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JH Engström – Dimma Brume Mist
Isbn 9786185479428
Publisher Void
Idea code 250781
€ 86.80
JH Engström, an inveterate bookmaker, is here looking back at 35 years of work. Not with the ambition to present a ”best of” or to resume previous work or books. But with the ambition to celebrate the movements, the energies, the searching, the reflection and the doing. Everything roughly scanned directly from the contact sheets. All the previously unpublished images are combined with his texts throughout the book.
672 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, Swedish/French/English
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Cengiz Yar - This Alabaster Grave
Isbn 9798218580483
Publisher Ocotillo Press
Idea code 250776
€ 60.95
‘This Alabaster Grave’ is photographer Cengiz Yar’s first monograph. It explores the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. The book questions the cost of the fight against ISIS and the global war on terror, as told through the lives and city that bore the brunt of the destructive force. Yar’s photographs, taken between 2015 and 2023, shift between reportage and contemplative moments, as scenes of battle are juxtaposed against the stillness left in its wake. With a foreword from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Azmat Khan and an essay by Campbell MacDiarmid.
172 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, English/Arabic
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Siri Kaur - Sistermoon
Isbn 9786185479435
Publisher Void
Idea code 250556
€ 61.90
Artist Siri Kaur has been photographing her family for over 30 years, and her youngest sister, Simran, is the central focus of her forthcoming book, Sistermoon. Kaur’s photographs are combined with those from her family archive to create an unconventional album, illustrating the cycles of life and transformation, whilst questioning who observes, who is seen and who belongs. Kaur’s biography informs her work. The book opens with a timeline of photographs from her mother’s traditional family, taken in the 1950s by her grandfather. Kaur herself was born into a cult—one image in the book depicts her parent’s wedding at the Happy Healthy Holy Organization, or 3HO in 1976. After Kaur's family left the cult, her father established a rural living community in Vermont where her siblings remain today. Kaur simultaneously belonged to the family and was also an outsider. Her relationship with her family, in particular her sister, was formed and strengthened by creating photographs together. Photography enabled her to observe, catalogue, and connect.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Generalized Visual Resistance – Photobooks and Liberation Movements
Isbn 9789895350629
Publisher Atlas Projectos
Idea code 250812
€ 38.70
Generalized Visual Resistance: Photobooks and Liberation Movements, edited by Catarina Boieiro and Raquel Schefer, revisits photobooks produced between the 1960s and 1980s in the context of anti-colonial liberation struggles and the early years of independence in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde. Originating from a research project begun in 2018, the publication gathers an unprecedented visual archive of militant print culture - photobooks, posters, magazines, and artworks - revealing how images became tools of emancipation and political transformation. This trilingual volume (Portuguese, French, English) includes essays by the editors, Drew Thompson, and Lúcia Ramos Monteiro; a reprint of FRELIMO’s 1971 speech The Growth of a New Culture; and new interviews with Augusta Conchiglia and Moira Forjaz. Designed by Furtado Schefer, the book extends the dialogue between anti-colonial aesthetics and contemporary visual culture.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
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New Danish Photography 02
Isbn 9788797527443
Publisher Disko Bay
Idea code 250750
€ 35.00
This second issue of ‘New Danish Photography’ captures a moment of profound global and digital transformation. As traditional institutions falter and our lives are shaped by opaque algorithms and AI-generated content, it offers real, human stories told through powerful photographic work. Spotlighting work from thirteen contemporary documentary photographers, the content encompasses a vast range of styles and subjects. From intimate portraits to scenes of societal fracture, each series invites the viewer to slow down, look closely, and re-engage with a reality that still matters. With contributions by Anne Lass, Mads Nissen, Christian Falck Wolff, Michella Bredahl, and more.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, Danish/English
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Izabela Pluta – Lumina: The Photic Atlas
Isbn 9781922545473
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 250835
€ 46.00
'Lumina: The Photic Atlas', the third book by Izabela Pluta for Perimeter Editions, expands upon her site-responsive project Lumina at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne. Exploring photography’s intersection with time, memory, impermanence, and place, the project unfolded over a year in dialogue with curator Melissa Keys, with silver gelatin paper exposed to natural light across the seasons. Using Heide Modern as both camera and collaborator, Pluta captured the building’s shifting light, shadow, and atmosphere. Extending the exhibition, the book acts as both a compendium and a critical record, an atlas of perception tracing what often goes unseen.
192 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Naoya Hatakeyama – LIME WORKS
Isbn 9784868310075
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250799
€ 42.45
A long-awaited reprint of this classic photo book. This is the origin of Naoya Hatakeyama's work, capturing the limestone mines, lime factories, and cement factories in about 30 locations from Hokkaido to Okinawa.
