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Dana Lixenberg - De Wallen Amsterdam
Isbn 9789464460889
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250717
€ 38.90
Dana Lixenberg’s 'De Wallen Amsterdam' is a portrait of Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the historic neighbourhood where she spent her early childhood. Her work on De Wallen, created between 2021 and 2025, does not focus on the excesses in the community, the result of overtourism and overconsumption. Nor does she take a position on the recent political and communal efforts to contain these excesses. Shot on film with a large-format camera, the series consists of intimate black-and-white portraits of residents, visitors, artists, sex workers, drifters, and entrepreneurs. These are shown alongside detailed interiors in colour, devoid of people, that reveal what lies behind the facades of the alleys and canals. ‘De Wallen Amsterdam’ also includes stills from her three-channel video installation, part of an exhibition at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives).
192 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Blommers & Schumm - More
Isbn 9789464460872
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250757
€ 43.75
‘More’ is a compelling visual archive that brings together over 25 years of collaborative work by Dutch duo Blommers & Schumm. Known for their unique approach to fashion and portrait photography, Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm create meticulously constructed images that appear effortless, yet every element is captured in-camera. Balancing on the edge of the uncanny and the everyday, where a tension emerges between beauty and strangeness, their work often explores the boundaries between public image and private life, commercial styling and autonomous work. The book reveals the artistry behind the quiet disruptions of an intuitive and subversive practice.
240 p, ills colour, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Erik Kessels, Karel de Mulder - Man
Isbn 9782492175633
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250710
€ 30.10
In each image from this collection of found photographs compiled by Erik Kessels and Karel de Mulder, a man is shown flanked by an equal number of women on either side. He is positioned exactly where he seems to prefer: right in the middle. Is this manly act a matter of intent, instinct, or pure coincidence? And does this photographic composition belong to the past, or will it endure as long as one man and multiple women pose to have their picture taken?
768 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, French/English/Chinese/Italian/Spanish/German/Dutch
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Bharat Sikka - Ripples in the Pond
Isbn 9789083519760
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250721
€ 43.75
In Ripples in the Pond, the artist undertakes a nuanced exploration of Makharda, a peripheral township on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal. Situated within a landscape marked by over twenty tranquil ponds, Makharda emerges not merely as a geographic locale but as a site of complex temporal and socio-cultural convergence. Through a process-based photographic inquiry, the artist renders visible the entanglements between memory, modernity, and the slow violence of infrastructural encroachment. The project is grounded in a personal act of return, both physical and affective, evoking the fictional sensibilities of ‘Malgudi Days’ an Indian tv series from the 80’s, which serve here not simply as nostalgic reference, but as an aesthetic framework through which to understand the semi-rural imaginary. The ponds, recurrent throughout the body of work, function symbolically and formally as reflective agents, at once literal bodies of water and metaphoric surfaces that refract the tensions between past and present, fantasy and reality, the rural and the emergent urban.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Platform Brutality: Closing Down Internet Toxicity
Isbn 9789493246584
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 250772
€ 25.75
The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Yet its toxic aspects have permeated our personal, social, and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news, and produce propaganda. Social media no longer distracts – it wounds. Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible, and indirect. ‘Platform Brutality’ offers critical analyses and proposes alternatives. Dutch media theorist Geert Lovink addresses topics ranging from radical data critique, smart phone mythologies, and social media loneliness to offline romanticism, dreaming in the computer age, and how to design a new balance between analogue and digital.
