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New Titles in Photography

25 August 2025

Kim Boske - Kamiyama

Isbn 9789083519753
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250654
€ 48.65

A central figure in Boske’s work in Kamiyama is the Akui Gawa (river), which flows like a lifeline through the valley, connecting the surrounding communities. Historically, the river would often overflow, enriching the soil and making it ideal for cultivating Japanese indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria). This plant, essential to local craftsmanship for centuries, forms a near-symbiotic connection with its environment in my work. For the residents, the river reflects the ecological and economic health of the area: the water level and the vitality of flora and fauna are seen as indicators of the balance between humans and nature. This deep, layered relationship between landscape and life forms the foundation of the project.

306 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English/Japanese

Masahisa Fukase – Yoko

Isbn 9784865411966
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 250191
€ 55.65

‘Yoko’ is a reissue of photographer Masahisa Fukase’s (1934–2012) timeless masterpiece, originally published in 1978. Set against the backdrop of the post-war generation’s spirit, the iconic work contemplates the essential question of photography: the nature of relationships between two individuals, in this case, Fukase and his model and muse, Yoko. The reprint edition of this defining series in the photographer’s body of work faithfully includes all images and texts from the original book, along with newly incorporated elements such as an essay by Masako Toda and a message from Yoko Miyoshi, the woman who appears in Fukase’s photographs.

168 p, ills bw, 25 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English

Masahisa Fukase – Homo Ludens

Isbn 9784865411973
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 250312
€ 55.65

‘Homo Ludens’, originally published in 1971, is the first photobook produced by Masahisa Fukase (1934–2012). The anthology reflects on the mutual interplay of all living things, capturing the contradictory yet interconnected phenomena of life and death, meeting and parting. It gathers images taken over more than a decade, reflecting the essence of Fukase’s early vision. For this reprint edition, all photographs and texts from the original version have been included, with a focus on reconfiguring the design to emphasise the relationship between the images and the surrounding negative space.

128 p, ills bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Japanese/English

Patti Smith Group Live in Zurich, October 1976

Isbn 9783907384190
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 250666
€ 27.95

On October 12, 1976, Patti Smith performed at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich until the concert was interrupted by a mysterious tear gas attack. A bootleg recording from that evening is the starting point for Dominik Bachmann’s research and this photo book. The book brings together unpublished photos by Eric Bachmann, François Bitzi, and Roland Stucky, and also makes available for the first time, an interview that Smith gave to Swiss television. The numerous finds are supplemented by historical documents, newspaper articles, and texts by Bice Curiger, Veit Stauffer, Peter K. Wehrli, and Suzanne Zahnd complement the historical finds. The book will be published by everyedition—just in time for Patti Smith’s next concert on July 22, 2025.

160 p, ills colour, 15 x 23 cm, pb, German/English

Erik Kessels - As Far As You Can See

Isbn 9791281232143
Publisher a+m bookstore Edizioni
Idea code 250486
€ 35.75

'As Far as You Can See', presented by COMMERCE, is the first comprehensive collection of Erik Kessels’s books, spanning from 1997 to today – including his latest, 'Incomplete Encyclopaedia of Touch'. This richly illustrated volume traces over two decades of Kessels’s artistic, editorial, and photographic explorations. Internationally known for his work with vernacular photography and visual storytelling, Kessels has crafted a body of work that captures the human, the everyday, and the absurd - one book at a time. The publication includes a new text by critic and curator Francesco Zanot, structured as a series of concise reflections - one for each book - offering a fragmented yet cohesive insight into Kessels’s evolving visual language. Designed by Cabinet Milano, the book features a modular layout that integrates video stills made in collaboration with Riccardo Ruffolo and Enrico Zanetti, also part of the accompanying exhibition.

252 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English

Rethink Beato - From Italy to Burma 1832-1909

Isbn 9783950407983
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250122
€ 31.20

From his pioneering work in Japan to his coverage of the Crimean War and his fascinating photographs from Burma, Felice Beato (1832–1909) produced a wealth of images that offer a glimpse into the early days of photography and its expansion along the colonial route into the East. Beato, whose work represents the first substantial body of photojournalism, was among the first to take photographs in East Asia and also an early war photographer. A British subject, Beato understood the growing role of public information, newspapers, and magazines, and saw it as an essential component of the functioning of liberal democracies as well as a means for building political consensus.

