photography may 2015

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Barbara Klemm - Photographs 1968-2013 Nimbus 2014 ISBN 9783907142936 Acqn 24716 Hb 25x31cm 380pp 300ills £51.95 The catalogue for a retrospective of German photojournalist Barbara Klemm at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin. Her decorated career spanned more than four decades and covered many of the most important events in the nation’s recent history, as well as numerous defining moments in international affairs: Willy Brandt’s talks with Leonid Brezhnev in 1973, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, Václav Havel at Prague Castle in 1990, and of course German reunification. Klemm’s oeuvre has always focused on people, and the portrait is seen as her greatest passion. This fascinating overview of her work takes us across five continents, from Havana to Gaza, Kolkata and beyond.

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Barbara Klemm - Fall Of The Wall 1989 Nimbus 2014 ISBN 9783907142592 Acqn 24717 Pb 24x29cm 96pp 74ills £23.95 Photojournalist Barbara Klemm has spent more than four decades bearing witness to many of Germany’s most momentous events in recent history, including Mikhail Gorbachev at the 40th anniversary of the GDR in East Berlin and the fall of the Berlin Wall soon thereafter. Presented on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Museum Wiesbaden, this volume includes more than 50 images from between 1972 and 1990, with portraits of people on both sides of the Wall and photos taken along the border. Klemm’s reportage brilliantly documents this defining period of contemporary history, from the Peaceful Revolution to the toppling of the Wall and German reunification.

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Martin Rosswog - Milton, South Uist, Scotland. Photographs Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2015 ISBN 9783829607117 Acqn 24804 Hb 22x27cm 156pp 87ills 77col £31 In the footsteps of Paul Strand, photographer Martin Rosswog explores the Scottish sheep farming island of South Uist in landscapes, interiors, and domestic still lives. With texts by Father Michael and Claudia Schubert.

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Daniela Keiser & Nadine Olonetzky – bergen The Green Box 2015 ISBN 9783941644779 Acqn 24805 Pb 13x20cm 128pp 45ills £15.95 Viewing historical events from today’s perspective, freeing space for the autobiographical, and creating an authentic voice and connection between image and text are the themes on which bergen is based. The hills in the surroundings of Berlin are not mountains but hills with thin topsoil, infused with iron from armaments, bricks, and other rubble. They come from the post-World War II era. Nowadays, these elevations are used for recreational activities. Children fly their kites, young people and adults meditate or relax here. Daniela Keiser has visited these hills often over the past several years to photograph contemporary everyday life. The author Nadine Olonetzky has frequently been engaged with Keiser's photographs. Her precise descriptions of the works, which have been published in various media, have led them to closer contact. Starting point of this book was a studio visit when Keiser had just defined the first photographs for bergen. Inspired by that Olonetzky created a text dealing with her own family history, intertwining post-war images and childhood memories.

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Rene Groebli - Das Auge Der Liebe (The Eye of Love) Sturm & Drang 2014 ISBN 9780984820252 Acqn 24812 Pb 30x20cm 48pp 30ills £48.50 First published in 1954, 'Das Auge der Liebe' (The Eye of Love) by the Swiss photographer René Groebli is a small book featuring images that were made during the honeymoon with his wife Rita in France. In Groebli's own words: "I tried to convey the typical atmosphere of French hotel rooms. There were so many impressions: the poor-looking furniture in a cheap hotel, the word 'Amors' embroidered on the curtains. And I was in love with the girl, the girl who was my wife. I think a series of photographs should be compared with a novel or even a poem rather than a painting: let us tell something!"

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Christopher Everard - Us A Denied Reality Eriskay Connection 2015 ISBN 9789492051073 Acqn 24904 Hb 21x27cm 206pp 190ills 160col £64.95 The first monograph by London-based photographer Christopher J. Everard, this book, which focuses on the reality of adult entertainment in the United States, represents the first episode of a larger body of work on guilt. Diligently researched, it presents a first-person narrative exploration inside the porn industry, wherein he documents encounters with its actors, producers, and stars. Everad investigates the prurient attitudes that lead those regions with its most vociferous opponents to be its highest consumers, and travels to the Midwest in search of answers. Well-documented and beautifully arranged, with a wealth of images and explanatory texts, plus essays by Daniel Blight.

