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Awoiska van der Molen – The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves
Isbn 9789083345987
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24448
€ 60.00
Critically acclaimed for her psychological landscape images, Awoiska van der Molen presents a new body of work with understated black-and-white photos of built-up environments that reveal traces of human presence: she zooms in on illuminated windows in the darkness of the evening in Japan. One could say that these windows function as a screen between the photographer (or the observer) and the world, between a psychological inner world and the external world of things. Through the windows, we catch a glimpse of the life behind them, yet there is no substantial contact. The windows serve as a barrier to the desire for safety and companionship as well as a glimpse of it. They simultaneously represent the longing for connection as well as comfort with distance. In this sense, the windows symbolise the existential loneliness that most of us must come to terms with to a greater or lesser degree.
56 , ills bw, 22 x 28 cm, leporello, English
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Nora Bibel – Uncertain Homelands
Isbn 9789083357188
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24451
€ 45.00
Water, in abundance or in scarcity, is the central theme of 'Uncertain Homelands'. Nora Bibel (DE) investigates the repercussions of climate change around the world, focusing on Indonesia, Namibia, and Germany. Through a combination of drone photography of landscapes, intimate portraits of people affected by human-made climate change, and interviews, Bibel creates a layered body of work that thoughtfully engages with global interconnectivity and the mutual influence of water systems. The uncertainty lies in the question how our lives will change as a result of climate change. Uncertain Homelands is a story about the threat to our familiar way of life, but also about the resilience and diverse adaptation strategies that people use to counter it.
308 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, hb, German/English
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Rogier Maaskant – Sense of Presence
Isbn 9789493363021
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24452
€ 40.00
“The tiny creatures that run the world,” is how myrmecologist Edward O. Wilson described insects. They are nature’s cleaners, provide food for many other species and are essential for the pollination of plants, including our crops. They deserve a stage. With spotlights. The magical images of Rogier Maaskant (NL) show the vast quantities of insects flying through the air at night – in forests and above fields, ditches, and ponds around Rotterdam. By using strobe light, his single exposures provide a unique view of the flight of trichoptera, moths, hoverflies, dragonflies, mosquitoes, and countless other species that illustrate the rich biodiversity.
144 p, ills colour, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Diana Blok – Living Leaves
Isbn 9789090385310
Publisher Diana Blok
Idea code 24372
€ 55.00
Born in Uruguay to a Dutch father and an Argentine mother, Diana Blok grew up in several Latin American countries before settling in Amsterdam in the 1970s. A self-taught portrait photographer, she first turned her gaze to herself, visualising myths and dreams and capturing forms of kinship between people. Her work has since focused mainly on portraying people for whom gender, (cultural) identity, and sexual preferences are not fixed. During the global pandemic, she began photographing dried leaves in Brazil in stunning macroscopic detail, imbuing them with new life through her camera’s lens.
72 p, ills colour, 27 x 35 cm, pb, English
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Thomas Mailaender - Les Belles Images
Isbn 9782492175411
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 24388
€ 48.40
‘Les Belles Images’ appears with Thomas Mailaender’s 2024 exhibition at MEP in Paris, in which the artist pushes the boundaries of photographic experimentation, interrogating the primary function of the image. Using both historic and contemporary processes, he re-orients his visual research by integrating photographic materials into a wide range of physical bases, from cyanotypes to ceramics. His installations question the role of images and their material status in today’s society by using found images drawn from a range of sources. Designed as an artist’s book, the catalogue includes behind-the-scenes views of Mailaender’s studio and a 3D simulation of the exhibition.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 37 cm, pb, French/English
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Corinne Vionnet - Paris Paris Paris
Isbn 9782492175381
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 24389
€ 40.85
Since 2005, Corinne Vionnet’s work has focused on mass tourism and the circulation of images. In ‘Paris Paris Paris’, the Swiss artist turns her attention to one of Europe’s most photographed cities, finding numerous sites and monuments that feed an uninterrupted flow of images. She transforms the raw material she works with, namely, standardised snapshots of hyper-frequented places that directly feed social networks. Vionnet’s images, which reveal nothing of the considerable work involved in their creation (archive research, crowdsourcing, collage), question our collective memory and the behaviour inherent in tourism. Why do we always take and share the same images?
