Photography July 2015

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Cyrille Weiner Twice 19 80 Editions 2015 ISBN 9782919159093 Acqn 25022 Pb 18x27cm 80pp 50col ills 33.95 French photographer Cyrille Weiner is interested in the unexpected uses and appropriation of places. His projects propose a free interpretation of urban, geographic, and architectural issues through an artistic practice that calls into question the fictional and poetic power of the photographic document. With two parts in a single binding, this photobook explores the fringes of urban space, places where the natural and built environments come together and interact, both on the city outskirts and within its confines; places often defined by nature taking possession of emptiness and the residues of human activities that have ceased. With a text by Marguerite Pilven.

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Beryl Chen By Rene Groebli Sturm & Drang 2015 ISBN 9780984820283 Acqn 25109 Hb 30x21cm 44pp 48ills 37.95 Swiss photographer Ren Groebli visited London in 1953 and by chance encountered Beryl Chen, a young woman recently arrived in the city along with a wave of other immigrants seeking a better future. Her Jamaican mother and Chinese father far away, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and affirmation, and agrees to be photographed by Groebli. Using black-and-white images made with his Leica camera, he mixes reportage and artful storytelling in an attempt to document her life in this new, formidable city. Perhaps she will find her purpose, or happiness; perhaps she will find even love. Now, 60 years later, this previously unpublished series of images finally comes to light.

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Michael Wolf - Some More Hong Kong Seating Arrangements Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825772 Acqn 25132 Hb 16x21cm 80pp 64col ills 27 With this fifth volume it is clear that this series of books develops to Michael Wolfs "Hong Kong Back Alley Encyclopaedia". For 20 years now the photographer has lived in Hong Kong, some of his most significant works have been created here. But he also kept searching for surprising discoveries in the dense bustle of the back alleys and narrow side streets that are so typical of Hong Kong. Up to now, as like so many places everywhere, they are meant to be cleaned up. Following the publication of 'Hong Kong Informal Seating Arrangements' Michael Wolf kept photographing all kinds of seats in Hong Kong, so many and so well that a second volume with only new images could be published.

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Mould #2 - Curated By Joan Fontcuberta Mould Press 2015 ISBN 9788894036817 Acqn 25131 Pb 17x24cm 200pp 135ills 95col 17.50 Guest curated by Joan Fontcuberta, the second issue of Mould takes into account some photographic works that, starting from the minimalist approach onwards, encapsulate the most essential qualities of the photographic image (light and shade, imprint, chemical reaction, darkroom, optics etc). That is to say generative, formalist and conceptual operations that somehow determine the nature of the images that shape our visual culture nowadays. Featuring: Marco Breuer, Gerado Repetto, F&D Cartier, Alison Rossiter, Haus am Gern, Nmo Migliori, Liam Coo, Pierre Cordier & Gundi Falk, Andrew Wright, Miguel Angel Tornero, Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy, Gottfried Jager, Geoffrey Batchen, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and Francesco Spampinato.

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Sophie Calle - Suite Venitienne Siglio 2015 ISBN 9781938221095 Acqn 24573 Hb 14x20cm 96pp 60ills 56col 27 After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and notating their movements, Sophie Calle ran into a man at an opening whom she had followed earlier that day. "During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice. I decided to follow him," she writes at the beginning of Suite Vnitienne, her first artist's book and the crucible of her inimitable fusion of investigatory methods, fictional constructs, the plundering of real life and the composition of self. Over the course of almost two weeks in Venice, Calle notates, in time-stamped entries, her surveillance of Henri B., as well as her own emotions as she seeks, finds and follows him through the labyrinthine streets of Venice. Her investigation is both methodical (calling every hotel, visiting the police station) and arbitrary (sometimes following a strangera flower delivery boy, for instancehoping someone might lead her to him). This Siglio reissue is a completely new iteration of Suite Vnitienne (first published in 1988 and long out of print), designed in collaboration with Calle to be the definitive English-language edition. Printed on Japanese paper with a die-cut cover and gilded edges, this beautiful new Siglio edition allows readers to devour this crucial and compelling work.

