SHOWA 88

Kazuyoshi USUI

Usui`s vivid view of Japan as if the Showa Era had never ended. Designed by Satoshi Machiguchi. Nominated in Kassel Photobook Awards 2012. Enclosed in a plain cardboard slipcase, the hardcover book is covered in iridescent pale pink satin, with a photo inlay on the cover.

Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery

Size: 183 x 262 mm

80 pages, 40 photo reproductions

limited edition of 1000

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Burning Chrome

Norihisa Hosaka

Publisher's description

Self-published by Norihisa Hosaka.  The following are quotes from the photographer (apologies if the translation isn't always clear).

"My desire is to have my digital photographs to be close to natural human perception as possible and my next challenge is to take HDRI photographs successfully in color with new ideas I am currently working on.

It is my goal as a photographer to create a true digital photography, not just an evolution of silver print and to illuminate the horizon of new digital photography.

I usually take city landscape photographs by using HDRI (high dymanic range image) technique expressing brilliant light all over Tokyo like Shinjuku, Shibuya and Akihabara etc. City lights is one of the perfect artificial beauty in this modern age. It is always beautiful and impressive if Tokyo holds many power to lit lights."

...or you can let the power of the photos do the talking here.

Publisher: Libro Arte

Size: 11¾ x 11¾"

32 pages, 21 tritone illustrations

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Middle England

John Myers

Publisher's description

This is the first major exhibition by Midlands-based artist John Myers. Comprising black and white photographs made in the 1970s, Ikon’s selection includes Middle England (1970 – 1974), a number of portraits of individuals and families living in and around the Black Country.

Myers’ approach is documentary in style, reflecting the taste, self-perceptions and aspirations of the people he photographed. Thus we observe them in their sitting rooms and bedrooms, or in their leisure or work spaces, surrounded by the telling paraphernalia of their daily lives. They pose with deliberate stances and gestures, responding to the sense of occasion engendered by Myers’ use of a Gandolfi plate camera set on a tripod with a dark viewing cloth.

A kind of natural history unfolds through Middle England, with its depictions of human life and habitats, significantly as the portraits are shown alongside an exceptional image of a giraffe in a zoo enclosure. This juxtaposition reminds us of the fact that we are shaped by our built environments, as much as we shape them.

Publisher: Ikon Gallery

Size: 245 x 200 mm

128 pages, 79 b&w illustrations

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Unfolded

Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbensmaurice

Publisher's description

Unfolded is a book that can function as an exhibition. The physical experience of walking through the exhibition route has been imitated playfully in the book with renderings, so that readers imagine themselves to be walking through the different rooms of the gallery.

From experiments with a detailed model of the hosting museum, the concept of a book mirroring an exhibition gradually unfolded. To achieve this, individual works were removed from their existing position within a particular series and linked to others from different series to form new groups in rooms.

The concept and editing finally led to a process of interaction and cross-fertilization between the arrangement of the exhibition and the structure of the book. In the final analysis, this dual production follows logically from the two artists’ conceptualized approach to photography, whereby their experiments in converting spatial dimensions into a flat surface, in particular, continually set them fresh challenges. The oeuvre of Scheltens & Abbenes consists of still lifes featuring virtually every kind of tangible material, from folded shirts and fragile flowers to huge furniture constellations that fill entire rooms. The whole working process ­­- from concept to execution – takes place in the studio. With a great feeling for subtle distinctions, the artists produce settings in which objects are constantly being rearranged or assembled into harmonious images.

For a preview click here.

Publisher: Kodoji Press

Size: 9 x 13"

80 pages, 41 colour illustrations 

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Circulation: Date, Place, Event

Takuma NAKAHIRA

Publisher's description

In 1971 photographer Takuma Nakahira participated in the Seventh Paris Biennale for emerging artists from around the world. In his experimental project Circulation: Date, Place, Events Nakahira challenged himself to photograph his surroundings and in the same day exhibit the results for a duration of approximately one week. Indiscriminately documenting everything he encountered — the Parisian streets, the people and cars that came and went there, all manner of posters and printed matter, the installations in the Biennale including the constantly evolving display of his own work, the underground passageways of the subway, news wire reports transmitted by teletype machines, the constant flow of images on television, his room service breakfast in his hotel room and drying underwear — Nakahira exhibited the photographic traces of his daily experiences of Paris within each day. As the photographs proliferated day after day, the exhibition wall could no longer contain them, and Nakahira spread them onto the floor.

