This weeks' featured books include some more titles from Kominek Books Residency II artists Yoshi Kametani and Hiroshi Takizawa. Void is a collection of photos of abstract sculptures taken by Kametani. Sleep and Dual showcase Takizawa's signature style and obsession with texture and materiality.
 
Also new in the Japanese section is Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa by Mao Ishikawa. Red Flower is an honest and intimate portrait of young love in Okinawa from 1975-77. Recommended.
 
Jim Jocoy's Order Of Appearance portrays the US underground scene of the late 70s, early 80s in a whirr of flash and colour. Jim Goldberg describes his portraits as "raw and intimate, harsh yet soft- his vision was ahead of its time."
 
Also in is Revoir by JH Engström- a revision, and re-visitation of his legendary book Trying To Dance.
 
36 Views by Fyodor Telkov re-envisages Hokusai's masterwork; 36 Views of Mount Fuji in the small mining village of Degtyarsk in Russia, where 2 huge waste heaps fill the horizon.
 
We are also stocking limited copies of the collaborative project by ECAL students and Taiyo Onorato, an interpretation rather than documentation of the city of Berlin which manifest itself in the ECAL Berlin Book Werkstatt.
 


 Mao Ishikawa - Red Flower, The Women Of Okinawa

First Edition of 600 / 112 pages / Silkscreen soft cover covers and silkscreen text pages / 229 x 330 mm /
 
price: 85€
 
 
 
Red Flower consists of 80 b/w photographs taken in Koza and Kin, Okinawa from 1975 to 1977.
The photos are primarily from 1975 to 1977.The photos are primarily from Ishikawa’s first legendary book Hot Days in Camp Hansen published by A-man Shuppan in 1982, and also includes unpublished work from the same period. Red Flower exhibits Ishikawa’s celebration of the courageous and honest lives of women she met and befriended while working at military bars. Red Flower is the pivotal work for Ishikawa, since it marks the starting point of her subsequent long career as a photographer.

Red Flower features full-bleed images in a large format with intense b/w printing, and successfully regains the original lively spirit and tension of Ishikawa’s Camp Hansen work available again for wider public appreciation.


  
Jim Jocoy - Order Of Appearance
 
Hardbound / foil embossed cloth / with tip-on image on cover / 84 pages / 44 full color plates / edition of 1000 / 9 x 12.25 in. /
 
price: 65€
 
   
 
… I met Jim around 20 years ago. He carried with him a photo album of Polaroids and prints. They were amazing. His work seemed to radiate that time in the late 70's when I first moved to SF. They were raw and intimate, harsh yet soft-- his vision was ahead of its time…
- Jim Goldberg, artist

Unknowingly foreshadowing the AIDS epidemic that would grip underground communities throughout the country, Jocoy’s poignant photos share an intimacy not unlike that found in the work of Nan Goldin, combined with the underground compulsion and clout that permeates the photos of Katsumi Watanabe, and Karlheinz Weinberger. 

Spanning three short years from 1977 to 1980, the collection of images is structured in three chapters, vignettes from a one night affair where emotions range from delight to despair, sober to wasted, clear to blurry to half-way-clear-again by morning.


  
JH Engström- Revoir

Hardcover / 225 x 280 mm / First edition, 2016 / Text in French, English & Swedish
 
price: 65€
 
 
 
"Revoir is a completely new book, a revision, a revisit to that period between the mid-90s and the early 2000s. The book has been made in close and enjoyable collaboration with all the people that I worked with on Trying to Dance. Around two thirds of the photographs have not been published before. For the first time I have scanned the negatives, together with Ewa-Teréz Gölin, and allowed the present to guide me in the printing for Revoir.

Christian Caujolle has written a text for the book. This makes me especially happy, since he was the first to whole-heartedly embrace and recognise the photographs then, almost 17 years ago." - JH Engstrom


  
Fyodor Telkov - 36 Views

32 x 21,5 cm / 88 pages / Clothbound hardcover with jacket /

price: 35€
 
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36 views goes back to the renowned series of prints of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai: 36 views of Mount Fuji. Telkov has captured thirty-six images of the small mining town of Degtyarsk, in the Russian región of Sverdlovsk, at each end of which we find two huge waste heaps. The two mountains of dead rock are visible from all angles, an environmental catastrophe that is the daily horizon for the inhabitants of Degtyarsk. The city grew with copper mining – an activity that left its mark on the landscape – and its consequences.


  
Taiyo Onorato & ECAL - ECAL Berlin Book Werkstatt

Produced in collaboration with C/O Berlin for the Book Days 2016 / Xerox printed / Staple bound / Each cover features a unique stencil and acrylic paint overlay /

price: 40€
 
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To celebrate the launch of a new master's degree in photography at ECAL for 2016, the first year students worked together with Taiyo Onorato and Milo Keller (Head of Photography at ECAL) in Berlin for one week to produce a book about the city's architecture in turmoil.

Using the wide streets of Berlin as a blank canvas, the students were encouraged to interpret rather than document the spaces of the vast metropolis and build their own story of its distinctive character. The pictures depict the shift that Berlin has undergone from the perspective of unexpected encounters, vacant spaces, countless construction sites and shared revelations.


  
Yoshi Kametani - Void

edition of 100 / 22cm x 18cm / soft cover / 86 pages /
  

price: 32€
 
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Void is a playful sculptural collaboration between artists Yoshi Kametani and Naohiko Utagawa.


  
Hiroshi Takizawa - Sleep - Signed

25.7 x 18.2 cm / 390 g / Softcover /
  
price: 28€
 
 
 
‘Sleep’ consists of images from a hotel room during a residency project in Bangkok. The images attempt to capture how time and behavior emerge in a confined space. Despite the coming and going of people in and out of the room, there is nothing residual that claims their presence. There is little movement of the articles in the room. The furnitures and curtains stay still, except for the bed covers. Through time, space and behavior - every day, the bed covers presents itself in a different form, changing its shape as if a living sculpture.


  
Hiroshi Takizawa - Dual

ed. 50 /2016 / laser print /
  
price: 28€
 
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The dual series consists of scanned prints that are purposely creased and damaged. The scanned prints are then pasted on acrylic or glass. During the pasting process, the prints are again creased. This creates a double layered image which challenges the perception of whether the creases are images or real.
 

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