240 p, ills bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Acid Magazine 7: Waves of Consequences
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Publisher Acid Magazine
Idea code 250687
€ 30.00
From castles made of sand to LSD, from French realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) to nude beaches, from flint to quantum physics, and from rising seas to the oceanic feeling, this seventh issue of ‘Acid Magazine’ follows the perfect wave as the outlines blur, the noise grows louder, and it finally fractures. The magazine engages with surfing as a field of reflection, or an excuse for digression, exploring oceanic cultures, their complexity and tensions, and their often blurred connections to the activity and philosophy of surfing. With contributions by Lea Colombo, Wes Waddell, Surf Ghana Collective, Thomas Mailaender, Myriam Santos, Paul Grund, and others.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Oriane Thomasson – Atlantis
Isbn 9789493363298
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250719
€ 31.10
'Atlantis' is an eclectic collection of photographic fiction about the legend of Atlantis by Oriane Thomasson. As recounted by Plato, Atlantis describes a magnificent island blessed with abundant natural resources. Its inhabitants, descendants of Poseidon, lived in a society organised in harmony with nature. Over time, their ambition drove them to expand their empire and exploit new resources, provoking the wrath of Zeus. As punishment, he unleashed a devastating cataclysm that submerged the island beneath the waves. Together with an original science fiction short story titled ‘The Meteors’, Atlantis traces a before-and-after, the allure of a ‘lost paradise’ and the marks of its collapse, revealing how evidence and invention together shape the writing of history.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Oriane Thomasson – Atlantis (French)
Isbn 9789493363304
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code
€ 31.10
'Atlantis' is an eclectic collection of photographic fiction about the legend of Atlantis by Oriane Thomasson. As recounted by Plato, Atlantis describes a magnificent island blessed with abundant natural resources. Its inhabitants, descendants of Poseidon, lived in a society organised in harmony with nature. Over time, their ambition drove them to expand their empire and exploit new resources, provoking the wrath of Zeus. As punishment, he unleashed a devastating cataclysm that submerged the island beneath the waves. Together with an original science fiction short story titled ‘The Meteors’, Atlantis traces a before-and-after, the allure of a ‘lost paradise’ and the marks of its collapse, revealing how evidence and invention together shape the writing of history.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 29 cm, pb, French
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Cruising Diaries
Isbn 9789083499352
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250751
€ 23.05
'Cruising Diaries' is both a celebration and a provocation: a portrait of queer pleasure at its most raw, secret, and uncontainable. This photobook/diary explores the elusive visual language of cruising – a queer practice of anonymous desire played out in public spaces, where bodies negotiate consent through gaze, gesture, and instinct. Franco Dupuy captures what is almost impossible to show: fleeting encounters, unspoken codes, and moments that vanish as quickly as they appear. Set in places that shift after dark – parks, train stations, beaches – the book documents a world that resists the camera, yet insists on being seen.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Daniel Reuter, Umihara Chikara - O
Isbn 9789464460865
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250720
€ 27.25
‘O’ is an exploration of Osaka’s waterfront by Daniel Reuter and Umihara Chikara, created during a month-long shared residency in the city. Staying in a narrow house overlooking the Okawa River, the two artists embarked on daily walks and travelled to the vast industrial zones next to the bay. Every photograph in the book was taken during this period; each artist contributed half, though it remains deliberately unclear who produced which image. In the city’s evolving periphery, the forms of global infrastructure meet the slower, subjective pace of lived experience. The book appears as part of the artistic programme of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo 2025.
188 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Marion Mailaender - Architecture à Emporter
Isbn 9782492175602
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250712
€ 16.15
With ‘Architecture à Emporter’, interior architect Marion Mailaender explores design in all its forms, from architecture to DIY and open-source practices. Architecture is explored as a work in progress, where the aesthetics of the unfinished are celebrated. The project highlights the construction phases that shape space, serving as a reminder that the work is never truly complete and questioning contemporary practices that too often favour demolition over transformation. Rather than a fixed object, architecture is a creative process in perpetual motion: something to carry, transform, reinvent. Included are plans for four models, offered as starting points to be adapted and reimagined.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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Aaron Rothman – The Sierra
Isbn 9789493363311
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250718
€ 43.75
'The Sierra' revisits the Sierra Nevada mountains through the context of today’s climate crisis, a landscape that has long shaped American ideas of wilderness. Aaron Rothman (US) seeks to evoke the physical experience of being in the mountains while registering the environmental changes reshaping the region. His personal connection to the region is marked by a growing sense of dread and loss as signs of climate change become increasingly visible. Drawing inspiration from historical landscape painters, Rothman prompts reflection on how traditional representations have shaped our perception of wilderness, and how idealising it as pristine may have contributed to its present vulnerability.
112 p, ills colour, 24 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - please take your shoes off and come in
Isbn 9789869862868
Publisher pon ding
Idea code 250674
€ 48.90
This photobook is a quiet invitation into the tenderness of everyday life, gathering moments both fleeting and deeply intimate. In the series, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck captures glimpses of domestic rituals, gardens in bloom and rest, and the subtle gestures that mark the passage of time. Rendered in soft colours and gentle light, her work invites the viewer into a space of care and quiet attention – a celebration of presence, memory, and the poetic rhythms of life. The artist, born in Strasbourg (FR) and based in Oxfordshire (UK), offers a testament to her transnational life and continuously (un)forming identity.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Letizia Le Fur - Le Crépuscule des Lieux
Isbn 9782492175619
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250714
€ 37.65
‘Le Crépuscule des Lieux’ gathers 94 photographs by Letizia Le Fur, taken in abandoned houses and châteaux – disused spaces still marked by traces of human presence, now left to follow their own sense of time. Her tightly framed compositions fragment the interiors to reveal subtle, understated details. Lines intersect, patterns overlap. Volumes are flattened by the flash, creating a sense of gentle strangeness, further deepened by Le Fur’s meticulous use of colour. The book’s design mirrors this vision: each photograph is shown in full, preceded and/or followed by a fragment of another image. This leads to a distinctive visual rhythm – images echo, connect, and respond to one another.