Encountering difficulties with the event organizers, Nakahira tore down the exhibited photographs two days before the end of the Biennale. Despite reaching such an extreme conclusion, in an essay written upon his return to Japan, Nakahira would write, “Now, as a result of this project, I can feel that the things that I say and the things that do are beginning to agree with one another for the first time.” Nakahira saw this experience as a crucial attempt to materialize his own photographic methodology.

For Nakahira, Circulation: Date, Place, Events of 1971 (the contents of which only a small portion have been known before now), represented a practice-based step towards radically changing his own photography. Thus, the project demonstrated a vital turning point situated in the passage between 1970’s For a Language to Come (a collection of his photography since the mid-1960s), and the 1973 collection of media criticism, Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary? where he would declare his intent to change his methodology in the title essay after critically reassessing his earlier work.

Circulation: Date, Place, Events consisted of the daily process of capturing fragments of material reality with the camera and returning these back to reality as photographic prints made on the spot in the form of a photographic site-specific installation. As a photobook, this volume seeks to newly engage Takuma Nakahira’s critical perspective as produced in Paris, 1971, rather than simply recreating the original installation. In 1973, seeking to make break with the past and reject his own photography up to that point, Nakahira would burn up most of his negatives and prints. Fortunately, or perhaps intentionally un-burned, the negatives corresponding to Circulation: Date, Place, Events have been preserved. There are approximately nine hundred and eighty cut 35 mm negatives (B&W) as well as forty-eight remaining prints confirmed to be part of the photographs taken and exhibited by Takuma Nakahira for his submission, Circulation: Date, Place, Events at the Seventh Paris Biennale. The editing and composition of this volume, which compiles together mainly photographs confirmed to have been exhibited and those which have not been confirmed, is based on analysis of their date and time of exposure as well as the state of their display during the installation found in these existing photographic and related materials. The prints made from the original negatives for the printing of this volume were produced by photographer Osamu Kanemura in consideration of the original aims of the work.

Images can be viewed on the Osiris website.

Publisher: Osiris

Size: 145 x 208 mm

320 pages, 257 b/w plates

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Le Silence: Une fiction

Simone Menegoi (ed.) & Cristiano Raimondi (ed.)

Publisher's description

LE SILENCE Une fiction gathers a corpus of contemporary works by 25 artists, ranging from Arman's Accumulationsto Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs, and together they present a world that is both strange and familiar, what curator Simone Menegoi refers to as “the story of a planet that has become uninhabitable for reasons unknown….” Part scientific experiment, part fictional narrative, the effect of these traces that our civilisation leaves behind is one of a reversal of history, as if the works between the pages, artifacts of our contemporary era, are being observed through the eyes of an archaeologist or anthropologist from the future.

The curators Simone Menegoi and Cristiano Raimondi have amassed a collection of prints, glass plates, sculptures, slides, video stills and paintings, that sit within the tradition of the landscape genre yet seen from a particular perspective: the aesthetics of the contemporary Sublime, drawing on the spectacle of environmental disasters and economic collapse. Another prominent group of works is comprised of sculptures and assemblages from artists, active since the 1960's, who use every day and waste material to create. Work by American artist Michael E. Smith, whose sculptures are made from waste collected in his hometown, the urban desert of Detroit, completes the exhibition as 'fossils' of our consumer society.

Artists: Dove Allouche, Vladimir Arkhipov, Arman, Bartolomeo Bimbi, Maurice Blaussyld, Michel Blazy, Karl Blossfeldt, Brassaï, Peter Buggenhout, Carlos Casas, Romeo Castellucci, Lourdes Castro, Tony Cragg, Daniel Gustav Cramer,? Geert Goiris, Jochen Lempert, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Adrien Missika, Linda Fregni Nagler, Walter Pichler, Rudolf Polanszky, Pierre Savatier, Erin Shirreff, Michael E. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Hiroshi Sugimoto 

A preview of the book can be found on the Mack website.

