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Parchman Farm + 2 CDsDust-to-Digital 2015 ISBN 9780981734293 Acqn 25218Hb 17x24cm 124pp 77ills 19col £30

In 1947, 1948 and 1959, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) went behind the barbedwire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck--and, in 1959, a camera--Lomax documented as best an outsider could the stark and savageconditions of the prison farm, where the black inmates laboured "from can't to can't," choppingtimber, clearing ground and picking cotton for the state.They sang as they worked, keeping time with axes or hoes, adapting to their condition theslavery-time hollers that sustained their forebears and creating a new body of American song.Theirs was music, as Lomax wrote, that "testified to the love of truth and beauty which is auniversal human trait." Their songs participated in two distinct musical traditions: free world (the

blues, hollers, spirituals and other songs they sang outside and, when the situation permitted,sang inside as well) and the work songs, which were specific to the prison situation.

A chilling account of how slavery persisted well into the 20th century in the institutionalised formof the chain gang, Parchman Farm includes two CDs with 44 of Lomax's remastered audiorecordings and a book of more than 70 of Lomax's photographs, many published here for the firsttime.


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Lead Kindly Light + 2 CDs of Old Time , Blues And Gospel Music 1924-1939Dust-to-Digital 2015 ISBN 9780981734262 Acqn 25687Hb 17x22cm 176pp 156ills 10col £31

A portrait of the rural American South between the dawn of the 20th century and the Second

World War, Lead Kindly Light brings together two CDs of traditional music from early phonographrecords and a handsome clothbound volume of never-before-published vernacular photographyfrom the region. North Carolina collectors Peter Honig and Sarah Bryan, a husband-and-wifeteam, have spent years combing the back roads, from deep in the Appalachian Mountains to thecotton and tobacco lowlands, in search of the evocative music and images of the pre-War South.The music of Lead Kindly Light (which borrows its name from a 1927 recording by the LovelessTwins Quartet) presents outstanding lesser-known recordings by early stars of recorded countrymusic, as well as rarely and never-reissued treasures by obscure country, blues and gospelartists--46 recordings in all, recorded between 1924 and 1939, from the 78 RPM collection ofPeter Honig. The images from Sarah Bryan's vernacular photography collection, mainly picturesof the rural and small-town South found in the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee, are richlytextured depictions of family life, work and leisure, and fine exemplars of the often accidentalbeauty of the vernacular snapshot.


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Sam Jones & Blake Mills - Some Where Else + Vinyl RecordBeware Doll Press 2015 ISBN 9780692353448 Acqn 25198Hb 31x31cm 152pp 80ills 54col £61.95

A collaboration between photographer Sam Jones and musician Blake Mills, Some Where Else explores the American South through photographs and music. Jones spent two yearsphotographing small towns in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana. Much of this partof the country has been bypassed by corporate America, making for a landscape devoid of

homogenous franchises such as Wal-Mart and Applebee's. The resulting photographs not onlytell the story of how America looked pre-corporate sprawl, but also spawned a collaboration withsongwriter Blake Mills, who found inspiration for an entire soundtrack in Jones' imagery. Thealbum brings the subjects of the photographs to life.


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Jesse Burke - Wild And PreciousDaylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084112 Acqn 25211Hb 33x25cm 112pp 134ills 112col £50

Wild and Precious documents the road trips that American photographer Jesse Burke (born1972) takes with his daughter to explore the natural world. Burke's landscapes and portraitsinvestigate the complex relationship humans have with nature, as well as a father's love for hischild.


