SUPER LABO is proud to announce the release of Shomei Tomatsu's posthumous photo book "make".

This publishing project has been in preparation since Spring 2012 (Tomatsu died in December) and the title of the book, the images and the order were decided by the artist himself. 

"I once received a question from a European art director on whether the works by Tomatsu were "take" or "make".
I was at a loss for answers, the reason being that I had never posed the question onto myself with such options.
At that time, I took the time to take another look at the photographs I had taken."

The special edition (with Tomatsu's first silkscreen print ) will be released at the same time.

Publisher: Super Labo

Size: 290 x 290 mm

126 Pages, 80 Images (b/w and colour)

Japanease and English text

Limited edition of 500

Publisher's Description

The first hardback monograph from Ren Hang, the controversial avant-garde photographer from China. A curation of the photographer's most interesting work to date presented in a large format clothbound hardcover book. This First Edition is limited to just 460 numbered copies.

Originally from Chang Chun in the Jilin province of Northeastern China, Ren Hang (b.1987) is a poet and photographer living and working in Beijing. Deliberately provocative, Ren Hang’s images challenge conventional codes of morality in a still highly conservative society. The artist’s work has appeared in leading independent magazines in China and around the world.

The explicit nature of Ren Hang’s photography has often made it difficult for galleries in his homeland to mount exhibitions of his work. Despite this, his images have been exhibited widely; with several solo shows in China and appearances in numerous group shows internationally in countries including Italy, France, Russia, Israel and Sweden.

Publisher: Éditions du LIC

Size: 290 x 295 mm

116 images, 94 colour plates

460 numbered copies

Publisher's Price: €75

Publisher's Description

The first book specifically devoted to the Scandinavian works of the Italian photographer, Massimo Leardini. Presented in a large format clothbound hardcover book and bautifully reproduced using Triotone offest printing on Arctic Volume Ivory paper, Scandinavian by Massimo Leardini features photoshoots with, amongst others, Iselin Steiro, Marianne Schröder, Viktoria Winge, Jenny Sinkaberg and Ophelie Rupp. This First Edition is limited to just 440 numbered copies. 

Originally from Cattolica, in the Italian Province of Rimini, Massimo Leardini has lived and worked in Norway since 1987 and become one of the most sought-after photographers in Scandinavia. His work, which has received numerous awards and prizes, appears regularly in leading fashion magazines, including Elle, Carl’s Cars, S-Magazine, Smug and Personae.

Rooted in the classical tradition, Leardini uses his unique aesthetic sensibility to capture the human body in harmony with the timeless Scandinavian landscape. Despite the seeming purity and innocence of these candid moments, a quiet sense of melancholy pervades and seems to hint at a deeper undercurrent of Nordic angst.

Publisher: Éditions du LIC

Size: 240 x 300 mm

116 pages, 84 triotone plates

440 numbered copies

Publisher's price: €65

Overseas deliveries  Please note that, as this is a heavy item, overseas postage will be charged at twice our standard rates.

Kenna's photographs of the Shinan region of Korea.  Due for publication Summer 2013.  If you wish to place an advance order and do not wish your card account to be debited until book is ready for despatch, please use Secure Trading payment option.

Watch a video of Kenna working in Shinan.

Browse Kenna Shinan image archive.  The images are not guaranteed to be the same as the contents of the book.  We have no information about the cover of the book so the image we have used to illustrate the item is just one chosen from Kenna's image archive.

Standard edition also available.

Edited by Hisako Motoo. Foreword by Daido Moriyama, Hisako Motoo, Satoshi Machiguchi, Blues Wong.

Daido Moriyama’s Reflection and Refraction is compiled from two earlier collections, Auto-portrait and Sunflower, published by MMM in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Carefully sequenced and handsomely printed in deep, resonant blacks that intensify the grainy textures Moriyama so famously elicits from his street scenes and interiors, Reflection and Refraction forms a cumulative record of Japan’s often contradictory social fabric. Moriyama’s images are intensely brooding and yet seemingly casual, establishing a relationship to the world that he likens to his shadow, in the brief preface to this volume: “I strolled down the street holding a camera, my shadow falling onto the road and across walls. With the sun high above, my shadow followed closely, as though pursuing me. The silhouette-shadow was now my companion […] This is how my shadow and I relate to each other. Similarly, my camera and I, or the world and photography also connect to each other in the same way.”

Pbk, 8.5 x 10 in., 176 pgs, illust throughout, LTD ED of 1,500 copies.

