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Olivia Arthur - Murmurings of the Skin
Isbn 9786185479374
Publisher Void
Idea code 24736
€ 51.05
'Murmurings of the Skin' is an exploration of the human connection to the body, the intersection of bodies and technology and the human need for physical contact. Over nearly eight years, Olivia Arthur has been making work that looks at people’s relationship with their bodies, what it means to feel comfortable in one’s own skin, and the importance of touch and intimacy. This work has included a series about young people, physicality and sexuality, stability and robotics, about touch, gestures, and solitude in COVID times. The work was triggered by her own pregnancy and the birth of her two children, images of whom appear throughout the series.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Fazal Sheikh – In Place
Isbn 9798218474256
Publisher Fazal Sheikh Archive
Idea code 24848
€ 52.50
In the summer of 2017, photographer Fazal Sheikh travelled with writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams to the small town of Bluff, in southern Utah, to attend a gathering of the Utah Diné Bikéyah intertribal coalition. The elders of the five regional tribes had worked together since the organisation was founded in 2012, putting aside their historical differences in pursuit of a common goal: to protect their ancestral lands in Utah. It marked the start of a five-year project by Sheikh in which he worked with tribal communities and others, immersing himself in these desert landscapes, walking, listening, and absorbing signs on the land’s surface that offer clues to the beauty beneath.
156 p, ills colour, 14 x 29 cm, hb in slipcase, English
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Kevin Cooley – The Wizard of Awe
Isbn 9789493363090
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 24789
€ 45.00
Ken Miller is often referred to on the internet as ‘the smoke guru’. His expertise in manufacturing smoke generators for air shows and other industries has made him a respected pyrotechnicst. However, his journey has been marked by both brilliance and misfortune. Guided by Ken’s knowledge, Kevin Cooley (US) extensively documented his visits to the rural farm, offering a surreal glimpse into Ken’s pyrotechnic world. The story was eventually published as a photo essay in Popular Science. But the publicity proved to be Ken’s undoing, as the article led to an investigation from federal authorities. In the end, Ken was arrested and sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison. The Wizard of Awe is an ode to Ken Miller – a powerful testament to his life’s work as a pyrotechnicst and his subsequent redemption.
144 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Luigi Ghirri - Viaggio in Italia
Isbn 9788822922816
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24801
€ 45.15
"Viaggio in Italia," conceived by Luigi Ghirri and published in 1984, is a milestone in contemporary Italian photography, representing the "manifesto" of the Italian School of Landscape from the 1980s onward. The project tells the story of a generation of photographers who moved away from exotic travel, sensational reportage, and formalist analysis to focus on the everyday Italian landscape. This shift replaced the cliché of Italy as a uniquely wonderful place with an "anti-heroic, anti-mythical, everyday and non-rhetorical" image, as noted by Gabriele Basilico. Twenty photographers, many of whom gained international recognition, participated: Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Gianantonio Battistella, Vincenzo Castella, Andrea Cavazzuti, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Vittore Fossati, Carlo Garzia, Guido Guidi, Luigi Ghirri, Shelley Hill, Mimmo Jodice, Gianni Leone, Claude Nori, Umberto Sartorello, Mario Tinelli, Ernesto Tuliozi, Fulvio Ventura, and Cuchi White. The volume includes an essay by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and a paper by Gianni Celati.
132 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Pioneers – Photography by Women
Isbn 9789462088481
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24791
€ 48.60
From the more than fifteen million photographs stored in the Dutch National Archives in The Hague, work by 43 women was selected for this exhibition catalogue. All created between 1859 and 1999, the photographs were taken by women who can be described as innovators and whose work paved the way for future generations. The book focuses on both famous and lesser-known figures from the Netherlands and abroad, including work by Emmy Andriesse, Maya Pejić, Eva Besnyö, Eve Arnold, and Margaret Bourke-White. A rare glimpse into the collection of the Dutch National Archives, featuring images by women photographers that have never before been shown.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Why Exhibit? vol. 2 - On Curating Photography
Isbn 9789083451046
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24813
€ 27.50
A discussion on curatorial practices around photo-based images, centred on the current challenges faced by curators and artist working with photography. How do they navigate its constantly changing appearance? How are issues of representation dealt with? And what kind of mediation is necessary while seeking new forms of authorship and interaction with audiences? Offering insights into a wide range of experiences, reflections, and views from various curators, writers, and researchers, this book focuses on practical perspectives intertwining photography and curation – conversations which are vital for curating photography in light of pressing issues surrounding the medium.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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András Ladocsi - There is a Big River…
Isbn 9786185479398
Publisher Void
Idea code 24734
€ 45.95
‘There is a Big River, in which there is a Big Island, in which there is a Lake, in which there is an Island, in which there is a Small House, where a Life is Growing in a Womb’ is András Ladocsi’s first step towards articulating how he believes we are all connected as human beings. The series of photographs celebrates the skin, the body, gender, friendship, trust, and life in general, with all its ups and downs. Ladocsi is a Hungarian-born, Paris-based visual artist who works in photography and film. His oeuvre explores the inner depths of people and the power of the environment around us, seeking to uncover how we all exist in a place of connectedness.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Hato Zines 50 My Nice T-shirts by Takashi Homma
Isbn 9781910239544
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24875
€ 20.35
A reflection on a series of T-shirt works produced throughout Takashi Homma’s career, documented using the Risograph printing technique and translated into a zine format. Homma’s conversational approach to process is expanded upon through the inclusion of social media screenshots. Throughout the zine, the viewer embarks on a dialogical journey through the act of seeing, encountering the distant gaze of a model, the smile of a baby, or the lens of a camera. Takashi Homma is a Japanese photographer, born and based in Tokyo. His work is recognised for its tender and thoughtful portrayal of identity and culture in suburban Tokyo.The zine is available in blue or pink, with both colours featuring the same images and artworks. Cover colours are supplied randomly.