116 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Burmese/Italian/English

Gabriele Galimberti - The Ameriguns (Reprint)

Isbn 9788894895858
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 250617
€ 35.75

Half of all privately owned firearms in the world are in the United States – a staggering 393 million guns. This is not just market-driven, but rooted in tradition and the constitutional right enshrined in the Second Amendment, ratified in 1791 to protect citizens from potential government overreach. Today, it remains deeply embedded in American life. In this book, Gabriele Galimberti explores its meaning through four core values: family, freedom, passion, and style. Travelling across the US to meet proud gun owners and document their collections, his often unsettling portraits, paired with personal stories, offer a rare glimpse into the culture of firearms in America today.

136 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 27 cm, pb, English

Verena Blok - Love Shit

Isbn 9789083519777
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250648
€ 36.45

‘Love Shit’ is about self-determination. Through both documentary photography and text, artist Verena Blok constructs a series of intimate portraits of pregnant individuals. Photographed over a period of two years, these portraits are combined with stories gathered during her work at an abortion clinic in the Netherlands. The book explores the dilemmas surrounding procreation – (un)wanted pregnancy, motherhood, childhood – and ultimately strives to reveal the complexities of womanhood through an honest and unfiltered lens.

80 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English

The Fiat Mirafiori Toilets: Actions and Photographies

Isbn 9791281790292
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 250616
€ 15.30

This book presents a collection of photographs by Pietro Perotti, a worker at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin. After a decade of active involvement in strikes and class struggles, in 1985 Perotti began protesting the oppressive labour policies of the automotive brand’s owner, Gianni Agnelli, through writings and drawings on the factory’s bathroom walls and toilet cubicles. This intimate, secretive form of dissent was directly documented on film: Perotti timed his shots with the toilets’ automatic flushes to muffle the camera’s shutter click. For the first time, the subversive cartoons, scribbles, and messages are assembled in a single volume, preserving a unique working-class narrative.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, Italian/English

Paolo Zerbini - Floridays

Isbn 9788894895827
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 250618
€ 45.95

‘Floridays’ is a multifaceted portrait of a synthetic society – gleaming and hyperreal on the surface, twitching with distortion underneath. Photographer Paolo Zerbini draws from the overloaded aesthetic of the ’90s to depict a world of sun-drenched beaches and forgettable strip malls, deafened by its own shrillness and numbed by its own bad taste. Graphically, the book leans into repetition. The same subjects recur throughout, shifting slightly with each appearance. Identity becomes a loop, not a line. The series is both a love letter and a critique: a chrome-plated guilty pleasure, polished, packaged, and unapologetically supersized. The dust jacket comes in five random versions.

176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 31 cm, pb, English

Indian Minute Camera Photographers

Isbn 9783950277326
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250608
€ 35.10

'Indian Minute Camera Photographers' explores the life-journeys of four photographers in New Delhi, Jaipur and Pushkar. Minute cameras were once widely used in all corners of India providing on-the-spot black and white images for identity cards or souvenir photography in parks, holy sites, tourist spots, and a plethora of street-side pitches. In general, the story of the minute camera photographer has largely been forgotten in the history books as their work primarily catered to a cliental that could not afford the more prestigious and well documented studio photographs. The minute camera photographers in this book, Bharat Bhushan Mahajan, Teekam Chand Pahari, Surendar Kumar Pahari, and Kinshan Chand Hemlani are amongst the last practitioners on the sub-continent.

296 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English

Typologien - Photography In 20th Century Germany

Isbn 9788887029932
Publisher Fondazione Prada
Idea code 250453
€ 116.65

'Typologien' is an extensive study dedicated to 20th-century German photography. The project attempts to apply the principle of "typology," which originated in 17th- and 18th-century botany to categorize and study plants, and appeared in photography in the early 1900s, affirming itself in Germany throughout the 20th century. Paradoxically, the given formal principle allows for unexpected convergences of German artists spanning different generations and the manifestation of their individual approaches.

320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English

Maxime Voidy - Les maisons endormies

Isbn 9782377510900
Publisher Lendroit Editions
Idea code 250526
€ 14.00

In 'Les maisons endormies', Maxime Voidy presents a series of photographs of houses with shutters closed along the Brittany coast. Drawing up an iconographic landscape of a France of second homes, this book poetically highlights the issues of urban planning and the social balance of housing in a region where some villages are 80% unoccupied for much of the year. The Serial Pictures collection invites artists working on series of images (drawings, photographs, texts, etc.). These small artists' books will over time form a collection dedicated to exploring the book as a space for display in its own right.