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Jess T. Dugan - Every Breath We DrewDaylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084044 Acqn 25212Hb 23x28cm 128pp 66ills 62col £38

Over the past decade, Jess T. Dugan (born 1986) has created intimate portraits that engage withissues of identity, sexuality, gender and community. Her first book, Every Breath We Drew ,compiles color portraits of the artist and others. Working within the framework of queerexperience and actively constructed masculinity, these portraits examine the intersection betweenprivate, individual identity and the search for intimate connection with others. The photographsare made in private spaces, often the subject's home or bedroom, using medium- and large-

format cameras to create a sustained engagement that results in an intimate portrait.With text by curator Amy Galpin and an interview by acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey, thishardcover is an important addition to the canon of queer photography.


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Lili Holzer-Glier – RockabyeDaylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084099 Acqn 25213Hb 18x23cm 116pp 60col ills £45

Journalist and photographer Lili Holzer-Glier's (born 1988) Rockabye provides a glimpse of post-Hurricane Sandy Queens--its damaged landscape and debris, as well as its residents, whocontinue to pay the emotional, financial and physical toll of the storm. The volume pays homageto the resilience of a rebuilding community.


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John Arsenault – Barmaid

Daylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084105 Acqn 25214Hb 26x26cm 104pp 55col ills £38

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA in Los Angeles has been home to three highly popularleather bars over the decades--the Shed, the Outcast and the Gauntlett II. The Eagle LA, openedin 2005, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform, set forth by leather Eaglebars around the country.This publication presents images by American photographer John Arsenault (born 1971), whoworked at the Eagle LA as a barback, or "barmaid," as Arsenault liked to refer to the position. Theseries consists of customer and employee portraits, interior landscapes from the bar, and self-portraits. Having observed the fetish leather and uniform community from afar for many years,

Arsenault was eventually accepted into its midst. These exclusive photographs reflect an insiderview of the iconic bar.


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Malcolm Linton & Jon Cohen - Tomorrow Is a Long TimeDaylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084082 Acqn 25216Pb 28x23cm 172pp 80col ills £40

Photographer Malcolm Linton and writer Jon Cohen present haunting images and stories fromTijuana, Mexico, to show the distance that separates aspiration from reality in the quest to end

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Todd Forsgren - Ornithological PhotographsDaylight 2015 ISBN 9781942084068 Acqn 25217Hb 15x22cm 166pp 55col ills £50

Todd Forsgren (born 1981) creates intimate portraits of birds at the moment of their capture inmist nets as part of scientific surveys and ornithological research. This monograph serves as aneffective and original critique of our impulse to name, classify and quantify wildlife.


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Ari Marcopoulos – FumesKarma 2015 ISBN 9781942607014 Acqn 25242Pb 21x31cm 420pp 800ills 400col £38

Photographer Ari Marcopoulos' newest publication takes an in-depth look into the studio processof American artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney. Shot over four years, Fumes depicts theactivity within Barney's Long Island City studio from 2011 to 2014. Marcopoulos documented theday-to-day activity in the workspace, from the digging of an Egyptian death chamber to theflooding during Hurricane Irene, to the ongoing preparation for Barney's 2014 film epic River of

Fundament : "I got sucked into taking photographs of the people working on the various projects,more and more it felt almost like a performance." The publication is comprised of black-and-whiteand full-colour spreads showing workers transporting, moulding and fusing toxic materials,interwoven with an array of intricate pictorial montages, mirroring those of a negative.Marcopoulos captures the human figure at work, in motion, pursuing life in its most ordinarymoments in order to create something extraordinary.


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Alvin Baltrop - The PiersTf Editores 2015 ISBN 9788415931232 Acqn 25285Hb 30x23cm 128pp 120ills 3col £49.95

Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration

of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s. During that era, the derelictwarehouses beneath Manhattan's West Side piers became a lawless, forgotten part of the citythat played host to gay cruising, drug smuggling, prostitution and suicides.Baltrop documented this scene, unflinchingly and obsessively capturing everything from fleetingnaked figures in mangled architectural environments to scenes of explicit sex and police raids onthe piers. His work is little known and underpublished--mainly due to its unflinching subjectmatter--but while often explicit, his photographs are on a par with those of Nan Goldin, PeterHujar and Enrique Metenides.While the outside world saw New York as the glamorous playground of Studio 54, Warhol's gangand the disco era, Baltrop photographed the city's gritty flipside; his work is an important part ofboth gay culture and the history of New York itself. This clothbound volume compiles the Piers series in one definitive monograph, a powerful tribute to a long-forgotten world at the city'sdilapidated margins.

Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004) was born in the Bronx, New York, and spent most of his life living andworking in New York City. From 1969 to 1972, he served in the Vietnam War and beganphotographing his comrades. Upon his return, he enrolled in the School of the Visual Arts in NewYork, where he studied from 1973 to 1975. After working various jobs--vendor, jewelry designer,printer--he settled on the banks of Manhattan's West Side, where he would produce the bulk ofhis photographic output.


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Agnes Varda - Varda CubaEditions Xavier Barral 2015 ISBN 9782365110853 Acqn 25389Hb 22x28cm 172pp 159ills £33.50Text in French

This first publication dedicated to Agnès Varda’s photographic work features her series made inCuba in 1963, just two months after the missile crisis. Fascinated by the island and its energy, aparticular mix of pure socialism and cha-cha-cha, Agnès Varda brings back thousands ofphotographs. In order to preserve her freedom of movement, she traded film for still photography,

with the idea of subsequently filming and reanimating her photographs with a rostrum camera.With this series, the artist creates a tension between stills and animated images, or photographyand cinema that lies at the heart of her work.This book also includes archives of the film editing pages as well as an interview and threeessays that focus on re-contextualising the artist’s work within the period (François Hourmant),decoding the connections between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and KarolinaLewandowska), and providing a perspective on her overall body of work (Clément Chéroux).


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H H Capor – VerenaFotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993175 Acqn 25681Hb 24x32cm 166pp 168ills 151col £27.50

A young girl, just about to take her final exams, wakes up after surgery one day and is confronted

with a bag and a long scar on her body. Her way of coping with this, her wish to document thisterrible condition she was in, was through these portraits.


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Beni Bischof - Playful SubversionFotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993182 Acqn 25682Pb 11x18cm 480pp 946ills £15

#wtf. Playful Subversion was specially conceived by Swiss artist Beni Bischof for his first Austriansolo exhibition at Fotohof Salzburg, and it does exactly as the title suggests. It is a practical,highly entertaining vade mecum that blends together the great icons of the culture industry. The

cosmos of images – a high-contrast panorama of our post-modern media culture – generates asubversive maelstrom, the pull of which is difficult to escape. The contrast of black-and-whitereproductions not only deconstructs and profanes the odd hero or two; it also creates a widediversity of associative spaces for our own prurient appropriation.


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Shannon Ebner - Auto Body CollisionCarnegie Museum Of Art 2015 ISBN 9780880390576 Acqn 25200Pb 15x23cm 272pp 95ills 5col £31

Using photography as a language, Shannon Ebner (born 1971) examines the signs, symbols,letters, words and graphical icons we encounter in the world. Auto Body Collision documentsEbner's most recent ongoing project, a multipart series of photographs that began on a trip toItaly in 2014. Ebner has been collecting language taken from signs, seeking out repetitions ofterms such as "Auto Body Collision" and "Automotive." In dissecting found language and couplingit with her own, Ebner establishes connections between the terms "auto," "body," "motive" and

"collision." The themes of Ebner's new work include the circulatory and the network, performanceand its relationship to the body, and collision, in terms both literal and conceptual. Auto Body Collision, designed in collaboration with the artist, includes more than 150 never-before-published photographs, as well as essays by Alex Klein, Tina Kukielski and Mark Owens.


