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Aurélie Scouarnec – Feræ
Isbn 9791097416232
Publisher Rue Du Bouquet
Idea code 23371
€ 53.60
With 'Feræ', Aurélie Scouarnec questions the ephemeral captivity of wild animals in care centres. Her photographs appear as sound boxes for the suffering of this wounded fauna with clumsy bodies in tension, sometimes in abandonment. The hands of caregivers wrap around the animals. They handle carefully, dress up, disappear under the down feathers. They also form a vice, enclosing. The book thus reveals the vital pulse and luminous energy that throbs and vibrates all around us.
108 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, French/English
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Tanja Engelberts – Forgotten Seas
Isbn 9789492051936
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23332
€ 40.00
For most people, the world offshore is an unknown. Fascinated by this, Tanja Engelberts began investigating the offshore oil and gas industry. ‘Forgotten Seas’ is the accumulation of six years of research, a journey across the North Sea. Her photographs from her trips on maintenance vessels and on the platforms, as well as historical images, are combined with written anecdotes about life on an oil rig. Each chapter has its own visual language and design, highlighting the raw and complex structures on the sea while evoking a sense of awe and guilt, from the optimism and achievement of the 1950s to the more critical view on the fossil fuel industry today, a landscape slowly disappearing.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Erik Kessels - Ashtray Hooray
Isbn 9789070478551
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 23385
€ 35.00
At times smoking inside was very normal, cafés, companies, and other commercial parties catered to the enormous need to put out cigarettes in their own specific style. By producing DIY ashtrays, as a gift for perhaps employees, clients or just for decorative purposes. In their pride, however, they seemed to have overlooked one specific characteristic: their beloved company, bar or organisation’s portrait is at the bottom of the ashtray and is perpetually harassed by burning cigarette buds – a strange type of tribute. ASHTRAY HOORAY shows and celebrates a large overview of these vernacular photography-based ashtrays.
48 p, ills colour, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Julien Berthier - The Invisible Journey
Isbn 9782492175244
Publisher RVB Books
Idea code 23397
€ 51.60
In 2021, invited for a residency in the Calanques National Park in southern Marseille, Julien Berthier took an old boat and topped it with a calanque-inspired slab of rock sculpted in the same resin as the boat’s hull. Once placed in the water, the work became practically invisible and gave the installation its title. Continuing his reflections on landscape, Berthier’s book 'The Invisible Journey' incorporates the rock-boat across a set of postcards, in the same manner: both visible and invisible. Low tech by choice, Berthier cut out images of the boat manually, then glue them directly to the postcards. The rock-boat thus embarks on a tour of various places and eras, accompanying the travel accounts of strangers.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 32 cm, pb, French/English
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Polaroids and Portraits, Pieter’s New Yorkers
Isbn 9789462264786
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23392
€ 37.50
The Rotterdam photographer Pieter Vandermeer has inimitably portrayed a variety of New Yorkers. He did this for years with the Polaroid Land 195 camera, on the streets of New York. In addition, he portrayed New York celebrities during many years of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The negatives of Pieter’s unique photographic material from New York have been digitally polished and bound in a sleek design by designer duo Rick Vermeulen and Marjolijn Verbist. Hripsimé Visser, Wim de Jong, Gerwin Tamsma and Gabriëlle Kok provided the text. The photos reflect Pieter’s extremely personal approach to the portrait phenomenon.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980
Isbn 9789462264724
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23393
€ 37.50
In late 1979, a new phenomenon appears in the nightlife of Amsterdam: the Polaroid photographer. New York artists Bettie Ringma and Marc H. Miller temporarily exchange their loft in the Lower East Side of New York for a houseboat in Amsterdam, and start selling instant photo portraits taken in pubs around Rembrandtplein, Leidseplein and Zeedijk. They pioneered a practice that continues to this day. The pair photograph in brown pubs, Turkish cafés, transvestite bars and queer clubs; they build up a regular clientele and meet remarkable people such as, “Ko the Muscleman,” the self-confident “animer girl” Nettie, and the extravagant pub owner-cum-pigeon fancier, Henk. It’s a time of big moustaches, full ashtrays and unrestrained hedonism. Ringma and Miller took countless photos that were distributed among the nightlife public, but – sponsored by Polaroid – they also built their own collection of more than 350 Polaroid portraits of Amsterdam bar-goers.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Eric Bachmann - The one-man water cannon test
Isbn 9783907384060
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 23344
€ 40.75
In response to violent clashes in 1968 between youths and police, the Zurich city council purchased four modern water cannon vehicles, bypassing the municipal council and sparking controversy in the public and media. Taking advantage of their readers’ interest in this subject, journalists Robert Naef and Peter Fasler placed themselves in the water cannon's line of fire at the Wädenswil police station for a story in the popular magazine, ‘Sie und Er’. Photographed by Eric Bachmann, these impressive photographs are now published in their entirety for the first time, offering a previously unseen perspective on the politically charged atmosphere of late 1960s Zurich.
