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Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch
Isbn 9782492175473
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 24634
€ 64.50
Distilled from over 15,000 family albums, the ‘Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch’ archives the human desire to put a hand on things. Whether it involves cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans, or even their graves, everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing more than 2,900 photos, this collection is far from ever being finished, but provokes questions about the underlying motivations behind this universal pictorial behaviour. Do we seek connection? Do we claim ownership? Or do we just want to measure ourselves against the objects of our world? Perhaps you could ask yourself these questions the next time you strike a touching pose.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits
Isbn 9781922545350
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24614
€ 35.55
There is an inherent charm to the simplicity and repetition of the photobooth, which first appeared in the early 20th century. This book tells the story of Alan Adler, a man who is likely the most photographed person in Australia, and also perhaps the longest-serving photobooth technician in the world. For more than 50 years, Adler maintained a suite of photobooths across Melbourne and would undertake weekly testing and servicing of each machine. He eventually amassed an archive of thousands of photographs, the only surviving record of his life’s work. Adler’s gappy grin, comedic expressions, and pet cats intermingle with shifting fashions, retro film tints, and increasing wrinkles.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Marina Caneve — On the ground among the animals
Isbn 9789083451039
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24551
€ 38.90
'On the ground among the animals' is a research project that takes the Natura 2000 network as a reference for researching the place that human beings occupy within nature. This network is a series of ecological corridors promoted by the European Union, created to preserve fauna, flora and biodiversity. It is a transnational communication system that goes beyond the border policies of each state, and puts ecological logic first. This work explores the tensions that emerge from the power that human beings try to exert over nature. To do so, Marina Caneve analyses the contradictory relationships between infrastructure construction, policies and freedom of movement, and nature conservation.
288 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Vic Bakin - Epitome
Isbn 9786185479350
Publisher Void
Idea code 24472
€ 49.00
For Vic Bakin, ‘Epitome’ is a fairly personal visual journey, an attempt to look at some things more than once. It is also an elaboration on the consequences and entanglements of war for a young generation of Ukrainian men. The series consists of pictures shot in war-torn places he visited between 2022 and 2023, as well as pictures printed from his own archive of previous years. While navigating the wounded land, he looks for a glimmer of hope in people and places. The prints, produced by Bakin in his bathroom in Kyiv during the Russian air raids, convey a distinct, delicate black-and-white tactility that resonates with the historical images from other wars in the past.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Maja Daniels - Gertrud
Isbn 9786185479343
Publisher Void
Idea code 24473
€ 53.10
In 1667 a 12-year-old girl, Gertrud Svensdotter, was accused of walking on water in Älvdalen, Sweden. This event marked the beginning of the Swedish witch-hunts, a period of mass hysteria and horror in Älvdalen and its neighbouring regions. The book ‘Gertrud’ by artist Maja Daniels uses photography to reconfigure the history and myth of these events, igniting a contemporary dialogue around Gertrud.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Daniel Chatard – Niemandsland
Isbn 9789493363076
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24622
€ 40.85
'Niemandsland' investigates the impact of brown coal extraction in Germany’s Rhineland, where some of Europe’s largest open-cast lignite mines have dramatically altered the landscape and contributed heavily to CO2 emissions. These mines have displaced entire villages, causing a sense of powerlessness among residents who grew up knowing that their homes would one day be destroyed. In 2012, environmental activists occupied Hambach Forest. Despite some success in preserving parts of the forest and five villages, a sixth village, Lützerath, was demolished. By engaging with the affected communities, Daniel Chatard (DE) shows the emotional and physical toll of the mining operations. A reminder of the costs of energy production and the enduring human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds.
222 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, German/English
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Marwan Bassiouni - New Swiss Views
Isbn 9789083435206
Publisher The Sand Station
Idea code 24588
€ 52.00
'New Swiss Views' is the sequel to New Dutch Views for which Marwan Bassiouni photographed the Dutch landscape from inside the prayer rooms of Islamic places of worship. Two years later, the artist embarked on another road trip across a national landscape. Traveling through mountains, lakes and countrysides; and into the cities, suburbs and villages Bassiouni turned his lens once more towards the views overlooking the windows of mosques. However this time he focused on the iconic Swiss landscape while exploring the presence and identity of the Swiss Muslim community. 'New Swiss Views' introduces developments in Bassiouni's approach to landscape and architectural photography while identifying the unique character of an often industrial Swiss Islamic architecture. The content of these images sheds light on the conditions of a growing yet young and modest minority while inviting a contemplation on coexistence and suggesting a different representation of ‘Islam’ in the West.
