Photography March 2013

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ilove.cat Little More 2012 ISBN 9784898153499 Acqn 22250 Pb 18x25cm 136pp 225ills 150col 17.50 Text in Japanese Little More brings together a collection of images from the popular ilove.cat website.
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Terry Evans - Prairie Stories Radius Books 2012 ISBN 9781934435489 Acqn 21403 Hb 25x25cm 176pp 100ills 69col 37.50 The small Kansas town of Matfield Green and the surrounding prairie hills are the focus of the latest extended project from acclaimed photographer and Kansas native Terry Evans (born 1944). A small town in Chase County with a population of just dozens, Matfield Green was once a cattle shipping railhead. Today, only one commercial establishment--a bar/caf--remains in business, but people continue to call the town home and work the land. Evans first began visiting Matfield Green in 1990 and regularly photographed the town over the next eight years. She returned ten years later, in 2008, and photographed the residents and their land through 2010. Eloquent yet resolutely unsentimental, her images span 20 years in the life of this town, and capture the beauty and endurance of the prairie and its dedicated inhabitants.
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The Plight Of The Torpedo People T Adler Books 2013 ISBN 9781938922084 Acqn 22058 Hb 31x22cm 100pp 78ills 73col 34.95 The Plight of the Torpedo People is a collection of bodysurfing photographs, frame grabs and personal essays documenting the making of Keith Malloys first film, Come Hell or High Water-the first feature-length film to be made about the sport of bodysurfing--between May 2009 and August 2011. A winner of Best Film and Best Cinematography awards on the festival circuit, Come Hell or High Water explores the history and development of bodysurfing alongside the purity of experience that is riding a wave, taking a unique look at the culture and beauty of the sport, while capturing the stories and locations of those who belong to its community. The films unanticipated popularity may well reflect the less-is-more, environmentally aware consciousness of our times; as the simplest of all ocean sports, bodysurfing requires little more than swim fins and some waves. The Plight of the Torpedo People is a collaborative work by the best bodysurfers of today, captured doing what they do best by some of the worlds best surf cinematographers and photographers.
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The Unphotographable Fraenkel Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781881337331 Acqn 22063 Hb 20x31cm 120pp 57ills 32col 42.95 Since the invention of photography almost 175 years ago, the medium has proven itself understandably adept at capturing what is there to be photographed: the solid, the concrete, that which can be seen. Another tradition exists, however; a parallel tradition in which photographers and artists have attempted to depict via photographic means that which is not so easily photographed: dreams, ghosts, god, thought, time. The Unphotographable explores this parallel tradition, and is published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, presenting photographs by anonymous amateurs alongside those of artists such as Diane Arbus, Bruce Conner, Liz Deschenes, Adam Fuss, Man Ray, Christian Marclay, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Alfred Stieglitz and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Jules-Bernard Luys and mile David are represented by a photograph taken toward the end of the nineteenth century, of fluidic emission from the fingers of two hands; Richard Misrach captures a sandstorm in California in 1976; and Conner is represented by Angel Light, one of the Angels series of dramatic, life-sized photograms he created in 197375, and which explore the disjunction between vision and phenomenological experience. Since opening in 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented close to 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its interrelations with the other arts, and The Unphotographable is one of its most ambitious projects to date. The catalogue is edited with an essay by Jeffrey Fraenkel, and includes 50 images in color.
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Helfried Valenta - Prater. Copper Nights Metro Verlag 2012 ISBN 9783993000707 Acqn 22215 Hb 27x22cm 64pp 51col ills 29.50 Photographer Helfried Valenta takes his camera into Viennas Prater amusement park well after the last visitors have trickled home. There he finds a fantastical realm, both surreal and frightening, filled with bizarre characters and discomfiting objects. In photographing the dormant entertainment landscape, Valenta presents absurd, unfathomable and often mysterious views. The atmospheric effect is further amplified by later manipulation of the images, shifting colours toward unnatural tones and into a vibrant, artificial palette that is as unsettling as it is radiantly beautiful.
