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Flaneur issue 09: Paris Boulevard Périphérique
Isbn 9772196537004
Publisher Edition Messner
Idea code 23218
€ 28.00
Flaneur's ninth edition focuses on the Boulevard Périphérique in Paris – choosing the former city wall and current city limits of Paris is intended to pose the question of how narratives of the peripheries could challenge centralist power and pave the way for a city of the future that reflects the reality of a multitude of communities rather than a normative majority. In an attempt to mirror this idea in its editorial approach, the editors have decentralized the making process for Issue 09 by inviting four curating editors (Alix Hugonnier, Annabelle Lacroix, Heryte Tefery Tequame and Justinien Tribillon) who, together with the team of Flaneur, conceptualized the issue in constant exchange and collaboration.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English/French
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Photology
Isbn 9789082029185
Publisher Blind Finch Books
Idea code 23224
€ 35.00
Inspired by the work of the Czech philosopher Vilém Flusser, Arjan de Nooy proposes a distinctive outlook on photography in 20 propositions. These are the opening moves of 'Photology', a photobook about photography played by the author. The title refers both to the study of the medium as to the logic of photography games. Using found photographs, postcards, online images, and photo simulations, De Nooy constructs a personal overview. Typical categories such as history, chance, style, information, genres such as the portrait, and various photo theorists are treated in a playful manner.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Ari Marcopoulos - Ainsi Soit-Il
Isbn 9789492811844
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23203
€ 55.00
“I came around the bend of the unpaved road that opened up onto a bay and a view out to the ocean as far as the eye could see. I knew this view very well, even though it was my first time there.” This is the scene Ari Marcopoulos describes when he and Kara Walker went to visit Robert Frank and his wife, June Leaf, at their summer house in Nova Scotia. It felt like a pilgrimage. Robert would pass away a year later, shortly after their second visit. Presented here are the intimate photographs Ari captured during these two encounters among dear friends. “Ainsi soit-il” is the phrase Robert taught Ari. “So be it”. Limited edition with a signed Risograph print and other inserts.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Bertien van Manen - Gluckauf
Isbn 9789083285849
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 23172
€ 45.00
Bertien van Manen grew up in Heerlen, at the heart of the eastern part of the former coal mining region in the Netherlands, where her father worked as an engineer for the State Mines. Living in close proximity to this industry, the surrounding culture, and tangible consequences, she also became intimately familiar with the kinds of places and people associated with it. Spanning multiple decades, this publication brings together photographs Van Manen took in various mining towns scattered around the world: Wakefield and New Sharlston, Yorkshire (UK, 1970s), Most (CZ, 1980s), the Appalachian Mountains (US, 1980s and ’90s), and Apanas, Siberia (RU, 1990s).
164 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Very charming animals: CATS
Isbn 9782940695119
Publisher Label Rapace
Idea code 23226
€ 40.25
Cat lovers, rejoice... or beware. This photographic series by the multifaceted Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez is a tribute, full of humour and witchcraft, honouring felines of all shapes and breeds. Skimmed from the internet, nonchalantly retouched using Photoshop, these images show silly, fantastical, even demonic creatures. Yet through this series Rebetez ultimately paints a mischievous portrait of our society, maliciously depicted in a truly bizarre collection of cats. In his vibrant exploration of a total art which in turn defies categorisation, Rebetez collaborates with numerous artists, punks, models, musicians, and friends in producing his surprising body of work.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, hb, no text
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Ronit Porat - Hunting In Time
Isbn 9781988689098
Publisher Sternthal Books
Idea code 23194
€ 45.00
'Hunting in Time'by Ronit Porat draws from a trilogy of exhibitions about a mysterious crime committed in Berlin at the turn of the century. In her work, Porat creates archives, telling historical stories with collage, altering and re-contextualising images. She is most interested in the Weimar period in Berlin, Germany, a period in which gender roles became more fluid, and that we currently view with the shadow of its future cast over it. Animals, particularly birds, are a recurring motif, echoing the shapes of the human body and adding a layer of mystery. In creating distance between the viewer and the characters, Porat respects the multiple viewpoints within each story. Mindful of the power of the medium, her work raises a question at its core: who owns a photograph – the photographer, the subject, the archivist, or the viewer?