Publisher: Mack

Size: 202 x 280 mm

240 pages

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Pontiac

Gerry Johansson

Publisher's description

Gerry Johansson's sensitive and subtle photographs hint at human life through the occasional car or lone figure but for the most part they draw the reader’s eye to the simplistic architecture of a small American town. In singling out Pontiac, Johansson offers comment on more than the landscape, photographing a microcosm of the effects of the decline in the auto industry in Michigan. His images survey the landscape with a characteristic Swedish melancholy, echoing the new topographic photographers of the 1970s.

Pontiac marks the end of an eighteen year project by Johansson. In 1993, 1994 and 1996 he visited America, taking photographs on his travels from one small town to the next. This work was compiled published as Amerika in 1998. It was followed by a collection of photographs from his homeland, published under the title Sverige in 2005. Critical response led Johansson to narrow his camera’s eye to make Kvidinge, a portrait of a Swedish town, published in 2007. Finally he revisited America in 2010, traveling to Pontiac, Michigan, and this became the basis for his final piece in this series.

See the Mack website for a preview of this book.

Publisher: Mack

Size: 175 x 245 mm

160 pages, 111 duotone plates

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Road Ends in Water (SIgned)

Eliot Dudik

Publisher's description

Change is descending upon an otherwise quiet, unhurried, unobtrusive, place. The main highway, U.S Route 17, that bisects South Carolina's "lowcountry," north to south, is being widened to accommodate commerce, tourists, and urban refugees. Not only are many homes, some historic, disappearing before the tracked blades of expansion, but also the new, faster thoroughfare encourages greater disregard and obliviousness to the charm and culture the basin harbors.

This collection of images and thoughts is a tribute to, and an acknowledgment of, the respect the modest souls of this region, obscure from the mainstream, deserve for their tenacity, good humor, social commitment, and acceptance of the ebb and flow of the often incomprehensible vagaries of existence.

A photographic adventure became an artistic journey and culminated in a unique awakening to an otherwise overlooked cultural phenomenon. While the road ends in water, it began there as well.

This first printing is an edition of 1000 books, each individually numbered and signed. The book includes a foreword by the artist, an essay by E. Moore Quinn, Ph.D., and poetry by Brianna Stello, Roger Dudik, and Jerri Chaplin.

For examples of the work click here.

Publisher: Oddi Printing

Size: 11 x 8½"

96 pages, full colour

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Elegies of Manumission

Max de Esteban

Publisher's description

Max de Esteban’s gorgeous new monograph brings together all three parts of his stunningly beautiful “Elegies of Manumission” series. Making use of portraiture as a conceptual tool, de Esteban's portraits, of architectural quality and extraordinary craftsmanship, build a narrative beyond the anecdotal and push the boundaries of contemporary portraiture. Open to many interpretations, “Elegies of Manumission” questions the construction of identity of the individual subjects portrayed. This oversized (11x14-inch) book is beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese stock, and bound in Japanese cloth. The first edition is limited to 1,000 casebound copies. Max de Esteban is a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, holds a Ph.D. from the Universitat Ramon Llull, and a Masters degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited internationally, and has received several prestigious awards, including the Grand Prix Jury's Special Award at Fotofestival 2010 in Poland and the National Award of Professional Photography – Gold Lux in Spain that same year. Max de Esteban lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

To view examples of this work click here.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size: 11 x 14"

68 pages, 50 four-colour plates

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One Tree

Machiel Botman

Publisher's description

“Each photograph unfolds itself as a personal mirror, meant only for you, like an unexpected gift. This is the free magic one finds in the world of Machiel Botman.” - Brigitte Ollier, Libération. A key figure in contemporary Dutch photography, Machiel Botman has always photographed as a way to understand life. He is not restrained by photographic conventions, but rather welcomes mistakes and surprises that combine with the highly personal nature of his subjects to create, as Ms. Ollier described it, “the world of Machiel Botman.” Like his individual photographs, Botman’s books and writings are autobiographical and chronicle the stages in his life, but they do not follow a linear narrative. “One Tree”, the artist’s third monograph, comprises a collection of images that are at once dark and hopeful, challenging and inviting. The book ends with Botman’s short story, “The hawk & the cat”, which plays off wonderfully with the images preceding it. Printed in Holland under the direct supervision of the artist, “One Tree” is a beautifully-produced artist’s book that belongs in the collection of every serious photographic library. This first printing is limited to 1,500 copies.

