photography june 2015

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The Birth Of Rock And Roll Dust-to-Digital 2015 ISBN 9780981734286 Acqn 24578 Hb 25x31cm 160pp 134ills 34col 46.95 In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Americana collector Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit of rock and roll in its early dayswhen "a juke-joint with fifty patrons was a big show," as Linderman writes in his introduction. "A church with fifty congregants was a full house. The annual square dance at the town hall, a rent party, a fish-fry, the honky-tonk piano in the whore house, the union meeting There was no real money in it. A performer was lucky to be fed, get drunk and get laid." The photographs have little to do with the conventional iconography of the birth of rock and roll: conspicuously absent are pictures of young white men in Memphis, poodle skirts, Alan Freed and Bill Haley's Brylcream. These photographs instead document and celebrate the pure but indefinable essence of rocking. Ordinary, anonymous men, women and childrensome white, some blackare holding guitars and strumming while looking relaxed or frantic, but nearly always blissful. Some of the action takes place in rural fields, some in dance halls, some at civic events, some in living rooms and basements. Wherever there was an urge to make acoustic or electric musicwhether to help at a rent party, busk in front of a crowd or testify in the name of Jesusthere was an uncredited photographer there to snap an image, and these are the photographs that comprise Linderman's fascinating narrative.

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Alvin Langdon Coburn Fundacion Mapfre 2015 ISBN 9788498444988 Acqn 24963 Hb 22x25cm 296pp 200ills 100col 51 A key American Pictorialist and a crucial innovator in abstract photography; Alvin Langdon Coburn is a fascinating but often neglected figure in the history of American modernism. As early as 1909, Coburn was making futuristic depictions of New York and Pittsburgh, anticipating modernist architectural photography's classic "bird's-eye" view. In 1912, in New York, working with the Cubist artist-poet Max Weber, he developed this idiom a step further, photographing New York from the pinnacles of skyscrapers. The following year he published Men of Mark, which featured portraits of authors, artists and statesmen, including Henri Matisse, Henry James, Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt. In 1914 Coburn relocated to London, participating in the British Vorticist movement, led by Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound; Coburn's series of multiple exposures and "Vortographs" were the first truly abstract photographs. So why is Coburn not better known today? After 1920 he deliberately withdrew from the photo world (though he never gave up photography) and retired to rural Wales, where he immersed himself in painting, music composition and Freemasonry. In the 1950s he was rediscovered and championed by Beaumont and Nancy Newhall of George Eastman House, to which he bequeathed almost 20,000 prints and negatives along with cameras, correspondence and ephemera. This beautiful volume, published to accompany a show at George Eastman House and drawing on a wide range of public and private collections, reveals his work and legacy for a new generation.

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Dennis Feldman - Holywood Boulevard 1969-1972 Circle Of Fire 2015 ISBN 9780986204500 Acqn 25072 Hb 29x36cm 90pp 37ills 39 For three years, between 1969 and 1972, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. Hollywood may have been exclusive, but Hollywood Boulevard was not: here, drawn to the world of stardom, the masses gathered to parade their looks, and Feldman photographed them. Macho or gay, masculine or feminine, beatniks or hippies-the Walk of Fame, Feldman found, was American identity performance at its most visible. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits, which are testament to a world dizzy with the effects of the 60s social revolution. The portraits are more than clever social commentary: each is painfully human, the grasps at performance not just ridiculous, but eerily universal.

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Daido Moriyama - Record 27 Akio Nagasawa 2015 no ISBN Acqn 24550 Pb 21x28cm 120pp 61ills 35col 37 The photographs featured in this instalment were taken by Daido Moriyama during a recent stay in Hong Kong. Over a period of four days, he roamed the streets and, true to form, shot whatever caught his attention. He reflects upon his time there through the lens of current events, with the mass protests in Hong Kongs streets making headlines and pointing to a long-simmering sense of disquiet and distrust that finally reached a boiling point. When making photographs, the distance between the photographer and the subject always contains some critical and delicate issues beyond imagination.

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Prix Elysee 2014, Livre Des Nomines Nominees Book Musee De L'Elysee 2014 ISBN 9782883501065 Acqn 24820 Pb 23x30cm 144pp 150ills 75col 36 The 'Prix Elyse' is a prize supporting production in the field of photography. Result of a partnership between the Muse de l'Elyse and Parmigiani Fleurier, it offers financial assistance and curatorial guidance to artists with a passion about photography and books, so they can take a decisive step in their career. Presenting the nominees projects, this book invites us in the intimacy of work-in-progress and offers a panorama of contemporary photographic practices.

