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New Titles in Photography

13 May 2024

Yorgos Lanthimos - Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken

Isbn 9786185479336
Publisher Void
Idea code 24243
€ 56.15

'Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken' is a photographic vignette by Yorgos Lanthimos. Although created on the set of the film 'Poor Things' in Budapest, the book inhabits a separate world, untethered from time and place. The photographs drift between black and white and colour, giving the impression of a waking dream between past and present, whilst multiple layers between reality and fiction are gradually revealed. The film was set in various late 19th century locations including London, Lisbon, Marseille, and a cruise ship—all recreated in Budapest. These constructed cities and interiors provide the backdrop for the photographs. The characters populate these imagined cities whilst the precarious screens, scaffolding, rigs, lighting and crew are divulged on the periphery of the images. Lanthimos has intentionally widened the frame to show the workings of the construct, fabricating a new story within the story. To mirror this, the publication is designed with foldouts to reveal these constructs within the cast of characters—the reader opens a book within a book.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English

Inge Meijer – The MoMA Plant Collection

Isbn 9789464460537
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24193
€ 32.00

'The MoMA Plant Collection' displays the tradition of including plant life in the Museum of Modern Art NY. The book presents 340 photographs and drawings that pay tribute to the pairing of plants with art. What can the placement of greenery next to the works of Mark Rothko, Henri Matisse, and many others tell us about the relationship between culture and nature? A question that Meijer started to investigate in her first artist's book, 'The Plant Collection' (ROMA, 2019), on plants in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and continues at this museum in New York.

112 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Fazal Sheikh: Thirst – Great Salt lake

Isbn 9798218337209
Publisher Fazal Sheikh Archive
Idea code 24249
€ 57.55

‘Great Salt Lake’ is the first in a series of publications by Fazal Sheikh examining the effects of climate change and extraction in the Western United States. It charts the destruction of the lake by industrialisation and its pollution by chemical waste, as well as the loss of natural habitats for wildlife, the siphoning off of rivers that feed it, and the toll taken by rising temperatures and long periods of drought, all of which have brought the lake to crisis point. Sheikh reveals the condition of the lake in stunning and visceral images that provide a record of Great Salt Lake at its lowest ebb.

134 p, ills colour, 28 x 38 cm, hb, English

Ari Marcopoulos – Beware

Isbn 9789464460575
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24191
€ 25.00

When the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris asked Ari Marcopoulos to curate an exhibition around their acquisition ‘Brown Bag’, a short film on skateboarders in New York that he made in 1993, he was given access to the museum’s collection of over 15,000 works. He looked for themes related to the body, injuries, and architecture, along with what he perceived as challenging and puzzling works. Some of the artists were already familiar, while others were new to him. The process was not so different from his process as a filmmaker and photographer: so much of his work is about finding things. This book is a new look at photographs from around the time Marcopoulos shot ‘Brown Bag’.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English

Klaus Pichler — Fear Guards the Lemon Grove

Isbn 9789083345956
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24234
€ 35.00

The Sicilian mafia is probably the most famous criminal organisation in the world. It’s been known to exist at least since the 1870s, when a Sicilian landlord documented how a local group of mafia members threatened and harassed his business to the point that he had to escape from the island. Over the years, the Cosa Nostra and its North American offshoots have been depicted in numerous books, movies and works of popular culture. Yet the origins of the mafia have been regarded as something of a mystery. What factors explained its sudden appearance in Sicily after Italy’s unification in 1860-61? Were the mafiosi truly ‘men of honour’, as they called themselves, protecting poor, ordinary citizens from an oppressive state – or did their activity arise as a bulwark against communism? 'Fear Guards the Lemon Grove’ investigates one of the major catalyst for the rise of the mafia in Sicily: the surge in demand for lemons and oranges that began in the first half of the 19th century.

208 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Angeniet Berkers: Lebensborn — Birth Politics in the Third Reich

Isbn 9789083357164
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24173
€ 40.00

On 12 December 1935, a programme was started in Germany to provide the Third Reich with a new generation of leaders: Lebensborn (Source of Life). SS officers were encouraged to reproduce as much as possible, including out of wedlock. In several Lebensborn homes scattered across West-Europe, (unmarried) women could give birth if they met the requirements of the Aryan race. After the war, the children from these homes and families were often stigmatised, mistreated, and abused. Many grew up with secrets. Lebensborn tells the compelling story of this particular history, focusing on the major events, but especially on the personal consequences for those involved.