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Osmos Magazine 06 Osmos 2015 ISBN 9780990698005 Acqn 24595 Pb 22x28cm 88pp col ills 19.50 Osmos Magazine is "an art magazine about the use and abuse of photography," explains founder and editor Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (formerly of Parkett and Fantom). Nourishing contemporary perspectives in photography and the visual arts, and delivering a unique view with content divided into recurring thematic sectionssome traditional, such as "Portfolio," "Stories" and "Reportage"and others more idiosyncratic, such as "Eye of the Beholder," where gallerists discuss the talents they showcase; and "Means to an End," about the side effects of nonartistic image production. Contributors to this issue include Michael St. John, Stuart Ringholt, Azadeh Akhlaghi and Sam Samore, with a vintage Bruce Mozert image on the cover.

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Andrew Phelps - Cubic Feet / Sec Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993120 Acqn 25150 Pb 18x23cm 112pp 52col ills 18.95 Cubic Feet/Sec., the rate at which flowing water is measured in a river. documents 9 trips by boat through the Grand Canyon which Andrew Phelps made with his father and friends from 1979-2013. Cameras would become fixed elements of every trip, with thousands of images documenting over 4 decades of travelling through the Grand Canyon. For the first time, this deep archive has been edited to tell the story of one trip through the canyon. Time is thrown out the window as Andrew and his father grow older and the canyon stays the same. More than an adventure story of rafting through the canyon, CFS is a visual diary documenting these 2 lives in a beautiful, ancient landscape.

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Frame And Focus - Photography As A Schooling Issue Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993144 Acqn 25151 Pb 16x22cm 270pp 100ills 40col 18.50 Aesthetic, technical and scientific uses of the medium of photography should be understood as socially and historically determined processes. Franz Rohs cautionary remark of 1929 that photography might give rise to a modern kind of illiteracy has often been quoted as a call for a more comprehensive educational effort in the field. However, there can be little doubt that artistic freedom alone guarantees a genuinely creative approach and deserves to be fully respected. Thus, photography remains a paradigm of very complicated cultural and communicative developments. Starting from the exemplary Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt founded by the Austrian photochemist and historian of photography Josef Maria Eder in Vienna in 1888, this reader presents further positions regarding photography as a schooling issue in Germany, the United States, Croatia, and France between 1900 and today. The contributions to the volume explore topics like the independency of photography, its being looked at as art or applied technology, as a science in its own right, as a hobby or profession, or even as a completely deskilled activity in an age engaged in the rampant exchange of photographic images through mobile devices and the Internet. Maren Grning works as curator at the Photographic Collection of the Albertina, Vienna, since 2012 she is also curator for nineteenth-century art of the German-speaking countries. Ulrike Matzer is a writer, critic, and historian of photography who lives in Vienna.

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Margherita Spiluttini - Archive Of Spaces Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993090 Acqn 25152 Pb 29x23cm 152pp 200ills 100col 22 Margherita Spiluttini is one of Europes most renowned architectural photographers firmly anchored in an art context. Dovetailing commissioned works with freelance work since the early 1980s Spiluttini has produced a body of work characterised by a meticulous, clear-cut and unpretentious imagery and an approach to architectural and landscape motifs that is always considered, in terms of both content and medium. The buildings and structures depicted by the artist are showcased not in spectacular views or in isolation for advertising effect, but always in the context of their everyday surroundings.

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Nobuyoshi Araki Road Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2015 ISBN 9784309275314 Acqn 25188 Hb 21x30cm 104pp 107ills 33.80

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Masami Tanaka - Auroras + DVD Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2014 ISBN 9784309275390 Acqn 25189 Pb 26x18cm 116pp 75col ills 26 Text in Japanese

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Robert Stivers - The Art of Ruin Twin Palms Publishers 2015 ISBN 9781936611089 Acqn 24089 Hb 41x51cm 54pp 27ills 68.50 In his new monograph, The Art of Ruin, Robert Stivers explores the distances that keep memory strange and uninhabitable. The objects presented in this series are, to some extent, recognizable. But the psychic experience that Stivers infuses seamlessly into these photographs, transforms themevoking both a sense of loss and recovery. The result is a richly textured and nuanced body of photographs examining the nature of ruin.

