Dear friend of Beyond Words,

New titles are coming thick and fast now and many more are due to be published before Christmas. As happens every year, some will end up getting delayed so, if you are particularly worried about a book being available before Christmas, please get in touch and I’ll give you the latest info.
 
Book Launch & Signing
 
 

Bruce Percy: Art of Adventure

McDonald Road Library
Monday 28th November, 6:30 to 8pm
 
It’s a pleasure to start with the debut publication by Edinburgh photographer Bruce Percy. As mentioned briefly last time, we are linking up with Bruce for a book launch at McDonald Road Library on Monday 28th November, 6:30 to 8pm. This is a free event. I haven’t been able to see a sample of the book yet but I’ve seen plenty of Bruce’s prints and The Art of Adventure is sure to add to his growing list of fans. Two things can be said immediately in its favour: The printers are the same as Nazraeli use so the printing is sure to be of the highest quality. Secondly it comes armed with a recommendation by Michael Kenna. See here for sample pages from the book. Please contact us or order on our website If you cannot attend the launch but would like to reserve a signed copy.
 
New Titles
 
Norman McBeath: Simonides
Easel Press, Hardback, Price £25.00

Another Edinburgh photographer who has produced a beautiful book is Norman McBeath whose book Simonides was published to coincide with an exhibition at the Edinburgh College of Art. This is a beautifully produced cloth-bound hardback with twenty-five duotone photographs by Norman and texts by one of Scotland’s finest poets, Robert Crawford.
 
David Tarn: Words and Pictures
Scene as Seen Publishing, Hardback, Price £25.00

Another collaboration brings photographer David Tarn together with poet Laura Fraine in Words & Pictures. The fine collection of photographs, in colour and black-and-white, brought this admiring note from Steve Gosling: “..."this is the best photography book I have ever seen...don't make me say that twice, it nearly choked me the first time."
 
Latin American Photobook
Aperture, Hardback, Publisher's Price £45.00, Our Price £40.50

There is a substantial addition to the ‘books about photo books’ genre in the form of The Latin American Photobook, which covers 150 volumes from the 1920s till today. One major recommendation is that the author is Horacio Fernandez, whose Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919–1939 kickstarted the surge in interest in photobook history.
 
A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology
English Heritage, Paperback, Publisher's Price £25.00, Our Price £22.50

Appreciation of aerial photography has grown considerably since the publication of Arthus-Bertrand’s Earth from the Air so the publication of A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology should be of interest to those wanting learn about its development from military and archaeological purposes to its contemporary aesthetic and environmental uses. Includes nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs.
 
Magnum on Set
Silvana Editoriale, Paperback, Publisher's Price £27.00, Our Price £24.30

Magnum on Set is a compendium of behind-the-scenes photos taken by Magnum photographers on film sets. Featured films include Chaplin's Limelight (with W. Eugene Smith), Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (with Elliott Erwitt), Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (with Dennis Stock), Orson Welles' The Trial (with Nicolas Tikhomiroff), John Huston's Moby Dick (with Erich Lessing) and Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (with Bruce Davidson).
 
Road Atlas
University of Chicago Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £34.95, Our Price £31.46

From classic New York City street scenes by Helen Levitt to the works of the more contemporary street photographers, including, among others, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Beate Streuli and Pieter Hugo, Road Atlas presents a survey of the very best of street photography. Includes more than 100 photographs from the renowned DZ Bank art collection in Frankfurt.
 
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
powerHouse, Hardback, Publisher's Price £28.99, Our Price £26.09
Its publication is well timed to coincide with the first publication of the recently discovered work of Vivian Maier, a professional nanny with no photographic training who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 street photographs worldwide— from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. It wasn’t until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of Maier’s negatives from a Chicago auction house and began collecting and championing her work just a few years ago that any of it saw the light of day. See samples here on the powerHouse website.
 
Saul Leiter: Early Black & White & Early Color
Cosmos International, Hardback, Price £33.00
 

Another photographer whose early work from the 1950s has undergone a radical reappraisal in recent years in Saul Leiter. First printings of Early Black and White and Early Color sold out very quickly. Steidl have reprints of both of them in the autumn schedule. See the Lens Culture website for an excellent slideshow of Leiter’s work.
 
Dan Graham: New Jersey
Lars Muller Publishers, Hardback, Publisher's Price £45.00 Our Price £40.50
  Dan Graham, one of North America’s most important contemporary artists, is best known today for his sculptural works and installations but he first became famous for his photographic series Homes for America, pictures of typical American suburbia. Architecture in the context of postmodern everyday culture has continued to be an important facet of his work. Dan Graham’s New Jersey presents new photographs by Dan Graham together with original photographs from the Homes for America series.
 
