Publisher's Description
In Hiroshima, Japan a twisted steel dome is grim reminder of a city destroyed by the first atomic bomb used in warfare. It is a history no one dares to forget. Halfway around the globe in the Utah/Nevada border stands another ruin, the airplane hangar inside of which the bomber that carried the Hiroshima bomb was readied for its mission. Wendover Airbase, once the world’s largest, now crumbles from neglect. The stories and relics at Wendover describe more than the past, they also point to a historic cycle; to a present filled with new apprehensions that carry the potential for a chilling future. Artist Mark Klett, known for his ongoing exploration of landscape, history and the passage of time through the medium of photography, and William L. Fox, a celebrated science and art writer whose work has focused on human cognition and memory, teamed up to create a fascinating visual and verbal multi-layered portrait of Wendover Airbase and the experience of memory in relation to the use of the atomic bomb by the American military in World War II.

You can view images from this book on the Radius Books website.

Publisher: Radius Books
Size: 9.5 x 11.75"
160 pages, 30 duotone and 40 color illustrations

Publisher's Description
For over a decade Léonie's mother Bron avoided opening the packing boxes that had come from the home of her first marriage; these filled a couple of the rooms in her new home and attempts to unpack them spilled into other rooms. The boxes from her former life were a constant, physical reminder to her family of Bron's OCD.

"So then I didn't want to move the boxes because then you're disturbing the dust, and then you certainly don't want to open the boxes because the nice things inside are all clean and packed and tidy. So you don't touch the box. You leave the boxes where they are. I just shut the door and left it. And we lived in less than half the house."- Bron

In 2007, a deal was struck: Léonie would work with Bron to face the boxes on the condition that she be allowed to document that process.

Publisher: Contrasto
Size: 200 x 250 mm
184 pages, 150 photographs

Publisher's Description
It is as though human beings - in an age increasingly dominated by photography - have taken on the attributes of the camera... 'We now see the world in terms of the "snapshot", and according to the mechanism of the camera itself.' Neil Leach

German photography has led the world in the reassessment of our relationship to the urban and man-made environment. Themes such as the way we move through space, and our alienation from the world around us, are explored by artists including Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gosbert Adler, Laurenz Berges, Mona Breede, Johannes Bruns, Susanne Brügger, Michael Danner, Thomas Demand, Christine Erhard, Andreas Gursky, Matthias Hoch, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Heiner Schilling, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Schmidt, Heidi Specker, Petra Wunderlich and Ulrich Wüst. The artists' portfolios are supported by a series of essays that set the work in a theoretical and historical context.

Publisher: AA Publications
Size: 270 x 240 mm
196 pages

Publisher's Description
Strange, this is how these pictures appear at first sight. In front of typical Chinese urban backdrops young Chinese men and women present oil paintings by American and European artists from different epochs. Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, even photographs by Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Bernd and Hilla Becher or August Sander can be found among the works. What stands behind all this?

In fact we see pictures of a multi-million dollar industry – the production of copies of popular artworks, which are sold at giveaway prices into the whole world. Van Gogh: $ 75, Andy Warhol: $ 45, Ed Ruscha $ 50. The handpainted copies mainly come from China, the buyers can almost entirely be found in the United States and Europe, the countries of origin of the unaffordable originals.

Michael Wolf has photographed the Chinese copy-artists in a fantastic way and in his pictures he has placed manifold relations between the picture subject, the urban environment and the portrayed artists, that reach far beyond the superficial humor. The list of questions, which arise, is long:

- Did Rubens and Rembrandt paint their works all by themselves?
- Aren’t the copies produced, in order to palm them on collectors?
- What’s the value of an original in the age of technical reproducibility?
- Who buys these copies?
- Why do the Chinese provide this market?
- What does this mean for other industries?

Boris von Brauchitsch discusses these and other questions in his comprehensive essay, which accompanies the series of images.

You can view images from this book on the Peperoni Books website.

Publisher: Peperoni Books
Size: 250 x 320 mm
112 pages, 51 colour illustrations

Publisher's Description
Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies.

This Photoworks publication is the result of an ongoing engagement of the work of Stuart Griffiths made during his time as a member of the 3rd Paratrooper Regiment serving in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

These photographs are made before Griffiths received any formal training in photography and are documents of his experience of soldiering towards the end of the ‘Troubles’. They are raw snapshots made for his own personal album, but powerfully evoke a sense of boredom, frustration and fear felt by the group of very young men he was serving alongside.

The images are accompanied by Griffiths’ first-person narrative describing his changing feelings towards his choice to become a soldier and the validity of the British Army’s position in the conflict.

