photography march 2014
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Daisuke Yokota - Site/CloudG/P Gallery 2013 ISBN 9784902080445 Acqn 22950Hb 30x23cm 104pp 86ills 16col 39.95
Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota is known for pushing the developing process and thepotential of analogue image-making to the extreme, thereby introducing imperfections and visualnoise in the photos he creates. He often re-photographs prints up to ten times, injecting layerupon layer of distortion and, in the process, emphasising the mediums inability to represent pastevents accurately or truthfully. His experimentation with delay, reverb and echo in this sense isinspired by certain strains of electronic music, playing with the way one perceives time andaltering it in a visual way. This series of haunting, distorted and otherworldly images epitomiseshis approach.
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New Dutch Photography Talent 2014Xpublishers 2013 ISBN 9789081892841 Acqn 23194Hb 17x23cm 412pp 400ills 250col 26.50
The third edition of an annual publication covering the latest photographers emerging from theNetherlands. Colourful, confronting and sublime, work by no less than 100 young talents ishighlighted in all its strange, exuberant and wonderful diversity.
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Takashi Homma - Mikako Ichikawa PortraitHeibonsha Ltd. 2012 ISBN 9784582231212 Acqn 23476Hb 15x21cm 60pp 48col ills 16.95
For this small-format book, photographer Takashi Homma collaborated with Japanese model andactress Mikako Ichikawa to produce a series of portraits. The images express a narrativelanguage, depicting her elusive individual character. At times, she is a self-assured woman of
singular beauty. More often, she comes across as a precocious, occasionally awkward girl. Herexpressions are at once rebellious and vulnerable, her poses both unconsidered and fully self-aware. The series of portraits, photographed as if following her everyday life, engages theviewers curiosity, evoking a sense of intrigue, a certain fascination with this mysterious femaleprotagonist.
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Krzysztof Pijarski - Lives of the UnholyFotohof 2014 ISBN 9783902675927 Acqn 23341Hb 13x20cm 144pp 117ills 21.95
The Lives of the Unholy is a visual archaeology of the city of Warsaw, an attempt at lookingclosely at the phenomenon of the destruction of monuments in Poland in times of politicaltransformation. Today the fact that Warsaw was rebuilt after the war as a promise of a socialutopia is practically invisible. Its post-war roots have become hieroglyphs. This book is an attemptat a visual reading of the citys hidden grammar, of the mute language it speaks.
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Valentina Seidel - Eigen BrotFotohof 2014 ISBN 9783902675934 Acqn 23342Pb 23x31cm 96pp 47col ills 26
Valentina Seidels new work entitled Eigen Brotfeatures portraits and still-lives of creativeoutsiders within our society. She photographed sculptors, poets, painters and bon-vivantslivingon the margins of our general awareness. Seidel is fascinated by the artistic collaboration withpeople for whom individuality and their own artistic practice are part of the expression of theirpersonality. The photographs were taken over a period of four years in an intense, process-baseddialogue with the persons portrayed, in their living environment. - Seidels photographs arecomplemented by a novella written especially for the book by writer Kathrin Schmidt entitled DieMechanik des Kniefalls.
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Ken Kitano - Our Face: AsiaSeigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523946 Acqn 23475Hb 22x30cm 164pp 137ills 60
Ken Kitanos work often focuses on time and existence, shunning acceptance of the notion thatthe globalised world hinges upon just one or a few centres. Deeply moving and profound withregard to the homogenous implications of identity, photographer Ken Kitanos Our Face projectinvolves the creation of meta-portraits following a beautifully simple concept. He redefines themeaning of globalisation as an accumulation of individuals and localities by presenting faces ofpeople from various positions and places, making portraits of different individuals from the samesocial group and transforming these into a representative, hybridised image by layering them ontop of one another.
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The Art of Light And Darkness - Photographic Expression And TechniqueTokyo Metropolitan Museum 2012 ISBN 9784582206692 Acqn 23477Hb 20x25cm 176pp 130ills 60col 29.95
Organised by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the exhibition curated by SatomiFujimura, Yoshiko Suzuki and Ryuichi Kaneko offers a survey of the photographic process inartistic expression, with special attention to the types of manipulation available through the historyof photographic production, as well as the application of creative techniques and materials toachieve a desired result. The book is divided into three parts, beginning with manipulated
photographs (hand-tinted, collage), then moving into technique and style (prints, papers, andexposures), and finally closing with camera and lens (focus, time and perspective).
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Sandy Kim - Sky2k Unfolded PosterUnpiano Books 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23506Pb 24x32cm 6col ills 21
Photographer Sandy Kims work invokes historical references, specifically Nan Goldin and CindyShermans early self-portraiture, with a mix of classical American street photography and a verycandid approach to the youth of San Francisco and New York City. In her underwear and topless,Kim places herself at the centre of various public spaces for this series, published as a large
foldout poster. According to Kim, We are always on display. Our lives are curated across anever-increasing number of media and social media platforms I put my life on display because Iwant to. But the exhibitionism of the work on display here is not meant to fill some perversevoyeuristic desire.
