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Lana Mesić – When you point a finger, three are pointing back
Isbn 9789083357133
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24022
€ 35.00
The complex history and contested borders that shaped the countries of former Yugoslavia set the stage for Croatian-born Lana Mesić as she weaves personal narratives in which she examines the role and meaning of the image of the enemy in her fragmented childhood. In light of recent European political developments, her book encourages us to reflect on our own experiences and consider how this history echoes to this day in the nationalist narratives that dominate the political landscape. Photographs, newspaper clippings, rumours, television clips, whispered conversations, written stories, and meticulously crafted relics made from matches and matchboxes form an intriguing web.
488 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Marguerite Duras - My Cinema
Isbn 9781738460908
Publisher Another Gaze Editions
Idea code 23885
€ 16.25
Working chronologically through her nineteen films, made between 1966 and 1985, this collection of reflections by Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) includes non-standard press releases, notes to her actors, letters to funders, short essays on themes as provocatively capacious as ‘mothers’ and ‘witches’, as well as some of the most significant interviews she gave about her cinematic and writing practices (with filmmakers and critics including Jacques Rivette, Caroline Champetier and Jean Narboni). In Duras's hands, all of these forms turn into a strange, gnomic literature in which the boundary between word and image becomes increasingly blurred and the paradox of creating a cinema that seeks ‘to destroy the cinema’ finds its most potent expression. Yet, Duras is never concerned only with her own work, or even with the broader project of making cinema: her preoccupations are global, and the global crucially informs her perceptions of the way in which she works. With the audiovisual as a starting point, her encyclopaedic associative powers bring readers into contact with subjects as diverse as the French Communist Party, hippies, Jews, revolutionary love, madness and freedom, across four decades of an oeuvre that is always in simultaneous dialogue with the contemporary moment and world history.
408 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Motor Dance Journal - Issue 2: Duets and Dialogues
Isbn 9772755306003
Publisher Motor Dance Journal
Idea code 23722
€ 19.00
Issue 2 of motor dance journal is entitled ‘Duets and Dialogues’ and considers the creative, personal, and social possibilities of dancing in relation to another. It features writing, conversations and artworks exploring themes including friendship, motherhood, creative partnerships, doubles, dance and place, translation and writing, and the relationship between dance and film. The issue includes contributions from a diverse array of choreographers, writers, artists, curators, and poets including Yvonne Rainer, Joan Jonas, Eiko Otake, Lynne Tillman, Collier Schorr, Holly Blakey, Jimmy Robert, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Paul Maheke, Laurie Anderson, Susan Finlay, Beatrice Gibson, Florence Peake, Eve Stainton and many more.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Lorenza Mazzetti - The Sky is Falling
Isbn 9781399937351
Publisher Another Gaze Editions
Idea code 23838
€ 14.00
First published in 1961, Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky is Falling (Il cielo cade) is an impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and uniquely funny look at the writer’s childhood after she and her sister are sent to live with their Jewish relatives following the death of their parents. Bright and bucolic, vivid and mournful, and brimming with saints, martyrdom, ideals, wrong-doing and self-imposed torments, the novel describes the loss of innocence and family under the Fascist regime in Italy during World War II through the eyes of Mazzetti’s fictional alter ego, Penny, in sharp, witty (and sometimes petulant) prose. First translated into English as The Sky Falls by Marguerite Waldman in 1962, with several pages missing due to censorship, the novel has been out of print in the anglophone world for many years. This reissued text in a new translation by Livia Franchini carries over the playfulness and perverse naivete of the original Italian.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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In Loving Memory of Work: A Visual Record Of The UK Miner’s Strike 1984-85
Isbn 9781914236389
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 23873
€ 38.95
Curated and edited by designer and author Craig Oldham, 'In Loving Memory of Work' tells the story of the UK Miner’s Strike 1984-85 through a record of the visual culture of the working class affected during this pivotal period. Photographs, posters, badges, banners, and more are presented here alongside contemporary commentary that creates both a fascinating document of a specific historical period, as well as an exploration of dissent more broadly, and the vital role visual material can play in the radical, even revolutionary, moment. Originally published in 2015, this revised and updated edition features a raft of brand-new material to mark the upcoming 40th anniversary of the dispute. With a forward by Ken Loach.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Dexter Sinister - yksihW kcalB
Isbn 9781915609069
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24036
€ 25.00
yksihW kcalB recounts the 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller. The story is told in reverse, starting with the delivery of 342 bottles to Berlin in 2022, and ending with an interview with Christoph for the journal Dot Dot Dot in 2007, during which the idea began to germinate. A summary of the project is accompanied by photographs taken at the time, interspersed with five previously published texts (an essay, three conversations, and a statement of intent) written along the way.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, hb, English
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Monk ABC
Isbn 9791094601532
Publisher Lenka Lente
Idea code 23857
€ 16.15
“Particular critical tradition turns its back on critical tradition. Jacques Ponzio’s book is linked to a galaxy where Heraclitus of Ephesus, Isidore Ducasse, Lichtenberg, Asger Jorn, the athletes of the haiku, and some Zen masters are in a disorderly pile,” writes François Billard in his preface. Thus begins this intriguing collection of quotations from American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917–1982). Organised like an alphabet book, more than 100 entries based on the testimonies of the musicians and journalists who were in Monk’s orbit comprise this revised edition of the book, first published in 2017. Jacques Ponzio is a leading specialist on the works of Monk.
