photography may 2014

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August Sander - Rheinlandschaften. Photographs 1929-1946 Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2014 ISBN 9783829606714 Acqn 23449 Hb 27x32cm 112pp 64ills £49.95 Text in German A new edition of the very first Schirmer/Mosel book published in 1975, on the occasion of our 40th anniversary. Sander’s atmospheric and technically excellent pictures of the Rhineland area taken between 1929 and 1946 have lost none of their mesmerizing appeal. With a new text by Wolfgang Kemp.

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Menschen vor Flusslandschaft - August Sander und die Fotografie der Gegenwart Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2014 ISBN 9783829606721 Acqn 23450 Pb 24x28cm 78ills 4col £49.95 Text in German Based on August Sander’s seminal oeuvre, this volume explores the interplay of historic/contemporary photography and crucial moments in the 40-year history of Schirmer/Mosel Publishers.

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Martin Parr – Paris Editions Xavier Barral 2014 ISBN 9782365110471 Acqn 23495 Pb 21x30cm 128pp 40col ills £34.50 In the shape of a true Paris map, Martin Parr invites us to follow him in the French capital. For three years, commissioned by the Maison Européeenne de la Photographie, Martin Parr has focused his lens on Parisians and photographed the Champs-Elysées, tourists, Bastille Day, fashion shows, Paris Air Show, museums and art fairs, the Agricultural Show. Around forty unpublished images and several previous iconic ones of everyday scenes convey a concentrate of Parisian atmosphere.

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Darcy The Flying Hedgehog Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524288 Acqn 23603 Pb 15x15cm 72pp 72col ills £9.50 When Shota Tsukamoto decided to start photographing her pet hedgehog, named after the former bassist of The Smashing Pumpkins, the spiky ball of cuteness soon became an Instagram celebrity with over 400,000 followers. Whether basking in her owner’s hand, posing with a pineapple, pinecone or cactus, hiding from toy soldiers or snoozing fitfully, the small rodent is pictured over and over again in disarmingly adorable scenarios. Now all of Darcy’s staged and style-savvy moments are available in book form – something from which you may never recover.

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Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2014 - A. Garcia-Alix, J. Lempert, Richard Mosse, Lorna Simpson Photographers'Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780957618817 Acqn 23653 Pb 22x27cm 120pp 101ills 49col £25 Since being established in 1996, each year the Prize has celebrated the best in photography, whether a publication or exhibition. It is one of the largest art prizes in the UK, proving a pivotal point in many photographers’ careers. This year's Deutsche Börse Photography Prize shortlist consists of the artists Alberto García-Alix, Jochen Lempert, Richard Mosse and Lorna Simpson. Brian Dillon, Brian Sholis, Christy Lange and Thomas J. Lax have provided essays for the catalogue.

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Blind Spot 47 Blind Spot Photography Inc. 2013 ISBN 9780983998945 Acqn 22125 Pb 23x27cm 120pp 80ills 50col £15.95 In 2013, Blind Spot is celebrating its twentieth year as the preeminent journal dedicated to presenting new and unseen photography-based art. Blind Spot has published some of today’s most renowned artists working in the medium as they were building their careers--Adam Fuss, Vik Muniz, Doug & Mike Starn and James Welling appeared in the first issue--and since its launch in 1993, the magazine has featured more than 400 living artists, including Robert Adams, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, Liz Deschenes, William Eggleston, Rachel Harrison, Zoe Leonard and Ed Ruscha, as well as younger artists like Walead Beshty, Peter Coffin, Anne Collier, Michael Queenland, Amanda Ross-Ho and Seth Price. Printed in the United States by Meridian Printing, Blind Spot is known for its commitment to the highest quality reproductions. Each semi-annual issue is designed as a portable exhibition space where images are given primacy and are unaccompanied by explanatory text. Features are often designed in collaboration with the artists, and recent issues have been guest-edited by contemporary artists, providing a visual exploration of specific ideas and approaches to photography-based image making. Blind Spot’s unique format and this collaboration of the editors and the individual artists transforms each issue into a work of art. This special twentieth anniversary issue is guest-edited by Barney Kulok and Vik Muniz.

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Osmos Magazine - Issue 03 Osmos 2013 ISBN 9780988340435 Acqn 22571 Pb 22x28cm 96pp 90ills 60col £17.95 The Osmos brand was initiated 15 years ago with a project space in Berlin and has since developed into a fully integrated concept for curatorial and editorial activities. Currently, the Osmos address is located at 50 East 1st Street, in a Manhattan East Village storefront that was once a saloon frequented by Emma Goldman and other radicals. Former Parkett editor and Fantom cofounder Cay Sophie Rabinowitz launched Osmos Magazine as a journal of texts and image series created by practitioners and professionals investigating the uses and abuses of photography. One outstanding feature is a critical approach to the cover, which acknowledges the delayed effect of image capture or so-called "after image," by featuring an artist or work to be discussed in the following issue. With a radical blend of arresting images, print quality and distinctive design, Osmos Magazine is the most recognized publication in the market fostering contemporary perspectives in photography as the medium crossing all creative industries and practices-art, design, fashion and even advertising-at the core of our imagination. Current and forthcoming issues feature Erica Baum, Carolyn Drake, Richard Hamilton, Keizo Kitajima, Duane Michals, Elio Montinari, Anna Ostoya, Humphrey Spender and Christopher Williams, among others.

