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Food. Photographs by Henk Wildschut. Post Editions, 2013. 144 pp., 90 color illustrations, 9½x11". Publisher's Description Few subjects evoke as much controversy nowadays as the subject of food. The world's population continues to grow, and with the rise in prosperity comes an ever greater need for food that can be trusted. Inevitably, it seems, this means both an increase in scale and unceasing technological innovation, with unpredictable results at times. If critical documentary makers point out the pitfalls, false assumptions and deception in the food industry, the branch itself advertises its wares with nostalgic images of cows in the meadow and heads of corn swaying in the morning sun. Images that the consumer all too willingly embraces. Meanwhile, scandals in the food chain fuel our desire for a transparent world where food can once more be cultivated reliably and at a modest scale. The present lack of transparency and the fact that few know the real state of play have elicited the widest range of opinions about how our food can best be produced. The one scientific study refutes conclusions drawn in the other. Indeed, the issue is so complex and inclusive that every discussion seems doomed to sink under its own weight. For Food, Henk Wildschut immersed himself in the world of today's farmer whom he originally saw as the most important innovator in the food production process. But even here appearances are deceptive: farmers are often forced to switch to a method of husbandry where efficiency and scaling-up are the name of the game, all under the banner of public health, food safety, the environment and animal welfare. This holds equally for organically produced food. In his endeavour to get to grips with the production and

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Food.Photographs by Henk Wildschut.

Post Editions, 2013. 144 pp., 90 color illustrations, 9½x11".

Publisher's Description

Few subjects evoke as much controversy nowadays as the subject

of food. The world's population continues to grow, and with the

rise in prosperity comes an ever greater need for food that can be

trusted. Inevitably, it seems, this means both an increase in scale

and unceasing technological innovation, with unpredictable results

at times.

If critical documentary makers point out the pitfalls, false

assumptions and deception in the food industry, the branch itself

advertises its wares with nostalgic images of cows in the meadow

and heads of corn swaying in the morning sun. Images that the

consumer all too willingly embraces.

Meanwhile, scandals in the food chain fuel our desire for a

transparent world where food can once more be cultivated reliably

and at a modest scale. The present lack of transparency and the

fact that few know the real state of play have elicited the widest

range of opinions about how our food can best be produced. The

one scientific study refutes conclusions drawn in the other. Indeed,

the issue is so complex and inclusive that every discussion seems

doomed to sink under its own weight.

For Food, Henk Wildschut immersed himself in the world of today's

farmer whom he originally saw as the most important innovator in

the food production process. But even here appearances are

deceptive: farmers are often forced to switch to a method of

husbandry where efficiency and scaling-up are the name of the

game, all under the banner of public health, food safety, the

environment and animal welfare. This holds equally for organically

produced food.

In his endeavour to get to grips with the production and

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processing of food Wildschut, rather than restricting himself to

modern farming, also directs his quest at vegetable breeders and

cultivators, stock farms, hatcheries, fish farms, laboratories,

inspection bodies and suppliers of abattoir equipment. Theirs is a

squeaky-clean world where rules, regulations and protocols are

riveted together in the stainless-steel abstraction of the industrial

scheme of things; a world that often seems such a far cry from the

food itself.

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The Secret History of KhavaGaisanova.

& The North Caucasus.By Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen.

The Sochi Project, 2013. 352 pp., 32 page insert and

107 color illustrations, 8x10½".

Signed copies available to order!

Publisher's Description

Khava Gaisanova lives in Chermen, a village in the

heart of the North Caucasus. In 2007 her husband

disappeared, like so many men in the North Caucasus

disappear without a trace – kidnapped, arrested or

simply executed and buried in anonymous graves.

Writer Arnold van Bruggen and photographer Rob

Hornstra met her by chance and became intrigued by

her story, which is drenched with blood but

punctuated by the will to survive. Hornstra and Van

Bruggen then came to the attention of the security

forces, who ultimately prevented them from travelling

through the region. Even the strong Khava was

intimidated and her family has avoided all contact

since. Khava’s history reads like the history of the

North Caucasus itself.

