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Dive Dark Dream Slow The Ice Plant 2012 ISBN 9780982365373 Acqn 21405 Hb 19x24cm 88pp 59ills 4col 21.95 Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs from the early to mid-twentieth century. Gathered from flea markets, dealers and Ebay, these prints have been acquired, exhibited and included in a range of major museum publications. In organizing the archive into a series of thematic catalogues, she has pursued an alternate reading of the collection, drifting away from simple typology into something more personal, intuitive and openly poetic. Her magical new artists book, Dive Dark Dream Slow, is rooted in the mystery and delight of the found image and the snapshot aesthetic, but pushes beyond the nostalgic surface of these pictures and reimagines them as luminous transmissions of anxious sensuality. Through a series of abandoned visual clues, from the sepia-infused shadow of a little girl running along a beach to silhouettes of a group of distant figures pausing upon a steep and snowy hill, a dreamlike journey is evoked. Like an album of pop songs about a girl (or a civilization) hovering on the verge of transformation, the book cycles through overlapping themes and counter-themes--moon and ocean; violence and tenderness; innocence and experience; masks and nakedness--that sparkle with deep psychic longing and apocalyptic comedy.

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Daria Scagliola - Time Frames Las Palmas Post Editions 2012 ISBN 9789460830679 Acqn 21648 Pb 32x49cm 48pp 48col ills 27.95 Re-use of old buildings seems to be limited to the housing or creative sectors. This collection of photographs illustrates how it can be more than that. The former warehouse building Las Palmas, in Rotterdam, is a multi-tenant structure for a diverse array companies with cultural and commercial ends. On the basis of socio-cultural and economic studies, as well as historical, architectural and cultural perspectives, 'Time Frames Las Palmas' offers surprising insights about the dynamics of the location. Beginning with detailed photographs of the interior, photographer Daria Scagliola captures how the occupants have given content and context to the ambitious urban renewal plan of Las Palmas.

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Thomas Struth - Unconscious Places Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2012 ISBN 9783829606189 Acqn 21650 Hb 31x29cm 264pp 228ills 54col 86 Unconscious Places presents Thomas Struths photographs of streets in all parts of the world: narrow lanes in Edinburgh and Naples, satellite towns in Pyongyang, thoroughfares in Lima and Los Angeles, grand boulevards in St. Petersburg, New York, and Beijing. Frequently devoid of people, Struths urban landscapes are also a critical depiction of different human habitat. With a text by Richard Sennett.

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Thomas Schutte / Robbrecht And Damm - The House Ludion 2012 ISBN 9789461300737 Acqn 21684 Hb 18x25cm 144pp 65ills 25col 31.50 The new pavilion in the Middelheim sculpture park in Antwerp houses a series of ceramic sculptures by German artist Thomas Schtte. Ghent-based architects Robbrecht & Daem are the designers of the half-open pavilion, which they named 'The House'. Schtte's fragile sculptures are a perfect fit for the nature and spirit of the pavilion's architecture, which is specially designed to cast a protective veil over vulnerable artworks. This book tells the story of the unique collaboration between the sculpture park, the architects and the artist.

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The Making Of Papa Post Editions 2012 ISBN 9789460830662 Acqn 21790 Pb 17x24cm 368pp 185ills 130col 24 Participating artists' press agency (PAPA) is an international curated network of artistcorrespondents. It is an instrument for world mapping, gently fixing even the most stubborn pieces into meaningful patterns. PAPA's street-level observations inspire a broad audience and inform specialist arenas such as art, urban development, politics and the news industry. With a working method based on reading the street, correspondents use their cameras to capture the question in mind at appropriate locations. This publication combines a DIY manual, an introduction to the cities in which PAPA has operated, visual essays and an explanation of PAPA's beginnings. It contains 250 photographs taken by 35 photographers from six countries.

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Yoicki Nogano Breathless Foil Co. Ltd 2012 ISBN 9784902943757 Acqn 21791 Hb 21x32cm 64pp 51col ills 39.95 Yoichi Nagano began his career as a photographer in 1998. Often focusing his lens on the inhabitants and environs of his native Japan, in Breathless he takes his camera underwater. Here his subjects are portrayed fully clothed while floating against the vast blue backdrop of the sea, nestling against coral reefs, or posed as if walking or falling from these submerged ecosystems. In so doing, he creates a delicate balance between the fragile human form, gracefully inhabiting a physically hostile world, and the flora and fauna whose existence depends upon these sensitive environments.

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Michael Wolf - Bottrop-Ebel 76 Peperoni Books 2012 ISBN 9783941825406 Acqn 21826 Hb 30x24cm 144pp 106ills 4col 42.75 Having a passionate curiosity about people, German artist and photographer Michael Wolf began his career as a photojournalist. For his final exam as a student, Wolf submitted a series of photographs taken in the coal mining town of Bottrop-Ebel, located in Germanys Ruhr District, over the course of continuous visits he made to the area in 1976. In the various images of the towns inhabitants and their everyday lives celebrating, socialising, playing, working he captures not only a sense of normalcy, but also the regions gradual economic decline, already pervasive just under the surface. Features more than 100 pages of photos and an epilogue by Sigrid Schneider.

