This week's recommended books include some great new titles from Pierre Von Kleist Editions including Keiko Nomura's Drop Of Light to Rushing Water, Andre Principe's You're Living For Nothing Now and Anne Lefebvre's Hollinghausen.
Also new in is a collection of self-portraits by Boris Mikhailov; I Am Not I. We also have a new book of Nikolay Bakharev's impressive and subversive photos, Novokuznetzk.
We also offer the beautifully designed first book in The Gould Collection, Change, featuring photos by Mikiko Hara and text by Stephen Dixon.
Finally we offer Chad Moore's sold out Bridge Of Sighs.
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Keiko Nomura- Drop Of Light To Rushing Water
Softcover / 21x29 cm / 32 pages / Colour / edition of 300 copies /
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Keiko Nomura (1970, Kobe, Japan) graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka and studied photography in Los Angeles. She has already published 6 books, mostly with Japanese publishers. Nomura received the Newcomer’s Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 1999 and New Photographer Prize at the 16th Higashikawa International Photography Festival in 2000 and has been exhibiting regularly in Japan in the last years.
In her work, women and water have been the motifs in her overarching theme of life’s infinite cycle beyond time and space.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Contemporary Japanese Photography, vol.13' held at TOP Museum Tokyo (Tokyo Photography Art Museum) in November 2016.
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Anne Lefebvre - Hollinghausen
Hardcover / 20.5x28 cm / 112 pages / Colour and black and white /
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Hollingshausen is Anne Lefebvre's second book, featuring photographs and paintings done between 1983 and 2016. A highly free and playful sequence of images of castles, women, animals, UFOs, etc. that form a new imaginary world built of pieces of our own reality. Anne´s adventures in wonderland. |
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Nikolay Bakharev - Novokuznetsk
120pages / 8 page booklet / Essay by Aaron Schuman / Hardback / Paper Wrapped / Tipped-on Image / 240 × 270mm /
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During the 1980s by the Siberian artist Nikolay Bakharev worked as a mechanic and communal services factory photographer in the USSR. To supplement his income he would solicit work as a black market portrait photographer on the public beaches of Eastern Russia. If the shoot went well, he would invite his subjects to make further images in a more intimate setting, compelling his subjects over several hours into contorted, erotically charged poses, which at the time was highly illegal.
After the the fall of the Iron Curtain, Bakharev began to work more openly as an artist, although often being admonished as a pornographer. His photographs from this time reveal more than just the bodies of his subjects, but the longing and dampened dreams of the inhabitants of an industrial town and the desires of an unrelenting artist.
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Chad Moore - Bridge Of Sighs - Signed
Edition of 500 / 40 pages / 35 photographs / 25.5 x 29.5 cm / Softcover /
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Built in 1600, The Bridge of Sighs known as ‘Ponte dei Sospiri’ by Venetians, connects the Doges’s Palace interrogation rooms to the prison. The name comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their last view of the world before their imprisonment or their execution.
Chad Moore’s Bridge of Sighs refers to the New York’s Bridge of Sighs, located at ‘The Tombs’ near the artist’s studio. This new album of combined portraits and landscapes, introduce a new language of the artist: silence and contemplativeness. A translation of his errant experiences in the city. The result, is a resonant representation of the despair provided by the city to his characters and to himself. Perhaps it is the last sighs of a youth, full of dreams and beauty, as per the last sigh of the convicts crossing that famous bridge.
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Boris Mikhailov - I Am Not I
33 tritone images / text by Simon Baker / LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 / 64 pages / 24 x 33 cm /
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These self portraits where done as the Soviet Union crumbled. Boris had once been arrested during the Soviet era for making "pictures ... which did not fit into Soviet propaganda.”
With the collapse of one system and its replacement with another - Boris was now able to portray a nation's face in a different light.
Enter 'Boris' - the personification of a dying paradigm - the Soviet Union. Grandiose postures albeit with dildo in eye, a nation getting an enema, wearing a wig - a farcical anthropomorphism of a collapsing system, an allegory of corruption, inflation, economic collapse etc.
'I thought, if you criticize someone, start with yourself. ... All of a sudden, you see a face that is different from a face that you see every day. This is not you. This is a face. Moreover, when I first took photos of myself, I saw a face that was different than the one known from the ideology of the Russian man. This man was an intelligentik (an intellectual, not a worker, who is not to be trusted in the Soviet Union) ... I am photographing the other, but who am I?'
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André Príncipe - You're Living For Nothing Now - Signed
Book 1, 2, 3 / Softcover, 3 vols. in slipcase / 21,3x30cm / color and black and white / 240 pages (80 pages each volume)
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You´re Living for Nothing Now ( I hope you´re keeping some kind of record) is André Príncipe´s take on the I-novel, a personal account about how it felt to be alive between 2009 and 2013. With its Leonard Cohen line´s title, Príncipe´s most ambitious work to date is organised in three books designed to be autonomous but that read best when together. The classical music score format of his earlier books is revisited and this time the images center on his struggle with marriage, living in Lisboa, spending time in China, Turkey, Japan, Paris, London and other places.
The new layout alternates spreads assembled in minimalist comic book style with full bleed spreads, emphasising the narrative, cinematic nature of the images and ultimately creates a strong musical feeling, with pauses, andantes, adagios and crescendos, reading like a visual symphony.
Influenced by sufi and buddhist ideas, You´re living for nothing now Book 1, 2 and 3 is a compendium of gestures, a modern mandala, an elegy of the ephemeral in the tradition of Ed van der Elsken, Henry Miller, and Jonas Mekas.
“It's a book about how it felt to be alive on those years, about what people do with their eyes and hands, the animals being on the side waiting for their turn and this idea that all this is connected.” André Príncipe |
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Mikiko Hara + Stephen Dixon - Change
24.8 cm high x 18 cm wide (9.75 x 7 inches) /66 pages / 40 Images / Exposed Swiss binding within soft cover in dust-jacket / 500 regular edition copies /
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CHANGE, the first volume of The Gould Collection, interweaves Stephen Dixon’s short story Change with Mikiko Hara’s untitled photographs from 1996 to 2009.
Isolation and social disconnect define both Dixon’s story and Hara’s photographs. Whether images of a bored mother and child on a Tokyo subway or dialogue that reveals missed social cues between neighbors, the people who inhabit the pages of Change try and often fail to genuinely interact with one another. Visually united through an inventive design that presents Dixon’s story on iridescent sheets interspersed between Hara’s color images, Change probes alienation and its role in contemporary life.
MIKIKO HARA is a Japanese photographer who lives in Kawasaki and graduated with a degree in literature from Keio University before studying at Tokyo College of Photography. Always in possession of her medium-format film camera, Hara’s photographs capture the random people and places of her daily existence. Her work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
STEPHEN DIXON is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award, for Interstate and Frog, and the author of seventeen novels and sixteen collections of short stories. Born in New York City, he worked as a newsman, editor, junior high school teacher, bartender, waiter, and department store salesman before teaching writing and literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1980 to 2007. |
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