160 p, ills bw, 23 x 34 cm, hb, English/German
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Roseanne Lynch - GRAMMAR
Isbn 9789083330808
Publisher Recto Verso Publications | Roseanne Lynch
Idea code 23336
€ 57.00
During a residency at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Roseanne Lynch immersed herself in the sites of the Bauhaus and its Materials Research Archive. By engaging with the performative functions of the photographic medium, ‘Grammar’ shows how photographic transformation influences the production of cultural artefacts and collective imaginaries. Her images act as visual prompts through the recognition of modernist identifiers, showing the power of photography in shaping the visual history of modern architecture. With a text on Lynch’s photography practice in relation to the Bauhaus movement by Torsten Blume, curator of Bauhaus Foundation Dessau.
64 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Peter Pflügler – Now is not the Right Time
Isbn 9789492051950
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23331
€ 40.00
Peter Pflügler devises an intimate maze into the heart of his family secret. Concealed for 20 years, his father’s suicide attempt was an occurrence he somehow always knew about. Investigating traces of this silenced trauma, he created images that inhabit the brink of comfort and irritation, of love and pain. While rummaging through this unsettling landscape, we are invited to look closer and discover texts and images hidden between the pages. ‘Now Is not the Right Time’ grapples with the impossibility of secrets, exposing what we share when we hide. It is about a specific kind of pain, one created out of love, the complexity of silence, and the unexplainable sadness of a boy.
112 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Deconstructing Sistema Nervioso by Lange, Brandli & Chalbaud
Isbn 9789801831648
Publisher Fernando Eseverri / Colección C&FE
Idea code 23329
€ 69.75
‘Sistema Nervioso’ is the most ambitious body of work by Swiss-born Venezuelan photographer Barbara Brändli, who is otherwise known for her documentation of the indigenous Yanomami people. The book is a kind of manifesto, a portrait of the city of Caracas, filled with ads, graffiti and other urban signs. It was published in 1975, a collaboration with screenwriter Román Chalboud and artistic director John Lange, both Venezuelan. The book contains more than 100 images of the city and, due to its innovative complexity, has been recognised as one of the most important works in the photographic genre. Alejandro León Cannock offers an in-depth analysis.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, Spanish/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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After us silence - Remnants of nuclear deterrence
Isbn 9789462264670
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23261
€ 45.00
For more than 40 years, Europe lived with the nuclear threat of the Cold War. Historian Arnold Pronk and photographer Martin Bruining undertook a project to find and visit the launch sites where the former Soviet Union once kept its nuclear missiles. These intermediate-range missiles were widely deployed along a continuous chain stretching from Murmansk to Crimea. But until recently, little information was available on the subject. Using sources such as online urbex communities, Google Earth, the INF Treaty, and CIA archives, the authors show the extent of the threat while giving insight into the evolution of the various weapon systems and documenting the forgotten sites first hand.
180 p, ills colour, 25 x 29 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Essence of Toshiko Okanoue
Isbn 9784309256207
Publisher Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Idea code 23325
€ 30.35
Toshiko Okanoue is known for her unusual collages, assembled in the 1950s using magazine clippings. Although purely coincidental at first, the parallels between her compositions and aspects of the surrealist movement in Europe led her to evolve her style according to a distinctly feminine sensibility. Photos serve as backgrounds for figural and symbolic expressions in which architecture, vistas, and strange hybrid creatures combine to create bizarre and mysterious spaces, to dramatic effect. A major aspect of her creativity stems from the mementos of society and fashion appearing in these scenes, indicative of the artist’s own time. Dive into the essence of Toshiko Okanoue.
