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Jason Langer - Twenty YearsRadius Books 2015 ISBN 9781934435786 Acqn 23910Hb 31x30cm 172pp 100ills £42.50

Jason Langer's Twenty Years pursues a solitary journey through the nocturnal streets and dimlylit rooms of a dream like world. Spanning 20 years of his career, this aptly titled book is the firstsurvey of Langer's work. Included are many previously unpublished images, surrealistexperimentation and figure studies, as well as his singular investigation of the city of Berlin.Langer's photographic language has been variously described as cinematic and poetic, hauntingand romantic. Best known for his noir visions of contemporary urban life, Langer has

photographed not only some of the world's great cities, but intimate scenes as well, ranging frommale and female nudes to inanimate objects captured in moments of lifelike feeling. Whatevertheir subject, his carefully crafted images, rich with lush, black tones, exude an air of vintage,timeless mystery --"as much Hopper and Raymond Chandler as Steichen" (Bomb magazine).


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Framing Bodies Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031174 Acqn 25505Hb 21x27cm 128pp 84ills 30col £31

The fifteen photographers presented in this volume convey an image of bodies in private andpublic spaces. The selection of works from the Hasselblad Foundation collection highlightsvarious photographic framings of the human body, based on the perspective of surveillance,transgressing norms, labour conditions, and racial discrimination. Comprising pictures dating fromthe late 19th century until today, the presentation’s core lies in images from the last 60 years.

Among the featured artists are Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Ernest Cole, Annika von Hausswolff, Adriana Lestido, and more. Curated and with texts by Dragana Vujanovic and Louise Wolthers.


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Shimooka Renjo - Pioneer Of Japanese PhotographyKokushokankokai 2014 ISBN 9784336057822 Acqn 23819Pb 19x26cm 234pp 200ills 100col £31

Shimooka Renjo became involved with photography from its very beginnings in Japan, soon afterthe insular nation was forced open in 1854. A painter, Renjo’s interest in photography was

sparked by the influx of new trade and technology from the West in the latter part of the 19thcentury. He diligently pursued learning its principles, and by the 1860s had acquired his owncamera and equipment. Working mostly in Yokohama, he documented the progression of theMeiji Restoration and Japanese culture of the time through numerous portraits, street scenes andlandscapes. Exhaustively researched, this fascinating book offers a detailed overview of his lifeand work.


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Anzali Photos By Mehdi VosoughniaNazar Research Cultural Institute 2015 ISBN 9786001521898 Acqn 25101Pb 19x22cm 120pp 82ills £19.95

Mehdi Vosoughnia presents his collection of photographs of Anzali, an Iranian port city located onthe Caspian Sea, taken during a two-year period (2012–2014). Although he was not born in thecity, subsequent encounters with this place of decay and dampness, gloom and greyness, haveleft a long-lasting impression on him. From its architecture and buildings, to its streets, shops,docks, and beaches, Anzali is a lonely city, a muted yet poetic place that stays with you overtime. Vosoughnia’s black-and-white images depict places seemingly devoid of people, yet whoare still tangible in their presence. With a nostalgic essay by Arvin Ilbeigi, filled with reflections onthe history of the city.


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Our Nature - Within The Limits Of City ParksLecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261181 Acqn 25113Pb 23x28cm 80pp 46col ills £31

With this intricately folded and bound volume, Janine Schrijver presents her sizable internationalphotographic investigation into city parks. Over the past five years, she has photographed thevarious facets of many urban parks – from users, vegetation and flowers, and park features, toleisure activities and functions, and even detrimental aspects such as littering and vandalism.Located in popular parks in Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, London, Berlin,

Antwerp, Barcelona, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, and New York, it approaches the subject

from a familiar perspective, yet also asks for a deeper consideration of why we take such greenareas for granted.


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Hello // Texas - Miyoshi Tomoyuki/Homma Takashi/Ushiro TomohitoDu Books 2015 ISBN 9784907583408 Acqn 25184Pb 20x24cm 200pp 105col ills £32

Based in Tokyo, photographer Tomoyuki Miyoshi founded a vintage t-shirt shop in Harajukucalled Hello Texas in 2008. His fascination with their simple graphics and nostalgia for the

American spirit they embody are at the heart of this series of images. Displayed individually orworn by a model posing seductively, the pointedly unfashionable t-shirts are appreciated for theirpurity, expressiveness, and sharp social commentary. With their distressed materials and fadedcolours, these decades-old garments exude unexpected cool, whether the message is tourism, agood cause, or enjoying nature. A brief, reflective description accompanies each of theseunappreciated tees.