Examples of this work can be found here.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size: 6 x 10"

72 pages, 40 duotone plates

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Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards

Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt

Publisher's description

The Dutch photobook is internationally recognized for its innovative and collaborative approach between photographers, printers, and designers. Dutch graphic designers have long worked at the forefront of their discipline, often crossing existing boundaries and exploring new territories—qualities that have become an integral part of contemporary Dutch photobook culture.

The current photobook publishing boom in the Netherlands springs from a long-standing tradition of excellence. This tradition precedes WWII, but the aftermath of the war marked a period of particularly close collaboration between photographers and designers. Their contributions led to such unique photography books as Ed van der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank (1956) and Chili September by Koen Wessing (1973). Innovations such as the photo novel and the company photobook bloomed in the 1950s and 60s. Later, other genres emerged as part of the publishing landscape, including conceptual and documentary works.

The Dutch Photobook will feature selections from approximately one hundred historic, contemporary, and self-published photobook projects, including landmarks such as Hollandse taferelen by Hans Aarsman (1989), The Table of Power by Jacqueline Hassink (1996), Why Mister Why by Geert van Kesteren (2006), and Empty Bottles by Wassink Lundgren (2007).

Dutch photo historians Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt contribute several texts on the history of the genre, the collaborative efforts between photographers and designers, and their inspiration and influences, to complement the special, high quality reproductions of photobooks. Award-winning designer Joost Grootens contributes unique charts and diagrams that bring all of these elements together, forming a visually unique map of the Dutch photobook.

Publisher: Aperture

Size: 11" x 9 1/2"

240 pages, 620 four-colour images

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EverAfter

Claudia Rogge

Publisher's Description

In her photographs that refer to Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia Claudia Rogge (*1968 in Düsseldorf) unfolds a kind of imagistic theater whose aesthetic opulence astonishes viewers, while countless nude figures cast their spell over them. The large tableaux in her new cycle, EverAfter, recall the cohesive compositions of Christian paintings, such as the famous murals in the Sistine Chapel, yet they are assembled from a variety of disparate visual elements. The realistic effect of these digital collages exceeds that of painting and is immediate, sometimes disturbingly so. The configuration of a mass—images of nude bodies, in this case—has long been an overarching subject of the artist’s work. Picking up on the central theme of “mass” and the exorbitant distance between heaven and hell, this publication presents Rogge’s latest work, which recovers a measure of beauty in the midst of horror.

See the Hatje Cantz website for sample images.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Size: 308 x 252 mm

112 pages

95 colour illustrations

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Repaires

Yann Mingard

Publisher's Description
The past two centuries of industrialization and urbanization have had an incisive impact on nature. Europe’s forests, once wilderness, have become civilized, cultivated landscapes. No one is more familiar with the creeping changes in nature than artist Yann Mingard (*1973 in Switzerland). Trained as a horticulturist, his photographs take viewers into the underbrush, where the forest betrays its most intimate spots, so to speak. Neither tourists, joggers, hunters, nor even forest rangers make their way here. Here, Flora shows her withered grass, dark earth, and bits of fur or skin that still seem to harbor the warmth of a frightened animal. All of becomes visible thanks to the long exposure time of the photographs, taken at twilight. Only here and there do colors shine tenuously through the darkness of the horizonless pictures.

