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Samuel Otte – Hereafter Called: Subject
Isbn 9789083285856
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 23278
€ 35.00
‘Hereafter Called: Subject’ is a visual road trip through people and places in Europe. It contains a collection of photographic experiments that explore the complexities of various relationships. In a total of 25 experiments, Samuel Otte researches the value of written, spoken, and unspoken constructs that are inherent in any relationship – sometimes close, sometimes far away. He followed a woman for two years (with her permission) while remaining unknown to her, let himself be limitlessly and anonymously used by other artists for their work(s), and lived an unnoticed life in an Italian village permeated by the Mafia. The constructs become increasingly complex.
312 p, ills bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Nasser Road – Political Posters in Uganda
Isbn 9789492051929
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23308
€ 25.00
Anything can be produced and sold along Nasser Road in Kampala, from university degrees to fake identity cards. But one of its main products is posters portraying heads of state and dictators as superpowered fighters – highly charged geopolitical depictions of the struggle against Western imperialism, in which international villains are celebrated as anti-heroes. The United States, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, China, and various African nations are all players in a glorified military-industrial complex. Collector Kristof Titeca presents a selection of posters, with contextual images by Ugandan photographers and an essay by activist Yusuf Serunkuma.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Michael Lange - Sand. The Transformation of Berlin
Isbn 9781908889980
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23317
€ 35.00
"Sand. The Transformation of Berlin" is a unique documentary project about a city in transition. Many of the few remaining inner-city wastelands and temporarily used spaces that were characteristic of Berlin for so long have disappeared in recent years and given way to new buildings. The photographic project explores this transformation process. The photographs from 2017-2022 show Berlin construction sites at a moment when the old has just been cleared away and before the new is erected. They capture vistas in the urban fabric that will soon be gone. It is also the moment when it is revealed what Berlin is built on: sand. In his photographic projects, Michael lange explores aspects of the city and architecture. A focus of his work is the transformation of the Berlin cityscape. He lives in Berlin, is a trained photographer, completed the master class at the International Photography School, Berlin, holds a Magister Artium degree in Media and Communication Studies and works as a research assistant in the field of public health.
36 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Kathryn McCool – P.North
Isbn 9781922545145
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23243
€ 36.25
The book's title does not refer to a place in the purest sense of the word. Drawing on a series of photographs made in rural New Zealand and Australia chiefly during the 1980s and 1990s, Kathryn McCool’s debut book floats between decades, locations, people, and the less palpable dynamics that connect them. Shopkeepers, youths, churchgoers, young children, and animals populate these photographs – nondescript landscapes and sleepy, small-town goings-on building a strangely loaded backdrop. McCool’s unusual photographic signature only feeds this intangible atmosphere.
96 p, ills bw, 19 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Sheung Yiu – Everything is a Projection
Isbn 9789492051943
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23256
€ 32.00
During the pandemic, Sheung Yiu started digitising everything on his desk at home, the inevitable confined space to which he was bound during lockdown. He created 3D models of scores of items and added texture details using a technique known as projective texturing. His physical desktop transformed into a 3D digital world. The process produced a dataset of digital objects that reflected his everyday life – intimate, yet strangely generic. The book explores one of many visual systems that form the basis of virtual reality and gaming, exposing the inner mechanisms of computer graphics that are shaping our world. With an interview with Jaakko Lehtinen, head researcher at NVIDIA.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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More Than a Snapshot - A Visual History of Photo Wallets
Isbn 9781909829220
Publisher Four Corners Books
Idea code 23259
€ 16.95
For over 100 years, people would often have to wait a week to see the photos they had made. Film processors used photo wallets - cheery illustrated envelopes - to return pictures to clients. These showed what subjects were considered suitable for a snapshot: bright-eyed children, laughing couples, adorable pets and perfect landscapes; they also reinforced prohibitions by what they omitted. Drawing from the author's personal collection of photo wallets from the 1900s to the 1990s, Annebella Pollen's book charts a century of popular photography in Britain: the birth of a new mass leisure pastime mainly marketed towards women, the growth of camera ownership after the Second World War, and behind it all, the working conditions of the people processing the films.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Mekhitar Garabedian - Melantex