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Herma de Wit - Essence of Nature
Isbn 9789090369082
Publisher Herma De Wit
Idea code 23170
€ 60.00
Herma de Wit’s third book, ‘Essence of Nature’ offers a collection of diverse artworks known as monotypes – a printing technique that produces a single, unique print. Her intention is to show the fragility and strength of gathered objects through the medium of the monoprint. The leaves, flowers, and seeds she finds and collects become a memory of a city or country. By using nature to visualise itself, both through its outline and its inner life, De Wit draws our attention to the pure beauty of her subjects. Unlike her previous book, ‘Force of Nature’, which was comprised of black-and-white works, this sequel experiments with colour and coloured paper while exploring new techniques.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Julia Gaisbacher - My Dreamhome is not a House
Isbn 9781908889850
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23180
€ 47.00
"My Dreamhouse is not a House" is a long-term project by Julia Gaisbacher that focuses on the Austrian architect Eilfried Huth and one of the first, publicly funded participatory social housing projects in Austria from the 1970s. Huth developed a working method that allowed architects and future residents to collaborate on equal terms, resulting in single, occupant-designed houses within residential blocks. His projects were unique because no participatory approach was available outside the privately financed market in Austria at that time. About 50 years later, Julia Gaisbacher started an artistic research project observing the results of Eilfried Huth’s architectural experiment. In interviews, she asked residents how they had experienced the participatory planning process and its impacts on the long-term living quality in these built environments and combined them with archive material. On a visual level she documented the unique facades of the houses each representing the owners.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Steve Fitch - American Motel Signs III
Isbn 9781908889942
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23160
€ 25.55
Steve Fitch’s collection of photographs offers a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary culture in the United States: the roadside motel sign. Like a road trip through the many faces of everyday America that have become ubiquitous in mainstream culture since the rise of scenic highways and byways crisscrossing the continent, this third edition of signs is at once documentary and nostalgic. Many of the motel signs reflect mid-century modernist conventions, with curvilinear forms and neon accents, in turn representative of post-war American society’s fascination with Space Age themes and a marketing emphasis on mobility and futuristic designs.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Myop Agency - Sine Die
Isbn 9791092265958
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 23173
€ 41.95
Every day since the announcement of the lockdown in March 2020, the nineteen photographers of MYOP Agency have shared their images of the day before. Six to ten images were selected daily and sequenced together in a vast temporal fresco, highlighting the richness of the situations, words, and photographic writings, which were then posted on Instagram to serve as an image chronicle to document this historical moment. ‘SINE DIE’ is thus an artistic, plural, and collective response to commemorate the pandemic. Over the ten years since the agency’s creation by Guillaume Binet and Lionel Charrier, its members have gathered around this idea of assumed subjectivity.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, French/English
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Anne Gabriel-Jürgens - ZOE. Viel Glück zum Muttertag 2009-2020
Isbn 9783906822464
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 23175
€ 50.60
What is a family? In 2009, Anne Gabriel-Jürgens became the stepmother of a nine-year-old girl, Zoe. Over the next ten years, she accompanied Zoe and her father with her camera, photographing the slow metamorphosis of a girl coming of age, everyday situations in their small family, and the parties and holidays, funerals and vacations, which shaped their lives. It is a portrait of a girl who is searching to find her place in and paths through her unusual family configuration, her parents’ conflicts, extended circles of family and friends. It also captures the memories of the photographer herself, a tender look at a young girl’s yearning for love and attention, her strengths and weaknesses.
304 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, German/English
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Gianpaolo Arena - A Folktale From Vietnam
Isbn 9781908889935
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23185
€ 35.75
A Folktale From Vietnam: Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass is the result of eight years of research and the production of a series of photographs taken in 2013, 2015 and 2018 during Gianpaolo Arena’s travels through Vietnam. Gianpaolo Arena (1975, Italy) conducts research projects into environmental, documentary, and social topics. His work employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine the representation of anthropized spaces and the sustainability of the contemporary towns.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Giannis Manolis - The Hunter, the Woman and the Hut
Isbn 9781908889812
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23186
€ 33.70
‘The Hunter, The Woman & The Hut’ is the result of many road trips exploring the Greek landscape. The photographs are a personal documentation of the modern suburban society and aims to highlight a transitional nature between the past, present and future. With a mix of portraits, landscapes, signs of culture and interiors, this project captures fragments of different ways of life sharing only one common link: the Greek landscape. People closer to nature, a hunter, a hut and elements like the Greek statues and a Macedonian palace for sale, depict a place between utopia and dystopia, unfolding the leading lines of a poetic narrative for the post-crisis era with which the viewer is encouraged to identify.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Paul Hiller - HappySad Souvenirs
Isbn 9781908889928
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23079
€ 30.65
HappySad Souvenirs is a series of photographs taken in 2018 and 2019 during Hiller’s travels through China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. Paul Hiller, born in 1984 in Germany, is a professional photographer and artist. He first graduated as a photo lab manager and then got his diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (class of Prof. Klaus vom Bruch, new media). His photographs are not only shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe, but they are also being displayed in many international print and online art platforms. His work is part of the so-called straight photography. He celebrates the art and the techniques of photography by shooting on analog film cameras only.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Onnis Luque - Undercover
Isbn 9781908889782
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23081
€ 40.85
On the 19.9.17, an earthquake measuring 7.1 occurred near Mexico City. A number of buildings in the capital were destroyed and at least 200 fatalities have been reported to date. Remarkably, the event happened exactly on the 32nd anniversary of the devastating magnitude 8.1 Mexico City earthquake of 1985. Journalist’s investigations into the disaster revealed that many of the buildings affected had been built to improper standards. The corruption between the state and the property companies was found to have caused multiple unnecessary deaths. As a photographer and architect Onnis Luque wanted to address these events in his work. Having lived through both earthquakes inspired him to create a visual metaphor on the uncertainty that these tragedies produce.
80 p, ills bw, 22 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Jacquie Maria Wessels - Garage Stills & Fringe Nature
Isbn 9789493039841
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23153
€ 50.00
This book features two series of photographs. For her Garage Stills project, Dutch photographer Jacquie Maria Wessels has travelled the world, chasing her fascination for the wondrous universe of traditional garages. In striking garages in, say, Cambodia, Cuba, or Japan, she creates poetic still lifes on the spot with the intriguing and personal objects she finds there. It are the shapes and colours of those mysterious objects that draw her attention. Wessels then turned her camera outside and started to work on her new photographic series 'Fringe Nature': in the immediate vicinity of the garages, she is struck by the nature that endures in the harsh, industrial landscapes on the outskirts of the cities. In some cases, rampant nature even takes over and overgrows the garages.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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