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Philippe Seclier - La Longue Route De Sable, Pier Paolo Pasolini Editions Xavier Barral 2014 ISBN 9782365110624 Acqn 24139 Hb 16x23cm 260pp 100ills 10col £21.95 Text in French Presented for the first time in its unabridged version, La Longue Route de sable comes with an original typescript by Pier Paolo Pasolini, dating from 1959. Philippe Séclier walks in the poet's footsteps, using documents, manuscripts, letters and his own photos to bring us the stages of a unique journey along the Italian coasts.

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Making Pictures Dust-to-Digital 2014 ISBN 9780981734255 Acqn 24577 Hb 16x22cm 180pp 271col ills £27.50 In the 1930s the Massengill family of rural Arkansas built three portable photography studios on old truck frames, attached each to the back of any car that would run, and started a mobile photo booth business that would last for a decade. Without formal training they invented ways to mimic the popular photo booth and brought their business to the dirt roads and open fields. Making Pictures, featuring Massengill family prints and photo albums collected by the artist Maxine Payne, illuminates a Depression-era South previously unseen by the public. Unlike the hardscrabble lives captured by WPA photographers, the Massengill photographs often show folks working to look their best. Hand-painted backdrops, colorized prints and the occasional prop add a playful edge to these scenes. Not unlike photographs by Vivian Maier or Mike Disfarmer, the Massengill photographs invite us to reconsider a time and place from a new perspective.

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Yoshinori Mizutani - Tokyo Parrots Amana 2014 ISBN 9784907519407 Acqn 24668 Hb 18x25cm 90pp 46col ills £39.95 Vivid flashes of bright green flock in the trees and skies of Tokyo, the descendants of tropical aliens brought to Japan’s biggest metropolis as pets four decades ago. These escaped parakeets (not actually parrots) have since flourished in the city, and likewise fascinated photographer Yoshinori Mizutani, who upon his first encounter with them was struck by apprehension and fear, as if he had walked into Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’. Incongruous as they seemed in the urban environment, he followed the flocks and watched their daily patterns, eventually locating one of the largest nesting places in a certain ginkgo tree. Simply surreal photos of fluttering lime green wings.

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Heimat Photography in Austria Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993113 Acqn 24763 Pb 16x22cm 240pp 76ills 12col £18.50 Photographs of peasants, churchgoers, skiers, and alpine landscapes in magazines, books, and exhibitions informed the visual culture of Austria in the 1930s. Used by the authoritarian Ständestaat to glorify traditional values and establish a backward-looking Austrian identity, the same pictures of pristine mountain idylls, picturesque work in the fields, and local costume groups also served to massively propagate Austria as a tourist destination. Aesthetically demanding and partly influenced by the New Vision movement, the Heimat photographs of the main protagonists—Rudolf Koppitz, Peter Paul Atzwanger, Simon Moser, Stefan Kruckenhauser, Adalbert Defner, and Wilhelm Angerer—were, irrespective of political discontinuities, widely disseminated well into postwar Austria.

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Christopher Mavric - Wildfremd. Street Portraits From Graz And Vienna Fotohof 2015 ISBN 9783902993045 Acqn 24936 Pb 23x29cm 114pp 86ills 39col £22.50 Christopher Mavric has dedicated his first book to the genre of street photography. Everything in his portraits of Austrians living in Vienna and Graz is ‘live’ and unstaged. The book features passers-by in the literal sense, contemporaries hurrying through both the picture and the city, but also dwellers and denizens in their respective district environments, waiting, lingering, or stranded on a bench, each in their own specific habitus, wholly contemporary or entirely of yesteryear – now suspended for all eternity in the photographic image featured in the book.

