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Michael Ashkin – There will be two of you
Isbn 9789083345901
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 23724
€ 40.00
'There will be two of you' reorganises and adds to the original 133 panoramic images of the New Jersey Meadowlands commissioned by Okwui Enwezor for Documenta 11 in 2002. The black and white photographs were installed at Documenta as a wall grid, but are here restored to the sequence in which they were taken during a year of meandering walks. The Meadowlands have long been at the core of Ashkin’s visual imagination. In the accompanying text, “There will be two of you,” an enigmatic incident at the landscape’s symbolic center promises a redemptive allegory it cannot deliver.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Tommaso Protti - Terra Vermelha
Isbn 9786185479008
Publisher Void
Idea code 23685
€ 38.80
For over eight years, Tommaso Protti has documented the intersecting social and environmental crises plaguing the Amazonian states of Brazil. His series is a raw and unfiltered portrayal of the deforestation, unregulated development, pollution, and crime that ravages the region. Protti sheds light on a harsh reality driven by poverty, corruption, and a reckless pursuit of self-interest, where the value of land often trumps the sanctity of human life. Unravelling the tragic path towards the destruction of our planet and emphasising humankind’s proximity to its own annihilation, ‘Terra Vermelha’ urges us to confront the dire need for conservation and change in this vital ecosystem.
224 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Adrianna Ault - Levee
Isbn 9786185479299
Publisher Void
Idea code 23673
€ 45.95
‘Levee’ by Adrianna Ault invites us to embark on a powerful journey of healing as she navigates the complexities of grief and loss after her mother’s passing. Along the serene Mississippi River, Ault finds solace in frozen moments that transcend time, capturing the very essence of life’s joys and heartaches. The series began as a way to better understand the surrounding landscape of New Orleans, where she was raised as a child. There she discovered how the city’s surrounding waterways expose the land to a constant state of vulnerability. The physical landscape is parallel to an emotional landscape rooted within the culture of New Orleans and its people.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Useful Photography 16 - Good Morning
Isbn 9789070478568
Publisher Kesselskramer
Idea code 23626
€ 24.30
There is much concern about the internet being a breeding ground for antagonism and negativity but it is also awash with relentless positivity in the form of ‘affirmations’ - images, phrases and quotes that are designed to uplift, encourage and motivate. 'Useful Photography #16' focusses on the particular phenomena of ‘Good Morning’ affirmations, thousands of which are posted, re-posted, shared, and re-shared every day. At the same time we would like to take this golden opportunity to wish our readers a very good morning!
68 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Tarrah Krajnak - RePose
Isbn 9789083345932
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 23720
€ 31.60
In ‘Re-Pose’, artist Tarrah Krajnak returns to a body of work she began some two decades ago, drawing from an archive of “women’s poses” she has collected from sources ranging from magazines to museums, spanning centuries and continents. But if her title for this series suggests rest and relaxation, the deadpan restaging and rephotographing of these conventions in live performance generates an opposite effect: Krajnak’s repositions estrange and query, rather than reinforce, the ways we link women’s feelings to body forms. The collection of nearly 60 self-portraits was produced during studio-based performances at CalArts REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2022.
32 p, ills bw, 24 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Anne Lass – Triple Seven
Isbn 9788797352663
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 23663
€ 48.00
Leather sofas and fitted carpets, radiant shapes and dark corridors. The Danish-German photographer Anne Lass’s new colorful book Triple Seven is an immersive documentation of Berlin’s disappearing gambling halls in a narrative that plays with elements from distant galaxies, exotic islands, and futuristic landscapes. Lass richly descriptive, medium-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of places, objects or individuals rooted in a quiet still life tradition merging documentary form and poetic tenderness. After new legislation came into effect a few years ago, many of the gaming establishments had to close, and over 80% of them have already disappeared, with many of them depicted in this work.
