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Miroslav Tichy – Screenshots
Isbn 9783907205457
Publisher Edizioni Periferia
Idea code 23564
€ 76.60
Despite his art education, Czech painter and photographer Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) was considered an outsider due to his unconventional approach to photography that revealed a voyeuristic fascination for the female body. His analogue photography shows traces and errors he deliberately sought out by building his own cameras and telephoto lenses. In the 1970s and ’80s, Tichý regularly took pictures of his television screen. Because he lived close to the Austrian border, he was able to circumvent the censorship of Eastern Bloc media and watch the more permissive films and late night shows from the West. Many of his seemingly surreptitious screenshots appear in this book.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, Czech/German/English
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Hysteria - The Transgression of Desire
Isbn 9788418934766
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 23643
€ 25.55
‘Hysteria: The transgression of desire’ presents the influence and interest of the surrealist movement to recover the imaginary created by Dr Jean-Martin Charcot in his Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière, a series of volumes in which he classified and documented patients in the different stages of the disease through photographs. With a strong masculine gaze, the surrealist group used this vision to represent in their art a female body turned into a consumer product.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Japan on a Glass Plate - The Adventure of Photography in Yokohama and Beyond, 1853–1912
Isbn 9789493039995
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23649
€ 45.00
Between the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867) and the end of the Meiji Era (1868–1912) that followed it, photography offered a unique insight into the rapid transformation of Japan from an isolated, feudal society to a modern, industrialised state. In the four decades that followed the opening of the country in 1853, the camera evolved from an imported novelty to a familiar witness of Japanese daily life. Operating from the Treaty Ports of Yokohama and elsewhere, early practitioners of photography plied an often precarious trade in images of Japan and laid the foundations of what would soon become a highly competitive industry with a global reach. Whether cherished as souvenirs of an exotic land of fond imagination or curated as visual documents of a fast-changing society, these images by foreign and Japanese photographers, often packaged in exquisitely produced albums, enjoyed a wide circulation abroad and played an important role in influencing perceptions of Japan in the West well into the early twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive private collection assembled over many years, this book presents a unique selection of nineteenth-century photographs of Japan, many of which are published here for the first time.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 27 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Maria Sturm - You Don't Look Native to Me
Isbn 9786185479305
Publisher Void
Idea code 23618
€ 40.85
In a quaint town nestled in North Carolina, the Lumbee tribe defies conventional notions of identity. Since 2011, photographer Maria Sturm has been capturing their stories. In one particular community, identity transcends mere appearance, finding its roots in lineage and history. Sturm delves into the lives of the youth, who are forging their own paths to self-discovery. The series in turn becomes a compelling exploration of our outdated criteria for constructing identity. Through images of people, places, and interiors, she confronts misconceptions about Native American identity, raising poignant questions concerning how stereotypes seep into our perceptions as truths.
112 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Paula Duvå – Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed)
Isbn 9788797352670
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 23664
€ 32.00
Paula Duvå takes documentary photography into the hyper-real, as a concrete trace of war, when she documents smoke trails from the actions of fighter planes and missiles – a fleeting but nevertheless concrete trace from the otherwise distanced and in many ways traceless warfare of today. Duvå positions the viewer in the context of the sky, yet her intentions are not about cloud formations, rather it is to challenge one to take a closer look at hidden structures we may not be aware of.
