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Mikiya Takimoto - Land SpaceSeigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523922 Acqn 22958Hb 30x42cm 80pp 36col ills 69

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Land Space by photographer Mikiya Takimoto, thisseries of large-format images celebrates both the pinnacle of human technological achievementand the natural wonder of our planet. The concept is mystical, metaphysical, and fragmented,allowing viewers to work out the intellectual implications of the combinations of images. Hevisualises the sublime tension that exists on the threshold between land and space. It is

enthralling and abstract, initiating an intriguing dynamic between the grand purpose of technologyand the extremely beautiful purposelessness of uninhabited expanses. With an essay by KeiichiroHirano.


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Paolo Woods PepeMusee De L'Elysee 2013 ISBN 9782883501003 Acqn 23005Hb 12x12cm 24pp 22col ills 17.50

"Pepe" are the second-hand clothes worn by most Haitians. The "Pepe" that arrive on the islandhave been donated by Americans to charities and collection centres, rejected by Thrift shops, andhave gone through the sorting warehouses run by Haitians in Miami. The worst T-shirts, thosethat would barely be sold in the cheap gift shops of Times Square, those with the dumbestslogans, reappear, thanks to a free-market miracle, in remote provinces of Haiti where nobodyhas taken the effort of translating such poetry into Creole.


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Elisabeth Tonnard - In This Dark WoodJ&L 2013 ISBN 9780989531108 Acqn 22574Hb 16x23cm 196pp 90ills 26

Elisabeth Tonnards In This Dark Woodis a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting,

modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dantes Inferno:Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ch la diritta via erasmarrita. (In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straightway was lost). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual StudiesWorkshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company ofstreet photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is areprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.


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Michael Schmelling - Land LineJ&L 2013 ISBN 9780982964293 Acqn 22575Hb 21x27cm 224pp 200col ills 34.95

In the winter of 2007, photographer Michael Schmelling--known for his previous books Shut UpTruthand The Plan--photographed the USA National Memory Championships in New York City.Roughly 100 competitors gathered in a modest conference hall in the Con Edison building tocompete in a series of mnemonic tests. Schmelling's photographs from that day are primarily ofthe competitors, all intensely engaged in recalling and reciting lists of information. Schmellingreturned to the championships in 2008, photographing many of the same competitors as the year

before. Building a book of short, interrelated stories, Schmelling has combined these images ofmnemonists with a series of similar, overlapping narratives. Traveling through a North Americanlandscape of neutral interiors, the viewer of Land Lineencounters an array of subjects in themidst of thinking, forgetting, questioning and interpreting. Photographs of professionalmnemonists, teenagers in an algorithmic code competition, entrepreneurs, a Hollywood actor,prisoners and English language students dressed up as historical figures coalesce into a largernarrative about cognition, memory and information.


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William ChristenberryTf Editores 2013 ISBN 9781938922275 Acqn 22556Hb 24x29cm 296pp 425ills 400col 47.50

William Christenberry is firmly established as a contemporary American master photographer, butno comprehensive overview of his diverse talents is currently in print. This 260-page volume--thelargest Christenberry overview yet published--corrects this lacuna, offering a thematic survey ofhis half-century-long career. It is composed of 13 sections, each devoted to a particular series ortheme: the wooden sculptures of Southern houses, cafes and shops; the early, black-and-white,Walker Evans-influenced photographs of Southern interiors, taken in Alabama and Mississippi inthe early 60s; documentations of Ku Klux Klan meeting houses and rallies, from the mid-1960s;color photographs of tenant houses in Alabama, from 1961 to 1978; signs in landscapes, rangingfrom handwritten gas station signs to Klan and corporate signs; graves (which, throughChristenberry's lens, emerge as a kind of folk art); churches in Alabama, Delaware and

Mississippi, taken between the mid-1960s and the 80s; Alabama street scenes, in towns such asDemopolis, Marion and Greensboro; street scenes in Tennessee (mostly Memphis); Southernlandscapes; gas stations, trucks and cars in Alabama; and a selection from Christenberry'sfamous series of buildings to which he returns annually, photographing them over severaldecades-the palmist building, the Underground Nite Club, Coleman's Cafe, the Bar-B-Q Inn, theGreen Warehouse and the Christenberry family home, near Stewart, Alabama.


