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Roger Palmer Circulation Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675651 Acqn 21146 Hb 25x30cm 176pp 100ills 34 Circulation is a collection of eighty-four silver gelatin black and white landscape photographs made by the British artist Roger Palmer over a period of ten years, 2001-2011.As in Overseas , his first monograph published with Fotohof edition in 2004, Palmer has been continuing to discuss complex questions about the problems of representation and misinterpretations of a landscape with its inscribed cultural codes in progress and change. His pictures are not about describing the world but much more about bringing together different fragments of the world into one location, and that location is the photographic picture plane (Palmer). The book also includes a conversation between the artist and Lisa le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, and an essay by Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain, London, in which she recalls her experiences as Palmers travelling companion on a recent journey through South Africa.

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Uta Barth - To Draw With Light Blind Spot Photography 2012 ISBN 9780983998938 Acqn 21391 Hb 27x29cm 96pp 46col ills 49 In 2011, Blind Spot magazine launched Blind Spot Series, publishing small-format, limited-run artists books that present concise suites of images from single bodies of work by important contemporary artist-photographers. The newest in this series is Los Angelesbased Uta Barths stunning To Draw with Light, featuring 46 colour photographs from the acclaimed . . . and to draw a bright white line with light and Compositions of Light on White series (recently exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1301PE in Los Angeles and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York) alongside new works created specifically for the book. According to essayist Paul Sotos recent review in Art in America, these works are especially remarkable because they include, for the first time, traces of the artists body as she arranges the elements within her photographs--the gauzy curtains in front of her sun-drenched windowsill, or the light which projects through her window blinds to create floating geometric monochromes upon her closet doors.

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya - Studio Work Familiar 2012 ISBN 9780985127107 Acqn 21476 Pb 20x27cm 192pp 136ills 82col 31 Paul Mpagi Sepuyas Studio Work collects formal portraits, snapshots, still-lifes and documentation of the studio space, created during his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 20102011. The artist writes: I am exploring how the studio environment, as the site of creation, editing, and accumulation affects and frames portraiture, and the performance of portraiture.

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Lisa Sarfati She Twin Palms Publishers 2012 ISBN 9781936611003 Acqn 21513 Hb 36x28cm 120pp 52col ills 52.95 A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion. None of this figures in She: instead of a chronology, time is stopped. There is no group photo or desire to stage a collective destiny, but only isolated models and individuals who do not seem to communicate amongst themselves; no happy moments or picturesque places, only indifferent moments in ordinary places; no strong gesture, none of the conventional poses, and no complicity with the photographer. The models pose, but reservedly, more often than not without looking into the camera. And even when we do see their faces, we dont really seem to see them. They are here, but they are always also there, elsewhere. When we close the book and think a bit about it, we cannot but see She as the anti-family album par excellence.

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Marjoleine Boonstra & Celine Linssen - Kuray Kuray Van Zoetendaal 2012 ISBN 9789072532169 Acqn 21587 Pb 20x30cm 120pp 45col ills 31 The steppes of Central Asia can at first sight be summed up in three words: dry, bare and drab. Looking through the eye of photographer and documentary-maker Marjoleine Boonstra you will something else: a world which literally offers light and colour, and also to the core fizzes with hope and beauty. In her accompanying tales Cline Linssen depicts the characters that live in aridness and dream of green.

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Facelift - Haubitz + Zoche Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675644 Acqn 21620 Hb 21x27cm 64pp 38col ills 17.95 Engagement with urban space and sensitisation to the mechanisms at work in it is a core theme of the artist duo Haubitz + Zoche. Architectural structures of urban space are also the focus of their series Facelift, begun in 2006, which is presented in this publication with a selection of approx. 50 works and accompanied by a literary contribution by Andreas Neumeister. The artists photographic attention that of an observant flaneur- focuses on the appearance of scaffolding tarpaulins with simulations of actual facades printed on them.

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Lilla Szasz Daughters Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675583 Acqn 21621 Pb 20x25cm 80pp 40col ills 24.50 For five years Hungarian photographer Lilla Szsz photographed women living in shelter houses. She photographed elderly women, young girls who had become criminal, and homeless mothers. She was interested first and foremost in how women find happiness in these extreme circumstances of life. In Daughters she asked the young girls what the word beauty meant for them. The girls then organised the photo shoot; they behaved in front of the camera the way they wished to be seen by the viewer. The outcome is their result, their image: of happiness and a better life.