View images here.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Size: 301 x 246 mm

96 pages

33 color illustrations

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At War

Anja Niedringhaus

Publisher's Description

Her photos are familiar, although we may not be consciously aware of it. They are published around the globe on the front pages of newspapers and the covers of magazines, influencing our notions of crises and wars from day to day. Anja Niedringhaus (*1965 in Höxter, Westphalia) has spent more than twenty years documenting, with forceful bluntness, the suffering and misery in such places as Croatia, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Israel. As one of the few women working in the field of crisis photography, she labors under extreme conditions. Her pictures focus on people without violating their dignity. This publication shows life in wartime, the exhaustion of soldiers and the desperation of prisoners, as well as the laughter and joy amid the hardship. Introductory essays on the subject of war photography join reflections on visual theory and detailed captions to create an important document of the times.

Sample pages can be found on the Hatje Cantz site.

Pubisher: Hatje Cantz

Size: 312 x 217 mm

180 pages

78 illsustrations, 77 in duotone

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China

Mathias Braschler Monika Fischer

Publisher's Description

Swiss photographers Monika Fischer (*1971) and Mathias Braschler (*1969) decided to take one portrait every day on their thirty-thousand-kilometer journey across China. Most of the time they did not know whom they would meet, and so along the way they created an astonishing, kaleidoscopic view of the country’s diverse population, a cross-section of all of society’s classes, ethnicities, and age groups. Their series of documentary photos shows both the winners and losers emerging from the overwhelming changes in the enormous country: the farmer who lives just a couple of kilometers away from the Chinese space center but still plows his small farm with a team of water buffalos; the filthy-rich owner of a yacht club, posing casually in front of his purple Lamborghini; or the little girl from the traveling circus, standing on the table that serves as her stage. Braschler and Fischer give them names, describe their stories, and maintain their dignity.

Sample pages can be found on the Hatje Cantz site.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Size: 251 x 316mm

160 pages

76 color illustrations

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7 days ATHENS November 2011

JH Engström and Margot Wallard

Publisher's Description

We came to Greece and Athens to give lectures and lead a five-day workshop. The workshop was cancelled. We found ourselves in the middle of the Greek economic crisis. Papandreou was resigning. The next day he wasn't. He proposed a referendum on the euro in Greece. The next day he changed his mind. Frustration and confusion all over. People lost their jobs. People demonstrated. No one knew where the whole thing was going. We went out on the streets and photographed in the Greek capital during those turbulent days at the beginning of November 2011.

JH Engström and Margot Wallard

Publisher: Super Labo

Size: 149 x 216 mm
56 Pages
43 Images

Limited edition of 500

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Okinawa

Daido Moriyama

Publisher's Description

New book "Okinawa" by Daido Moriyama will be launched in May. All the images were taken in 1974 when Daido Moriyama visited Okinawa with Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Masahisa Fukase and Nobuyoshi Araki for a photo workshop. The book contains about 100 images selected by Moriyama himself from 2000 images which he took during this visit.  Most of the images are unpublished.

Publisher: Super Labo

152 Pages

99 photos

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17 Days

Terri Weifenbach

Publisher's Description

The new book, "17 Days," openly suggests synchronicity: Events, large, small and everything in between, happen globally and simultaneously. But those events' conjunction deserves digging and questioning, urges "17 Days," to discover whether our individual perceptions might connect and relate them. The book does just that by documenting, in words and pictures, the hatching of four robins and their magical insouciance during 17 days in the middle of a year on the photographer's front porch.

Publisher: Super Labo

Size: 149 x 216 mm
52 Pages
32 Images

Limited Edition (500)

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Grace

Elisabeth Sunday

Publisher's Description

For 26 years, Elisabeth Sunday has found her muse in Africa: a place of origins, devastating beauty, great troubles and unyielding expressions of life. She has traveled alone and lived among various original peoples who amidst a changing world, have clung tenaciously to traditional ways of life. From the hunter-gatherers dwelling in the primeval forests of the Congo Basin, to the nomadic tribes inhabiting the vast stretches of the Sahara Desert, Sunday's photographs reveal an interplay of invisible forces that connect her subjects with the world of nature. Utilizing a flexible mirror of her own design, Sunday photographs reflections that blend and dissolve the boundaries between her figures and their environment. Sunday's images express an intimacy with a corresponding strength derived from that relationship. She writes: "Mirror photography is much more than photographing a reflection, it produces a visual alchemy that combines the physical world with that of the great mystery….and captures some element that remains hidden in straight photography." Elisabeth Sunday's work has been widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad. "Grace", the artist's first monograph, opens with an eloquent and enlightening essay by Deborah Willis. The book is printed in an oversized (14 x 17 inch) format on uncoated art paper and bound in Japanese cloth. This first printing is limited to 1,000 copies.

