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In reference to: Red Desert by di Michelangelo Antonioni

Fotohof 2017 ISBN 9783902993465 Acqn 28115
Pb 23x32cm 167pp 130ills 110col £22.50

The film Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert) by Michelangelo Antonioni, produced in the industrial
region around Ravenna in 1964, is one of the key works in film history. Thanks to the innovative
color design, the work holds a lot of connecting points for filmmakers, artists and photographers.
This is also reflected in the book with over 30 participants, who are reacting to Il deserto rosso
with the means of the photographic series in their current work. There is reference to scenic and
urban moments in relation to the local situation around Ravenna. Approaches to color analysis,
which reflect the narrative structure in photography and film, and those that enlighten atmospheric
attitudes - citing the period’s atmosphere - from a contemporary perspective are likewise
visualized.

With works by: Fabrizio Albertini, Mariano Andreani, Daniele Ansidei, Jakob Argauer, Daniel
Augschöll/Anya Jasbar, Enrico Benvenuti, Joachim Brohm, Christoph Brückner, Luca Capuano,
Danny Degner/Vera König, Eva Dittrich/Katarína Dubovská, Alessandra Dragoni, Johannes
Ernst, Marcello Galvani, João Grama, William Guerrieri, Guido Guidi, Gerry Johansson, Sophia
Kesting, Philipp Kurzhals, Dana Lorenz, Allegra Martin, Mako Mizobuchi, Francesco Neri, Andrea
Pertoldeo, Sabrina Ragucci/Giorgio Falco, Alexander Rosenkranz, Valentina Seidel, Anna
Voswinckel, Jakob Wierzba, Xiaoxiao Xu.

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Manfred Willmann - Blitz & Enzianblau. Lightning Flash & Gentian Blue
Fotohof 2017 ISBN 9783902993526 Acqn 28118
Pb 23x30cm 280pp 142col ills £35

With Blitz und Enzianblau, Manfred Willmann presents his third profound artist book – following
Schwarz and Gold (Graz 1981) and Das Land (Salzburg 2000), composed of works from the year
2005. Intense close-up views, series of landscapes, animals, plants, everyday objects and
portraits are interrupted by reproductions of the backside of the Agfa photo paper Sensatis.
Having produced more than a thousand analog prints in the year 2005 on this material, Willmann
has only looked at them ten years later and subsequently developed the present book.

Blitz und Enzianblau brings together photographs that show not only the surface of the world, but
also tell about of the medium of photography itself - of its very own possibilities to represent the
world, in its beauty, ugliness and transience, as images. In the way as concrete poetry speaks
about language itself, Willmann exposes the texture of the medium of photography. His
photographs deal with constellations, still-lives, and moments – isolated by his flash, often painful
in their existential depth, but entirely free of sentimentality.

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Betsy Schneider - To Be Thirteen

Radius Books 2017 ISBN 9781942185260 Acqn 27631
Hb 19x23cm 524pp 250col ills £37.95

Traveling around the United States, Betsy Schneider spent 2012 chronicling 250 13 year olds,
creating still portraits and video documentation of each. The resulting body of work creates a rich
collective portrait of a group of Americans whose lives began at the turn of the millennium and
who are coming of age now.

To Be Thirteen depicts all 250 portraits with brief quotations from the extended video interviews
and an interview by Center for Creative Photography Chief Curator Rebecca Senf with Schneider,
unpacking details about the artist’s process, insights about the project and how it changed her, as
well as longer excerpts from the subjects. This publication captures and conveys the experience
of meeting with the artist and looking through a stack of prints with her, and will complement an
exhibition of the project debuting at the Phoenix Art Museum in the spring of 2018.

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Laura Letinsky - Time's Assignation

Radius Books 2017 ISBN 9781942185222 Acqn 27698
Hb 24x30cm 180pp 101ills £46.50

Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky (born 1962) used Polaroid Type 55 film as part of
her working process until the film was discontinued in 2008, exploring focus, composition,
exposure and light in black-and-white instant photographs as she worked up to the larger-scale
colour works for which she is best known. Like sketches, the photographs in this volume-small,
slow and raw-reveal a process of asking. This way or that? More or less? Now or then?

A Polaroid is a fugitive thing, beautiful in its decomposition, subject to change as much as the still
life compositions of ripe fruits and nibbled foods that Letinsky arranges. Time’s Assignation
collects Polaroids taken by the photographer in her studio between 1997 and 2008, now
stabilized, their high-key tones slipping into white veils and darker tones metallized in hues of
taupe, gold and gunmetal gray. These photographs offer a record of Letinsky’s working process,
but are a compelling body of photographic work in their own right, exploring time’s unrelenting
progression in their subject matter and materiality.