22 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English/English
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Scott Wiese - Protest! | Climate activism in Europe
Isbn 9783968491189
Publisher Favoriten Presse
Idea code 24854
€ 24.50
From the streets to the sites of industry, this publication shows an unaffected view of the climate protests in Europe between 2018 and 2023. Photographs by Scott Wiese reveal aspects of what demonstrators experience when called to action: joy and solidarity, violence and rejection, borderline experiences of body and mind. Either ignored or defamed by the majority, environmentalist groups are taking responsibility for a largely inert, clueless, or resigned society that is well aware of the impending consequences of climate change but is doing nothing. Wiese’s images appear alongside text contributions outlining the hope and despair of all those advocating for a sustainable future.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, German/English
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Tony Dočekal - The Color of Money and Trees
Isbn 9786185479381
Publisher Void
Idea code 24733
€ 42.90
Photographer Tony Dočekal’s book explores the tension between personal dreams and societal definitions of success, questioning whether true prosperity lies in wealth or deeper connections to community, nature, and self. For six years, he returned to the American West, a region mythologised for its freedom and opportunity, encountering people who defy the norm. The project became a journey of self-discovery, questioning who we are versus what others expect us to be. This series of photographs examines the relationship between material success and personal fulfilment, asking if community and self-awareness should be more essential to us than money and possessions.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Vittorio Mortarotti - Soil
Isbn 9788894895711
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 24849
€ 42.90
Among other topics, Vittorio Mortarotti’s photobook ‘Soil’ hints at lives being lived at the margins of political existence. Yet it does this without ever pushing an obvious agenda or confirming any bias. At the centre of this new body of images is a reflection on identity transformations and liminal conditions. With camera in hand, Mortarotti journeyed to the borders of Europe where thousands of people seek the possibility of a new life. He even made portraits during therapeutic hypnosis sessions. The images presented in this book thus alternate between a social approach and an introspective one, interweaving to construct a timeless narrative.
104 p, ills bw, 26 x 31 cm, hb, English
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eBhish’
Isbn 9783949973437
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24864
€ 25.55
Inside this book is a chorus of voices on notions of Black social life, public communion, and humanities of the Indian Ocean. Many South African families have pictures of the children at the beach, relishing in the flow of water, being alive through each other. These images portray the enjoyment of being in the world that Black families affirmed in each other. Tracing the humanity found in personal photographs such as these enables a negation of the tide of images that mock and belittle Black people. While some of the book’s contributors respond to the series of images, others share their critical perspectives and reflect on the intimacy and vastness of being Black at the beach.
138 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Akinbode Akinbiyi - Sometimes to be lost is to be found and to be found is to be lost anew
Isbn 9783949973567
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24862
€ 35.75
This monograph accompanies an exhibition of work by street photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi at Kunstverein Hannover. For half a century, Akinbiyi has captured moments and situations in many places around the globe with his analogue Rolleiflex. He is fascinated by the in-between, the everyday aspect of life – weaving through crowds, finding moments of quiet serendipity, a chronicler of the inconspicuous. Yet the individual is not his focus. Rather, it is in the movement of the passersby, in happenstance and coincidence, that the magic he seeks becomes immanent, the liminal threads taking shape, becoming momentarily visible, forming into occurrences that vibrate.