Hornstra and Van Bruggen have visited the North

Caucasus numerous times between 2009 and 2012.

They too became victims of the violence, corruption

and abuse of power that have plagued the region for

centuries. This book is a penetrating account of their

travels.

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Cut Shaving, the Xerox Edition.Photographs by Jaap Scheeren.

FW: Books, 2013. 144 pp., color and black & white

illustrations, 8½x11½".

Publisher's Description

'Fresh anarchy' is a way to describe the work of Dutch

photographer Jaap Scheeren. With his own, slightly

absurdistic, style he investigates the coherence

between reality and photography. By doing so

Scheeren developed a visual world in which he follows

its own intuition, logic and rules. Always with a

humorous twist. 'Cut Shaving, The Xerox Edition'

combines for the first time all of Scheeren's work. The

publication explores ways of reproducing

photography, photo-books and visual archives,

resulting in a a fresh and anarchistic publication that is

not just documenting his oeuvre, but also becomes

part of it.

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The Arrangement.By Ruth van Beek.

RVB Books, 2013. 48 pp., 28 collages and 13 illustrations, 9¾x13¼".

Publisher's Description

The Arrangement is a group of images Ruth Van Beek made with a

collection of books on flower arranging.She has been collecting

books on this subject for years, mostly instructional books dating

from fifties to the the seventies. They combine colorful stillives of

flowerarrangements with the functional photograhphy of a

manual.Ruth Van Beek is specialy interested in the translation of the

strict rules and symbols of Japanese Ikebana into instructional books

for Dutch housewifes.

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Via PanAm*By Kadir van LohuizenParadox and Ydoc Publishing

Over the course of a year, Van Lohuizen travelled from the southernmost tip of South America tothe northernmost tip of Alaska, visualizing migration along the Pan­American Highway. Partly dueto the addition of stories, charts and graphs, the book has become an intriguing reference work.­ See more at:http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/01/best­books­2013­rob­hornstra.html#sthash.a6WXeNF9.dpuf

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Paris Mortel.Photographs by Johan van der Keuken.

Van Zoetendaal Publishers, 2013. 188 pp., color and black & white

illustrations, 7½x10¼".

Publisher's Description

In 1956 Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) moved from Amsterdam

to Paris to study at the School of Film. There Van der Keuken took

thousands of photographs, the city acting as a background to his

feelings of desolation. In 1963 a selection of these were published

in a book called 'Paris Mortel'. The complete book, including the

original dummy Van der Keuken made and a few previously

unpublished photographs are collected in this publication.

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Studio Paradiso.Photographs by Max Natkiel.

Voetnoot, 2013. 624 pp., illustrated throughout, 9x9½".

Publisher's Description

As a frequent visitor to concerts at Paradiso,

Amsterdam?s long-running music venue, in the early

1980s, Dutch photographer Max Natkiel encountered

all manner of subcultures: punks, new-wavers,

rockers, mods, Rastafarians, squatters, and metal-

and skinheads. Eventually he decided to bring along

his camera and started making portraits of the

fascinating people he found; a collection eventually

numbering over 1000. A selection of about 600 of

these black and white photographs appears here,

reflecting the explosion of pure youth culture and

fierce desire for individuality he experienced in the

decade between 1980-1990. With an introduction by

philosopher Dirk van Weelden.

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The Gospel of the Photographer.Photographs by Elisabeth Tonnard.

Elisabeth Tonnard, 2013. 64 pp., 25 color illustrations,

8¼x6".

Signed copies available!

Publisher's Description

What would it be like if Jesus had been a

photographer? What would he have done differently

and which images would he have snapped? The

Gospel of the Photographer imagines this possible

world through a rewriting of the gospel of Mark.

Words from the gospel were replaced by words

connected to photography, resulting in a booby

trapped text in which photography appears as an

agent of miracles and healing-and announces itself

ultimately as the new religion. The book includes

twenty-five newly discovered photographs.

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still

dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place,

and there he took photographs. And Simon and those

who were with him searched for him, and they found

him and said to him, 'Everyone is looking for you.' And

he said to them, 'Let us go on to the next towns, that

I may take photographs there also, for that is what I

came for.' And he went throughout all Galilee,

photographing in their synagogues and casting out

demons.