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Armin Linke - Inside Outside (Signed Limited Edition) 2 Signed C-prints ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843280 Acqn 25129 Pb 24x30cm 80pp 48col ills 72 Photographer Armin Linke captures the library in this series of images, depicting the interior spaces of this time-honoured cultural institution as an expression of its commitment to stimulating questioning and discovery. He not only looks at the grandly ornamented, open spaces of academic study found within several Parisian institutions (such as Science Po, the Louvre, and C2RMF), but also the lecture halls, administrative offices, and behind-the-scenes storage and hidden technical functions. Besides Linkes thoughtfully banal images, the book includes an essay by Bruno Latour, an interview with Linke, and a conversation about the projects initiation and background. Signed and numbered edition with two original photographs.

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Andreas Trogisch - Aphasia (signed) Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825741 Acqn 25142 Hb 19x25cm 48pp 23ills 43.95 This slim volume of only 22 images has a mysterious, lenticular-printed cover in bright pink and black quite a contrast with the banal subjects in shades of grey found within. The series of almost in focus (or slightly out of focus) photographs of nothing in particular a shirt, cracked concrete, trees, a playground, a bicycle mimics its title in a way: aphasia is the loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words, usually resulting from brain damage. About his photographs, Andreas Trogisch says, In the end it is only light and dark spots on paper, that evoke various emotions.

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Maria Friberg - Changed Positions Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031013 Acqn 24909 Hb 29x27cm 80pp 40ills 39col 38.95 According to the foreword by Lorella Scacco, In her photographs and video works, Maria Friberg deals with the sociological aspects of our time by creating an interplay between beauty and ambiguity. The Swedish artists work primarily revolves about themes of power, masculinity, and mans relationship to nature. More recent works challenge preconceived notions about identity, gender, and social hierarchies. The series included in this book are often meditative, setting lone figures against empty interior or natural backdrops. Their isolation and solitude is interrupted by the presence of electronic devices, like laptops and smartphones, in a subtle commentary.

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Helene Schmitz Borderlands Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789198157376 Acqn 24910 Hb 28x24cm 80pp 41ills 33col 36.50 Contradictory beauty and multifaceted transience characterise the photographs of spaces and landscapes by Swedish photographer Helene Schmitz. Her series Earthworks (abandoned rooms filled with sand) and Sunken Gardens (an overgrown butterfly farm in the jungle) even approach a kind of claustrophobic serenity in their closeness and sense of intrusion. Similarly, Kudzu Project portrays another kind of suffocation, wherein she turns her lens on the overwhelming tendencies of a specific plant. Schmitzs work thus makes us question our preconceptions of nature. Published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Dunkers kulturhus in Helsingborg.

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Marie-Jose Jongerius - Concrete Wilderness Marie-Jose Jongerius 2014 no ISBN Acqn 24994 Hb 31x24cm 108pp 43col ills 36 With the disappearance of the traditional harbour in the 20th century due to the rise of the container, maritime space has become an abstraction a forgotten space. Automation and computerisation have wiped away its classic image as the source of narratives, adventure, and work, replacing it with a sublime and unfamiliar landscape. Marie-Jos Jongerius followed the construction of a new container terminal at Maasvlakte 2, a major engineering project and extension of the Port of Rotterdam covering approximately 2000 hectares of reclaimed land. She photographed the new landscape at night with a large-format camera, creating hushed images of enigmatic beauty.

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Amin El Dib - Under Skies Of Blue And Grey Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825765 Acqn 25143 Hb 30x28cm 64pp 52col ills 36.50 For many years, Amin El Dib strolled the woods and fields together with his dog. On many different routes, and on all of them many times. Routine often leads to inattentiveness, but Amin El Dib kept his eyes open, was curious and as a photographer of course interested in new images. And he found them. Wide valleys and tree-covered mountains, green meadows and dense undergrowth, autumn leaves and snowy landscapes. All in the open. But no piece of pristine nature around. Each picture shows, sometimes brutal, but often barely visible, how people have transformed their environment to cultural landscape and how the landscape has recorded these interventions without judgement.

