Photography November 2015

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Emma Phillips – Salt Emma Phillips 2014 no ISBN Acqn 25179 Hb 37x26cm 40pp 17col ills £32 Young Melbourne photographer Emma Phillips’ new body of landscape images is so striking in its minimalist visage that it almost borders on abstraction. Shot amid the dramatic manmade undulations of a salt mine, SALT hints at many of the tropes of the landscape and picturesque tradition, only for the subject itself – the huge, white mounds of glistening salt – to cause a slippage. It’s a familiar form, but an alien landscape. Phillips also traces fragments of industrial and domestic infrastructure within this strange environment. The arc of a conveyor belt juts obliquely from towering apex of salt; a caravan, itself blasted white, sits oxidising in the midst of a sun-beaten, white plane; an orange digger chugs across an otherwise colourless frame.

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Hiroshi Nonami - Vajra - Photographs for Gekidan Shinkansen Treville Co Ltd 2015 ISBN 9784309920566 Acqn 25380 Pb 26x36cm 250pp 240col ills £33.95

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Karen Rosetzsky - Young Love GUP Magazine 2015 ISBN 9789082359336 Acqn 25534 Hb 23x30cm 300pp 138ills 48col £31 Karen Rosetzsky’s first book features a selection of photographs taken over the course of three years in a range of cities – Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, New Orleans, Willemstad, Prague, Cape Town, and Paris – wherein an eclectic mix of all sorts of different stories and people is shown. Through her raw, intimate, and endearing sense of photography, Rosetzsky presents page after page of personal insight into the magical world that is “young love”, that all-consuming, overwhelming moment filled with tenderness and desire, when nothing else seems to matter: dreamlike portraits of young couples in the bedroom, in the city, at the shore, or bathed in natural light.

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Extra Extra 5 Extra Extra 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25556 Pb 17x24cm 176pp 126ills 106col £13.50 This issue offers sweltering stories and images from around the world, with the segment ‘Extra Extra Musings’ on odour and even more interviews and images than before. The contributors scour the streets of Budapest, Beijing, Berlin, Santiago de Chile, Tokyo, Glasgow and Buenos Aires looking to reveal their secrets of erotic mystery. With contributions by Lisandro Alonso, Tianzhuo Chen, Douglas Coupland, Sakiko Nomura, Nikita Shokov, Jansson Stegner, Andi Gáldi Vinkó, Alejandro Zambra, among others.

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Hanne Van Der Woude – Vivace Fw 2015 ISBN 9789490119393 Acqn 25579 Pb 17x24cm 160pp 84ills 82col £27 For five years Hanne van der Woude shared life's joys and sorrows with an older married couple and a brother: people who never lost touch with their creativity or non-conformist disposition. Van der Woude is focussing on Emmy: the 83-year old artist who lives in an old school building in the Betuwe. Two central elements of Emmy's personallity are an inexhaustible admiration for nature and the urge to collect. Van der Woude used photography, film and documents such as sketchbooks and notebooks, in order to show Emmy's unique but also very familiar world. 'Vivace' is a moving portrait which touches on several important topics in society, such as intergenerational friendship, creativity, the art of living, independence and care.

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Useful Photography #13 - Enjoy A Day In The Life Of Dick KesselsKramer 2015 ISBN 9789070478438 Acqn 25586 Pb 21x30cm 240pp 2000col ills £22.50 Contrary to popular propaganda, size does matter. To our delight this obsessive and primal preoccupation with the stature of ones manhood compelled men from all over the globe to photograph their trouser snakes in the most inventive ways and slingshot these intimate portraits into the public cyberspace for us to enjoy. Men ‘exhibiting’ their Johnsons is nothing new, Da Vinci probably painted a few dick pics of his own in his time. But it’s the first time these practical portraits have been bundled in a book. 'Useful Photography #13' takes you on a wild ride through the magical world of flesh photography that is both humorous and at times, unexpectedly educational.

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Sofie Knijff – Asnoix Sofie Knijff 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25590 Hb 20x27cm 86pp 45ills 27col £31 Asnoix is the old name for Assenois, a village in the Belgian Ardennes. Life seems to stand still there. Through many visits over several years, Sofie Knijff gradually grew attached to the area. Inspired by the purity of its natural landscape, she came to appreciate the different aspects of local rural life. This series of images reminds us of the power of nature, which is reflected in the daily lives of the people living there, and in how various layers of society are connected: the family domain of the nobility, the village inhabitants, the hunters during autumn, and the scouts building camps in summer. Included are photographs of bygone days, to show how little has changed over time.

