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Stranger In Polaroid
JB Institute 2018 ISBN 9783000590368 Acqn 29128
Hb 23x29cm 88pp col ills £42

'Stranger In Polaroid' features exclusive images by Otto Grokenberger, which he took during the
production of a landmark of art-house cinema, 'Stranger Than Paradise' (1984), written and
directed by Jim Jarmusch. According to Grokenberger, the film's executive producer, "The photos
in this book are no less extraordinary than any other aspect" of the film. "Thirty-two years later, I
rediscovered them in two unmarked boxes of Polaroids stored in my attic." For those familiar with
the film, this series of full colour production stills captioned by Grokenberger offers a fascinating
behind-the-scenes look at its places and characters, as well as a counterpoint to the black-and-
white moving image.

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Robert Mapplethorpe Pictures

Serralves 2018 ISBN 9789727393626 Acqn 29259
Hb 25x32cm 400pp 350ills £64

'Pictures' brings together an extensive selection of works from throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's
career. Responsible for some of the most arresting, polemical, and iconic images in
contemporary photography, Mapplethorpe turned the photograph into a controlled performance
between artist and subject in his quest to engage with sexuality, gender, race, and queer and
non-heteronormative bodies. He treated his subjects with equal attention and precision, from cut
flowers and male sex organs, to the cast of friends, lovers, and celebrities he depicted. This
catalogue is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Serralves Foundation.

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Masaki Hoshino - Luv. Rocco.

Seigensha Art Publishing 2018 ISBN 9784861526978 Acqn 29294
Pb 18x24cm 172pp col ills £36

Humans have always held a special fascination for cats, independent and often aloof animals that
seem to dwell in a different dimension from our own. Masaki Hoshino played a leading role as a
producer in the world of theatre for two decades before an incurable disease confined him to his
home 20 years ago. He happened to meet a three-month-old Scottish Fold kitten several years
back, and acquired it as a gift for his wife. They named it Rocco. In the course of spending every
day with this new family member, Hoshino found himself dusting off his camera to photograph the
feline. The result is this book, full of close-up portraits of the mysterious Rocco emerging from the
darkness.

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Jenne Grabowski - Broken Flowers

JB Institute 2018 no ISBN Acqn 29087
Hb 18x25cm 56pp col ills £37

Jenne Grabowski often roams outdoors with his son, Henri. Together they leave the city to
discover the open spaces surrounding it, seeking out solitary places in nature and collecting
various samples to bring home: branches, leaves, moss, stones, and flowers. The bouquets of
flowers eventually wither and fade, but for Grabowski and his son they are an embodiment of the
transience that exists in every moment. Each bouquet represents at least one journey, one or a
few stories. Collected in this book are images of drying flowers past their prime, with bright but
also faded colours, photographed with flash in an unforgiving yet loving tribute to the beauty of
nature's decay.

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Alaine Willaume - Coordonnees 72-18

Editions Xavier Barral 2018 ISBN 29283
Pb 24x32cm 288pp 280ills 100col £52

This monograph spans over 40 years of photography and long journeys off the beaten track.
Beyond any chronology, it unfolds like a tale rooted in a reality with dystopic accents. Between
fear and serenity, Alain Willaume's photographs take us into the tension and precarious beauty of
our world.

An introduction written by David Chandler (author, curator, and critic) as well as texts by Gerard
Haller (writer) contextualize Willaume's practice along with detailed captions written by the
photographer at the end of the publication.

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Hiroshi Ikeda – Ainu

Little More 2018 ISBN 9784898154984 Acqn 29352
Hb 24x30cm 124pp 98col ills £33.50

The Ainu are an indigenous people of northern Japan, and Hiroshi Ikeda has been photographing
Ainu communities and their members for ten years. Ikeda's parents are both Ainu, but his
grandmother is Japanese, a fact which makes both identities essential for him. Working as an
Ainu language teacher in the past, he began to feel he did not know enough about the culture
itself to pass it on properly, which led him to study as a trainee at the Shiraoi Ainu Museum in
Hokkaido. Frequenting the Ainu communities there, Ikeda learned about how they have adapted
to live in modern Japan, the discrimination they often face, and the pride that Ainu people have in
their traditions and heritage.

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Yoshihiko Ueda - Forest Impressions And Memories, 1989-2017

Seigensha Art Publishing 2018 ISBN 9784861526619 Acqn 28416
Pb 26x32cm 290pp col ills £135

Yoshihiko Ueda's work spans a broad range of photographic categories, from landscapes to
nature, portraiture, and still life, and is characterised by his pursuit of the "whole" - capturing the
very essence and energy of bodies and their environments. His oeuvre thus reflects a process of
tracing topographies, especially when it comes to his images of forests, which he began making
three decades ago. Conventionally attractive landscape photography holds no interest for Ueda,
a fact that becomes clear as we are plunged into the depths of the Quinault Rain Forest in
Washington State, the Yakushima cedar forests in southern Japan, and the virgin forest of the
Kasuga Taisha shrine in Nara.

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