104 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, hb, German/French/Italian/English
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CALAMITA/À. An investigation into the Vajont catastrophe
Isbn 9789083451022
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24627
€ 46.20
On 9 October 1963, a landslide into the Vajont hydroelectric basin caused a gigantic wave of water and mud to overwhelm the dam, sweeping away several villages downstream. Almost 2,000 people perished. After 60 years, Vajont remains among Italy’s most serious environmental disasters caused by human action. This artistic research project, begun in 2013 and curated by Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve, takes an interdisciplinary approach. In a modernity where we move seamlessly from one catastrophe to the next, it explores the geographical and cultural territories of the Vajont to examine a fundamental question: How can we see the approaching catastrophe?
512 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Martine Stig - NEAR
Isbn 9789083451015
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24635
€ 35.00
Using a modified full-spectrum camera and a set of bandpass filters, Martine Stig explores her surroundings in the near-infrared and ultraviolet, wavelengths imperceptible to humans but visible to bats, bees, and many other organisms, but also to machines. The camera’s white balance function, typically used to transfer the colours produced by light (as perceived by humans) into images, is not utilised as designed. Instead, Stig employs random white balance presets. The alien colours highlight the lack of standard or norm and reveal a slightly different reality. Familiar objects, plants, landscapes, skies, and even people are subject to an alternate visual reading.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Matthew Harvey – Future Estate
Isbn 9789464460681
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24621
€ 38.90
Matthew Harvey’s ‘Future Estate’ is a long-term artistic research project documenting the spatial and organisational processes of commodity production, the geopolitics of development, and the zoning practices, extractions, and transnational investments that shape the material and social environments of the precarious present. Drawn to disorganised, peripheral, and contingent contexts, Harvey attempts to navigate a possible set of coordinates to follow the flow of production networks and infrastructural throughlines. As the uneven processes of global labour and distribution play out, his photographs move between subtle and transcendental moments.
208 p, ills colour, 24 x 17 cm, hb, English
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Erik Lieber – Monumental Moments
Isbn 9789493363069
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24624
€ 34.00
While browsing an auction site full of second-hand snapshots, Erik Lieber (NL) bought the first five images of what would grow into a collection of 929 amateur snapshots over the next ten years. 'Monumental Moments' consists of anonymous private prints, which he calls ‘orphan snapshots’. They show an unknown Japanese ‘Mom’ and ‘Girl’. The collection is almost entirely defined by the repetitive manner in which both women were photographed, preferably in or near tourist attractions. Each picture looks like an ordinary family snapshot. But the more the collection grew, the more questions it raised. 'Monumental Moments' evokes associations and questions about the transience of self-images. Is this perhaps a memento mori?
352 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Elias Holzknecht – Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
Isbn 9789493363014
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24623
€ 35.00
While exploring the society he grew up in, Elias Holzknecht (AT) ended up in the village of Micheldorf by chance. He became increasingly aware that no form of representation could do justice to the complexity of a social space. Even the name of the village was ambiguous, as three other Micheldorfs exist in the same country. The story therefore concentrates on all four eponymous localities. Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf gives the impression of a linear narrative. However, there are several versions of the same book. Each version contains the same images and fragments of dialogue, but in a different order, highlighting the complexity of a story that at first glance seems clearly comprehensible.
192 p, ills colour, 20 x 28 cm, pb, German/English
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Toma Gerzha – Control Refresh
Isbn 9789493363045
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24599
€ 34.00
'Control Refresh' documents the lives of young people in Russia, strongly influenced by tradition, social media, and politics. A Russian passport gave Toma Gerzha (RU/NL) access to (remote) cities in Russia over the past three years. She captured her peers living, dreaming, and enjoying themselves while surrounded by war propaganda. These are difficult times for Russian Gen Z’s. They are afraid to speak out against the war. They see the military propaganda around them and fear being drafted to fight in Ukraine. 'Control Refresh' features a variety of photographs, captions, and a timeline of events from Russia’s recent history to provide context for the youth’s well-being.
