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In Between - An Incomplete Index (2001-2026)
Isbn 9789083612720
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 260043
€ 36.45
Amsterdam-based graphic designer Hans Gremmen has created over 400 books. While making these books, a miscellaneous pile kept growing in his studio: notes, sketches, photos, printed matter, screenshots, ephemera, and other breadcrumbs. ‘In Between’ is an attempt to deconstruct and re-organise this pile. The publication is a scrapbook about a hybrid design practice, but also a plea to consider failure as an option. Topics such as authorship, imperfection, collaboration, friendship, reproduction, and the status and interpretation of the image all play a key role.
276 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Marie Quéau – FURY
Isbn 9789464460933
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 251036
€ 28.20
'FURY' probes the edges of physical and emotional endurance. In this powerful series, Marie Quéau documents stunt performers crashing through windows, actors in trance within motion-capture studios, freedivers suspended in breath-holding stillness, and individuals unleashing anger in controlled “fury rooms.” Through these extreme states, Quéau explores poetic inversions - the fall as the underside of flight, violence as survival, trance as data - revealing bodies caught between control and surrender. Blurring reality and performance, 'FURY' questions how we confront our own limits and what these moments of rupture expose about vulnerability, resilience, and the fragile ties that hold us together. This book offers an intimate entry into Quéau’s unsettling yet deeply human visual universe, where impact, suspension, and release become ways of understanding the world anew. The book accompanies the artist’s exhibition at Le Bal (28 November 2025 – 8 February 2026).
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Yoshihiko Ueda – From the Hip
Isbn 9784865411980
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 250733
€ 61.00
‘From the Hip’ appears on the occasion of a retrospective of work by Yoshihiko Ueda at an art museum located in Hayama, Japan. The town, which is blessed with abundant natural surroundings, is also where the photographer lives and the location he often chooses for portrait photography and filming. The numerous portrait photographs included among his representative works are remarkable part of the photographer’s oeuvre. These include a large number of images, often seen in his advertising photography, in which persons are carefully positioned within aesthetically refined compositions and backgrounds, but there are also close-up portraits.
768 p, ills colour, 19 x 21 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Yutaro Saito - Tokyo Street Style
Isbn 9782940695409
Publisher Label Rapace
Idea code 251050
€ 28.60
While the fashion world flocks to the front rows and influencer-filled sidewalks of Fashion Week, Japanese photographer Yutaro Saito turns his lens elsewhere - toward the effortlessly stylish elders of Tokyo. In this striking collection, Saito captures candid portraits of sharply dressed older gentlemen, their looks punctuated by decade-worn loafers, vintage bomber jackets, and an enduring sense of cool. Paired with hyper-real, almost dreamlike images of the Tokyo cityscape - where delivery crates glow like neon sculptures and bollards become surreal installations - this work is a poetic homage to timeless style and the unnoticed beauty of urban life.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Agnès Varda – La Pointe Courte, from photographs to film
Isbn 9791095821656
Publisher Delpire&co
Idea code 260026
€ 20.45
With 'La Pointe-Courte', Agnès Varda produced a radical film in 1954, alternating a graphic and realistic style that did not escape the notice of discerning cinephiles of the time. The film displayed an artistic independence that broke with the codes of the cinema of its time, to the point of being described as a precursor of the New Wave. To prepare her film, the young woman undertook a meticulous selection of her photographs, from the 800 or so taken in Sète between 1949 and 1954. She compiled nine plates of reference and location shots, which inspired her to create scenes, atmospheres and even still shots for the film, which she detailed in a carefully written script.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Agnès Varda – Expo54
Isbn 9791095821632
Publisher Delpire&co
Idea code 260027
€ 20.45
In June 1954, Agnès Varda opened the doors of her house on rue Daguerre to present a selection of portraits, nudes, and still lifes in her courtyard, right on the walls. Her street and its neighbours are her favourite subjects, including Alexander Calder, whom she met through Jean Vilar, as well as Hans Hartung and Brassaï. Visitors are introduced to images that are striking in their style, heralding the aesthetics of an entire career. Her humour and love of words already shine through; the personalisation of everyday objects through what she calls her “funny faces”; the heart-shaped potato almost fifty years before her documentary 'Les Glaneurs et La Glaneuse'; the first images of Sète, where the photographer discerns lines of force, arranges perspectives, plays with shapes and textures to the limit of abstraction.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Bettina Rheims – Kim Harlow
Isbn 9791095821670
Publisher Delpire&co
Idea code 260028
€ 35.75
Bettina Rheims met Kim Harlow, a cabaret dancer and showgirl, in 1990 for the casting of her series 'Modern Lovers'. Kim was the only transgender person among the portraits of young androgynous people through whom the artist sought to convey a sense of disquiet. This meeting was also the trigger for the series 'Les Espionnes' (1991–1992), which pursued the question of trans-identity. Kim Harlow played an important role in Bettina Rheims’ work in the early 1990s, with these two series on the question of gender. This book looks back at their special relationship and offers a fresh look at the creative process, thanks to previously unpublished archives selected by the photographer.