400 p, ills colour, 15 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Mark van den Brink – Stills & Stones
Isbn 9789072532527
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 23606
€ 35.00
Amsterdam-based photographer Mark van den Brink has spent years on the road, often behind the wheel of his Chevy van, as an inconspicuous voyeur, capturing the world around him with a Minox camera. But for ‘Stills & Stones’, he decided to put his camera to work shooting still lifes for the first time. It started with a stone, set on a stool and with a suspended canvas tarp as the backdrop. All the advantages of the Minox went out the window. To focus, he needed a tape measure on hand. His usual split-second, casual shots from a comfortable angle were impossible. The subject matter, combined with a stubborn refusal to use any other camera, forced him to adopt a new strategy.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Seppe Vancraywinkel – Within the Bubble of Surroundings
Isbn 9789083357102
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23602
€ 40.00
First and foremost, ‘Within the Bubble of Surroundings’ is an ode to friendship. Belgian photographer Seppe Vancraywinkel imagines himself and his friends as moving through life inside a bubble that assumes form whenever they are together. In that space, he finds solace and refuge, for the bubble is impervious to the demanding clamour of the outside world. This series of photographs documents spontaneous moments in which both visual and affirmative traces of the bubble can be discerned. As such, it offers insight into an evolving yet firm friendship in which notions of time, space, adulthood, masculinity, and intimacy are intuitively reconfigured in a playful manner.
144 p, ills bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Pablo Cabado – Little Suns on Earth
Isbn 9789492051981
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23614
€ 40.00
After World War II, President Juan Perón of Argentina had Germans with particular military and technological expertise secretly smuggled into the country. Among them was the Austrian-born scientist Ronald Richter, who convinced Perón about the feasibility of generating unlimited energy through nuclear fusion. He received massive funding to build an experimental reactor on Huemel Island in Patagonia, but the project came to an abrupt end three years later. In this volume, visual artist Pablo Cabado makes this history tangible through tritone photographs depicting a slow exploration of the now deserted island. With a comprehensive essay by historian Diego Castelfranco.
104 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Suzanne Schols - Lobby Between Green Deals and Ideals
Isbn 9789083213248
Publisher House Publishing
Idea code 23578
€ 45.00
Lobby by Dutch photographer Suzanne Schols offers a unique and detailed view into the European climate lobby. In an attempt to enhance the visibility and transparency of the world of lobbying, Suzanne asked 122 interest groups for permission to take a photograph of the lobbies of their Brussels-based offices. The book combines image and text and invites the viewer to navigate a labyrinth of lobbies ranging from corporates, consulting firms and trade associations to NGO’s, labour unions and religious groups. Who granted her access and who denied? LOBBY shows who seeks to influence policy-making in a time when climate change is permeating all domains of society.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Sjoerd Martens - My neighbor has petroglyphs in her backyard
Isbn 9789090371573
Publisher Sjoerd Martens
Idea code 23581
€ 38.00
Spread over five years, artist Sjoerd Martens (1993, Nijmegen) studied the petroglyphs, rock drawings, made on Aruba around the year 1000 by the Caquetio, the indigenous people who were among the earliest inhabitants of the Caribbean island. Where petroglyphs are now, there used to be presumably sacred sites. Today, petroglyphs are often found in the patios of houses. Here, petroglyphs are combined with contemporary graffiti and love messages. They are in places where no one cares about them. 'In the most tragic cases, they are in danger of being destroyed,' says Martens. That is why he decided to immortalize this heritage for future generations. Thus was born his enigmatic documentary photographs and photorealistic collages.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, Papiamento/English
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Building Stories – Alastair Philip Wiper
Isbn 9788774070108
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 23667
€ 40.75
This collection of photographs unveils the uncanny beauty of overlooked structures and familiar architectural icons from around the world. British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper, renowned for his work in industrial, scientific, and architectural photography, presents a unique perspective on architecture as he infuses each image with hyper-realistic colours and atmospheres, creating an intimate connection between the viewer and the buildings. This publication dives into untold stories and emotions carried by architectural forms, as Wiper's work transcends traditional photography, presenting a narrative element that resonates with everyday life. Among the buildings featured in the book are works by architects such as Arne Jacobsen, Marcel Breuer, Santiago Calatrava, and Zaha Hadid.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Francisco Ibáñez Hantke - Non-Structures
Isbn 9781908889959
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23647
€ 43.00
Francisco Ibáñez Hantke's series ‘Non-Structures’ presents London – and cities in general – as a spectacle of constant conflict, negotiation and flux. Capturing key moments in the life of diverse buildings, the images reveal a condition of transience, trapped as these buildings and sites are between the boundaries of architecture and ruin, planning and chance, process and product. The term ‘Non-Structures’ alludes to anthropologist Marc Augé’s influential work ’Non-Places’; this boundary condition, defined by an absence of identity, has lent its name to the series.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Cécile Hupin & Katherine Longly – Just My Luck
Isbn 9789492051967
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 23644
€ 31.00
If money cannot buy happiness, what drives people to participate in a lottery? And what effect does (almost) winning have on someone’s life, or that of the people around them? Cécile Hupin and Katherine Longly set out to compare dreams with reality by giving a voice to those who won or came close to winning a jackpot, for better or for worse. Their stories form a reflection of our society, our aspirations, our beliefs, and our fraught relationship with money. All of the personal accounts that Hupin and Longly document in ‘Just My Luck’ are invariably and inextricably linked to notions of luck (and bad luck) – as if believing in one risks activating the other.