108 p, ills colour, 28 x 27 cm, hb, German/English
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Factory Photobooks - The Self-Representation of the Factory in Photographic Publications
Isbn 9789056628703
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23762
€ 69.95
Massive factory halls, dirty overalls, spinning gears, and smoking chimneys: 'Factory Photobooks' is the definitive overview of an extraordinary photobook genre. Factory photobooks were commissioned by companies that wanted to use them to showcase their quality, innovativeness, and progressiveness. The books went out into the world as promotional gifts for clients, investors, local public figures, and employees. The ambition to portray the firm in a unique way often led to amazing experiments with book forms, photography, and graphic design.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Here and Now – Rinko Kawauchi | Shuntaro Tanikawa
Isbn 9784907562434
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 23657
€ 26.30
‘Here and Now’ combines poems by Shuntaro Tanikawa and photographs by Rinko Kawauchi. The photobook was composed by Kawauchi in such a way so the words and images closely correspond with one another, while the words themselves are woven into the rhythm of the pages designed by art director Hideyuki Saito. The title poem, “Here and Now”, is accompanied by fresh photographs of nature’s breath, gently coaxing the reader on an imaginative journey into the universe and beyond.
64 p, ills colour, 20 x 22 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Daido Moriyama - Memories of Light
Isbn 9784763023100
Publisher Kyuryudo
Idea code 23699
€ 36.80
‘Memories of Light’ is published on the occasion of a large-scale retrospective exhibition featuring Daido Moriyama at the Shimane Museum of Art. Starting with “Japan, A Photo Theater”, the catalogue orders Moriyama’s photographic work chronologically, embedding it within the artist’s biographical background. Filled with famous and lesser-known photographs, the book traces the career of the exceptional Japanese photographer and explores the connections between Moriyama’s life and the works he produced. The book also includes personal photographs from Moriyama’s family album as well as a statement by the artist and an illuminating essay by curator Noriko Tsutatani.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Juan Sánchez Sánchez – Panadella
Isbn 9788409527465
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 23676
€ 35.75
‘Panadella’ explores an old enclave of travel services, a stopover settlement that thrived in the past. Located on what was once a main road, it remains as a living cultural vestige on a secondary road. Photographs by Juan Sánchez show the pulse of a place against what seems inevitable. The series explores the existential tension and the dissolution of a site that, due to displacement by technology and progress, has lost its status and its identity. This rural enclave, situated atop a hill between the basins of the rivers Llobregat and Segre in Catalonia, has always been a thoroughfare to the Meseta Plateau, to France, to coastal cities… a border between different regions and peoples.
80 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Kyoichi Tsuzuki – LOVE HOTEL
Isbn 9784861529252
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 23674
€ 20.15
The Japanese love hotels of the 20th century were typified by garish, over-the-top, bizarre designs and features. Due to stricter laws and morality codes, the 2000s were an era when the notorious love hotels, along with their unique retro charm, were rapidly vanishing from the Japanese cityscape. Kyoichi Tsuzuki explores the fascination of this lingering cultural heritage through a selection of carefully chosen and photographed rooms, guiding the curious through the highly inventive and playful interiors of this titillating typology.
448 p, ills colour, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Kyoichi Tsuzuki – Museums of Erotica
Isbn 9784861529245
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 23675
€ 20.15
The ‘Hihokan’ (Museum of Erotica) emerged in Japan in the 1960s as a place of entertainment for adults. At the time, the country was experiencing an unprecedented boom and diversification in tourism. The erotic installations were staged in a variety of elaborate ways. ‘Hihokan’ means “House of Hidden Treasures” in Japanese – a treasure trove of objects, artefacts, and artworks brimming with curiosity and creativity. Kyoichi Tsuzuki has documented many of these museums over the years. Presented here is an extensive series of selected photographs which examines their appeal.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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The Story We Used to Tell: Photographs by Chris Marker with a Story by Shirley Jackson
The Gould Collection Volume 7
Isbn 9780997359688
Publisher The Gould Collection
Idea code 23665
€ 68.75
The human condition, memory, and how we view one another shape this pairing of photographs by Chris Marker (1921–2012) with a short story by Shirley Jackson (1916–1965). Jackson was an author of dark, suspenseful stories, while Marker was an avant-garde photographer and filmmaker. Both use ordinary moments to twist time and reality in a psychological examination of human behaviour and interactions. In the images, individuals return the photographer’s gaze in an acknowledgment of the subject’s brief entrapment by the camera. Similarly, Jackson uses the entrapment of two women in a picture to explore the unknowingness and irrationality of human emotions.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 28 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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Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
Isbn 9791280336101
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 23733
€ 21.50
In the fall of 1952, Cy Twombly receives a traveling scholarship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and leaves New York for his first trip to Europe and North Africa. He meets up with Robert Rauschenberg in Casablanca, and the two of them travel to Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains, and then to Tangier. They pay a visit to Paul Bowles in Tétouan and go on day trips with him to nearby villages and Roman ruins. Twombly conducts his first and last archaeological excavation there. Upon their return to Rome in February 1953, Twombly studies and sketches the ethnographic objects and tribal artifacts he sees on display in the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini. These sketches survive in the form of the North African Sketchbooks. Much of the surviving work from this trip consists of photographs taken with a Rolleiflex shared by the artists and sketches made by them, preserved in the archives of the Cy Twombly Foundation and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio; they provide a unique perspective on Twombly's lesser-known affinity for Africa's Mediterranean shores.
