PhotographyNovember2013

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Else 5 Musee De L'Elysee 2013 no ISBN 23018 Pb 22x29cm 96pp 90ills 65col £14 This instalment deals with the use of photography to bring together practices with contrasting purposes, making visible the struggle images undergo between author, distributor and beholder – and the potential rebellion of the images themselves. It questions whether the fear of images and their revealing power should justify reclaiming their control, or whether it is actually the images that should be feared. With contributions by Joachim Schmid, Erik Kessels, Floyd Brayard, Sam Stourdzé and Christoph Schifferli, plus work by Claude Closky, Anita Cruz-Eberhard, Anouk Durand, Werner Kühler, Christian Lutz, Laia Abril and Victor Hasselblad, among others.

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Mark Morrisroe - Mark Dirt Paper Chase Press 2013 ISBN 9780985204419 Acqn 21419 Pb 21x28cm 170pp 90ills 40col £17.95 The photographs of Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989) are steeped in fragility, both as material objects scored and pockmarked by the vicissitudes of time, and as forlorn commemorations of brief moments in all too brief lives. In this sense, the photographs are also objects of ephemera, of a piece with Morrisroe’s equally fragile magazines, collages and drawings, which this volume compiles for the first time. Containing much previously unpublished work, Mark Dirt includes spreads from Morrisroe’s punk zine Dirt (“he sort of invented the Boston punk scene,” Jack Pierson later recalled of his former lover), as well as correspondence and notes by the artist, sketches and even his last will and testament. All of these documents have been assembled by Morrisroe’s longtime partner Ramsey McPhillips, and represent the most complete survey of the artist’s non-photographic works.

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Irene Kung - La Ville Invisible Editions Xavier Barral 2013 ISBN 9782365110099 Acqn 21831 Hb 24x30cm 112pp 50ills 12col £41 There are the cities that we visit and then there are the ones that we think we have visited, that we feel as though we have always known. Irene Kung accompanies us in these meanderings of the mind, amid monuments that seem to rise up out of nowhere, dazzling us with their own lights, stylised with pure lines worthy of our imagination. These highly refined images by Irene Kung are the result of a long period of research and have earned her international acclaim. It is not a question of reproducing reality: the monuments that she chooses to photograph come from various cities and eras, we know them all, yet all of them also seem to belong to a dream world. In this book, the Flatiron in New York, the Millennium Bridge in London, the Duomo in Milan or the Colosseum become apparitions from a world of fables. Together, they trace the outlines of an ideal city – one of dreams as opposed to experience – that we traverse, guided by Irene Kung, within a suspended world.

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Sara Macel - May The Road Rise To Meet You Daylight 2013 ISBN 9780988983113 Acqn 22584 Hb 20x18cm 72pp 42col ills £33 In this remarkable pseudo-documentary and biography, Sara Macel followed her father, a traveling salesman, on his trips across the US. In popular mythology, few professions are as emblematic of this mobile, ambitious and commercially minded nation as the traveling salesman. As the internet and outsourcing make this once ubiquitous occupation obsolete, May the Road Rise to Meet You explores the life of a businessman alone on the road. On a larger scale, this project explores the changing nature of “the road” in American culture and in the history of photography. With these images, Sara Macel created a visual narrative of her father’s life separate from his family structure. In the same way that a family photo album functions to present an idealized version of their history, these photographs are what both Macel and her father want the visual narrative of his working life to be remembered as.

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Jordan Sullivan - The Young Earth Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9780615776408 Acqn 22619 Hb 18x23cm 172pp 156col ills £30 Shot in Iceland on 35 mm and Polaroid film, The Young Earth is a fictional photo series by New York-based artist Jordan Sullivan that follows two Americans in their twenties, one of them terminally ill, as they explore the idyllic and remote corners of Iceland. There, they are forced to confront their own mortality and a past love triangle that had previously disrupted their friendship. What bonds the two young men in their last days together is fear: one man faces his impending death, the other faces his own uncertain future and the loneliness of the world without his best friend. Through meditations on death, the end of youth and the beauty and complications that come with love and friendship, the narrative examines how we might find courage in the face of oncoming tragedy. The Young Earth is the first volume in Sullivan's Wandering Days book series.

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Melanie Schiff - Sun Land University Galleries Illinois 2013 ISBN 9780945558408 Acqn 22935 Hb 26x22cm 84pp 54ills 43col £18.50 In photographs characterized by subtle geometries and penetrating natural light, Los Angeles–based artist Melanie Schiff (born 1977) achieves dramatic effects with everyday objects, found landscapes and interiors. This is the first survey of Schiff’s photographs including work from 2002–2012.

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Petri Artturi Asikainen - 100 Years In Tokyo Aalto 2013 ISBN 9789526047003 Acqn 22967 Hb 18x22cm 216pp 203col ills £40 In this engrossing series of portraits, Finnish photographer Petri Artturi Asikainen captures a cross-section Tokyo inhabitants. Photographed between 2009 and 2012, the ambitious collection comprises 202 portraits of men and women, and boys and girls, for each year of age from 0 to 100. Many subjects were found and immediately photographed on the spot. Each pair of portraits is presented on facing pages, females on the left, males on the right, making the book a pleasure to thumb through in either direction – the years either accrue or melt away. It is both a fascinating look at the human lifespan and a very personal depiction of the bustling metropolis of Tokyo.

