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Barbara Bosworth - Natural HistoriesRadius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435601 Acqn 22076Hb 29x36cm 106pp 52ills 21col 40

Over the last 20 years, renowned Boston artist Barbara Bosworth (born 1953) has takenphotographs of her family in and around her childhood home in Novelty, Ohio, and at other

locations of significance to her family. Natural Historiestakes us on a meandering journeythrough the forests and streams of Bosworths past in the Chagrin River Valley, as she retracesher youthful walks to reengage the sense of wonder at the landscape her father first instilled inher. These lush black-and-white photographs reveal a place Bosworth knows well: a place inwhich to dig up arrowheads, pluck clusters of blackberries, catch fireflies and savor the texturesof nature. Featuring the youngest as well as the oldest members of Bosworths family, thesetouching images explore the joy of youth and the wistfulness of aging, memory and the passageof time.


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Stephen Dupont - Piksa Niugini. Portraits And DiariesRadius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435625 Acqn 22077Hb 21x26 236pp 144ills 61col 43.95

Stephen Dupont (born 1967) is an Australian photographer who has produced hauntinglybeautiful images of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples since beginning his photographiccareer in 1989. Piksa Nuiginirecords Duponts journey through some of the most important

cultural and historical zones in Papua New Guinea: the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and thecapital city, Port Moresby. Through images and diary entries, Dupont captures the spirit of humanlife on one of the worlds last truly wild frontiers. This work was conducted with the support of theRobert Gardner Fellowship of Photography at Harvards Peabody Museum of Archaeology andEthnology. The publication consists of two slipcased volumes: Piksa Nuigini: Portraitsand PiksaNuigini: Diaries. The former is a collection of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone; the latter acollection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupontproduced as he created his work.


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Janet Russek - The Tenuous StemRadius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435700 Acqn 22576Hb 23x26cm 176pp 110ills 40

In 1993, Janet Russek began a series of still lifes of ripe squashes, peaches and pears whoserounded forms echoed the plenitude of pregnancy. Using only natural light, she then started tophotograph vegetables and roots whose tendrils, reaching for the sun, expressed all of lifesstriving and aspiration, and finally, the maturing plant, evoking the inevitable downward spiral into

decay. In subsequent years, Russek has expanded the project to include pregnant womenphotographed at close range so that bellies and breasts become almost abstract. Her hauntingportraits of dolls explore the darker, more psychologically complex side of childhood andparenting, while the Memoryseries includes photos of significant personal objects that harken tothe past, and take this volume full circle. The Tenuous Stemalso includes an essay, written by artscholar and critic MaLin Wilson-Powell, addressing Russeks creative process.


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Janelle Lynch BarcelonaRadius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435687 Acqn 22581Hb 21x32cm 114pp 50ills 39col 40

Scouring the fallow landscape around the Llobregat river and the Rub stream near Barcelonawith her 8 x 10 camera, Janelle Lynch (born 1969) searches for evidence and omens of natureslife cycles. Her photographs of anthropomorphized trees, walls of litter-strewn vegetation, rocksand disintegrating leaves, all taken during a four-year stay in Barcelona between 2007 and 2011,are informed by three figures whose texts are excerpted in this volume: Roland Barthes,

particularly his discussion of mourning in Camera Lucida; Charles Burchfield, whose pantheisticpainterly animations of landscape have much inspired Lynch; and Wendell Berry, whose essayon approaching nature with respect and humility helped to further hone her process. Barcelonaisalso conceived as a homage to Lynchs grandmother, who died in 2008, and to the victims of adevastating flood in the region that occurred in 1962.


