Photography July 2013

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Marjolaine Ryley - Growing Up In The New Age Daylight 2013 ISBN 9780983231684 Acqn 22072 Hb 21x26cm 152pp 119ills 98col £31.50 Growing Up in the New Age is the product of an inspiring research project by London-based photographer Marjolaine Ryley (born 1974), and stems from the artist’s experience as a student at Kirkdale, an alternative school in London. “As a child my experience of education was shared with only a small number of children and I believe we experienced a unique ‘social and ideological’ experiment in education,” she states. Ryley’s work explores unconventional communities around the world, from communes in the south of France to squatter villages in South London. Drawing on a range of approaches and media, including photography, digital imaging, film and video, writing, collecting, re-using archival materials, and online venues, Growing Up in the New Age sets out to reconsider the social utopias of the 1960s and early 1970s and discuss what we might learn from them today.

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Elin O'Hara Slavick - Hiroshima: After Aftermath Daylight 2013 ISBN 9780983231653 Acqn 22074 Hb 24x24cm 128pp 57ills 32col £26.95 On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay released an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people instantly (with another 70,000 dying by year’s end from their injuries). While many are aware of the bombing, its aftermath is less well documented, and the US in particular has paid little attention to preserving a visual record. American artist Elin O’Hara slavick (born 1965) presents her photo essay as an attempt to address--historically, poetically and visually--what disappeared as well as what remains in Hiroshima. Her photographs of the city and of artifacts from its Peace Memorial Museum collection are images of loss and survival, with the trope of exposure--to history, light, radiation, the sun--at their core. Slavick intends Hiroshima: After Aftermath as an act of ethical seeing that addresses the irreconcilable paradox of making the barbaric visible, as artist, viewer and witness. Text by James Elkins. "This remarkable photographic essay brings to us with harrowing clarity the state to which we have descended--and what may lie ahead if we cannot cure ourselves of the pathology that has brought us this far." --Noam Chomsky

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Marc Riboud - Pompidou Collection Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266057 Acqn 22275 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 60ills £11.50 Text in French A series of essays to help the general reader discover the world of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on a selection of iconic works taken mainly from the prestigious collection of the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou.

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Jan Banning - Down And Out In The South Ipso Facto 2013 ISBN 9789077386095 Acqn 22512 Hb 24x32cm 112pp 42col ills £37 Included in this book are 42 portraits of homeless men and women in South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi. For these images, Jan Banning came up with an original approach: to photograph people who are homeless as he would photograph any other member of society. That implied not scouting out the most picturesque people he could find, and not capturing them in dramatizing black and white. Instead, he worked in a studio setting, focusing on their individuality rather than on stereotypes.

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Karel Martens - Full Color ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789077459980 Acqn 22513 Pb 16x22cm 160pp 130ills 60col £26.50 Comprising scores of photographs from inside the studio of the prolific Dutch graphic designer and educator Karel Martens, this book is a testament to the personal and experimental nature of his work. Although he can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism, Martens seems to maintain a certain distance from contemporary developments. The shelves of books and stacks of papers seen in these images are evocative of both his professional practice and work as an artist, which more recently entails making relief prints from found industrial artefacts. A fascinating and intimate creative portrait of this design community mentor, with texts by David Senior and Martens himself.

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Exit 50 – Disasters Olivares & Associates 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22630 Pb 21x26cm 114ills 100col £31 The 50th issue of ‘Exit’ explores photographers’ views of contemporary disasters, examining the subject as an aesthetic category that transcends time and space. Its direct correlation with the perverse gaze characteristic of humans, wherein horror does not preclude an underlying attraction to beauty, is presented across five themes – nature, decline, accident, progress and war. An experimental typological classification is proposed, replacing the conventional stylistic or art historical analysis of the ruin that follows disaster. With contributions by Brian Dillon, Jan Kempenaers, Rania Matar, Zeng Han, Manuel Sendón, Guillaume Herbaut, Jane & Louise Wilson, and many others.