80 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Gae Aulenti - Cina 1974
Isbn 9791280336149
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 23731
€ 21.50
In the autumn of 1974, Gae Aulenti took part in a trip to China, visiting Hong Kong (still a colony at the time), Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and a few smaller locations. After the years of the Cultural Revolution, China was reopening to the world, and a curious and tireless traveller like her was struck by the highly disciplined collective life, order and cleanliness, but also by the great transformations of the territory and the new infrastructures such as universities and hospitals. It is a world suspended between millenary traditions and the drive towards modernisation that Mao Zedong's ideology had imposed upon the country. Yet it is still the China of bicycles, of a thousand shops and the Great Wall visited without the presence of tourists. A place in some ways distant and exotic, yet Aulenti is careful to capture the beginning of the China to come. An astonishing reportage that shifts between great panoramas with the telling details picked out by a sharp-eyed observer.
96 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Josef Albers - Messico 1935/1956
Isbn 9788899385811
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code
€ 21.50
Josef and Anni Albers began their travels to Mexico in 1935, drawn to a country very unlike the United States. They were not in search of the exotic but rather of the traces of ancient pre-Colombian civilisations (the Mayans and the Aztecs) and testimonies of the everyday lives of a population that was very poor yet full of vitality. Dressed in dark colours and donning a large black hat, Albers was a non-professional photographer with the gaze of an architect, as may be noted from the great sense of composition and the search for geometries which he digs out even from the millenary archaeological findings. These photographs have never previously been published in Italy, and contribute to depicting the figure of one of the greatest innovators of the art and culture of the twentieth century, who to this day still has a lot to teach us. The volume also features an introduction by Brenda Danilowitz, curator and head of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, as well as an essay by Luca Galofaro, architect (LSGMA) and curator (CAMPO, Rome).
112 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Eye of Yukio Futagawa
Isbn 9784871406963
Publisher Ada Edita
Idea code 23576
€ 34.20
The series 'Eye of Yukio Futagawa,' which was published in 'GA JAPAN' from 2014 for three years, has been compiled into a B4-sized book on the occasion of the 10 years of his passing. This book traces the life of Futagawa Yukio, a publisher, photographer, and editor, through photographs and the voices of 17 architects, historians, and designers. Japanese only.
148 p, ills colour & bw, pb, Japanese
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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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What the Final Fuck!
Isbn 9791092775624
Publisher Monte en l'Air
Idea code 23687
€ 12.90
Between a cabinet of personal curiosity and documentary corpus, this collection of images gleaned from the Web offers a contemporary vision of amateur photography. It questions the place, function, and sharing of vernacular images, but also the new social relationships this phenomenon illustrates. On the social networks and websites where these images are found, the content is often accompanied by the acronym “WTF”, signifying the bewilderment it causes – a modern expression of the incomprehension and discomfort of the “voyeur” who looks at these images. In our mad rush to share extraordinary content for an anesthetized public, we accelerate the dilution of meaning.
400 p, ills colour, 14 x 10 cm, pb, English
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