104 p, ills bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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More Than One World – New Japanese Photography 50 Years On
Isbn 9784865412017
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 251069
€ 26.10
Japanese photography today enjoys worldwide recognition, not only thanks to the efforts of people like Shoji Yamagishi, Sandra Phillips, Ryuichi Kaneko, and curator John Szarkowski but also because of the generations before and after them who preserved and passed on that spark of sustained, almost obsessive passion. This publication commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1974 exhibition ‘New Japanese Photography’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – the first to introduce the work of Japanese photographers to an international audience and now regarded as a major turning point in the critical reception and study of Japanese photography in the West.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Daido Moriyama: Record 61
Isbn
Publisher Akio Nagasawa
Idea code 250754
€ 22.40
From the afterword by Daido Moriyama: “Despite the fact that I usually have all kinds of things and ideas on my mind, the lifestyle that I’m leading is quite simple. I find myself swinging back and forth between worrying if I’m alright, and reassuring myself that I’m doing just fine. Today I wonder whether there’ll be that one great shot among the photos that I take, and tomorrow… well, that’s another day. So I wander about with my little camera in my hand, and when I’m at home at night, I sit down in my chair and grumble: ‘Hmm… Well… Yeah…’”
120 p, ills bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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I’m Inside - Tagging architecture in Eastern European cold war propaganda postcards
Isbn 9789083579573
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 260033
€ 22.15
By making collages of the communist, brutalist architecture presented on tourist postcards (947-1991) which suggests great space, with disruptive tags found on murals worldwide (2010-2025), artist photographer Gabriel Jones blends the top down and the grass roots, the sublime and the subluminal as well as past and present political context. This decontextualisation causes a humorist effect, while simultaneously bringing a weird kind of recognizability into the picture on the postcard. The tags on the facades show what many of us intuitively naïve or speculatively critical think. It shows a resilience to imposed superstructures, and an alternative to the tourist experiences. This dynamic easily lends itself to mirror against the superstructures proposed by contemporary politicians. Be it in our minds, shared with others socially or by tagging places yourself. The juxtapositions in these collages’ express the resilience of the liberty people take towards facades imposed upon us.
140 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 13 cm, hb, English
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Wouter van Solinge - Situations
Isbn 9789083213293
Publisher House Publishing
Idea code 251091
€ 42.55
In Situations, photographer Wouter van Solinge captures extraordinary moments in ordinary situations. Rather than freezing decisive or dramatic events, Wouter turns his lens toward subtle human gestures and fleeting interactions—moments that are in motion, without clear beginnings or endings. Through Wouter’s approach the vulnerabilities, distance, and quiet connections that shape our daily lives are revealed. Wouter finds beauty not in spectacle, but in the unnoticed fragments that make us human. His work gently reminds us that these subtle, unremarkable moments are where life truly happens. Situations is a curated selection of 94 black-and-white photographs spanning five decades.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Cozue Takagi – pool
Isbn 9784865412055
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 250734
€ 39.25
Cyanotype, invented in England in the 19th century, is a classic technique for creating images known for the beautiful blue tones it produces. Cozue Takagi decided to apply this technique that emerged at the dawn of photography using the light of the sun to print photographs taken in the light of the moon. What appears in the finished photographs are blue landscapes and scenes that have been bathed in moonlight and sunlight, allowing both moonlight and sunlight to share the same space. The moon and the sun create a cycle that is synonymous with time itself. Images where the moon and the sun neither appear nor disappear become infused with time, but are also without time.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Jan S. Hansen – Tetra AL
Isbn 9788785336095
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 251048
€ 34.70
Between 2021 and 2024, Tetra was created from 35 mm slides dating from the 1960s to the 1990s and presented as slide projections. Comprising 243 images in three sets, the series reinterprets found photographs to trace how images circulate and transform over time. In Tetra AL, selected slides were translated into lithographic prints on pre-sensitized anodized aluminum plates - industrial materials repurposed from their disposable origins. Each plate carries a developed negative on its reverse, linking the works in material and conceptual sequence. Moving between nature, architecture, and human life, Tetra reflects on how shifting technologies alter the ways we see, remember, and experience the world.