William Eggleston: Chromes
Steidl, Hardback (Three Volumes), Publisher's Price £220.00, Our Price £198.00
 

Fans of William Eggleston will need to get all their Christmas presents rolled into one as Steidl’s latest mega-tome comes in at £220 (minus 10% from us). Chromes is an edit of more than 5,000 Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken from ten chronologically ordered binders found in a safe in the Eggleston Artistic Trust. This book presents Eggleston’s early Memphis imagery and demonstrates his testing of colour and compositional strategies. Chromes comprises 728 pages in three volumes housed in a foil-embossed slipcase
 
Lee Friedlander: The New Cars
Fraenkel Gallery, Paperback, Publisher's Price $49.95, Our Price £36.95
  In a kind of follow-up to Lee Friedlander’s America by Car, the Fraenkel Gallery are publishing The New Cars. In 1964, Harper's Bazaar hired up-and-coming photographer Friedlander to photograph the much-anticipated new car models of that year. But, rather than depicting the cars in seductive locales, he had them delivered to parking lots near burger joints, cheap furniture stores, downscale beauty parlors and even a used-car lot. The magazine's editor was unamused, fearing that the photographs would deter car manufacturers from advertising in Harper's, so Friedlander was paid for his work and the photographs were soon forgotten - until he stumbled across them in 2010
 
Katy Grannan: Boulevard
Fraenkel Gallery and Salon 94, Hardback, Publisher's Price £33.00, Our Price £29.70
  Katy Grannan, whose American Model marked the arrival of a major new talent in the field of contemporary portraiture, extends her range into a stylized street portraiture in Boulevard. For the past three years Katy Grannan has roamed the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, photographing strangers, most often people whom others pass by without notice. Grannan photographs her subjects in front of the type of white stucco walls that can be found anywhere. She works around midday when the strong light, in tandem with the white walls, transforms her city streets into outdoor studios. Images from the exhibition can be found here.
 
David Pollock: Fertile Geometry
Punto Marte, Hardback, Publisher's Price £16.50, Our Price £14.85

  In the rush before Christmas, I hope those of you with an interest in contemporary landscape photography will take time to investigate a new (to me) Canadian photographer, David Pollock, whose Fertile Geometry makes something beautiful out of the unpromising farmed landscape of Vancouver Island. Click here to view a preview of the book.
 
Stanley Greenberg: Time Machines
University of Chicago Press, Hardback, Publisher's Price £39.95, Our Price £35.96
  I am very keen on the work of Stanley Greenberg, a very unshowy and meticulous black-and-white photographer of infrastructures such as New York’s water system. I recommend Waterworks and Hidden New York for those who want to look into his earlier work. His latest project Time Machines shifts focus to the most recent scientific developments. Greenberg has over the course of five years traveled to—and photographed—many of the most important experiments in modern physics. Look here for examples of Greenberg’s work.
 
Boris Mikhailov: From Japan
Steidl, 8 magazines in a box, Publisher's Price £65.00, Our Price £58.50
  After focusing almost exclusively for many years on his homeland Ukraine, Boris Mikhailov turns his attention to Japan. Mikhailov’s From Japan is comparable to Araki’s vision, showing sexual desire as an often repressed but fundamental social factor.
 
Keizo Kitajima: Photo Express: Tokyo
Steidl, 12 Magazines in an envelope, Publisher's Price £78.00, Our Price £70.20
  Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima in 1979. The booklets were numbered from one to twelve and one was released each month for a year. Each contained sixteen pages of photographs from Kitajima’s legendary nocturnal wanderings in Tokyo and conveys the spirit of the happenings he organized at the time. Kitajima’s original booklets have now become cult objects, and this new edition (twelve magazines in an envelope) is set to become a collector’s item.
 
Ai Weiwei: Interlacing
Steidl, Paperback, Publisher's Price £34.00, Our Price £30.60
  Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most prominent artists and political dissidents. Steidl’s Interlacing presents the first major retrospective of his art (much of it photographic). Click here for sample pages.
 
Jakob Tuggener: Fabrik
Steidl, Hardback, Publisher's Price £45.00, Our Price £40.50
  Steidl are also responsible for the publication of three works of historical interest. The first is a reprint of Fabrik by Jakob Tuggener, who was born in Zurich in 1904, and worked as a photographer, filmmaker and painter. Influenced by the German expressionist films from the 1920s, he developed a strongly expressive poetic style that became a model for many young photographers after World War II. Tuggener's main themes were factory work, rural life, and glamorous social events such as the New Year's Balls in the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, which he attended year after year. Fabrik was a unique photographic essay on our relationship with the increasingly threatening world of machines, published in 1943. It is an important milestone in the history of the photographic book.
 
Horst von Harbou: Metropolis
Steidl, Hardback, Publisher's Price £55.00, Our Price £49.50
  The book Metropolis publishes for the first time photographs of filmed scenes as well as off-camera action from the classic film by Horst von Harbou, Fritz Lang’s brother-in-law. Von Harbou made an album of thirty-five photographs which he gave to the film’s young star Brigitte Helm. The book is a careful reconstruction of this album.
 
Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945
Steidl, Paperback, Publisher's Price £42.00, Our Price £37.80
  Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 presents a selection of once confidential images commissioned by President Truman in the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. 865 of them were published in the classified report The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (1947). Today most of these images are part of the permanent collection at the International Center of Photography, 300 of which are reproduced here. Click here for a preview.
 
Robert Hirsch: Exploring Color Photograph
Focal Press, Paperback, Publisher's Price £33.99, Our Price £30.59
  Our final ‘new’ title is a classic of practical photography, Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography. Now in its fifth edition, subtitled From Film to Pixels, it should continue to be the leading book on the subject. A preview of the book can be found on the Focal Press website.
 
Other News

A customer Graham Miller has taken the photographs for the calendar sold in aid of Downs Syndrome Scotland. For details click here.

I would like to close by thanking John Blakemore for his enthralling talk at the launch of Photographs 1955-2010 last month. You can see some photos and a transcript of the talk on Kyriacos Kalorcoti’s website. And we still have signed copies of this beautiful book for sale.
 

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