Isbn 9781919627700
Publisher Occasional Papers
Idea code 23271
€ 22.90
This book brings together a selection of photographs by artist Mekhitar Garabedian, documenting the warehouse of his late father’s company, Melantex, which exported second-hand clothing from Belgium to the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The images inspired a one-year sculptural intervention by Garabedian, commissioned by the Antwerp Public Art Collection. Melantex tells a compelling personal and collective story of how displacement can be turned into economic livelihood while creating connections between old and new homes, languages, and textiles. The photographs are accompanied by an in-depth conversation between Garabedian and curator Samuel Saelemakers about the relationship between photography and sculpture, public representation, and diasporic thinking.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Regine Petersen - Passion Play
Isbn 9789492051813
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23257
€ 32.00
In the 17th century, the citizens of Oberammergau made a covenant with God. If he halted the plague, they would reenact The Passion of Christ every ten years for eternity. In 1634, the villagers fulfilled their promise. The performance, like many others of its era, put the blame for Christ’s agonies on what was considered to be his evil opponents: the Jews. In 1934, Adolf Hitler attended Oberammergau’s special Jubilee. This particular performance is the departure point for Regine Petersen’s image-text based narrative which unfolds on two parallel levels: that of the world’s most prominent Passion Play, and that of daily life in the National Socialist village.
148 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 53
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 23230
€ 27.65
In this instalment, Daido Moriyama reminisces about how the completely overwhelming experience of browsing through the photobook ‘New York’ (1956) inspired him to dedicate his life and work to photography. It was the first book published by William Klein (1926–2022), whom Moriyama would later meet and befriend. He remembers their last encounter in Ginza especially fondly, and mourns Klein’s passing as he writes, “For myself, and for photography at large, the photographer William Klein has now turned into a polar star that will shine eternally.”
120 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Antoine Martin - Virtual Mass
Isbn 9782492175282
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 23283
€ 37.65
For more than two years, Antoine Martin explored the contents of the main online camera directory (insecam.com). He focused in particular on virtual masses, a phenomenon that saw exponential growth during the pandemic. In an era when meeting up online and the digitization of information are rising trends, Martin’s “Virtual Mass” series showcases the ubiquity of remote surveillance and reveals the role played by new technologies in the liturgical space. The screenshots collected in a publication that evokes the aesthetics of Mass books ultimately prompt the viewer to consider whether the digitization of the divine presence is conceivable.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, French/English
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Johan van der Keuken: The Master and the Giant Original Filmscript
Isbn 9789462264687
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23260
€ 35.00
'The Master and the Giant' (1980, 70 minutes) is a film by Johan van der Keuken, somewhere between documentary and fiction, on the theme of the rivalry that comes with creating: one god creates the Earth and another destroys it to make it another, better world. In this film myth and reality come together and two different worlds are shown: on the one hand that of a man and a woman in a derelict neighbourhood in Amsterdam and on the other, life deep in the Tunisian desert. The publication consists of a fully edited film script (completely drawn storyboard with handwritten and typed text).
144 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, Dutch/French/English
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Honey Long and Prue Stent – Drinking From The Eye
Isbn 9781922545176
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23244
€ 36.25
Working together since 2010, Australian artists Honey Long and Prue Stent have developed a practice that traverses photography, performance, moving image, installation, and sculpture. Their art is grounded in experimentation between bodies, materials, and environments, and creates a space for the animate versus inanimate – the human and other – to interweave. The body is ever-present throughout ‘Drinking from the Eye’, both literally and figuratively. Often referencing historical representations of the female subject, the artists distort and fragment their bodies, creating creaturely hybrids in a constant state of becoming and flux, powerful imagery at once subversive and surreal.