72 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, French/English

Luka Perkins Petit - OKTA-9

Isbn 9782493123114
Publisher Palais Books
Idea code 250573
€ 37.80

OKTA-9 is a speculative photographic exploration of climate geoengineering. Among proposed climate solutions, one stands out for its promise to reduce global temperatures within months. From carbon capture to cloud-brightening machines, the project imagines a world shaped by such technologies and their unpredictable consequences. Based on real patents and theoretical devices, OKTA-9 envisions a near-plausible future where engineering becomes a tool for survival. Its images - some grounded in reality, others drifting into altered terrains - create a visual landscape of uncertainty and anticipation. Rather than presenting a purely dystopian view, the project explores the poetic weight of environmental irreversibility, while raising ethical questions about humanity’s role in shaping the climate.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, French/English

(Almost) Missed

Isbn 9789526528656
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 250590
€ 24.00

This photo book chronicles an orange pillar in a shopping centre car park over the span of eighteen months. Through subtle damage, quiet repairs, and successive coats of vivid orange paint, it gradually transformed into an accidental monument - a silent witness to unnoticed moments, daily rituals, and the gentle passing of time. What if the things we overlook are the ones that speak the most? And maybe imperfect is just another word for alive?

112 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 21 cm, pb, English

We

Isbn 9781068425707
Publisher Partners Studio
Idea code 250671
€ 67.00

‘We’ presents 65 portraits of people from Saitama, a city in central Japan. The portraits were captured by photographers Mark Peckmezian and Olya Oleinic, as well as elementary school students, as part of the Saitama Triennale 2023. The individuals Peckmezian sought out are mostly the kind of people that you would be familiar with seeing sitting at the next table in a café. Oleinic, on the other hand, was tasked with photographing “local heroes”. Her approach was to ask locals to introduce her to their own heroes, finding out their professions and conducting interviews, usually in the subjects’ homes. Edited by Takuhito Kawashima and designed by Hans Gremmen, ‘We’ explores the act of portrait-making through image and text.

328 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Kurniadi Widodo - Towards New Landscapes

Isbn 9781735452142
Publisher Jordan, jordan Édition
Idea code 250018
€ 20.00

‘Towards New Landscapes’ is a documentary photo publication disguised as a regular postcard set. Kurniadi Widodo explores the Indonesian tourism phenomenon in recent years and the many issues it touches, from the development of a sustainable economy and land use and its surrounding policies to the public desire to construct and perceive identities from tourist spots. Today, due to the changing digital landscape, these places can be instantly made, modified, or even replicated from other iconic sites. By definition, tourist spots can be any location that attracts people to take pictures in front of them, usually destined for their social media feeds.

20 , ills colour, 17 x 14 cm, box, English

Farid Renais Ghimas - Angan-Angan Harsa

Isbn 9781735452180
Publisher Jordan, jordan Édition
Idea code 250019
€ 35.00

‘Angan-Angan Harsa’ is an energetic exploration of joy set within the lush landscapes of Bengkulu, a province on the south-western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. This visual narrative reflects the lives of Farid’s family, friends, and members of the local community. Meaning “Dreams of Joy” in Indonesian, the project draws upon fragments of Farid’s childhood memories and experiences in Bengkulu, manifesting them through photographs that reveal how the place looks today. Each photograph represents a piece of his story and in turn becomes a tribute to the place he calls home.

92 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, English

Mika Ninagawa – Eternity in a Moment Vol 1

Isbn
Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250479
€ 25.50

Mika Ninagawa is known for her vibrant photography and magical snapshots of everyday life. In ‘Eternity in a Moment’, Ninagawa seamlessly blends images of everyday urban life with diverse scenes of flora and fauna. Her photos capture the impermanence of life and the potential for beauty in every moment, with each image not only telling a story but also embodying a world of its own. Colour, a cornerstone of Ninagawa’s work, plays a crucial role, with each hyper-vibrant, almost three-dimensional photograph springing from the page – as if Ninagawa wants to extract every imaginable nuance of colour from our world. This is the first volume of a trilogy released simultaneously.