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Blind Spot 46 Blind Spot Photography Inc. 2013 ISBN 9780983998921 Acqn 21469 Pb 23x27cm 80pp 90ills 60col £16.95 In 2013, Blind Spot is celebrating its twentieth year as the preeminent journal dedicated to presenting new and unseen photography-based art. Blind Spot has published some of today's most renowned artists working in the medium as they were building their careers-Adam Fuss, Vik Muniz, Doug & Mike Starn and James Welling appeared in the first issue-and since its launch in 1993, the magazine has featured more than 400 living artists, including Robert Adams, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, Liz Deschenes, William Eggleston, Rachel Harrison, Zoe Leonard and Ed Ruscha, as well as younger artists like Walead Beshty, Peter Coffin, Anne Collier, Michael Queenland, Amanda Ross-Ho and Seth Price. Printed in the United States by Meridian Printing, Blind Spot is known for its commitment to the highest quality reproductions. Each semi-annual issue is designed as a portable exhibition space where images are given primacy and are unaccompanied by explanatory text. Features are often designed in collaboration with the artists, and recent issues have been guest edited by contemporary artists, providing a visual exploration of specific ideas and approaches to photography-based image making. Blind Spot's unique format and this collaboration of the editors and the individual artists transforms each issue into a work of art. Issue 46 of Blind Spot is guest-edited by Walead Beshty.

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Robert Adams - Light Balances / On Any Given Day In Spring Matthew Marks 2013 ISBN 9781880146620 Acqn 22070 Pb 26x21cm 82pp 89ills £30 With Light Balances, Robert Adams (born 1937) delves into the endless permutations of rhythm and contrast that take place between sunlight and trees. Photographing in a protected forest around the Columbia River estuary near the town of Astoria, Oregon, where he has lived since 1997, Adams undertook a study of the area that is Cézanne-like in its single-minded attention to nature’s minute shifts and variations. These 59 black-and-white photographs, made between 2005 and 2011, revel in the interplay of sunlight and leaves, branches, trunks, grass and the dirt of the forest floor, attaining a rich variety of texture and pattern that is at once filled with specificities and diffusely abstract. Published concurrently with Adams’ international touring retrospective, this beautifully produced volume shows a master photographer eliciting marvellous subtleties from the landscape of the Northwest.

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Bjorn Staps - Fortune Flows. Aquarium Oriental 99 Publishers 2012 ISBN 9789078670216 Acqn 22521 Hb 17x24cm 96pp 50col ills £24.95 Aquariums are a common fixture in numerous Chinese restaurants. For three years, Dutch photographer Bjorn Staps travelled around the Netherlands in search of this exotic tendency – one that adheres to the feng-shui belief that the movement of fish through water stimulates energy flow for successful business and luck. Nowadays, aquariums are slowly disappearing from Chinese restaurants, as many either go out of business or change into more trendy fusion, wok or sushi establishments. The book not only visually narrates aquariums as cultural phenomena, but also documents a typical cuisine that is slowly disappearing in the Netherlands, almost unnoticed.

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C Photo 6 – Observed Ivory Press 2013 ISBN 9788494053559 Acqn 22522 Hb 25x31cm 234pp 250ills 200col £43.95 Now, when the limits between private and public are becoming increasingly blurred, many visual artists are undertaking the documentation of this new world, one in which photographs are pervasive and a vast visual archive is freely available to anyone online. Guest-edited by Jörg Colberg and with a text by Aaron Schuman, this edition primarily raises the question of what has happened to the idea of privacy when weighed against the pressures of open and unsecured information. Where does the image end and the intrusion into one’s life begin? Includes work by Osvaldo Sanviti, Merry Alpern, Monica Haller, Willem Popelier, Joachim Schmid and several others.

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Cubanismo La Marca 2012 ISBN 9789508892232 Acqn 22525 Pb 15x15cm 156pp 1000col ills £17.50 It is sometimes said that Cuba is easy to photograph: focus a camera anywhere on the island and a marvelous picture will result. In this volume, photographers Daniel Spehr and Kathrin Schulthess--who have also produced similar saturation-job portraits of Berlin (Made in Berlin, 2011) and Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2008)--take up that challenge, photographing everything from tile patterns, building facades, iron railings and washing lines to floor mosaics, door buzzers, fire hydrants and public phones. From Havana and the fields of Holguín to Camaguey and Trinidad, Cubanísimo offers the most thorough account of Cuban life imaginable.