88 p, ills bw, 26 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Gardar Eide Einarsson – Pardon Me
Isbn 9788785336071
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 251047
€ 40.85
Pardon Me examines the strange political theatre of the annual U.S. presidential turkey pardoning ceremony.Long staged as light entertainment, this ritual masks a far darker logic: a grotesque parody of sovereign power and its ability to decide who may live and who may die. Drawing on thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Alenka Zupančič, Carl Schmitt, Freud, and Foucault, the book reveals how the turkey pardon dramatizes the state’s desire to define the boundaries of humanity itself. In this carnivalesque reversal, the turkey is lifted from “bare life” into the symbolic embrace of the law, while millions of others are condemned without ceremony. The accumulation of images creates a quiet counterpoint to the absurd ritual they emerge from. Pardon Me exposes the uneasy laughter that surrounds state power when it masks its violence behind spectacle. Through a minimal, almost documentary presentation, the book reflects on decision, authority, mercy, and the unsettling theatre of the modern sovereign who jokes about his own power as he exercises it.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, hb, English
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Homebound - a memoir traversing Oman
Isbn 9781915348036
Publisher Twentyfour Thirtysix
Idea code 250994
€ 43.75
Noa Avishag Schnall's debut book is nominally a travel memoir and photographic account about a road trip: sleeping every night in her car, as she navigates her way solo across Oman. But Homebound also depicts a deeply personal journey as her daily diaries intertwine with a decades-long family history which slowly unveils itself, powerfully resonating with today's headlines and political affairs throughout Western Asia. Every step she takes is a step in the past as well as the present. The journey she shares with the reader is a moving and honest human adventure, both introspective and outgoing. Noa Avishag Schnall is a Yemeni author, journalist, photographer and human rights activist based in Paris, born and raised in Los Angeles. Her work spans multiple continents focusing on amplifying stories of justice, resistance, and cultural celebration working with underrepresented communities.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Kengo Noguchi – The Ten Foot Square Hut
Isbn 9784865411775
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 251068
€ 30.45
For nearly a decade, Kengo Noguchi has photographed those who reside in the little corners of the big cities. Through these portraits, he witnessed a diversity of lifestyles and uniqueness held by each space. It was confusing to label such temporary living spaces with familiar terms (house, hut, blue poly tarp, tent), so Noguchi decided to call them ‘Iori’, the traditional dwelling of a monk or hermit, often mentioned in Japanese poetry as a motif that illustrates a simple way of life. As he became acquainted with more of these people and repeatedly photographed them while building relationships, his preconceived image for the words “vagabond” and “homeless” began to collapse.
136 p, ills colour, 26 x 25 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Mikio Suzuki – Remembering Lives Lived Wholeheartedly ─ Okinawa Airakuen 1975
Isbn 9784865412024
Publisher Akaaka
Idea code 251070
€ 47.85
Airakuen was a sanatorium for leprosy patients near the city of Nago in Okinawa. Mikio Suzuki visited the facility in 1975 to document the daily life of the people there. That same year, the Leprosy Prevention Law necessitated that leprosy patients were hospitalised and isolated from the rest of society. Societal prejudice and repression made it almost impossible for them to appear in any media at all. Extensively and with clarity, Suzuki’s photographs capture the Airakuen, the work of the doctors and nurses, and the life of the many patients. In his diary, translated in the book, Suzuki recounts how his interactions with patients during his time at Airakuen shifted his own attitude.
248 p, ills bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Chotoku – Anthology 1964–2016
Isbn 9784903883878
Publisher Tokyo Kirara
Idea code 251071
€ 132.50
This anthology presents a selection of work by Japanese photographer Chotoku Tanaka, whose career with the camera started in the early 1960s. Ordered chronologically, ‘Anthology 1964–2016’ is a journey through Tanaka’s life and travels, from Tokyo in the 1960s to Vienna, Graz, and Salzburg in the 1970s, New York, Prague, and Budapest in the 1980s, and Telč, Prague, Amsterdam, New York, Vienna, and Berlin in the late 1990s and 2010s. Tanaka has published more than 135 photobooks on his substantial body of work, but this volume brings together the best of his remarkably sensitive snapshot photography and includes an afterword by Tanaka.
212 p, ills bw, 26 x 23 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Beyond the Image - On Visual Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Isbn 9789083605234
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 260042
€ 17.55
Today, we do not believe in images anymore. This incredulity is, in part, the product of technology. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to sloppy content, the function of the image is not representation but only the reproduction of capital. In the twentieth century, the machine automated the hands of workers; in the twenty-first century, it automates the eyes of consumers. The conveyor belt is upgraded by scrolling. In the age of electronic reproduction, the gaze is replaced by the stare of Internet users. Yet, as the medium is pushed to its limit by capitalism, it reverses its characteristics. Another relationship with the medium–beyond post-truth and deepfake–is designed anew into digital culture. From the Kardashians to Donald Trump, from Pepe the Frog to Paris Hilton, the nihilism of the image is trending right now. Beyond the Image is an attempt at the revaluation of visual culture in the age of video monetization and artificial intelligence. Soon enough, the same eyes that are filled with the glow of the screen are also starting to see beyond it.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 19 cm, pb, English
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