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Katrin Streicher - In Between Sibiria China Mongolia

Nimbus 2015 ISBN 9783907142646 Acqn 25314Hb 27x24cm 94pp 63col ills £38.50

'In Between': the starting point and the final destination of a long journey on the Trans-SiberianRailway. In between the centres of the big cities, where the eyes and the imagination find room towander. In between ambiguous perceptions and away from one's own culture. In between adifferent experience of time and space, within the confining walls of the train compartment, formany days, with complete strangers.


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Tyrone Martinsson - Arctic Views. Passages In Time Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031075 Acqn 25479Pb 30x23cm 136pp 120ills 75col £27.95

Tyrone Martinsson researches environmental and landscape photography. This personal accounton the glaciers of Spitsbergen is a dialogue with history through stories of place and journeysthrough time, connecting archives with the locations that produced them. His focus is on glaciers,which are rapidly changing. By re-photographing the ice and comparing it to historical images, headdresses climate change using cross-disciplinary methods. It reflects his particular interest inhow images can be used in relationships between humans and the environment, how our view ofnature and landscape changes over time, and how we cannot escape our responsibility to futuregenerations.


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Katja Stuke – NationalfeiertagFw 2015 ISBN 9789490119331 Acqn 25499Pb 17x24cm 560pp 500ills 250col £36

'Nationalfeiertag', is a book about one of the biggest, and most monitored squares in the world:Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 26 years ago the student protest took place in April and May andthe massacre on June 4th. Officials and police try to control the images taken on the Square.

Katja Stuke filmed a few hours of material on Tiananmen Square, and Chinese National Holidayon Oct. 1st as the following Golden Week. From this footage she extracted hundreds of portraits.The book combines these portraits with newspaper clippings which are collected and spread bythe June 4th Museum in Hong Kong to keep the memory of the protests of 1989 alive.


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Aat Veldhoen – PolaroidsLecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261235 Acqn 25186Hb 13x17cm 120pp 63col ills £17.50

With the introduction of the Polaroid camera in 1947 it became possible, for the first time, todevelop photos immediately, without the intervention of a photo lab. The technique quicklyenjoyed widespread popularity among artists. Veldhoen used the Polaroid as aide mémoire andfor preliminary studies and sometimes even for capturing fleeting situations. But for him, thePolaroid was more than just a tool. This can be seen in the polaroids taken as independentimages and taken with a great sense of ambience, light, colour and composition, such as theintimate insights into Veldhoen’s home life, portraits, self-portraits, nudes, holiday snaps andimages of a documentary nature.


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Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad. A project by Fiona Banner Photos by PaoloPellegrinFour Corners Books 2015 ISBN 9781909829053 Acqn 25401Pb 25x32cm 312pp ills £12.99

In 2012, Fiona Banner was invited to create an exhibition of works drawn from the Archive of

Modern Conflict, a London-based collection of photographs and ephemera relating to war andconflict. After much time delving into the archive, Banner observed a lack of images relating toconflict in the here and now. In a reversal of roles, Banner commissioned Paolo Pellegrin, aMagnum conflict photographer who has worked extensively in the Congo, to observe the City ofLondon – its streets and trading floors, its costume and surrounding strip-clubs – throughConrad’s Heart of Darkness. The resulting photographs were first exhibited at Peer, Londonunder the title Mistah Kurtz – He Not Dead . A selection of these images now form part of the

Archive, they can be found filed under ‘Heart of Darkness, 2014’. They also form the illustrationsfor this new publication of Conrad’s novella, which takes the form of a luxury magazine. Heart ofDarkness (first published in 1899) is a story of trade and corruption, and of our own conflicts anddesires. From a boat moored on the banks of the Thames, Marlow narrates his story in which hetravels to the heart of the Congo in search of renegade ivory trader Kurtz, who has mesmerisedand enslaved his workers. Like many artists of her generation Banner has lived just outside the

boundaries of London’s financial district since the early 90s observed the area’s close proximity tothe Square Mile and its apparent separation from it. This publication links with Banner’s first artistbook The Nam (1997) that references Apocalypse Now , a film that uses Conrad’s text as itsnarrative template.


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Valerie Phillips - you left your ring on the floor of my bedroomLonger Moon Farther 2015 ISBN 9780954340360 Acqn 25407Pb 17x21cm 112pp 95col ills £20

Valerie discovered Sara through a friend of a friend on Instagram. She knew instantly she had tophotograph her, and flew Sara from LA to the UK, planning a ten-day visit. But Sara was refusedentry by Immigration and booked onto the next flight home. Released into Valerie’s custody forone night only, they made the most of her hours of freedom - they stayed up all night and madethis book.