220 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, German/English
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Flashing Lane – Kira Bunse, Eleonora Gustapane
Isbn 9783910298217
Publisher Strzelecki Books
Idea code 24798
€ 34.00
‘Flashing Lane’ documents the stretch of road in Appleby-in-Westmorland (Cumbria, England) where Irish Travellers race and show their horses during the annual Horse Fair. Taking place in June since 1685, this historical event is one of the biggest and most crucial gathering points for the Romani, Gypsy, and Traveller communities from throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. For the photographers Kira Bunse and Eleonora Gustapane, the series becomes a complex terrain of identity-based anthropological exploration, a way to investigate the culture, coming of age, and value systems within this traditionally nomadic society.
80 p, ills colour, 19 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Jose Manuel Navia - Un Reino Maravilloso
Isbn 9788409657438
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 24850
€ 35.75
‘Un Reino Maravilloso’ (A Wonderful Kingdom) is the result of three years of work spanning the province and city of Cuenca, Spain, in an attempt to reconstruct an imaginary territory from the richness and variety of this region. Jose Manuel Navia invites us on a sentimental and light-filled photographic journey to one of those wonderful places that are always there, waiting for us. His images touch on deep-rooted cultural traditions, ancient streets and buildings, the devout expressions and rituals of Catholicism, developed and wild landscapes, portrayals of local crafts and economies, and much more.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 22 cm, hb, Spanish
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Matteo Trevisan – I guardiani della montagna – We are still dreaming
Isbn 9791280750525
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 24851
€ 26.90
Since the 1990s, a group of residents and activists, known as No TAV, in the Susa Valley in Italy have been resisting the Turin–Lyon high-speed railway project. No TAV generally questions the worthiness, cost, and safety of the project, and deems the new line useless and too expensive. Its realisation, they say, is driven by construction lobbies and corruption. Photograph Matteo Trevisan travelled to the Susa Valley with the intention to narrate the No TAV movement from a different point of view, trying to put people – specifically, the young men and women who are part of this activism – at the centre of his story, illuminating the ties that bind a community caught up in this struggle.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Photography and feminism - stories and images from the Donata Pizzi Collection
Isbn 9791280750655
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 24852
€ 25.80
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, this catalogue reflects how it came to be by creating an intergenerational dialogue between artists and photographers who used the photographic medium to traverse four aspects: the family album and its relationship with memory; the construction and renegotiation of gender identity; stereotypes and domestic spaces; and roles and social censorship. It centres on the theme of feminist photography and a gender-based approach, as the medium is well-suited to channelling the need for feminist representation and forms of storytelling. Featuring work by Liliana Barchiesi, Lucia Marcucci, Lisetta Carmi, Paola Mattioli, and others.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Tatu Gustafsson — I on the Road / Weather Camera Self-Portraits, 2012-2021
Isbn 9789083345994
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 24835
€ 35.00
Tatu Gustafsson’s first book consists of 200 self-portraits taken with weather monitoring cameras. Since Gustafsson started making self-portraits in 2012, he has concentrated on an alternative approach to photography and sought to question issues of authorship associated with traditional photography. Early on, he discovered that Finland’s traffic and weather cameras snap a picture every twelve minutes and store it online for 24 hours. Gustafsson embarked on a journey by car across the country, positioning himself in front of over 700 outdoor cameras and embracing the lack of control inherent in this process. The results are haunting images that capture the essence of solitude.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Hans Rudolf Jost - Who's the Most Important Artist in the World?
Isbn 9782970185406
Publisher Hakunamatada Ltd.
Idea code 24820
€ 37.65
In search of the answer to the question posed by this book’s title, Hans Rudolf Jost set off to revisit all the relevant museums in cities around the world, from Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, and Athens to Tokyo, Vienna, Zurich, and everything in between. Apparently, one of the art market’s best-kept secrets is an unknown family of artists whose objects appear in almost every museum in the world. Highly disparate in their output, the measure of this family’s success is the overlooked reality that their works are found everywhere. Our lack of knowledge about these artists is made up for by the grandeur, clarity, vigour, and uniqueness of their artistic signature, which is the colour red.