110 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Boris Tellegen: 121/183, 761 photos of red-brown steel freight wagons with a painting on the side
Isbn 9789083106649
Publisher A Paper Book
Idea code 24366
€ 54.00
Between 2010 and 2023, graffiti artist DELTA produced an extensive series of paintings on the freight wagons of Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway company. Artworks combining white paint with black spray paint were applied to more than 700 wagons. This anthology of DELTA’s train series, designed by Sandra Kassenaar and Bart de Baets, documents nearly all of these works, each one unique. Rather than present wagons chronologically, it groups them in conceptual series, emphasising the artist’s fluid process. Additional images and explanations by the artist offer insight into his attitude towards impermanence, as well as thoughts on the tools, site, or execution.
250 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Joan Ayrton – pendulum shift
Isbn 9789464460643
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24417
€ 26.00
Invited to exhibit on the Mauvoisin dam in Switzerland, Joan Ayrton chose to photograph the dam and the surrounding landscape with a camera called Tessina. An extremely tiny camera which appeared on the market at the end of the 1950s, when the Mauvoisin works were completed. In a history that is highly emblematic of the modern era, that of the construction of dams in the Swiss Alps, and that of a watchmaking industry that, following the stock market crash of 1929, had to reinvent itself, entering the field of photography.
132 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Lonneke van der Palen – Lemons Gazing at Mount Etna
Isbn 9789083227443
Publisher Free Pony Press
Idea code 24373
€ 55.00
'Lemons Gazing at Mount Etna' is an unbound publication in which images unfold into a portable and modular exhibition, with the possibility to change the cover into your preferred image. Encompassing an eclectic selection of Lonneke van der Palen’s evergrowing visual archive, it deals with the notion of material culture and its retained and unexpected beauty. Mundane scenes, modern artefacts, trash, treasures, and their intricate relationships with economic, cultural, and historical contexts compose her large collection of photographs. For a complete view, the images must be taken out of the plastic sleeve, adding a tangible dimension and reinforcing the idea of rediscovery and renewed observation, breaking traditional hierarchies.
280 p, ills colour, 28 x 39 cm, pb, English
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Matt Eich – We the Free
Isbn 9783906822556
Publisher Sturm & Drang
Idea code 24380
€ 66.10
‘We, the Free’ is the final volume in photographer Matt Eich’s four-part series of monographs that began in 2016. Altogether the series considers the weight of collective memory in the shaping of American identity. Departing from the formula seen in the previous volumes of depicting a regional microcosm, the final book features images taken across the entire United States. Spanning nearly fifteen years, Eich’s photographs were made as he came of age and over a period when the American superpower began to decline as it faced increasing national tensions. This significant body of work is a photographic chronicle of modern American society entering a point of no return.
168 p, ills colour, 25 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Iris Haverkamp Begemann – I Went on a Holiday to the Country You Fled From
Isbn 9789090383507
Publisher Iris Haverkamp Begemann
Idea code 24412
€ 45.00
Iris Haverkamp Begemann is a documentary photographer based in Amsterdam. Her collaborative approach led to this project, in which she explores identity and privilege. Guided by memories and hand-drawn maps by trans writer and activist Alejandra Ortiz, she went on a holiday to Mexico, the country from which Ortiz once fled. The series interweaves experiences of belonging and rejection to create an intimate portrait of identity and the complex ways it dictates personal freedom. Along with correspondence between the artist and Ortiz, the book includes personal recollections and anecdotes. The series was granted the Dutch Photography Award in 2023.
120 p, ills colour, 28 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Arja Hop, Peter Svenson – Felwa
Isbn 9789493329065
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24397
€ 49.00
The photo-book 'Felwa' is a chronicle of transitions that explore an essential paradox of nature, namely that change is the only constant. Structured like ripples in a pool, the book begins with references to the past examining our ancient emotional relationship with the world in terms of mythology and belief and ends with the scientific data based view we have today. Within these parameters we explore relationships to place ranging from the 10,000 years of human habitation to one summer during which everything changed.
