Photography March 2015

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Thomas Joshua Cooper - Scattered Waters Ingleby Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780956669292 Acqn 24318 Hb 28x22cm 96pp 47ills 1 col £30 Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. The capturing of any one image can involve months of preparation and arduous travel as each location is tracked down and then photographed with a weighty wooden field camera from 1898.

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Sakura! - Photographed By Chikashi Suzuki Little More 2014 ISBN 9784898153956 Acqn 24721 Hb 24x32cm 48pp 74ills 58col £75 Chikashi Suzuki’s photographs of Japanese actress Sakura Ando are interspersed with scenes of her native Tokyo, its blossoming cherry trees, outdoor parks, and limitless progression of buildings. The subject herself, however, remains aloof and intangible in the majority of these portraits and snapshots, even when reclining nude in a wooden bath. The photo book mostly seems a forced tribute to an uninspiring muse. Only when gentle sunlight shines across Sakura’s face and she looks us directly in the eye do we begin to get a sense of her fragility and power.

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Ayako Suwa - Food Creation Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524370 Acqn 24262 Pb 18x26cm 160pp 165ills 160col £26.50 Following graduation from Kanazawa College of Art, Ayako Suwa began working on a series of edible artworks and dazzling food performances. Her combinations of complicated ingredients are intended to express a range of feelings and emotions based on instinctive desires, curiosity and evolution. Her work places food in an entirely new and often surprising light, the purpose of which is neither nutritious nor revitalising, gourmet nor gastronomic. Filled with remarkable and vibrant images of her extraordinary creations and over-the-top theatrical events, where taste and aesthetics become the ultimate experience, this book will shift your perspective about food’s possibilities.

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The Revolution Of Iran '79 Nazar Research Cultural Institute 2014 ISBN 9789640486122 Acqn 24383 Hb 25x32cm 224pp 200ills £66 Maryam Zandi was a staff photographer for National Iranian Radio and Television from 1971 to 1983, and a first-hand witness to the revolution on the streets of Tehran that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty, a time of joy and hope that ushered in an Islamic republic. This book has remained unpublished until now, having finally received permission to print in the 11th post-revolution administration. It is an attempt by a female Iranian photographer to treat the events of this particular historic period with professional discretion and without political agenda. To a generation that only had access to officially sanctioned images, this captivating collection may offer a fresh outlook and context.

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Otto Snoek - Ukrainian Crossroads Van Zoetendaal 2014 ISBN 9789462261037 Acqn 24544 Pb 22x28cm 148pp 117ills 33col £34.95 Otto Snoek first visited eastern Ukraine in 1989. In six trips between 1989 and 1992, he photographed Ukrainian cities and the countryside in the years after communism. Snoek documented a poor and desperate country and presented the resulting work as his graduation project. During that period of travel and work, he laid the foundations for his continuing career as a photographer. Snoek became especially fascinated by public spaces that function as junctions. The images reveal the candid gaze of a young man, one who not only photographs the Ukrainians in their malaise, but also as a proud nation that is courageously resigned to its fate. With an epilogue by Sana Valiulina.

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Erik Hijweege - Endangered Species Ella Editions 2014 ISBN 9789082280418 Acqn 24546 Hb 33x24cm 88pp 26col ills £37.50 By capturing threatened animal species in ice, photographer Erik Hijweege creates confusion. The images set his audience thinking. Is this animal encased in ice the last of its kind, or is it simply preserved, left in stasis and immortalised until it can perhaps be resurrected? Hijweege, moreover, applies an archaic, rarely used technique to produce his images: the wet collodion process dating from 1851. The depictions of species like the polar bear, bison, gorilla and elephant seem like artefacts from another time – or our future. In this way, we become witnesses to a project that has far-reaching implications for our ways of thinking about extinction, preservation and conservation.

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Friso Spoelstra - Devils & Angels. Ritual Feasts In Europe Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260962 Acqn 24715 Pb 17x24cm 304pp 160col ills £29.95 Photographer Friso Spoelstra has visited numerous traditional folk festivals in sixteen different European countries during the past ten years and recorded the traditions in his photos. 'Devils And Angels' brings these stories together and shows individuality as well as surprising similarities between the various different cultures of ever-growing Europe.