120 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese
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TAKAY – Tesseract
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250519
€ 50.95
The moving body changes its shape by the second, whenever one motion ceases and instantly connects to the flow of another. The idea behind the photographs in this series is to frame these instances of transformation through lights and shadows, dismantling movements and reassembling them from new viewpoints. Muscles create powerful silhouettes when strained, while momentary shapes emerge when they are casually relaxed. By seizing the recurring moments in this chain of actions and reconnecting the scattered pieces, Takay’s resulting images vividly highlight the energy and potential of the human body – a process of formation, variation, and recombination.
80 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Hajime Sawatari – Awa no Hibi
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Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250520
€ 50.95
Hajime Sawatari’s artistic practice navigates the intersection of reality and fiction, capturing a delicate boundary by portraying a female model. In this series, the artist depicts a woman who is alone at home in the afternoon. Her gestures and expressions, caught in a natural and unadorned state, are staged, fictional, yet offer a glimpse of reality. While the images are drawn from Sawatari’s imagination, they resonate with authentic moments and aim to capture the ephemeral essence of the reality that exists beyond the fictional realm. Manipulating the unique aspect of photography, Sawatari invites the audience into the interplay between the real and the fantastical.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Andreas Mader – Interim
Isbn 9783911782012
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 250836
€ 37.50
The city of Winterthur in Switzerland is in flux – neither fixed nor finished. In 'Interim', Andreas Mader captures the city in its transitional states: empty spaces, traces of human presence, and the quiet drama of change. From 2017 to 2024, he photographed places shaped by construction and decay, nature and neglect, memory and movement. His images look beyond the picturesque, focusing instead on the city’s overlooked edges – the “interim” zones where past and future meet. Paired with a poetic reflection by Peter Stamm, the book becomes a meditation on time, place, and the fragile imprint we leave behind.
116 p, ills colour, 23 x 29 cm, hb, German/English
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Jannemarein Renout – RAIN
Isbn 9789493329256
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250841
€ 38.85
In 'RAIN', visual artist Jannemarein Renout explores the intersection of nature and digital devices through an innovative photographic process. By placing office scanners outdoors with their lamps turned off, she allows the devices to become receptive to changing natural light. The scanners eventually begin creating images in collaboration with rainfall, giving voice to nature within the digital realm. This experimental series examines how we experience, judge, and interact with images in our algorithm-driven world, while questioning the boundaries between technological control and natural unpredictability.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Juanan Requena – El vuelo lleva al vuelo
Isbn 9788409748044
Publisher Ediciones Anómalas
Idea code 250778
€ 40.85
Spanish multidisciplinary artist Juanan Requena works at the intersection of photography, poetry, and installation. At once emotional, fragile, and deeply personal, his work comprises visual diaries that explore memory, time, and the inner self. Requena’s art blends images, text, found objects, and handmade books. Through his intuitive and tactile process, every piece feels like a fragment of a larger story. This artists’ book is a poetic journey into Requena’s personal universe, where chance rules destinies. Designed as a highly manipulable publication, it allows the reader to play at building their own path, with triptychs that encourage new and different interpretations.
58 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Marie Thams: This Biopolitical Arena
Isbn 9788797381151
Publisher Marrow Press
Idea code 250753
€ 38.00
'This Biopolitical Arena' compiles a selection of works from the last decade of Marie Thams’ multidisciplinary art practice, focusing on her use of voice. With palpable nerve, emotional reach and an analytical gaze, Thams explores the cultural and political structures of our age – including gender, equity, productivity and work. Drawing on her lived experience and using her own voice and language, the artist dissects and dismantles structures and patterns in works to which the body is always central. The book features texts from Thams’ sound installations, performances and films, published here for the first time together with visualisations of her voice compositions.
230 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 27 cm, hb, Danish/English
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Ray K. Metzker – City Lux
Isbn 9789464781175
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 250796
€ 45.00
Ray K. Metzker (1931–2014) wordt vandaag de dag erkend als een van de grote meesters van de Amerikaanse fotografie. Opgeleid aan het vooruitstrevende Institute of Design in Chicago – het geesteskind van Bauhaus-pionier László Moholy-Nagy – ontwikkelde Metzker al vroeg een uitgesproken experimentele stijl. Hij combineerde disciplines, doorbrak conventies en bracht fotografie naar nieuwe artistieke hoogten. Toch is deze invloedrijke fotograaf lange tijd onderbelicht gebleven. Deze nieuwe uitgave is de eerste publicatie in jaren die volledig aan Metzker is gewijd – een boek dat eindelijk de erkenning biedt die zijn werk verdient.
