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FLASHPOINT! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present
Isbn 9798218459505
Publisher 10X10 Photobooks
Idea code 24722
€ 89.50
The past 75 years have seen extreme social and cultural transformations worldwide. We live in a world rife with ideological and tribal conflicts, where political and social upheaval, often contentious, disorienting, and polarising, is now a daily reality. Since its inception, photography has been both a tool and a document of these struggles. Structured thematically, this anthology presents a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers that address resistance from 1950 to the present. It explores the diverse roles and varying aesthetics that photography in print undertakes in its support of protest and resistance.
576 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Talking about Photobooks
Isbn 9788797010389
Publisher FW / Photobook Week Aarhus Award
Idea code 24758
€ 34.00
'Talking about Photobooks' gives an insight in the history of the photobook medium, its relationship to architecture and artificial intelligence, and the many roles the photobook can play in art and society, in the centre and the periphery. This also includes practical problems such as how to research, collect, circulate, and showcase photobooks. The book concludes with a reflection on what the next ten years will bring for the makers, collectors, scholars, and lovers of photographic publications. Contributors include Irene Attinger, Gerry Badger, Kyungwoo Chun, Frederique Deschamps, Olubukola Gbadegesin, Per Bak Jensen, Bart Sorgedrager, Thomas Wiegand, and many others.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Stéphanie Roland – Isles of seven cities / Îles de sept villes
Isbn 9789493363120
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24775
€ 40.85
A phantom island is an island whose existence has been accepted for a certain period of time (sometimes centuries) and has been mentioned on maps, but which has subsequently been removed because it has been proven not to be real. There are many possible explanations for these geographical fictions: geopolitical and economic interests, cartographic copyrights, rumours, memes, hoaxes, legends, and more. These phantom islands have never physically existed, but they have had a real impact on the Western world. Isles of Seven Cities is not a monograph, but rather an artist’s book – a hybrid edition that combines the visual and textual narratives of these seven ghost islands. Fictional and real archives meet in a non-linear, fragmented logic, as a meta-island emerges from the whole.
160 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English/French
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Bharat Sikka – AND THEN
Isbn 9789083451053
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24779
€ 38.90
Sikka’s photographs linger in the quiet spaces of Cape Town, embracing both beauty and silence. AND THEN is the delicate dance between landscape and memory. In these images, the land itself seems to whisper of untold stories, echoing the resilience of a place that holds both scars and grace. The photographs invite us to see beyond the surface, to feel the pulse of a city caught between the weight of its past and the lightness of the sea breeze.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Xiaoxiao Xu – This Looks Better IRL — Exploring Cosplay Cons
Isbn 9789493363052
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24769
€ 31.10
'This looks better IRL' follows young people in this contemporary subculture, largely influenced by Asian media and pop culture, full of community spirit, individuality and personal challenges, as they prepare for and attend cosplay conventions in Western Europe. Cosplay is a form of performance art in which participants use costumes and accessories to portray a particular character from the world of comics, anime, and manga. This community includes a large proportion of neurodivergent people. Screenshots from the cosplayers’ social media accounts are a recurring element in the publication, revealing much of their underlying feelings. The book shows a timely subculture in which the interplay between the online and offline worlds, the astonishing costumes, and the youthful vulnerabilities are so delicately portrayed by Xu.
196 p, ills colour, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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1-100 Musicians on 100 Postcards
Isbn 9783907384145
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 24747
€ 30.10
Alberto Vieceli delivers yet another anthology of postcards, structured exactly as the title suggests. Starting with one musician on the first page, the picture on each subsequent page features one additional musician. Collected by Vieceli, the postcards were originally created as promotional material for each musical act.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 30 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Adam Thorman – Creatures Found
Isbn 9789493363113
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24754
€ 29.20
'Creatures Found' is a series based on finding the animate in the inanimate. The world comes alive through the lens of pareidolia – the human tendency to see familiar shapes and patterns in the structures of inanimate things around us. Some common examples are seeing faces and shapes in clouds and monsters in shadows. Adam Thorman (US) has always been sensitive to this phenomenon, often spotting anthropomorphic beings in objects such as rocks, tree stumps, and fences. This books is a collection of the creatures he has encountered over the past 18 years. They belong to the viewer as much as they do to him, because everyone will recognise something familiar, something animal, something human, something real.
