Photography December 2013

PHOTOGRAPHY
Mikiya Takimoto - Land Space Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523922 Acqn 22958 Hb 30x42cm 80pp 36col ills 69 Published in conjunction with the exhibition Land Space by photographer Mikiya Takimoto, this series of large-format images celebrates both the pinnacle of human technological achievement and the natural wonder of our planet. The concept is mystical, metaphysical, and fragmented, allowing viewers to work out the intellectual implications of the combinations of images. He visualises the sublime tension that exists on the threshold between land and space. It is enthralling and abstract, initiating an intriguing dynamic between the grand purpose of technology and the extremely beautiful purposelessness of uninhabited expanses. With an essay by Keiichiro Hirano.
orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Paolo Woods Pepe Musee De L'Elysee 2013 ISBN 9782883501003 Acqn 23005 Hb 12x12cm 24pp 22col ills 17.50 "Pepe" are the second-hand clothes worn by most Haitians. The "Pepe" that arrive on the island have been donated by Americans to charities and collection centres, rejected by Thrift shops, and have gone through the sorting warehouses run by Haitians in Miami. The worst T-shirts, those that would barely be sold in the cheap gift shops of Times Square, those with the dumbest slogans, reappear, thanks to a free-market miracle, in remote provinces of Haiti where nobody has taken the effort of translating such poetry into Creole.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Elisabeth Tonnard - In This Dark Wood J&L 2013 ISBN 9780989531108 Acqn 22574 Hb 16x23cm 196pp 90ills 26 Elisabeth Tonnards In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dantes Inferno: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ch la diritta via era smarrita. (In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk
PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael Schmelling - Land Line J&L 2013 ISBN 9780982964293 Acqn 22575 Hb 21x27cm 224pp 200col ills 34.95 In the winter of 2007, photographer Michael Schmelling--known for his previous books Shut Up Truth and The Plan--photographed the USA National Memory Championships in New York City. Roughly 100 competitors gathered in a modest conference hall in the Con Edison building to compete in a series of mnemonic tests. Schmelling's photographs from that day are primarily of the competitors, all intensely engaged in recalling and reciting lists of information. Schmelling returned to the championships in 2008, photographing many of the same competitors as the year before. Building a book of short, interrelated stories, Schmelling has combined these images of mnemonists with a series of similar, overlapping narratives. Traveling through a North American landscape of neutral interiors, the viewer of Land Line encounters an array of subjects in the midst of thinking, forgetting, questioning and interpreting. Photographs of professional mnemonists, teenagers in an algorithmic code competition, entrepreneurs, a Hollywood actor, prisoners and English language students dressed up as historical figures coalesce into a larger narrative about cognition, memory and information.
PHOTOGRAPHY
William Christenberry Tf Editores 2013 ISBN 9781938922275 Acqn 22556 Hb 24x29cm 296pp 425ills 400col 47.50 William Christenberry is firmly established as a contemporary American master photographer, but no comprehensive overview of his diverse talents is currently in print. This 260-page volume--the largest Christenberry overview yet published--corrects this lacuna, offering a thematic survey of his half-century-long career. It is composed of 13 sections, each devoted to a particular series or theme: the wooden sculptures of Southern houses, cafes and shops; the early, black-and-white, Walker Evans-influenced photographs of Southern interiors, taken in Alabama and Mississippi in the early 60s; documentations of Ku Klux Klan meeting houses and rallies, from the mid-1960s; color photographs of tenant houses in Alabama, from 1961 to 1978; signs in landscapes, ranging from handwritten gas station signs to Klan and corporate signs; graves (which, through Christenberry's lens, emerge as a kind of folk art); churches in Alabama, Delaware and Mississippi, taken between the mid-1960s and the 80s; Alabama street scenes, in towns such as Demopolis, Marion and Greensboro; street scenes in Tennessee (mostly Memphis); Southern landscapes; gas stations, trucks and cars in Alabama; and a selection from Christenberry's famous series of buildings to which he returns annually, photographing them over several decades-the palmist building, the Underground Nite Club, Coleman's Cafe, the Bar-B-Q Inn, the Green Warehouse and the Christenberry family home, near Stewart, Alabama.