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Vrai Ou FauxFotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675767 Acqn 21870Hb 21x28cm 160pp 100col ills 25
This edition designed by Vronique Bourgoin documents the installations Vrai ou Faux ? shownbetween 2010 and 2013. She grouped together works from artists and the archives from Fabriquedes Illusions in an intimate space like a trompe loeil, recreating private lounges. With the Worksof Julia Abstdt PL, Antoine dAgata FR, Reza Azard IR-FR, Bachelot Caron FR, VroniqueBourgoin FR, Linda Bilda AT, Fredi Casco PY, Joan Fontcuberta ES, Alberto Garcia Alix
ES, Gelatin AT, Sara Glaxia MX , Gun Gumundsdttir IS, Les Hole Garden FR, AlisonJackson UK, Adolfo Kaminsky AR, Erik Kessels NL , Martin Kippenberger DE, Paul Kooiker NL, Lutz Krger DE, Jrme Lefdup FR, Anne Lefebvre FR, Jochen Lempert DE, BorisMikhailov UA, Judith Rohrmoser AT, Hank Schmidt in der Beek DE, Juli Susin RU, BastiaanVan der Velden. And from the collection Royal Book Lodge the Works from Dick Bengtsson SE,matali crasset FR, Guy E. Debord FR, Andy Hope 1930 DE, Daniel Johnston US, DorotaJurczak PL, Charlet Kugel CZ , Jonathan Meese DE, Raymond Pettibon US, Ralph Rumney UK, Storwal IS, Miroslav Tichy CZ.
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Lori Nix - The CityDecode Books 2013 ISBN 9780983394235 Acqn 22554Hb 35x28cm 76pp 37col ills 46
Over the past eight years, Lori Nix (born 1969) has created meticulously detailed modelenvironments and then photographed them--locations within a fictional city that celebrate modernculture, knowledge and innovation. But her monuments of civilization are abandoned, in a state ofruin where nature has begun to repopulate the spaces. I am fascinated, maybe even a littleobsessed, with the idea of the apocalypse. In addition to my childhood experiences growing upwith natural disasters in Kansas, I also watched disaster flicks in the 1970s. Each of theseexperiences has greatly influenced my photographic work. Nix considers herself a fauxlandscape photographer and spends months building the complex spaces before photographingthem. As critic Sidney Lawrence wrote inArt in America: Oddly endearing, terrifying and often
electrifyingly plausible, [Nixs tableaux] prod us to ponder the fact that, like it or not, our fate isuncertain.
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Ages - Portraits of Growing OlderFotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675859 Acqn 22695Pb 23x26cm 168pp 102ills 39col 22
The publication AGES brings together concepts that, in different ways and over varying periods oftime, investigate the biographies and the changes taking place in ones self and others. Thenumerous series of portraits open our eyes tot he various phases of time and age. It is striking todiscover the extent to which photography and filmic works are capable of capturing thecontinuous, unstoppable change oft he physiognomies and the personal expressions emanatingfrom them. The artistic works on display are convincing in their systematic execution and theypose questions on life plans, destiny, and the influences that affect the personality.
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Suspended - Nikolaus SchlettererFotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675736 Acqn 22702Hb 25x32cm 143pp 105col ills 28.95
This book unites three series from the same body of work, each of which represents differentdegrees of digital reduction and configuration. Taken together, they form an artistically-determined, image-based taxonomy of our current view of the world.
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Ursprung - Otmar ThormannFotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675873 Acqn 22703Pb 21x27cm 192pp 85ills 15col 33.95
Im often asked: Why do your photographs look so old? Are you nostalgic? Its quite theopposite: if youre nostalgic, you long for the past, but Ive spent my whole life trying to detachmyself from the past. As a child, back then in the post-war period, I began collecting mentalimages: motifs like the bombed-out buildings in my home-town of Graz. I would watch andobserve war veterans and caretakers, and be amazed by shop windows and steam locomotives.
As a five-year-old I witnessed brutal scenes of slaughtering, but there was no-one I could talk toabout them. Like knots on a piece of string I stored those images within me, images I could rarelymake head nor tail of. The Italian author Cesare Pavese once referred to the places of ourchildhood as sacred: it is there that as children we experience a piece of the world at first hand,
just for ourselves and it is only once we are mature that we realise it. My early years gave menot just profound experiences; they also gave me energy and inspiration to pick up on thoseimpressions. Later on I unconsciously searched for, found and photographed the mental imagesof my childhood. I also reconstructed and created images just so I could photograph them. Thesephotographs were particularly helpful in resolving undesirable impressions. They allowed me tosee through what I had not understood and free myself from deeply rooted experiences.
Becoming aware of things, understanding things past, is not as simple as you think; in fact it is ashard as trying to untie a tightly pulled knot on a piece of string.
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Kim Boske MappingKim Boske 2012 ISBN 9789081965101 Acqn 22826Pb 23x34cm 56pp 13col ills 32
Dutch photographer Kim Boske creates series in which the images are often composed bymerging several different shots of the same subject, along with changing light and angles. In thismanner, she expresses a fascination with the passage of time in her work, which represents anexploration into the mechanisms of time and space that remain unseen behind the facade of thevisual world and attempt to expose them. For Mapping, Boske photographed trees in hertypical fashion, thereby creating a series of images rife with movement, dimensionality, tangibility
and growth. An accompanying text by Erik A. de Jong delves into the long history of botanicalobservation.