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Andreas Lehne, Stephan Olah Stadtbahnbogen Metro Verlag 2012 ISBN 9783993000851 Acqn 22217 Hb 17x25cm 160pp 79ills 66col 29.50 Built between 1893 and 1901, Viennas city train lines form a network of viaducts underneath which a fascinating variety of enterprises flourishes in the resulting arcades (stadtbahnbogen). Characteristic urban cycles of renewal, overwriting and adaptation are readily apparent, symbolic of the wider, dynamic changes in the city. Presented through both archival images and many contemporary, full-page photographs, the stadtbahnbogen house everything from car repair shops to ateliers, businesses and clubs. Whether covered in graffiti or climbing vines, bricked in or boarded up, the arcades are a unique cross-section of urban life, history and change in Vienna.
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Jon Naiman - Familiar Territory Edition Patrick Frey 2012 ISBN 9783905929263 Acqn 22221 Hb 27x37cm 68pp 34col ills 64 In Familiar Territory we find portrayals of farm animals together with their owners. However, instead of being situated in a stall or field, they are pictured in the midst of peoples living quarters. The emotional connections that exist between animals and humans find multiple expressions here, and are also effectively questioned. American photographer Jon Naiman invokes the traditions of portrait and documentary photography as a way to investigate culture, habitat, domesticity, family and gender roles, as well as our relationship with animals. Although the photographs are orchestrated and carefully composed, Naiman has managed to capture moments of intimacy.
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Michael Blaser Mittleland Edition Patrick Frey 2013 ISBN 9783905929300 Acqn 22230 Hb 26x26cm 144pp 72col ills 63.50 Photographer Michael Blaser embarks on an uninspiring journey through the small towns and villages of his native Switzerland, places marked by their mundane architecture and overall sameness in character. Across the hilly landscape of the densely populated Swiss Plateau, the colours are always muted and the skies always seem to be grey. The same types of houses and flats crop up, with the same stucco facades and identical flower plantings and garden sheds. Blaser painstakingly records this monotonous landscape through numerous photographs, presenting something quite apart from the idyllic quiet house in a small town we might imagine and equally as boring.
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Amelie Debray - Surface De Reparation. Six Yard Box Fondation D'Art Oxylane 2012 ISBN 9782906496644 Acqn 22234 Hb 24x26cm 112pp 75col ills 39.95 By documenting football as it is played in Palestine, the photographer Amlie Debray offers a fresh perspective on Palestinian youth. In Palestine, as in so many other countries, football is king. But because no tale told in this country is a simple one, it is a king without a crown, a king still seeking a kingdom. By documenting football as it is played in Palestine, the photographer Amlie Debray offers a fresh perspective on Palestinian youth. These photographs bear witness to both a universal passion for the game and a statement of identity in a fragmented country. From Hebron to Jericho, from Nablus to Ramallah, the playersmen, women and children, amateurs and professionalsdoggedly follow their passion, often despite difficult conditions.
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Jan Banning - Comfort Women Ipso Facto 2010 ISBN 9783934687844 Acqn 22235 Pb 24x32cm 104pp 25col ills 26.50 Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During World War II, the Japanese military even set up a system of sex slavery: tens of thousands of "comfort women" in Asia were forced into prostitution at military brothels. Jan Banning and Hilde Janssen visited Indonesian women who during the war were victims of sexual forced labour. In this book, 18 of them break the persistent taboo against speaking out on the issue. Showing them in combination with Japanese war posters, the book presents male and female sides of, and propaganda versus reality.