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Henri Senders - In Search Of Intimacy Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260719 Acqn 24732 Hb 20x28cm 160pp 70ills 45col £33.95 Henri Senders started taking photographs in 2006, having had no formal training and using only natural light. Sensual and erotic, vulnerable yet intangible, his subjects are often seen through a screen of cobwebs, water droplets, or dust-covered glass in a style of depiction both alienating and raw. Senders describes his method as being without plan: after selecting a model and location, all images are the result of improvisation and intuition. Photos are created in interaction with the model, who is selected not for a perfect body or face, but an intriguing expression or a posture that tells a story. This first photobook by Senders contains a selection of his work from 2007–2014.

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Silva Bingaz - Japan Coast Andre Frere Editions 2014 ISBN 9791092265200 Acqn 24431 Hb 22x29cm 96pp 56ills 26col £31 Silva Bingaz is a self-educated photographer of Turkish and Armenian origins, who began her ongoing project “Coast” in 2002. In 2010, she was invited to Tottori Prefecture as part of the “European Eyes on Japan” photography project. She decided to completely overhaul the “Coast” project, attempting to reveal the human soul in the simplest way possible by focusing on its created values and efforts to protect itself from the hierarchy imposed by authority. Her images of urban landscapes and portraits of individuals allude to birth and death, masculinity and strength, and love and the unknown, all while searching to lift the veil on a city, beyond the specifics of time and place.

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Marie Baronnet - Legends The Living Art Of Risque Andre Frere Editions 2014 ISBN 9791092265248 Acqn 24547 Hb 25x25cm 186pp 170ills 120col £41.50 Marie Baronnet compiles a skilful and sincere portrait of the forgotten entrepreneurs of the American Dream, the women who have conquered their bodies and independence, their sex and commodification. Through quotes and fabulous images, the quest takes her from strip joints to burlesque theatres, seeking encounters with “Legends” who have lived the candour and decadence of a bygone golden age. With names like Eartha Quake, Bambi Jones, Isis Starr, Velvet Ice, Val Valentine, Lovey Goldmine and Dixie Evans, these quintessential showgirls versed in the art of the strip tease herald from Las Vegas and beyond, their lustre and fiery spirit undiminished by age.

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C Photo 9 – Street Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494282003 Acqn 24742 Hb 25x31cm 300pp 300col ills £41 Street life has been a subject of photography since the advent of the medium. Today, due to the rise of digital media and the increasing quality of phone cameras, more images are being taken on the street than ever before. The city is the realm of the fifteen photographers featured in this volume, which explores the boundaries of street photography and new approaches that are emerging within this activity. Chloe Dewe Mathews shoots China’s wild west, Hassan Hajjaj pictures the biker girls of Marrakesh, Eamonn Doyle reverently looks at Dublin’s elderly, Mimi Mollica observes a changing Dakar, Anoek Steketee explores amusement parks around the world, and much more.

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Helmut Steinecker – Ticha Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993069 Acqn 24764 Hb 24x27cm 112pp 65col ills £25 Tichá is a border village in southern Bohemia, just one wooded hillside away from where Helmut Steinecker lives in the Austrian village of Unterwald. Along what was once the Iron Curtain and is now referred to as the Green Belt, Steinecker encounters relics from almost half a century of a divided Europe. This secluded area appears to be settling in to a new identity somewhere between ruins and kitsch. As a former restricted zone that is now opening up, the village finds itself in an exceptional situation historically. This village and its 100 or so inhabitants is the focal point of Steinecker’s photography, a photography both objectively concentrated and emotionally affecting. The narrative text by Thomas Ballhausen, fragmented recollections of once ironclad threats, opens up a further dimension on the photographic essay.

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Stephen Shore - Winslow Arizona Amana 2014 ISBN 9784907519070 Acqn 24271 Pb 27x21cm 132pp 67col ills £37.95 Photographer Stephen Shore’s extensive travels across the United States, document the banal scenes and objects he encounters along the way. This series was made on a single day in 2013, when Shore revisited a small Arizona town he had first seen in 1972. As part of Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project, in which invited artists, writers, performers and filmmakers rode a train from New York to California, stopping at various points to stage “happenings”, Shore decided to photograph Winslow and make a slideshow at the next stop; a visual improvisation. His portrait of the sun-baked town is bleak, with boarded-up buildings, abandoned objects and lifeless streets.