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Qu'est-ce Que La Photographie? Editions Xavier Barral 2015 ISBN 9782365110693 Acqn 24757 Hb 19x24cm 180pp 120ills 35col £34 Since its invention, photography has often been the subject of questioning around its own definition in the field of visual arts. The approach for this book, in the shape of a true-false handbook, is this time firmly anti-ontological. The answers come from the artists themselves through more than 70 artworks of the Centre Pompidou collection for the most part. Including Man Ray, Jeff Wall, Ugo Mulas, Denis Oppenheim... The answers are numerous. Second title of a collection on each exhibition of the Galerie de photographies, copublished with the Éditions du Centre Pompidou with the support of the Fondation d'entreprise Neuflize Vie.

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KH. W. Steckelings - Pina Bausch Backstage Nimbus 2015 ISBN 9783907142998 Acqn 24916 Hb 22x31cm 184pp 150ills £38.95 Presented here are 150 previously unknown photographs taken by KH. W. Steckelings of the acclaimed German innovator and performer of modern dance, Pina Bausch. It emerged mainly by chance that this trove of photographs of the Tanztheater Wuppertal rehearsals in 1974–75, during Bausch’s early days as its director, existed. Together they offer a captivating look at the particular atmosphere there, a process involving concentration and tension, as well as trust and patience, something maintained in the following years as Bausch grew into a leading influence of modern dance. With an introduction by Salomon Bausch and an essay by Nora and Stefan Koldehoff.

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Exit 57 - Reconstructing History Olivares & Associates 2015 no ISBN Acqn 24984 Pb 21x26cm 158pp 110ills 79col £29 This issue of 'Exit' reflects on the way in which photographs have worked to reconstruct history. The past is almost as infinite as the future and it has enabled man to develop his ingenuity and to create art, such as history painting: scenes of power told by artists of power, the quintessence of official history. Later, history coincided with photography, the best way we have ever found to tell a lie with all the semblance, symbolism and attributes of truth. With contributions of Eleanor Antin, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Emeric Lhuisset, Yasumasa Morimura, and many more.

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Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2015 - Nikolai Bakharev, Viviane Sassen, Mikhael Subotzky & Peter Waterhouse, Zanele Muholi Photographers' Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780957618824 Acqn 25004 Hb 23x27cm 96pp 85ills 45col £25 The 2015 shortlist reflects a diversity of attitudes towards the medium underpinned by an exploration into new and unexpected modes of presentation incorporating video, text, object and wall-based photographic displays. Nikolai Bakharev’s ambiguous images of Russian bathers on public beaches in the 80s and 90s, at a time when photographs of nudity were forbidden, play on the tension between acceptable and unacceptable imagery, public and private realms. In the work of Zanele Muholi, the personal and political are also interwoven in her tender, unflinching portraits and testimonies of the South African LGBTI community. South Africa further provides a location and point of political departure in the work of Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse. Their collaborative publication presents a, ‘photo/graphic’ album of images and text, which uncover the history of a once elite, now abandoned high-rise apartment block in Johannesburg. Finally, Viviane Sassen’s sculptural, abstracted, darkly sensual images continue to effect the blurring of genres, which characterize her work and position her as a leading force in contemporary art photography. This year's judges are Chris Boot, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation; Rineke Dijkstra, Artist; Peter Gorschlüter, Deputy Director, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and Anne Marie Beckmann, Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse. Available in four different covers.

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Marco Citron - Urbanism 1.01 Danilo Montanari Editore 2014 ISBN 9788898120512 Acqn 24864 Hb 15x20cm 90pp 40col ills £25 Temporal displacement plays a key role in this attractive series of 40 colour photographs by Marco Citron. Through the use of a specific colour palette, reminiscent of postcards from the 1960s, he creates a nostalgic aura around his subject matter, the architectural landscapes of the Soviet Bloc. Housing blocks, wide plazas, highways on which only Trabants drive, and monumental governmental edifices comprise these sparsely populated landscapes. They challenge the viewer with their retro ambiguity. Mixing reality and fiction, “it is difficult to know whether Citron is recording some of the planning conceits of the Soviet era, or inventing them,” according to the text by Gerry Badger.

