Dear Friend of Beyond Words,

There seems to be a very high number of new (and reappearing) titles worth drawing your attention to, so we’re going to send out two newsletters just a fortnight apart.  Also, because we’re very busy, I’m going to dispense with my normal long-winded editorialising and just give you a brief introduction to some of the selected titles and leave you to follow the links.

We welcome a new edition of the Torst book on Josef Koudelka.  We also recommend that you explore the other titles in this excellent series on Czech photographers, some well-known, others almost unknown in the West. I will try to do a feature on this series in a forthcoming newsletter.  In the meantime, if any of the titles interest you and they’re not on our website, let me know and I’d be happy to get hold of it for you.

Sadly Hiroshi Watanabe’s Findings is now out of print but we can still obtain the limited edition with a choice of original print.

I came across Ian Teh’s latest work in the BJP and really liked the look of it but the recent stuff is not in book form, although you can see more on his website.  For the moment I’m happy to recommend an older collection, Undercurrents, which documents the human dimension of rapid social change in China in vibrant colour. 

Lenswork kindly agreed to reprint fifty copies of the classic On Being a Photographer, in which Bill Jay interviews David Hurn, just for Beyond Words, so it is now exclusively available from us.  We also have limited stock of Letting Go of the Camera and Single Exposures.

We’ve now got stock of the Japanese classic, Soul and Soul by Kiyoshi Suzuki (to see images see the Noorderlicht website)  And we’re very excited that we’ll be able to obtain copies of Masao Yamamoto’s new very limited edition from 21st Editions, one of the world’s most prestigious specialist photographic publishers (on whose website you can see images of this book).  Yamamoto’s recent titles from Nazraeli have been stunningly beautiful and much sought after.  I’m sure the same will be true of this one.   

Judging from a positive assessment from Allan Bovill, I may have been a little pessimistic in my comments about Taschen’s Photographers A-Z last month.  Allan writes: “The Taschen book is really nice!  The author has done a couple of books with Rene Burri and knows his stuff!  There isn't much in the way of analysis, but it's beautifully produced and draws on an eclectic variety of sources, featuring not only books, but magazine spreads too!  It's a worthy addition to Roth, Parr & Badger, "The Open Book", Auer, and "Books of Nudes".”

The Bruce Davidson box set Outside In has been reprinted.  Don’t wait if you’re thinking of buying it.  They’re going fast again.  Customer Chris Beards calls it “quite an extraordinary collection.”

I’m afraid I didn’t know much about Charlotte Perriand, modernist architect and designer, associate of Le Corbusier.  I knew even less about her photography but I have been really impressed by the work I have seen in A Wide-Angle Eye.  The closest resemblance would be to Renger-Patzsch or Charles Sheeler.  I haven’t been able to find much online for you – you’ll have to go to http://www.fivecontinentseditions.com/en/download/CAT_UK_lowRES.pdf and scroll down to page 74.

Finally, with the addition of Photography and Anthropology, Photography and Japan, and Photography and Death, Reaktion Books’ Exposures series is building up into an excellent collection of thematic perspectives on the medium.