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Tomoko Sawada Kawaii - Cover And DecorationSeigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524974 Acqn 25107Hb 15x21cm 96pp 72col ills £46.50

Two volumes in one, this book combines two of contemporary feminist photographer TomokoSawada’s series of self-portraits. ‘Decoration’ was conceived when she was invited to show newworks at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, and was exhibited together with ‘cover’, one of herearlier works. While the former is based on the Japanese “Lolita” subculture and the latter isinspired by the theme “Girl”, both borrow from the fashion industry and pop culture trends in theirconsideration of the relationship between one’s inner life and outer image. Through adisconcerting repetition of self-portraits in different guises, Sawada critically addresses what itmeans to be ‘kawaii’.


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Under 35Ivory Press 2015 ISBN 9788494282041 Acqn 25308Pb 17x24cm 124pp 71ills 60col £18.95

The new generation of Spanish photographers is of an exceptional quality, according to theIvorypress team, who for several months explored the work of the nation’s young artists. Five ofthese – Laia Abril, Alberto Lizaralde, Javer Marquerie Thomas, Óscar Monzón and Jori RuizCirera – were selected for an exhibition in Madrid, as well as this publication, as representative ofan extraordinarily active, creative, and encouraging generation seriously committed to thephotographic medium. In this volume, each beautifully presented series of photographs is

accompanied by a personal statement by the photographer about his/her work and a shortbiography.


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Friet No 2 - Stone And ClayVan Zoetendaal 2015 ISBN 9789072532329 Acqn 25700Pb 17x23cm 48pp 40col ills £12.50

The magazine for children on Amsterdam’s archaeology presents its second instalment, featuringfinds of stone and clay excavated during the construction of the North/South metro line in the citybetween 2003–2012. Old bricks, tiles, ceramics and porcelain, religious statuettes, slate pencils,

beads, pipe bowls, grindstones, and more are rendered in full-colour, full-page photographs. Withmore than 40 diverse artefacts in total, the small collection of objects included here will inspireyoung ones to imagine the history and stories behind each one.


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Richardson - Issue A8Richardson 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25614Pb 23x30cm 160pp 200ills 150col £31.95

Strip clubs, surgical enhancements, blackness, pornography, servitude, erotic art, and related

topics flesh out this instalment of the magazine, the “America issue”. With an exclusive interviewand photo shoot with Blac Chyna as its centrepiece, it explores the often intermingled issues ofsex, gender, money, and racism in America. Among the offerings are mid-century fetish art byGene Bilbrew, erotic comic book illustrations by Gaetano Liberatore, Nick Waplington’s snapshotsinside Atlanta strip clubs, Mark Flood’s outrageous Facebook take on Houston, Bob Mizer’sathletic model guild, emotive artworks by Kara Walker, collages by Jeanette Hayes, and muchmore.


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Gus Powell - The Lonely OnesJ&L 2015 ISBN 9780989531153 Acqn 25237Hb 13x18cm 96pp 40col ills £36.50

Inspired by the late, great cartoonist William Steig and his classic book, The Lonely Ones (whichpairs Steig's line-drawn characters with simple one-liners of dialogue-to-self), photographer GusPowell (born 1974) made his own "lonely ones"--quiet but evocative colour photographs ofinteriors and landscapes, inhabited by people, animals and inanimate characters.Every photograph is paired with a suggestive text, functioning here as the opposite of a caption--each of the 40 colour photographs in The Lonely Ones is hidden by a gate-fold, on which isprinted the single phrase. Every photograph is revealed individually behind its gate-fold. "Whichway to the symposium?" paired with a photograph of a butterfly in midair. "Let's not ruin it bytalking." "Mistakes were made." "This might hurt." "Another small victory." "I am the host of thismisadventure."


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Julia Baier - In Tune Variations On An OrchestraPeperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825857 Acqn 25640Hb 24x30cm 112pp 67ills £28.95

When the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen was looking for a new orchestra photographerin 2000, Julia Baier was a student at the Bremen Art College. On the occasion of a concert on thebeach in Bremerhaven, she was invited to do a test photo shoot. The orchestra was convinced,and since then she has accompanied the ensemble during concerts and on performance tripsaround the world. This book presents images spanning the past fifteen years, which combine thepower of music and photography, and taken in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, Berlin, SãoPaulo, New York, and more. Includes a brief selection of her own travel notes and an essay byMichael Glasmeier.