164 p, ills colour, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Stefanie Moshammer - Eastern & Oriental Express
Isbn 9782492175503
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 24737
€ 37.65
Austrian photographer Stefanie Moshammer was chosen by Belmond to photograph the Eastern & Oriental Express in 2023. Her fascination with the unknown and unfamiliar naturally led to a strong attraction to the train, which offers guests a reimagined sense of adventure and luxury with opulent interiors and the charm of a bygone era as it journeys from Singapore through the lush jungles and historic towns of Malaysia. Moshammer combines a variety of visual elements to accentuate the journey’s details, such as stills from short films shot with an iPhone and screenshots of found images that are then cropped, blurred, or pixelated to create a dreamlike, timeless quality.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Thomas Rousset - Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
Isbn 9782492175510
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 24738
€ 37.65
According to Belmond, Thomas Rousset’s irreverent approach made him the perfect choice to showcase the extraordinary stories that lie behind Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, a hotel in Oxfordshire, England. His photographs of this 15th-century manor house were inspired by his own imagination of the luxurious lifestyle of the English aristocracy and the unreal, fantastical aspect of countryside living as depicted in old British films. By placing ordinary objects and figures in bizarre contexts, he disrupts the viewers’ sense of reality, prompting them to reflect on what they are seeing. Rousset’s images create an intriguing visual narrative that goes beyond luxury and aesthetics.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Pia Arke
Isbn 9781912431236
Publisher John Hansard Gallery
Idea code 24750
€ 36.55
Pia Arke (1958-2007) was a Greenlandic Inuk and Danish artist, writer and photographer. She isknown for her self-portraits and landscape photographs of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), as wellas for her paintings, collages, performative film works and writing. Arke strove to make visible thesilence that surrounded the colonial history and complex political and cultural relationshipbetween Greenland and Denmark.
128 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Matteo de Mayda - There's no Calm After the Storm
Isbn 9788899058845
Publisher Bruno
Idea code 24795
€ 37.65
In October 2018, an extreme weather event hit north-eastern Italy. A powerful Sirocco wind gusted through the Dolomite valleys, knocking some 14 million trees to the ground. Incessant rain brought logs and debris downstream. Overnight, cellars flooded and houses were torn apart by the winds. The consequences of the storm named Vaia are still tangible more than six years later. With a documentary approach, Matteo de Mayda investigates Vaia’s long-term effects. By analysing what happened and with time to reflect on causes, consequences, and future perspectives, he raises awareness about the climate emergency and the fragile balance between humans and nature.
134 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, hb, English/Italian
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Emerging Collections - The experience of young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award
Isbn 9791281790179
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 24796
€ 18.40
Young Italian Photography / Luigi Ghirri Award is dedicated to the discovery and promotion of emerging photographic talents in Italy. It focuses on an approach to photography devoted to artistic research, aimed at practitioners under 35 years of age. Now in its eleventh edition, the award presents a publication retracing its history and placing it into context through theoretical contributions that examine the theme of art archives and collections. It raises questions about the survival of collections and the life of archives in general, in addition to the formation of new collections through acquiring contemporary works. An overview of the award results since 2012 is also included.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Valerie Phillips - She said the 1975 reminded her of how Parma Violets taste
Isbn 9781399995795
Publisher Longer Moon Farther
Idea code 24822
€ 37.00
Over a period of nine months, photographer Valerie Phillips gets to know Phoebe, an idiosyncratic seventeen-year-old girl who lives with her family in the London suburbs. They spend most of their time taking pictures at her house or in the neighbourhood where she grew up: places she meets friends, writes songs, eats snacks, plays games in the arcade, walks her dog. Phillips is fascinated with her subject and the environment which produced her – “the deepest deep nothing of the suburbs” – speculating that such places give rise to the unexpected. They are blank spaces where the truly unusual have room to flourish. Magical, mysterious characters hidden in plain sight… Phoebe.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Sophia Kesting, Dana Lorenz - Asphalt, Steine, Scherben (Asphalt, Stones, Shards)
Isbn 9783907112939
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code
€ 49.00
For twelve years, Sophia Kesting and Dana Lorenz have explored Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution Square (Platz der friedlichen Revolution) and its transformation through photography. Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz reflects ongoing debates on preserving GDR architecture amid societal and economic interests. Their project, Asphalt, Stones, Shards, features 1,500 medium-format black-and-white photographs that document political and urban changes. Stark flash-lit night shots contrast with fragmented daytime scenes, blending real events and staged reenactments. Eschewing narrative, the images create a visual dialogue. Drawing on childhood memories of 1989/90's upheaval, the artists incorporate biographical text fragments. Their photo book encapsulates the site's unfulfilled transformation, emphasizing stasis through repeated motifs as a reflective documentary space.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Theo Derksen - Kairos
Isbn 9789462265196
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24741
€ 60.00
Theo Derksen’s ‘Kairos’ marks a significant milestone in his decades-long career. This previously unpublished collection is not only an artistic choice but also a pivotal moment for the photographer: it is the last series of black-and-white images from the analogue era, before he transitioned to digital colour photography. It comprises 88 carefully selected pictures taken on medium-format film between 1997 and 2006. The images were captured in various locations, including China, India, the United States, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Egypt, Romania, Thailand, Syria, and Russia. At the heart is Derksen’s ability to capture the essence of a moment, combined with his unique worldview.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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