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Enrico Natali - Detroit 1968 Foggy Notion Books 2013 ISBN 9780983587040 Acqn 22558 Hb 20x23cm 128pp 98ills 37.50 Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, and was the subject of Enrico Natalis 1969 solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. In his introduction to the 1972 edition, Hugh Edwards, former Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, wrote: All the photographs in the present collection were taken in 19671970 in Detroit, which in no way restricts their presentation as a brief of how Americans look and live today. These scenes and incidents might have occurred anywhere in the United States in this time when regional characteristics are disappearing ... this is a view of a situation and condition, not a localization. Forty years later, we can now also appreciate the specificity of Natalis subject, as this body of work presents an insightful exploration of Detroit when it was on the cusp of losing half of its inhabitants, along with its status as Americas industrial capital. We witness Detroit just before the auto industry began its decade-long decline, as race riots and the Vietnam War raged on. Here Natali captures the everyday activity of 60s-era storefronts, art openings, sporting events, the celebrated high school prom, secretaries enjoying an afternoon cigarette, computer main-frame operators and machinists, waitresses and beauticians, family portraits, and much more--these images capture the now-vanished spirit of this largely abandoned city during a critical, spirited moment in its history. This new edition includes an introduction by Mark Binelli, author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Betsy Karel - Conjuring Paradise Radius Books 2013 ISBN 9781934435670 Acqn 22579 Hb 29x31cm 120pp 66col ills 40 American photographer Betsy Karel first visited Waikiki in 2009 with her husband, who was then in the final stages of terminal cancer. While there, the symptoms of his disease seemed to temporarily recede amid his joy in Waikikis beauty and resources, and Karel promised to capture his happiness in a new series of photographs. This highly personal book, which continued over the next four years, is dedicated to his memory. Karels vision of paradise is kaleidoscopic and vivid, and her rendering of Waikiki is often ambiguous and complex. The people she pictures are relaxed, reveling in the sensuous pleasures of a sun-drenched destination. Yet while depicting a manufactured dreamscape that oscillates between real and imaginary worlds, these photographs testify to the intensity of our desire to experience our dreams--and equally to escape unpleasant realities.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Polly Borland You Perimeter Editions 2013 ISBN 9780987353030 Acqn 23064 Hb 17x21cm 52pp 26col ills 33 Tracing two distinct, however interconnected bodies of work, the book is an intensely intimate meditation on various states of love, desire and identity. The initial inspiration for YOU arose when Borland relocated from London to Hollywood, with its promises of glamour and its plasticised brand of beauty. The impetus for the latter part of the series came after viewing Museum Victorias extensive collection of medical equipment, restraints, clothing and artefacts from Australian psychiatric institutions. YOU continues Borlands exploration of the interface between anthropomorphic soft sculpture, the human form and the photographic image.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Frank Eerhart - The Power Of Iron In Africa Frank Eerhart Editions 2013 ISBN 9789081385800 Acqn 22908 Hb 22x30cm 218pp 255ills 250col 37.95 Frank Eerhart has been collecting African iron objects for 25 years. In this full-colour book his collection of approximately 200 objects, beautifully photographed by Willem Popelier, is presented in 11 chapters in which he dilates upon their provenance and use in the different African communities.
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Sweet And Sour Story Of Sugar Noorderlicht 2013 ISBN 9789076703503 Acqn 23047 Hb 29x29cm 276pp 250ills 150col 47.95 With 'The Sweet and Sour Story of Sugar' Noorderlicht goes further in the direction begun in its Global Detail (2003) photo festival. The process of globalisation, as radical as it is elusive, is once again the subject for an exhibition and a photo book. This time however Noorderlicht wants to go into greater depth by approaching the operation of the global economy from the perspective of just one product. Here sugar is the starting point for an investigation of the forces of globalisation. It is a story which forces one to look beyond boundaries of space and time, at a product that is simultaneously ordinary, and boundless.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Hannes Heikura - We Walk Alone Aalto 2013 ISBN 9789522920010 Acqn 23078 Hb 25x33cm 168pp 82ills 42.50 Following a distinguished career as a photojournalist, Finnish photographer Hannes Heikura more recently began art photography. We Walk Alone, photographed in the lights and shadows of Helsinkis urban landscape, continues Heikuras earlier Dark Zone series, yet with a focus on the loneliness of human existence in the city. Working in black and white, he reveals the dramatic and poetic aspects of the solitary wandering of the human mind. A documentary of sorts, it also offers authenticity, magically charged with the photographers own interpretations based in reality. Besides numerous, striking images, the book includes a short text by Heikura.