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Jeff Wall - Smaller Pictures Editions Xavier Barral 2015 ISBN 9782365110785 Acqn 25381 Hb 19x24cm 104pp 47ills 31col £31 This book brings together a set of works, selected by the artist and devised from the outset in small formats. Through a chronological sequence from the early 1970’s until today, we observe the sharpness and precision of Jeff Wall’s approach all the better here, with all of his passion for art history and broad knowledge of painting. Alternating points of view between a “wandering” approach for the photo-text essay Landscape Manual of the early 1970’s, carefully composed subjects on lightboxes with Diagonal Composition (1993) and more intimate themes with Torso (1997) printed on paper. An essay by French critic and historian Jean-François Chevrier along with an interview between Chevrier and the artist enlighten us on the multiple facets of this work.

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Roberta Bayley - I Survived First American Tour 1978 1977 Records 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25371 Pb 20x30cm 48pp 39ills 19col £16.50 During a career that spanned the 1970s to 1990s, photographer Roberta Bayley was a central figure in documenting the punk rock movement. Working at the legendary live venue CBGB in New York City, she encountered many musicians and artists like the Ramones, Blondie, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, and the Sex Pistols. In 1978, she toured with the Sex Pistols and captured band members (Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, Paul Cook) on and off the stage. The images place us in the midst of the chaotic ascendancy of this infamous punk outfit, unpredictable its unrestrained energy and self-destructive bent. The Sex Pistols’ first American tour would also be their last.

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Robert Longo - Men in the Cities, Photographs Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2015 ISBN 9783829607353 Acqn 25376 Hb 22x28cm 128pp 94col ills £36 For his famous "Men in the Cities" series, drawings of sharply dressed businesspeople writhing in contortion, a sort of death dance of the modern man, Longo used his friends as models. He'd bring them up on the roof of his loft, rope them, yank them, throw rubber balls at them to make them jerk, fling, and fall, and take their pictures. They recall both stills from violent movie scenes and sculptures of man in agony from the history of art. First published in 2009, the book is available again in its 2nd edition. English/German edition.

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Jurgen Lehl - On The Beach 1 He He 2015 ISBN 9784908062100 Acqn 25489 Pb 15x21cm 180pp 160col ills £21.95 Jurgen Lehl established his fashion textiles company in Japan in 1972, and in 2006 he began to design ecologically responsible, hand-made products for Babaghuri. In recent years, while staying at his house on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, he was struck by the increasing amount of waste washing up on the beaches. Some of the trash is Japanese, and some has drifted ashore from other Asian countries. To attract attention to this serious epidemic of ugly debris, he began collecting plastic garbage to create colourful and surprising lamps. Filled with numerous images of these objects, this first volume also includes photos of the collecting and creative process.

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Jurgen Lehl - On The Beach 2 He He 2015 ISBN 9784908062117 Acqn 25490 Pb 15x21cm 160pp 140col ills £19.95 Jurgen Lehl established his fashion textiles company in Japan in 1972, and in 2006 he began to design ecologically responsible, hand-made products for Babaghuri. In recent years, while staying at his house on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, he was struck by the increasing amount of waste washing up on the beaches. Some of the trash is Japanese, and some has drifted ashore from other Asian countries. This second of two volumes comprises his in situ photographs of the myriad flip-flops that also end up scattered over the beaches. Lost to the ocean for an indeterminate time, they reappear as decayed and disintegrated, colourful yet poisonous objects.

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Nico Perez – Momentary He He 2015 ISBN 9784908062087 Acqn 25491 Pb 18x26cm 36pp 26col ills £41 The self-published debut book from Tokyo-based photographer Nico Perez, ‘Momentary’ is filled with images showing moments in time, which he seeks to portray in a poetic way so as to reflect how emotions, people, surroundings, and life in general are all momentary. From intimate family portraits and interactions, to tranquil natural and urban scenes, his images are soft, hazy, and dreamlike. Originally from Spain, Perez moved to Japan in 2009 and now works as a freelance photographer, drawing inspiration from colours and the delicate qualities of light, and capturing how these can influence one’s mood.

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Miyuki Okuyama - Dear Japanese Eriskay Connection 2015 ISBN 9789492051127 Acqn 25578 Pb 21x29cm 128pp 54ills £22.50 In 1942, Japan attacked and occupied Indonesia, which was at the time a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies. Their fathers and brothers imprisoned in Japanese camps, Dutch-Indonesian women were left to fend for themselves, and many young women had relationships with Japanese men – for love, economic need, or against their will. Following Japan’s capitulation, Indonesia waged a war of independence against its former Dutch occupiers, yet thereafter many children of mixed Japanese and Dutch-Indonesian decent still found themselves stigmatised, growing up in an atmosphere of hostility and taboo. This book portrays these people today.