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Petra Feriancova - Index. An Order Of Things 1/2013. Venice Biennale 2013 Czech & SlovakPavillionMousse Publishing 2013 ISBN 9788867490523 Acqn 22851Pb 24x34cm 144pp 1000ills 500col 21
An integral part of the work An Order of Things II, presented by Petra Feriancov in the Czechand Slovak Republic Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, the catalogue An Order of Things Iforms the prelude, memory, inventory, extension and, above all, systematic organization of thattangible experience, those collections physically arrayed before our eyes, according to criteria theviewer slowly intuits beyond the mute nature of the images. The final pages show the sources
from which the memories have been extracted, amidst film reels, slides and stacks ofNationalGeographics, ready to be easily transported in the large Ikea shopping bags, while the others,subdivided into chapters of images, form a varied and opaque geography and anthropology ofplaces, persons, objects, flying urban creatures, skies, ruins, sculptures. Visual notations from amore or less recent past, at times surprising, at times banal, that may evoke certain Venetiancharacteristics without ever making explicit reference, except in the chapter "Always the sameplace" that is explicitly devoted to that city. The pigeons of the section "Creator" are not just thecolumbae liviae that throng Piazza San Marco, but a wide range of different feathered species.The sea returns in the collection of seashells "According to Ruskin," since the English critic andartist drew some such specimens on paper in his Venetian palazzo. Venice is therefore theexplicit pivot of cultural memories, but also the fulcrum of mysterious references to a submergedhistory. In this sense the pages dense with amateur snapshots, scientific images, film stills andshifts of words of Feriancov form a fascinating visual archive, but also the challenge of an
extraordinary historical puzzle.
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Ichigo Sugawara - Blue / Daylight. 2 Vols.WOW Inc. 2013 isbn 9784861008948 Acqn 22694Pb 23x32cm 136pp 48ills 51
From renowned Japanese photographer Ichigo Sugawara comes this 2 volume slipcased editionof Blue and Daylight, projects with their own very distinct moods.
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Vic Muniz - The Weimar File
Ivory Press 2013 ISBN 9788494053580 Acqn 22829Pb 11x15cm 240pp 200ills 33.75
The Weimar File is a previously unpublished work by visual artist Vik Muniz, best known forremaking famous artworks in materials other than paint and then photographing them. Havingonce been personally investigated by the Department of Homeland Security in New York, Munizused the incident as inspiration for a series of hundreds of photos he made in Weimar, Germany.Perceived through a sheen of fear and suspicion, the images seemingly yearn for a balancebetween the banal and the spectacular, the deadly serious and the absurd. Fragments of visualevidence, they raise questions of what new meanings such images take on when they areremoved from their context.
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Max Matkiel - Studio ParadisoVoetnoot 2013 ISBN 9789491738029 Acqn 22837Pb 23x24cm 624pp 590ills 42
As a frequent visitor to concerts at Paradiso, Amsterdams long-running music venue, in the early1980s, Dutch photographer Max Natkiel encountered all manner of subcultures: punks, new-wavers, rockers, mods, Rastafarians, squatters, and metal- and skinheads. Eventually he decided
to bring along his camera and started making portraits of the fascinating people he found; acollection eventually numbering over 1000. A selection of about 600 of these black and whitephotographs appears here, reflecting the explosion of pure youth culture and fierce desire forindividuality he experienced in the decade between 1980-1990. With an introduction byphilosopher Dirk van Weelden.
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Punctum Issue 4Limonkraft 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22838Pb 15x21cm 190pp 130ills 120col 12.95
With its focus on Asia, Punctum investigates various narratives through photography whileaddressing one of the mediums primary dilemmas: does it represent the real or is it ultimately aform of fiction? The publication responds to these ambiguities by presenting multiple possibilitieswhile avoiding any presumptions of discovering something that is quintessentially Asian. From
juxtapositions of archival and contemporary images of children in Mongolia and fabricated filmstills in Malaysia, to sensationally white depictions of a home in Bangladesh and portraits ofSouth Korean soldiers, the subjects of this compelling collection are as varied as the contenttherein.
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Ata Kando - Droom In het Woud (Dream In The Forest)
xpublishers 2013 ISBN 9789081892827 Acqn 22842Hb 22x27cm 44pp 43ills 42.75
In 1957, Ata Kands book Droom in het Woud (Dream in the Forest) was published, a photo-fantasy featuring her three children. Ata travelled with them through the European Alps to shootthe series. The dreamy and sometimes mystical scenes are shot in perfect black and white. Tocelebrate Ata Kand's 100th birthday this re-issue of the book is published with English andHungarian translations.
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Paul Elliman - Untitled (September Magazine)ROMA/The Vanity Press 2013 ISBN 9789491843051 Acqn 22843Pb 22x29cm 592pp 592ills 40
Paul Elliman is a London based artist. Known for his work with a found typography of objects andindustrial debris in which no letter-form is repeated, he also follows the human voice through
many of its social and technological guises, often imitating other languages and sounds of thecity. Untitled (September magazine) takes the form of a 600-page glossy magazine, completelyabsent of any editorial text, and comprised instead only of cropped and juxtaposed imagescollected by Elliman over many years. The publication conveys in itself a kind of text spelled outin body shapes, signs and gestures.
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Bettina Lockemann - From The PeripheryFotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675880 Acqn 22832Hb 17x23cm 144pp 110col ills 25
From the Peripheryis published as artist book along the exhibition From the Periphery, in thegallery of the Braunschweig University of Art in June 2013.The work of Bettina Lockemann plays with an intentional misunderstanding and with what theaudience thinks to know already. It addresses the borders of the visual by challenging the bordersof the media. - Hans Dieter Huber