Terry O'Neill

Terry O'Neill

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Publisher's Description

Terry O'Neill is one of the world's most celebrated and collected photographers. No one has captured the frontline of fame so broadly - and for so long. For more than 50 years, he has photographed rock stars and presidents, royals and movie stars, at work, at play, in private. He pioneered backstage reportage photography with the likes of Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Sir Elton John and Chuck Berry and his work comprises a vital chronicle of rock and roll history. Now, for the first time, an exhaustive cataloguing of his archive conducted over the last three years has revisited more than 2 million negatives and has unearthed unseen images that escaped the eye over a career spanning 53 years.

Similarly, his use of 35mm cameras on film sets and the early pop music shows of the 60s opened up a new visual art form using photojournalism, to revolutionise formal portraiture. His work captured the iconic, candid, and unguarded moments of the famous and the notorious - from Ava Gardner to Amy Winehouse, from Churchill to Nelson Mandela, from the earliest photographs of young emerging bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. O' Neill spent more than 30 years photographing Frank Sinatra, amassing a unique archive of more than 3,000 Sinatra negatives. Add to that the magazine covers, album sleeves, film poster and fashion shoots of 1,000 stars, and Terry O'Neill - comprises the most compelling and epic catalogue of the age of celebrity.

Terry O'Neill has worked for the most prestigious magazines in the world including Time, Newsweek, Stern, Bunte, Figaro, The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, People, Parade, Vogue and many others. And his award launched to showcase the work of young emerging photographers is now one of the most highly prized global competitions in art. The Royal Society of Arts has honoured him with the rare Centenary Medal for his lifetime achievement. Only a dozen have ever been awarded in recognition of 'outstanding contributions to the art and science of photography.'

"I've been repeatedly asked to write my autobiography - I have seen an awful lot of famous people at their best and worst - but I'm not interested in making money trading their secrets or mine. I want my pictures to tell a story not sell a story." Terry O'Neill

Publisher: ACC Editions

Size: 325 mm x 275 mm

352 pages, 105 colour, 212 b&w illustrations

Message For You - Second Edition

Guy Bourdin

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With the eye of a painter Guy Bourdin created images containing fascinating stories, compositions and colours. Using fashion photography as his medium, Bourdin explored the provocative and the sublime with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humour. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, Bourdin radically broke conventions of commercial photography and in the process captured the imagination of a generation. The late 1970s, recognised as the high note of his career, is the focal point of this new edition, which combines in one book the two volumes of the original 2006 publication. The first part of A Message for You shows the legendary, nearly forgotten images and rarely seen variants of a single model, Nicolle Meyer. She appeared in over thirty of Bourdin’s famous campaigns for Charles Jourdan and in iconic French Vogue editorials. The second part of the book explores Bourdin’s pictorial landscape, a collage of images that maps his artistic vision. The texts, Polaroids, poems, sketches and contact sheets unfold through Nicolle Meyer’s memories and capture moments of Bourdin’s work in progress.

Publisher: Steidl

Size: 245 x 300 mm

320 pages, 250 colour plates

Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime

David Maisel

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Publisher's Description

Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel’s career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today.

Maisel’s images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, “argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.”

Publisher: Steidl

240 pages

New York Arbor

Mitch Epstein

Publisher's Description

Mitch Epstein’s new work is a series of photographs of the idiosyncratic trees that inhabit New York City. These pictures underscore the importance of trees to urban life and their complex relationship to their human counterparts. Rooted in New York’s sidewalks, parks, and cemeteries, some trees grow wild, some are contortionists adapting to constrictive surroundings, while others are pruned into prize specimens. As urban development closes in on them, surprisingly, New York’s trees continue to thrive.

From 2011 to 2012, Epstein explored New York’s five boroughs in search of remarkable trees, often returning to photograph the same trees through the changing seasons and light. Many of these trees, Epstein learnt, were planted in one context—a farm or nursery, for instance—and had survived to be part of another, a city street or public garden; and most will likely outlive us to find their habitat continue to change. The cumulative effect of these photographs is to invert people’s usual view of their city: trees no longer function as background, but instead dominate the human life and architecture around them.