180 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, pb, French/English
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Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean René Etienne - Les Oiseaux
Isbn 9782492175626
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250711
€ 26.90
When the attic of Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire – a lattice of ancient wooden beams known as “the forest” – Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean René Etienne were at home, just two kilometres away. Each had their own camera and zoom lens. From their window, it became almost possible to imagine the perspective of birds. It was no longer Notre-Dame burning, nor even a cathedral. Not a fire, but a vast disruption of the aerial space. A thick, blazing, chaotic convective column rose above the heart of Paris. ‘Les Oiseaux’ brings together 97 screenshots taken from the footage they captured that evening.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, French/English
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Nicolas Giraud - Paris 2024
Isbn 9782492175596
Publisher Rvb Books
Idea code 250713
€ 34.40
Nicolas Giraud’s ‘Paris 2024’ presents a series of photographs of historic Parisian buildings undergoing restoration. Covered with printed tarpaulins – displaying either monumental advertisements or photographic reproductions of the facades themselves – the buildings vanish beneath a fabricated version of reality. These temporary urban ‘trompe-l’œils’ conceal both the scaffolding and the transformations of the city. The photographs play with this ambiguity, between cut stone and polyvinyl sheeting, reality and representation. From Haussmann to Grand Paris, the series considers an evolving city and reveals the hidden mechanisms that shape its appearance – one facade at a time.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Olivo Barbieri - tOUR
Isbn 9788894895834
Publisher Skinnerboox
Idea code 250707
€ 35.75
'tOUR' brings together Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs of contemporary Italy with selected illustrations from the Malatestiana Library in Cesena. The book creates a dialogue between past and present, revealing the landscape as a layered mix of times, perspectives, and languages. Barbieri’s images expose a complex, sometimes enigmatic territory where human intervention intersects with historical patterns, while the library’s ancient maps, city views, and monument depictions serve as a counterpoint. Together, they reflect on how Italy’s landscape has been shaped, layered, and transformed over time.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Ghosts
Isbn 9783039690503
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 250755
€ 21.50
Whether as frightening specters or Halloween costumes – ghosts are everywhere. Whether seen as independent entities or as manifestations of a tormented psyche, they remind us of hidden, unsettling, and repressed forces. No surprise that ghosts have long haunted the arts as well. This publication traces the many ways ghosts have left their mark on visual culture. It explores the history of ghost imagery and investigation in Europe and the U.S. since the 19th century. Since then, artists in all media have explored the ghostly realm between life and death, horror, and humor, the visible and invisible – often as metaphors for violence and repression.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, German/English
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Stephen Berkman - Zohar Studios
Isbn 9782378966287
Publisher Arsenicgalerie
Idea code 250642
€ 69.90
This is the first monograph devoted to the work of Stephen Berkman, an American photographer who resurrects forgotten 19th-century techniques to explore the uncanny strangeness of early photography. Using historical equipment and processes such as tintypes and wet collodion, he creates haunting narrative images and portraits that blur the line between fact and fiction, history and imagination. In addition to his artistic practice, Berkman produces “vintage” photographs in his Los Angeles laboratory for major Hollywood period films. Featuring a preface by Martin Scorsese and a collection of captivating texts, the book is as strange as it is wonderful.
224 p, ills bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, French/English
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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
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Revolutions for the Future – May '68 and the Prague Spring
Isbn 9782956905615
Publisher Suture Press
Idea code 250758
€ 31.20
Revolutions for the Future revisits 1968 - not as a closed chapter, but as an unfinished revolution whose questions still resonate today. Focusing on the dual sites of May ’68 in France and the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, this volume brings together leading French and Central European philosophers to explore the enduring political and philosophical legacy of the last European revolutions. With essays by Jacques Rancière, Étienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, and others, it challenges the notion that 1989 marked the end of ideology, suggesting instead that the path to the future may lie buried in the forgotten possibilities of the past.
328 p, ills bw, 17 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Maen Hammad – Landing
Isbn 9781069204004
Publisher Huwawa Books
Idea code 250763
€ 68.55
‘Landing’ blends photography, prose, and poetry by Maen Hammad, a photographer based in Ramallah. It documents the lives of Palestinian skateboarders in the occupied West Bank, exploring skateboarding as a powerful form of resistance to a backdrop of violence and erasure amidst the layered realities of Israeli settler-colonial domination. Captured between 2015 and 2022, Hammad’s images depict the ephemeral moments of purposeful escape and the pursuit of freedom embodied by a small collective of Palestinian skaters. These visuals are expanded on through critical essays, poems, and interviews – a printed portal into the Palestinian skate scene.
214 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, English
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