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Cool Pastoral Splendor - Richard Saxon And Kurt WagnerJap Sam 2015 ISBN 9789490322533 Acqn 25707Pb 11x18cm 252pp 88ills £13.50

“Cool Pastoral Splendor includes a selection of pictures from Richard Saxton's Rural Research Archive and accompanying writings by Kurt Wagner. Saxton and Wagner are among a rare breedof artists focusing on the non-heroic, psychic and lyrical unfolding of daily events. Both Saxtonand Wagner infuse the work with their own rural experiences, but no single genre or culturecaptures the whole of these intentions. Cool Pastoral Splendor leaves us in search of beautyhidden in plain sight.” -Kirsten Stoltz


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An Equine AnthologyJap Sam 2015 ISBN 9789490322540 Acqn 25708Pb 11x18cm 252pp 175ills £13.50

An Equine Anthology stitches together non-linear histories, testimonies, and interpretations ofequine culture from the American Southwest and beyond. Far from representing binaries of theromantic and mundane, of personality and commodity, An Equine Anthology presents the readerwith a broad topographical view of the horse, an image that reaches well beyond that of Americanmythology. M12's anthology combines poetics with research methodologies that delve into theunseen, hidden, and overlooked to create a work that is greater than the sum of its parts.” -Sanjit Sethi


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Hiruma Miki - Beyond The Water TowerLittle More 2015 ISBN 9784898154199 Acqn 25711Pb 15x21cm 104pp 54col ills £16.95


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Bruno van den Elshout - New HorizonsEriskay Connection 2015 ISBN 9789492051042 Acqn 25755Pb 24x34cm 212pp 500col ills £189.00

On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roofof a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one yearround. In the middle of an economic crisis the horizon provides us with a stable and calmingcounterpart, such is his thought. What began as a seemingly random idea grows through variousexhibitions and beach expeditions into a major project; a work-of-art-in-book-form that reflects theadventure to which our own horizon invited us. 212 pages with 500 pictures of the horizon,rhythmically and melodically composed into a story without text.


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Paul Hutchinson - B-Boys, Fly Girls & HorticultureThe Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644823 Acqn 25644Pb 22x29cm 144pp 93col ills £19.50

The book B-Boys, Fly Girls & Horticulture documents the photo project by Paul Hutchinsondedicated to the Hip Hop scene in Germany and India. The photographer grew up in a post fall-of-the-wall Berlin and used to be part of the Hip Hop circles in the 90s. Now he approaches thisyouth culture as an attentive observer.In his work, Paul Hutchinson shows the subculture as a sensuous experience. Through his bothsober and sensitive photographic look he provides the insights into the daily life, surroundingsand individual stories of the young hip-hoppers. For his portraits, he keeps taking newperspectives showing the juveniles as immersed, almost isolated individuals. The rhythm andmotion that are commonly associated with this music and dance culture are only indicatedthrough their attributes while the real ambience is created by carefully chosen details. An overallimage emerges from this nonlinear narrative and the fragmentary shots convey a genuineimpression.The young photographer develops his own style that combines documentary and poetics andexpresses the inner motion through the aesthetics of colour and form. The shots from the

botanical garden in Bangalore are presented alongside the pictures of the Hip Hop scene. Theyserve as a metaphorical imagery to explore the idea of 'exoticism' that corresponds with the'foreignness' of the Hip Hop culture in India.'But it is this spirit of negating all pragmatic circumstances, of pushing on and on, affirming life,that I found so inspiring while working amongst the youngsters in east and west.' (PaulHutchinson in B-Boys, Fly Girls & Horticulture, 2015)


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