Publisher: Steidl

96 pages

Krazy House

Rineke Dijkstra

Publisher's Description

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the MMK Frankfurt, this comprehensive look at the work of Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra brings together all of the video installations she has created since 1996. The exhibition, also curated by Dijkstra, is supplemented by selected groups of photographic work with the theme of young people growing up in a society shaped by codes and conventions. Its centrepiece is Dijkstra’s large-scale, dynamic video projection ‘The Krazy House’, filmed in 2009 at a Liverpool club.

Publisher: Idea Books

Size: 230 x 300 mm

124 pages

German/English

Publisher's price: £24.95

Light Reaching The Future

Rika Noguchi

Publisher's Description

Published to accompany the exhibition taking place between September 2011 and March 2012 at the Izu Photo Museum, which included Rika Noguchi’s latest output, as well as previously unreleased works. With installation views, plates, a biography and the essay ‘Noguchi Rika: Experiments in Light’, by Yuri Mitsuda, the book offers a comprehensive view of this Japanese photographic artist’s mesmerising vision, one which often deals with the limits of human ability and ambition. “Small space and big space, going back and forth between the microscopic and macroscopic with an original point of view, Noguchi photographs a world overflowing with wonderment.”

Publisher: Idea Books

Size: 200 x 260 mm

120 pages

Japanese/English

Publisher's price: £33.95

New York Is

Takayuki Ogawa

Publisher's Description

‘New York Is’ documents renowned Japanese photographer Takayuki Ogawa’s experience in New York City in the late 1960s. In these images, his enthusiasm for the city and fascination with American culture of the time is tangible. Ogawa’s shift away from the established documentary style of post-war Japanese photographers is readily apparent, and personal expression, emotion and empathy all find their way into his work. From Vietnam War protests and hippies to black culture in Harlem and Pop Art, the period is elegantly captured in Ogawa’s work. Includes critical texts by Nathan Lyons and Anne Wilkes Tucker, plus a DVD with film footage shot by Ogawa.

Publisher: Idea Books

Size: 220 x 210 mm

164 pages

Japanese/English

Publisher's price: £59.95

Universe Of Photography of Horino Masao: Vision Of The Modernist

Horino Masao

Publisher's Description

This book accompanies the exhibition on Horino Masao at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A primary figure in Japan’s ‘New Photography’ movement, he is considered “essential to any consideration of the formation of modern photography in Japan.” Active prior to World War II, Horino Masao addressed a variety of subjects, from theatre photographs and portraits to photomontage experiments, and later, the social realities of Japan as a photojournalist. With an emphasis on his work during the 1930s, the book presents an extensive view of the history of Japanese photography through the prodigious and exhaustive lens of one man.

Publisher: Idea Books

Size: 150 x 210 mm

350 pages

Japanese/English

Publisher's price: £41.95

Opera: Magazine for Classic & Contemporary Nude Photography Volume I

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The aesthetic and cultural wealth and the long tradition and classical status of opera as a high-art function here as an inspirational metaphor for a volume of photographs published annually and which deals with the most sensitive and direct kind of portrait: nude photography: the human body as both stage and theatre play. The publisher Matthias Straub presents a rich spectrum of large and small portrayals, with both young nude photographers and classic works by living and dead masters of this field.

Artists:
Barron Claiborne, Bart Hess, Bear Kirkpatrick, Christian Coigny, Christian Kettiger, Christian Witkin, Cynthia Berger, David Bellemere, David Lindsey Wade, David Spaeth, Elene Usdin, Eric Marrian, Imogen Cunningham, Jo Schwab, Joachim Baldauf, Jonathan Narducci, Kim Joon, Kirchknopf + Grambow, Jürgen Klauke, Madame Peripetie, Marc van Dalen, Michael Barolet, Mona Kuhn, Olivier Valsecchi, Quentin de Briey, René Fietzek, Ruben Brulat, Valeria Mitelman and many more.