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Henry Jacobson - Postcards HomeDaylight 2013 ISBN 9780988983106 Acqn 22582Hb 18x28cm 96pp 64col ills 29.50

This monograph is the result of three years that photographer Henry Jacobson spent living on theroad, shooting film around the world. This nomadic phase allowed for only limited access to thoseJacobson held dear, and the varied array of subject matter found in Postcards Homeisconsequently a record of a period of personal upheaval; of the endings and beginnings of veryimportant relationships; of illnesses and deaths and births. All of the works in this book weretaken with an iPhone, and most were immediately sent to someone he cared about, or wereshared within his broader social network. Such synergy of photography and communication was

facilitated by mobile technology, a development which is transforming societys understanding ofthe medium of photography from a frozen moment to a visual interaction between individuals,making this collection important both from a personal and historical perspective.


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Johan Van Der Keuken - Paris MortelVan Zoetendaal 2013 ISBN 9789072532213 Acqn 22839Pb 19x26cm 188pp 160ills 5col 59

In 1956 Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) moved from Amsterdam to Paris to study at theSchool of Film. There Van der Keuken took thousands of photographs, the city acting as abackground to his feelings of desolation. In 1963 a selection of these were published in a book

called 'Paris Mortel'. The complete book, including the original dummy Van der Keuken made anda few previously unpublished photographs are collected in this publication.


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Ekaterina Anokhina - 25 Weeks Of Winter

Peperoni Books 2013 ISBN 9783941825550 Acqn 23093Pb 11x15cm 64pp 32ills 23col 21.50

In this series of seemingly unrelated images, photographer Ekaterina Anokhina allows heraudience to piece together a visual narrative while flipping through a pocket-sized, very personalalbum. The images are quite diverse black and white or colour, interiors or landscapes,captured with flash or abstract and unfocused and together evoke the separation of two lovers,along with the powerful emotions this entails. Bleak, snowy scenes speak of longing and despair,while warm light and colours remind one of ardent desire and palpable memories. Includes ashort case study by Inga Metreveli which analyses the subject, her symptoms and diagnosis.


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Igor Samolet - Be Happy!Peperoni Books 2013 9783941825543 Acqn 23094Pb 24x17cm 104pp 74col ills 27

Photographer Igor Samolet closely follows a group of young Russian protagonists as they partythrough the night in condemned buildings, capturing rampant alcohol and drug use, recklessviolence and destruction, and meaningless sex. Bizarre scenes between individuals unfoldagainst a backdrop of urban decay, blazing fires and filthy interiors, while the series uses bothdocumentary and staged photos to present its narrative. When the party is over, Samolet followsthe group into a daytime aftermath of brutal hangovers, numbness and half-hearted attempts topick up the pieces of normal life before the next wild night is upon them.


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Yurie Nagashima - America. 20 PostcardsLittle More 2013 ISBN 9784898153727 Acqn 21325Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10.83 +VAT

Yurie Nagashima was born in 1973 in Tokyo. These postcards are photographs taken during hertravels to the United States, from 1996 till 2012.


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Miyoko Ihara - Misao The Big Mama And Fukumaru The CatLittle More 2013 ISBN 9784898153673 Acqn 23129Hb 22x15cm 64pp 61ills 17.50

Miyoko Ihara graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2002. Around that time, shebegan photographing her grandmother, Misao, in order to document her life together with herstalwart companion, an odd-eyed white cat named Fukumaru. This touching and beautiful photobook captures the everyday life of elderly Misao and her steadfast feline friend following thepassing of her husband one summer. The black-and-white images reflect both the grief of lossbut also the hope offered by new life, in the form of a litter of small white kittens. It is a touchingportrayal of an elderly woman living a quiet and solitary life of work and enjoyment of nature,though always with her cats.


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Rilmaldas Viksraitis NakedHeden 2013 ISBN 9789078203261 Acqn 23131Hb 17x24cm 96pp 62ills 27

Rimaldas Vikraitis is best known for his artistic documentary photographs of rural life in hisnative Lithuania. In them, the habitual use of alcohol and the prevalent grime and poverty in thevillages is depicted humorously, albeit with darker undertones. Through the social backdrop of hisintriguing and wonderfully surreal images, Vikraitis narrates the decline of local farms andtraditional village life since the fall of the Soviet Union. His unflinching gaze embraces voyeurism,nakedness and drunken abandonment, and employs masks, saws, kitchenware, bicycles andanimals in chronicling a world where people have nothing except their bodies, with no hope ofimprovement.