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Gary Briechle Photographs Twin Palms Publishers 2011 ISBN 9781931885898 Acqn 19216 Hb 26x31cm 96pp 66ills 43.50 The rocky coast of Maine is where Briechle found himself driven to make pictures, using the wetplate collodion process, of the individuals who constitute his stand-in family. I've been in Maine close to eight years now and there are some people I've photographed for the entire time. A few have died and I've shot their likenesses tattooed on the chests of those they've left behind. The last time I photographed Arizona (an eight year-old girl that I've been photographing since she was one) I did what I always do: I taped a black Wal-mart sheet to the house, set the camera up on the tripod and got her to lean back with shoulders touching to steady herself. I usually put a little flower by the lens, so she can fix her eyes on something during the fifteen-second exposure. This time, the end of October, it was a small, bright, red leaf. A minute later, as I poured fixer over the glass, an image appeared out of a swirl of watery blue-green. Even though I had done this countless times before, what I saw was an image I never saw before.
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John Schabel Passengers Twin Palms Publishers 2013 ISBN 9781931885973 Acqn 19222 Hb 21x25cm 84pp 72ills 43.50 "John Schabels series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel. Like products on an assembly line, the planes carrying Schabels subjects churn down the runway; and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge, identically framed, from his camera and onto the gallery wall. Interestingly, it is precisely this mechanized process that lays bare the active, but often overlooked, emotional and intellectual relationship between human beings and flight. Laura M. Andre
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Wassinklundgren Hits Fw 2012 ISBN 9789490119188 Acqn 22190 Pb 9x12cm 190pp 190col ills 15.95 The work of photographer duo WassinkLundgren develops from small observations or humorous twists in everyday life. The starting point is a social interest in the world around them, yet equally of interest is how photography can deform reality. The pocket-sized 'Hits' is an overview of their output since 2005, and delves into both the nature of their cooperation and the dynamic this engenders in their work. More than 100 digital breadcrumbs (images and texts), spread through the Internet since the start of their collaboration, are included, plus texts by Sean O'Hagan, Bohm/Kobayashi, Merel Bem, Diane Smyth, dewham5, Tom Claxton, Michiel Goudswaard and others.
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Masao Horino - Vision Of The Modernist Kokushokankokai 2012 ISBN 9784336054760 Acqn 22213 Pb 15x21cm 362pp 300ills 41.95 This book accompanies the exhibition on Horino Masao at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A primary figure in Japans New Photography movement, he is considered essential to any consideration of the formation of modern photography in Japan. Active prior to World War II, Horino Masao addressed a variety of subjects, from theatre photographs and portraits to photomontage experiments, and later, the social realities of Japan as a photojournalist. With an emphasis on his work during the 1930s, the book presents an extensive view of the history of Japanese photography through the prodigious and exhaustive lens of one man.
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Takayuki Ogawa - New York Is Akio Nagasawa 2012 no ISBN Acqn 22218 Hb 22x21cm 164pp 124ills 59.95 New York Is documents renowned Japanese photographer Takayuki Ogawas experience in New York City in the late 1960s. In these images, his enthusiasm for the city and fascination with American culture of the time is tangible. Ogawas shift away from the established documentary style of post-war Japanese photographers is readily apparent, and personal expression, emotion and empathy all find their way into his work. From Vietnam War protests and hippies to black culture in Harlem and Pop Art, the period is elegantly captured in Ogawas work. Includes critical texts by Nathan Lyons and Anne Wilkes Tucker, plus a DVD with film footage shot by Ogawa.
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Rika Noguchi - Light Reaching The Future Izu Photo Museum 2012 ISBN 9784904257111 Acqn 22219 Hb 20x26cm 120pp 59ills 35col 33.95 Published to accompany the exhibition taking place between September 2011 and March 2012 at the Izu Photo Museum, which included Rika Noguchis latest output, as well as previously unreleased works. With installation views, plates, a biography and the essay Noguchi Rika: Experiments in Light, by Yuri Mitsuda, the book offers a comprehensive view of this Japanese photographic artists mesmerising vision, one which often deals with the limits of human ability and ambition. Small space and big space, going back and forth between the microscopic and macroscopic with an original point of view, Noguchi photographs a world overflowing with wonderment.

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