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Kai-Olaf Hesse – Nachlass Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825840 Acqn 25637 Hb 17x22cm 88pp 65ills 30col £32 Kai-Olaf Hesse combed through old family albums to discover and reveal his weighty inheritance. Only two generations back, the memories are already faded. Yet these two generations have a deep impact, and it is precisely this narrow slice of time and society that Hesse presents in this book. The private visual records from roughly 1925 to 1985 simply show people – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends – as marking coordinates in personal lives and German history, from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, to post-war reconstruction and the arrival of modernity. Arranged intuitively rather than chronologically, the photos act as a unique internalization of this inheritance.

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Benedetta Grossrubatscher – Ginostra Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825796 Acqn 25638 Pb 18x22cm 92pp 63col ills £28.95 Born in Verona and raised in South Tyrol, Benedetta Großrubatscher first visited the village of Ginostra – located on the island of Stromboli and accessible only by boat or by taking a long hike over the volcano – in 1975. Since then, she has returned many times to this special place that is at once ancient and modern. There are no cars there, and until 2004 there was no electricity or running water. Her naturalistic photographic style captures the colourful dynamism and moments of intimate minimalism found at this “island within an island”, thoughtfully reflecting upon the rare experience.

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Daido Moriyama - Record 28 Akio Nagasawa 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25653 Pb 21x28cm 196pp 142ills £17.50 In early summer 2014, Daido Moriyama travelled more than 400 kilometres across Taiwan to shoot his first “on the road” photographs in a long time. Starting in Kaohsiung, he journeyed between the cities of Tainan, Chiayi, Taichung, Taipei, and Keelung, passing through various smaller towns and villages along the way, all the while taking pictures intended for publication in a book. Reproduced here are numerous images that did not make the book’s selection, but still paint a picture of urban and rural Taiwanese life in Moriyama’s signature grainy black-and-white style.

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George Shiras - In the heart of the night Editions Xavier Barral 2015 ISBN 9782365110914 Acqn 25386 Hb 22x28cm 96pp 41ills £35 A keen observer of the animal world and a pioneer of wildlife photography, George Shiras was also the first, at the turn of the 20th century, to reveal the nocturnal lives of forest animals through surprising flash photographs. From mobile shots on his canoe to photographic tricks he developed (when the animal triggers itself the shot by running into a thread), he was able to capture deers, lynx, porcupines, and various birds. This monographic premiere in an intimist format presents a selection of these photographs, enhanced by a poetic essay by philosopher and writer Jean-Christophe Bailly.

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Oliver Most – Kind Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825789 Acqn 25636 Hb 21x25cm 64pp 55col ills £32 Oliver Möst grew up in the 1970s and, like many others, his parents carefully collected family pictures in photo albums. Of course, their own children often play the main role. Möst selected pictures for this book, showing himself as a preschooler, as an infant in his mother’s arms, as a small child playing in the garden, feeding swans at the lake with his father, or dressed nicely to go on a big trip. Yet everything is blurred, which is, in fact, how he experienced it as a child with defective vision. For this series, Möst transformed the sharp images from the family album into the colourful, unfocused shapes of memory using a multi-stage photographic process. With an essay by Matthias Harder.

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20/20 Vision Sturm & Drang 2015 ISBN 9780984820290 Acqn 25652 Pb 24x32cm 144pp 86ills 56col £37.95 Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Christophe Guye Galerie in Zurich, this compendium launches a biennial exhibition format that invites twenty curators to nominate one photographer who has received less attention for his/her work until now. Rather than show trends in photography, the book strives for an inspiring juxtaposition of various artists, experts, concepts, and techniques. Each curator (among them, Gabrielle Obrist, Duncan Forbes, Stefano Stoll, Louise Clements and Marloes Krijnen) contributes a brief and insightful introduction to the chosen artist, followed by examples of the artist’s work. Includes an essay by William A. Ewing.

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Dana Lixenberg - Imperial Courts 1993-2015 ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843426 Acqn 25547 Pb 24x31cm 296pp ills £53.50 In 1992, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. In this way, Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community.

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Rene Groebli - Early Work Sturm & Drang 2015 ISBN 9783906822006 Acqn 25564 Hb 30x30cm 152pp 150ills £47.50 'Early Work' by legendary Swiss photographer René Groebli features his early black and white photography, made in the decade from 1945-1955. Apart from images from his famous books “The Eye of Love” and “Rail Magic” this book features never before seen photographs from his student days, reportage pictures he shot for 'Life Magazine' and portraits of people such as Le Corbusier, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Frank and Brassai. The book documents the talent and promise of this now 88-year-old photographer.

