Dear friend of Beyond Words,

Welcome to a special edition of our newsletter. We have approached two of our favourite publishers, Nazraeli and Hatje Cantz, and asked them to choose the twelve titles they are most excited to have published (or are about to publish) in 2010. We have also asked them to nominate three titles from other publishers which have most impressed them this year. This edition is given over to the work of Nazraeli; you will receive the Hatje Cantz special edition later this month.

 
Nazraeli Press

 

We start by asking Chris Pichler, the owner of Nazraeli, what he thinks about the way photography publishing is going, and how he sees Nazraeli moving forward:

“The growing influence of "zines" is such an interesting and wonderful development in the face of an ever more digital world, it may be the most important development in publishing in years. Just when people began saying (yet again) that the end of the printed page is here, out popped this charming, homemade, underground style of making books, for very little money. Anybody can do it, and it's probably what we would be doing if we were just starting out. Since we are not just starting out, however, our own efforts are going toward our new series of limited-edition books with prints, "Six by Six", and continuing to publish the more traditional monographs that have allowed us to have so much fun for the past twenty years.”

Here are Chris’s choices for Nazraeli’s twelve Books of 2010. (We have had to abbreviate the descriptions for this newsletter. Please see our website for fuller descriptions.)

 
Corey Arnold: Fish-Work: The Bering Sea
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £40.00, Our Price £36.00

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER, WILL SHIP APPROX. DECEMBER 2010. The long-anticipated first monograph by Portland-based artist Corey Arnold. The photographs capture moments from Arnold’s grueling retreats as a crew member aboard a fishing boat to the Bering Sea. With scenes of boat life so vivid that some shots can induce fear or seasickness, the artist’s perspective also reveals the tender soulfulness of a fisherman’s extended life at sea. It is printed in an oversized format in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies (Size: 15 x 12" 80 pages, 47 four-color plates).

 
Joni Harbeck & Neil Krug: Pulp Art Book Volume One
Nazraeli Press, Publisher's Price £30.00, Our Price £27.00

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER, WILL SHIP APPROX. DECEMBER 2010. “Neil Krug’s stylized photos of his girlfriend [now wife], the model Joni Harbeck, were taken with Polaroid film years past its sell-by date. They have the kind of grainy, sun-scorched feel of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. And ever since the couple began posting the photos on Flickr early this year, they’ve drawn a blaze of attention”( The New York Times).  Pulp Art Book: Volume One is an LP-sized hardcover book, split into several vignettes ranging from a spaghetti western theme to a Bonnie and Clyde revival and to the struggles of a 1950s housewife. These series tell the story of each character, and will be expanded in subsequent volumes. (Size: 12 x 12", 72 pages, 44 four-color plates)

 
Todd Hido: A Road Divided
Nazraeli Press, Publisher's Price £50.00, Our Price £45.00

Hido’s new book of landscape photographs in which the artist again focuses his attention on the American landscape. Driving lonely roads on the outskirts of cities, Hido creates poignant images filled with inexplicable gravity, cinematic scenes of places that somehow exist in our collective memory. In these new pictures, Hido demonstrates his fluidity within the daytime realm, putting aside the harder edge that characterizes his night work by photographing through veils of rain or ice. He often frames the compositions from inside his car, photographing straight through the windshield, using it as an additional lens and bringing a sense of timing and moment to these stationary scenes (Size: 14 x 17" 64 pages, 28 four-color plates)

Neil McIlwraith writes: “This is one of my books of the year too, absolutely gorgeous. We have managed to get a few signed copies at £54 as well as unsigned at £45.”

