Photography June 2014

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Stanley Greene - The Western Front Andre Frere Editions 2014 ISBN 9791092265033 Acqn 23522 Hb 25x35cm 176pp 100ills £60 American photojournalist Stanley Greene began his photographic career in the early 1970s, snapping pictures of the hippie and youth culture surrounding him at the time. In 1975, following formal training in New York, he moved to San Francisco and started photographing its burgeoning punk scene with a Leica camera. This captivating, large-format book revisits that wild and defining time through more than 150 pages of raw, inspiring images. Guided by Greene’s written narrative threading its way through the overly cropped and blurry black-and-white images, the reader plunges headfirst into a noisy, exuberant realm of concerts, bars, rock clubs and unforgettable characters.

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Between Realities - Photography In Sweden 1970-2000 Bokforlaget Arena 2014 ISBN 9789178434183 Acqn 23530 Pb 21x28cm 384pp 250ills 100col £30 This richly illustrated double-volume is published to coincide with the exhibition ‘Between Realities: Photography in Sweden 1970-2000’ in Gothenburg. The range of featured photographers, active in Sweden in recent decades, reflects the pivotal trends and changes taking place in the field, and offers a history of photography in the country told through multiple voices and by key figures from the various periods. Using carefully selected examples of work, past exhibitions, historical documents and critical analyses, it provides an exhaustive history of how various ideals, positions and trends have shaped Swedish practice, from artistic to documentary and commercial approaches.

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The Visible - Contemporary Swedish Photography Bokforlaget Arena 2014 ISBN 9789178434190 Acqn 23531 Pb 21x28cm 190pp 180ills 100col £26.50 This richly illustrated double-volume is published to coincide with the exhibition ‘Between Realities: Photography in Sweden 1970-2000’ in Gothenburg. The range of featured photographers, active in Sweden in recent decades, reflects the pivotal trends and changes taking place in the field, and offers a history of photography in the country told through multiple voices and by key figures from the various periods. Using carefully selected examples of work, past exhibitions, historical documents and critical analyses, it provides an exhaustive history of how various ideals, positions and trends have shaped Swedish practice, from artistic to documentary and commercial approaches.

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Bohnchang Koo - Slow Talk Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494146244 Acqn 23568 Pb 20x24cm 96pp 33ills £27.50 For Korean photographer Bohnchang Koo, his passion is about more than just capturing the beauty of a scenic view. It requires time and effort in order to deliver a message, or even to portray the essence of life. Comprising images from four recent photo series (‘Portraits of Time’, ‘Oceans’, ‘White’ and ‘Pencil of Nature’), this book evokes the poetic feeling of emptiness that is central to Koo’s work, even while he eludes traditional representations of the objects he portrays.

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C Photo 8 – Toledo Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494146251 Acqn 23569 Hb 24x30cm 220pp 105ills 75col £43.50 For centuries, the Spanish city of Toledo has been the subject of iconographic representations, inspiring artists like El Greco to depict its majestic beauty. To honour the fourth centennial of his death, twelve international visual artists have been invited to offer their perspectives on this city of three cultures. Together the artists provide an updated view of the city, using the language of photography to capture its present, as well as to commemorate its past. Besides reproductions of these unique images, the book has also involved the collaboration of Israeli video, photo and cinema artist Michal Rovner.

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Waterfall 6 – Food Waterfall 2014 ISBN 9789868972520 Acqn 23573 Pb 21x27cm 144pp 100col ills £20 This photo-book takes the human fascination with preparing, presenting and consuming food as its central theme, beginning with the sensory pleasures of these processes and a rich literary tradition across many cultures that deals with food in great detail. Full of colourful, striking and occasionally strange or abstract images of food, and with contributions by Mémé Bartels, Thomas Calvert, Maurice van Es, Ada Hamza, Matthew Higgs, Lauren Hillebrandt, Po-Chih Huang, Maurizio Di Iorio, Philippe Jusforgues, Margaret Lee, Stefano Marchionini, Ina Niehoff, Ken Ngan and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

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Not Vital By Aitor Ortiz Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494146237 Acqn 23604 Pb 18x28cm 260pp ills £54.50 Bringing together the talents of Basque photographer Aitor Ortiz and Swiss artist Not Vital, this remarkable publication sees Ortiz creating images of Vital’s art, set in the very landscape that inspired it. With the harsh beauty of the Engadin Valley as backdrop, the dramatic black-and-white pictures seize upon the stark contrasts inherent to the artist’s work. A single phrase threads its way through the book, as if guiding us through the mountainous terrain it portrays.