532 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Ballet of the masses. On Football and Cartharsis / BOM Magazine
Isbn 9783949973611
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24391
€ 11.00
The BOM Magazine, the publication for the Ballet of the Masses project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), focuses on rare perspectives on football as a field of both tension and relaxation. The authors tackle the big, small, and supposedly trivial topics, questions, and debates surrounding football in conversations, essays, poetry, and visual essays. The bookazine features a dynamic feel and aesthetic between a football magazine and a paperback, and was developed together with Archive Books. It is lavishly illustrated with photographs and illustrations that offer a bold visual commentary, and in parts contemporary vision, of the world’s favorite sport.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Ballet der Massen. Über Fußball und Katharsis / BOM Magazine
Isbn 9783949973628
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24392
€ 10.20
Das BOM Magazin, die Publikation zum Projekt Ballett der Massen am Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), greift seltene Perspektiven auf Fußball als Spannungs- und Entspannungsfeld auf. Die Autor*innen nehmen sich der großen, kleinen und vermeintlich trivialen Fragen, Themen und Debatten rund um Fußball in Gesprächen, Essays, Lyrik und Bilderstrecken an. Als Bookazine zeichnet sich die Publikation durch eine dynamische Haptik und Ästhetik zwischen Fußballmagazin und Taschenbuch aus, die zusammen mit Archive Books entwickelt wurde. Sie ist reich bebildert mit Fotos und Illustrationen, die einen gewagten visuellen Kommentar und in Teilen zeitgenössische Vision der beliebtesten Sportart der Welt bieten.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, German
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Charles Nègre - Sidewalk Stills
Isbn 9782492175398
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 24390
€ 45.15
Following the great tradition of a noble and ancient painting genre, French photographer Charles Nègre produced a series of ultra-contemporary still lifes at the close of the Parisian markets. Taking his camera out into the city, Nègre sought out and captured the abandoned remains as they were, exploring the visual charge of seemingly innocuous or disposable subjects while creating images that at once shock and delight, and in turn exposing food waste and overconsumption.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, French/English
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Bernard Voïta – Melencolia
Isbn 9783907205440
Publisher Edizioni Periferia
Idea code 24377
€ 45.95
Visual artist Bernard Voïta’s interest lies not so much in photography as a technical medium but rather as a medium of perception, a means of visually transforming reality. Although he uses a camera to produce his works, he maintains he is not a photographer. What appears at first sight to be montage or collage proves to be a complex, three-dimensional installation in the studio, which seems like a two-dimensional image only from one specific perspective. His meticulously composed pictures thus have no equivalent in reality. Named after the famous engraving by Albrecht Dürer, ‘Melencolia’ is an elaborately handcrafted, long-term project that is intellectually and visually challenging.
64 p, ills bw, 25 x 32 cm, pb, German/English
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Fábrica de Tabacos
Isbn 9788409592906
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 24252
€ 25.55
This book recovers the memory of the heritage of the tobacco industry in Spain, and does so by compiling black- and-white photographs of the factories that began to open throughout the country in the eighteenth century. These photographs feature Nicotiana tabacum plants and the development of their cultivation, as well as the farmers and harvesters who worked in the rural areas and the processors in the factories built in cities like Seville, Santander, Valencia, Bilbao, or La Coruña. It isn’t an exhaustive register of either tobacco production or of the factory world, but a series of images evocative of the chain forged by the tradition of labourers and female cigar makers in the tobacco industry. The photographs also enable us to recover the stories behind the cultivation of this American plant and its connections with Europe.
96 p, ills bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Lucy Lippard - I See / You Mean
Isbn 9781953441034
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 24280
€ 30.00
I See / You Mean is an experimental novel about mirrors, maps, relationships, the ocean, elusive success, and possible happiness. Through a collage of verbal photographs, overheard dialogue, sexual encounters, found material, and self identification devices (astrology, the I Ching, palmistry, Tarot), it charts from past to future the changing currents between two women and two men: a writer, a model/stockbroker/maybe dictator, a photographer, and an actor. A lot happens between the lines. Art critic Lucy Lippard wrote this novel in 1970 and became a feminist in the process: “I started writing and realized I was ashamed to be a woman. Then I had to find out why. Then I got very angry. The fragmented visual form came out of contemporary art and the conflicting emotions of 1960s political confrontation; they suggested a new way to put things back together—an open-ended, female way that didn’t pretend conclusions.”
