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Roseanne Lynch – GRAMMAR
Recto Verso Publications 2023 ISBN 9789083330808 Acqn 33484
Pb 17x21cm 64pp col ills £63.50
During a residency at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Roseanne Lynch immersed herself in the
sites of the Bauhaus and its Materials Research Archive. By engaging with the performative
functions of the photographic medium, 'Grammar' shows how photographic transformation
influences the production of cultural artefacts and collective imaginaries. Her images act as visual
prompts through the recognition of modernist identifiers, showing the power of photography in
shaping the visual history of modern architecture. With a text on Lynch's photography practice in
relation to the Bauhaus movement by Torsten Blume, curator of Bauhaus Foundation Dessau.
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Tanja Engelberts - Forgotten Seas
Eriskay Connection 2023 ISBN 9789492051936 Acqn 33487
Pb 20x30cm 216pp col ills £44.50
For most people, the world offshore is an unknown. Fascinated by this, Tanja Engelberts began
investigating the offshore oil and gas industry. 'Forgotten Seas' is the accumulation of six years of
research, a journey across the North Sea. Her photographs from her trips on maintenance
vessels and on the platforms, as well as historical images, are combined with written anecdotes
about life on an oil rig. Each chapter has its own visual language and design, highlighting the raw
and complex structures on the sea while evoking a sense of awe and guilt, from the optimism and
achievement of the 1950s to the more critical view on the fossil fuel industry today, a landscape
slowly disappearing.
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Peter Pflugler - Now is not the Right Time
Eriskay Connection 2023 ISBN 9789492051950 Acqn 33488
Hb 24x29cm 112pp col ills £44.50
Peter Pflugler devises an intimate maze into the heart of his family secret. Concealed for 20
years, his father's suicide attempt was an occurrence he somehow always knew about.
Investigating traces of this silenced trauma, he created images that inhabit the brink of comfort
and irritation, of love and pain. While rummaging through this unsettling landscape, we are invited
to look closer and discover texts and images hidden between the pages. 'Now Is not the Right
Time' grapples with the impossibility of secrets, exposing what we share when we hide. It is about
a specific kind of pain, one created out of love, the complexity of silence, and the unexplainable
sadness of a boy.
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Toshio Shibata - Falling Water
The Velvet Cell 2023 ISBN 9781908889829 Acqn 33446
Hb 28x32cm 64pp col ills £56
In a series of black and white images, Falling Water captures dam infrastructure across Japan
and the USA. Toshio Shibata was born in Japan in 1949. His work is included in the permanent
collections of museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Yoshiyuki Okuyama – Windows
Akaaka Art Publishing 2023 ISBN 9784865411713 Acqn 33571
Hb 19x21cm 752pp col ills £110
This book consists of an extensive number of approximately 100,000 photographs and was taken
over a period of two and a half years from April 2020 to November 2022 amidst the COVID-19
pandemic.
Tokyo is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, and when looking at each home in
its
crowded neighbourhoods, one notices that many windows are fitted with opaque sheets of glass
such as figured glass and what is commonly referred to as frosted glass. The scenery observed
through the vertical and horizontal screens manifest as landscape paintings that convey the
outside scenery to the closed inner space. At the same time, for the outside world, it potentially
acts as a portrait of sorts that depicts the lives of people who live in the depths of these inorganic
square frames. The artist describes windows, considerably a product of contradiction that
satisfies the conflicting desires of human beings who wish to enjoy the benefits of the outdoors
while seeking an indoor environment, as "also fulfilling the role of a 'juncture' that facilitates a
connection between each individual 'person' and 'society What underlies Okuyama' s works,
regardless of their incentive or purpose, is his unique visual expression that treats the
contradictions and multifacetedness accompanying all phenomena as themes for production, and
discerns the essence of photography in the numerous possibilities that fluctuate before and after
the moment that is captured.
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Deconstructing Sistema Nervioso by Lange, Brandli & Chalbaud
Fernando Eseverri / Coleccion 2023 ISBN 9789801831648 Acqn 33489
Pb 22x28cm 252pp col ills £78
'Sistema Nervioso' is the most ambitious body of work by Swiss-born Venezuelan photographer
Barbara Brandli, who is otherwise known for her documentation of the indigenous Yanomami
people. The book is a kind of manifesto, a portrait of the city of Caracas, filled with ads, graffiti
and other urban signs. It was published in 1975, a collaboration with screenwriter Roman
Chalboud and artistic director John Lange, both Venezuelan. The book contains more than 100
images of the city and, due to its innovative complexity, has been recognised as one of the most
important works in the photographic genre. Alejandro Leon Cannock offers an in-depth analysis.