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Pietro Donzelli Luce Nimbus 2015 ISBN 9783038500117 Acqn 25023 Hb 23x31cm 228pp 120ills 37.95 Pietro Donzellis images of Italy in the 1950s and 60s are today regarded as some of his most important works. Keen on observing the lives of ordinary people during the period following the devastation of the Second World War and prior to the countrys widespread industrialisation, he captured remote landscapes inhabited by a largely rural population. His light-filled journey began in his hometown of Milan, and subsequently took him from the Po Delta region in the north, to Naples and Sicily in the south. Published in conjunction with a large exhibition of Donzellis photographs at the Opelvillen in Rsselsheim, this monographic volume presents his reportage-style series.

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Michael Light - Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain Radius Books 2015 ISBN 9781934435854 Acqn 23903 Hb 27x41cm 128pp 73ills 52col 46 Until 2008 Nevada was the fastest-growing state in America. But the recession stopped this urbanizing gallop in the Mojave Desert, and Las Vegas froze at exactly the point where its aspirational excesses were most baroque and unfettered. In this third Radius Books instalment of noted photographer Michael Light's aerial survey of the inhabited West, the photographer eschews the glare of the Strip to hover intimately over the topography of America's most fevered residential dream: castles on the cheap, some half-built, some foreclosed, some hanging on surrounded by golf courses gone bankruptcy brown, some still waiting to spring from empty cul-de-sacs. Throughout, Light characteristically finds beauty and empathy amidst a visual vertigo of speculation, overreach, environmental delusion and ultimate geological grace. Janus-faced in design, one side of the book plumbs the surrealities of "Lake Las Vegas," a lifestyle resort comprised of 21 Mediterranean-themed communities built around a former sewage swamp. The other side of the book dissects nearby Black Mountain and the city's most exclusive-and empty -future community where a quarter billion dollars was spent on moving earth that has lain dormant for the past six years. Following the boom and bust history of the West itself, Light's photographs terrifyingly and poignantly show the extraction and habitation industries as two sides of the same coin. Essays by two of the world's most celebrated cultural and landscape thinkers, Rebecca Solnit and Lucy Lippard, offer resonant counterpoint.

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Mikiya Takimoto - Grain Of Light Seigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524479 Acqn 24261 Hb 22x28cm 64pp 37col ills 32.50 In this series of stunning photographs, Mikiya Takimoto expresses a fascination with the sea and its movements. Abstract fields of frothing water, glimmering expanses of ripples, and cresting waves like snow-capped mountains are all portrayed in a palette of icy whites and blues. Often it is as if the viewer is peering down at the surface of our planet from high above, able to observe immense, frozen landscapes with their tectonic swirls, upheavals and rifts. Captivating and sublime work from this Japanese master.

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Zalmai - Dread And Dreams Daylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084020 Acqn 24603 Hb 33x28cm 144pp 91ills 28col 39 Afghan-born photographer Zalma was forced to flee to Switzerland at the age of 15 after the 1980 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As a freelance photographer, Zalma has spent years capturing the human cost of war around the world and in his home country, Afghanistan, where he also sees signs of hope. Dread and Dreams brings together photographs Zalma made between 2008 and 2013 against the backdrop of the 14-year US-led invasion of Afghanistan that culminated in 2014 with the withdrawal of American troops. The book presents two contrasting bodies of work. Zalma's epic duotone photographs reveal the stark reality of life in Afghanistan for the millions of Afghan refugees who have returned to their country since 2002, only to find they cannot go back to their homes. They are instead forced to live in squalid conditions in makeshift refugee camps and urban slums where most live on the brink of survival, and many take refuge in drugs. In counterpoint to this series, Zalma presents sun-tinged color photographs that reflect the hopes and dreams of the Afghan people. Here, Zalma takes us away from the monumental humanitarian crisis wrought by war to reveal signs of positive life force permeating his country. Empathetic, indignant but still optimistic, Zalma's photographs draw attention to Afghanistan's ongoing struggle, that has largely left the headlines, by focusing on the Afghan people and their lived experience of war, insecurity, chronic governmental mismanagement, corruption in a huge scale and international negligence.

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