96 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

Hiromi Tsuchida – Ouroboros

Isbn
Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250478
€ 76.45

Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida revisits two seminal projects from the 1990s – 'Industrial Archaeology' (1991) and 'Fake Scape' (1993) – in this exhibition catalogue for Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza. Against today's accelerating digital infrastructure and shifting cycles of production and consumption, Tsuchida's work gains new relevance. His photographs examine Japan's rapid industrialization and its social impact through architectural and landscape documentation. The book features a distinctive double-sided reversible dust jacket and bilingual texts reflecting on this historical-contemporary dialogue.

120 p, ills colour, 30 x 20 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Mika Ninagawa – Eternity in a Moment Vol 2

Isbn
Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250480
€ 25.50

Mika Ninagawa is known for her vibrant photography and magical snapshots of everyday life. In ‘Eternity in a Moment’, Ninagawa seamlessly blends images of everyday urban life with diverse scenes of flora and fauna. Her photos capture the impermanence of life and the potential for beauty in every moment, with each image not only telling a story but also embodying a world of its own. Colour, a cornerstone of Ninagawa’s work, plays a central role, with each hyper-vibrant, almost three-dimensional photograph springing from the page – as if Ninagawa wants to extract every imaginable nuance of colour from our world. The second volume of a trilogy released simultaneously.

104 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

Mika Ninagawa – Eternity in a Moment Vol 3

Isbn
Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250481
€ 25.50

Mika Ninagawa is known for her vibrant photography and magical snapshots of everyday life. In ‘Eternity in a Moment’, Ninagawa seamlessly blends images of everyday urban life with diverse scenes of flora and fauna. Her photos capture the impermanence of life and the potential for beauty in every moment, with each image not only telling a story but also embodying a world of its own. Colour, a cornerstone of Ninagawa’s work, plays a central role, with each hyper-vibrant, almost three-dimensional photograph springing from the page – as if Ninagawa wants to extract every imaginable nuance of colour from our world. The third volume of a trilogy released simultaneously.

96 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

Gabriele Basilico - Marocco 1971

Isbn 9788899385170
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code
€ 19.35

Gabriele Basilico crossed Morocco with Giovanna Calvenzi and a few friends. It was the summer of 1971, a time characterised by a sense of freedom of movement which marked the young photographer's inclination no longer to be led by pure chance. After a journey of ten thousand kilometres, he ended up with fifteen rolls of film. The images oscillate between reportage with a social impact, architectural studies of the imperial cities and beautiful faces recounting people's lives. Marocco 1971 is thus a decisive stage in Basilico's apprenticeship. The volume contains an essay by Michele Smargiassi, focusing on Basilico as a “great explorer of photographic genres,” a brief article by Bernard Millet, and a testimony by Giovanna Calvenzi which retraces the spirit of the era and the aims underpinning that adventure.

72 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English

Gabriele Basilico - Iran 1970

Isbn 9788890841873
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250739
€ 19.35

In the summer of 1970, Gabriele Basilico set off from Milan in a Fiat 124, nominally heading for Kabul. The journey towards India was a rite of passage for the flower children generation, and Basilico had plans to take a series of photos to then sell on to some magazine. The journey didn't quite turn out as planned, but in his personal archive, those shots were carefully stored away, and on more than one occasion, the Milanese photographer thought about turning them into a book. As Luca Doninelli writes in the introduction, this is “Basilico pre-Basilico”, a reportage stretching from Yugoslavia through to Turkey and Iran – which turned out to be the final destination of the trip – in which we may note the inklings of his vocation-to-be. The afterword by Giovanna Calvenzi, Gabriele's travelling companion on that journey, tells the story of that adventure in an era of unprecedented freedom.

80 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English

Marco Zanuso – Yemen 1979

Isbn 9791280336323
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250457
€ 21.50

“Some people go around constantly comparing their own experience and culture with what they see: I take the opposite a!itude, I let myself go before what I see, I let myself get involved, especially in the landscape and its transformation.” This is how Marco Zanuso describes his way of travelling. The Milanese architect travelled the world for work at a time when few people did, but he maintained the pleasure of discovery intact even on his private journeys, during which he would take photographs. This is what happened on a family trip to a Yemen not yet touched by tourism. The curiosity of the architect’s gaze is conveyed through the magnificent black and white of the photographs of the walls of Sana'a, of the great towers made of dried mud bricks, as well as of the construction details or the customs of the local population.

96 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English


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