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Bertien van Manen – Gluckauf

Fw:Books 2023 ISBN 9789083285849 Acqn 33342
Hb 24x31cm 168pp col ills £50
Bertien van Manen grew up in Heerlen, at the heart of the eastern part of the former coal mining
region in the Netherlands, where her father worked as an engineer for the State Mines. Living in
close proximity to this industry, the surrounding culture, and tangible consequences, she also
became intimately familiar with the kinds of places and people associated with it. Spanning
multiple decades, this publication brings together photographs Van Manen took in various mining
towns scattered around the world: Wakefield and New Sharlston, Yorkshire (UK, 1970s), Most
(CZ, 1980s), the Appalachian Mountains (US, 1980s and '90s), and Apanas, Siberia (RU, 1990s).
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Ari Marcopoulos - Boarding Pass

Perimeter Editions 2023 ISBN 9780648262886 Acqn 31350
Pb 14x20cm 80pp col ills £33
For photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos, air travel is quite a point of obsession. Before
moving to New York in 1980, where he would eventually carve out a career defined by his raw
and intimate renderings of some of America's most significant subcultural protagonists, he spent
much of his childhood flying with his father, a commercial airline pilot. 'Boarding Pass' takes this
experience of flight and the machines that make it possible as its defining motifs. The
characteristically intuitive, spontaneous images in this volume offer countless perspectives of
airplanes on the tarmac or in flight, rerouting our gaze from the pragmatic and economic towards
the poetic.
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Flaneur Issue 09 - Paris Boulevard Peripherique

Edition Messner 2023 ISBN 9772196537004 Acqn 33397
Flaneur's ninth edition focuses on the Boulevard Peripherique in Paris - choosing the former city
wall and current city limits of Paris is intended to pose the question of how narratives of the
peripheries could challenge centralist power and pave the way for a city of the future that reflects
the reality of a multitude of communities rather than a normative majority. In an attempt to mirror
this idea in its editorial approach, the editors have decentralized the making process for Issue 09
by inviting four curating editors (Alix Hugonnier, Annabelle Lacroix, Heryte Tefery Tequame and
Justinien Tribillon) who, together with the team of Flaneur, conceptualized the issue in constant
exchange and collaboration.
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Masako Toda - Hisae Imai

Akaaka Art Publishing 2022 ISBN 9784865411447 Acqn 33377
Hb 22x29cm 176pp col ills £66.50
Hisae Imai (1931-2009) was an unconventional photographer. Her first solo exhibition in 1956
drew tremendous attention, after which she continued to pursue her artistic instincts while also
taking on fashion and commercial projects. Female photographers were a rarity in Japan at the
time, so in 1957 she established an association for women photographers. Often staging her
shots to create photographs that were rooted in illusion and poetry, she also went against norms
and was able to position herself as a commercially successful photographer, setting her apart
from the establishment in Japan. In this book, Masako Toda invites us to re-encounter her life,
work, and legacy.
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Noguchi Rika - My Father's Album

Before her father died in 2013, photographer Noguchi Rika asked him if he had the negatives to
any photographs of her mother, who had passed away in 1992. He gave her a file crammed full of
negatives. It was only after he was gone that Rika began sorting through it. While developing the
photos, she started to think about the basic question of why people photograph things. The
pictures show her mother and the three children, the roses he grew, the occasional landscape.
Sometimes he's right up close to his subject matter, while at others he shoots from a distance.
What comes across strongly in his pictures is the sense of a particular moment in time that he
wished to capture.
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Shigeo Gocho – Works

Despite his debilitating lifelong physical condition, Shigeo Gocho (1946-1983) left a legacy of
three photographic collections and one volume of artwork, as well as contact prints, notebooks,
and memo books. The re-evaluation of Gocho's oeuvre began at the end of the 1980s and
continues today. This not only concerns his personal story but also the fact that the allusions to
various social phenomena and "edges" portrayed in his works deeply resonate with many people
at the core of their being. This impressive overview features Gocho's photographic series 'Self
and Others' (1977), 'Familiar Street Scenes (1981), and 'Childhood' (1983), alongside his spiritual
and abstract artworks.
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Kikuji Kawada – Vortex

'Vortex' consists of images selected from the vast amount of works uploaded by Kikuji Kawada to
his Instagram account in the past years - simultaneously a condensation of the artist's refined,
sharp vision of the contemporary world as well as a culmination of the unparalleled sensibilities
and awareness towards urban chaos that have defined Kawada's remarkable career. The book
blends photographs recently shot in Tokyo with other images produced and exhibited decades
ago. Three essays by photography historian Yoshiaki Kai, curator Pauline Vermare, and artist
Akiyoshi Taniguchi add further insight and context regarding Kawada and his extensive body of
work.
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Risaku Suzuki - Winter to Spring