Five facsimile artefacts from the ephemera collection Griffiths assembled himself during his tour of duty are included with each copy.

Stuart Griffiths won a National Media Museum Photography Award in 2010.

Publisher: Photoworks
Size: 260 x 210 mm
64 pages, 22 colour illustrations (plus 5 loose leaf inserts)

Publisher's Description
Acclaimed war photographer Sean Smith has covered all the major conflicts of the past few years. Frontlines: Conflict in the 21st Century brings together his finest work and offers both a chronicle of major flashpoints and a unique insight into modern warfare.

From violence in Bethlehem in 2000 to life in war-torn Afghanistan, these extraordinary images bear witness to a world that most of us find hard to imagine and hope never to experience first hand. This important contribution to the great tradition of war photography includes Smith's study of Iraq before and during the US-led invasion, which documents the most controversial of recent conflicts with breathtaking immediacy and intimacy.

Publisher: Guardian Books
Size: 248 x 188 mm
272 pages

Publisher's Description
Former Dean of the Yale School of Art, Richard Benson has been a photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art often took a back seat to his prodigious achievements as a printer and a teacher. When he devoted himself to overseeing the production of his own pictures a few years ago, everything fell into place. From direct digital capture through inkjet output, Benson's renowned technical wizardry yields unusually vibrant and beguiling color prints that are at once ultra-vivid and utterly natural, like our everyday visual experience. This volume presents nearly 100 photographs by Benson that highlight not only the unique properties of his prints, but also his fresh techniques for reproducing them on a printing press, as exemplified in this book. The uncanny lushness and clarity of the photographs gives voice to Benson's generous, inquisitive eye. As he crisscrossed the continent, Benson observed the creations of nature as well as man in pictures that are at once cheerful and patiently attentive to the forces that shape and soon enough change everything under the sun. An essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA, surveys the work and a text by Benson explains how it was made.

Publisher: MoMA
Size: 11.5 x 7.75"
128 pages, 109 colour illustrations

Publisher's Description
pectacular images from around the world: Peter Bialobrzeski presents some of his best photographs

In his book of photos, The Raw and the Cooked, Peter Bialobrzeski sets forth the essence of his observations from his unique series of photos about the development of Asian mega-cities (Neon Tigers, Lost in Transition) and their slums (Case Study Homes). Starting with the simplest, homemade vernacular architecture, based on human proportions and made with found construction materials, his photos range as far as the exorbitant planned cities of glass, steel, and concrete. Buildings rise higher and higher into the sky, more and more resources are wasted, the new unmercifully shoves aside the old. Seductively beautiful tableaux from fourteen different countries depict the kind of “progress” that triggers a sense of anxiety and trepidation. Where is all of this leading?

You can view images from this book on the Hatje Cantz website.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 349 x 288 mm
160 pages, 128 colour illustrations

Publisher's Description
Ruins of Modernism: the consequences of unchecked growth and exploitation

Photographer Jörn Vanhöfen (*1961 in Dinslaken) travels the world to capture images of areas that are undergoing rapid change. They are always places where people believe wholeheartedly in permanent growth and limitless profit, for the consequences of this fatal attitude are the objects of his photographic work. Vanhöfen journeys to Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America, going wherever the results are demonstrably obvious—from the Chicago stock exchange, the townships of Cape Town, and the scorched forests in Apulia to abandoned factories in Detroit and salvage yards in his hometown in the Ruhr region. His unique, poetic photographs depict ruins of our time. And while they may be fascinatingly beautiful, the looming consequences of our actions at the same time horrify us.

You can view images from this book on the Hatje Cantz website.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 348 x 289 mm
148 pages, 64 colour illustrations

Publisher's Description
“The buzz word is swarm intelligence, which has acquired an unforeseen reality in the era of Facebook and Twitter. The behavior of a collective without a center has become a social phenomenon, which is not only of interest to natural scientists, but also particularly to politicians and economists.” (Peter Pfrunder in his contribution to the book)

Swarm is a breathtaking photographic series exploring the flock movements of migrating birds. The photographs offer a unique view of the beauty but also the complexity and diversity of shape variations. A swarm sitting on the ground mirrors the surface of the earth like a skin, but as soon as it lifts up it becomes a fluid three-dimensional system in constant flux. This aerial ballet reveals a rhythm of upward explosion and downward, cascading movement. At times the forms seem to explode, blooming like flowers or expanding outward like fireworks. At other times they appear more stable, slowly drifting like a negative image of stellar constellations. Swarm looks up into the sky and follows flight through the dynamic landscape of streams of air.