240 p, ills bw, 27 x 24 cm, hb, English
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️Kotori Kawashima – Sa-lanlan
Isbn 9784861529863
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250415
€ 38.20
Shot in Seoul over a six-month period from fall to spring, the photographs in Kotori Kawashima’s ‘Sa-lanlan’ show back alleys, scenes of the Han River, construction sites, fallen leaves, car traffic in the city, food, strangers and models, and scenes from everyday life. Kawashima, a Japanese photographer who went to Seoul feeling “incredibly lonesome”, gradually found comfort in the city and the people he met there. Each image is marked by his searching gaze and deep interest in his subjects. The pictures are both soft and powerful, as much a conscious capturing of a unique moment as a portrayal of Kawashima’s inner world as he pressed the shutter.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/Korean
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KYOTOGRAPHIE: A Kyoto Story
Isbn 9784861529917
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250414
€ 67.95
‘KYOTOGRAPHIE’ stands for the international photography festival held each spring in Kyoto since 2013. Valuable collections of photography and works by internationally renowned artists are exhibited in historic buildings as well as modern architectural spaces. Co-directed by Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke Nakanishi, the multifaceted festival is known for an innovative approach to scenography and thoughtful installations. The experiences crafted by the event reshape conventional formats, connecting audiences with new ways of perceiving both the work and the spaces around them. This publication gives an in-depth look at the history of one of Japan’s biggest photography festivals.
460 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Provence Unconscious
Isbn 9783982450926
Publisher Provence, The Estate
Idea code 250653
€ 31.20
Provence Unconscious draws on the Zurich-based office’s proximity to the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht - recently and famously visited by Pamela Anderson, who also appears in the publication. The issue centers on three US artists - Mike Kelley, Matt Mullican, and Jason Rhoades - whose work engages with psychoanalysis and the unconscious. It also features collaged analog photographs of Laura Langer’s spiral paintings, and a dream archive of over 30 handwritten or drawn submissions by artists, curators, Jungians, and writers. Additional highlights include jewelry by Bernhard Schobinger, photographs by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, and a curatorial look at Emma Jung—analyst, wife of C.G. Jung, and key figure in the often-overlooked feminine legacy of Jungian thought.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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REPRODUCED – Rethinking P.A. Klier and D.A. Ahuja
Isbn 9783950407914
Publisher Fraglich Publishing
Idea code 250679
€ 30.00
Philipp Adolphe Klier (1845–1911) and D. A. Ahuja (ca. 1865–ca. 1939) were two of the most significant commercial photographers of British Burma. They lived in colonial Rangoon and often competed for customers and employees. Their businesses adapted to the growing demand in the postcard industry and catered to foreign and local markets, a key element to their success. Since the colonial period, their photos have been reproduced and reinterpreted in various forms, yet surprisingly little is known about their lives a century ago. While much of their original work survives today only as reproductions, these images remain an integral part of Myanmar’s visual heritage.
68 p, ills colour, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Enrico Peressutti - URSS 1941
Isbn 9788899385989
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250740
€ 21.50
In June 1941, Enrico Peressutti was called to arms and sent to the Russian front as an interpreter from Romanian (a nation at the time an ally of the Axis powers). He stayed there until November 1942, when he fell ill with typhus and was repatriated, thus saving him from the terrible 'Russian retreat'. The IUAV Archivio Progetti contains photos and drawings from that trip, dating to the period August-November 1941. Except for a few images published in the Almanacco Bompiani 1942, the photos are previously unpublished and represent an exceptional document of that historical moment, and not only in terms of their artistic value. His is above all a journey in time through Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania and Ukraine), while the route to the front is suspended in an often dramatic atmosphere, and his gaze focuses on the local populations, the Italian army and everyday life in wartime. The volume also includes a selection of drawings of domestic interiors, more akin to his own interests as an architect, with great attention paid to construction details.
80 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Kaveh Kazemi – A passage through Zorastrians Motherland; Iran
Isbn 9786001524295
Publisher Nazar Publishing
Idea code 250829
€ 60.50
Kaveh Kazemi presents a selection of remarkable photographs documenting the lives, ceremonies, and monuments of Zoroastrians in contemporary Iran. The book reveals the mystical world of this Iranian religion, which is counted among the world’s oldest organised faiths, and its holy sites in Yazd, Tehran, Taft, Cham, Sharifabad, and elsewhere. Through his photojournalistic lens, Kazemi captures ancient customs and traditions that have existed since the pre-Islamic Sassanid era, including now-abandoned structures such as Towers of Silence and Fire Temples, as well as the faith’s evolution through its adherents in the modern era, thousands of years later.
180 p, ills colour, 25 x 32 cm, hb, Persian/English
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Ed Van Der Elsken - Amsterdam! (Eng ed reprint 2025)
Isbn 9789462265592
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 250848
€ 39.95
Ed van der Elsken dove into his extensive archive in the late seventies to compile a book of his black-and-white images of Amsterdam, the city in which he had always lived, with the exception of 1950-1954. He often worked in the neighbourhood of his house on Koningsstraat, taking photos on the Nieuwmarkt, Zeedijk and Waterlooplein. Atmospheric images of the fifties, the riots during the turbulent sixties, lots of people, young people, but also architecture and degradation in the old city centre. This unique document has now been reissued, including new scans from the original negatives.
240 p, ills bw, 29 x 30 cm, pb, English
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