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Peyman Hooshmandzadeh - A People Of Horse Nazar Research Cultural Institute 2014 ISBN 9786001521683Acqn 24481 Hb 24x23cm 106pp 86ills £21.95 According to Iranian photographer and author Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, “When you are with Turkmens, you need to be a little more careful; after all, you are a stranger.” Over a period of sixteen years, he has repeatedly visited the area in north-eastern Iran where these tribal people of nomadic heritage live, wedged between the Caspian Sea, a desert and a mountain range, and documented the modern Turkmen way of life and customs. Traditionally a prominent horse culture, their lifestyle is heavily invested in horsemanship, which has seen a resurgence in the years following the Soviet collapse. These images beautifully capture aspects of this reticent and unique people.

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Silent Dialogues - Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov Fraenkel Gallery 2015 ISBN 9781881337416 Acqn 24596 Hb 18x24cm 100pp 67ills 32col £23.50 Silent Dialogues, by art historian Alexander Nemerov, is a probing, intimate reflection about photographer Diane Arbus, the author's aunt, and her brother, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Howard Nemerov, the author's father. "I have no memories of Diane Arbus," begins Alexander Nemerov in the first of two meditative essays that comprise this book. "A Resemblance" examines Howard Nemerov's complicated responses to his sister's photography. "The School" focuses on a body of Arbus' work known as the Untitled series, photographs made at residences for the mentally disabled between 1969 and 1971, in the last years of her life. Through their work, the author explores the siblings' disparate and distinct sensibilities, and in doing so uncovers signs of an unexpected aesthetic kinship. Illustrations complementing the essays include numerous examples of Arbus' photographs; paintings by artists as diverse as Pieter Brueghel, Norman Rockwell, Paul Feeley and Johannes Vermeer; and a selection of poems by Howard Nemerov, chosen by his son.

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Reto Caduff - Respect The Dots! Sturm & Drang 2015 ISBN 9780984820238 Acqn 24814 Hb 22x30cm 94pp 50ills £35 Swiss-born photographer Reto Caduff searched out the most beautifully freckled female models for his black-and-white homage to dotted skin. This series of portraits is a reprint of his first limited edition book, ‘Freckles’ (2012). Although many of the women fulfil the freckled stereotype – that is to say, they are of probable Northern European ancestry – others are an intriguing mix of races and genetic backgrounds for whom freckled skin is no less a personal identifier worn with pride. The book includes an introduction by Professor Jonathan Rees, who with his team of researchers identified the role of a specific gene in determining red hair, sun sensitivity, and freckling.

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Melanie Matthieu - Lamo Lava Alauda Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789081531498 Acqn 24907 Pb 21x29cm 122pp 50ills £37.95 ‘Lâmo Lâva’ revolves around a journey undertaken by Zürich-based visual artist Melanie Matthieu to the pilgrimage site of Our Lady of La Salette in the French Alps, where an apparition is said to have occurred in 1846. The book consists of a photographic as well as a text-based section, each of which is distinctly bound into a hand-folded cover. The captivating analogue photographs meander between bodies and landscapes, between an outside and an inside. The textual section features an interplay of voices, including Léon Bloy, Camille Claudel, Roger Callois and Julia Kristeva. Every book in this numbered first edition contains a riso print.

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New Horizons 12 Postcards - Bruno Van Den Elshout Eriskay Connection 2015 ISBN 9789081838498 Acqn 24927 Pb 11x16cm 12pp £10 +VAT On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roof of a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one year round. In the middle of an economic crisis the horizon provides us with a stable and calming counterpart, such is his thought. What began as a seemingly random idea grows through various exhibitions and beach expeditions into a major project. There are 12 postcards taken from the numerous images in the book.

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Jason Fulford - The Mushroom Collector The Soon Institute 2015 ISBN 9789081058469 Acqn 24948 Pb 13x18cm 188pp 109col ills £18.50 This publication reissues a beloved photobook classic – acknowledged as such by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in the third volume of The Photobook: A History – that has been out of print since the hardcover edition was published in 2010. As photographer Jason Fulford (born 1973) recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford's gave him a box, found at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms – unassuming pictures taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer, apparently as notes for some mycological studies.