Recommended retail price £44.00

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Having difficulty identifying a particular species of bird through her spotting scope, Carol E. Richards took a photograph through the lens to assist with her research. The resulting picture turned out to be far more than a tool for verification. It had a mood and visual content the artist was drawn to, and led to the creation of a series of beautiful, dream-like vignettes. “Unlike some photographs of wildlife that are clear and provide answers,” says Richards, “these soft visuals raise questions. It was a surprising discovery; as I spied on these birds, I could see their charm and individuality. Who knew?”

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size:5 1/2 x 7 1/4"

16 pages, 12 four-color plates, 1 original photograph.

Publisher's Description

“I was inspired to create a series showing a female perpetrator – a true femme fatale. As opposed to High Fashion Crime Scenes, which focused on the victim and was based entirely in reality, the Juliette series is a fantasy, and flips the model’s role to one in a position of power.  I approached Juliette Lewis with the idea and she became my muse for the series. I wrote scripts for each shot and she acted out the scenes. Each shot in essence is a film still. The only film still. The series was shot in Los Angeles in 2004.” — Melanie Pullen

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size:5 1/2 x 7 1/4"

16 pages, 7 four-color plates, 1 original photograph.

Publisher's Description

In 2006, photographer Martin Usborne spent three days walking around London in the company of a fox, a dead fox, hired from a taxidermist at a rate higher than it would cost to rent a Ferrari. It was money well spent. Usborne had great fun interacting with people on the street and the fox, temporarily at least, was given a new lease of life. Follow this Fantastic Mr Fox, a delightful addition to our One Picture Book series, as he visits a grocery store, joins the queue at an ATM and – of course! – drops in at a good old British pub. Truly, this is one urbane fox.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size:5 1/2 x 7 1/4"

16 pages, 14 four-color plates, 1 original photograph.

Publisher's Description

In Risaku Suzuki’s second contribution to our One Picture Book series, he zeroes in on the building blocks that form the snow pictures for which he has become renowned: the individual snowflake. Here, Suzuki presents twelve breathtaking photographs of individual snowflakes (or “letters sent from heaven”, as Ukichiro Nakaya described them) in a pitch perfect follow-up to his earlier monograph, “Yuki Sakura”.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size:5 1/2 x 7 1/4"

16 pages, 11 four-color plates, 1 original photograph.

Pubisher's Description

"Memories may dwell in materials. Standing in Cézanne’s atelier, I felt like I was there at the same time as the painter. I had traveled to Aix-en-Provence to photograph the Mont Sainte Victoire in 2000, and visited the atelier. It retains its original furniture and is now open to the public. The table, skeletons on the cabinet, and the wall with serene light from the window; everything about the room looked as if it was still waiting for new creation by the artist. I came back to the atelier with 8×10 inch camera in 2009 and exposed the interior, imaging a view of Cézanne. This series is an attempt to visualize the memories that dwell in the materials." Risaku Suzuki's newest artist book, "Atelier of Cézanne", is a powerful homage both to the painter Paul Cézanne, and to memories that transcend space and time. Beautifully printed on Japanese matt art paper, and bound in black cloth, this first edition is limited to 500 copies.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size: 11 x 14"

56 pages, 28 four-color plates

Due for publication July 2013.  As this publication date is not guaranteed, you are advised to use the Secure Trading method of payment.  Your card account will only be debited if and when we have stock ready for despatch, whereas a Paypal transaction will be debited straight away.

Overseas deliveries  Please note that, as this is an extremely heavy item, overseas postage will be charged at three times our standard rates.

Photographer Robert Frank is best known for his seminal 1958 book The Americans, which was controversial when first published for its casual camerawork and bleak view of America. Frank is now widely recognized as having developed a distinct new art form, the photo book. The Books So Far is an exquisite limited edition of 1500 hand-made boxes containing all 17 of the photo books that Frank has made with Steidl since joining forces in 2004. They include: The Americans, Portfolio, Peru, Me and My Brother, One Hour, Away, Black, White and Things, Mabou, New York to Nova Scotia, Storylines, Pull My Daisy, Hold Still - Keep Going, Come Again, Paris, Polaroids, Zero Mostel Reads a Book and London/Wales. A remarkable object, this collection is an exhaustive celebration of Frank's oeuvre and a record of the evolution of the photo book.

Publisher's Description

David Moore’s Pictures from the Real World was a forerunner of much that followed in British photographic history, yet the first and only showing of the photographs was in 1988 when they were selected by Martin Parr for a special edition of the magazine, Creative Camera.

The series is a powerful collection of colour documentary photographs of families on a council estate in Moore’s home city of Derby, UK, made between 1987 and 1988. At the time, few serious documentary photographers were working in colour and Moore’s choice was in many ways a rebellion against the prevalent aesthetic. It was also a crtical response to the new political and social realities imposed by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government from 1979. As David Chandler comments in a new essay commissioned for the book; 'Pictures from the Real World presents working class life as a strange blend of physical mayhem and inertia, the abrasive square frames of Moore’s camera cut into bodies and objects, much as the rooms themselves seem to struggle to contain them’. 