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Enrico Natali - Detroit 1968Foggy Notion Books 2013 ISBN 9780983587040 Acqn 22558Hb 20x23cm 128pp 98ills 37.50

Detroit 1968was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, and was thesubject of Enrico Natalis 1969 solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. In his introduction tothe 1972 edition, Hugh Edwards, former Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago,

wrote: All the photographs in the present collection were taken in 19671970 in Detroit, which inno way restricts their presentation as a brief of how Americans look and live today. These scenesand incidents might have occurred anywhere in the United States in this time when regionalcharacteristics are disappearing ... this is a view of a situation and condition, not a localization.Forty years later, we can now also appreciate the specificity of Natalis subject, as this body ofwork presents an insightful exploration of Detroit when it was on the cusp of losing half of itsinhabitants, along with its status as Americas industrial capital. We witness Detroit just before theauto industry began its decade-long decline, as race riots and the Vietnam War raged on. HereNatali captures the everyday activity of 60s-era storefronts, art openings, sporting events, thecelebrated high school prom, secretaries enjoying an afternoon cigarette, computer main-frameoperators and machinists, waitresses and beauticians, family portraits, and much more--theseimages capture the now-vanished spirit of this largely abandoned city during a critical, spiritedmoment in its history. This new edition includes an introduction by Mark Binelli, author of DetroitCity Is the Place to Beand a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.


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Betsy Karel - Conjuring ParadiseRadius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435670 Acqn 22579Hb 29x31cm 120pp 66col ills 40

American photographer Betsy Karel first visited Waikiki in 2009 with her husband, who was thenin the final stages of terminal cancer. While there, the symptoms of his disease seemed totemporarily recede amid his joy in Waikikis beauty and resources, and Karel promised to capturehis happiness in a new series of photographs. This highly personal book, which continued over

the next four years, is dedicated to his memory. Karels vision of paradise is kaleidoscopic andvivid, and her rendering of Waikiki is often ambiguous and complex. The people she pictures arerelaxed, reveling in the sensuous pleasures of a sun-drenched destination. Yet while depicting amanufactured dreamscape that oscillates between real and imaginary worlds, these photographstestify to the intensity of our desire to experience our dreams--and equally to escape unpleasantrealities.


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Polly Borland YouPerimeter Editions 2013 ISBN 9780987353030 Acqn 23064Hb 17x21cm 52pp 26col ills 33

Tracing two distinct, however interconnected bodies of work, the book is an intensely intimatemeditation on various states of love, desire and identity. The initial inspiration for YOU arosewhen Borland relocated from London to Hollywood, with its promises of glamour and itsplasticised brand of beauty. The impetus for the latter part of the series came after viewingMuseum Victorias extensive collection of medical equipment, restraints, clothing and artefactsfrom Australian psychiatric institutions. YOU continues Borlands exploration of the interfacebetween anthropomorphic soft sculpture, the human form and the photographic image.


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Frank Eerhart - The Power Of Iron In AfricaFrank Eerhart Editions 2013 ISBN 9789081385800 Acqn 22908Hb 22x30cm 218pp 255ills 250col 37.95

Frank Eerhart has been collecting African iron objects for 25 years. In this full-colour book hiscollection of approximately 200 objects, beautifully photographed by Willem Popelier, ispresented in 11 chapters in which he dilates upon their provenance and use in the different

African communities.


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The Sweet And Sour Story Of SugarNoorderlicht 2013 ISBN 9789076703503 Acqn 23047Hb 29x29cm 276pp 250ills 150col 47.95

With 'The Sweet and Sour Story of Sugar' Noorderlicht goes further in the direction begun in itsGlobal Detail (2003) photo festival. The process of globalisation, as radical as it is elusive, is onceagain the subject for an exhibition and a photo book. This time however Noorderlicht wants to gointo greater depth by approaching the operation of the global economy from the perspective of

just one product. Here sugar is the starting point for an investigation of the forces of globalisation.It is a story which forces one to look beyond boundaries of space and time, at a product that issimultaneously ordinary, and boundless.


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Hannes Heikura - We Walk AloneAalto 2013 ISBN 9789522920010 Acqn 23078Hb 25x33cm 168pp 82ills 42.50

Following a distinguished career as a photojournalist, Finnish photographer Hannes Heikuramore recently began art photography. We Walk Alone, photographed in the lights and shadowsof Helsinkis urban landscape, continues Heikuras earlier Dark Zone series, yet with a focus onthe loneliness of human existence in the city. Working in black and white, he reveals the dramaticand poetic aspects of the solitary wandering of the human mind. A documentary of sorts, it also

offers authenticity, magically charged with the photographers own interpretations based in reality.Besides numerous, striking images, the book includes a short text by Heikura.