Composed of new and previously published photographs from three series (White, Sakura, and
Water Mirror), Risaku Suzuki's photobook 'Winter to Spring' deals with the crucial period of the
year when the quiet and monotony of winter makes way for the life of spring. Photographic
subjects range from snow to cherry blossoms and the surfaces of bodies of water overgrown with
greenery. Rather than the awakening of life, Suzuki's focus lies in the non-linear passage and
flow of time, and on the crystallization of single moments. In part inspired by his experiences
during the global pandemic, the book draws attention to the fragmentary nature of our experience
of time.
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Noguchi Rika - Small Miracles

Pb 16x23cm 136pp col ills £36.50
Rika Noguchi's work is driven by the miraculous power of photography to inspire and guide her
curiosity. Published on occasion of her solo exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Museum, 'Small
Miracles' introduces her past and recent series, documents the exhibition, and contextualises her
work through essays and personal information. Noguchi has been active since the mid-1990s,
and is considered one of Japan's leading photographers today. Employing various techniques
and approaches, she creates work which explores our relationship with the natural world and
unknown phenomena. The book includes a text by Banana Yoshimoto, "The Mystery of Rika-
chan".
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Jacquie Maria Wessels - Garage Stills & Fringe Nature

Ludion 2022 ISBN 9789493039841 Acqn 33395
This book features two series of photographs. For her Garage Stills project, Dutch photographer
Jacquie Maria Wessels has travelled the world, chasing her fascination for the wondrous universe
of traditional garages. In striking garages in, say, Cambodia, Cuba, or Japan, she creates poetic
still lifes on the spot with the intriguing and personal objects she finds there. It are the shapes and
colours of those mysterious objects that draw her attention. Wessels then turned her camera
outside and started to work on her new photographic series 'Fringe Nature': in the immediate
vicinity of the garages, she is struck by the nature that endures in the harsh, industrial landscapes
on the outskirts of the cities. In some cases, rampant nature even takes over and overgrows the
garages.
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Herma de Wit - Essence of Nature

Herma de Wit 2023 ISBN 9789090369082 Acqn 33384
Herma de Wit's third book, 'Essence of Nature' offers a collection of diverse artworks known as
monotypes - a printing technique that produces a single, unique print. Her intention is to show the
fragility and strength of gathered objects through the medium of the monoprint. The leaves,
flowers, and seeds she finds and collects become a memory of a city or country. By using nature
to visualise itself, both through its outline and its inner life, De Wit draws our attention to the pure
beauty of her subjects. Unlike her previous book, 'Force of Nature', which was comprised of
black-and-white works, this sequel experiments with colour and coloured paper while exploring
new techniques.
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Photology
Blind Finch Books 2023 ISBN 9789082029185 Acqn 33386
Inspired by the work of the Czech philosopher Vilem Flusser, Arjan de Nooy proposes a
distinctive outlook on photography in 20 propositions. These are the opening moves of
'Photology', a photobook about photography played by the author. The title refers both to the
study of the medium as to the logic of photography games. Using found photographs, postcards,
online images, and photo simulations, De Nooy constructs a personal overview. Typical
categories such as history, chance, style, information, genres such as the portrait, and various
photo theorists are treated in a playful manner.
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Paul Hiller - HappySad Souvenirs

The Velvet Cell 2023 ISBN 9781908889928 Acqn 33334
HappySad Souvenirs is a series of photographs taken in 2018 and 2019 during Hiller's travels
through China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. Paul Hiller, born in 1984 in
Germany, is a professional photographer and artist. He first graduated as a photo lab manager
and then got his diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (class of Prof. Klaus vom Bruch,
new media). His photographs are not only shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and
Europe, but they are also being displayed in many international print and online art platforms. His
work is part of the so-called straight photography. He celebrates the art and the techniques of
photography by shooting on analog film cameras only.
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Onnis Luque – Undercover

On the 19.9.17, an earthquake measuring 7.1 occurred near Mexico City. A number of buildings
in the capital were destroyed and at least 200 fatalities have been reported to date. Remarkably,
the event happened exactly on the 32nd anniversary of the devastating magnitude 8.1 Mexico
City earthquake of 1985. Journalist's investigations into the disaster revealed that many of the
buildings affected had been built to improper standards. The corruption between the state and the
property companies was found to have caused multiple unnecessary deaths. As a photographer
and architect Onnis Luque wanted to address these events in his work. Having lived through both
earthquakes inspired him to create a visual metaphor on the uncertainty that these tragedies
produce.
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Steve Fitch - American Motel Signs III