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After Mandela. A Dutch Tribute. Jan Van Der Brug And Stefanie Gratz Post Editions 2013 ISBN 9789460830716 Acqn 22992 Pb 22x30cm 60pp 38ills 34col £22.50 In 1991 the city of Zoetermeer built a tubular bridge across highway A12 in the city colours yellow and blue to connect the centre with new housing estates at the edge of the city, the Nelson Mandela bridge. Zoetermeer is not the only Dutch city to have a place named after Mandela. Apparently, other than members of the Royal family there is no person alive who has so many places devoted to him. Together with Stefanie Grätz, Jan Dirk van der Burg set out to capture an image of each street, lane, square, park, bridge and school in the Netherlands named after Mandela in order to map the Dutch tribute to the first black president of South Africa.

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Saul Leiter – Colors Musee De L'Elysee 2013 ISBN 9782883501010 Acqn 23004 Hb 18x23cm 96pp 50col ills £31.50 Published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Saul Leiter – Early Color’ at the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne (2011) and edited by Sam Stourdzé, this catalogue of works by the influential photographer is richly filled with examples of his style, with its signature abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions. A prominent member of the New York School of photography, Leiter embraced the medium of colour early on and his images have a painterly quality rarely before seen. His captivating snippets of 1950s American life are the subject of this exhibition and book, which includes an reprinted interview with Stourdzé from a catalogue published in 2008.

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Emma Souharce – Voyeur Rollo Press 2013 ISBN 9783906213040 Acqn 23022 Pb 11x17cm 256pp 750ills £10.95 For this small book brimming with images, Emma Souharce has processed each of the 813 images in Hans-Peter Feldmann’s highly popular ‘Voyeur’ using Google’s image search function. In the original work by Feldmann, the German visual artist sifts through the plethora of images available to our consumer-driven culture and re-presents this numbing media overload to render its toxic assault visible through intriguing juxtapositions. Souharce’s collecting and re-ordering results in a half-generated, half-edited parallel version that makes playful and subtle alterations to the source material. Read it side-by-side with Feldmann’s book for the most entertainment value.

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Out Of The Dark Room - The David Kronn Collection Irish Museum Of Modern Art 2013 ISBN 9781907020735 Acqn 20995 Hb 23x26cm 216pp 175ills 25col £30 Out of the Dark Room comprises a selection of works drawn from the exceptional collection of modern and contemporary photographs pledged to the Irish Museum of Modern Art by collector David Kronn. As diverse as photography itself, the collection traces some of the key developments in twentieth-century photography’s approach to architecture, landscape and portraiture.

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Conversations - Photography From The Bank Of America Collection Irish Museum Of Modern Art 2012 ISBN 9781907020810 Acqn 21488 Pb 22x26cm 160pp 98ills 62col £22.95 Conversations comprises a selection of more than 100 photographs drawn from the Bank of America Collection. The publication traces the history of photography through the eyes and imagination of iconic photographers such as Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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Transition Editions Xavier Barral 2013 ISBN 9782365110358 Acqn 22660 Hb 24x28cm 192pp 124ills 94col £39.95 Transition presents the collaborative photography project of twelve South African and French photographers on South African land and the role that photography continues to play in the representation and re-imagining of land.

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Vienna's Shooting Girls - Jewish Women Photographers From Vienna Metro Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783993000899 Acqn 22954 Hb 21x28cm 224pp 257ills 9col £41.95 At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was a flourishing, modernist metropolis, its stimulating atmosphere carrying over into all areas of life. Jewish intellectuals, artists, and scientists had a marked influence on this creative fin de siècle climate. In this time, women also asserted their rights to establish their place in society. Women photographers, many of them Jewish, played a significant role, chronicling the city’s cultural and intellectual life. Accompanying an exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna, this collection of historical photographs documents the little-known significance of Jewish women in this progressive vocation. With texts by Danielle Spera, Iris Meder and Andrea Winklbauer.

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Fred Huning - One Circle Peperoni Books 2013 ISBN 9783941825567 Acqn 22970 Hb 17x24cm 216pp 167ills 145col £42.95 Previously published individually in small editions, photographer Fred Hüning’s intimate trilogy of works is combined here in a single book. In this way, the very personal images, poems and texts create a poignant family narrative that touches on universal themes: life and death, beauty and decay, beginnings and endings. Despite its nonlinear presentation, the three-part series is a reflection of the cyclical nature of our experience, as well as the shifts in perspective inherent as we pass through various phases in our lives. Hüning looks with intense honesty at the relationship between a man and a woman through the years and the mystery and wonder of their child.

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Anja Bohnhof - Bahak. The Burden Of Things Revolver Publishing by VVV 2013 ISBN 9783868953138 Acqn 22995 Hb 27x25cm 128pp 60col ills £31 The bengali term for carrier is "bahak", which means a life as a day labourer living at the bottom of the social pile. Exploitation and drudgery for minimum pay; dicing with danger in a daily struggle with the Kolkata streets; little or no appreciation for vigorous physical effort, which can all end in total exhaustion. No load seems too heavy or too large to be manhandled through the narrow, crowded streets of Kolkata (Calcutta). Whether their burdens are carried on their heads, or on a yoke over their shoulders, on two-or three-wheelers or on a hand-drawn-rickshaw, all manner of goods and essentials - furniture, building materials, groceries, books and coal - are all humped, hauled or carted as they are shifted from one place to another.

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