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Mariette Pathy Allen – TransCuba Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983137 Acqn 23327 Hb 34x24cm 112pp 67col ills £31.95 For more than 30 years, New York–based photographer and painter Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting transgender culture worldwide; in 2004 she won the Lambda Literary Award for her monograph The Gender Frontier. In her new publication, TransCuba, Allen focuses on the transgender community of Cuba, especially its growing visibility and acceptance in a country whose government is transitioning into a more relaxed model of communism under Raúl Castro’s presidency. This publication therefore records a cultural watershed within Cuba. In addition to color photographs and interviews by Allen, the book also includes a contribution from Raúl Castro’s daughter, Mariela Castro, who is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana. In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender.

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Martin Hyers & Will Mebane – Empire Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983182 Acqn 23328 Pb 28x23cm 136pp 120col ills £28.50 Between 2004 and 2007, American photographers Martin Hyers and Will Mebane made a series of road trips through the American South, West and East to create a photographic archive of objects. The project, titled Empire, yielded more than 9,000 photographs captured in 25 states. Using two hand-held 4 x 5 view cameras, Hyers and Mebane ventured out into public places, met strangers and accompanied them back to their homes, offices and factories to photograph. Working in a deliberately forensic fashion, they photographed the objects they encountered--stoves, family photographs, computers, trophies and the like. Many of the objects included in their project are discomfiting because of their impending obsolescence: an overhead projector rests on a table, a typewriter sits on a desk, a set of encyclopedias waits well-organized on a yellow bookshelf.

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Adrain Chesser - The Return Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983199 Acqn 23331 Hb 24x28cm 144pp 49col ills £35.95 From 2006 to 2012, Seattle-based photographer Adrain Chesser (born 1965) and Native American ritualist Timothy White Eagle traveled throughout the western states of Nevada, Idaho, California and Oregon with a loose band of comrades, practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. This bold adventure necessitated the collective rearing, killing and cooking of animals, foraging for berries, sleeping outdoors or creating shelter and surviving harsh terrain. Chesser and White Eagle’s experiment produced the body of work titled The Return, a lyrical portrait of a contemporary nomadic existence. "Give back more than you take" is a well-known tenet of early hunter-gather societies, and The Return is a complex exploration of the attempt to implement this mythic ideal as it intersects with the reality of modern life.

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Erik Van Der Weijde - Third Reich. Bavaria Trilogy, Part 1 4478Zine 2014 ISBN 9789491047039 Acqn 23661 Hb 14x20cm 96pp 91ills £27.50 This book shows a collection of black-and-white photographs of buildings and structures erected during the Nazi period throughout Bavaria, in southern Germany. Erik van der Weijde sought out and photographed Hitler Youth headquarters, schools, government buildings, bridges and tunnels, private houses, SS barracks, factories and many other sites. Often otherwise unremarkable, the buildings reflect a typical style of architecture and mundane character. The series offers a window into the cultural landscape of Nazi Germany, and raises interesting questions of how the political movement’s architecture must have influenced German society as a whole in the 1930s.

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Exit 53 – Nudes Olivares & Associates 2014 no ISBN Acqn 23650 Pb 21x26cm 174pp 150ills 120col £32 In the history of art, there are abundant nudes of all types, but from a contemporary perspective they have become less numerous, their innocence almost entirely disappeared. With photography’s establishment as an art form, other ways of seeing have emerged that look at the body beyond its sexual, sensual, or even aesthetic connotations. The pictures in this edition break through the stereotypes to rediscover real beauty, where the idea of the photographer and model is an anachronism. With an essay by Sergio Rubira, portfolios by Jorge Fuembuena, Naomi Harris, Paul Kooiker, Malerie Marder and Cheryl Sourkes, and contributions by more than fifteen exemplary artists.

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Kurt Horbst – 5070 Fotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675910 Acqn 23699 Hb 24x30cm 72pp 29ills 1col £21.95 Photographer and father-to-be Kurt Hörbst used his large-format camera to follow his wife at close range during her pregnancy. The reportage-like photographs taken in different locations seem strange given the slow pace of the medium, depicting an almost filmic sequence that addresses issues such as loneliness, uncertainty and joyful anticipation, unrest and calm, curiosity, anxiety and pride. In a flurry of colour snapshots towards the end of the book, 5070 resolves itself as the new-born baby’s weight.

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Goran Gnaudschun – Alexanderplatz Fotohof 2014 ISBN 9783902993014 Acqn 23700 Pb 21x27cm 218pp 90col ills £33.95 From 2010 to 2013 Göran Gnaudschun photographed the scene on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, a scene comprised of stranded individuals and runaways, the homeless and marginalised, attention-seekers and show-offs. Many are on drugs; all of them drink. But, in a way, the Alexanderplatz is their home. It allows them to escape their social isolation and offers a sense of safety and security, even if tenderness and violence make for a volatile blend. Göran Gnaudschun was there, on site, and gradually established contacts so he could take portraits and situational photographs, conduct interviews, and sum up his experiences in words of his own.

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