Publisher: Kerber

Size: 240 × 310 mm

200 pages, 134 colour and 94 b/w illustrations

Publisher's price: $49.95

Contemporary Swedish Photography

Publisher's Description

Contemporary Swedish Photography is an outstanding and much anticipated book. Generous in format and richly illustrated, it provides an overview of Swedens photography scene, from the legendary Christer Strömholm to todays wide range of eminent photographers. The book covers the work of over 50 photographers in alphabetical order, each presented with an introductory text and sumptuous images highlighting their most important characteristics. An insightful opening essay sheds light on the local historical context and outlines the technological and conceptual development of the medium, while American critic and curator Charlotte Cotton adds an international perspective. The focus of the book is art photography but cross-disciplinary photographers working in fields such as documentary photography, advertising, and fashion are also included, making this an essential reference book and a rich well of information for all who are interested in contemporary Swedish photography.

Photographers featured in the book: Andreas Ackerup, Lotta Antonsson, Bisse Bengtsson, Erik Berglin, Miriam Bäckström, Aida Chehrehgosha, Dawid, Cecilia Edefalk, Anders Edström, JH Engström, Johan Fowelin, Maria Friberg, Hans Gedda, Carl Johan De Geer, Peter Gehrke, Catarina Gotby, Denise Grünstein, Paul Hansen, Annika von Hausswolff, Maria Hedlund, Jean Hermanson, Julia Hetta, Walter Hirsch, Linda Hofvander, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Pieter ten Hoopen, Mikael Jansson, Jens S Jensen, Gerry Johansson, Annica Karlsson Rixon, Eva Klasson, Clay Ketter, Hyun-Jin Kwak, Jenny Källman, Åke E:son Lindman, Fredrik Lieberath, Tuija Lindström, Maria Miesenberger, Tova Mozard, Robert Nettarp, Anneè Olofsson, Mikael Olsson, Petrus Olsson, Julia Peirone, Anders Petersen, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Gunnar Smoliansky, Karl-Johan Stigmark, Christer Strömholm, Lars Tunbjörk, Pernilla Zetterman, Camilla Åkrans

Publisher: Art and Theory Publishing

197 pages, 75 colour, 45 b/w illustrations.

Publisher's price: £44.50

Heartland: An American Road Trip in 1963

Thomas Hoepker

Publisher's Description

From today's perspective it sounds like a fairy tale, when Thomas Hoepker talks about the beginning of his America Reportage.

“Would you like to discover America?” editor-in-chief Horst Mahnke asked one day. “We sat in the conference room of Kristall. ‘Sure’, we said. ‘But what exactly do you want us to do there?’ – ‘I think’, replied the editor, ‘you’ll fly to New York and then you rent a car and you drive westward until you meet the Pacific, and then you drive back on another route and you take pictures and write about what you see. No time limit.’ We liked the brief briefing and nodded. The year was 1963 and I was 27.”

Hoepker and Winter covered a total of 26 785 kilometers by automobile, according to Mahnke, the editor-in-chief, whose editorial to Issue No. 8/1964 on the whole anticipated the tenor of the series, which was critical of the USA: “They saw far beyond the skyscrapers of Manhattan, whose spectacular silhouette is still considered by many Europeans to be typical of America. And once beyond the America of the picture postcard, they discovered some truths of which I think we need to be aware. I believe there are some shocking truths amongst them and in the light of these truths the legendary American way of life no longer looks quite so triumphantly brilliant as people generally imagine.”

In his observations author Hans-Michael Koetzle claims:

Hoepker’s America reportage is still a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. “Heartland” stands for a piece of photo history and at the same time turns out to be oppressively up to date.

