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Charlotte Dumas - A TERRA
Isbn 9789072532541
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 23138
€ 39.50
Charlotte Dumas spent a few months in the spring of 2006 living in a tiny rooftop accommodation in Palermo, overlooking the city. The photographer became fascinated with a pack of stray dogs hanging around the park across the street, watching them lazing in the shade or listening to their barking at night. Over time, she became familiar with different packs of dogs, each with their own territory in the old parts of town. They roamed around the harbour and in the street markets, circling the butcher stands. At night she found them curled up in cardboard boxes that were left for them, gentle and humble. For her, the dogs evoke thoughts about temporality and what it means to belong.
46 p, ills colour, 18 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Maarten Brinkman – Forbidden trees
Isbn 9783859119048
Publisher Sinwel Verlag
Idea code 23137
€ 34.00
During the pandemic, photographer Maarten Brinkman took to wandering the forests around Amsterdam. The temporary lack of physical contact was filled by the presence of the many beech trees. But he quickly noticed that certain trees, with their arrangements of limbs, clefts, creases, and whorls, actually seem “erotic” in nature. Perhaps the trees trust that no one will observe their unabashed behaviour. Maybe they do not care that everyone can admire them in their full glory, or maybe they secretly enjoy it. With ‘Forbidden trees’, any trepidation vanishes and Brinkman reveals it all. The book opens the way for voyeuristically exploring natural variations that seem just a step too far.
62 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, German/English
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Rinko Kawauchi - M/E On this sphere Endlessly interlinking
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Publisher Asahi Shimbun
Idea code 23008
€ 46.40
‘M/E’ showcases the essence of Rinko Kawauchi’s oeuvre through work from the past decade combined with never-before-seen images from her archives. It is grounded in a new series the photographer began in 2019 comprised of Icelandic volcanoes and ice floes and the snowy landscapes of Hokkaido, Japan, juxtaposed alongside everyday scenes from the Covid-19 pandemic. In this exhibition catalogue, Kawauchi composes a sequence that allows her audience to relive the three-dimensional exhibition space. By altering the format and paper for each series, the book becomes a multi-layered volume that embodies the depth of her poetic style, despite its ordinary binding.
224 p, ills colour, 23 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Ine Lamers – The Radiant Screen
Isbn 9789083285832
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 23111
€ 27.50
’The Radiant Screen’ is a project about the closed city of Zheleznogorsk, hidden in the heart of Siberia. Zheleznogorsk is one of the twelve (still-)closed cities in Russia. It was established in the early 1950s to serve as a top-secret site for military scientific research, designed as a utopian city according to an artistic masterplan. As a secret city, Zheleznogorsk did not officially exist or appear on any maps. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, its residents voted on whether to maintain their distance from the rest of the world and stay ‘closed’. They chose to remain in splendid isolation.'The Radiant Screen' is a mesh of evidence for which Lamers collaborated with various people, each participant reflecting different aspects of the dream. Lamers gathered evidence, verbal descriptions, testimonies, and archival documents. Combined with her own photographs and produced recordings, this publication present a layered story of ‘the last socialist paradise on earth’, full of controversy with gaps and glitches.
152 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Encounters in an Archive. Objects of Migration / Photo-Objects of Art History
Isbn 9788897753902
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 23147
€ 25.55
This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey, particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and are now part of the “Objects of Escape – Inventories of Migration’’ archive. These objects are functional to the journey, such as biscuit tins and water bottles, passports and nautical charts, but they also relate to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, or a handful of earth from their homeland. In the installation “Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive,” Ricciardo creates a dialogue between selected objects from this archive and structures from the KHI Photothek on the other. The installation, which led to this book, raises a series of highly relevant questions about these ‘talking’ objects: who do they belong to? Are they part of the cultural heritage? What would be the appropriate artistic and curatorial approach if one decided to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them?
208 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Katinka Bock - Der Sonnenstich
Isbn 9789464460346
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23097
€ 30.00
Katinka Bock’s book ‘Der Sonnenstich’ appears with the first exhibition to focus solely on her photographic work. Parallel to her work as a sculptor, she often takes pictures using an old analogue camera. The subjects are diverse, and when people come into the frame they tend to be anonymised, close-up details of body parts like hands, feet, and necks. The book includes 55 reproductions of analogue photos taken between 2015 and 2023, attesting to the ‘sculptural’ view she has on objects, spaces, bodies, and living organisms. Many of them appeared previously in Bock’s ‘One of Hundred’ publications, an ongoing irregular series in collaboration with graphic designer Louis Lüthi.
92 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, French/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 52
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 23095
€ 27.65
Daido Moriyama looks at Tokyo unlike anyone else. On the occasion of the publication of the 50th volume of ‘Record’, his works were shown in a celebratory slide show at a gallery in Ginza. Reflecting on that moment in this volume, he recounts how, standing in the midst of the strange and chaotic images from Tokyo, Marrakech, and New York that covered every inch of the gallery’s walls, perpetually illuminated by seven projectors, he felt suddenly disconnected from them. At once, the images transformed into the very “spirit” of photography itself. For Moriyama, the experience of witnessing this slide show of his own works taught him a whole new way of responding to them.