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Screendump #2 - On The Appropriation Of Photos Found Online Eriskay Connection 2014 ISBN 9789081838481 Acqn 23611 Pb 20x27cm 80pp 37ills 30col £21.50 In its second edition, ‘Screendump’ examines photography in the virtual era by presenting and discussing the work of artists who appropriate images taken by amateur photographers – the everyday snapshots posted online for very different purposes than those for which the artists eventually use them. Including works by Peter Mann, Willem Popelier, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico and Corinne Vionnet, it reflects upon how attitudes toward creating, disseminating and appreciating photos have radically shifted in the digital age, and how the act of making a picture is now accepted as habitual. Addressing how to comprehend the massive stream of online images is a key focus here.

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Michael Wolf - Hong Kong Flora Peperoni Books 2014 ISBN 9783941825628 Acqn 23720 Hb 16x21cm 80pp 58ills 56col £32 Perched atop drainpipes, set in glass jars, peeking out from vents and air-conditioning units, or dangling from wires, the flora of Hong Kong’s urban landscape is as ubiquitous as it is hardy, yet almost goes unnoticed against the overwhelming backdrop of apartment high-rises, neon lights and cracked walls. Photographed by Michael Wolf, the forlorn cultivars and opportunistic vegetation of the city – whether carefully tended, forgotten or simply growing wild – appear as a metaphor of nature’s struggles amidst the concrete jungle. Wolf even takes it a step further with some images, wherein true plants are superseded, their form echoed in the root-like tangles of cables and pipes.

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The Eyes 2 The Eyes 2014 ISBN 9791092727043 Acqn 23748 Pb 21x28cm 188pp 120ills 80col £22.50 This second instalment of the European photography magazine approaches the medium as an indispensable means of observing, understanding and remembering, striving to decipher Europe at its current moment of history. Special features on Sarajevo’s painful past and the rise of populism across Europe stand in sharp contrast to Carlotta Cardana’s portraits of Mod couples in London and Martin Atanasov’s grainy, black-and-white landscapes. Interviews with photo historian Clément Chéroux and photographer Guido Guidi offer additional perspectives, besides contributions by Martin Kollar, Marc Wendelski, Sam Stourdzé, Peggy Sue Amison, Pierre Kroll and more.

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Imprint - Visual Narratives In Books And Beyond Art And Theory Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789198087444 Acqn 23533 Pb 17x22cm 224pp 120ills 35col £32.95 What is the status and potential of the photo-book? Not only does the photo-book facilitate other means of display and distribution than gallery exhibitions, the book format also allows for challenges of photography’s instantaneousness, illusions of movement, and investigations of the photographic language. The photo-book has furthermore been seminal in the distribution of avant-garde conceptual photography, as well as social documentary and political statements. Is the photo-book today mainly a mainstream medium, a collector’s item, or a platform for artistic experiments? This collection of essays addresses current phenomenological, technological, and practical possibilities for communicating through photo-books and other visual narratives.

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Anne De Gelas - L'Amoureuse (signed/numbered) Le Caillou Bleu 2013 ISBN 9782930537238 Acqn 23033 Hb 20x29cm 96pp 80ills 16col £31.50 Anne De Gelas lost her lover, the father of her son, to a brain stroke in 2010. He fell beside them on a beach at the North Sea. The violence of his death placed De Gelas before a large void, a silence that echoed in her head only equal to the brightness of the blue sky that no planes crossed because of the ashes of a volcano in anger – her anger. To face the loss, De Gelas plunged herself into work begun more than a decade earlier. She continued writing a personal diary, one which now focused on comprehending and relating her suffering. Yet the diary also came to be a narrative of that surplus energy that suddenly burst within her, a lens through which to view the shock and grief.

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Vincent Cianni - Gays In The Military Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983151 Acqn 23329 Hb 22x27cm 256pp 70ills £31.95 Through compelling photographs and interviews made over three years on numerous road trips across the US, Vincent Cianni (born 1952) has created an important historical record of the struggles of gay and lesbian men and women in the US military. As the Human Rights Commission attests, the US military has a long history of human and civil rights abuses against homosexuals, with harassment and discrimination frequently resulting in lost careers and damaged lives. In many cases, these men and women had attained high rank, received numerous medals and held top-level jobs that were essential to the military. With essays by Alan Steinman, Don Bramer and Alison Nordstrom that shed light on the political, personal and cultural consequences of the ban, this volume reveals the stories of men and women who served in silence, suffered decades of abuses and often were penalized and prohibited from receiving the benefits accorded them for serving in the military.