You can view images from this book on the Lars Müller website.

Publisher: Lars Müller
Size: 210 x 270 mm
240 pages, 115 illustrations

Publisher's Description
Since the 1970s, photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) has chronicled the changing landscape of the American West, from the growth of cities like Denver to the seemingly unconquerable openness of the Great Plains—the subject of Adams's Prairie. The first edition of Prairie, published in 1978, is now a sought-after collector's item; this expanded volume will include all of those original images, along with new photographs selected and sequenced by Adams himself, many of which are being published for the first time.

Informed by a dedication to ecological principles, Adams's photographs offer an unsentimental view of the American wilderness—paying tribute both to its natural beauty and to the infrastructure of life on the land: farmhouses, gravel roads, and furrowed fields. This future collector's item, with 45 tritone reproductions, stands as a monument to Adams's work, and a poignant reminder of the quiet but profound ways in which our habitation of the land alters it.

Publisher: Fraenkel Gallery
Size: 9 x 8"
68 pages, 45 tritones

Publisher's Description
Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to reading a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus’s extensive correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues; personal notebooks; and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume exposes the private thoughts and motivations of an artist whose astonishing vision derived from the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them simply to be. Further rounding out Arbus’s life and work are exhaustively researched footnotes that amplify the entire Chronology. A section at the end of the book provides biographies for fifty-five personalities, family members, friends, and colleagues, from Marvin Israel and Lisette Model to Weegee and August Sander.

Describing the Chronology in Art in America, Leo Rubinfien noted that “Arbus…wrote as well as she photographed, and her letters, where she heard each nuance of her words, were gifts to the people who received them. Once one has been introduced to it, the beauty of her spirit permanently changes and deepens one’s understanding of her pictures…”

The texts in Diane Arbus: A Chronology originally appeared in Diane Arbus Revelations. This volume makes this invaluable text available in an accessible, paperback volume for the very first time.

You can view images from this book on the Aperture website.

Publisher: Aperture
Size: 8" x 6 1/2"
192 pages

Publisher's Description
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compilation, which includes hundreds of previously unpublished pictures, we follow the famous photographer through the years as his personal and creative lives unfold and intertwine.

Produced to the highest production standards and featuring over 400 duotone images—from his first self-portraits, taken with cable release in hand, to recent images of the photographer with his family and extended network of friends—In the Picture explores Friedlander’s various guises throughout a rich and colorful life.

Publisher: Yale University Press
Size: 9 1/2 x 8 1/2"
392 pages, 373 duotone illustrations

Another Kenna publication from Gallery K.O.N.G. to coincide with his 2012 exhibition there.

Publication of this first edition coincides with the 2nd edition of Philosopher's Tree and the format and design are similar.  A few spreads can be found on the Gallery K.O.N.G. website.

80pages
31 Photographs + 31 texts selected by Ceira Kim

Introduction by Michael Kenna
English and Korean
Hard CoverSize: 200 x 270 mm

This artist's book follows on from previous publications by RAM (Tokyo); In Japan and In Hokkaido. In France - Merci bien pour tout" contains a selection of fifty eight images Michael Kenna has made in France between the years of 1984 and 2011. Michael conceived this book as an homage to his late friend and agent Martine Renaudeau d'Arc (1937-2011). Distributed in Japan by RAM, Tokyo and in the USA and Europe by Nazraeli Press. "IN FRANCE" is bound in vellum, with a traditional Japanese thread winding around the book. This first edition is limited to 2,000 copies.

Publisher: RAM Publications
57 photographs

Note: All signed copies have been sold

Publisher's Description
In March of 2009, amidst the rumblings of a global financial crisis that was to shape zeitgeist for years to come, Jamey Stillings set out on a road trip to reinvigorate his creative spirit. What he encountered would captivate, challenge and amaze him. Like a child suddenly finding himself before the world's largest erector set, Jamey had discovered the Bridge at Hoover Dam. Instantly, he knew he would dedicate himself to exploring and documenting construction of the bridge through its completion. Over the course of two years and set against the cultural and economic backdrop of our time, Jamey created a body of work that echoes the Bridge in its ability to simultaneously celebrate the power of human spirit and ingenuity while inviting an examination of the intersection of nature and the hand of man. Against the temporal landscape of economic hardship, an eerie historic echo of its neighboring Hoover Dam, and the flashy and impermanent cultural landscape of Las Vegas, the Colorado River, Black Canyon and the Bridge that soars over are natural and manmade symbols of immutability and wonder. Together, they are a legacy at which generations will marvel and Stillings’ images are imbued with the awe of one in the presence of great natural powers and the acme of human effort and creativity. Jamey Stillings' work has been widely exhibited and published throughout the country. The artist's first monograph, The Bridge at Hoover Dam, is beautifully produced in an oversized format, and is published to coincide with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Publisher: Nazraeli Press
Size: 13.5 x 17"
128 pages, 60 four-color plates

