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Robert Adams - Around the House

Fraenkel Gallery 2016 ISBN 9781881337430 Acqn 26001
Pb 21x24cm 84pp 71ills 32.95
Robert Adams (born 1937) describes his home modestly and affectionately: "A friend once
referred mischievously to the house as our cottage. Built in 1941, it is now closely surrounded by
other houses, though the front yard is shielded to one side and toward the street by green. And
from the back porch there is a view of the Columbia River." Over his 45-year career Adams has
been primarily known as an artist of the landscape, tracing humans relationship to nature in the
American West. Around the House features photographs of Adams more immediate environs:
the quiet corners of his home, his darkroom and his garden, as well as the subtle drama in the
sky just above his house in Astoria, Oregon. This book is his most personal to date, capturing the
small details and spaces that define his daily routine.

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Fiona Amundsen - The Imperial Body

Split/Fountain 2016 ISBN 9780473325756 Acqn 26033
Pb 23x30cm 88pp 130ills 30col 28.95
Tokyos Yasukuni Shrine is a complex phenomenon within a local and international sociocultural
psyche. It presents an almost contradictory position around the role that memorial, memory,
honour, and site have in relationship to the trauma and death embedded within layered military
histories and experiences of World War II. Fiona Amundsens visual arts project takes the shrine
as its focus, presenting a series of present-day photographs with fragments of historical images
and documents representing worship and nationalism associated with WWII. In this way, she
critically explores the complexities of archives linking to traumatic and nationalist histories.

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Unlocked
Atopos 2016 ISBN 9789608963757 Acqn 26150
Hb 21x28cm 512pp 550ills 500col 44.50
The new publication from ATOPOS attempts to unlock the depiction of the naked body in the
post-photographic, digital era. Based on an original idea and research by Vassilis Zidianakis, the
books more than 500 pages constitutes a recording of a new visual language that has emerged
from contemporary digital platforms and other forms of social media. From Ren Hangs raw,
avant-garde photography and the hedonistic, vibrant images of Maisie Cousins, to Robert
Wilsons unconventional video portraits of Lady Gaga, the volume presents works by 145
international photographers and artists, including Cheyenne Sophia, Jacopo Benassi, and Kostis
Fokas.

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Joseph Beuys - Dusseldorf Oberkassel. Drakeplatz 4, Photographien

Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2016 ISBN 9783829607049 Acqn 24801
Hb 27x34cm 120pp 64ills 48.95
Text in German
In Beuys Dsseldorf live-in studio revolutionary concepts of art blended with child care, cooking
with debating, furniture with sculpture. His wife Eva Beuys captured its aesthetic atmosphere for
posterity.

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Jun Nakasuji - Overgrown Ruins

Aspect Corp. 2015 ISBN 9784757223820 Acqn 25478
Pb 26x18cm 130pp 120ills 22.50
If abandoned and left alone, human settlements are inevitably taken back into natures fold.
Photographer and ruin explorer Nakasuji Jun confronts us with the eerily still and untouched
buildings and interiors of a modern town now lost to the forest. Chairs and tables are covered in
lush carpets of moss, trees spring from roofless houses and rusted vehicles, once lively industry
lies quiet, and vines delicately drape facades and power lines with a mantle of green. The stories
the town holds slowly slip away in natures embrace.

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Elger Esser Combray

Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2016 ISBN 9783829607513 Acqn 25964
Hb 32x28cm 224pp 102ills 63
For Elger Esser Combray, a fictional place in Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time, is every
place where France might still look as it did in Prousts time: enchanted villages, riverside farms,
Monets garden in Giverny, old monasteries and church ruins. Shot in black and white, he
produced heliogravures from the negatives, an outdated method that highlights the beauty and
latent melancholy of his vision. With texts by Kirsten Claudia Voigt and Bernd Stiegler.

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We Belong Dead
Everyedition 2015 ISBN 9783952420621 Acqn 26183
Pb 12x19cm 168pp 168ills 13.50
This small book describes itself as a story told in an endlessly looped movie trope. The classic
camera shot of the last words of a protagonist who dies in the arms of his or her counterpart has
grown so familiar that it is now exchangeable. Page after page depicts this cinematic clich of
storytelling in a compilation of such scenes collected from 88 movies, from Hollywood
blockbusters to classic Westerns and animated films. Designer Piero Glina arranges the images
in such a way that no two characters on opposing pages match each single page contains one
scene from one movie on its front and back, intertwining the trope and thus creating narratives
that never happened.