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Jonathan Saruk - The Forbidden Reel Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780989798105 Acqn 23332 Hb 31x28cm 124pp 50col ills £35.50 In a nondescript concrete building on a busy street in the old city of Kabul, young men file into a dark, smoke-filled theatre and take their seats. Soon the projector roars to life, and the audience begins to laugh, whistle and even dance as the latest Pakistani cinematic drama illuminates the big screen before them. In his new book, Forbidden Reel, American-born, Sweden-based photographer Jonathan Saruk documents the cinemas of Kabul--entertainment venues that had been banned under the Taliban but which have sputtered back to life since the US invasion 12 years ago. Forbidden Reel provides an alternative narrative to life in this violence-plagued city where going to the movies, for many, is an escape from the harsh reality that lies outside the secure confines of the theatre.

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Ed Van Der Elsken - Amsterdam! Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789059373808 Acqn 23803 Pb 29x30cm 240pp 250ills £42 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.

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Tomohiro Muda - Icons Of Time. Memories Of The Tsunami That Struck Japan Heibonsha Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784582278002 Acqn 23772 Pb 22x26cm 96pp 73col ills £31 Photographer Tomohiro Muda took his camera to the towns decimated by the catastrophic tsunami in 2011 and searched through the debris to find small, everyday objects that the waters left behind. This poignantly beautiful series of photographs records the state of these objects, which themselves resonate with the gravity of loss and separation that the disaster caused. Shoes, stuffed animals, crayons, records, manga comics, dishes, handbags, a baseball… the list goes on. He first visited the affected areas three weeks after the event, but it was on another visit nine months later that he began to document the objects as he found them. Diary entries by Muda describe his experience.

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Olivo Barbieri - Alps. Geographies And People Danilo Montanari Editore 2012 ISBN 9788898120208 Acqn 23774 Hb 20x27cm 40pp 15ills 11col £39.95 Italian photographer Olivio Barbieri is known for his use of tilt-shift lens photography, which simulates a shallow depth of field and makes the urban environments and landscapes he pictures seem miniaturised. For his latest series of images, presented as an accordion folio, he travelled to Mont Blanc by helicopter to make large-scale, hyper-focused vistas of the treacherous mountain and the climbers upon it. Although the images may seem manipulated, Barbieri insists that they are not. The proportions of the peaks, rocks and expanses of snow are real, and the people and their positions are also real. Deftly, he captures the mirages and hallucinations of the mountain.

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Mike Osborne - Floating Island Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983144 Acqn 23330 Hb 33x27cm 156pp 62ills 52col £35.95 Austin-based photographer Mike Osborne’s Floating Island revolves around the border-straddling community of Wendover, Utah and West Wendover, Nevada. Once home to an important World War II aviation training facility, the town is now a gaming destination with five sprawling casinos. In addition to tracing this historical trajectory, Osborne’s photographs reflect on the surrounding landscape’s fantastical aspects. The book’s title, Floating Island, refers to a small mountain located at the heart of the nearby Bonneville Salt Flats. Due to a mirage, the mountain appears to hover perpetually above the horizon. Drawing on the phenomenon of the mirage--a real illusion--Osborne merges documentary and cinematic approaches to produce photographs that respect the particularities of the site while also exploring the myths and fantasies that it inspires.

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Jim's Terrible City - J G Ballard And Shanghai. Photos By James H Bollen James H Bollen 2014 ISBN 9780992815707 Acqn 23832 Hb 24x24cm 98pp 55col ills £30 James H. Bollen’s photographs are inspired by the legendary British writer J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), and Ballard’s semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 in what was then known as the International Settlement. Through extensive readings of Ballard’s highly visual fiction, Bollen explores a literary exhibitions and heritage of Shanghai with his own painterly photographic language. The images construct an urban landscape where time ceases to exist and life becomes like a stage set. In Bollen’s eyes, violence, flight, car crashes, the incongruities of time and life can seem so immediately cinematic, or a like a ghostly glimpse of life experienced by J.G. Ballard while living in Shanghai during the Japanese Occupation. Many of these themes and images can be tracked throughout J.G. Ballard’s writings, where a near-hallucinatory state of mind merges memories of a Shanghai exhibitions while continuing to exist in the city’s present.

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