272 p, ills colour, 21 x 29 cm, hb, English

Yoshi Kametani - I’ll Be Late

Isbn 9786185479329
Publisher Void
Idea code 24162
€ 36.75

In 'I'll Be Late,' Yoshi Kametani explores existential anxieties related to life, death, time, and entropy. The book captures familiar domestic scenes, blending images of friends with moments like dirty dishes, pizza crusts, and burning cigarettes. Kametani's meticulous four-layer screen-printing process deconstructs and reconstructs these images, emphasizing the relentless passage of time and the transformation from harmony to chaos within the natural cycle of entropy. This method allows viewers to engage with the work, witnessing its materialization and gaining insight into the author's interpretation of the images.

168 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Karlheinz Weinberger – Volume 4 Rockers

Isbn 9783906822181
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 24165
€ 42.55

The fourth volume in the continuing exploration of the archive of Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (1921–2006), who gained recognition in particular for his homoerotic portraits. This time, the publication presents his work with rocker gangs, outsiders, and rebels, spanning from the early 1960s to the 1980s. Weinberger’s work was discovered by the art scene shortly before his death, and his artistic trove revealed tens of thousands of prints, slides, and negatives that have been collected, archived, numbered, and indexed over the course of the last decade. Many never-before-seen images were discovered during this process and are published here for the first time.

152 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English

Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen - Self Reflection

Isbn 9788797352687
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 24124
€ 40.00

The acclaimed Danish photographer Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen’s first monograph 'Self Reflection' blurs the line between photography and painting, reality and fantasy in an exploration of the human body and the subconscious self. By using mirrors, reflections and illusions Ebbesen examines how the human body and mind can be visualized and interpreted by the viewer. The distorted materials, used throughout the book, blur the lines between photography and painting, providing a symbolic boundary between reality and imagination. By placing nature, the nude body, fruits and flowers in a surreal context, Ebbesen creates a clash between the familiar and the odd.

188 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English

Conny Karlsson Lundgren - I Kiss Your Eyes

Isbn 9789198870510
Publisher Art & Theory Publishing
Idea code 24242
€ 32.25

Desire, lust, intimacy, and resistance are reoccurring themes in Karlsson Lundgren’s practice. For more than 20 years, often with a starting point in the hidden micro-histories of the archive, he has gently let surface perspectives on queer experiences and Swedish gay history. Shared and temporary spaces such as the park, the night club, the bedroom or the work of activism often set the stage for his investigations. Within the parameters set up by the works, political and juridical structures are made visible, while often intertwined with moments of ecstasy, community, or liberation. Published in collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall in conjunction with the exhibition I Kiss Your Eyes (2024).

212 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Swedish/English

Nicola Nunziata – Ando

Isbn 9789083345963
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24175
€ 20.00

Nicola Nunziata investigates the work of Italian photographer Ando Gilardi (1921–2012) by focusing on the places and workspaces created and inhabited by him. Gilardi is recognised as one of the most eclectic and original figures in the history of Italian photography. The National Historical Photo Library, which he founded in 1959, hosts approximately 500,000 images and represents a pioneering archive on the uses and social functions of photography. Nunziata’s project consists of an index of photographic materials, personal artefacts, and archival materials, and is presented in a folder as an unbound book and a work in progress.

44 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 35 cm, pb, English

Julian Slagman - Looking at My Brother

Isbn 9788797352694
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 24257
€ 38.00

In this book, Slagman presents work made over the past decade, photographing his two younger brothers, Mats and Jonah, growing up and creating a world of their own. From individual portraits to shared moments, the images offer a poignant exploration of childhood, growth, and the passage of time. The work deals with the vulnerability of the body and the brutality of the scars that Mats suffered after his scoliosis surgery. These physical reminders juxtapose with the resilience and strength embodied by both brothers as they navigate adolescence and brotherhood. Through the book, Slagman delves into the vulnerable relationship between photography and time, inviting us to witness the tender moments of connection, and the world created growing up. 'Looking at My Brother' was awarded the Aenne Biermann Prize in 2021 and shortlisted for the Carte Blanche Students Prize sponsored by Paris Photo.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

