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Michael Kenna

		Tranquil Morning (Signed Copies) Michael Kenna Our Price £60.00



		The Philosopher's Tree Michael Kenna Our Price £62.50



		Huangshan (2nd Edition) Michael Kenna Publisher's Price £50.00 Our Price £45.00

At some point in February we should have stock of three new publications by Michael Kenna. Gallery Kong in Seoul are producing a new, slightly extended edition of The Philosopher’s Tree as well as a new publication, Tranquil Morning. I’m afraid I don’t have much information on the latter other than that it will be similar in format to The Philosopher’s Tree. Please note, though, that we will be getting signed copies only of these publications so early ordering is advised. RAM Publications, who produced the two beautiful Kenna volumes, In Japan and In Hokkaido, are also about to publish a companion volume In France. Nazraeli Prees have also reprinted Michael Kenna’s Huangshan. The first edition of only 1000 sold out in a couple of months so the decision is not surprising.

New Titles

		Summertime Mark Steinmetz £45, £53 and £450 Available in Standard, Signed and Deluxe Editions

Mark Steinmetz’s follow-up monograph to his classic trilogy South Central / South East / Greater Atlanta. Summertime is a series of portraits of kids and teenagers caught in the midst of activity in distinctly American settings. Made between 1984 and 1991, when they could roam their neighbourhoods with less supervision than today, riding bikes without wearing helmets, and hanging out without constant digital interruptions, these black and white photographs capture the light and feel of an endless summer. Beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese stock with Nazraeli’s exclusive ‘Daido black’ ink, Summertime is printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies. It is also available in a deluxe edition, with a signed original gelatin silver print. We also have signed copies of the standard available.



		Prairie Robert Adams Publisher's Price £25.00 Our Price £22.50

The Fraenkel Gallery have published a new edition of Prairie by Robert Adams whose influential landscape photography documents human encroachment on the plains of the American West. First published in 1978, this expanded volume includes all of the original images, along with new photographs selected and sequenced by Adams himself, many of which are being published for the first time.



		Bridge at the Hoover Dam Jamey Stillings Publisher's Price £50.00 Our Price £45.00

Jamey Stillings’ The Bridge at Hoover Dam documents the building of the new bridge and is yet another beautiful Nazraeli production, measuring 13.5 x 17" with 60 four-colour plates (click here for examples).



		Mountain Sandy Hill Publisher's Price £50.00 Our Price £45.00

High on the wishlist of climbers and hillwalkers will be Mountain by the splendidly named Sandy Hill, with supporting text by Robert MacFarlane among others. Spanning two centuries, this book contains rarely seen images from such legendary photographers as Galen Rowell, Peter Beard, and Ansel Adams and from daring mountaineers who celebrate the beauty, wonder, and spectacle of mountains.



		The Heath Andy Sewell Our Price £38.00

Andy Sewell’s celebration of Hampstead Heath in The Heath is full of quiet joys. The print run is almost completely sold out. We have a few signed copies remaining.



		Winter Jeff Conley Publisher's Price £50.00 Our Price £45.00

You couldn’t wish for a more seasonally appropriate gift than Jeffrey Conley’s Winter, designed and printed to Nazraeli’s usual exacting standards. Beautiful black-and-white winter landscapes, predominantly woodland with some enchanting images of snowfall. We have signed and unsigned copies (£40 > £36).



		Francesca Woodman Francesca Woodman Publisher's Price £35.00 Our Price £31.50

After the announcement of a facsimile publication of one of Francesca Woodman’s notebooks (see below), we can announce another new publication which coincides with an exhibition of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The publishers claim “it contains many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph”.



		Francesca Woodman's Notebook Publisher's Price 31.50 Our Price £28.35

Francesca Woodman’s photography has taken on almost mythic status since her suicide at the age of 22 in 1981 and every volume of her published work has been snapped up. The Italian publisher Silvana are releasing Francesca Woodman’s Notebook, a facsimile edition of one of the notebooks (with her own photographs inserted) she kept during a stay outside Florence. Housed in a lightweight printed box, it includes an afterword by George Woodman, Francesca's father, that contextualizes the work within the photographer's artist's book production.




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Back in Stock

		Reconstructing Space - Architecture in Recent German Photography Publisher's Price £10.00

Many years ago, our Cockburn Street shop sold quite a few copies of an excellent collection, Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography. I had assumed it was out of print but was delighted to get hold of some copies which we are selling at the bargain price of £10. The architecture won’t seem so recent now (it was published in 1999) but the quality of photographers included (e.g Bechers, Demand, Gursky, Hofer, Struth) make this a very worthwhile collection

Calendars

		Michael Kenna Calendar 2012 Michael Kenna Publisher's Price £19.20 Our Price £17.28

Nazraeli Press have issued their sixteenth calendar featuring the work of Michael Kenna. This 2012 incarnation is beautifully printed on an exclusive, uncoated, natural Japanese paper using “Daido black” ink.

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