Dear friend of Beyond Words,

New titles come thick and fast as publishers work themselves up into a pre-Christmas frenzy. So as not to fall behind, I’ll be keeping my book descriptions briefer over the next few newsletters. If there are any titles where you’d like more detail, please get in touch.

We start off with a round-up of titles from self-publishers or small presses.

 
New Titles
 
Ian Teh: Traces
Deep Sleep Editions, Hardback, Publisher's Price £20.00

I have enthused about the work of Ian Teh previously and would like to recommend his new book Traces which portrays the high environmental cost of rapid industrialization in China. While this issue has been well represented photographically in recent years, not least by Ed Burtynsky, I think Teh’s work is up there with the very best (you can see examples on the photographer's website).

We have signed copies of the standard edition as well as the limited edition with print.  This is an exceptional piece of work, thoughtfully sequenced, beautifully presented and designed, definitely one of my books of the year.
 
 
Andy Sewell: The Heath
Hardback, Publisher's Price £30.00
Equally compelling and beautifully produced is Andy Sewell’s affectionate portrayal of Hampstead Heath which comes armed with a recommendation from Martin Parr: “For the last five years Andy Sewell has been tramping Hampstead Heath with his camera and has accumulated a stunning set of photographs… I urge you to support this emerging talent and order this book before it is acknowledged as a classic contribution to our photographic culture.” You can preview the book on Andy's website.
 
 
Hans Bol: Paradise City
Hardback, Publisher's Price £50.00
 
 

Paradise City is a beautiful publication of Hans Bol’s photographs of the famous marble quarries at Carrara in Italy. The book measures 24x30 cm and contains 84 black and white photographs, of which 4 are fold-outs that measure 96cm in width plus one small, handmade print. Images can be viewed here.
 
 
Francesca Woodman
D.A.P. Hardback, Publisher's Price Ł35.00, Our Price £31.50
  After last month’s announcement of a facsimile publication of one of Francesca Woodman’s notebooks, we can announce another new publication which coincides with an exhibition of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s not out till the beginning of November so we can’t judge it but the publishers claim “it contains many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph”. A selection of images can be seen on the publisher's website.
 
 
Richard Misrach: 1991
Blind Spot, Hardback, Publisher's Price $75.00, Our Price £60.00
  We are very excited that we will be shortly be getting ten copies of a signed new book by Richard Misrach named 1991 after the year in which Misrach took photographs of the effects of the catastrophic fires that engulfed the Oakland and Berkeley Hills. Out of respect for the victims of the fire—which killed twenty-five people, injured 150 others, and destroyed nearly three thousand homes - Misrach’s images have remained mostly unexhibited for the last twenty years. 1991 will be published on the 20th anniversary of the fire by Blind Spot (on whose website you will find images from the book).
 
 
Alejandro Cartagena: Suburbia Mexicana
Daylight Books and Photolucida, Hardback, Publisher's Price £29.95
  Suburbia Mexicana is an exceptional collection of colour urban landscape photography by Alejandro Cartagena, a young photographer originally from the Dominican Republic but now resident in Monterey, Mexico. A teaser for the book can be found on the Daylight website.
 
 
Jack Spencer: Prism Series Book No.3
21st Editions, Hardback, Publisher's Price $750.00, Our Price £495.00
  21st Editions publish the third in their Prism book series. The subject is the work of Jack Spencer, a painter/photographer whose photographs provide a “a classic vision of America, America as it still is in very few places”. As with the two previous titles in this series by Masao Yamamoto and Mitch Dobrowner, each copy comes with a choice of print and only 200 copies are available for sale. Visit the 21st Editions website for more images and to see the choice of prints available.
 
 
Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures
Steidl, Hardback, Publisher's Price £42.00, Our Price £37.80
  I’m a great fan of Joel Sternfeld and am excited to see Steidl’s publication of First Pictures (previewed on the Steidl website). Taken between 1969 and 1980 when colour photography did not have the esteem it does now, these photos show the direct influence of William Eggleston and illustrate the various elements that would be integrated in Sternfeld’s mature work.
 
MemyselfandI
Hatje Cantz, Hardback, Publisher's Price £26.99, Our Price £24.29
  Surely no artist has been more photographed – and by a more illustrious roster of photographers – than Picasso. A collection of these photographs, MemyselfandI, has been put together by Hatje Cantz (a preview is available on their website). It includes work by Avedon, Beaton, Brandt, Brassaď, Burri, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Lartigue, Maar, Morath, Penn and Man Ray.
 
Rizzoli

For a mainstream publisher, Rizzoli have a commendable range of interesting photographic titles this autumn. Pick of the bunch should be Brassai in America which published 150 recently discovered photographs. The style is very different from his Paris photos, the overwhelming impression is of movement - children playing, fashionable women parading by, or the effects of light filtering through the urban architecture. There’s also, in Louisiana, a rare foray into colour. You can see a selection of the contents here.