Publisher: Peperoni Books

Size: 24o x 216 mm

84 pages, 68 tritone and 8 colour illustrations

Publisher's Price: £29.95

Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments

Ed Ruscha

Publisher's Description

Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s—such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Some Los Angeles Apartments, and Thirtyfour Parking Lots—are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the city’s functional architecture.

This publication features thirty-eight Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist’s thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self-published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. Virginia Heckert contextualizes Ruscha’s photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture, using examples by such important photographers as Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, and Walker Evans, as well as contemporary photographers, many of whom have acknowledged Ruscha as an influence in their own depiction of the built environment.

Publisher: Getty Publications

Size: 8 x 10"

11 colour and 56 b/w illustrations

Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project

Publisher's Description

The 1970s were more than leisure suits, streaking and disco; as this volume shows the ‘70s witnessed profound changes in politics, society and economy. 100 remarkable colour photographs, sourced from over 20,000 DOCUMERICA images taken between 1972 and 1978 and now in the U.S. National Archives, highlight the achievements of the decade, capturing its growing environmental awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Drawing inspiration from the depression-era Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography project, DOCUMERICA photographers created a portrait of mid 70s America featuring small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest, and coal mining communities in Appalachia. Their assignments were as varied as African American life in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City, commuters in Washington, DC, and migrant farm workers in Colorado. Included are iconic images such as "Hitchhiker with His Dog, 'Tripper' on U.S. 66" by Charles O'Rear and "Approaching Logan Airport" by Michael Philip Manheim.

Publisher: GILES in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Size: 280 × 240 mm

144 pages, 120 colour illustrations

Timeline: Learning to See with My Eyes Closed

Tom Young

Publisher's Description

Timeline is among the most poetic photographic projects to emerge in the art world in years. For many of us, the photo album is a way to preserve memories of personal and family events that are worth noting, worth sharing, worth saving: pregnancies and birthdays, day trips and child's play, time with our pets, friendships and reunions, portraits of our house and garden, and even scenes of spirituality and despair caused by news of cancer. Each album thus becomes an archive of who we are as a person, as a family.

Tom Young has taken this old idea and created a new genre: visual fiction. Using iconographic, layered images to tell his story without the usual tools of vivid contrast, bold colors, or sharp, finite detail, Young's visual assemblages are personal and evocative, sharing a complex internal landscape of love and loss, seen as through a shadowy veil. Here, then, is a marriage of landscape and portraiture that suggests not only a visual narrative of the photographer's life, but also, through the power of memory and shared experience, the reader's life.

When Young was only ten years old, he had a medical procedure that left his eyes fully bandaged for weeks. Without sight, all of his other senses changed. Despite the darkness, he would imagine the world around him and the power of light as it relates to memory. In Timeline, one senses that the artist is seeing his entire world unfold before him like an end-of-life dream recollected in a few split seconds. One image leads to another, building in nuance and subtlety until we come to understand, as if by way of a sixth sense, how the little details of life create a larger retrospective. "If pictures could talk, what a tale they might tell." That thought lurks behind every image of Young's masterful visual story of a life: his? yours?

Publisher: GFT Publishing

Size: 9 x 12"

128 pages with 60 four-colour photographs

Publisher's price: $50

Arctic Regions

William Bradford

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Publisher's Description

A landmark in the annals of American photography and polar adventure, William Bradford's book The Arctic Regions was first published for subscribers in 1873. No more than three hundred copies of the leather-bound elephant folio are known to have been printed.  The book has been a prized possession of major American and European museums, libraries, and collectors ever since.

With an introduction written by the noted polar historian Russell A. Potter, The Arctic Regions is now available for the first time to the trade. As the pace of global climate change quickens and the magnificent Arctic icecap dwindles, its publication could not be more timely or important.