Steve Fitch's collection of photographs offers a unique insight into one of the most fascinating
aspects of contemporary culture in the United States: the roadside motel sign. Like a road trip
through the many faces of everyday America that have become ubiquitous in mainstream culture
since the rise of scenic highways and byways crisscrossing the continent, this third edition of
signs is at once documentary and nostalgic. Many of the motel signs reflect mid-century
modernist conventions, with curvilinear forms and neon accents, in turn representative of post-
war American society's fascination with Space Age themes and a marketing emphasis on mobility
and futuristic designs.
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Gianpaolo Arena - A Folktale From Vietnam

A Folktale From Vietnam: Speeding Motorcycles and Roasted Lemongrass is the result of eight
years of research and the production of a series of photographs taken in 2013, 2015 and 2018
during Gianpaolo Arena's travels through Vietnam. Gianpaolo Arena (1975, Italy) conducts
research projects into environmental, documentary, and social topics. His work employ landscape
and portraiture as a means to examine the representation of anthropized spaces and the
sustainability of the contemporary towns.
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Giannis Manolis - The Hunter, the Woman and the Hut

'The Hunter, The Woman & The Hut' is the result of many road trips exploring the Greek
landscape. The photographs are a personal documentation of the modern suburban society and
aims to highlight a transitional nature between the past, present and future. With a mix of
portraits, landscapes, signs of culture and interiors, this project captures fragments of different
ways of life sharing only one common link: the Greek landscape. People closer to nature, a
hunter, a hut and elements like the Greek statues and a Macedonian palace for sale, depict a
place between utopia and dystopia, unfolding the leading lines of a poetic narrative for the post-
crisis era with which the viewer is encouraged to identify.
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Myop Agency - Sine Die

Andre Frere Editions 2020 ISBN 9791092265958 Acqn 33343
Every day since the announcement of the lockdown in March 2020, the nineteen photographers
of MYOP Agency have shared their images of the day before. Six to ten images were selected
daily and sequenced together in a vast temporal fresco, highlighting the richness of the situations,
words, and photographic writings, which were then posted on Instagram to serve as an image
chronicle to document this historical moment. 'SINE DIE' is thus an artistic, plural, and collective
response to commemorate the pandemic. Over the ten years since the agency's creation by
Guillaume Binet and Lionel Charrier, its members have gathered around this idea of assumed
subjectivity.
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Julia Gaisbacher - My Dreamhome is not a House

Hb 21x28cm 160pp col ills £53.50
"My Dreamhouse is not a House" is a long-term project by Julia Gaisbacher that focuses on the
Austrian architect Eilfried Huth and one of the first, publicly funded participatory social housing
projects in Austria from the 1970s. Huth developed a working method that allowed architects and
future residents to collaborate on equal terms, resulting in single, occupant-designed houses
within residential blocks. His projects were unique because no participatory approach was
available outside the privately financed market in Austria at that time. About 50 years later, Julia
Gaisbacher started an artistic research project observing the results of Eilfried Huth's
architectural experiment. In interviews, she asked residents how they had experienced the
participatory planning process and its impacts on the long-term living quality in these built
environments and combined them with archive material. On a visual level she documented the
unique facades of the houses each representing the owners.
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Ronit Porat - Hunting In Time

Sternthal 2023 ISBN 9781988689098 Acqn 33369
Hunting in Time is an artist book by Ronit Porat which draws from a trilogy of exhibitions about a
mysterious crime committed in Berlin at the turn of the century. The book's hard cover with round
corners refers to a notebook. In her work, Porat creates archives, she tells historical stories with
collage, altering and re-contextualizing images. She is most interested in the Weimar time period
in Berlin, Germany, a time period in which gender roles became more fluid, and a period that we
currently view with the shadow of its future cast over it. Animals, particularly birds, are a recurring
motif, echoing the shapes of the human body and adding a layer of mystery. In creating distance
between the viewer and the characters, Porat respects the multiple viewpoints within each story,
and the layers of a story that is told several times over. Mindful of the power of the medium, her
work raises a question at its core: who owns a photograph - the photographer, the subject, the
archivist, or the viewer?
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Bertien van Manen – Gluckauf

Ari Marcopoulos - Boarding Pass

Flaneur Issue 09 - Paris Boulevard Peripherique

Masako Toda - Hisae Imai

Noguchi Rika - My Father's Album

Shigeo Gocho – Works

Kikuji Kawada – Vortex

Risaku Suzuki - Winter to Spring

Noguchi Rika - Small Miracles

Jacquie Maria Wessels - Garage Stills & Fringe Nature

Herma de Wit - Essence of Nature

Paul Hiller - HappySad Souvenirs

Onnis Luque – Undercover

Steve Fitch - American Motel Signs III

Gianpaolo Arena - A Folktale From Vietnam

Giannis Manolis - The Hunter, the Woman and the Hut

Myop Agency - Sine Die

Julia Gaisbacher - My Dreamhome is not a House

Ronit Porat - Hunting In Time

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