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Freeing The Fish - Progress And Impermenance In Modern Day Tibet. Photos By Marieke Ten Wolde Ten Wolde 2013 ISBN 9789491800009 Acqn 23083 Hb 30x22cm 178pp 150col ills 53.50 With her beautiful and poetic photography and stories, Marieke ten Wolde sketches the life of the ordinary Tibetan, investigating questions about how climate change impacts the lives of nomads and farmers alike, or why so many new monasteries are being built. Ten Wolde spent the last decade documenting the accelerating pace of change and modernisation of Tibetan lands within China. In that time, many places were altered beyond recognition as people resettled, infrastructure expanded and mining complexes and hydroelectric dams sprang up. Brimming with superb photos and insightful texts, the book offers deep insight into a complex society forever in motion.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Frank Madler Fotohof 2013 ISBN 9783902675866 Acqn 23114 Hb 23x24cm 468pp 1224col ills 34.50 Kopal comprises 1,224 Polaroids taken by Frank Mdler. Over a period of many years, since 1996, he has photographed his surroundings, his neighbourhood, and his milieu - until 2012 when his stocks of Polaroid film ran out. In a departure from his large-format photographs, the artist's mindset for Kopal focused on small images, catalogued in different ways in the index: both chronologically, i.e. just as they appear in the book, and alphabetically, but also according to his own whimsical categories. So despite the multitude of photographs, tracking down certain images is simplicity enough, all of which makes for an interesting, self-charted voyage of discovery through the book, through time and through Frank Mdler's environment.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Pierre Liebaert Le Caillou Bleu 2013 ISBN 9782930537245 Acqn 23038 Pb 20x29cm 32pp 24ills 18col 18 Macquenoise is the bittersweet portrait of a mother and son who live a secluded life on the fringes of Belgium, at the mercy of the seasons, with only animals for company. From this oedipal relationship wells up a violence suffocated by a state of immobility. At times, a look seems to be a cry for help, a warning that we heed while remaining mute, powerless. Photographer Pierre Liebaert steeped himself in the familys intimacy, becoming part of it, tuning himself to the farms slow rhythm and his hosts. It is a simple, uneventful life that seems set to last for eternity. The images lay the foundations of Liebaerts current work: an interest in the rawness of the fringe.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Neeltje Ten Westenend Contour Fw 2013 ISBN 9789490119201 Acqn 23059 Pb 17x25cm 192pp 600ills 21.50 Together with photographer Stephan Keppel, Neeltje ten Westenend travelled and documented the complete border of the central Dutch province Utrecht. A border that has changed various times since it was first drawn in 1300. Ten Westenend looks with the same focus to historic and architectural landmarks, and results of urban planning, as she looks to accidental encounters, sand heaps and the changing weather condition. This makes 'Contour' a publication about the problematics of observing and mapping; about facts and intuition. It is a poetic index that gives a unique insight in the Dutch landscape.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Moved Objects - Georgia Hutchison And Arini Byng Perimeter Editions 2013 ISBN 9780987353023 Acqn 23063 Hb 20x27cm 40pp 29col ills 30 'Moved Objects' traces the collaborative practice of young Australian artists Georgia Hutchison and Arini Byng. Expanding on their investigations into material juxtaposition, sculptural choreography and the photographic still life, the works broach notions of form, materiality, architectural resonance, visual poetics and photographic image-making. Offset against a series of highly keyed backdrops, the works are both astute and playful in tenor.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Martijn Berk - Falling From A Height Martijn Berk 2013 ISBN 9789082068009 Acqn 23084 Pb 23x34cm 114pp 50ills 42.95 The work of photographer and filmmaker Martijn Berk centres around an exploration of the Apollonian/Dionysian conflict, wherein the individual is the starting point but the final result must transcend the individual. For his project Falling from a height, Berk immersed himself in an obsession with a 20-year-old young man, producing around 4000 photographs of the subject, a selection of which are published here. How far does one go in the quest for intimacy, not to mention deal with the primal forces it touches upon? Quite simply, where is the line between reality and fiction? Included are emotive excerpts from Oscar van den Boogaard and an essay by Christoph Tannert.