120 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Haruka Fujita – Torikumo
Isbn 9784908062469
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 22757
€ 63.95
‘Torikumo’ is an ambitious work where photographer Haruka Fujita captures the landscapes of her hometown Tohoku, portraying the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics. Using images of sliding screens gilded with gold and silver leaf as a base, she then layered other images on top, incorporating the characteristic of blank spaces in sliding screen paintings. Containing nuances in contrast and textures, each piece was created on-the-spot and hand-printed by Fujita in the darkroom. This unique book is bound in an accordion style with all pages are connected to each other, similar to a picture scroll that is also a traditional Japanese art form.
72 p, ills colour, 15 x 19 cm, hb, English
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Purple 39: The New York Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 23092
€ 41.60
Today, a new generation of artists, musicians, designers, gallerists, and writers are taking New York by storm, determined to make it, even though it is the most expensive city in the world. They find spaces further and further from Manhattan, from Brooklyn to upstate, and sometimes even elsewhere, while still thinking and breathing New York. Above all, New York is a state of mind. It remains the most creative, intellectual, fearless, and transgressive city in the United States – for better or worse. In an issue as expansive as the city itself, discover denizens like Tali Lennox, Natasha Lyonne, Bob Colacello, John Currin, Ebecho Muslimova, Roger Jazilek, Amy Fine Collins, and many more.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Adji Dieye - Aphasia
Isbn 9783856169862
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 23124
€ 31.20
Themes of postcolonialism and nation building play a prominent role in the artistic practice of Italian-Senegalese artist Adji Dieye. ‘Aphasia’, after the language disorder, is a new video work the artist produced in Dakar. The work examines the role of language in the formation of the nation of Senegal through an interplay of photographs, video, and performance. She therefore not only engages with alternative forms of knowledge production but also delves into autobiographical facets and connections. This book both presents the work and contextualises Dieye’s approach through texts contributed by photography theorist Katrin Bauer and art critic and curator Olamiju Fajemisin.
100 p, ills colour, 21 x 27 cm, pb, German/English
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Wendelien van Oldenborgh – unset on-set
Isbn 9784907562380
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 23125
€ 31.50
In her first solo exhibition in Japan, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Dutch artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh exhibits six works, from the moving images for which she is most recognised to her recent pieces. The new artworks, created in Japan for the exhibition, employ texts primarily authored by female writers active in the 1920s–1940s that explore issues such as women’s social status, sexuality, and war. This catalogue offers a multifaceted reading of the artist’s work, interwoven with installation views and stills from video works. Designed by Akiko Wakabayashi, it shifts between the video stills and texts while examining the artist’s thought-provoking works.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Diewke van den Heuvel – Melting Heart
Isbn 9789462264700
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23145
€ 40.00
Climate change is a difficult concept because it is not immediately visible to everyone. Which is why “seeing with your own eyes” is essential. Diewke van den Heuvel has made several trips to the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps, the largest glacier in Europe. Due to global warming, the glacier is melting at such a rapid pace that it will disappear within 70 years. With each visit, she documents this process with her camera, noticing where it is becoming more dangerous to traverse or go underneath the glacier due to the thinning, fragile ice. The conceptual is transformed into a real image. Her photos capture the relationship between humans and nature, and the impact and grandeur of the natural environment – a warning, a poetic ode, and a way to mourn this loss.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch/German/English
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HJ Hunter – Once Upon a Time
Isbn 9789462264571
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code
€ 45.00
Once upon a time is a portrait of the post-industrial heart of Western Europe. The landscapes, portraits and interiors tell a story about inhabitants from different cultures trying to make the best of their lives in a region with an uneasy cinematic beauty. The story also touches on a current social problem. The world must and wants to say goodbye to polluting industry and coal for generating energy. The 95 images show what the impact can be on an area and its residents if large industrial companies close and the local economy has to reinvent itself.
176 p, ills colour, 24 x 34 cm, hb, Dutch/German/French/English
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Chris Bierl - A One Storied Country
Isbn 9781908889836
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23078
€ 35.75
In 1957, an explosion occurred at the “Mayak” nuclear facility near the town of Kyshtym in the Russian Urals. Although scattered reports of a nuclear accident in Russia appeared in the Western press the following year, the Soviet government refused to acknowledge the event. The Techa, a nearby river, was already noted for its nuclear contamination despite the dozens of villages that relied on it. Chris Bierl followed the river upstream, leading him to many more poisoned and exploited places. His series shows impressions from the region and the effects of this anthropological invasion of natural landscapes, part of the Berlin-based artist’s interest in post-Soviet spaces.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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