partner in the form of pictures of his things: his dress shirt, a comb, a porcelain dish. The work touches on anguish, grief, emptiness, and spatial experience, but also on how objects and buildings provide support during a period of mourning.

194 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, Dutch/English

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Hans Bol – On My Doorstep

Isbn 9789080876781
Publisher Recto Verso Publications
Idea code 22696
€ 63.00

Hans Bol has been living in the Ooijpolder, in the east of the Netherlands, since 1993. Following an earlier series of landscape photographs of this area which he published in 2004, the pandemic presented the perfect opportunity to further investigate his immediate surroundings. According to Bol, it felt liberating and beneficial to be able to explore the landscape with a calm sort of concentration, a small camera always at hand, making pictures inspired by amazement or chance rather than any preconceived plan. This new series of photos made him more conscious than ever of the significance of the concept of “home”. Includes a text by Dutch behavioural biologist Tijs Goldschmidt, recipient of the 2023 P.C. Hooft Award for his complete oeuvre.

108 p, ills bw, 25 x 17 cm, pb, Dutch/English

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Bharat Sikka - Waiting for Midnight

Isbn 9789083285801
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22722
€ 20.00

Taking the name from his daughter's poem, Bharat Sikka explores his village in Goa, Salvador do Mundo (Saviour of the World), where the mundane and the mysterious collide. The photographs in 'Waiting for Midnight' are a culmination of what has been seen, sensed, and experienced over the last 15 years. The Polaroid image creates a nostalgic memory, blurring the line between the past and the present. The work is made around the eve of 2020, waiting for the new year, waiting for midnight.

52 p, ills colour, 31 x 38 cm, pb, English

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Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen Vokseværk

Isbn 9788797352625
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 22673
€ 34.00

Vokseværk (growing pains) is a new photobook about friendship and teenage heyday by the acclaimed visual journalist Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen. The book portrays the life on a Danish efterskole over the cause of a year. Efterskole (literally after-school), is a unique type of optional independent residential school for young people between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Every year over thirty thousand teens apply for the 241 Danish efterskoler and it’s now more popular than ever. In this hormonal chaos there is the freedom to learn more about yourself, and about growing up, growing together and growing apart.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Danish/English

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Bas Losekoot – Streetview

Isbn 9789462264557
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 22712
€ 29.95

Losekoot became known for his street photos showing the individual in megacities. ‘Streetview’ shows a new selection of his long-term project inspired by the start of the ‘Urban Millennium’. He photographed the streets of New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, London, Lagos, Istanbul and Mexico City for lengthy periods to document the consequences of extreme population density on human behaviour. This book is therefore a worldwide time document of modern urban experience, showing how we survive in cities that sometimes don’t seem made for people.

96 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English

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Letizia Le Fur - MYTHOLOGIES III. LES MÉTAMORPHOSES

Isbn 9791097416577
Publisher Rue Du Bouquet
Idea code 22600
€ 61.90

This is the second book from photographer Letizia Le Fur’s ‘Mythologies’ series, inspired by the fascinations of her youth: classical mythology and the search for beauty. Her work explores the relationships between gods, nature, and humans, revisiting myths and combining it with a contemporary theme that stimulates the imagination. Le Fur recomposes images with a method that she developed early on. Her aesthetic approach of working with colours like painter produced fantastical landscapes, mysterious images of fleeting naked bodies, and dreamy scenes of flora and fauna. Included is a text from Gilou Le Gruiec.

120 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, hb, French/English

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Travels in Sardinia - Through the Mines of Iglesias

Isbn 9782493283122
Publisher Caryatide
Idea code 22706
€ 32.25

'Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias' is the first part of an exploration that focuses on soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of Sulcis-Iglesiente, a territory marked by an industrial history. A wandering through time and space of a region «built», transformed, crossed by different types of works, infrastructures, relationships between things. These signs, these scars, are today the distinctive features of an extraordinary mining landscape. A space to discover through visual and textual narration. 'Voyages en Sardaigne' is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on this island in the middle of the Mediterranean. They offer to the reader different ways of observation and restitution of its territory, always characterized by an uncertain temporality: the present and the past merge to build a unique landscape, far from the convulsive setting of the contemporaneity.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 27 cm, pb, French/Italian/English

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Nostalgia

Isbn 9783945900093
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 22682
€ 35.75

This project is about erasure; memory, forgetting, data, archives, etcetera. The book 'Nostalgia' contains 300 image descriptions of deleted photographs taken on various digital cameras since the early 2000s and stored on computers, hard drives, and memory cards. Their diverse subjects range from personal moments, to visual note-taking as a mnemonic device, to photos used in artworks. This artists’ book questions tendencies to produce new images and instead moves in the opposite direction by deleting them and creating texts that produce images in the readers mind.