 
Kenro Izu: A Thirty Year Retrospective
Nazraeli Press, Publisher's Price £50.00, Our Price £45.00
A chance viewing of the mammoth plate photographs by the Victorian photographer Francis Frith led Izu to travel to Egypt in 1979, to photograph the pyramids and other sacred monuments. Thus began the artist’s renowned series “Sacred Places,” which includes work from holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, Easter Island and, more recently, Buddhist and Hindu sites in India, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China. Using a custom-made, 300-pound camera, Izu creates negatives that are 14 inches high by 20 inches wide. The resulting platinum palladium prints are widely recognized as being among the most beautiful prints in the history of the medium. (Size: 14 x 15",140 pages, 100 duotone plates)
 
Gus Van Sant: One Step Big Shot
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £30.00, Our Price £27.00

Nazraeli are publishing a selection of photographic portraits by the film director Gus van Sant: One Step Big Shot.
Using Polaroid film, these portraits capture aspiring actors at a pivotal moment, when they are being tested for roles in van Sant’s films.

 
Michael Kenna: Venezia
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £50.00, Our Price £45.00

This beautifully produced book brings together a collection of haunting images quietly made by Michael Kenna over the last 30 years, many of which are published here for the first time. Arguably the most influential photographer of his generation, Michael Kenna is the subject of over 35 monographs. This first printing of Venezia is limited to 2,000 hand-numbered, slipcased copies. A SPECIAL EDITION of 250 signed and numbered copies, presented in a clamshell box, is also available. (Size: 12 x 13", 64 pages, 40 duotone plates)

 
Neeta Madahar: Flora
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £40.00, Our Price £36.00

A favorite subject of Renaissance and Baroque painters, Flora was traditionally depicted as a young woman surrounded by reveling devotees bearing floral tributes. Madahar, however, presents us with a different Flora. Her immediate inspiration was the stylized portrait photography of the 1930-50s including that of Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and Madame Yevonde. Printed in process color on matt art paper, this beautifully-produced artist’s book is bound in French suede covers in a first edition of 1,000 copies (11 x 14", 48 pages, 17 four-color plates)

 
Titus Riedl: Retratos Pintados
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £40.00, Our Price £36.00
"Nothing has stopped me in my tracks more than when I was first introduced to a set of images collected by Titus Riedl, while attending a Latin American photo forum in São Paulo. If you visit a house in the northeast of Brazil, you are very likely to see a photo painting on the wall. This is a tradition that dates back many years, when a black and white image was not deemed exciting enough. Painted photos are a way of bestowing status on members of your family (both dead and alive) and giving them an iconic, almost saint-like look. When the roving dealers visited these houses, in search of commissions, they were able to facilitate any dream. They could bring back the dead, dress you in expensive clothes and jewellery, make you look years younger. As I was keen to see the last of these artists in action, Titus decided to arrange an introduction. We went to my hotel room and made the edit that you see here. As another analogue tradition dies, we offer the portraits in this book as a testament to a most remarkable method of creating portraits. Let the dream live on." — from the Introduction by Martin Parr. (Fifth title in the series Parr/Nazraeli Edition of Ten, hardcover, 10 x 12, 68 pages, 61 four-color plates)
 
Alessandra Sanguinetti: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £40.00, Our Price £36.00
  This is the story of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda. In 1999, when they were 10 and 9 years old and living in a rural province of Buenos Aires, their paths crossed with photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Drawn to the girls, whose evident affection for each other is somehow magnified by their mismatched physiques, Sanguinetti took pictures to "crystallize their rich yet fragile and unattended world". To witness the evolving relationship between Guille and Belinda is to be privy to a touching, entertaining and utterly captivating interaction. At the same time there is the subtle awareness of a second relationship, that of this delightful pair and their photographer. The images follow the cousins for five years, from pre-teen to adolescent, as they play, dream and unwind their way through the secret enchantment that is childhood (Hardcover, 10 x 12, 68 pages, 61 four-color plates.)
 