Phil Borges, best known for his Borges sepia-toned silver print photographs in Tibetan Portrait (which we were surprised to find is still in print) returns to that country for Tibet: Culture on the Edge – this time with straight colour photography. Borges finds the culture under increasing pressure from development threatening this fragile environment. You can see images here.

Leave No Trace is a collection of Jim Wark’s aerial photographs of North America. For more than a flavour of Wark’s work, see www.airphotona.com where he has posted 15,000 (sic) images. 200 or so make the selection for this book.

Our final Rizzoli choice is Acey Harper’s Private Acts, a collection of very dynamic shots of nudes – in this case acrobats – in the landscape. I’ve not found a great online reference for this but the publisher’s summary is here.

 
Brassai:
In America
Phil Borges:
Tibet: Culture
on the Edge
Jim Wark:
Leave No Trace
Acey Harper:
Private Acts
 
Morel
 
Morel are a small London-based publisher doing big things. All titles are limited editions. They will be guaranteed rapid sales with a new collection of work of Corinne Day, whose early work helped shoot Kate Moss to fame (www.corinneday.co.uk). The only substantial book published before her premature death, Diary, is now much sought after. Heaven is Real, limited to 1000 copies, collects previously unpublished work.

Morel are also publishing Terry Richardson’s Mom & Dad in which the too-old-to-be-an-enfant-terrible strays from his usual territory to document his elderly parents’ mental and physical decline. We are hoping to get some signed copies.

Finally Morel have also published a rather lovely little book by a photographer previously unknown to me, Tereza Zelenkova’s Supreme Vice
 
Corinne Day:
Heaven is Real
Terry Richarson:
Mom & Dad
Tereza Zelenkova:
Supreme Vice
 
Superlabo
 
Also specializing in limited editions of little books are the Japanese publisher Superlabo whose latest offering is Michael Wolf’s Portraits. Wolf, whose recent work on Tokyo commuters being crammed into trains, has been widely feted, here roams Google Street View in classic street photographer fashion, searching for the hidden, the unexpected, the sublime, the beautiful, the overlooked. Unmentioned in previous newsletters are Osamu Kanemura’s Stravinsky Overture and Dennis McGrath’s Theatrical Properties. Look up Superlabo’s full catalogue online. We have many Superlabo titles in stock; anything we don’t have, we can get for you in a couple of weeks.
 
Osamu Kanemura:
Stravinsky Overture
Dennis McGrath:
Theatrical Properties
Michael Wolf:
Portraits
 
Nazraeli Press
 
In November Nazraeli will publish 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. See a wide selection of Steinmetz’s work on the photographer's website.

Nazraeli’s previous monographs of the work of Ron van Dongen have been landmarks in the field of flower photography. Proof is a slight departure from earlier books illustrating “the unexpected and breathtaking effect of time on untreated master proofs. Though some of these Polaroid images are no older than a few years, they all seem to have been pulled from an exquisite, moldering time capsule.  Unstable chemicals have randomly burned, flashed and splashed his fine images. The result is spellbinding. Perky blooms and sensual bouquets simultaneously relay a wisdom of age and mortality.”
 
Mark Steinmetz:
Summertime
Mark Steinmetz:
Summertime (Deluxe)
Ron Van Dongen:
Proof
 
Kehrer Verlag
 
Kehrer Verlag are publishing a very interesting collection of Icelandic photography, Frontiers of Another Nature. Though sharing overseas photographers’ predominant interest in Iceland’s unique landscape, the indigenous photographers demonstrate a more questioning approach.

I also love the look of another Kehrer publication, the intimate diary-like work of Thekla Ehling, previously unknown to me. Vergiszmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) is dedicated to Arno Fischer and is limited to 500 signed copies. An enticing preview is available on the Kehrer Verlag website.
 
Frontiers of Another Nature:
Pictures from Iceland
Thekla Ehling:
Vergiszmeinnicht
 
Ansel Adams Wall Calendar and Diary
 
The Ansel Adams Wall Calendar and Diary have been produced again to their usual high production standards.
 
Ansel Adams Calendar 2012
Ansel Adams Diary 2012
 
John Blakemore Event
 
You’ll not be surprised to know that I’m going to finish up with a final plug for our John Blakemore talk and signing on 24 October. The difference from the last time I wrote is that I’ve now seen the book and it is a truly magnificent summation of a wonderfully varied photographic career. Please come on 24 October to join us in celebrating it. If you can’t, we’re happy to take orders for signed copies to be sent out after the event. For more details visit our website.
 

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