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California Infernal - Anton LaVey & Jayne Mansfield. Photos By Walter Fischer
Trapart Books 2017 ISBN 9789198324310 Acqn 27708
Hb 21x25cm 152pp 142ills 12col £33.95

Movie star Jayne Mansfield and notorious Satanist Anton LaVey met in 1966. Both were publicity
conscious and made the most of the meetings, which evolved into a friendship. Almost always
present was German paparazzo Walter Fischer, stationed in Hollywood and catering to image-
and scandal-hungry photo magazines all over the world.

Fischer’s unique collection of photos takes us straight into the ritual chamber of the Church of
Satan in LaVey’s infamous “black house” in San Francisco, as well as into Mansfield’s Hollywood
“pink palace.” We also get to follow LaVey on excursions to his friend Forrest “Famous Monsters
of Filmland” Ackerman, to Marilyn Monroe’s grave, to TV studios and back, to Satanic weddings
and Zeena’s baptism at the Church of Satan HQ.

These were wild and narcissistic times in America. Few understood the power of media exposure
better than Jayne Mansfield and Anton LaVey. Captured alone or together by master paparazzo
Fischer, this devilishly handsome couple made headlines that still resonate today. The book
contains an introduction by legendary filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and forewords by writer Carl
Abrahamsson and collector Alf Wahlgren.

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William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography

Carnegie Museum Of Art 2017 ISBN 9780880390606 Acqn 27859
Hb 22x26cm 96pp 40ills £21.50

This beautiful publication serves as a primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true
interdisciplinary innovator who drew on his knowledge of art, botany, chemistry and optics to
become one of the inventors of photography in 1839. Talbot’s “photogenic drawings”
(photograms), calotypes and salted paper prints are some of the first-ever examples of images
captured on paper.

Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November 2017,

this book brings together more than 30 photographs by Talbot that demonstrate his wide-ranging
interests, including nature, still-life, portraiture, architecture and landscape. Some of these images
are previously unpublished. Through thematic groupings elucidated by noted Talbot scholar Larry
Schaaf, the book reveals the photographer’s early striving to test the boundaries of his medium at
a historic moment when art and science intersected. With its luminous reproductions of Talbot’s
fragile works, this publication demonstrates that, in its earliest days, photography required a form
of magic-making and innovation that continues to inspire people today.

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Rediscovering an American Community of Color - The Photographs of William Bullard,

1897-1917
Worcester Art Museum 2017 ISBN 9780998681733 Acqn 27715
Pb 23x29cm 128pp 130col ills £3

An invaluable record of African American lives in the aftermath of Emancipation and

Reconstruction.

This book presents a photographic narrative of African American and Native American migration
and resettlement in the aftermath of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Taken between 1897 and
1917 by itinerant photographer William Bullard of Worcester, Massachusetts, these photographs
address larger themes involving race in American history, many of which remain relevant today:
the story of people of colour claiming their rightful place in society and creating a community in
new surroundings.

William Bullard’s heretofore unpublished collection of more than 230 glass negatives presenting
the African American and Nipmuc communities of Worcester, Massachusetts, at the turn of the
century provides an exceptional opportunity to significantly deepen our understanding of the use
of photography at a political and personal level. Unlike most extant photographic collections of
black Americans taken in this period, the subjects in Bullard’s photographs are identified in his
logbook, allowing this book to tell specific stories about individuals and re-create a more accurate
historical context.

In addition, though most publications engaging with African American history focus on the Gilded
Age or the Civil Rights eras, this collection of Bullard’s photographs exposes a critical gap in
many visual histories. Predating the Great Migration, these photographs portray a moment
seldom stressed in the historical narrative, replacing stereotypical notions of poverty and
dysfunction with accomplishment and respectability.

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Ad Van Denderen – Stone

Fw 2017 ISBN 9789490119591 Acqn 28181
Pb 14x24cm 200pp col ills £28

For almost 25 years Ad van Denderen has been photographing daily life in Israel and the
Palestinian territories. He originally worked in black and white, in a classical, direct, reportage
style. About 15 years ago he switched to colour, and since then he has employed a more
detached and monumental photographic style. 'Stone' unites these two approaches to create a
subtle depiction of the complex and precarious situation in this part of the world, and makes much
use of stone as a metaphor. It is stone that principally defines the landscape. Its quarries provide
the material for houses on both sides of the border. Stones are used to throw up barriers and
throw at adversaries. At one and the same time, stone is a weapon, an obstacle, but it also offers
shelter.

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Photographies - William Klein, Gerard Ifert, Wojciech Zamecznik

Editions Xavier Barral 2018 ISBN 9782365111485 Acqn 27864
Hb 20x26cm 224pp 200ills 100col £44.50
Text in French

With more than 200 photographs and documents, mostly unseen or unknown, this publication
examines for the first time the history of the relations between photographic abstraction and
graphic arts in the particularly creative post-war years. The publication focuses on three works:
the first photograms by William Klein, the studies on the representation of mobility by Swiss
graphic designer Gérard Ifert and the light drawings by Polish architect and designer Wojciech
Zamecznik.

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