"This volume," artist William Bradford explained, "is the result of an expedition to the Arctic regions, made solely for the purposes of art, in the summer of 1869." Bradford had brought with him the eminent Arctic explorer and author Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes, and he had engaged the 450-ton steamer Panther to sail from St. John's, Newfoundland. On July 3rd they departed, carrying a "party of adventurers whose story is partially illustrated by the photographic views contained in this volume." Bradford became one of the first American painters to pursue the dream of painting the Arctic regions firsthand. He had made several previous voyages, but none this ambitious or far-reaching.  His purpose was always to study nature under its "terrible" aspects, to acquire material for later use in his artwork and after that in lectures illustrated with stereopticon views.  On this voyage Bradford brought along two photographers from Boston, John L. Dunmore and George P. Critcherson. They were the first photographic professionals to document so northerly a voyage. Their images added the crucial aura of "truth" to Bradford's work. While other artists had depicted the northern regions, none had made photography so central a part of the artistic process.
Today, the science-infused and art-driven narrative of The Arctic Regions offers a prophetic prelude to current news of the Earth's climate situation: these regions, first photographed under Bradford's direction, may yet vanish in our lifetime, never to be seen again.

William Bradford (1823-1892) was born and brought up in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Bradford began his professional art career painting ship portraits. In 1861, he obtained financial backing for a journey to sketch and photograph the coast of Labrador. On this and subsequent voyages, he became fascinated with the special qualities of atmospheric light in northern regions. In 1869, Bradford made a notable expedition to the Arctic on the Panther leading to the original publication of The Arctic Regions.   

Sample images from the Arctic Regions

Publisher: David R. Godine

200 pages

Publisher's price: $49.95

Terra Incognita

Frank Rodel

Publisher's Description

German painter Frank Rödel (born 1954) has a longstanding fascination with the Antarctic, which he photographed during an expedition made by the Alfred Wegener Institute and later reprised in his own paintings. Terra Incognita contains photographs and paintings of vast Antarctic land- and seascapes.

Sample spreads of Terra Incognita

Publisher: Kerber

Size: 11.75 x 9.5"

144 pages, 115 colour, 2 b&w

Publisher's price: $59.95

Purple Fashion (Issue 19)

Ryan McGinley et al

The Summer 2013 issue comes with a book by Ryan McGinley, whose large-scale colour photographs of his young New York friends have put his work in great demand.  View every page of Purple Magazine 19 (including the Ryan McGinley Purple Book)

Ametsuchi

Rinko Kawauchi

Publisher's Description

Rinko Kawauchi has gained international recognition for her nuanced, lushly colored images that offer closely observed fragments of everyday life. In her latest work, she shifts her attention from the micro to the macro. The title, Ametsuchi, is comprised of two Japanese characters meaning “heaven and earth,” and is taken from the title of one of the oldest pangrams in Japanese—a chant in which each character of the Japanese syllabary is used. In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional style of controlled-burn farming (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. Punctuating the series are images of Buddhist rituals and other religious ceremonies—a suggestion of other means by which humankind has traditionally attempted to transcend time and memory.

Publisher: Aperture

Size: 9 2/5 x 12 1/4"

80 pages, 40 four-colour images

Shinan (Limited Edition)

Michael Kenna

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Kenna's photographs of the Shinan region of Korea.  Due for publication Summer 2013.  If you wish to place an advance order and do not wish your card account to be debited until book is ready for despatch, please use Secure Trading payment option.

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Browse Kenna Shinan image archive.  The images are not guaranteed to be the same as the contents of the book.  We have no information about the cover of the book so the image we have used to illustrate the item is just one chosen from Kenna's image archive.

Standard edition also available.

Shinan

Michael Kenna

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Kenna's photographs of the Shinan region of Korea.  Due for publication Summer 2013.  If you wish to place an advance order and do not wish your card account to be debited until book is ready for despatch, please use Secure Trading payment option.

Watch a video of Kenna working in Shinan.

Browse Kenna Shinan image archive.  The images are not guaranteed to be the same as the contents of the book.  We have no information about the cover of the book so the image we have used to illustrate the item is just one chosen from Kenna's image archive.