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Henk Wildschut Food Post Editions 2013 ISBN 9789460830747 Acqn 23115 Hb 25x28cm 144pp 91col ills 30 For this project, '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. In his endeavour to get to grips with the production and 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.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Composite #1 - Jan Kempenaers Perimeter Editions 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22663 Pb 20x27cm 24pp 16ills 10col 12.95 Each issue of Composite Journal delves into the work and life of a single creative practitioner, elucidating the chosen artists practice and its underpinnings from a diverse range of positions and perspectives. The launch issue traces the oeuvre of Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers, recognised for his longstanding negotiation of the contemporary picturesque. Edited by Dan Rule, Narelle Brewer and Justine Ellis, the issue features contributions from Kyla McFarlane, Roger Willems, Louise Porter and Dan Rule. The debut Australian exhibition of a new series of works from Kempenaers forthcoming book accompanies the inauguration issue.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jeff Wall - Works from Munich Collections Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783829606578 Acqn 22746 Hb 25x29cm 128pp 56ills 46col 42 Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between painting, photography, sculpture, and film, between fiction and reality, thus redefining the photographic image. This book features 20 exceptional works from public and private collections in Munich, where the artist had his first European solo exhibition in 1984. Edited by Inka Graeve Ingelmann. With texts by Ulrich Bischoff, Christa Dttinger, Simone Frster, Ingvild Goetz, Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Lothar Schirmer, Rdiger Schttle und Gabriele Schor.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan Kempenaers - I'm Not Tailgating, I'm Drafting ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789491843068 Acqn 23031 Pb 17x23cm 32pp 64ills 14col 42.95 Foldout book with photographs, including an original C-print, selected from a series taken by Jan Kempenaers during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2010. The images were shot with an advanced hand-held digital camera, which allowed him to work freely in a snapshot style whilst maintaining a very high quality. Within the context of Kempenaers' body of work, this new series underlines his desire to shift further toward abstraction instead of documentary work.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nadine Stijns - Floating Population Fw 2013 ISBN 9789490119218 Acqn 23046 Pb 24x35cm 40pp 196col ills 24.95 In the early 1980s, upon the opening up of Chinas economy under Deng Xiaoping, farmers left their hometowns seeking work in Chinas developing cities as a response to the resulting agricultural reforms. These people from Chinas vast rural areas are referred to as the floating population. By visually assembling photographs, video stills and photographed objects like textiles, rubber shoes, construction materials, a sock, piles of postcards and posters and more Nadine Stijns investigates this stream of migrant labourers. With texts by sinologist, journalist and writer Catherine Vuylsteke.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Adam Popo - Photo Sculptures Voetnoot 2013 ISBN 9789078068891 Acqn 23082 Pb 14x21cm 24pp 10col ills 16.50 Appearing for the first time in a book, this series of images by Dutch photographer Adam Popo presents the body as an idea, a variation on a graphic form, completely abstracted from the physical human form. In the photographs, women models dressed in garish, colourful stockings and high heeled shoes bend forward, giving the viewer an impression that their upper bodies have somehow been erased, even as their shapely buttocks shamelessly distract attention. They become, in a manner of perception, sculptures that have been moulded into their ultimate form. With an introduction by Martijn Doolaard.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daido Moriyama - View From The Laboratory Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2013 ISBN 9784309274027 Acqn 23117 Hb 18x27cm 84pp 51ills 39.95 In 1827 the first historic photogrpah was taken from the upstairs window of a residential estate called Le Gras, located in the village of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes in France. In 2008 Daido Moriyama was able to fulfill his long-held dream of visiting what for him was a sacred site. This photo book is a record of Moriyamas journey back to the absolute beginning of photography.

Photography December 2013

Încărcat de

Informații document

Drepturi de autor

Formate disponibile

Partajați acest document

Partajați sau inserați document

Opțiuni de partajare

Vi se pare util acest document?

Este necorespunzător acest conținut?

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

Photography December 2013

Încărcat de

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

PHOTOGRAPHY

S-ar putea să vă placă și