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Nitzan Krimsky – Boi. Song Of A Wanderer Borsboom Filmproductions 2014 ISBN 9789082174908 Acqn 24516 Hb 18x25cm 360pp 300ills 200col £39.95 'Boi' was originally aimed to relate the living conditions of individuals in countries where political and religion issues hamper everyday life. But 'Boi' became the story of an inner struggle, a quest for who one really is, the story of a girl who wanted to be boy. It keeps tracks of Nitzan's life and body changes, following her through her journey all over the world. But most important it shows us the surprisingly beautiful direction uncertain steps can take. Nitzan unveils who she really is: an amazingly attractive and vigorous young man.

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Bengt-arne Falk - Polaroid Sx-70 Art And Theory Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198157390 Acqn 24713 Hb 24x16cm 80pp 35col ills £37 It's probably a combination of the material and the special way in which colours are rendered that gives Polaroid images their often jewel-like aura. It's a quality that is there almost independently of what the image depicts, although the motif can further boost this effect in quite a palpable way. This is very much the case when it comes to the series of images that Bengt-Arne Falk created during a particular period at the beginning of the 1980s.

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Roger Palmer – Phosphorescence Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993083 Acqn 24760 Pb 30x21cm 80pp 45col ills £19 The tiny island of Nauru lies 60km south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. Phosphate deposits formed from seabird guano once financed the world’s wealthiest welfare state for its 10,000 inhabitants. But mining profits were dissipated and the landscape was left ravaged. Nauru now receives aid for operating refugee centres as part of Australia’s Pacific Solution of sending asylum seekers to detention facilities on Pacific island nations. In a series of colour photographs, Phosphorescence examines different daylight values on Nauru, its tropical landscapes, buildings, and industrial zones.

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Roger Palmer – Jetty Fotohof 2014 ISBN 9783902993076 Acqn 24761 Hb 30x23cm 112pp 50ills 3col £25 Jetty traces a journey between sites of two works by Robert Smithson, The Monuments of Passaic and The Spiral Jetty. Beginning on the Passaic River in New Jersey and ending at the Great Salt Lake, Utah, Jetty maps a route across the USA that echoes the shape of The Spiral Jetty. From the journey, 47 silver gelatine photographs are presented in the order of their exposure. Various references to Smithson’s oeuvre may be found in the images. Jetty also contains a map painting, colour photographs made close to the beginning and end of the journey and an essay by Smithson scholar, Timothy D Martin.

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Robert F Hammerstiel - All for Your Delight Fotohof 2014 ISBN 9783902675965 Acqn 24762 Hb 20x24cm 200pp 140col ills £22 "For years now Robert F. Hammerstiel has explored in his artistic work the way in which human beings yearn for happiness, a sense of safety and security, an idyll, and all the wishful projections they associate with that. Human beings create surrogate worlds as a means of withdrawing and retreating from the realisation of their limited existence, and the fact that they are trapped, with no hope of escape, in the Sisyphean cycle of life – not to mention their ever greater disorientation in a world perceived as all too inaccessible. In his works Robert F. Hammerstiel examines surrogates such as the private home. The auspicious-sounding titles of his series of works, such as All for Your Delight or Make Yourself at Home, feature an ironic twist. So ultimately, the perfectly and lovingly shaped paradise is nothing other than a backdrop, a wishful projection, and an illusion. But such is the perfidious nature of existence that without the succour of these “props”, we human beings remain helplessly at the mercy of our fear of the unknown." (Petra Noll)

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Yoshiko Kamikura Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898153949 Acqn 24809 Pb 26x18cm 232pp 200ills 140col £28 Text in Japanese

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Mike Brodie - Tones of Dirt and Bone Twin Palms Publishers 2014 ISBN 9781936611102 Acqn 24090 Hb 23x29cm 84pp 49col ills £48.95 The images in Tones of Dirt and Bone were made between 2004 and 2006, with a Polaroid camera and Time Zero film. Brodie used the characteristics and limitations inherent to this type of camera and film to his advantage. The portraits he made are further enhanced by the peculiar colour palette of the film. Due to the restriction of manual focus and expensive film, that came only ten sheets to a box, each image feels deliberate and precious.