222 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, hb, English
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David Simpson – Courir
Isbn 9782956967743
Publisher Flee
Idea code 24237
€ 29.00
Every year, as Ash Wednesday approaches, rural communities in Southwest Louisiana come alive with Mardi Gras courirs—spirited runs where costumed revellers embark on a captivating journey. David Simpson, through his lens, captures the enchanting Mardi Gras in a photographic narrative, as they go from house to house, singing, dancing, and begging for ingredients to create a communal "gumbo" feast. The rich symbolism behind the costumes, from high-pointed conical hats parodying noble headdresses to handmade masks concealing identities with exaggerated facial features here, is a passionate portrayal of roles that mock authority, a tradition deeply rooted in Cajun and Creole heritages in a compiled archival work by David Simpson spanning over thirty years.
128 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, hb, French/English
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Taunggyi Represent - Photographs by U Aung San 1980-1999
Isbn 9783950407969
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 24284
€ 35.10
Born in Taunggyi in northern Myanmar, Aung San has been a photographer for more than 40 years. He began while still in school, photographing friends doing martial arts poses and high kicks. Later, it became a real business and he was hired to shoot all kinds of photographs, including many portraits. Due to embargoes in the 1980s and ’90s, film was hard to come by, so he bought most materials on the black market. It was a time of experimentation and learning, when each image was carefully thought out. This collection of Aung San’s photographs from the Myanmar Photo Archive offers fascinating glimpse into the country’s people and culture.
76 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English/Burmese
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Sabine Hagmann - an immediate beauty remix, adventures in time and space and colour
Isbn 9783907112816
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 24444
€ 32.70
Sabine Hagmann’s an immediate beauty remix - adventures in time and space and colour immerses you into the serenity of fleeting moments. Her lens captures the formations of light, colour and motion that she encounters in her everyday life. With an attentive eye, she delves into the essence of transient moments. The artist combines photographs from the ongoing immediate beauty archive to create what she refers to as remixes. The associative pictorial encounters open up spaces of impact imbued with a sensual mood. The book is the latest remix of Hagmann's long-term project and lets the pictures speak for themselves. Viewers are challenged to give their own perception time and to follow it.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, German/English
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Mirja Busch Puddles Archive (Pfützenarchiv)
Isbn 9783907112786
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 24443
€ 32.70
Temporary and ephemeral, puddles are transient entities that establish themselves in specific locations. Their presence or absence is contingent on the prevailing weather conditions. The phenomenon of soil sealing distinctly defines puddles, and their existence is influenced by the evolving water cycle driven by climate change. Das Pfützenarchiv (The Puddle Archive) is a long-term project of Mirja Busch, an artist based in Berlin. Over the course of more than a decade, Busch has dedicated herself to exploring puddles and experimented with diverse methods of archiving them. The culmination of this extensive effort is a 400-page book, presenting the photographic archive cultivated since 2010. Nearly 2000 puddles have undergone analysis, classification, and coding. Positioned between a monument and a snapshot, the book extends an invitation for contemplation, encouraging readers to linger and reflect on the often disregarded and overlooked phenomenon of puddles.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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Andrea Stultiens – I Wish There Was Color | I Wish There Was Sound
Isbn 9789493329171
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24411
€ 49.95
Since 2012, Andrea Stultiens has been researching the archive of Paul Julien (1901–2001), who travelled repeatedly to equatorial Africa between 1932 and 1962. His reportages, which were extremely popular at the time, resulted in an extensive collection of photography and film. While extraordinary in their variety and consistent quality, the images are also problematic, being strongly influenced by Western colonial views. As part of her project, Stultiens brings Julien’s work back its place of origin, showing it to the descents of the people and communities portrayed. By “activating” the work in its original contexts and connecting to the tradition of storytellers, a deeper meaning emerges.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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