Limited edition also available.

Michael Kenna 2013 calendar

Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna’s intimate, exquisitely crafted black-and-white photographs reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality. We are pleased to present our seventeenth calendar featuring his work. The 2013 Michael Kenna Wall Calendar is printed on an exclusive, uncoated, natural Japanese paper using “Daido black” ink. The subject of this year's calendar is France: Homage to Atget, Parc de Sceaux, France. 1988; Intra Muros, St. Malo, France. 1993; Dawn Mist, Mont St. Michel, France. 1994; Fontaine du Palmiere, Study 2, Paris, France. 2007; Sunrise, St. Valery sur Somme, France. 2009; Printemps, Bargeme, France. 2011; Pebbles and Beach House, Cayeaux sur Mer, France. 2009; Tidal Pool and Posts, Berck Plage, France. 2003; La Trappa, Vielle Ville, Nice, France. 1996; Abbey Façade and Star Trails, Hautvillers, France. 2001; Night Shadows, Saint Malo, France. 2000; Ciel d’Orage, Bargème, France. 1996; In-Between, Courances, France. 1997.

River Winter, The

Jem Southam

Publisher's Description

“Winters, like ice ages, are Janus faced, for after the freeze comes thaw and flood, as water is returned to life and movement. Freeze, thaw, flood: the great climatic cycles that created the topography of the northern hemisphere, and which continue to shape the idea of winter that lies deep in our cultural imagination.”
Richard Hamblyn

In November 2010, after a photographic lull of half a year, Jem Southam took a photograph which became the first in this series, The River  Winter and which spurred him to make one of the most concentrated bodies of work in his career. From late autumn through to the earliest signs of spring, along the banks of the river Exe in Devon, Southam chose locations and took photographs, returning at regular intervals. This pattern continued for the next five months with Southam documenting the subtle agencies of change transforming the landscape. By the end of January 2011 he realized this had become a new work, one that caught the effects of the Earth’s turn on film, one which followed the passage of a single winter.

The shift in seasons is presented through a sequence of ten by eight colour contact prints, with which an essay by Richard Hamblyn explores how, since the last ice-age, winter has embedded itself into our cultural psyche.

Jem Southam (b. 1950) is a key figure in British landscape photography, working across twenty-five years. His work is included in many important collections including Rijksmuseum, Museum Folkwang, and the Yale Centre for British Art. He has been the subject of numerous solo shows including Tate St. Ives in 2004 and The Victoria & Albert Museum in 2006.

Publisher: MACK Books

Size: 330 x 277 mm

96 pages, 40 colour plates

Silent Landscape SIGNED

Jan Tove

Jan Tove's first published work for several years, Silent Landscape represents a significant maturation in his vision.  If, in Riverside, the relatively traditional nature photography of Beyond Order coexisted with work influenced by contemporary American landscape photographers, here they are successfully integrated.  Photographs mostly from Sweden but also from Norway, Denmark and Scotland.  See here for all the spreads from the book.

Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape

Galen Rowell

25th anniversary edition, with new foreword by David Muench

Publisher's Description

Mountain Light is the best-selling classic that captures the unique artistic vision of Galen Rowell, one of the world's most celebrated nature photographers. This remarkable collection offers 80 of Rowell's finest photographic images, as well as the stories behind them - what he was after and how he achieved it.

Rowell arranges the photographs, with details of their creation, in eight exhibits according to visual themes, reflecting his fascination with the infinitely varying qualities of light found in mountain landscapes. He recounts his development as a photographer, his philosophy and techniques for creating "dynamic landscapes," and his adventures in remote, dangerous, and beautiful places, from California's Yosemite Valley to almost inaccessible peaks in China.

Rowell also explains how film and the human eye see differently, how he selects and composes the content of his work, how to work with optical phenomena and natural light, and how equipment and adventure interact in the field.