Ueli Frey – Live in Concert

Isbn 9783906822549
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 24245
€ 99.00

Since 1974, Ueli Frey has photographed thousands of musicians. His most impressive pictures are now compiled chronologically in two volumes: ‘The Analog Years’ and ‘The Digital Years’. Frey documented a huge array of performers, from Frank Zappa, Carlos Santana, Bob Marley, and Freddie Mercury, to Lana Del Rey, Nina Hagen, Stevie Nicks, Nena, and more. Experience an eclectic array of vintage black-and-white classics and meticulously edited digital masterpieces in this comprehensive collection. Many of the concerts are accompanied by short anecdotes that offer a glimpse into the photographer’s intimate moments with the musicians.

416 , ills colour & bw, 30 x 30 cm, box, English

Patrick Pound – Windows

Isbn 9781922545251
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24223
€ 40.70

Patrick Pound finds almost all of his photographs – discarded amateur snaps and photographic prints from now-defunct picture libraries, newspaper and cinema archives – for sale on eBay and other online platforms. He calls the internet a vast, unhinged album, and for years he has spent hours sorting through the morass, finding or inventing connections. The redundant images that feature in this book extend beyond the nostalgic or sentimental; they speak to us directly about our present. Photographs that have been taken from their context, and which have lost their initial reason for ‘living’, are remarkably pliable little signs.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English

Sarah Walker – The Well

Isbn 9781922545237
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24224
€ 40.70

The notion of 'The Well' is rich in metaphorical and symbolic potential for Melbourne-based artist Sarah Walker. Doubling as the title for her book, the idea serves as a site of foreboding, reflection and renewal – a place where currents of past, present, and future purl and fold. The project’s formative images emerged out of a period of great solitude and personal upheaval for Walker, who describes these early gestures as a private series of ‘contemplations on love, heartbreak, grief, family, and uncertainty’. She had no plans to show the images; they existed as mere studies of a time and personal state. It was only after visiting a psychic – an exercise in breaking out of a rut – that things began to shift.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

Axel van der Kraan

Isbn 9789072532589
Publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Idea code 24213
€ 55.00

Axel van der Kraan has a less than optimistic view of humans and civilisation. He is fascinated by power and bureaucracy and the absurdity of routines and rules that sometimes seem to oppress people more than help them. The artist sees the world as an “unfocused, absurd, and aimless battleground”. His sculptures, however, are characterised by a high degree of inventiveness in their construction and use of materials. New, recognisable images are created from discarded household appliances and machines; a waste bin becomes the body of a soldier and a sink the gun turret of a tank. This book examines his body of work since 1985, including assemblages, rubbings, and woodcuts.

224 p, ills colour, 30 x 24 cm, hb, Dutch/English

Lenard Smith – Refuge

Isbn 9781922545299
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24192
€ 36.25

Sequestered among the redwoods, a short distance inland from the remote Mendocino Coast in Northern California, Salmon Creek Farm was originally established as a countercultural commune in the early 1970s. Today it exists as a kind of living art project, open to artists and others. After the murder of George Floyd, its current custodian offered one of the farm’s cabins as a sanctuary for BIPOC artists, with no expectations, expenses, or obligations. Emerging from this context, Lenard Smith’s ‘Refuge’ is about an artist being given the space to live freely, to think, make, play. It is about safety, and the richness of introspection, solemnity, reflection, and creativity that it affords.

98 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English

Tim Coghlan – Hell’s Gates II Retribution

Isbn 9781922545336
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24185
€ 29.60

Melbourne designer and publisher Tim Coghlan has built his output around the results of both wayward and strategic Google Images searches. Amidst the morass of images that drown the digital present – not to mention the cloud of desensitisation that rises in its wake – some photographs still hold the acute charge and resonance they always did. Filled with lo-res, amateur, and public domain photographs of burning churches found online, including screen captures from TV news broadcasts, this second volume of Coghlan’s investigative project continues to pose questions of iconography, typology, and the implications of images.