The work retains a visceral energy 25 years after the event and documents a very particular time in British social and photographic history. One might also argue that the subsistence level living encountered connects the content of the work to current times.

David Moore has published several books and exhibited widely. His first solo exhibition, The Velvet Arena, was at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 1994 and was also published as a book. His most recent book The Last Things (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008) documented a never before photographed, government bunker in central London. David Moore lives in London and is currently Course Leader on MA Photography at Central Saint Martins, London. A major survey show of his work is planned for 2015.

Publisher: Dewi Lewis

Size: 270 x 210 mm

32 pages, 18 colour photographs

Publisher's Description

"I have taken pictures of my homeland Fukushima since my student’s years. But I felt afraid that I couldn’t photograph the place as in the past on account of the Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. I was at a loss what to do, and came my parents’ house ten days after. They live at Nakadori where there were no damage of tsunami except for some roads and houses destroyed by the earthquake. Rural scenery nearby looks seemingly unchanged. However, even if scenery itself remains unchanged it is obvious that many things were completely changed.

When I was taking a dog out for a work along a familiar path between rice fields with my camera, what my mentor had said several years ago crossed my mind. He said, “Photography is this…,” and then his index finger described a square in the air to a glass of whiskey and water. As I was too drunk to make out his words, I replied vaguely. He smiled as usual puffing on a sweet-smelling cigarette.

Photographs of Fukushima will inevitably remind people of the earthquake and nuclear disaster. That’s why I wandered around inside the prefecture in order to know present-day Fukushima. But there was a widening gap between my thought and photographs.

While I went back to my hometown several times, I realized that to photograph Fukushima as a stricken area was not one and only right answer. And so I decided to take pictures in Fukushima for me.

To continue to photograph Fukushima is to focus on anything in front of me and think it over; for photography everything seems to be equivalent. All I need is a strong will to take a picture of my native place.

Even now I don’t understand the meaning of my mentor’s phrase “Photography is this…,” but I keep on taking pictures of my birthplace Fukushima."

Each image is given a full page measuring approx 240*350 mm.  Copies are signed and in a limited edition of 400.  See http://www.plumpwormfactory.com/en/photographs/ for sample images

Publisher: Plump Worm Factory

Size: 263 ×370 mm

96pages, 46 images

Publisher's Description

Alvin Booths gift is alarming in its intimacy because he lets us see what he sees. There is tenderness and a hint of sadness in his photographs of women, seen as though slumbering in a latex cocoon. It is a private vision shared of women’s suspended, as though caught after falling from a great height, an impossible, privileged view”- John Krakauer

Alvin Booth was born in Hull, an industrial city in the Northeast of England. He left school at the age of seventeen and trained to become a hairdresser. After working in Hull he later moved to Oxford where his interest in photography grew. In 1989 he gave up hairdressing and moved to New York City.

His work is highly valued on the international photography market, and has been exhibited in international museums and is represented by some of the most prestigious galleries in major cities in the United States and Europe. He divides his time between New York and the southwest of France.

Alvin Booths first book of nudes, CORPUS (forward by Charlotte Cotton of the Victoria and Albert Museum) was awarded the Kodak Photo Book press award for 2002.

Publisher: Galerie Vevais

Size: 34 x 18 cm

138 pages, Slipcased softcover with an open spine of stitched colored thread with hand-fixed Japanese paper,
full pages tritones with 4 double gatefolds and a full page embossed front and back cover

First edition. Limited 45 copies with three prints

Publisher's Description

This book encapsulates all of Bruce's nocturnal photographs of Iceland made between 2004 and 2012.

The book has a strong nocturnal theme. Mainly a monograph in nature, it is interspersed with entries from Bruce's journal with thoughts that deal with his experiences of shooting the icelandic landscape in subdued light.

The book can be seen as a photographic day, shot over many years with the opening presenting us with late evening shots. As the book progresses, we move into the small hours of the summer night, where there is no night at all. The book concludes with winter shots made during the fleeting sunrise and sunset of the shortest days of the year.

Publisher: Half Light Press

Size:300 x 280 mm

64 pages with 45 colour plates

First edition. Limited to 60 copies with print

Publisher's Description

This book encapsulates all of Bruce's nocturnal photographs of Iceland made between 2004 and 2012.

The book has a strong nocturnal theme. Mainly a monograph in nature, it is interspersed with entries from Bruce's journal with thoughts that deal with his experiences of shooting the icelandic landscape in subdued light.