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Eric Bachmann - The one-man water cannon test
Everyedition 2023 ISBN 9783907384060 Acqn 33563
Hb 23x34cm 160pp ills £45
In response to violent clashes in 1968 between youths and police, the Zurich city council
purchased four modern water cannon vehicles, bypassing the municipal council and sparking
controversy in the public and media. Taking advantage of their readers' interest in this subject,
journalists Robert Naef and Peter Fasler placed themselves in the water cannon's line of fire at
the Wadenswil police station for a story in the popular magazine, 'Die und Er'. Photographed by
Eric Bachmann, these impressive photographs are now published in their entirety for the first
time, offering a previously unseen perspective on the politically charged atmosphere of late 1960s
Zurich.
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Aurelie Scouarnec – Ferae
Rue Du Bouquet 2023 ISBN 9791097416232 Acqn 33580
Pb 20x27cm 108pp col ills £69
With 'Ferae', Aurelie Scouarnec questions the ephemeral captivity of wild animals collected in
care centres. Her photographs appear as sound boxes for the suffering of this wounded fauna
with clumsy bodies in tension, sometimes in abandonment. The hands of caregivers wrap around
the animals. They handle carefully, dress up, disappear under the down feathers. They also take
a vice, they enclose. 'Ferae' thus reveals the vital pulse and luminous energy of what throbs and
vibrates all around us.
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Polaroids and Portraits - Pieter's New Yorkers
Lecturis 2023 ISBN 9789462264786 Acqn 33595
Pb 20x26cm 158pp col ills £42
The Rotterdam photographer Pieter Vandermeer has inimitably portrayed a variety of New
Yorkers. He did this for years with the Polaroid Land 195 camera, on the streets of New York. In
addition, he portrayed New York celebrities during many years of the International Film Festival
Rotterdam (IFFR). The negatives of Pieter's unique photographic material from New York have
been digitally polished and bound in a sleek design by designer duo Rick Vermeulen and
Marjolijn Verbist. Hripsime Visser, Wim de Jong, Gerwin Tamsma and Gabrielle Kok provided the
text. The photos reflect Pieter's extremely personal approach to the portrait phenomenon.
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Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980
Lecturis 2023 ISBN 9789462264724 Acqn 33596
Hb 23x28cm 216pp col ills £42
In late 1979, a new phenomenon appears in the nightlife of Amsterdam: the Polaroid
photographer. New York artists Bettie Ringma and Marc H. Miller temporarily exchange their loft
in the Lower East Side of New York for a houseboat in Amsterdam, and start selling instant photo
portraits taken in pubs around Rembrandtplein, Leidseplein and Zeedijk. They pioneered a
practice that continues to this day. The pair photograph in brown pubs, Turkish cafes, transvestite
bars and queer clubs; they build up a regular clientele and meet remarkable people such as, "Ko
the Muscleman," the self-confident "animer girl" Nettie, and the extravagant pub owner-cum-
pigeon fancier, Henk. It's a time of big moustaches, full ashtrays and unrestrained hedonism.
Ringma and Miller took countless photos that were distributed among the nightlife public, but -
sponsored by Polaroid - they also built their own collection of more than 350 Polaroid portraits of
Amsterdam bar-goers.
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After us silence - Remnants of nuclear deterrence
Lecturis 2023 ISBN 9789462264670 Acqn 33597
Hb 25x29cm 180pp col ills £50
For more than 40 years, Europe lived with the nuclear threat of the Cold War. Historian Arnold
Pronk and photographer Martin Bruining undertook a project to find and visit the launch sites
where the former Soviet Union once kept its nuclear missiles. These intermediate-range missiles
were widely deployed along a continuous chain stretching from Murmansk to Crimea. But until
recently, little information was available on the subject. Using sources such as online urbex
communities, Google Earth, the INF Treaty, and CIA archives, the authors show the extent of the
threat while giving insight into the evolution of the various weapon systems and documenting the
forgotten sites first hand.
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