Publisher's Description
Still life is one of the great traditional art forms. The first still-life photograph was created around 1827, more than a decade before the news of photography's invention was announced in Paris and London in 1839. This volume surveys some of the innovative ways photographers have explored the traditional genre of still life from photography's earliest years to the present day.

The introductory essay is followed by an illuminating sequence and juxtaposition of plates selected from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Still life has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change. Illustrating that here are nineteenth-century masterpieces by practitioners such as Hippolyte Bayard and Roger Fenton, twentieth-century examples that include the diverse styles of Baron Adolph de Meyer, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston, and a sampling of contemporary artists, some recalling styles from the past. The current revival of interest in the genre comes as the digital age is transforming the medium.

Paul Martineau is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Publisher: Getty Publications
Size: 7 1/4 x 8 5/8"
112 pages, 94 color illustrations

Publisher's Description
The extraordinary body of work produced by photographer Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) between 1858 and 1891 constitutes one of the longest and most productive careers in nineteenth-century American photography. Nearly thirteen hundred “mammoth” (18 x 22 inch) glass-plate negatives were produced, the majority of which exist in only one surviving print. Of these, fewer than three hundred have been previously reproduced or exhibited.

Drawing on the major collections of Watkins prints at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and numerous smaller collections, the authors have assembled and catalogued all of Watkins’s known mammoth-plate photographs. These include views of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the Pacific Coast, as well as railroads, mines, and lumber mills throughout the west. The work will contribute not only to a fuller understanding of this pioneering photographer but also portray the barely explored frontier in its final moments of pristine beauty. The catalogue is organized by region and includes an inventory of Watkins’s negatives and an illustrated guide to his signatures, both of value to scholars, collectors, and dealers.

Publisher: Getty Publications
Size: 9 3/4 x 12 1/2"
608 pages, 1,351 duotone images

Publisher's Description
For over thirty years Klaus Merkel has been photographing stones, rocky landscapes, and trees that he pairs up in double pictures. He portrays the astounding harmony between the animate and the inanimate, between natural and designed manifestations. His previous publication Album of Stones featured Milan Cathedral’s forest of figures and pinnacles next to the sandstone columns of Utah’s Bryce Canyon. In the same way, Trees as well as Stones presents fascinating connections between natural forms and artwork, such as the millennia-old bristlecone pines in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park and the decaying stupa temples of Burma. The book thus invites the reader to examine and compare the manifold similarities of diverse structures, whether between a petrified wandering dune and a gaping trunk of an olive tree in Agrigento, Italy, or between a mushroom rock in the Libyan desert and a Namibian quiver tree.

You can view images from this book on the Lars Müller Publishers website.

Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Size: 240 × 300 mm
112 pages, 94 illustrations

Publisher's Description
In 1949 the photographer Lucien Hervé took photographs of Unité d’Habitation, an innovative apartment building in Marseille. He sent them to the building’s architect, Le Corbusier, who immediately realised that after forty years of searching he had finally found a photographer with an ‘architect’s soul’.

Their seminal collaboration is extensively documented in this album of 1200 of Hervé’s carefully edited, sequenced and labelled contact prints.

Originating as a vehicle for dissemination of the architect’s work and as a commercial venture for the photographer, these contact sheets, housed at the Fondation Le Corbusier, now form an extraordinary archive of modernist architecture and photography in the mid-twentieth century.

Quentin Bajac and Béatrice Andrieux describe the two men’s collaborative process and the productive – if occasionally stormy – dynamic of their relationship, which was grounded in a shared belief that the moral and aesthetic virtues of modern architecture are inseparable.

Jacques Sbriglio presents sixteen of Corbusier’s most iconic buildings, using Hervé’s contact sheets as visual references. The architect’s innovative structures and materials are highlighted by Hervé’s dynamic and expressive perspectives, sharp contrasts of black and white, and frequent close-ups of structural details and textures. The viewer’s eye, moving across the sheets, gradually discovers forms, defined spaces, and the play of light and shadow – the cinematic dimension inherent in Le Corbusier’s architecture.

Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Size: 250 x 348 mm
296 pages, 224 illustrations