Holy Bible
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Publisher's Description
Right from the start, almost every appearance he made was catastrophic… Catastrophe is his means of operation, and his central instrument of governance."
Adi Ophir
Violence, calamity and the absurdity of war are recorded extensively within The Archive of Modern Conflict, the largest photographic collection of its kind in the world. For their most recent work, Holy Bible, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin mined this archive with philosopher Adi Ophir’s central tenet in mind: that God reveals himself predominantly through catastrophe and that power structures within the Bible correlate with those within modern systems of governance.
The format of Broomberg and Chanarin’s illustrated Holy Bible mimics both the precise structure and the physical form of the King James Version. By allowing elements of the original text to guide their image selection, the artists explore themes of authorship, and the unspoken criteria used to determine acceptable evidence of conflict.
Inspired in part by the annotations and images Bertolt Brecht added to his own personal bible, Broomberg and Chanarin’s publication questions the clichés at play within the visual representation of conflict.
Publisher: Mack Books
Size: 162 x 216 mm
768 pages, 614 colour plates
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Don McCullin
Don McCullin
Publisher's Description
Don McCullin has been making photographs for more than 50 years, first capturing the small dramas of everyday life in 1950s London, then travelling to the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, and more recently exploring the landscapes of Somerset in England. Published to accompany an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Canada, this book includes more than 130 works drawn from all of McCullin’s major series – his social documentary work in England, his Berlin Wall series, his award-winning work on war and famine, his anthropological expeditions, and his still lifes and landscapes.
Publisher: Archive of Modern Conflict in association with the National Gallery of Canada
Size: 239 x 310 mm.
120 pages
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Hustlers
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Publisher's Description
Between 1990 and 1992, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, made multiple trips to Los Angeles to scout locations, invent scenarios, and ultimately find male prostitutes that would agree to pose for his camera. The last task proved to be the easiest—diCorcia simply used his fellowship money to pay the men whatever price they charged for their most typical service—and ultimately prompted a complaint of misuse of government funds.
In 1993, twenty-five selected images were initially exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, marking Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s first solo exhibition. The show, entitled “Strangers” was accompanied by a museum catalog. Twenty years later, steidldangin publishes the series in its entirety. Hustlers is an empathetic yet melancholic poem of the Hollywood dream gone wrong, prescribing to the heavily-staged pictorialism and happenstance of street casting for which diCorcia is most widely recognized.
Knowing precisely what he wanted from each photograph, and fearful of police involvement, diCorcia would prearrange all settings: this motel room, that vacant lot, in between cars, in a fast-food restaurant—the narrative was always deliberate. From the moment diCorcia approached a potential subject (usually around Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood), to the completion of the shoot, seldom more than one hour had passed. The titles of these encounters amplify the facts: Ralph Smith, 21 years old, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and $25.
Publisher: Steidl
160 pages
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make
Shomei Tomatsu
SUPER LABO is proud to announce the release of Shomei Tomatsu's posthumous photo book "make".
This publishing project has been in preparation since Spring 2012 (Tomatsu died in December) and the title of the book, the images and the order were decided by the artist himself.
"I once received a question from a European art director on whether the works by Tomatsu were "take" or "make".
I was at a loss for answers, the reason being that I had never posed the question onto myself with such options.
At that time, I took the time to take another look at the photographs I had taken."
The special edition (with Tomatsu's first silkscreen print ) will be released at the same time.
Publisher: Super Labo
Size: 290 x 290 mm
126 Pages, 80 Images (b/w and colour)
Japanease and English text
Limited edition of 500
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Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography
Colin Graham
Publisher's Description
Since the 1980s Northern Ireland has produced a distinctive body of photographic work, by photographers from within and outside Northern Ireland. This book brings together significant works by key photographers to examine the phenomenon of new photographic practices in Northern Ireland. Many of the photographers included have established global reputations, but have not previously been considered in a sustained way as group of photographers interacting with each other’s work.
Taking a historical and thematic approach, the book begins with the media imagery of the Troubles that compelled photographers and artists to intervene in the flow of press photography that dominated a global, visual portrayal of Northern Ireland in the 1970s. From this response, and influenced by wider, international trends in contemporary photography, an engaged and often polemic aesthetic emerged, individual to each photographer but also shared across diverse photographic practices. With the Peace Process in the 1990s a new dynamic entered the scene which required photographers to think about the social and political past and future of Northern Ireland, and which also offered new opportunities for exhibiting and publishing work.
While presenting an analysis of its broad aesthetics, the book also questions the extent to which the theme of conflict has dominated our view of Northern Irish photography. Through the inclusion of work by photographers with a keen sense of trends and debates in the wider contexts of contemporary photography and art, the book considers photography in and from Northern Ireland as a reflection of place in the broadest possible sense.