160 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Inka & Niclas, Extensions
Isbn 9789198870558
Publisher Art & Theory Publishing
Idea code 24582
€ 43.00
Inka and Niclas Lindergård, together the artist duo Inka & Niclas, primarily work with photography-based art. Born in Finland and Sweden, respectively, they are based in Stockholm and have been collaborating since 2007. The materiality of photography is crucial to the duo’s work, which tells of the contemporary perception processes of nature and the connection of the photographic medium with the stylisation of landscape. Addressing the experience of the spectator, they provide an open portal to a utopian, hyper-realistic synthesis of beauty, kitsch, and visual desire in the language of photography. ‘Extensions’ offers an overview of their practice to date.
112 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Luca Iovino - The Name We Hold
Isbn 9788797527405
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 24546
€ 34.00
Black and white aesthetics rhythmically enhance the imagery of the dark and mysterious narrative in Luca Iovino’s 'The Name We Hold'. The book explores themes and symbols that guide the photographer in illuminating a fundamental question: where does memory reside? Could it be found within the people themselves, the homes they occupy, or even within the dreamlike and surreal aspects of reality? These elements form a boundary within which Iovino conducts his visual exploration, seeking to define the concept of home and a sense of security during times of displacement and life transitions. In the book home does not refer only to the domestic four wall but a wider universe full of objects, roads and routines. A beautiful choreography of the everyday. Luca Iovino is an Italian photographer and artist based in Florence. The project was shortlisted for Fiebre Dummy Award 2023, Kassel Dummy Award 2023 and BUP Book Award 2023.
112 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Laura Hospes - Antidote
Isbn 9789082343823
Publisher Studio Laura Hospes
Idea code 24549
€ 70.00
‘Antidote’ is a profound exploration of the body and psyche by Laura Hospes, in which her performative self-portraits challenge conventional representations of nudity and vulnerability. Hospes engages in various physical experiments, such as binding her skin with wire or wrapping it in plastic to accentuate its soft parts, or even augmenting her flesh with silicone to distort her physical image. The unconventional poses shift the viewer’s focus from the erotic to the existential, confronting destruction by means of healing. Due to the highly personal nature of her work, Hospes manually added silicone to each cover, wrinkles and drips that evoke the texture of skin, making each book unique.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Analogue Images, Rory Gardiner, Maxime Delvaux
Isbn 9781922545329
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24538
€ 43.65
Focusing on the practice of two leading architectural photographers, Rory Gardiner from Australia and Maxime Delvaux from Belgium, this book explores their output and poses key questions around the underpinning and parameters of the broader milieu in which they work. The coupling of the two practitioners’ images discloses specific nuances in the nature of their collaborations, their modes of authorship, and how they capture everyday life. By presenting a comprehensive selection of their work alongside texts by photographers, collaborators, and critics, the book explores the dialogues, tensions, and reciprocities between photography and architecture.
80 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Mäddel Fuchs - Dewdrops
Isbn 9783907384091
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 24468
€ 65.50
On a spring morning, a magic silver glow wafts from the pasture, but the closer you get the more it fades. What remains are the countless dewdrops on blades of grass. Yet the inner wonder to be discovered lies in the close-up macro range. Working handheld with an open aperture, Mäddel Fuchs fixes his camera within the millimetre range. The dewdrops allow the photographer to enter their world, but only slowly. These infinitely fragile beings cannot be reached without moving, and each move, each breath, destroys entire worlds. This is a series about patience, a long learning process with countless disappointments along the way: otherworldly, mediative, and utterly Zen.
392 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Rinko Kawauchi – as it is
Isbn 9784907562243
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 24558
€ 30.45
Introducing “as it is,” the newest photo collection by Rinko Kawauchi. In this volume, she has collected photographs taken since the birth of the her child three years before; the work depicts Kawauchi’s child, together with scenes the photographer holds close to her. In the twenty-year-long span of time since the release of her first photo collection “Utatane” in 2001, Kawauchi has undergone a gradual transition – shifting her gaze from the world of the quotidian to the outside world. A more recent photo collection, “Halo” (2017) reflects this, with imagery evoking images of a distant, faraway universe. In “as it is,” however, we see Kawauchi come back to where she once began – her sights return her own child and family, together with the scenes of her everyday.