"A splendid blend of autobiography, personal philosophy, and superb color photographs of high, wild places."
- The New York Times

Publisher: Sierra Club

Size: 236 x 304 mm

240 pages, 80 colour photographs

Period of Juvenile Prosperity, A

Mike Brodie

First printing sold out 20 May.  Orders now being accepted for second printing.

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Publisher's Description

But I needed to find out for myself. Two weeks later I was gone, witnessing my new world wizz by, especially at dusk, then darkness as I watched the sum of all the city lights cast my silhouette across the pine trees of the Florida panhandle. This was it, I was riding my very first freight train. And soon, what would begin as mere natural curiosity and self-discovery would evolve into a casting call of sorts, taking photographs of my newfound friends.
— Mike Brodie

For sample images, see Mike Brodie's website

Publisher: Twin Palms

Size: 11 x 13 Inches

104 Pages, 60 Four-colour Plates

Iceland: A Journal of Nocturnes

Bruce Percy

First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies

Publisher's Description

This book encapsulates all of Bruce's nocturnal photographs of Iceland made between 2004 and 2012.

The book has a strong nocturnal theme. Mainly a monograph in nature, it is interspersed with entries from Bruce's journal with thoughts that deal with his experiences of shooting the icelandic landscape in subdued light.

The book can be seen as a photographic day, shot over many years with the opening presenting us with late evening shots. As the book progresses, we move into the small hours of the summer night, where there is no night at all. The book concludes with winter shots made during the fleeting sunrise and sunset of the shortest days of the year.

Publisher: Half Light Press

Size:300 x 280 mm

64 pages with 45 colour plates

Philosopher's Tree

Michael Kenna

Second edition of the 2011 exhibition publication at Gallery Kong, Seoul.  Contains ten additional photographs.  Slightly larger than the first edition and with an improved design, making it a companion volume to Tranquil Morning.

Introduction by Michael Kenna
English and Korean
Hard Cover

To view images from the show visit the Gallery KONG website.

Tranquil Morning

Michael Kenna

Another Kenna publication from Gallery K.O.N.G. to coincide with his 2012 exhibition there.

Publication of this first edition coincides with the 2nd edition of Philosopher's Tree and the format and design are similar.  A few spreads can be found on the Gallery K.O.N.G. website.

80pages
31 Photographs + 31 texts selected by Ceira Kim

Introduction by Michael Kenna
English and Korean
Hard CoverSize: 200 x 270 mm

Johsel Namkung: A Retrospective

Johsel Namkung

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Johsel Namkung’s work is revered among landscape photographers but his work has never before been collected in a major monograph.  Namkung photographs in colour using a large-format camera.  “Since 1965, I have developed a different way of seeing things. I am not interested in photographing the things that delimit one’s inner vision. For example, I avoid including the sky because it reveals the identity of the place. The horizon and ridge lines will give you ready answers. I like to give my viewers questions, not answers. Let them find beauty in the most mundane things, like roadside wildflowers and tumbled weeds. Observe the essence of things. That’s Zen. It doesn’t have to be some spectacular manifestation of nature.  This book is a definitive collection of what my publisher and I agree is my best work.”

The Standard Edition has a first printing of twelve hundred copies.  Each copy has a unique image tipped into the front cover.  All are bound in luxurious Chinese silk fabric, applied over extra heavy cover boards.The face and spine are foil stamped. Ultra high resolution Stochastic screening technology was used to reproduce the extremely fine detail of Johsel’s images.

You can browse the entire book here.  There you will also see info re two limited editions.  If you are interested in either of those, please email us at info@beyondwords.co.uk

• Extent: 144 pages + end sheets + head & tail bands.

• Inks: 4 color process + pms spot color + gloss spot varnish on
all of the photographs.

• Paper: 170 gsm Lumi Silk, a multicoated, acid and chlorine
free archival paper from Germany.

• Size: page trim is 16.5” wide by 13.25” high.

Letting Go of the Camera

Brooks Jensen