For examples of this work see here.

Publisher: Nazraeli

Size: 14 x 17"

60 pages

45 duotone plates

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The Anasazi Project

Don Kirby and Joan Gentry

The romantic image of the native American as a counterpoint to urbanization and industrialization has been almost a cliché of American photography since the days of Edward Curtis and before. The high profile of the Anasazi cliff dwellings and the rock art created there has made it a favoured destination for tourists and photographers. Kirby and Gentry’s beautifully precise black-and-white images help us to see the native artwork and the wider landscape in a fresh light. Click here for samples of Kirby’s work and here for Gentry’s.

Publisher's Description

"Sitting with Joan and Don’s photographs spread on my old library table, I marvel at the way they capture this perception. Much as an x-ray goes beyond the skin to capture bone structure, their visual language reveals a world beneath the surface world, a ground truth of energy gathered temporarily into form. In shades of silver and ebony, lightening flashes on cresting sandstone, flames leap, the deluge descends. The play of light and shadow, the tracings of water and wind offer metaphors for spirit, metamorphosis, migration. The photographs of rock art, some thousands of years old, some contemporary with the cliff dwellings, confirm that there is always more than we know, more spirit, more magic. Mystery is more potent than explanation. Disrespect is dangerous. The buildings fitted deftly into the alcoves, the images made on the sandstone walls, are dwarfed by this vast sea of stone, but they are fiercely compelling. Their tough, sure-footed makers must have been comfortable with their own smallness. Deftly fitted into the land themselves, belonging not controlling, they made a full life out of what was at hand. Surely they moved confidently into their own future, walking out of the canyons to join the clans at the Center Place, leaving their gods and their exoskeletons to instruct us. The photographs imply all this and more." —From the Introduction by Ann Weiler Walka

Publisher: Nazraeli

Size: 12x13"

80 pages

60 duotone plates

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Japan

Michael Kenna

Signed copy in mint condition of one of Kenna's finest and most beautifully designed books

Publisher's Description
Michael Kenna’s photographs have long inspired words such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful – adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The photographs in Kenna’s important new monograph, Japan, are the result of an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Kenna has had a large following in Japan ever since his first exhibition there in 1987. His many subsequent exhibitions and publications in Japan have provided him with ample opportunities to visit and photograph. During the past several years, as this project began to take shape, Kenna’s trips became more frequent and intense. The resulting images are stunning. Superbly printed in tritone, Japan is hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese folding slipcase. Text in Japanese and English by Kotaro Iizawa. Publication coincides with a series of exhibitions in the US and Japan.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press
Size: 12 x 13'
Slipcased, 108 pages, 96 tritone plates.

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Huangshan

Michael Kenna

Publisher's Description
Huangshan is the name given to a whole range of mountains in Anhui province in eastern China. Also called Yellow mountain, the range is particularly known for its uniquely-shaped granite peaks, ubiquitous pine trees that literally grow out of the rock faces, and the ever changing configurations of flowing clouds as seen from above. Huangshan has been a source of inspiration and a muse for Chinese painters and poets throughout history. It continues to inspire artists today, including Michael Kenna. These forty-six photographs, which Kenna made over a period of three years, capture both the sublimity and grandeur of these peaks, and quietly reflect on our human interaction with nature. Kenna has written a brief introduction which describes some of his experiences on Huangshan. Arguably the most influential photographer of his generation, Michael Kenna is the subject of over 35 monographs. Beautifully printed in our special Daido black ink on uncoated art paper, this second printing of Huangshan is limited to 2,000 casebound copies.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press
Size: 12 x 13"
72 pages, 46 duotone plates.

