New favourite books from Bertien Van Manen, JH Engstrom, Cristina De Middel, Mike Mandel, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jacob Aue Sobol, Keizo Kitajima, Seiji Kurata, Hajime Sawatari, Desiree Van Hoek and Sophie Bramly!!!
Please check out the signed books, limited stock!
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Bertien Van Manen - Beyond Maps and Atlases - Signed Copies
60 pages / 32 colour plates / 26 cm x 29 cm / Embossed hardcover with tipped-in image
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In this new body of work, Beyond Maps and Atlases, Bertien van
Manen turns to Ireland. Van Manen says, ‘At first, working in Ireland I
wasn’t sure what I was looking for. My husband had died. I dispensed
with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by a
feeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning in a place of
myths and legends. There was mystery and endlessness at the edge of a
land beyond which is nothing but a vast expanse.’
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JH Engstrom - Tout Va Bien - Signed Copies
28,4 x 23,1 cm / 152 pages / 103 color and black-and-white images /
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Swedish artist JH Engström is an inveterate bookmaker. Most recently,
his published works have explored ideas of place and home, including
Sketch of Paris (Aperture, 2013), La Résidence (2010), From Back Home
(2009), and CDG/JHE (2008). After more than a decade of such thematic
projects, Tout Va Bien returns to the looser, more associative approach
of Engström’s critically acclaimed volume Trying to Dance (2003). The
source for these photographs is nevertheless strongly autobiographical,
as well as vividly metaphorical; a reemphasis of the artist’s belief in
photography’s potential as visual poetry. The sequencing is highly
charged with contrasts: black-and-white images mix with color; the
gentle beauty of coastal rocks clashes with a flash-lit image of the
bright, blood-red placentas from the birth of his twins. The book leaves
it to the viewer to map his or her own network of meaning from image to
image, page to page.
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Cristina De Middel - Man Jayen
Edition of 1000 copies / 2015 / 15 x 22 cm
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In 1911 the North Pole had already been discovered
and these first valiant explorers had opened a way for secondary heroes
that were willing to prove their courage and to bring back home some
unforgettable and and unique memories. In that context a group of
wealthy German and British supposed scientists decided to “re-discover”
Jan Mayen, an island located between Greenland and Iceland that whalers
had been using for years but that had not been studied
scientifically. They sailed, they argued, they fought, they forgot their
compass,they ran out of coal, they made it to the island, but the boat
was too big and they could not land. End of the story. No medal to bring
back home this time and no serious discovery in any of the fields of
science that the crew was proudly representing.
History is written by winners and the
cinematographer in the crew was well aware of that. He convinced the
loser group to stop on the way back in an Icelandic beach and to stage
the landing with all the dramatising that such heroic jests entail.
This is the true story of how History was staged.
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Mike Mandel - Good 70s
Boxed Set, 517 pages / 24 x 32 cm / hardback / English /
contains facsimiles of Mandel's original publications...already sold out from the publishers
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This boxed collection contains facsimiles of Mandel's original
publications, long out of print, including the 'Baseball-Photographer
Trading Cards', 'Myself: Timed Exposures', 'Seven Never Before Seen
Portraits of Edward Weston', plus previously unpublished work such as
'Motel Postcards', 'People in Cars' and 'Mrs. Kilpatric', and ephemera
from the projects, including selected facsimile contact sheets from the
baseball photo shoots, a letter to Mandel from Charis Wilson regarding
Edward Weston and a pack of ten of the original 1975 baseball cards.
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Nobuyoshi Araki - Sentimental Journey 2
21.6 x 28 cm / 32 Pages / 62
Images / Softcover, double gatefold cover
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Published as part of Super Labo’s photobook series Super Labo 32, Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey 2 brings together Araki’s 1971 originally self-published photobook Sentimental Journey Continued within this special photobook series.
Designed by Hideki Nakajima, the publication
wonderfully recollects a selection of images from the original series
into a altogether new design. The resulting work is both a new and
thoughtfully considered photobook which pays special respect to the
original publication and personal importance of this particular body of
work to the photographer. In keeping with Araki’s original publication,
this photobook is available in the same 1000 limited edition as the 1971
photobook.
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Jacob Aue Sobol - By The River Of Kings
21 x 28 cm / 152 Pages / 109 Images / Hardcover partly clothbound
/ Tritone Offset Fullcolor offset /
PRE-ORDER NOW - Delivery end of february
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“The Chao Phraya River is the lifeblood of Thailand. It is born as the Ping and Nan rivers become one.