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Matthias Herrmann - 270 West 17th Street #20c NY NY 10011 Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675705 Acqn 21622 Hb 17x23cm 190pp 190col ills 27.95 Austrian artist photographer Matthias Herrmann spent several months in Chelsea, New York. In and out the studio in 270 West 17th Street, he explores New York, leaving out the grand view clichs of the city. Herrmanns hommage to New York City has been strictly photographed in analogue, as he states in his book: No photoshop, no cropping, no tripod.

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Vera Brandner - Picturing Others Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675576 Acqn 21623 Pb 24x30cm 128pp 100ills 27.95 Any photographic representation of distant worlds also entails a visual formulation of what the Other might be. Within this field of tension, Vera Brandners photographic work is to be seen both as a reflexive exploration and as a visual response. In her portraits of people living in countries such as Angola, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine she pursues an image strategy built on dialogue and communication. The people in front of the camera allow themselves to be photographed: they strike the sort of poses in front of the lens which they feel are appropriate for a foreign photographer, very often staring straight at the camera, reflecting the photographers one-sided gaze back into the lens and therefore back at the onlooker.

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Angela Brohan Orte Peperoni Books 2012 ISBN 9783941825376 Acqn 21688 Pb 21x28cm 68pp 34col ills 28.95 The places portrayed in Angela Brhan's photographs cannot be searched for or found. They are real but fleeting, visible only to those who walk without a map and wander off the beaten path. Brhan has skilfully transformed her encounters with industrial ensembles, urban perspectives and derelict ambiances in the forgotten corners and fringes of the city into a series of captivating images. Where exactly the photographs were taken is insignificant. People are barely visible and the exact functions of structures and buildings can rarely be discerned. These are singular, autonomous and very urban narratives that are both anywhere and everywhere.

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Faces Of Esfahan - The Evolution of portrait Photography In Esfahan Nazar Research & Cultural Institute 2012 ISBN 9786005191028 Acqn 21692 Pb 24x34cm 292pp 250ills 50col 54 With its large format and superb collection of archival material, Faces of Esfahan presents an incredible amount of research into the proliferation and perception of portrait photography in Iran. During the Qajar dynasty, the production of photographic images was restricted to the nobility, but with the rise of the Pahlavi regime in the early 20th century and its vision of linking traditional Iranian society to the modern world, film portraiture became accessible to the general public. The product of a decade of research, the book documents this fascinating cultural phenomenon, and is devoted to promoting awareness and preservation of these invaluable images.

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Yoshi Omori Movement 19/80 Editions 2012 ISBN 9782919159031 Acqn 21696 Pb 20x31cm 192pp 120ills 110col 53.50 In the late 1980s, the American hip hop movement exploded in Paris, reaching from graffiti artists in the streets to underground dance floors in the clubs. Documented by Yoshi Omori, a young Japanese photographer living in the city at the time, the Movement, as it was called, was one of youthful energy and urban beats. The photographs are published here for the first time, giving a unique insight into the beginnings of French hip hop culture.

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Vincent Fournier - Past Forward Christoph Ruys 360 2012 ISBN 9789081935708 Acqn 21702 Hb 22x28cm 272pp 160col ills 53.95 Photographer Vincent Fournier attempts in his images to create allegories of childhood dreams, where reality blends effortlessly with fiction. The meaning of the narratives therein intentionally oscillates between opposites sense-nonsense, organic-artificial, truth-illusion, right-wrong, whole-part in order to discover beauty in the unexpected. Whether the theme is space exploration and alien worlds, robotic entities, or engineered species, Fournier imbues his images with enough narrative elements to stimulate the evolution of a story, yet these tales always remain unfinished, sometimes absurd, ironical, or uncanny, and full of contradiction and anomaly.

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Popel Coumou Van Zoetendaal 2012 ISBN 9789072532176 Acqn 21703 Pb 19x25cm 92pp 20col ills 37 Dutch artist and photographer Popel Coumou produces images often characterized by grainy textures, stark contrasts and resonant fields of colour. The spaces she depicts seem painted, or drawn from the pages of a graphic novel in a surreal parody of real scenes with illusory visual filters. She makes use of common materials and collage techniques to create imagined spaces where geometrical harmony, flattened shapes and constructed distances speak to the viewers sense of emotional tranquillity through both nostalgia and melancholy. Her abstractions result in images that stand out in visual memory, speaking with a clear and powerful postmodern visual language.

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