144 p, ills colour, 18 x 23 cm, pb, Japanese
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Farah Al Qasimi – Patterns
Isbn 9782493467072
Publisher Note Note Éditions
Idea code 24639
€ 35.75
Farah Al Qasimi takes us into her kaleidoscopic world, where, beyond their beauty and softness, the patterns and objects she captures embody contradictions. For her, they talk about who we are, our context and our way of relating. We sometimes see how something designed for beauty can be completely weathered or used in an unintended way. That failure – eventual andunavoidable imperfection – feels like a human characteristic to the artist. She confesses she has empathy for objects, almost granting them souls. Sensitive to ideas of longevity andoverconsumption, she observes their travels between cultures and how they are reimagined depending on the environment. Dating back to childhood and her love for a particular Persian rug, motifs are key for Farah Al Qasimi, who sees them as windows into universes of their own.
56 p, ills colour, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Israel Ariño – Nothing Happens Twice
Isbn 9788409583430
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 24134
€ 35.75
The title of this work by the Catalan photographer Israel Ariño evokes the mythology of the decisive moment. Yet this is quite the contrary to his work, where nothing is pressing or immediate, with no allusions to events or reality, and even less to truth. His photography is more like “visual poetry”: language, speech, vocabulary. This gatefold presentation links several series produced over fifteen years: a collection of images from different environments, part of a practice of wandering and looking. The aim is never to obtain an inventory or a portrait of a place, but to offer a sensitive and dynamic immersion in sparsely populated territories, where we often think nothing happens.
2 , ills bw, 20 x 25 cm, leporello, Catalan/Spanish/English/French
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Hanna Hrabarska – My Mom Wants to Go Back Home.
Isbn 9789493329072
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24201
€ 50.00
Hanna Hrabarska and her mother Iryna travelled through Uzhgorod, Mali Selmentsi, Kosice, Budapest, and Munich before arriving in the Netherlands, where they started their new lives as war refugees. Since the very beginning of their journey, Hanna has been taking photos of her mother. Hanna described everything seemed so surreal that she wanted to capture all their moments on the road as proof they where actually happening. The process of taking photos also served as a distraction and gave Hanna a sense of control, among the chaos and uncertainty, there was now something she could be sure about, her photos.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Michel "Papami" Kameni – Yaoundé
Isbn 9781739881351
Publisher KAHL Editions
Idea code 24218
€ 48.40
In September 1963, Michel Kameni (1935–2020), known as “Papami”, opened a photo studio in the Briqueterie district of Yaoundé, Cameroon, where the whole of Cameroonian society passed before his lens. His body of work explores the evolution of a postcolonial nation, just as this book is a journey into the lives and aspirations of a newly independent people, chronicled by one of the most talented photographers of the time. His subjects came from all social circles and cultural backgrounds – Christians and Muslims, urban socialites and provincial farmers – all travelling through this lively city. Papami portrayed them all with an incredible kindness and passion.
212 p, ills bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, French/English
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Mikiya Takimoto – Works 1998-2023
Isbn 9784861529276
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24228
€ 78.85
Photographer Mikiya Takimoto has been called a dominant force within Japanese advertising in the new millennium. In today’s fast-changing world, ads come flooding out at us from seemingly every device. More and more, they are turning into so much extraneous “noise” that we skip through without a second thought, and that makes Takimoto’s unwavering pursuit of the possibilities of advertising all the more valuable, from commercials and art photography to cinematography. His work may rightly be called a body of “advertising as art” like none other, and this huge collection offers a satisfying look into his world, which constantly seeks change even as it deepens.
596 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 56
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 24109
€ 25.20
Off the main street across from Yokosuka station is an entertainment district known as Wakamatsu Market that has retained much of the good old Showa flair. Now and again, Daido Moriyama ends up there quite frequently, which of course leads to walking the streets with his trusty camera at the ready. Yet it feels different nowadays, and quite a lot has changed since he first roamed the area some 60 years ago. He reminisces about unique nightly scenes of ladies swaggering through the dusky streets with American soldiers, the atmosphere and smells along the old shopping street… Yokosuka may have changed with time and generations, but it still holds something special today.
124 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Teun Voeten: Drug War Mexico - Narco Violencia
Isbn 9789462265226
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24537
€ 35.00
Since Mexican president Felipe Calderón declared war on the cartels that control the multibillion-dollar drug trade in 2006, some leaders have been eliminated, but their power has not been broken. As of 2024, roughly 400,000 people have been killed and 60,000 have disappeared, making this the most brutal conflict in the Western Hemisphere. Over a period of fifteen years, war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten captured the narco violence in powerful images: murders, funerals, cops, military police, and cartel gunmen, but also survivors, addicts, and homeless persons. These are images of a struggling population trying to maintain its dignity against all odds.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 23 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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