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Evgenia Arbugaeva – Tiksi Aman Iman Editions 2015 ISBN 9791092727036 Acqn 25572 Hb 29x24cm 76pp 32col ills £33.95 “Once upon a time in Siberia, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in a warm bed in a small town, a little girl woke up from a dream…” So begins the brief narrative accompanying this magnificent series of photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva. Although educated in New York and working as a freelance photographer since 2009, she was born in the town of Tiksi, located in the Russian Arctic. In her personal work, Arbugaeva often investigates her homeland, discovering and capturing this remote northern world and the people who inhabit it. The icy white expanses and bright colours of the town’s buildings and the little girl’s clothing are sharply and beautifully rendered.

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Desiree Van Hoek - Skid Row Desiree Van Hoek 2015 ISBN 9789082414905 Acqn 25632 Pb 28x36cm 104pp 62col ills £35.50 Skid Row Los Angeles is home to some 15,000 (former) homeless people. Dutch photographer Désirée vanHoek documented the neighbourhood between 2007 and 2015. Being a former fashion photographer, her focus is on people’s dwellings, possessions, and clothes. The result is a unique portrait of a neighbourhood that is changing rapidly. Simultaneously, it’s a universal story about the way people survive under the most difficult circumstances. The book includes an introduction by Gale Holland, Skid Row reporter of the ‘Los Angeles Times’.

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Charlotte Dumas - Work Horse The Ice Plant 2015 ISBN 9780989785969 Acqn 25633 Pb 30x24cm 60pp 34col ills £33.50 In November 2014 Charlotte Dumas began photographing the eight native horse breeds of Japan. Once necessary for farming and transportation, most of these indigenous breeds have lost their practical purpose and have declined in number. Mostly confined to small islands, the horses have never been able to migrate, and their future existence is now uncertain. In some cases, these near-mythical animals have become symbolic of their place, like the Yonaguni horse, which — together with the world’s largest moth and the marlin — is depicted on the manhole covers of this remote island. Each breed seems to unlock a history of its location and a story about the people who share its territory. This limited artist book, documenting Dumas’ project to date, portrays horses from the islands of Yonaguni, Miyakojima, Nagano and Hokkaido.

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Thomas Hoepker - Big Champ (Extended Version) Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825864 Acqn 25635 Hb 24x32cm 144pp 142ills 30col £35.50 Thomas Hoepker, a member of Magnum Photos, had the opportunity to spend time with Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali and take photographs – in 1960, when he won the a gold medal at the Rome Olympics, in 1966, when Ali was world heavyweight champion already, in 1970, when he restarted his career and prepared himself for the "Fight of the Century" against Joe Frazier and years later, already weakened by Parkinson´s disease. Many of these pictures have become photographic icons. But many photographs in this book are lesser known or have been unpublished until now. They show Ali in private moments and public appearances outside of the ring.

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Alex Pardi – Tangenziale Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825826 Acqn 25639 Hb 30x24cm 80pp 32ills 12col £32 'Tangenziale' is the inner city highway in Milan. Thousands of people travel on this road every day, looking ahead, the end in view. Many times Alex Pardi went to the 'Tangenziale' and photographed it. On the street, under bridges, in the terrain vague around it. A piece of 'Tangenziale' is in every picture. But actually that´s not the point here. Alex Pardi was there when no one else was around, in the dim light, the haze and the early morning mist. He has not photographed the street or the construction, but a feeling. Namely the feeling that time stands still, just for you, for a moment, that may expand forever and change your life.

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Raimond Wouda - Ext.-int. Fw 2015 ISBN 9789490119386 Acqn 25657 Pb 24x30cm 160pp 85col ills £35.50 From 2008 to 2013, Amsterdam-based photographer Raimond Wouda travelled across the Netherlands and Belgium visiting the sets of Dutch-language films, which he describes as being “perched as fictional islands in the actual landscape”. With a large format camera, he explored the effect of imagination through the medium of film and how it is utilised in creating realistic scenes. His images allow us to step outside the frame’s boundaries and observe the film set and the surrounding landscape together as a whole. To add an extra dimension to the book, the actual scene from the movie can be watched by scanning the image with the Layar smartphone app.

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Else 9 Musee De L'Elysee 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25660 Pb 23x33cm 100pp 70ills 30col £17.50 The Musée de l’Elysée’s biannual review publishes previously unreleased portfolios covering a variety of topics, with the aim to examine the constant reinvention of the photographic medium through its artists, collectors, and contemporary photographers. For its ninth issue, the magazine has been revamped with strong editorial content to become a collectible review. With work by Safaa Mazirh, Thomas Sauvin, George Georgiou, Yvonne Venegas, Jia Daitengfei, Lucas Blalock, and more, plus contributions by Mélanie Bétrisey, Bernard Millet, and Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil. The magazine is inserted in a collage leaflet paying tribute to Swiss photographer René Burri.

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