Alec Soth: One Picture Book #63: One Mississippi
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, $250.00
  Alec Soth’s contribution to the One Picture Book series opens with a note: “In March of 1992, Rachel and I made a road trip down the Mississippi River. Along with our German Shepherd, Tasha, we travelled from our home in Minnesota to Memphis, Tennessee.” The twelve images that follow - eleven reproductions and one original photograph - are all previously unpublished. They convey wonderfully both the innocence and excitement of what was to become an epic journey. (Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages, 11 four-color plates, 1 original print)  Please phone or email Beyond Words to check availability – you will probably need to pay $250 to get a copy
 
Mark Steinmetz: One Picture Book #64: Italia
Nazraeli Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price $150
  Mark Steinmetz – whose recently-completed trilogy of books South Central, South East and Greater Atlanta is the subject of wide critical acclaim – contributes Italia: Cronaca di un Amore to the One Picture Book series (Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages, 14 duotone plates, 1 original print). Please phone or email Beyond Words to check availability – you will probably need to pay $150 to get a copy
 
Six by Six(Set One)
Six limited edition books, each with a loose original signed print, housed in a custom slipcase.
  A new series of limited edition books, Six by Six comprises 36 titles, published in six sets of six titles each, over a three year period. Each title in the series is limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, printed on exclusive heavyweight Japanese paper and bound in Japanese cloth. Each book contains a separate exhibition-quality original print, numbered and signed by the artist, on 11 x 14 inch paper. The first set of six titles, listed below, will be available in November 2010. The hardcover, oversized (12 x 15-inch) books and accompanying prints are contained in a custom-made slipcase. The second set of six titles will be published in Spring 2011, with the remaining four sets published at approximately 6-month intervals. The current price for the first set is $6,000 (six books/prints at $1,000 each), which will increase as the edition sells out. Subscribers to the first set will automatically receive subsequent sets for the same price that they paid for the first. The first set of six titles is comprised of the following: Anthony Hernandez: East Baltimore; Todd Hido: Motel Club; Raymond Meeks, Amwell; Martin Parr: Machu Picchu; Toshio Shibata, Expressways 1986; Mark Steinmetz: The Ancient Tigers of my Neighborhood. Availability and price levels are strictly on a first come, first served basis. Please contact Beyond Words to check price if you are considering ordering.
 
Nazraeli’s three top recommendations from other publishers
Robert Adams: What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005
Yale University Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £17.00, Our Price £15.30
  Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work spanning 1965 to 2005, What Can We Believe Where? presents a narrative sequence of more than 100 tritone images that reveals a steadfast concern for our increasingly tragic relationship with the natural world. Adams' understated yet arresting pictures of the vast Colorado plains, the rapid suburbanization of the Denver and Colorado Springs areas, and the ecological devastation of the Pacific Northwest register with subtle precision the complex and often fragile beauty of the scenes they depict. The most accessible collection of Adams' work to date (120 pages, 110 tritone illustrations)
 
Raymond Meeks amwell |  continuum
”This short book moves beautifully from place to people to interiors to place and from colour to black and white and back to colour smoothly with a sense of ease and in a way which is almost unnoticed as you spend time with the pictures” (review from photo-muse.blogspot) This self-published artist’s book was published in various editions, some of which may no longer be available – please contact Beyond Words for the latest information. To view other examples of Raymond Meeks' truly unique and very beautiful artist's books visit the his website at www.raymondmeeks.net.
 
Yuki Onodera : Yuki Onodera (Tankosha)
  Yuki Onodera's international reputation is founded on her ongoing study of the act of photography itself, as well as the fantastical ideas that underpin her own photographs. Published to accompany the summer 2010 exhibition Into the Labyrinth of Photography in Tokyo, this book includes work from 18 series and 211 prints. A comprehensive visual overview of two decades of work (215 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, hardback). We hope to find a European supplier for this title and the price should be about £36.50 – please contact Beyond Words if you are interested.
 
BJP Vision

Finally please note that this annual event will take place at the Business Design Centre in London on Friday 19 November. Keynote speakers include Tom Hunter, Jonas Bendiksen and George Georgiou. Beyond Words will be running the bookstall at this event. For information on booking, go to http://web.incisive-events.com/ptg/2010/11/vision-10/index.html

 
 

As always if you would like to order any of the titles listed or would like more information concerning anything mentioned in our newsletters please contact us by phone or at the email address at the bottom of this message. You may also order any of these books at www.beyondwords.co.uk.

 

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