544 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 12 cm, pb, English
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Dictionary by Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy
Isbn 9789082029192
Publisher Blind Finch Books
Idea code 23613
€ 25.00
By varying their context, photographs inevitably gain new meanings. To create ‘Dictionary’, Anne Geene teamed up with fellow Dutch photographer Arjan de Nooy to combine a list of the 200 most commonly used English words with 200 “random” images from their archives. On each right-hand page, a word is randomly paired with a photograph. The pages are then perforated between the picture and the word, giving the reader the ability to link every word with every picture, thus opening up myriad possibilities for visual and linguistic interpretation. The book is a manifestation of Geene and De Nooy’s conviction that an image can assume a meaning in any context.
400 p, ills colour, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Jurre Rompa - Keepers
Isbn 9789462264946
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23619
€ 38.50
‘Keepers’ by photographer Jurre Rompa cinematically captures the world of beekeepers in Amsterdam. The hive boxes are often situated in places where unsuspecting passers-by would never imagine a colony of bees: on roofs, in the gardens of canal houses, at schools, in parks and forests, and even on a work of art. The fact that very few people in the city know of the existence of these hives offered Rompa an interesting opportunity to delve further into the subject. By photographing the beekeeper from a distance, with the city as a backdrop, he brings this mysterious phenomenon to light. Rompa is a portrait and documentary photographer based in Amsterdam.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Barbara Marstrand – Still Life of Teenagers
Isbn 9788797352656
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 23582
€ 25.00
Stuffed animals and make-up. Piles of laundry and stylish shoes arranged neatly in boxes. Family photos and dream catchers. Clutter and commercials. The latest computer and the nostalgia of an old typewriter. These are elements found in Barbara Marstrand’s richly detailed photographs of teenage bedrooms. Barbara Marstrand’s photobook offers a keenly observant sociological study of the Danish youth culture of today. What does it look like in the spaces of Danish teens, what do they like to surround themselves with, how do they aestheticise their everyday lives, what preoccupies them? Meanwhile, these details also function as traces of the life lived with and among the objects.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Danish/English
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Paul Knight: L'ombre de ton ombre
Isbn 9781922545220
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23571
€ 39.85
‘L’ombre de ton ombre’ (The shadow of your shadow) coincides with Paul Knight’s first survey exhibition. It presents new and recent photographic, sculptural, and machine learning works that engage the artist’s relationship with his partner as an index of time, invoking the intimate present alongside the deep past and near future. The book illustrates ‘Chamber Music’, Knight’s ongoing photographic project, which intimately records the life he shares with his partner. In addition, it details the algorithmic working methods of his textile and machine learning works and includes new texts by the artist, Anthony Gardner, Katie Mack, Oxana Timofeeva, José Da Silva, and Pip Wallis.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Marco Rigamonti - Lost Shadows
Isbn 9782492696138
Publisher Andre Frere Editions
Idea code 23568
€ 41.95
In the Camargue region of southern France, photographer Marco Rigamonti faces a primal world, where water and land unite in intensity, bathed in pure sunlight. The landscapes he captures are silent, the scenes incongruous. Humans have been here, disappearing faster than the shape of the place. It is a geography both humorous and wild, open to all beings that have managed to preserve their intractability, their freedom, their element of madness. The signs of Camargue culture are evident, a sense of the survival of the ethos of a people. Yet through the serene torpor of his images and gentle irony, the photographer affirms that there is no pure identity, only a game.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, French/English
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Kaveh Kazemi - Nuns
Isbn 9786001523779
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 23560
€ 19.80
In the course of his decades-long career, Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Kazemi has covered everything from the Iranian Revolution, Operation Desert Storm, and the Taliban in Afghanistan, to regional conflicts throughout the Persian Gulf and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Back in the 1970s, he began capturing nuns and their everyday lives. It is a theme that has occupied Kazemi throughout his travels up to the present day. The images collected in this book reflect his longstanding fascination with these devoted women who share a common bond. Pictured are nuns in Paris, Granada, Naples, Rome, Athens, and Yugoslavia, as well as Colombia, India, Lebanon, and Iran.