From there its waters flow south to Bangkok. These pictures are a recording of what I saw and the people I met along The River of Kings in Bangkok.”
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Keizo Kitajima - CAMP 1979 - Signed Copies
32pages / softcover / 1st edition / Edition of 800 copies: 500 copies cover A / 300 copies cover B /
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" IMAGE SHOP CAMP, an independent gallery, was
opened in 1976, at multi-tenant building located at 2 chome street in
Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. 6 graduates of "WORK SHOP Daido Moriyama
class" includes me were participated. This is where, I showed my photos
of Tokyo from January to December 1979, in a radically new way. The
series, PHOTO EXPRESS: TOKYO(Shashin Tokkyubin: Tokyo), was accompanied
by a monthly, 16-page booklet, with issues numbered 1 to12. The shooting
location was the center of 2 chome street in Shinjuku around CAMP. I
presented grids of images or enlarged prints, impromptu, immediately
after the photo session, almost in real time. Occasionally I transform
the gallery into a darkroom, projecting the images directly onto bromide
paper attached to the wall, then applying developer and fixer with a
sponge. The interval between the various phases of shooting, developing,
exhibition, publication, and dis-semination was thus reduced to a
minimum. far from wishing to embody an intension that would be prior to
the act of taking the photograph, I sought to produce images in a
mechanical way, beyond my control: The accidental became a means of
experiencing the world"
- Keizo Kitajima
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Seiji Kurata - Toshi no Zokei - Signed Copies
21.6 x 28 cm / 32 Pages / 23 Images /
Softcover / Doubletone Offset / Limited edition of 750 / choice between 3 different front covers, each books are limited of 250
copies /
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These photographs were taken during the years between 1998 and 2008
using six cameras made by four different manufacturers and films in four
different formats.
"Zokei" [created landscape], the title of this
book, is derived from "paysagement" a notion presented by a French
geographer in his examination of the cityscapes of Tokyo and other
megalopolises developing around the world since modern times.
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current situation in which there is no model for what "paysagement"
should aim at seems suitable to our time at a turning point of entire
civilization, not to mention technology.
Thus mimicry, imitation and
pantomime are and will be prevalent in photography and manners of
expression. As for the history of photography, when such dispositions
that every modern man is supposed to have as individual personality,
originality and identity are differentiated up until now, the
superficialization and fragmentation of photographic modes suit the
space-time representation of here and now.
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Hajime Sawatari - Nagisa Hotel - Signed Copies
21.6 x 28 cm / 32 Pages / 20 Images / Softcover
(hand-sewn) / Limited edition of
800 / choice between 2 different front covers
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I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi,
Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my
girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in
Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we had
on my days off. It was my hope to have them published in the monthly
magazine Camera Mainichi, but Shoji Yamagishi, the editor, did not
approve. It has been 50 years since then and my wish has finally been
fulfilled.
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Desiree Van Hoek - Skid Row - Signed Copies
Pages: 104 + 8 single sheets / Size: 28 x 36 cm / Photos: 64 / Edition: 750 / Selfpublished
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Skid Row Los Angeles is home to some 15,000 (former) homeless people.
Dutch photographer Désirée van Hoek documented the neighbourhood between
2007 and 2015. Being a former fashion photographer, her focus is on
people’s dwellings, possessions, and clothes. The result is a unique
portrait of a neighbourhood that is changing rapidly. Simultaneously,
it’s a universal story about the way people survive under the most
difficult circumstances. The book includes an introduction by Gale
Holland, Skid Row reporter of the ‘Los Angeles Times’.
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Bramly Sophie - Walk This Way - includes a signed print
Limited edition of 500 copies / Each copy comes with an original print signed and numbered / 4 different
prints to choose, each print is edition of 125 copies / the books are numbered / cover with tipped-in image / includes a transparent dustjacket with a tag by Fab 5 Freddy
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In 1981, French photographer Sophie Bramly, moved to New-York and quickly dropped her job as a correspondant for the French medias to spend her entire time witnessing the early days of Hip-Hop in the
Bronx. She took photographs of legends such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Master Flash, the Beastie Boys, Futura 2000, Keith Haring or the Rock Steady Crew in their most intimate moments, at home with
their parents, backstage, or wherever they would appear the most sensitive, touching, moving.
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Please note the signed copies are rare and limited stock.
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