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Freeing The Fish - Progress And Impermenance In Modern Day Tibet. Photos By MariekeTen WoldeTen Wolde 2013 ISBN 9789491800009 Acqn 23083Hb 30x22cm 178pp 150col ills 53.50

With her beautiful and poetic photography and stories, Marieke ten Wolde sketches the life of theordinary Tibetan, investigating questions about how climate change impacts the lives of nomadsand farmers alike, or why so many new monasteries are being built. Ten Wolde spent the lastdecade documenting the accelerating pace of change and modernisation of Tibetan lands withinChina. In that time, many places were altered beyond recognition as people resettled,infrastructure expanded and mining complexes and hydroelectric dams sprang up. Brimming withsuperb photos and insightful texts, the book offers deep insight into a complex society forever inmotion.


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Frank MadlerFotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675866 Acqn 23114Hb 23x24cm 468pp 1224col ills 34.50

Kopal comprises 1,224 Polaroids taken by Frank Mdler. Over a period of many years, since1996, he has photographed his surroundings, his neighbourhood, and his milieu - until 2012 whenhis stocks of Polaroid film ran out. In a departure from his large-format photographs, the artist'smindset for Kopal focused on small images, catalogued in different ways in the index: bothchronologically, i.e. just as they appear in the book, and alphabetically, but also according to hisown whimsical categories. So despite the multitude of photographs, tracking down certain imagesis simplicity enough, all of which makes for an interesting, self-charted voyage of discoverythrough the book, through time and through Frank Mdler's environment.


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Pierre LiebaertLe Caillou Bleu 2013 ISBN 9782930537245 Acqn 23038Pb 20x29cm 32pp 24ills 18col 18

Macquenoise is the bittersweet portrait of a mother and son who live a secluded life on thefringes of Belgium, at the mercy of the seasons, with only animals for company. From this oedipalrelationship wells up a violence suffocated by a state of immobility. At times, a look seems to be acry for help, a warning that we heed while remaining mute, powerless. Photographer PierreLiebaert steeped himself in the familys intimacy, becoming part of it, tuning himself to the farmsslow rhythm and his hosts. It is a simple, uneventful life that seems set to last for eternity. Theimages lay the foundations of Liebaerts current work: an interest in the rawness of the fringe.


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Neeltje Ten Westenend ContourFw 2013 ISBN 9789490119201 Acqn 23059Pb 17x25cm 192pp 600ills 21.50

Together with photographer Stephan Keppel, Neeltje ten Westenend travelled and documentedthe complete border of the central Dutch province Utrecht. A border that has changed varioustimes since it was first drawn in 1300. Ten Westenend looks with the same focus to historic andarchitectural landmarks, and results of urban planning, as she looks to accidental encounters,sand heaps and the changing weather condition. This makes 'Contour' a publication about the

problematics of observing and mapping; about facts and intuition. It is a poetic index that gives aunique insight in the Dutch landscape.


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Moved Objects - Georgia Hutchison And Arini ByngPerimeter Editions 2013 ISBN 9780987353023 Acqn 23063Hb 20x27cm 40pp 29col ills 30

'Moved Objects' traces the collaborative practice of young Australian artists Georgia Hutchisonand Arini Byng. Expanding on their investigations into material juxtaposition, sculpturalchoreography and the photographic still life, the works broach notions of form, materiality,architectural resonance, visual poetics and photographic image-making. Offset against a series ofhighly keyed backdrops, the works are both astute and playful in tenor.


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Martijn Berk - Falling From A HeightMartijn Berk 2013 ISBN 9789082068009 Acqn 23084Pb 23x34cm 114pp 50ills 42.95

The work of photographer and filmmaker Martijn Berk centres around an exploration of theApollonian/Dionysian conflict, wherein the individual is the starting point but the final result musttranscend the individual. For his project Falling from a height, Berk immersed himself in anobsession with a 20-year-old young man, producing around 4000 photographs of the subject, a

selection of which are published here. How far does one go in the quest for intimacy, not tomention deal with the primal forces it touches upon? Quite simply, where is the line betweenreality and fiction? Included are emotive excerpts from Oscar van den Boogaard and an essay byChristoph Tannert.