Downstream: encounters with the Colorado River

Karen Halverson

Downstream is an arresting vision of the Colorado River by renowned landscape photographer Karen Halverson. The Colorado, crucial to development in the West, is at once wilderness, natural resource, recreation area, and wasteland. In seventy large-format color photographs, Halverson captures the river's natural majesty as well as the strange and unexpected beauty of its altered state. The images take us on an intimate exploration of the Colorado's entire length—from its rugged upstream canyons, to its dams and reservoirs, to where it disappears into the desert, entirely consumed. In an insightful, personal introduction to the photographs, Halverson tells how she explored the Colorado—accessing it by car, on foot, and by raft—while learning about its transformation into a complex water delivery system. In a lyrical foreword, historian William Deverell sets the photographs in the illuminating context of Colorado River history and discovery. In both images and prose, the book gives an extraordinary view of the Colorado's great and enduring splendor and a clear-eyed look at the many ironies contained in its waters.

Publisher's price £24.95

Looking In - Robert Frank’s The Americans

Sarah Greenough

Sorry, sold out

Publisher's Description
First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians, and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his subject matter - cars, jukeboxes, and even the road itself - that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally, and linguistically, that made The Americansso innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was fifty years ago.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Looking In: Robert Frank's “The Americans” celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this prescient book. Drawing on newly examined archival sources, it provides a fascinating in-depth examination of the making of the photographs and the book’s construction, using vintage contact sheets, work prints, and letters that literally chart Frank's journey around the country on a Guggenheim grant in 1955 –1956. Curator and editor Sarah Greenough and her colleagues also explore the roots of The Americans in Frank's earlier books, which are abundantly illustrated here, and in books by photographers Walker Evans, Bill Brandt, and others. The eighty-three original photographs from The Americans are presented in sequence in as near vintage prints as possible. The catalogue concludes with an examination of Frank's later reinterpretations and deconstructions of The Americans, bringing full circle the history of this resounding entry in the annals of photography.

Publisher: Steidl / National Gallery of Art
Size: 240 x 292 mm
528 pages, 108 colour plates, 168 tritone plates, 210 duotone 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.

Art of Adventure

Bruce Percy (with introduction by Michael Kenna)

Publisher's Description
This is a retrospective of Bruce Percy's work over the past decade contains 40 landscape and portraiture images from the Bolivian Altiplano, Cambodia, Iceland, India, Nepal, Norway, Patagonia and Scotland.

With introduction by Michael Kenna

First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies.

You can view images from this book on the Half Light Press website.

Publisher: Half Light Press
Size: 320 x 300 mm
88 pages with 40 colour plates

In France

Michael Kenna

This artist's book follows on from previous publications by RAM (Tokyo); In Japan and In Hokkaido. In France - Merci bien pour tout" contains a selection of fifty eight images Michael Kenna has made in France between the years of 1984 and 2011. Michael conceived this book as an homage to his late friend and agent Martine Renaudeau d'Arc (1937-2011). Distributed in Japan by RAM, Tokyo and in the USA and Europe by Nazraeli Press. "IN FRANCE" is bound in vellum, with a traditional Japanese thread winding around the book. This first edition is limited to 2,000 copies.

Publisher: RAM Publications
57 photographs

Note: All signed copies have been sold

Paris Naked (Special Price)

Véronique Vial

Publisher's Description
In the footsteps of George Brassaï and with a beautiful model on her side, French photographer Véronique Vial leads us through Paris at night. The contrast between nocturnal shadows and imperial illuminations, between the architecture in stone and the flesh of the body creates a mesmerizing play of voyeurism and exhibitionism, with Paris as the fitting, magical stage.

Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Size: 240 x 290 mm
112 pages, 78 duotone plates

Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell

Beyond Order (Bortom Redan)

Jan Tove

Signed Copies Available

Swedish Edition only
More recent work than is collected in Speglingar, still predominantly Scandinavian but also venturing into Africa and North America.

The English language version of the title is out of print.