304 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

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Super Perry - The Iconic Images of Lee 'Scratch' Perry by Dennis Morris

Isbn 9784908749339
Publisher Tang Deng Co.
Idea code 22699
€ 65.55

This photo book featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (1936–2021) contains 42 photographs of the iconic Jamaican singer and producer. British photographer Dennis Morris had a personal friendship with the producer, photographing Perry’s recording sessions at the legendary Black Ark studios in the 70s. Their photography sessions together resumed in the 2000s, and into Perry’s later years in London. Morris’ career began when he was only eleven and one of his photographs was printed on the front page of the Daily Mirror. He went on to photograph many other influential musicians such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, Sex Pistols, Marianne Faithfull, The Stone Roses, and more.

72 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, Japanese/English

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Marina Roy - Queuejumping

Isbn 9781988860039
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 22669
€ 50.60

Encyclopaedic in form, Marina Roy’s ‘Queuejumping’ eloquently unspools manifestations of capitalist, colonialist, agrologic, and scientific impulses, all within the context of the letter Q. Roy enlists art writing, poetry, lists, found images, and essays on humankind’s hunger to supersede the Other (in order to uphold what she calls “the vertically directed world”) in this artfully academic work. From queens, queers, quadrupeds, and the Quran, to quick, quiddity, and quotidian, and from millions of years of organic decay to contemplating contemporary art, dive into the origins of hegemonic forces, what is lost by winning, and what can be gained by stepping out of line.

736 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, hb, English

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Watanabe Koichi: Contrayerba in Dreaming - detox plants-history

Isbn 9784861528965
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 22652
€ 55.25

Watanabe Koichi investigates the ‘contrayerba’ plant, a mysterious medicinal herb with anti-poisonous properties that is no longer in use. Spanning a history of 500 years, he traces the movement of this plant through Europe, America, and Asia. First mentioned in Dutch books from the Edo period, Koichi noticed that many plants with the same name appear and disappear over time. He explores how people use plants as medicines, and ends his journey and book in a forest where the plant grows wild. Included is a text by author Anna Tsing, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, and co-director of the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 31 x 23 cm, hb, Japanese/English

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Sarah Horn En-Suites Available

Isbn 9780995473096
Publisher Occasional Papers
Idea code 22675
€ 19.25

When Sarah Horn began photographing hotel frontages in Blackpool, UK, little did she know that her collection would result in a unique archive of coastal architecture, vernacular typography and unconscious poetry. Never have the mundane dreams of escape, leisure and pastime seemed so compelling and poignant. This book is an essential resource for sociologists of tourism, typography collectors and those who, when everyone looks at the sunset, turn the other way.

122 p, ills colour, 18 x 13 cm, pb, English

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Sebastián Bruno - Duelos y Quebrantes

Isbn 9788409009497
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code
€ 35.75

Loosely translated as ‘Grief and Sorrow’, ‘Duelos y Quebrantos’ is a traditional dish from Castilla La Mancha. Historically, it was offered to those who had converted to Christianity, symbolising the break with their ancient religion. Between 2013 and 2018, Sebastián Bruno walked 2,500km through the central Spanish regions of Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara, and Toledo. He positions himself as a modern Don Quixote, taking the route from the book ‘Don Quijote de La Mancha.’ Bruno’s black and white photographs offer a glimpse into the everyday lives of the people in this territory, and how their values and traditions have survived the passage of time.

84 p, ills bw, 19 x 23 cm, hb, Spanish/English


Yurian Quintanas - Indago

Isbn 9788460869900
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code
€ 29.60

“Indago” is a work which comes from contemplating the natural environment and its different guises. In these photographs Yurian Quintanas rediscovers forms and endows them with new meanings reflecting states of mind as well as inner feelings. These images in black and white conjure the night, and speak to the viewer of man and nature, of life and death, or about object’s concrete appearance. Ultimately, the images are open to interpretation, waiting to be transformed, to evoke different shades of experience in others.

80 p, ills bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English


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