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Hendrik Kerstens - Paula - Silent ConversationsLudion 2013 ISBN 9789461301130 Acqn 23060Hb 25x33cm 128pp 61ills 53col 42.95

About two decades ago, Hendrik Kerstens decided to fully and exclusively devote himself tophotography. Paula, his daughter, quickly became his favourite subject. Kerstens photographedher almost obsessively, recording her every day, as if trying to capture every moment of life foreternity. His portraits, remarkably following the Dutch art historical tradition, show her strength,but also her vulnerability. The styling, framing and lighting reveal his fascination with the 17th-

century Dutch masters, and the astute observer will immediately recognise the manner ofVermeer skilfully translated in graceful, delicate plays of light. In all, 60 portraits of Paula arepublished in this volume.


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Exit 51 - Looking BackOlivares & Associates 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23105Pb 21x26cm 168pp 131ills 115col 31.50

The origin of photography lies in the revision of the history of art. Pictorial photography arisesfrom early photographers who based the composition and themes of their images on classicgenres and icons. This issue focuses on the relationship the medium has established with arthistory, exploring how contemporary photographers base their works on the great masterpieces,whether through allusion, direct appropriation, inspiration, or pure analogy. Included are essays

by Rosa Olivares, Sergio Rubira, Esther Teichmann and Dorothe Smith, an interview withMcDermott & McGough, and work by Rineke Dijkstra, Popel Coumou, Mat Collishaw, IngarKrauss and many more.


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Hiroshi Sugimoto - Accelerated BuddhaEditions Xavier Barral 2013 ISBN 9782365110303 Acqn 22759Hb 21x26cm 224pp 77ills 42col 59.95Text in French

What kind of experience might looking at a statue of Buddha represent today?This is the

problematic broached by Hiroshi Sugimoto in this book, which establishes a conversationbetween his photographs, artworks from his personal collection and his writing. It is the first majormonograph about the artist and reveals an essential aspect of his work that is inspired by ancientcivilisations and their spirituality.


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Anders Petersen - Grona LundAman Iman Editions 2013 ISBN 9791092727029 Acqn 23175Pb 21x28cm 96pp 52ills 44.50

Grna Lund is the reissue of Swedish photographer Anders Petersens first book: 'Grnalund ommnniskr pa ett njesfalt', originally published by Fyra Frlggare in Stockholm, 1973. Following'Caf Lehmitz', this series is also produced in a closed world, one of Swedens oldest amusementparks, situated on one of Stockholms islands and dating back to 1883. Through this re-reading ofthe 1973 publication, Anders Petersen clearly demonstrates the evolution of his approach.


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Juliane Eirich ItoshimaPeperoni Books 2013 ISBN 9783941825574 Acqn 23199Pb 21x25cm 78pp 51col ills 31.50

Juliane Eirich knew Japan already from previous visits, when she returned in the summer of 2011in order to work here. But this time things were much different. A few months earlier theearthquake had destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The enthusiasm and curiosity forthe foreign country mingled with a subliminal feeling of fear and threat. With mixed emotions thephotographer took residence in a beautiful old country house in the subtropical south of Japan.By bike she explored the Itoshima region and collected new impressions, by day and by night, inthe countryside and in the cities, in sultry heat, pouring rain and storm.


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Henri Cartier-BressonCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266286 Acqn 22644Hb 25x30cm 400pp 475ills 75col 46.50Text in French

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) produced one of the most fascinating photographic records ofthe twentieth century. From Surrealism through to May 68, the Spanish Civil War, decolonisation

and the glorious thirties, this new retrospective monograph traces the path of photography. Tenyears after his death, it reunites more than 500 photographs, paintings and documents, includingnot only his best known but also many lesser known images.


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