56 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Arnout and Michiel De Cleene - Capital Compression
Isbn 9789464460391
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23258
€ 10.00
‘Capital Compression’ explores the poetics of blockchain. On a semiotic level, a blockchain is self-referential. It is a document documenting itself. This publication employs strategies of authentication and documentation, both photographically and discursively. A nineteen-line poem mimics blockchain technology by employing a system of hashing, encrypting the poem with each successive line and page. The history, progression, and sequence of the poem in this way becomes immutable. The poem intertwines with a series of photographs and an essay entitled “The Glow”. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into diamond, and compression into capital.
24 p, ills bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Noguchi Rika – My Father's Album
Isbn 9784865411454
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23208
€ 43.80
Before her father died in 2013, photographer Noguchi Rika asked him if he had the negatives to any photographs of her mother, who had passed away in 1992. He gave her a file crammed full of negatives. It was only after he was gone that Rika began sorting through it. While developing the photos, she started to think about the basic question of why people photograph things. The pictures show her mother and the three children, the roses he grew, the occasional landscape. Sometimes he’s right up close to his subject matter, while at others he shoots from a distance. What comes across strongly in his pictures is the sense of a particular moment in time that he wished to capture.
72 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Noguchi Rika: Small Miracles
Isbn 9784865411560
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23205
€ 32.85
Rika Noguchi's work is driven by the miraculous power of photography to inspire and guide her curiosity. Published on occasion of her solo exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Museum, 'Small Miracles' introduces her past and recent series, documents the exhibition, and contextualises her work through essays and personal information. Noguchi has been active since the mid-1990s, and is considered one of Japan's leading photographers today. Employing various techniques and approaches, she creates work which explores our relationship with the natural world and unknown phenomena. The book includes a text by Banana Yoshimoto, “The Mystery of Rika-chan”.
136 p, ills colour, 23 x 16 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Hato Zines 38 McDonald's by Charlie Kwai
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23288
€ 10.95
There’s one set of golden arches that’s known and loved throughout the land. McDonald’s by Charlie Kwai is a series of photographs from the artist’s archive featuring the nation’s favourite fast food giant. In this characterful, confrontational collection, McMeals are enjoyed by old and young, humans and animals alike – a tongue-in-cheek tribute to British food culture. Charlie Kwai is a British photographer known for his direct approach to street photography. Born and based in London, he explores places close to home and around the world through encounters with the people he meets, capturing relentlessly authentic portraiture from London to Ghana, China to Mexico.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Maria Dabrowski - SYNC
Isbn 9789462264779
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23262
€ 65.00
Maria Dabrowski calls for reflection in times when technological progress is accelerating. Taking part in the “manufactured” world seems to matter more in the 21st century than coming to one’s senses. To circumvent a hyper-modern society that largely exists online, Dabrowski seeks a new balance. As people increasingly struggle with burnouts and mental issues continue to become more apparent in our fast-paced, demanding world, ‘Sync’ looks to shed new light on a more subjective and natural rhythm, with attention for everyday details. The series of analogue photographs enters a layered interaction with the graphic design developed in collaboration with Studio Another Day.
184 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh
Isbn 9783948440527
Publisher Slanted Publishers
Idea code 23326
€ 28.00
“It is a sign of wisdom to negotiate instead of fighting” spoke Ho Chí Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He died in 1969 during the Vietnam War and did not live to see the withdrawal of the American invaders and the reunification of his beloved homeland. As prime minister and president until his death, he determined the destiny of his country, whose peopleaffectionately called him Uncle Ho. Influenced by deep Marxist-Leninist convictions, he became a worldwide symbol of the striving for self-determination. Even today, gratitude for this is omnipresent in the Vietnamese population. The book is a collection of selected quotes from Ho Chí Minh juxtaposed with Michael Herman’s expressive photographs of modern Vietnam.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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