Features photographs by Abbas, Craig Ames, Sylvia Grace Borda, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Ursula Burke, John Byrne, Garrett Carr, Gerry Casey, Malcolm Craig Gilbert, John Davies, Victoria J. Dean, Willie Doherty, John Duncan, David Farrell, Paul Graham, Stuart Griffiths, Anthony Haughey, Kai-Olaf Hesse, Sean Hillen, Claudio Hils, Daniel Jewesbury, Philip Jones Griffiths, Bill Kirk, Peter Marlow, Brendan Murphy, Gareth McConnell, Patrick McCoy, Sean McKernan, Mary McIntyre, Moira McIver, Eoghan McTigue, Les Levines, Anthony Luvera, Jonathan Olley, Martin Parr, Adam Patterson, Mark Power, Paul Quinn, Paul Seawright, Victor Sloan, Hannah Starkey, Chris Steele-Perkins, Nick Stewart, Donovan Wylie and Patrick Zachmann.
Publisher: Belfast Exposed in partnership with the MAC
288 pages
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Eyes on Paris
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Publisher's Description
"The eye of Paris" - as the writer Henry Miller called his friend, the photographer Brassaï, famous for his photographs of Paris at night. Many photographers have focused their camera on the French capital before and since. In "Eyes on Paris", the 130 best books from 1890 to 2010 are documented in a unique picture book that was awarded the "Gold 2012 German Photo Book Prize".
The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre - who has not heard of the most beautiful sights of Paris, at least from the photos? Paris and photography have always been closely linked. The photograph was invented in Paris in 1839. Since then, the French capital has become one of the most photographed cities in the world. Some artists deliberately keep the clichés of everyday life with the camera to find that many photos of Paris show a bistro, a gourmet restaurant or the couples on the Seine. Other photographers look behind the facade of the metropolis: "Eyes on Paris" depicts the dark side, the abyss, the revocation.
"Eyes on Paris" presents 130 of the finest international photo books with Paris at their heart.
Immerse yourself in the photos of the Paris of the Belle Epoque, of the 1950s, the present. Famous photographers from Eugène Atget and Brassaï to Stefania Beretta, William Eggleston and Andreas Gursky.
Publisher: Hirmer
Size: 240 x 300 mm
400 pages, 899 illustrations in colour and black & white; text in German
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That Tree
Mark Hirsch
Publisher's Description
That Tree is a full colour, 10x10 inch, 192 page, hardcover book documenting a year-in-the-life of a lonely bur oak tree. This photo-journal was photographed by Mark Hirsch exclusively using the camera in his iPhone. That Tree has been featured by NBC News, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Mail, Woodlands & Prairies Magazine, and The Sierra Club among many others.
Size: 10x10"
192 pages
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Spill
Daniel Beltra
Publisher's Description
This new book by internationally acclaimed photographer Daniel Beltrá shows the abstracted results of the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The scale of the disaster is revealed through aerial photographs which confuse scale and draw attention to the violent effect of mans pursuit of fossil fuels.
Publisher: Gost
Size: 305 x 230mm
64 pages printed full-colour on heavyweight paper
Edition of 2000 copies
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Patagonia, La Última Esperanza
Macduff Everton
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Publisher's Description
In this spectacular collection of panoramic images, award-winning photographer Macduff Everton proves why Chile’s Last Hope Province, in the extreme southern corner of Patagonia, is a landscape that kindles the dreams of world travelers. Patagonia, La Última Esperanza is a collaboration with writer and artist Mary Heebner, whose meditative prose reflects the poetry of place. Just as her observations seek to unearth and understand the spirit of the region, her paintings, watercolors, and drawings evocatively counterpoint Everton’s photographs of iconic mountains and glacier-lined fjords. Together they provide a unique perspective on this vast, still mysterious territory and the lives of the people who have made a home here at the tip of the South American continent.
While visitors rush to the landmark peaks of UNESCO-designated Torres del Paine National Park or the wonders of Bernardo O’Higgins National Park, they too often miss equally gorgeous and accessible but less frequented areas. Everton and Heebner explore much more, from the shimmering ice fields and glassy lakes to the island mazes and expansive grasslands where you’re more likely to see condors than another person. They find the beauty and meaning in the fishermen’s harbors, the cowboys’ ranch labors, and the creations of visionary architects, whose stunning constructions mesh concern for the environment with the grandeur of the setting.