The book can be seen as a photographic day, shot over many years with the opening presenting us with late evening shots. As the book progresses, we move into the small hours of the summer night, where there is no night at all. The book concludes with winter shots made during the fleeting sunrise and sunset of the shortest days of the year.

Publisher: Half Light Press

Size:300 x 280 mm

64 pages with 45 colour plates

First edition. Limited to 60 copies with print

Publisher's Description

This book encapsulates all of Bruce's nocturnal photographs of Iceland made between 2004 and 2012.

The book has a strong nocturnal theme. Mainly a monograph in nature, it is interspersed with entries from Bruce's journal with thoughts that deal with his experiences of shooting the icelandic landscape in subdued light.

The book can be seen as a photographic day, shot over many years with the opening presenting us with late evening shots. As the book progresses, we move into the small hours of the summer night, where there is no night at all. The book concludes with winter shots made during the fleeting sunrise and sunset of the shortest days of the year.

Publisher: Half Light Press

Size:300 x 280 mm

64 pages with 45 colour plates

Publisher's Description

This publication is made up of a series of photographs taken inside the abandoned Conservative party headquarters at 32 Smith. Award-winning artist Lisa Barnard, was granted access to the abandoned site in 2009 and documented the building and found objects.

32 Smith Square was Conservative Central Office from 1958 to 2004.The building is synonymous with Margaret Thatcher smiling and waving out of the window on the 2nd floor after winning the elections of 1979, 1983 and 1987. However, by 2004 the building became known as ‘Chateau Despair’ to its inhabitants, prior to the Conservatives’ move to Victoria Street. They left behind a mausoleum containing nearly 50 years of their political history, etched on its surfaces and discarded in its corners.

This book features previously unseen photographs of the interior documenting the dulled shades of corporate blue, stained carpets, peeling paintwork and discarded iconography of past alliances. Carefully choreographed portraits of a smiling Thatcher, unearthed in an old cupboard, punctuate the book, jarring with the shabby interior. The book also includes photographs of the objects, or remnants, Barnard found in the building including a blue rosette, an internal envelope, an ornate silver spoon, a balloon and a strip of film negative.

‘Barnard’s project offers an archaeology of the period of Thatcher’s reign from 1979 to 1990, and an autopsy of the theatre and props which helped direct and shape Tory campaigns as they led Britain into an age of banking, individualism and the free market that has defined politics and reconfigured culture since the 1960s. ... Welcome to Chateau Despair... Do you believe in Britain?’ - Sarah James - Lecturer in the History of Art at University College London.

‘For anyone with a passing interest in the connection between politics and space, this apparent eradication of architecture in the presentation of politics at Smith Square may come as a surprise... The photographs show an undignified assembly of thrown-together partitions, botched repairs and a complete lack of even the most basic aesthetic sensibility’ - Jeremy Till - Head of Central St Martins College of Arts and Design.

Limited edition of 500 copies

Publisher: Gost

Size: 220 x 160 mm

96 pages printed four colour

Signed Copy

Publisher's Description
In association with its original Japanese publisher, Treville, we are pleased to announce a new printing of Michael Kenna: A Twenty Year Retrospective. The Nazraeli Press edition features a larger format than previous editions, with high fidelity tritones printed 1:1 from original prints. It will serve as a companion book to Kenna’s Volume Two, to be published by Nazraeli Press in 2004. Born in the industrial north of England, Michael Kenna has lived in San Francisco since 1980. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate on the interaction between natural landscape and man-made structures. His work has been shown throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, and is in such permanent collections as The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; The National Gallery of Art, Washington; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In her foreword, Ruth Bernhard describes Kenna’s prints as “exquisitely seductive, spiritual experiences, akin to poetry and music.” An essay by Peter C. Bunnell considers Kenna’s background and development, providing a thoughtful introduction to the 130 images that represent the twenty-year period from 1974 to 1994.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Size: 12 x 13'

168 pages, 130 duotone plates.

Customers who bought books by Michael Kenna also showed an interest in books by Josef Hoflehner.

Publisher's Description

For Book No. 4 in the 11+1 series North Light Press are sticking close to home with theor very own Bill Schwab and a collection of his work made right in his hometown of Detrot, Michigan.

Although several of the images contained in the book have been published the world over and helped Bill gain wider acceptance for his work back in the middle 90's his work on Detroit's island park, Belle Isle has until now remained unpublished as a series.

Included with this book is an original, sepia toned silver gelatin print, printed by the photographer.

As with all the books in this series, this one is being released in a very limited edition of only 100. Each book hs 11 reproductions and one original photographic print and is signed and numbered by the photogapher.

Publisher: north Light Press

Size: 5.27 x 7.25"

16 pages, 11 duotone plates, 1 hade made silver gelatin print

US Price: $100