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Yuji Hamada - C M YFw 2015 ISBN 9789490119355 Acqn 25475Pb 25x31cm 64pp 42col ills £24.95

The romantic notion of nature is a constructed reality, projected by man. Yuji Hamadainvestigates these constructions. In his first (and celebrated) book 'Photograph' Hamada seeks togive form to light. In the book 'C M Y' Hamada explores the images of landscapes whichsurrounds us in our daily live, and influence our perspective on the landscape as we (want to) seeit. Hamada deconstructs the images through a photographic process, and later constructs newimages through a printing process. The book is made in close collaboration with graphic designerHans Gremmen. Together they found new ways to print colour images, in order to create a newconstructed reality.


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Hush - Noa Ben-ShalomSternthal 2015 ISBN 9780992133733 Acqn 25496Pb 17x24cm 312pp 200ills 100col £36

This photobook tells the story of a society living through a recurring loop of violent outbursts, inwhich, time and again, life is shattered into pieces and reconstructed. Photographer Noa Ben-Shalom chooses not to picture the more obvious scenes of direct violence, instead bringing intofocus the subtle way the apparently never-ending conflict between Israel and Palestine haspermeated all aspects of life in the two regions – almost without being noticed. Through poignantpersonal correspondence (in English, Arabic, and Hebrew) and images gathered between 2000–

2014, Ben-Shalom enables quiet introspection within a landscape in which the absurd hasbecome the norm.


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Philippe Van Wolputte - Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Spaces Art Paper Editions 2015 ISBN 9789490800352 Acqn 25511Pb 20x25cm 192pp 90ills £22.50

A long-term project by Belgian artist Philippe van Wolputte that spans over a decade, ‘TemporaryPenetrable Exhibition Space’ comprises a number of site-specific interventions in the public orsemi-public space. The majority are temporary actions which are also clandestine or illegal,meaning that they generally go unnoticed by visitors or passers-by. In so doing, Van Wolputteraises questions about where the work begins or ends, what its boundaries are, whether or notthe interventions actually took place, and if we are even able to tell the difference. Existingbetween the lines of fact and fiction, the sites documented in this volume cleverly address thenotion of urban memory.


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Masakazu Murakami - Kumogakure OnsenRoshin Books 2015 ISBN 9784990723026 Acqn 25531Hb 23x28cm 104pp 91ills £39.95

Kumogakure has no direct translation in English. It means to be hidden by clouds, shrouded,invisible. No longer able to endure my world, I spent two years wandering blindly through fog-draped Hokkaido and Tohoku. The same volcanic activity that gave birth to Japan is the source ofits hot springs, called onsen in Japanese. The onsen depicted in this book are but a minusculefraction of the 3,000 hot springs that are said to exist across the archipelago.By chance I became fascinated with the natural steam clouds that rise from these curative,restorative onsen. Springs vary in Japan - there are naturally warmed hot springs, mineralsprings, hidden springs, watering places, and small, ancient spa towns. No matter what the type,

anywhere is fine so long as you have hot springs and name. The banal and the extraordinarymeet at these springs, as do life and death. They heal both locals and travellers. These hotsprings are suffused with nostalgia and afford the pleasure of unique visual experiences. Theseare the places I rambled through, taking photographs.


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Sibylle Eimarmacher - Stone FoldingsOscar Lourens 2015 ISBN 9789491609077 Acqn 25541Pb 23x32cm 20pp 20ills 6col £15.50

The publication Stone Foldings is based on a series of 41 piezoprints by Sibylle Eimermacher.The project is an investigation of the surfaces of nine types of Norwegian rocks throughrepresentation in the radically different medium of paper. The publication shows a selection of

real-size images, an index of the complete series and photographs of quarries, where the rockshave their origin. Art historian Inger Marie Hahn Møller contributed with a text about the project.


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Masahisa Fukase - Wonderful DaysRoshin Books 2015 ISBN 9784990723033 Acqn 25532Hb 21x23cm 64pp 31ills £33.95

Masahisa Fukase and his wife, Yoko, began their new married life moving in to Matsubara-danchiresidential complex of Soka, Saitama in 1964. They were soon joined by a Siamese cat namedKabo. A few years later Fukase brought home a black cat that he had picked up on the way homefrom fishing- a cat which he named Hebo. From then on the couple lived their day-to-day life withthese two cats.This photo collection was made from the the few remaining vintage prints from that the time. The

work is joined by another series of photos of a cat named Sasuke which Fukase had specialaffection for.


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