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Marie-jose Jongerius - Edges Of The Experiment Fw 2015 ISBN 9789490119263 Acqn 24914 Pb 17x24cm 288pp 220ills 70col 45 'Edges of the Experiment' investigates the idyllic notion of the American landscape, showing which elements contribute to the iconic landscape, and at what cost they can be maintained. It describes the thin line between nature and civilisation. How did the landscape evolve, and where are the interfaces between the organic and the artificial world, and do they fail or succeed? 'Edges of the Experiment' is a two-volume publication. Volume one shows over 60 photographs made over a period of ten years by Jongerius. Volume two is a collection of essays about the making of the American Landscape, with texts by Matthew Coolidge, William L. Fox, Hans Gremmen, Taco Hidde Bakker, Mark Pimlott, Warren Techentin, Raymond Frenken and others.

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The Eyes 4 - Inside Madrid Amana 2015 ISBN 9791092727081 Acqn 25021 Pb 21x28cm 160pp 140ills 70col 19.95 This instalment of the European photography magazine features special interactive content that can be accessed by downloading an app and using your iPhone or iPad to view certain pages through the filter of augmented reality. The issue largely focuses on Madrid and Spain, bringing to light the hope and DIY-spirit expressed by young artists working there. The Spanish photography scene has found a way to emerge through collectives and books that express social connections and ruptures, even while otherness in Europe is observed with a keen eye. With contributions by Santiago Sierra, Jorge Galindo, Alberto Garca-Alix, Alec Soth, and Jeffrey Silverthorne.

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Taiji Matsue - Surficial Survey Izu Photo Museum 2013 ISBN 9784904257142 Acqn 25027 Hb 30x22cm 100pp 52col ills 32 Taiji Matsue has photographed the varied surfaces of the earth around the world: mountains, deserts, forests and cities. In these birds-eye landscapes, light falls uniformly across the surface, eliminating shadows and natural contrasts, resulting in emotionally flat images. The minuteness of detail, however, opens new realms of perception to the human eye. Since 2010, he has also begun to produce videos, which blur the border between still and moving images. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Izu Photo Museum, this book includes about 50 primarily recent pieces and several video works. Includes an interview with Matsue and text by Minoru Shimizu.

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Lotte Reimann Jaunt Art Paper Editions 2015 ISBN 9789490800338 Acqn 25035 Pb 21x30cm 48pp 24col ills 22.50 Lotte Reimanns (b. 1982) Jaunt is based on a collection of nude (self-)portraits of an elderly amateur photographers couple found on a picture sharing site. Other pictures from random sources on the Internet were added. Reimann re-photographed them all from a computer screen.

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Wild Concrete - Romain Jacquet-Lagreze Asia One 2014 ISBN 9789881317926 Acqn 24189 Hb 19x28cm 160pp 72col ills 32.95 No matter how clever we are at dominating our environment with concrete structures, nature somehow finds its way to fight back. This reminds us that our concrete jungle eventually would have to give in to the force of nature if wed let go, as captured by Romains images of sprouting flowers and maturing trees on unlikely places. Focusing solely on the phenomena of trees sprouting from residential buildings in the busy districts of Hong Kong, Wild Concrete compares the living conditions between plants and humans both growing in a harsh surroundings.

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Vertical Horizon - Romain Jacquet-Lagreze Asia One 2014 ISBN 9789881317902 Acqn 24190 Hb 30x20cm 160pp 73col ills 32.95 Vertical Horizon is a photographic journey between the buildings of a relentlessly growing city. It is a deep immersion into the citys thick atmospheres, and a visual record of clues in a search for the missing element that brings unity to its wildly diverse built environment. Both introverted and extroverted, Vertical Horizon is a contemplative dive into the raw nature of Hong Kong and an expression of its vertical elan.

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Salvo 4 - Black Is A Matter Of Taste. Theo Van Dusseldorp Salvo 2015 ISBN 9789082029123 Acqn 24822 Pb 24x32cm 60pp 200col ills 13.50 In 2004, four members of Salvo began their education in photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Theo van Dusseldorp, a master of the mediums technical aspects, was their professor for several years. Although photography is traditionally considered a medium balancing art and technique, few publications explicitly show their mutual interaction. Here, the intimate relation that exists between art and technique, between advertisement and science, is articulated through a selection of the over 25,000 Polaroids Van Dusseldorp made between 1978 and 2001 as studies for his product photos. He recently gave them to Salvo, who were free to use them as they saw fit.