180 p, ills colour, 22 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Index Naturae - Alternative version
Isbn 9788894895742
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 24673
€ 25.55
Index Naturae - Alternative version accompanies a second installation of the Index Naturae exhibition, hosted in Reggio Emilia as part of the nineteenth edition of Fotografia Europea. The publication offers a new interpretative key to the 116 photographic books on display, emphasizing the value of this collection as an open work. The attempt to organize, to systematise, according to criteria linked to the identification of recognizable lines of research, the different experiments, leaves room in this edition for the desire to build a new possible order in which each testimony can regain its autonomy. The appropriation of “already made” images, presented as photographs of photographs, whole or partial, in real format, toned in black and white, constitutes the method underlying the montage of images. The new combinations produce short circuits, change the original meanings of editorial productions, discover new possibilities. The collection of books is thus configured as an inexhaustible repository of possible stories, a territory of choice and decision, a world of multiplicity offered to everyone's interpretation.
154 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Benedetta Ristori – You don’t need soil to grow
Isbn 9789493363106
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24762
€ 24.30
Berlin is a city characterised by its international population and gentrification. Benedetta Ristori (IT) examines how contemporary society is defined by change and uncertainty, and shows how individuals, particularly expatriate women, find their identity and sense of belonging in a pre-existing urban fabric. Through intimate portraits taken in rigid urban spaces, Ristori captures the tension between these women’s freedom to reinvent themselves and their fleeting connection to the city. In parallel, Ristori’s project also focuses on the German Kleingärten (small gardens), which provide a refuge within the urban world. With 'You don’t need soil to grow', Ristori questions what it means to belong in an age where the only constant is change.
48 p, ills colour, 27 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Dino Ignani: Dark Rome 1982–1985
Isbn 9791281790094
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 24685
€ 30.65
This book brings together Dino Ignani's Dark Portraits collection, featuring around 200 photographs from a much larger series captured over five years. These evocative portraits vividly capture the essence of 1980s Rome, particularly the vibrant subculture of the city's Dark scene. Ignani’s work offers a unique glimpse into the style and identity of the young adults who frequented these clubs, showcasing a scene that was diverse and multifaceted. It reflects the wide array of aesthetic and individual expressions that seamlessly merged with other moods and styles of the era.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Máté Bartha – Anima Mundi
Isbn 9789493363083
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24753
€ 36.95
'Anima Mundi', meaning ‘world spirit’, is rooted in Platonic thought and reflects the ancient concept of a universal organising principle that connects all beings. Máté Bartha (HU) explores the hidden anatomy of an archetypal metropolis, portraying urban space as a social product. A ‘second nature’ shaped by human hands, yet one that has evolved into an autonomous organism no longer governed by its creators. Designed as an obscure encyclopedia, Anima Mundi attempts to capture a world in its entirety through complex and often cryptic visual codes. Divided into chapters that examine urban phenomena from the microcosmic to the cosmic, it invites the reader to act as an interpreter, searching for a hidden logic behind the scenes.
142 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Federico Possati - Almanac of Forgotten Memories
Isbn 9788894895766
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 24776
€ 30.65
In 2020, Federico Possati moved back to Milan after living in New York for eight years. It felt like a transformative life cycle had ended and another had begun. This book explores the necessity of giving meaning to an ever-growing pile of images, an obsessive catalogue of small vignettes found in everyday life. Using the structure of an uncommon diary, images and text combine in a narrative that continues throughout its pages. The book is divided into twelve chapters, but unlike a diary, each chapter recalls a month selected from a different year. The result is a collection of memories, events, and instances that intermingle and coexist – a multifaceted snapshot of twelve years in a life.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Camere Con Vista
Isbn 9788894895759
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 24777
€ 30.65
For centuries, the Adriatic has remained a symbol and place of multicultural dialogues; the ultimate destination, the sentimental holiday setting. ‘Camere Con Vista’ is a journey comprising transit and stop, experiences of places along the coastline, tracks that touch the sea, parallel lines that trace between the seafront and the roadway that has defined urban and social development, aesthetics, and forms of community. Even today, it entails the journey with its imaginaries, the myth of leisure and adventure, culture and events, and a temporary, welcoming residence. Here, four photographers present their visions of the Adriatic coast as a special place in both geography and time.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Michala Paludan – The Unposed (EoAT)
Isbn 9788797527412
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 24712
€ 48.00
'The Unposed (EoAT)' is the first monograph by Danish artist Michala Paluda. It consists of 101 photos of robot “hands”. From 2021–24 Paludan visited many different sites of robotics located in Germany, Denmark, Japan, Korea, and the United States. From digital paws to laser sensors, piano-playing electro-fingers to a not-so-dexterous clamp, this book shows the human hand versioned as high-tech utensil: holders, pinchers, grabbers, supporters, strokers, and cutters whose likenesses to the real thing vary according to particularity of their functions. The book includes new texts by Ryan S. Jeffery, Lars Bang Larsen, and Lakshmi Luthra.