136 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Persian/English
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Ana Paes – Origin
Isbn 9788412426038
Publisher Fabulatorio
Idea code 23543
€ 25.55
Ana Paes is a Galician visual artist based in Madrid, whose training in photography and film is closely linked to her research into analogue techniques. Established in subjectivity, Paes’s work is not hermetic and, on the contrary, leaves room for the other and her own otherness to interpret and comprehend it. This award-winning photobook is a complex work with a profound lyrical capacity, capable of gathering and articulating, in the same narrative discourse, a coherent story about the journey and the introspections we make in transit. It is a story about family complicities and, ultimately, an inquiry about memory, about its distortions and its reflections in the present.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, no text
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Silvia Camporesi - Mirabilia
Isbn 9791254930571
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 23572
€ 61.90
With the series 'Mirabilia' Silvia Camporesi makes a journey in search of special places, wonders of nature, unusual museums. Her interest in everything that can be defined as irregular and non-canonical leads her to embark on a unique journey, both because of the beauty of these places - mostly most of them off the classic tourist routes, tending not to be easy to reach, little frequented - and for the particular suggestions they offer. While treasures like San Galgano or Villa Adriana in Tivoli may be familiar to us, very few will have heard of the Agostinelli Museum in Dragona, the Damanhur underground temple or the Villa Rossi Park in Santorso. Guided by the author's gaze, we travel through an Italy that seems out of time, a country of "estranging beauty," where each photograph generates wonder and functions as an opening onto an inner landscape, bringing with it a sense of disorientation and disquiet.
139 p, ills colour & bw, 27 x 39 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Ulrike Hannemann - Pinnacle
Isbn 9783907112724
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 23589
€ 47.00
What does urban planning that addresses both population growth and climate change look like? Ulrike Hannemann presents an example with the Pinnacle@Duxton, a large-scale public building project in Singapore. Rather than taking a conventional documentary approach, she approaches the complex as an artist and photographer. She takes detail shots (of the façades, the green spaces and individual design elements), which she then further manipulates by isolating or copying the motifs and incorporating them into collages. One such pattern, composed of individual images, runs through the book as a recurring moment.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, German/English
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Yu Yamauchi - Jinen
Isbn 9784861529160
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 23525
€ 73.70
For nine years, photographer Yu Yamauchi travelled to the island of Yakushima in the south of Japan, each time spending a month in its dark and dense primeval forest. Alone within nature, Yamauchi explored not only the boundaries of his own body and mind but also the relationships between nature, reality, and himself. Distanced from cultural and social influences, he was able to approach a pure human experience as closely as possible. ‘Jinen’ is a visual record of this dialogue with nature, conveyed in photographs that range from shots of sublime beauty to close-up examinations of patterns and seemingly otherworldly shapes and forms emerging from the dark of night.
144 p, ills colour, 25 x 32 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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