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Salvo 5 - Actual Size Salvo 2015 ISBN 9789082029130 Acqn 24923 Pb 26x39cm 32pp 39ills 30col 13.50 Although photography is inherently considered to be an objective medium, nevertheless a picture almost always involves scaling. It seems that we have become accustomed to interpreting photos - recognition and scaling of depicted objects is an automatic response to seeing photographs. This issue of 'Salvo' shines a light on the duality of actual representation. Every photograph inside this publication is either printed on the same size as the object that is photographed, or is a study on how to achieve this actual representation.

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Leonard Fink - Coming Out Edition Clandestin 2015 ISBN 9783905297461 Acqn 24985 Hb 24x30cm 224pp ills 39.95 Amateur photographer Leonard Fink lived and worked in New York City, documenting over 25 years of its gay life, including pride parades, bars, and especially the decaying architecture of the West Side piers, which served as a space for gay men to interact socially and sexually. From the mid-1970s onwards, Fink captured this time of empowerment, cruising, sexual freedom, and openness and experimentation, and his large collection of photographs has proven to be a significant and engaging visual record of the citys gay subculture before the rise of HIV/AIDS would forever change it. This publication marks the first time Finks images have come together as a group.

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Stefanie Moshammer - Vegas And She Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993137 Acqn 25036 Hb 22x28cm 112pp 57col ills 26.50 Austrian photographer Stefanie Moshammers recent project Vegas and She" led her to the underbelly of Nevadas shimmering city, Las Vegas. The places she takes her camera to are stark, shiny dreamworlds they take us away from reality and are somewhere between illusion, desire and fantasy. With its backdrop of a burning desert, this man-made oasis encompasses so many worlds standing at odds with one another, that the resulting feeling is that of an eerie Western mecca. In this ambiguous world, her protagonists are Striptease dancers, the ones who keep Vegas moving, keep it pushing, the inside that keeps alive the outside. Portraying the world behind the shiny facade of Vegas, with its constructed settings and beguiling scenery, the series of images for Vegas and She appear as a stark contrast to the glitz usually associated with that place. Her pictures are raw and wild, but at the same time poetic and dreamlike a version of a bitter sweetness, translated into the series of 'Vegas and She.

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Katsumi Omori - Very Special Love. 20 Postcards Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898154007 Acqn 25081 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10 +VAT

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Taro Hirano - Pool. 20 Postcards Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898154014 Acqn 25082 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10 +VAT

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Manabu Miyazaki - Animal Trails Today. 20 Postcards Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898154021 Acqn 25083 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10 +VAT

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Kvina - Mi Amas Tohoku Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898154038 Acqn 25084 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10 +VAT

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Satoshi Chuma - Photographs Of Cinemas Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898153994 Acqn 25085 Pb 18x26cm 316pp 502ills 2col 33 Text in Japanese

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Darcy The Flying Hedgehog Postcard Book Seigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524721 Acqn 24932 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 8 +VAT When Shota Tsukamoto decided to start photographing her pet hedgehog, named after the former bassist of The Smashing Pumpkins, the spiky ball of cuteness soon became an Instagram celebrity with over 400,000 followers. Whether basking in her owners hand, posing with a pineapple, pinecone or cactus, hiding from toy soldiers or snoozing fitfully, the small rodent is pictured over and over again in disarmingly adorable scenarios.

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The Curly Letter Of Amsterdam Lecturis 2015 ISBN 9789462261174 Acqn 25060 Hb 17x24cm 212pp 91ills 12col 27 What are the origins of the exuberant swash letters that can be found on the windows of many of Amsterdam's most traditional bars? Who painted them? Was it a collective creation, or the work of a lone gifted letter painter? How old is the style? For almost a decade the authors of 'The Curly Letter of Amsterdam' thoroughly researched this lettering style and documented every surviving example in Amsterdam, Maastricht, and Ghent in an effort to answer these questions and raise awareness of the importance of this little known chapter of the Dutch graphical tradition.