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Sebastien Van Malleghem Prisons

Andre Frere Editions 2015 ISBN 9791092265316 Acqn 25525
Hb 21x26cm 208pp 120ills 37.95
Photographer Sbastien Van Malleghem spent eight months researching Belgiums prison
system in a self-financed investigative report that began in 2011. He eventually gained access to
ten different institutions, bringing into focus the ruined lives and misery of confinement, whether
for criminal actions or psychological reasons. Rather than questioning the need to put away and
monitor these individuals, through his stark and confronting black-and-white images Van
Malleghem intends to condemn the archaic and opaque system around those men and women
who have been incarcerated behind walls that only erode their humanity, whether under the
pretence of crime or insanity.

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Jenny Kaellman - The Rectangle's Sharp Stare

Art And Theory Publishing 2016 ISBN 9789188031235 Acqn 25990
Hb 19x25cm 110pp 41ills 33.75
As a starting point for this new body of work, Swedish photographer Jenny Kllman initiated an
exploration of prison spaces from an immediately physical vantage point. The title of this series,
Lounge, is an ironic take on the indefinite time and shared social environment of the prison as an
institution, and a number of the images were made in a centre for young offenders. Working not
only in still photography, but also with sound, music, and the moving image, Kllman opens these
usually closed spaces up to a mode of representation that diverges from strictly documentary,
applying abstraction as a way to describe the complexities inherent in confinement.

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Andre Luetzen - Inside Out Kochi

Peperoni Books 2016 ISBN 9783941825901 Acqn 26128
Hb 24x22cm 88pp 70ills 67col 31.50
Kochi was the centre of Indian spice trade for many centuries, and continued to thrive during the
European Age of Discovery, witnessing encounters between different groups and communities at
various points in history. Its complex connections to the world via religion, trade, and culture
blossomed and subsequently faded. Today, it is cosmopolitan and brutally impoverished, yet the
region still clings to tales of a glorious past. Andr Ltzens captivating photographs cast a
respectful eye on the citys larger history to make suggestive and subtle links between image and
commentary, eschewing sentimentality in favour of raw emotion. With a text by Riyas Komu.

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Ruud Van Empel - Souvenir D'intime / Still Life

PhotoWorks International 2016 ISBN 9789081383240 Acqn 26184
Hb 31x24cm 76pp 40ills 38col 44.50
Published with an exhibition at the Flatland Gallery in Amsterdam, this catalogue presents two
series by visual artist Ruud van Empel: Still Life and Souvenir dIntime. The latter is a sequel to
Ruuds earlier Souvenir series, which is themed around his childhood and can be described as
pictured collections of the everyday objects of nostalgia. Still Life, on the other hand, comprises
a series of works inspired by themes of the Vanitas. Looking closely, it is clear that none of these
meditations on past and present are installations photographed as such. Van Empel captures
each element separately, later assembling them into a whole and creating a new reality.

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Exit 61- Photographer Painters

Olivares & Associates 2016 no ISBN Acqn 26194
Pb 21x26cm 184pp 180ills 142col 26
Painters who choose to integrate photography in their work, merging photographic characteristics
with the essence of painting, are in a way practitioners of an entirely new dimension of visual
expression. They often use photography as a means to broaden their perspective, expanding
upon the formal and conceptual aspects of their painted works. Although there are barely any
differences between their paintings and photographs, each feeds on the other, allowing an
alternative method to view and catalogue the world. This issue offers encounters with those
worlds, through contributions from Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Sigmar Polke, Karen
Kilimnik, and more.

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Scheltens & Abbenes - Separate As One

Epoi 2015 no ISBN Acqn 26064
Bx 31x41cm 7pp 7col ills 48.95
The art photography couple Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes have worked unwaveringly
for nearly fifteen years carving out their identity as image makers. Whether commissioned by
brands or magazines, their oeuvre is persistently autonomous, wherein only the actual
characteristics of the objects in front of their camera steer their creative process. For Epoi, a new
genuine leather bag brand made in Japan, Scheltens & Abbenes created a series of six
photographic works using the leather parts of bags yet to be made. Printed on large-format, ultrathick card and presented as individual plates, the images strongly follow in the tradition of
Calders mobiles.

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Loek Van Vliet - Sacred Grounds. Quiet Areas In The Netherlands And Flanders
Submarine 2016 ISBN 9789082420609 Acqn 26186
Hb 29x29cm 108pp 33ills 29col 35.50
For this photo series, photographer Loek van Vliet selected a specific type of landscape, quiet
areas. A relatively new phenomenon in this densely populated and highly industrialised region of
Europe, these demarcated outdoor spaces enjoy governmentally instituted noise restrictions,
thereby allowing the natural sounds of flora and fauna to predominate. They signal a shift in
attitude towards our surroundings, and affirm humanitys growing desire to temper, if not bring an
end to the supremacy it has established over nature. Not only does Van Vliet succeed in
capturing the solemn magnificence and beauty of the Low Countries, he also builds upon this
desire to reconnect.

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