Patagonia, La Última Esperanza indelibly captures a place of unending superlatives—the most breathtaking mountain ranges, the most storied valleys, the most inspiring destination for readers and travelers alike.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
235 pages, 144 colour photos, 20 illustrations, 2 maps
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Last Launch Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis
Dan Winters
Publisher's Description
Americans have been driven to explore beyond the horizon ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In the twentieth century, that drive took us to the moon and inspired dreams of setting foot on other planets and voyaging among the stars. The vehicle we built to launch those far journeys was the space shuttle—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. This fleet of reusable spacecraft was designed to be our taxi to earth orbit, where we would board spaceships heading for strange new worlds. While the shuttle program never accomplished that goal, its 135 missions sent more than 350 people on a courageous journey into the unknown.
Last Launch is a stunning photographic tribute to America’s space shuttle program. Dan Winters was one of only a handful of photographers to whom NASA gave close-range access to photograph the last launches of Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. Positioning automatically controlled cameras at strategic points around the launch pad—some as close as seven hundred feet—he recorded images of take-offs that capture the incredible power and transcendent beauty of the blast that sends the shuttle hurtling into space. Winters also takes us on a visual tour of the shuttle as a marvel of technology—from the crew spaces with their complex instrumentation, to the massive engines that propelled the shuttle, to the enormous vehicle assembly building where the shuttles were prepared for flight.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Size: 9.625 x 12"
176 pages, 90 color photographs
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Dan Winters's America: Icons and Ingenuity
Dan Winters
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Publisher's Description
Published by the Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia, to coincide with a major exhibition, Dan Winters’s America is the first museum survey of the career of this talented artist.
Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Helen Mirren, and artistic luminaries from Jeff Koons to William Christenberry. His style of portraiture is instantly recognizable, characterized by impeccable lighting, muted backgrounds, and the contemplative postures of his sitters.
Winters’s lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and of airplanes and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA’s space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters’s career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling.
In addition to the popular icons, Dan Winters’s America includes expressions of his personal vision. This lyrical body of work shows the same keen eye for lighting and composition, but with a decidedly more intimate ambiance: photographs of his wife and son, spare cityscapes, and elegant collages.
Publisher: Texas university Press
Size: 9.5 x 12.25"
176 pages
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Arnold Newman: At Work
Arnold Newman
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Publisher's Description
A driven perfectionist with inexhaustible curiosity about people, Arnold Newman was one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most prolific photographers. In a career that spanned nearly seven decades and produced many iconic works, Newman became renowned for making “pictures of people” (he objected to the term “portraits”) in the places where they worked and lived—the spaces that were most expressive of their inner lives. Refusing the label of “art photographer,” Newman also accepted magazine and advertising commissions and executed them to the same exacting standards that characterized all of his work. He spent countless hours training aspiring photographers, sharing his own vast experience, but allowing them the freedom to experiment and discover.
Rich with materials from Newman’s extensive archive in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Arnold Newman offers unprecedented, firsthand insights into the evolution of the photographer’s creativity. Reproduced here are not only many of Newman’s signature images, but also contact sheets, Polaroids, and work prints with his handwritten notes, which allow us to see the process by which he produced the images. Pages from his copious notebooks and calendars reveal Newman’s meticulous preparation and exhausting schedule. Adsheets and magazine covers from Holiday, LIFE, Newsweek, Look, Esquire, Seventeen, Time, and Sports Illustrated show the range of Newman’s largely unknown editorial work. Roy Flukinger provides a contextual overview of the archive, and Marianne Fulton’s introduction highlights the essential moments in the development of Newman’s life and work.
Publisher: Texas Univeristy Press
Size: 8 x 9.75"
296 pages, 107 colour photos, 171 colour plates
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Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq
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Publisher's Description
With previously unpublished photographs by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East. Michael Kamber interviewed photojournalists from many leading news organizations, including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post, to create the most comprehensive collection of eyewitness accounts of the Iraq War yet published. These in-depth interviews offer first-person, frontline reports of the war as it unfolded, including key moments such as the battle for Fallujah, the toppling of Saddam’s statue, and the Haditha massacre. The photographers also vividly describe the often shocking and sometimes heroic actions that journalists undertook in trying to cover the war, as they discuss the role of the media and issues of censorship. These hard-hitting accounts and photographs, rare in the annals of any war, reveal the inside and untold stories behind the headlines in Iraq.
Publisher: Texas University Press
Size:10 x 12"
300 pages, 164 b&w and colour illustrations
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Republic
Ren Hang
Publisher's Description
The first hardback monograph from Ren Hang, the controversial avant-garde photographer from China. A curation of the photographer's most interesting work to date presented in a large format clothbound hardcover book. This First Edition is limited to just 460 numbered copies.
