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Linus Bill Topmotiviert Rollo Press 2012 ISBN 9783905999143 Acqn 21892 Hb 18x25cm 64pp 64col ills 24 Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Was Nun? at the Photoforum Pasquart Biel in 2011, which included work by Linus Bill, Patrick Hari and Timm Ulrichs, this catalogue is only comprised of photographs. Without text, the artworks are shown both as stand-alone pieces and in a random variety of behind-the-scenes shots of the exhibitions set up (or dismantling). Rough and original, the approach relates a visual narrative while leaving many questions open to speculation.

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Erik Van Der Weijde - O. Niemeyer Rollo Press 2012 ISBN 9783905999327 Acqn 21893 Pb 25x19cm 104pp 114ills 27 Dutch photographer Erik van der Weijde uses a simple book of full-page, black-and-white photographs without text to present architect Oscar Niemeyers monumental work in the modernist city of Braslia. These images of the so-called utopian city are stark and carefully devoid of people. In this way, Van der Weijde chooses for a clear focus on the structures and urban spaces, lending the series an architectural purity and imparting some of the grand scale of the city, perhaps even agreeing with the critics who have referred to it as dehumanising and full of elegant monotony.

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Les Carnets Du Bal 02 - L'Image Deja La Images En Manoeuvres Editions 2012 ISBN 9782849952245 Acqn 21896 Pb 15x21cm 232pp 150ills 100col 24.95 Text in French The history of photography is also that of replication its importance increasing due to its technique and means of production. Inevitably its images became the basis of other images and uses to be re-employed in collage, montage, ready-mades etc. Photography has led into multiple directions as much about the object as the medium itself. This collection of twelve illustrated essays (the second instalment in the series Les Carnet du Bal) explores this terrain which parallels the traditional history of art and its images. Including texts by Batia Suter, Joachim Schmid, Anri Sala, and Didier Semin.

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Paul Kooiker Heaven Van Zoetendaal 2012 ISBN 9789072532138 Acqn 21903 Hb 24x34cm 176pp 500ills 150col 57.95 More than 450 polaroids by Paul Kooiker are arranged in spreads that communicate a kind of rhythmic melody, one which consists of images of funerals, churches, cityscapes, fountains and numerous pin-ups and nudes.

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Rikard Laving - Steel Work City Journal 2012 ISBN 9789197887670 Acqn 21914 Pb 21x27cm 102pp 55ills 45col 43.95 Through muted colours and sombre depictions, photographer Rikard Laving documents scenes, structures and inhabitants in Oxelsund, a Swedish town dominated by a massive steel works run by SSAB. Schools, homes, landscapes, public buildings and of course the steel works themselves are all washed in a cold and lifeless light. Class portraits of school children and teams of mill workers are shown in static groupings against neutral white backgrounds. Buildings are uninspiring and emotionless. It is an overall bleak impression of life in a small steel town.

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Diana Scherer - Nurture Studies Van Zoetendaal 2012 ISBN 9789072532190 Acqn 21915 Pb 22x28cm 68pp 33col ills 37 The photographs Scherer has produced for 'Nurture Studies' recall the illustrations in 17thcentury botanical encyclopaedias, images which presented every part of a plant, from the flowers to the roots. Her work also has strong similarities with botanical publications from the 1970s, in which indoor plants were often arranged on a pedestal and counterposed with fabrics that added a romantic touch to the whole. Despite her clear references to these predecessors, Scherer effortlessly avoids the perceived cosiness of the pot plant genre, producing images that are bare, unadorned and original.

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Ed Van Der Elsken - Look. Ed! Anett Gelink Gallery 2012 ISBN 9789080646704 Acqn 21920 Pb 21x27cm 52pp 27ills 1col 26.50 Published in conjunction with an exhibition showing a range of works by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken images selected by fellow artists Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Marijke van Warmerdam Look. Ed! is about observing and making choices. Van der Elskens photographs are intriguing in that they both document and voice emotion, simultaneously detached and empathising. The chosen images present not only the variety inherent in his work, but also his unique ability to portray the darker side of humanity and circumstances. Besides commentary from the selectors, the book includes additional texts by Annet Gelink and Jhim Lamoree.