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Yoshihiko Ueda – Materia Kyuryudo Art-Publishing 2012 ISBN 9784763012043 Acqn 22526 Pb 30x40cm 72pp 31col ills £79 One of the most recent series produced by the celebrated Japanese photographer, ‘Materia’ presents images of trees and vegetation on the island of Yakushima, which forms part of Kirishima-Yaku National Park and is home to a unique remnant of a warm-temperate primeval forest, a natural World Heritage Site since 1993. With its humid subtropical climate, the area receives the highest amount of precipitation in Japan, a fact reflected in the rich green palette of mosses and leaves featured in these magnificent, large-format photographs, beautifully printed on high-quality paper. Ueda’s expedition takes him deep into the inspiring realm of the ancient forest undergrowth.

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Erik Van Der Weijde - Privacy Settings 4478Zine 2013 ISBN 9789491047022 Acqn 22527 Hb 23x18cm 60pp 29ills £22.50 Dutch photographer Erik van der Weijde lives and works in Brazil, where he has produced series of photographs with a range of subjects, from Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture to portraits of anonymous women. For ‘Privacy Settings’, the photographer chose to focus his view on a single, sleeping boy. His relationship to the boy is not indicated. In each of the black-and-white images of the series, the boy is asleep, captured in the depths of dreaming, his limbs arrayed in all manner of unconscious positions, the blankets and sheets chaotic and rumpled. Occasionally, a companion of the boy is present, either a teddy bear or a woman we assume to be his mother, also asleep.

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Still Life Work Life - From The Hasselblad Foundation Collection. No. 1 Art And Theory Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789198087406 Acqn 22534 Hb 22x27cm 128pp 85ills 38col £39.95 Still life/Work life unites two very different photographic genres, still life and documentary photography, through a rich and varied selection from the Hasselblad Foundation collection. The juxtaposition of still lives and photographs documenting work life reflects photography’s complex cultural history, as well as the medium’s formal, aesthetic, and social means. The book presents twenty-five artists from different generations and traditions, from Lennart Nilsson and Kerstin Bernhard, to Elina Brotherus and Walid Raad. Their works are contextualized in the introduction by curator Dragana Vujanovic and in the essay “Things and People—Still Lifes Meet Work Lives” by researcher Louise Wolthers. This title is the first in a series of thematic books and exhibitions based on the Hasselblad Foundation Collection.

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Viktoria Sorochinski - Anna And Eve Peperoni Books 2013 ISBN 9783941825468 Acqn 22538 Hb 25x27cm 92pp 46col ills £40 Interested in folk tales as representations of common knowledge, as well as their influence on children’s perception of morality, photographer and artist Viktoria Sorochinski creates new myths that represent her interpretation of the relationship between a mother and daughter through phantasmagorical scenes. This narrative project by Sorochinski occupies a space somewhere between fantasy and documentary. Although the scenes are staged, they portray a real relationship where the boundary between mother and child is at times quite blurred; often, it is difficult to discern who holds the power between the two, and who is learning the essence of what it means to be human.

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Orna Wertman - Bird Lands Orna Wertman 2013 ISBN 9789081408509 Acqn 22542 Hb 30x22cm 36pp 31col ills £31.50 Orna Wertman’s photographic works reveal her background as a painter. Pushing the boundaries of photography and our expectations of it, her photographic landscapes mislead the eye. One landscape is transposed upon the other in a sort of collage, and from the visibly different juxtaposition also emerges a different ambiance – a fragmentary realism. Her repositioning of the notion of the photographic image offers a new perspective on our experience of a world that has become increasingly fragmented in modern times. A critical essay by Frits Gierstberg accompanies page after page of engrossing images.

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Naoki Honjo – Shinkirou Little More 2013 ISBN 9784898153635 Acqn 22548 Pb 30x30cm 32pp 25col ills £22.50 Text in Japanese Shinkirou is Naoki Honjo’s follow up to Samll Planet, for which he won the Ihei Kimura Photography Award, the most authoritative new face award for photography in Japan, in 2006. His photographs depict a landscape, which nobody knows, in which real scenes look as if they are miniature models. His works are created by a method called AORI, which blurs the dstiction between large and small thereby evoking in the viewer the strange feeling of peering into the border between fiction and real.

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