224 p, ills colour, 22 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Mariet Dingemans – One Shower a Week
Isbn 9789462265134
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24752
€ 50.00
Documentary photographer and anthropologist Mariet Dingemans photographed the residents of the sustainable residential community De Brouwketel in Angeren (Gelderland) for three and a half years. Nine adults, five children, six sheep, a lot of chickens and a dog. The Brouwketelaars live as sustainably and self-sufficiently as possible. They grow their own fruit and vegetables, bake their own bread, use as little water, electricity and plastic as possible and heat their house with wood from the land. On average, Dingemans visited for a few days every two months. Her stay at the residential community gave the photographer an image of a completely different world.
216 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Sakiko Nomura – Nocturne
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 24729
€ 30.95
Since 2019 photographer Sakiko Nomura, known for her female and male nudes, documented the change of the four seasons in the city of Higashine, Yamanashi Prefecture, using the same approach she has with her models. This photobook is the collection of those photographs Nomura took in these last 2 years. Copies are numbered.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 16 cm, hb,
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Vytautas Kumža – HOLLOW
Isbn 9789083227436
Publisher Free Pony Press
Idea code 24716
€ 48.85
'HOLLOW' is the first publication of Amsterdam-based Lithuanian-born artist Vytautas Kumža. While the work positions itself primarily under photography, its result is often constructed as a sculptural intervention that either doubles or antagonizes the spatial presentation of the images. The installations become an unfaithful encyclopedic archive, showing sources of inspiration as well as the processes of their production. The physicality and concept of HOLLOW respond to this notion by incarnating an object that unfolds beyond the delimitations of its origins. A small hole, punched through a thick section of empty pages, emphasizes the sculptural and material aspects of the book object, seducing viewers’ desire to see and touch.
496 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Jason Fulford, Bruno Munari - 47 Fotos
Isbn 9791254931318
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24713
€ 20.30
'47 Fotos' inaugurates Corraini Edizioni's new series, 'I Quaderni di Spazio Munari' – a collection of unpublished studies that offer fresh perspectives on Bruno Munari's work, starting from research exhibited at Spazio Munari. Published for the exhibition Fotochiacchierata, curated by photographer Jason Fulford, the volume brings together 47 photos: black-and-white images taken by or for Munari, and Fulford's own colour photographs. This flow of side-by-side images captures lightness, irony, and the ever-changing ways of seeing reality. Fulford, who centers his work on the association of images as a source of new meanings, presents an unexpected photographic portrait of Munari and his vision. "I never met Bruno Munari, but I think of him as a friend. His books blurred the line between work and play, and inspired me. What follows is a conversation between photos—his in black and white, and mine in color."— Jason Fulford
104 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 57
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 24421
€ 26.55
In this ‘Record’, Daido Moriyama offers some candid thoughts on the present state of photography in Japan. The fact of the matter is, he is quite simply not really interested in such things in the first place. But what does photography mean to him now? He writes: “A photograph is something that fragmentarily reflects the sensibility and sensitivity of a photographer in the very moment he or she releases the shutter, and the things in it instantly become the photographer’s own. But once it is reproduced and printed or exhibited, it disperses into the multifariously shaded folds of the audience’s gaze….” So, it’s just another day of wandering around, taking snapshots in the streets.
130 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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FLOU curated by Agnes Costa
Isbn 9782493467027
Publisher Note Note Éditions
Idea code 24649
€ 25.55
‘FLOU’ advances the experiments carried out by 20 photographers from the French and international art scenes at Agnes Costa’s eponymous laboratory. The book presents a selection of 40 photographs. Despite the variety of techniques and subjects, the photographs coincide through the materiality of the image. All images relate to the theme of blurriness by reflecting on the photographic medium and seek to venture beyond conventional aesthetic norms. ‘FLOU’ also brings together a contemporary photographic scene that, albeit concerned with various aesthetics, matters, and priorities, is united in a common desire to exchange and dialogue with its time.
60 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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If only you knew. The first generation of women from Turkey in The Netherlands
Isbn 9789462088948
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24668
€ 39.95
“If only you knew…” This is how many women began their life stories when Çiğdem Yüksel visited them. These women, like her own grandmother, left their homeland to forge a new life in the Netherlands. Even today, their pivotal role in the Dutch economy as factory workers or cleaners is often overlooked. Through pictures from family albums, interviews, and portraits, Yüksel seeks to change this, showing how they navigated unfamiliar terrain and learned a new language, all while tending to their families. By revisiting some of the migrant women that photographer Bertien van Manen captured in her series ‘Women as Guests’ (1979), Yüksel embeds their stories in Dutch history.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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