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Walter Pfeiffer - Scrapbooks 1969-1985 Edition Patrick Frey 2012 ISBN 9783905929256 Acqn 21926 Hb 25x32cm 460pp 460col ills 93 Walter Pfeiffers Scrapbooks are a very unique Wunderkammer. His Polaroids and other photographs alternate with miscellaneous objects newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets and brief, punning notes. All of this is assembled into a large collage full of surprising references and comparisons that is both a visual diary and creative foundation of his artistic work. Pfeiffers keen view on popular culture, his disrespectful humour, and his appreciation for the poetry in the mundane and banal are all sharply revealed. Offering insight into his meandering and playful universe, they capture the zeitgeist of the 1970s and 80s with ephemeral elegance.

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Amira Fritz - Wild Nothing Les Presses Du Reel 2012 ISBN 9782840665625 Acqn 21937 Pb 24x32cm 48pp 8col ills 33 Wild Nothing is a fascinating artist's book that, with its particular structure, states the impossibility of catching the raw beauty without destroying it. Born 1979 in Rosenheim, Germany, Amira Fritz lives and works in Paris and Berlin. Amira Fritz moves along borders: the borders between day and night, between blossom and decay, between man and nature, between domesticated and raw nature. These dichotomies, which society continually reconciles, seem to become pacified under her lightly contoured lens. But why is there always this itchy unease in the harmony when beholding the images? Jan Joswig

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Jean Gaumy - D'Apres Nature Editions Xavier Barral 2012 ISBN 9782915173581 Acqn 21947 Hb 39x32cm 108pp 46ills 78 The photographs presented are part of a project that began in 2003. They constitute the prologue to a project of photographic reconnaissance performed by the artist, who travelled to the Arctic Circle to lands contaminated by Chernobyl, while also frequently returning to the high plains of the Occitan Piedmont Mountains. For the author, they represent the point of reference for his desire to trace an evolution from which the human race is intentionally absent. The book contains over forty extremely stylised photographs, sometimes tending towards abstraction, but that also have an intimate quality to them. The photographs are followed by two important passages from Mont Analogue by Ren Daumal.

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Philippe Chancel - Desert Spirit Editions Xavier Barral 2010 ISBN 9782915173529 Acqn 21948 Hb 36x29cm 116pp 52col ills 69 Since his beginnings, Philippe Chancel has photographed authoritarian societies. In 2008, he travelled to the United Arab Emirates. In this immense open-air construction site, he discovered features in common with Communist dictatorships: utopia, a cult of personality inducing an invasive iconography, the concentration of power, control over individuals and above all a denial of humanity. Philippe Chancel focuses on the manner in which these societies display their power. His photographs seek to demystify this contemporary illusion. The documentary aesthetic, the frontal and distanciated framing, and the absence of any form of emotion precisely indicate the site where the propaganda of ideologies operates: in appearances and pretence. With a text by Quentin Bajac, head of the photography department of the Muse National dArt Moderne in Paris.

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Pascal Cribier - Itineraires D'Un Jardin Editions Xavier Barral 2011 ISBN 9782915173338 Acqn 21949 Hb 25x33cm 320pp 1700ills 1500col 62 Text in French The first monograph devoted to landscape gardener Pascal Cribier, this book reproduces more than 1,000 panoramic photos taken and commented on by the artist. In the form of an alphabet book, Pascal Cribier invites us to ramble through his gardens where nothing is left to chance: from a rooftop terrace in Paris to a lagoon in Bora Bora, from the Tuileries to a swamp in the forest of Fontainebleau, from a British vegetable patch to an American ranch Several contributions by historians, scientists and gardeners accompany the itineraries of this gardener at the forefront of ecology, concerned with the economic conditions of production and the upkeep of his creations.

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