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Josef Koudelka Piemonte Editions Xavier Barral 2009 ISBN 9782915173499 Acqn 21836 Hb 33x21cm 160pp 76ills 61.50 Text in French With this series of black and white panoramic photos taken in the Piedmont region, Josef Koudelka continues to explore the evolution of landscape. From the shores of Lake Maggiore to the mountain passes of the Alps, from farm valleys to the construction sites of Turin, from cement works to the vestiges of the past, the human element is only visible in these pictures via the brutal traces left by man where he has transformed nature.

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Annelies Oberdanner - Au Louvre. Arcadia Revisited Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675569 Acqn 21857 Hb 25x32cm 144pp 81col ills 28 Oberdanners magnificent photographic book is set in the Louvre and focuses on French art and the Enlightenment. The interiors and exteriors of this prototypical museum, the people to be found there and of course carefully selected exhibits are combined into scenes which recreate an ideal, fictitious museum visit. The artist explores the art history context and highlights artistic qualities, using surprising close-ups and startling details. Oberdanners penchant for the figurative and the sculptural she herself is both a sculptress and a photographer are reflected in the choice of art works and the emphasis on materiality and physicality. Almost as an aside, the captions contain encyclopaedic facts about the history of the Louvre itself, the political circumstances of the day, and anecdotes on the personalities portrayed; they reflect the historical and ideological determining factors of the museum as a large-scale cultural construct. The essay by Suzie Jungeun Lee looks at Annelies Oberdanners work method. In her preface art historian Marta Smoliska analyses the photographic book, referencing Malrauxs Muse Imaginaire, in which the close ties between art historiography and photography.

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Nadja Bournonville - A Conversion Act Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675743 Acqn 21859 Pb 20x28cm 96pp 85ills 60col 21.50 Prompted by an interest in narrative, Berlin-based Swedish artist Nadja Bournonville has worked extensively on the phenomenon of hysteria. In her latest artists book the fragmentary traces of this highly elusive pathology provide the motivation for creating a discrete world of images consisting of photographs, drawings and prints depicted by the artist in often surrealistic image constructs that blend fact with fiction. Of her work method, the artist says: My work focuses on this act of transformation, the spectacle, the staging, the attempt to document and size up the body through photography, the subliminal erotic aspect, and the all in all shaky framework as medical theory.

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Michael Strasser - Domestic Sculpture Garden. Sites Of Desire Fotohof 2012 ISBN 9783902675637 Acqn 21861 Pb 30x36cm 68pp 52ills 50col 21.50 The starting point for Michael Strassers interventions, staged specially for the photographs, are empty rooms characterised by a sense of in-betweenness and the imminent transformation into something new. Initially the onlooker feels alone, but very soon the presence of objects brought to life becomes palpable. Golden tubes wildly snake their way across the room; parquet flooring tiles pile up to form a human-sized something and peak out of a window; a brown, stained carpet cowers in a corner, then appears neatly folded as if waiting for someone to collect it. Michael Strassers works showcase the past and reluctantly edge out the future. They reveal the traces of identity that remain whenever we leave the intimacy of our living spaces.

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Jan Kempenaers - Dun Briste, Downpatrick Head + Signed Print ROMA Publications 2012 ISBN 9789077459843 Acqn 21886 Pb 23x33cm 30pp 15ills 1col 37 As a sequel to his previous books 'Spomenik' and 'Picturesque', the photographs in this special edition are also part of Kempenaers' artistic research project on contemporary picturesque. A filmic sequence of photographs of a massive rock is printed on a cardboard leporello which measures 33 x 345 cm when unfolded. It contains an original colour lambda print, signed and numbered in an edition of 500.

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Terra Cognita - Noorderlicht 2012 Stichting Aurora Borealis 2012 ISBN 9789076703480 Acqn 21887 Pb 17x24cm 288pp 250ills 230col 19.95 Accompanying the 19th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, this catalogue delves into the relationship between man and nature. How do we experience nature, and what is its value for us? Our romantic longing for pure nature is diametrically opposed to the practical desire to control the world and cultivate it. 'Terra Cognita' looks at nature from far away and close by, as a dream and as reality, in our genes and in our minds.

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Cara Phillips - Singular Beauty Fw 2012 ISBN 9789490119164 Acqn 21889 Pb 23x27cm 208pp 100col ills 26.50 Beauty stalks us with a condescending eye. From television screens to magazines, shop windows to billboards, there is hardly a face or figure that hasnt been trimmed, polished, or reinvented to beleaguer us with an increasingly unattainable paradigm of physical beauty. Here Cara Phillips explores the reassuring environments and ominous implements of cosmetic surgery. The book provides a voyeuristic view into the pristine temples of physical transformation while simultaneously offering an insightful critique of our culture of narcissism.

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