144 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, French/English
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Ad van Denderen – En Route
Isbn 9789462264977
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24004
€ 45.00
The seventh volume in a series published by the Nederlands Fotomuseum in collaboration with Lecturis focuses on Dutch documentary photographer Ad van Denderen. It coincides with a retrospective exhibition of his oeuvre, which is primarily focused on apartheid, migration, and geopolitical conflicts. His work, which was initially narrative and later more conceptual and innovative, is marked by his complete immersion in his subject matter. His travels brought him to South Africa, Israel, Palestine, and more. In addition to an extensive collection of photographs, the book contains texts by curator Jenny Smets, Birgit Donker, Bianca Stigter, Frits Gierstberg, and Van Denderen himself.
314 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, English
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The Art of Performance - 25 Conversations
Isbn 9789490521646
Publisher Royal Academy Fine Arts Antw.
Idea code 23840
€ 27.55
What happens when artists play with the codes of the visual and performing arts? Which negotiations take place when you leave your own medium to explore another? As it turns out, those who are considered innovative on the one hand, are often labeled amateur on the other. In twenty-five conversations with leading artists, curators, dramaturgs and production workers Katleen van Langedonck explores which choices are made when creating a contemporary performance, taking into account all layers of the creative process. In doing so, she draws on her practical experience as a coordinator and curator of Performatik, the Brussels biennial of contemporary performance.
320 p, ills bw, 12 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Michael Liani LGBTQ+ Love
Isbn 9781988689111
Publisher Sternthal Books
Idea code 23851
€ 50.00
Michael Liani embarked on a journey that took him throughout Israel—from north to south—to piece together a collective portrait made up of hundreds of instances of love from throughout the LGBTQ+ continuum. This archive is composed of personal and intimate frames that together form a silent political pride parade, raising questions about individual and collective identity. The subjects stare at the viewer—at times proudly and defiantly, and at other times with hesitation. Liani photographs the subjects in their natural environments, documenting their homes, beliefs, and dreams with a directness that does not attempt to charm, appease, or please. Contrary to the experience of many, otherness is power, and through Liani’s lens and gaze, otherness as an empowering force manifests precisely in the most prosaic of instances, through the personal and everyday moments in the life of this diverse community.
254 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Hebrew/English
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Aurélien Mole - 30 mn
Isbn 9791095991229
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 23854
€ 37.65
With two disposable analogue cameras purchased on site, Aurélien Mole spent thirty minutes documenting a local photography lab, a relic of a bygone era: that of the industrialisation and popularisation of analogue photography. It took no longer than that to develop and print the two-colour negative films for this photo report, and to craft this brief introductory text—a little more time was required, though, for Syndicat to design its ghostly layout, in a book that plays on the contrast between matte paper and screen-printed varnish.
116 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 10 cm, hb, French/English
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Renate Graf - The Sacred and the Profane
Isbn 9789893530450
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 23834
€ 58.05
‘The Sacred and the Profane’ unravels the pungent beauties of Calcutta, combing through the remnants of the mystical, glimpsing the ancient rituals of Hinduism as they have been practiced for millennia. The photographs follow Renate Graf’s gaze as she moves through the dusty streets of the Bengali capital, at once mundane and holy. Her lens fixes on a bit of pottery, leading to the scene where a cremation took place hours earlier: a tangle of incense, beads, dust, ash, and cloth. Speaking about her own images, Graf says, “They do not define, they testify, and in the cultural diversity of a universe, they are a language in themselves, my language to describe what I see.”
188 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Territories – Buildings Through the Eyes of Their Users
Isbn 9789189270152
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 23800
€ 67.20
The impulse behind this experimental photo project was to inject methodology from street photography – mostly, the reliance on serendipity and spontaneous behaviour – into architectural photography. Inspired by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine’s films, Philippe Sarfati wanted to show buildings through the eyes of their users, by presenting spaces as inhabited territories. Acclaimed works of architecture thus become dramatic backdrops to everyday scenes, their radical geometries framing simple acts. The book plays with the notion of contextual portraiture. On the one hand, architecture is used as a frame, by focusing compositions onto subjects through bold volumes and strong lines. On the other hand, people give meaning and scale to the spaces shown. Their attitudes heighten our perception of the building atmospheres. Philippe Sarfati (b. 1992) is a French architect and photographer based in Paris.