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Yoshino.Photographs by Cuny Janssen.

Snoeck, 2013. 58 pp., 20 color illustrations, 18x13¾".

Publisher's Description

'Ever since the day I saw the blossoming treetops in

the Yoshino's mountains, my heart has left my body

behind', wrote the Japanese poet Saigyõ in the

twelfth century. And even in those days, the area

planted with over 30,000 cherry trees flanking the

Yoshino Mountains must have been an awe-inspiring

sight and make it an eloquent witness today to man's

harmonious design for luxuriant nature, so

characteristic for Japan. For over 1,400 years, the

temple, the mountain slopes and the river in Nara

prefecture are thus part of the Spring cherry blossom

season in the Buddhist pilgrim calendar; in former

times, it was the preserve of the aristocracy, today

Yoshino is a popular tourist attraction.

With 19 major cross-format photographs, Cuny

Janssen has gathered together not only captivating

and sensitive nature shots from Yoshino in her

unusual book of photographs, but has also included a

small anthology of Japanese poetry compiled by Jos

Vos, which the Dutch Japan specialist rounds up with

a travel essay, 'A fox in Yoshino'. In a way rivalled by

almost no other contemporary photographer, Cuny

Janssen knows how to structure her books to suit the

given topic - in Yoshino for example she increases the

calm and contemplative mood of her photographs with

a selection brittle poetry that celebrates of this site of

Japanese longing.

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Viviane Sassen.In and Out of Fashion.

Photographs by Viviane Sassen.

Prestel, Lakewood, 2012. 260 pp., 250 color illustrations,

9x11".

Publisher's Description

Following the success of Parasomnia, this major new

book focuses on the fashion photography of Viviane

Sassen.

Bringing together 17 years of work in the fashion

world, this eye-catching volume features selections

from Sassen’s awardwinning series and campaigns for

Stella McCartney, Adidas, Carven, Bergdorf Goodman,

MiuMiu, and M Missoni, along with editorials for

magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, i-D,

Numéro, Purple, AnOther Magazine, Dazed

&Confused, Fantastic Man, and POP. Sassen’s intuitive

and imaginative style can be flamboyant,

contemplative, erotic, and surreal, often

simultaneously. This volume includes essays that offer

a context for Sassen’s work in the history of fashion

photography as well as a bibliography of nearly all of

her fashion series. The book will be a delight for

Sassen’s many fans and those eager for inspiration or

beautiful escape.

Read Christopher J. Johnson's review of In and Out of

Fashion on photo-eye Blog.

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Easter and Oak Trees.Photographs by Bertien van Manen.

MACK, 2013. 112 pp., 25 tritone illustrations, 6½x8".

Publisher's Description

Bertien van Manen’s blissful images of family holidays

in den Eikenhorst (literally meaning Nest of Oak Trees)

from the 1970s are the subject of her latest

publication, Easter and Oak Trees.

It was her son, one of the primary subjects in the

series, who recently reminded van Manen of the

archive. Lightness dominates these black and white

images, and the obvious pleasure, family warmth and

security of her children and family in the less politically

correct ‘70s. Children pose, play and run but ultimately

the photographs communicate the intimate comfort

that comes with family, uninhibited in their expression

and exposure to the camera. Easter and Oak Trees

offers an enticing invitation to share a small part of

this familial idyll.

The images raise the question, could a photographer

still do this in 2013? Could she photograph her

children naked, footloose and carefree, acting up to

the camera with fake cigarettes and a bottle of beer?

Or is this spontaneity, this innocence, lost thanks to

rancid affairs and small-minded moralism?

Whilst this work is some of the earliest made by van

Manen, it has all the qualities found in her mature

work. “One recognizes the lyrical looseness, the

sensuality and the melancholy but also a striving for

balance and composition. Her photographs look like

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free, insouciant improvisations on themes, that later,

in ‘a Hundred Summers a Hundred Winters’ or in ‘East

Wind West Wind’ have taken shape in a more

outspoken way”. Hripsimé Visser