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Henk Wildschut FoodPost Editions 2013 ISBN 9789460830747 Acqn 23115Hb 25x28cm 144pp 91col ills 30

For this project, 'Food', Henk Wildschut immersed himself in the world of today's farmer whom heoriginally saw as the most important innovator in the food production process. In his endeavour toget to grips with the production and processing of food Wildschut, rather than restricting himself tomodern farming, also directs his quest at vegetable breeders and cultivators, stock farms,hatcheries, fish farms, laboratories, inspection bodies and suppliers of abattoir equipment. Theirsis a squeaky-clean world where rules, regulations and protocols are riveted together in thestainless-steel abstraction of the industrial scheme of things; a world that often seems such a far

cry from the food itself.


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Composite #1 - Jan KempenaersPerimeter Editions 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22663Pb 20x27cm 24pp 16ills 10col 12.95

Each issue of Composite Journal delves into the work and life of a single creative practitioner,elucidating the chosen artists practice and its underpinnings from a diverse range of positionsand perspectives. The launch issue traces the oeuvre of Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers,recognised for his longstanding negotiation of the contemporary picturesque. Edited by Dan Rule,

Narelle Brewer and Justine Ellis, the issue features contributions from Kyla McFarlane, RogerWillems, Louise Porter and Dan Rule. The debut Australian exhibition of a new series of worksfrom Kempenaers forthcoming book accompanies the inauguration issue.


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Jeff Wall - Works from Munich CollectionsSchirmer Mosel Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783829606578 Acqn 22746Hb 25x29cm 128pp 56ills 46col 42

Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall has focused on the potential ofartistic composition, the boundaries between painting, photography, sculpture, and film, betweenfiction and reality, thus redefining the photographic image. This book features 20 exceptionalworks from public and private collections in Munich, where the artist had his first European soloexhibition in 1984. Edited by Inka Graeve Ingelmann. With texts by Ulrich Bischoff, ChristaDttinger, Simone Frster, Ingvild Goetz, Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Lothar Schirmer, RdigerSchttle und Gabriele Schor.


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Jan Kempenaers - I'm Not Tailgating, I'm DraftingROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789491843068 Acqn 23031Pb 17x23cm 32pp 64ills 14col 42.95

Foldout book with photographs, including an original C-print, selected from a series taken by JanKempenaers during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2010. The images wereshot with an advanced hand-held digital camera, which allowed him to work freely in a snapshot

style whilst maintaining a very high quality. Within the context of Kempenaers' body of work, thisnew series underlines his desire to shift further toward abstraction instead of documentary work.


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Nadine Stijns - Floating PopulationFw 2013 ISBN 9789490119218 Acqn 23046Pb 24x35cm 40pp 196col ills 24.95

In the early 1980s, upon the opening up of Chinas economy under Deng Xiaoping, farmers lefttheir hometowns seeking work in Chinas developing cities as a response to the resultingagricultural reforms. These people from Chinas vast rural areas are referred to as the floatingpopulation. By visually assembling photographs, video stills and photographed objects liketextiles, rubber shoes, construction materials, a sock, piles of postcards and posters and moreNadine Stijns investigates this stream of migrant labourers. With texts by sinologist, journalist andwriter Catherine Vuylsteke.


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Adam Popo - Photo SculpturesVoetnoot 2013 ISBN 9789078068891 Acqn 23082Pb 14x21cm 24pp 10col ills 16.50

Appearing for the first time in a book, this series of images by Dutch photographer Adam Popo

presents the body as an idea, a variation on a graphic form, completely abstracted from thephysical human form. In the photographs, women models dressed in garish, colourful stockingsand high heeled shoes bend forward, giving the viewer an impression that their upper bodieshave somehow been erased, even as their shapely buttocks shamelessly distract attention. Theybecome, in a manner of perception, sculptures that have been moulded into their ultimate form.With an introduction by Martijn Doolaard.


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Daido Moriyama - View From The LaboratoryKawade Shobo Shinsha 2013 ISBN 9784309274027 Acqn 23117Hb 18x27cm 84pp 51ills 39.95

In 1827 the first historic photogrpah was taken from the upstairs window of a residential estatecalled Le Gras, located in the village of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes in France. In 2008 DaidoMoriyama was able to fulfill his long-held dream of visiting what for him was a sacred site. Thisphoto book is a record of Moriyamas journey back to the absolute beginning of photography.

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