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Dagmar Kolatschny – Sunny Peperoni Books 2014 ISBN 9783941825697 Acqn 24714 Pb 20x28cm 80pp 35col ills £37.95 Sunlight’s subtle manifestations, both indoors and outside, are the subject of this photobook by Berlin-based artist Dagmar Kolatschny. Here she explores the tremendous contrast between the sun as the life-giving force of our planet, an incomprehensibly powerful engine pouring its energy into space, and our perception of its often delicate and ethereal presence. She searches out and captures those easily overlooked moments, from oblique orthogonal shapes cast on an interior wall and glistening water droplets on glass, to a hazy pillar of light descending from an opening in the roof. Even the coloured refractions of light on the camera lens have a place here.

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Daisuke Yokota – Corpus Artbeat 2014 ISBN 9784902080469 Acqn 24811 Pb 26x34cm 72pp 40ills £41 More than 40 engrossing images make up this series of grainy, black-and-white photographs by Daisuke Yokota, the first to feature his nude photography. Through a visual expression that mixes reality and fiction, an indecipherable tangle of human limbs and torsos is made eerily yet sensually tangible within the close quarters of a nondescript bedroom space. Deep shadows threaten to engulf the writhing, fleshy bodies of what seem to be a man and a woman, even as the suggested intimacy of their interaction is negated by the extreme proximity in which Yokota places the viewer.

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Erik Kessels - In Almost Every Picture 14 – Sunbathers KesselsKramer 2015 ISBN 9789070478414 Acqn 24821 Pb 16x20cm 148pp 70col ills £24.95 The fourteenth edition of Erik Kessels’ found photography series presents a semi-nude detective story: who chopped the heads off all the sunbathers? This latest series was discovered in the late eighties by the photographer Toon Michiels. Edited & designed by Erik Kessels.

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Juergen Teller - I Am Fifty Suzanne Tarasieve 2014 ISBN 9782954476421 Acqn 24432 Hb 23x29cm 116pp 125col ills £27 Juergen Teller reflects on his reaching 50 years of age through three series of photographs. ‘Woo’ (2013) seeks to debunk the status of both art and fashion photography by placing works from both realms on the same level, assembled to form a wallpaper, and showing isolated parts of this tangled retrospective. Previously unpublished, ‘Masculin’ (2013) comprises sweaty self-portraits in gym shorts and trainers that echo images from the ‘Masculin/Masculin’ exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, humorously evoking classical poses. In ‘Irene im Wald’ (2012), accompanied by introspective text, he follows his mother on a walk through a forest familiar to him since childhood.

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Paul Kooiker - Nude Animal Cigar Art Paper Editions 2015 ISBN 9789490800284 Acqn 24818 Hb 17x24cm 336pp 160col ills £45 Paul Kooiker is among the most interesting conceptual photographers currently working in the Netherlands. Although his work consists of photographic images, he is not so much a photographer as a sculptor and installation artist. His fascination with intriguing themes like voyeurism, innocence and clichés leads him to construct fictive collections of images that are of extremely uncertain origin, subject and significance. In his latest installation, 'Nude Animal Cigar', Kooiker looks back over his twenty-year career. The result is a bewildering array of photographic works, in which images of nudes and animals are interspersed with close-ups of the countless cigars he has smoked in his studio over the years.

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Yuki Onodera - Eleventh Finger artbeat 2014 ISBN 9784902080476 Acqn 24849 Hb 26x35cm 60pp 44ills £53.50 Japanese photographer Yuki Onodera facetiously refers to herself as the “eleventh finger” when taking surreptitious snapshots of strangers on city streets. In order to mask her subjects, she created elaborate cut-out patterns that blend together all sorts of motifs, from floral and animal to geometric and iconic. These she then superimposed over the photographic image prior to exposing the enlarged prints. The resulting photograms can be interpreted as bizarre visualisations or broadcasts of the simultaneously structured and fragmented, seemingly nonsensical thought patterns of the anonymous and unguarded subjects, snaking and billowing through the air around them.

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Subway 03 4478Zine 2015 no ISBN Acqn 24850 Pb 17x24cm 30pp 41ills 37col £6 Subway Magazine is a new artist's magazine by Erik van der Weijde & 4478zine. Most of it's content comes from eBay and Wikipedia, but also features works by contemporary artists. The magazine focuses on a fresh mix of art, photography, poetry, facts and fun. Subway is a five-minute-fun ride, published three times a year. In this third issue we show work by Ed Panar, Barbara Wagner and Fumiko Imano, but also the story of Bikini, Melrose Place vs. 90210, Girl Power plus quotes from Donald Trump and Donald Duck and more..

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