224 p, ills colour, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English

Georgia Metaxas – Mnemosyne Grove

Isbn 9781922545312
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24260
€ 40.70

Mnemosyne Grove, the debut book from London-based Australian artist Georgia Metaxas, traverses this territory with great sensitivity and poeticism. Using the olive tree as its central motif, the project explores family lineage and tragedy through connections between land, family archives, and storytelling, reflecting on the photograph’s ability to provide a nexus for multiple personal histories – in particular, those of migration, displacement, loss, and return.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 19 cm, hb, English

Necromancer - Inuuteq Storch

Isbn 9788797381120
Publisher Marrow Press
Idea code 24154
€ 37.50

Inuuteq Storch has distinguished himself in recent years as a shining star on the international photography scene, not least following his selection as the representative for Denmark at the Biennale in Venice, 2024. His new book Necromancer specifically explores Greenlandic society during the Covid pandemic. Here, Storch trains his gaze on the effects and aftermath of a pandemic on a society like Greenland’s. The images are not classically documentary (nor are they solely from Greenland), but rather more arbitrary glimpses of emotion and atmosphere, suffused with an intimacy and melancholy that seem strongly connected to the spiritual. While creating the book, Storch’s fascination with occultism and the connection between the physical and spiritual worlds grew – hence its title, Necromancer. At the same time, the images arose out of the post-apocalyptic context of a global pandemic, its overwhelming personal consequences, and the feeling of being alone in the world. Like all of Storch’s work, the book has a distinct poetic vein that invites readers to immerse themselves in Storch’s restlessness or to build upon the images, creating narratives of their own.

224 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English

Marine Peixoto - Bercy Street Workout Photographies 2020-2023

Isbn 9789464460568
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24135
€ 29.00

Every day, people come to the municipal outdoor gym in Parc de Bercy in Paris. Among them is Medhy, who is behind several initiatives to transform the site into more than just a workout space. In 2020, he invited Marine Peixoto to photograph the scene there. Her practice then took on the rhythm of the gym. Just as some do push-ups and pull-ups, Peixoto carried out an intensive photoshoot. The routine, the repetition, and the cycle of the seasons challenged her determination to “occupy the present”, forcing her to constantly renew her perspective on the same subject. This experience of exhausting a place and a way of seeing is a relentless act of faith in others and in oneself.

88 p, ills bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, French/English

Alaminüt Fotograf – Itinerant Photography In Turkey

Isbn 9783950506419
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 24250
€ 38.70

Alaminüt Fotoğraf reveals the history of photographers working on the streets of Turkey with a simple wooden box, serving as camera and dark-room in one. The camera was used from the 1910s onwards and has been an integral part of the history of photography in Turkey as well as the documentation of Turkish citizens in the new republic. The book explores the work of these photographers throughout the country, focusing on both leisure and administrative photographs.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

Lukas Birk – Hand Colouring

Isbn 9783950506464
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 24204
€ 19.40

Traditionally, hand-colouring photographs was done when colour film either did not exist or was too expensive. The craft was introduced in Europe in the early daguerreotypes of the 1840s and could already be found in Japan and India in the 1860s. Globally, the demand for this type of treatment vanished with the rise of Kodachrome and other colour films that were available from the 1950s onwards. With this little foldout book, Lucas Birk offers a peek into his private collection of hand-coloured photographs from countries around the world, while also giving step-by-step insight into the method of the craft itself.

18 , ills colour, 8 x 10 cm, leporello, English

Six Tricks - Box Camera Photography along the Grand Trunk Road & Beyond

Isbn 9783950506402
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 24203
€ 32.75

The simple lesson of this book is that creativity offers hope. Through charming illustrations and playful twists, authors Sean Foley and Lukas Birk connect their previous publications, ‘Afghan Box Camera’, ‘Photo Peshawar’, and ‘Indian Minute Camera Photographers’, to tell the story of how the craft also offers avenues for experimentation and fun. Filled with tricks of the trade from box camera photographers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, not to mention a wealth of fascinating archival portraits and images, it explores the niches of street photographers’ work along this ancient trade route while leaving space to show the playful side of their image-making.

122 p, ills colour, 13 x 19 cm, hb, English


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