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Ezra Nahmad - Sounds Hell Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825734 Acqn 24953 Pb 22x31cm 52pp 60ills 30col £24 'Sounds Hell' is the second volume in Ezra Nahmad's Israel trilogy and like 'Sans | Without' it contains material from various sources. Own photographs and collages, media images and historical photographs paired with images and recordings from friends who work in the army. The title sets an aggressive tone and actually an atmosphere of violence and insecurity runs through the book, a mood which, as we know, currently dominates the Middle East. Ezra Nahmad, who was born in Israel a few years after the founding of the state and lived there till he was ten, feels the need to continue to deal with the situation in Israel and his ambivalent relationship with this place.

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Michael Wolf / Lam Yik Fei - Hong Kong Umbrella Peperoni Books 2015 ISBN 9783941825758 Acqn 24954 Hb 16x21cm 80pp 57col ills £29.95 Hong Kong's rich vernacular culture is the subject of many works by Michael Wolf. In his new book 'Hong Kong Umbrella' he turns his attention to countless umbrellas in the Back Alleys of the metropolis. Stretched and in all colours and patterns they lie, stand or hang everywhere, protect laundry, goods, market stalls and bikes or someone lies down underneath to have a snooze. This is the fourth of 9 volumes, Michael Wolf's Encyclopedia of street life in Hong Kong's Back Alleys.

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Yoshinori Mizutani – Colors Amana 2015 ISBN 9784865870343 Acqn 24982 Hb 16x33cm 184pp 100col ills £36.50 According to Ivan Vartanian, Tokyo-based photographer Yoshinori Mizutani “is part of the Tumblr generation of photographers”. Using social media, his approach to photography involves regularly updating his photo stream, following other users, and reposting images. In this virtual deluge of images, appearance takes precedence, which Mizutani reflects in his work: the vertical format signals the display of a hand-held device, artificial light sources (both ambient and flash), the inaccessibility of a purely natural world. His keen eye for colour and appreciation for detail in the mundane urban surroundings leads to a disconcerting yet beautiful expression of Japanese aesthetics.

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Encyclopedia Of Flowers Part 2 - Makoto Azuma, Shunsuke Shiinoke Seigensha Art Publishing 2015 ISBN 9784861524769 Acqn 24997 Pb 17x25cm 542pp 212col ills £33.95 Flower artist Makoto Azuma and botanical photographer Shunsuke Shiinoki present a second edition of their vibrant anthology, two years after the first. Focusing on the ephemeral nature of flowers while working to conserve in a concrete, tangible form the passage of time they embody, the authors use two techniques. The first highlights the flowers’ features and sense of presence by picturing them from overhead. The second applies a lateral perspective to capture the life force of plants as they stretch towards the sun. In contrast to the first edition, natural light sources were used as much as possible to illuminate the exceptionally dense and colourful palettes on display.

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Aziz Sa'ati - Stills Of Tehran Nazar Research Cultural Institute 2014 ISBN 9786001521706 Acqn 25007 Hb 24x23cm 132pp 120ills 100col £21.95 Thanks to his love of films, Aziz Sa’ati began to take photographs as early as his teenage years. Having taught at the College of Television and Cinema in Tehran and worked as a cinematographer in the early 1970s, he transitioned in 1976 to Iranian cinema, taking film stills for renowned film-makers such as Bahram Bayzai, Ali Hatami and Massoud Kimiai. Through different stories and the portrayals of different Tehrans, these films have collectively created a special relationship with Iranians themselves: a national identity. As a photographer, Sa’ati has been tracing this lost relationship with the past through remarkable images in order to lend meaning to the present time.

photography may 2015

Documents

berlin wall

barbara klemm photographs

east berlin

surroundings of berlin

german reunification

photographer martin

martin rosswog milton

historical events