Originally from Chang Chun in the Jilin province of Northeastern China, Ren Hang (b.1987) is a poet and photographer living and working in Beijing. Deliberately provocative, Ren Hang’s images challenge conventional codes of morality in a still highly conservative society. The artist’s work has appeared in leading independent magazines in China and around the world.
The explicit nature of Ren Hang’s photography has often made it difficult for galleries in his homeland to mount exhibitions of his work. Despite this, his images have been exhibited widely; with several solo shows in China and appearances in numerous group shows internationally in countries including Italy, France, Russia, Israel and Sweden.
Publisher: Éditions du LIC
Size: 290 x 295 mm
116 images, 94 colour plates
460 numbered copies
Publisher's Price: €75
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Scandinavian
Massimo Leardini
Publisher's Description
The first book specifically devoted to the Scandinavian works of the Italian photographer, Massimo Leardini. Presented in a large format clothbound hardcover book and bautifully reproduced using Triotone offest printing on Arctic Volume Ivory paper, Scandinavian by Massimo Leardini features photoshoots with, amongst others, Iselin Steiro, Marianne Schröder, Viktoria Winge, Jenny Sinkaberg and Ophelie Rupp. This First Edition is limited to just 440 numbered copies.
Originally from Cattolica, in the Italian Province of Rimini, Massimo Leardini has lived and worked in Norway since 1987 and become one of the most sought-after photographers in Scandinavia. His work, which has received numerous awards and prizes, appears regularly in leading fashion magazines, including Elle, Carl’s Cars, S-Magazine, Smug and Personae.
Rooted in the classical tradition, Leardini uses his unique aesthetic sensibility to capture the human body in harmony with the timeless Scandinavian landscape. Despite the seeming purity and innocence of these candid moments, a quiet sense of melancholy pervades and seems to hint at a deeper undercurrent of Nordic angst.
Publisher: Éditions du LIC
Size: 240 x 300 mm
116 pages, 84 triotone plates
440 numbered copies
Publisher's price: €65
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World Press Photo 13 yearbook
Publisher's Description
Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo contest has set the standard in visual journalism. World Press Photo 13 brings you the winners—the most striking images and compelling stories from 2012.
Selected from more than 103,000 pictures taken by 5,600 photojournalists and documentary photographers from 124 countries, the prize-winning pictures are presented in a moving, sometimes disturbing document. World Press Photo 13 both informs and inspires an understanding of the world.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Size: 230 x 297 mm
160 pages
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FORM - Scenery Seen through Bonsai (Signed)
Ryo Ohwada
Publisher's Description
“What is "traditionally Japanese"? The quest for the answer to this question, led me to "Bonsai". In it, I found Japanese traditional aesthetics and nature being condensed in miniature form. I also realized that bonsai is one of the subjects that is closest to what I consider about photography.”
Size: 287 x 266 mm
SIGNED COPY
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she dances on Jackson
Vanessa Winship
Signed copies
Publisher's Description
In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances on Jackson presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States and attempting to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship this relationship is inextricable; places accrue particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she sees, and by what's happening to her personally. Each human encounter, sound and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.
she dances on Jackson marks a progression. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving but this body of work reveals her to also be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship photography is a process of literacy, a path by which she understands life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.
See here for sample images and review.
Publisher: Mack Books
Size: 240 x 270 mm
144 pages, 64 tritone plates
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Floating World
Brigitte Carnochan
Publisher's Description
This book represents a unique realization of a conception for an artist’s book by photographer and poet Brigitte Carnochan, who couples her sensual approach to the subject of the nude with her selection of work by Japanese women poets both ancient and contemporary, to present an essential portrait of femininity. While her delicately tinted images derive from a very personal vision, Carnochan renders the universal in these photographs.
As John Wood notes in his introduction, “Carnochan’s is a life-affirming imagery reminiscent of Baudelaire’s 19th-Century Parisian floating world…."
See Brigitte Carnochan's website for sample images.
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Size: 250 x 280 mm
144 pages, 44 colour plates
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ABC
William Klein
Publisher's Description
Born in New York in 1929, William Klein is one of the leading photographers of the postwar era, as well as an influential filmmaker, painter, and graphic artist. This astonishing book, selected and designed by Klein himself, offers a visual survey of his long and varied career. It includes his poetic street photography of New York, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, and Paris; his exciting fashion photography; stills and posters from his bitingly satirical films; and his graphically powerful painted contact sheets.
Klein, whose achievement puts him on a level with Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, lives in Paris and is revered in Europe. This is the first comprehensive book on his work published in the United States in 20 years.
Publisher: Abrams
Size: 11 1/2 x 8"
184 pages, 196 colour illustrations
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