528 p, ills bw, 21 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Pia Zanetti
Isbn 9783907205396
Publisher Edizioni Periferia
Idea code 23878
€ 71.50
The hundreds of photographs by Pia Zanetti included in this volume reflect a biography of countless travels. In a domain that had long been reserved for men, the Swiss-born photographer tirelessly asserted herself. Beginning in the 1960s, she travelled within Europe for various news magazines, and later internationally to every continent. Her interest is in the people she observes on the street or at work, relaxing or contemplating. Unobtrusively, sensitively, and critically, she captures the different narratives that take place in everyday life. Zanetti has repeatedly documented solidarity and resistance. But she also looks for those rewarding moments when dreams seem to come true.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 33 cm, pb, German
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Katrina Daschner – BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!
Isbn 9781915609311
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23841
€ 19.00
'BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled Genders' was the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Vienna-based artist and filmmaker Katrina Daschner. It was curated by by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu and encompassed works from the 1990s to the present, ranging from sculptures, textiles, music, performance, community-based work, and, most prominently, film, which sits at the heart of Katrina Daschner’s practice. The publication transfers the immersive environment of senses, textures, and feelings created in the exhibition into book form. Just like the exhibition, it confronts, touches, embraces, and dreams of transforming “femme”-ness, transforming bodies, and transforming genders.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Valerie Phillips - Hello Phoebe
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Publisher Kosmostars Ltd
Idea code 23739
€ 14.50
I met Phoebe in January 2022. She contacted me on Instagram. She was seventeen. A singer/songwriter and school kid from the suburbs. We spent 9 months taking pictures before she headed to University. The zine is shot on Hello Kitty Fujifilm Instax bought with all my remaining yen coins at a souvenir shop at Haneda Airport the last time I was in Japan.
40 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Ben Rivers - Collected Stories
Isbn 9780645454710
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 23836
€ 13.30
Collected Stories is, as implied by the title, a collection of stories, curated by Ben Rivers. Fiction and poetry have always been an essential source of inspiration for his filmmaking. On the occasion of the retrospective Ghost Strata, and other stories, held at Jeu de Paume in Paris in November 2023, he decided to bring his films in conversation with writers who have influenced him over the years. Rivers invited fourteen authors to watch one of his films and respond in writing in any way they wished. Imaginative and surprising, the fables, essays and poems of Collected Stories come together in a beautiful celebration of the work of one of contemporary cinema’s vital artists, doubling as a testament to the reciprocal nature of inspiration. The authors of these collected stories are Gina Apostol, Chloe Aridjis, Kevin Barry, Xiaolu Guo, Golan Haji, M John Harrison, Daisy Hildyard, Nathalie Léger, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, Irene Solà, Lynne Tillman and Marina Warner.
176 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Bart Koetsier – Noctambule
Isbn 9789462264908
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 23757
€ 45.00
Bart Koetsier roamed Europe for a decade, driven by a dark romantic longing for the big city ‘after closing time’. Drawn to the seamy side of a smoothed-out culture, he got lost in the anarchic nighttime street life, photographing the grubby, unpolished and unbridled scenes that unfolded before his eyes. Koetsier has witnessed and documented it all without wanting to participate. Free of judgment, he recorded how the bourgeoisie transforms into a more animalistic form of itself, how the intoxication of the nightlife mixes with the perfume of the streets and with those for whom all this is a ‘fait accompli’.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Kirstin Burchhardt and. Lisa W Carlson - Brutal With Love
Isbn 9783907112700
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 23752
€ 34.70
What do you need to meet a loved one in full honesty? What is the place for the radical act of opening up? And how do we voice and feel togetherness, in the face of the final act of the body – dying? Brutal with Love is the first collaborative book by Kirstin Burckhardt and Lisa W Carlson and it resembles a performance in 3 acts: opening with a conversation in 12 chapters and photographs from their performative practice. Burckhardt and Carlson reflect on their way of encountering each other: through in-between feelings, questions, and their embodied friendship. From images through flesh to images of touching: the third part invites the viewer to become a page-turner and flip through stop-motion-images from Burckhardt’s performative video-homage which investigates her relationship with the Large Autopsy Hall at the Museum of Medical History Hamburg. Framed in a B-format book, the papers and finishing elevate this otherwise standard pocketbook to something palpable.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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