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Chris Killip - In Flagrante - Books on Books 4 New EditionErrata Editions 2014 ISBN 9781935004394 Acqn 23317Hb 18x24cm 108pp 75ills 29.50
Chris Killips In Flagranteis often cited as the most important photographic book on England inthe 1980s. Published in 1988, this work portrays the steady decline of communities in Northern
England--former manufacturing powerhouses that were gradually compromised by the policies ofMargaret Thatcher and her predecessors from the mid-1970s onward. Killips black-and-whitephotographs were mostly taken with 4 x 5 f ilm, and provide an unflinching look at thesedisenfranchised northern towns and the poverty visited upon them by deindustrialization. Bookson BooksNo. 4 reproduces Killips lyrical work alongside John Berger and Sylvia Grants originalessay plus a specially commissioned essay, "Dispatches from a War Zone," by acclaimed photohistorian Gerry Badger, which explores the social context in which Killips evocative images weremade.
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Donigan Cumming - The Stage - Books on Books 19Errata Editions 2014 ISBN 9781935004370 Acqn 23318Hb 18x24cm 150pp 132ills 29.50
Donigan Cummings The Stageis one of the most challenging photo books published in the lastcentury. Rather than merely documenting his subjects, Cumming collaborated with them,carefully orchestrating their appearance and posture in each photograph, emphasizing their mosteccentric qualities to a degree that has earned him comparisons with Diane Arbus. The Stagethus constitutes a portrayal of the elderly, the odd, the sick and the possibly demented. Books onBooksNo. 19 offers a complete facsimile of this extremely rare, remarkable and little-knownCanadian photo book. It includes an essay by prominent cultural journalist Robert Enright.
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Martin Parr - Bad Weather - Books on Books 17Errata Editions 2014 ISBN 9781935004332 Acqn 23319Hb 18x24cm 96pp 65ills 20col 29.50
Published in a landscape paperback format by A. Zwemmer Ltd in 1982, Bad Weatherwas thedebut monograph of one of Britains most world-renowned and prolific photographers. Armed with
his famous wry humor and a water-proof camera, Martin Parr (born 1952) captured the sociallandscape and national character of the UK during downpours, drizzles, snow storms and otherchallenging varieties of the weather for which Britain is so famed, in gentle, charming, black-and-white photographs. Bad Weatherhas been out of print for 30 years and is now one of Parrs mostsought-after books. Books on BooksNo.17 reproduces the entire publication spread by spread,and includes an essay by Thomas Weski on Britains obsession with its weather, called "Even theQueen Gets Wet."
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Richard Billingham - Ray's a Laugh - Books on Books 18Errata Editions 2014 ISBN 9781935004356 Acqn 23320Hb 18x24cm 112pp 65col ills 29.50
Photographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high-risetenement apartment with his mother and father in Birmingham, England. His father, Ray, was an
unemployed, chronic alcoholic, often sleeping the whole day through, while Liz, Billinghamsoverweight and heavily tattooed mother, filled her home with porcelain dolls and jigsaw puzzles,housing ten cats and three dogs. These are Billinghams subjects. In stark comparison toconventional family photos around the dinner table or in front of the Christmas tree, Billinghamsimages are raw, intimate and often uncomfortably humorous. First published in 2000, Rays aLaughis now considered one of the most important British photo books of the recent past. Thispublication reproduces this renowned book spread by spread, including a contemporary essay byCharlotte Cotton.
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Valerio Spada - Gomorrah GirlTwin Palms Publishers 2014 ISBN 9781936611072 Acqn 23455Hb 22x34cm 78pp 57col ills 51
In this book there are portraits of girls whose destinies can still change if not the destiny of thearea in which they are growing up. Annalisa was one of them. She kept a diary, in which shewrote that Naples was becoming too dangerous to live in and how she was dreaming to escape.- Valerio Spada
Gomorrah Girl tells two stories in one, the problems of growing up in a crime-ridden area and themurder of Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of a Mafia shootout.The stories are brought together through innovative, book within a book, design. Bound togetherare Spadas photographs documenting adolescence in the land of Camorrah (the name for theMafia in Naples) and pages detailing the police investigation.
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Michael Christopher Brown - Libyan SugarTwin Palms Publishers 2014 ISBN 9781936611096 Acqn 23456Hb 20x25cm 370pp 300col ills 51
Centered around the 2011 Libyan Revolution, Libyan Sugar is a road trip through a war zone,detailed through photographs, journal entries, and written communication with family andcolleagues. A record of Michael Christopher Browns life both inside and outside Libya during thatyear, the work is about a young man going to war for the first time and his experience of that age-old desire to get as close as possible to a conflict in order to discover something about war andsomething about himselfperhaps a certain definition of life and death.