96 p, ills bw, 14 x 18 cm, hb, Japanese
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Masako Toda – Hisae Imai
Isbn 9784865411447
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23209
€ 59.75
Hisae Imai (1931–2009) was an unconventional photographer. Her first solo exhibition in 1956 drew tremendous attention, after which she continued to pursue her artistic instincts while also taking on fashion and commercial projects. Female photographers were a rarity in Japan at the time, so in 1957 she established an association for women photographers. Often staging her shots to create photographs that were rooted in illusion and poetry, she also went against norms and was able to position herself as a commercially successful photographer, setting her apart from the establishment in Japan. In this book, Masako Toda invites us to re-encounter her life, work, and legacy.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Kikuji Kawada - Vortex
Isbn 9784865411492
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23210
€ 79.65
'Vortex' consists of images selected from the vast amount of works uploaded by Kikuji Kawada to his Instagram account in the past years – simultaneously a condensation of the artist’s refined, sharp vision of the contemporary world as well as a culmination of the unparalleled sensibilities and awareness towards urban chaos that have defined Kawada’s remarkable career. The book blends photographs recently shot in Tokyo with other images produced and exhibited decades ago. Three essays by photography historian Yoshiaki Kai, curator Pauline Vermare, and artist Akiyoshi Taniguchi add further insight and context regarding Kawada and his extensive body of work.
544 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Ryuichi Ishikawa – ZK
Isbn 9784865411607
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23211
€ 59.75
The title is a coded symbol for a spectacular view (‘zekkei’ in Japanese) and for the surge of emotion that floods the entire body when we encounter certain amorphous views. According to Ryuichi Ishikawa, it signifies the relationship between landscape and emotion, between outside and inside. With its kaleidoscopic variety of subjects, scenes, views, angles and colours, ‘zk’ is full of snapshots of reality that are loaded with emotions, ideas, compassion, and the almost palpable presence of his subjects. With images shot all over Japan, but mainly in his home of Okinawa, between 2012 and 2019, Ishikawa uses temporal distance to compose a grand view of life in single moments.
208 p, ills colour, 26 x 33 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Risaku Suzuki – Winter to Spring
Isbn 9784865411485
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23206
€ 44.80
Composed of new and previously published photographs from three series (White, Sakura, and Water Mirror), Risaku Suzuki’s photobook 'Winter to Spring' deals with the crucial period of the year when the quiet and monotony of winter makes way for the life of spring. Photographic subjects range from snow to cherry blossoms and the surfaces of bodies of water overgrown with greenery. Rather than the awakening of life, Suzuki's focus lies in the non-linear passage and flow of time, and on the crystallization of single moments. In part inspired by his experiences during the global pandemic, the book draws attention to the fragmentary nature of our experience of time.
68 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Shigeo Gocho: Works
Isbn 9784865411577
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 23207
€ 79.65
Despite his debilitating lifelong physical condition, Shigeo Gocho (1946–1983) left a legacy of three photographic collections and one volume of artwork, as well as contact prints, notebooks, and memo books. The re-evaluation of Gocho’s oeuvre began at the end of the 1980s and continues today. This not only concerns his personal story but also the fact that the allusions to various social phenomena and “edges” portrayed in his works deeply resonate with many people at the core of their being. This impressive overview features Gocho’s photographic series ‘Self and Others’ (1977), ‘Familiar Street Scenes (1981), and ‘Childhood’ (1983), alongside his spiritual and abstract artworks.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Hato Zines 39 Polly Brown Tragedy
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23287
€ 10.95
Modern life is sprinkled with moments of melodrama. Tragedy is a zine by artist Polly Brown, created to call our relationship with emotional performance into sharp relief. In this tragicomic portrait series, the artist invites ten actors to cry on cue. Full shiny tears and quiet strangled sobs ensue. Falling somewhere between the aesthetics of internet stock imagery and thespian headshots, the series asks the question: is there something to be gleaned from forcing tears? Polly Brown is a British artist working primarily with photography and film. Her work often looks afresh at familiar scenes and objects, subverting our expectations about what they are or do with her signature wry sense of humour and a playful perspective.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, 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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