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Katharine Cooper - White Africans, A Journey To The Homeland Katharine Cooper 2015 ISBN 9789490503000 Acqn 25093 Hb 28x23cm 56pp 62ills 26.50 In 2012 and 2013 the young South African photographer Katharine Cooper, who lives in Arles, travelled back to her homeland South Africa and Zimbabwe to photograph women, men and children whose lives she could have shared. For four months she travelled to the various locations linked to her childhood and personal history. Deliberately ignoring the anti-apartheid sentiments, Cooper followed her own intuition revealing her solidarity with South Africas complicated society that suffers from the high costs of apartheid such as disintegration and alienation. Cooper achieved an intimate portrait, in all its diversity but with incredible sensitivity.

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Nerhol - Phrase Of Everything Amana 2014 no ISBN Acqn 24840 Hb 26x34cm 144pp 78col ills 63.95 Nerhol is an artist unit formed in 2007 and composed of graphic designer Yoshihisa Tanaka and sculptor Ryuta Iida. The former builds the conceptual framework of their output, while the latter carves it into being. In this case, the results of this collaboration are thickly layered portraits of a single subject photographed for the duration of several minutes. The outcome of this process is 200 images, which then are printed, bound and then sheared off, layer by layer, to produce the final, dizzying portrait. Thus the identity revealed in these portraits is not permanent, but rather one that remains in continuous flux, produced both by the passage of time and Nerhols own whims.

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Skateistan - The Tale Of Skateboarding In Afghanistan Skateistan 2014 ISBN 9783000376313 Acqn 24992 Pb 22x28cm 320pp 250ills 130col 38.95 Whats it like to grow up working on the streets in a warzone, or to spend the first 15 years of your life pretending to be a boy? How does it feel to be one of the first skateboarders in a country, and at the same time a girl in a conservative Muslim society? In a nation divided along ethnic and gender lines, how do art, education and skateboarding intersect to create new possibilities for change? Skateistan The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan shares the strange and beautiful intersection of traditional Afghan society and a new generation of Afghan skateboarders and artists. Through a balanced mix of words and photographs, the book pieces together the tale of grassroots NGO Skateistan, which since 2009 has brought skateboarding, creative arts, and new education opportunities to girls and boys in Kabul, Afghanistan. The NGO has been able to replicate its unique project model in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. 'Skateistan' gives a rare, in-depth look into the lives of exceptional young Afghans facing incredible challenges and giving new life to a city that has been ravaged by war.

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Sjoed Knibbeler - Paper Planes Fw 2015 ISBN 9789490119300 Acqn 25066 Hb 21x30cm 26pp 26ills 22.50 Dutch visual artist Sjoerd Knibbelers most recent work involves folding paper to create model airplanes; not playthings, but reconstructions based on actual designs for military aircraft that never came to fruition. From mothballed top secret projects from the Cold War to more recent endeavours fallen victim to government cutbacks, the photographs of these sixteen paper planes have now been turned into a four-metre-long fold-out page with detailed texts about the history of each on the reverse. Besides being of interest from a military, technical, or historical perspective, the book carries with it a double meaning: its subjects remain forever confined to the paper on which they were drawn.

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Wally Elenbaas & Esther Hartog Photos nai010 publishers 2015 9789462081727 Acqn 25008 Hb 23x27cm 144pp 90ills 5col 26.50 This book is the first photographic survey of the Rotterdam artist Wally Elenbaas (1912-2008) and his great love Esther ('Es') Hartog (1905-1988). Although Elenbaas became best known after the war for his graphic works, paintings, and monumental works, he began his artistic career with photography. Beginning in 1935, he and Es spent nearly a half century photographing their own environment, which yielded a highly personal and intimate oeuvre. Yet their work was also often experimental and, unusual for the Netherlands, often of a surrealist nature.

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Geert Goiris - Prophet (Signed & Numbered) ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843327 Acqn 25067 Pb 24x31cm 64pp 49ills 12col 49.50 Published to correspond with the exhibition Geert Goiris Flashbulb memories, Ash Grey Prophesies at Foam, Amsterdam, this signed and numbered, limited edition volume contains more than 40 black-and-white and monochrome images by the Belgian artist. The darkened pictures are seemingly devoid of visual cues as to time and space, and possess a strange, unreal attraction that generates potentialities for as yet unknown narratives, associations, and suspense. Their layered, sometimes sublime visual language oscillates in the area of tension between fact and fiction, whether the subjects portrayed are people, snowy landscapes, or shadowy objects.

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photography june 2015

Documents

birth of rock

abstract photographs

men of mark

spirit of rock

roll dust

anonymous men

whore house

rent party