photography april 2015
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The Overcoat - By Nikolai Gogol Art by Sarah Dobai Four Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829039 Acqn 24766 Hb 22x29cm 88pp 17ills 15.99
In The Overcoat, a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat. This new edition is accompanied by artwork from Sarah Dobai, who has taken a series of photographs of shop windows in London and Paris to reflect upon the storys preoccupation with material desire and illusion.
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The Nose - By Nikolai Gogol Art by Rick Buckley Four Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829046 Acqn 24767 Hb 13x20cm 96pp 17ills 10.99
The Nose is a satirical short story with an unlikely protagonist. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St. Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. This edition includes photographs by artist Rick Buckley documenting a Gogol-inspired street intervention where he fixed plaster noses on to buildings all over London.
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Xiaoxiao Xu - The Way To The Golden Mountain Sturm & Drang 2014 ISBN 9780984820245 Acqn 24813 Hb 22x23cm 104pp 49col ills 42.95
In 1999, as a teenager, Xiaoxiao Xu moved from China to The Netherlands. Photography became her antidote to the isolation that she felt, a means for telling stories and making clear what it was that occupied her. In 2009 she started to photograph the city from which she and her parents had come. Wenzhou is a large port city, with a population of three million. She was overwhelmed by the combination of memories and contemporary experiences. She could identify with the city, but at the same time felt herself to be an outsider just as she did in The Netherlands. This resulted in The Way To The Golden Mountain, a book that shows the city and surroundings as a personal and emotional experience.
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Bruno Augsburger - Out There Sturm & Drang 2014 ISBN 9780984820221 Acqn 24815 Hb 36x27cm 88pp 62col ills 64
'Out There' invites the reader on a mythical journey through the wilderness of the Yukon territory. A photographic record of countless escapes by Augsburger in an endless quest to reach freedom. The book is not so much a record of a physical landscape but of an emotional one. In documenting his travels through the snow, the wilderness and the archaic landscapes, the photographer reveals that this is a journey to the basic questions of our existence.
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Ringel Goslinga Circling Lecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261310 Acqn 24841 Pb 26x33cm 48pp 126ills 21col 29.95
When Ringel Goslinga was given the opportunity to use a camera belonging to celebrated local photographer Lee To Sang, who for years ran a photo studio in De Pijp, one of Amsterdams most vibrant working-class neighbourhoods, he set out to document the people in the area around the former studio. The result is a series of portraits that form a link between the work of To Sang and Goslingas own turbulent childhood, as well as his distinct memories of the diversity of people he encountered in the district. It is a series brimming with nostalgia, full of individual narratives and characters, and interspersed with snapshots from Goslingas own family album.
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American Photography 30 Amilus Inc 2015 ISBN 9781886212428 Acqn 24606 Hb 24x29cm 384pp 357col ills 58.50
For its 30th-anniversary volume, American Photography goes back to basics in a deluxe clothbound tome with over 350 of the year's best photographs. In a subtle nod to earlier books from the collection, the volume is presented with straightforward elegance in a genuine cloth hardcover and dust jacket. Designed by Robert Newman, former creative director of Reader'sDigest, and with jacket photographs by David Butow from a series taken in South Africa during the ceremonies that followed the death of President Nelson Mandela, American Photography 30contains images chosen by a distinguished jury of photo and art professionals from among the 9,644 photos submitted for consideration by photographers, magazines, agencies, publishers and schools. The collection represents the finest work being created by today's top talents and honours the relationship between photographer and client who together seek smart, one-of-a-kind visual solutions for magazines, advertisements and books, despite dwindling budgets and challenging time constraints. In an era of social media and stock imagery that threatens to further homogenize the creation and distribution of photography, American Photography looks beyond the ordinary to celebrate not only the power of the well-crafted still image in its finest form, but to honour its maker and the creative personnel who insist on creating only the most original, thoughtful and compelling pictures.
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Mangini Studio Candela 2014 ISBN 9780984573943 Acqn 23915 Hb 22x26cm 96pp 54col ills 42.95
According to the artists, this collection of photographed hairstyles was not originally intended to be disseminated, as the first image was conceived as a one-off piece. Gordon Stettinius, then a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, had given his students an assignment to create an edition of 16 images, which were collated into portfolios. Stettinius, having always contributed to these class portfolios, decided to get a perm at a hair salon and then visit a commercial photography studio to get a studio portrait. Thus an accidental collaboration was born. Terry Brown was the studio photographer at Mangini Studio at the time, and she wound up with the task of delivering a traditional studio shoot. Brown has been delivering the goods since, recording each hairstyle that Stettinius has put together. Seven years and nearly 50 studio portraits later, this project has been gathered in this extraordinary and witty volume.
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