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Soft Cover. Condición: New. "I contend that in close comparison with Marian icons, the reason why this photograph continues to command attention is that it is not so simple or familiar a variant of the holy family imagery as it first appears." Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange?s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange?s long-overlooked ?Padonna? pictures and proposes that ?Migrant Mother? should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women?s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens. Dr. Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20thcentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers?particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano?as well as the contested image of FDR. Her numerous essays about popular mass media ? Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look ? extend her ongoing study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens. DISCOURSE is a new series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text. Silkscreen paperback 12.5 x 19.5 cm, 128 pages ISBN 978-1-912339-83-9.

Soft Cover. Condición: New. 'A remarkable book about a strangely overlooked subject. Once we listen to our listening, as Grose and Young show, extraordinary things begin to happen.' Adam Phillips\n\n'Uneasy Listening is a delight; a lively, enlivening, and moving exploration of what it is to listen. It's governed by a playfulness and irreverence that sit together beautifully with its probing seriousness. It made me laugh often, and made me fascinated anew by the weird and wonderful thing that is the act of listening to another's speech. I enjoyed it immensely.' Katherine Angel\n\nWhat makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement but is it really so simple? Is it a skill one can easily learn or more of a quirk or talent? And why do some people seem to be so much better at it than others? \n\nWritten by a psychoanalyst and a violin maker, Uneasy Listening is a dialogue between two very different kinds of professional listener: the former working with speech, the latter with musical instruments. Beginning as total strangers, Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young embark on an engaging, entertaining, and winding meditation on communication that weaves together wide-ranging references from across psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics and culture. As they discuss the differences, similarities, and resonances between their practices, they run up against some of the illuminating difficulties of dialogue itself. The result is a kind of awkward duet in which two thinkers and practitioners accommodate, interrupt, and perplex each other in an attempt to say something about what listening means. \n\nDISCOURSE is a new series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended text.\n\n \n\nPaperback with flap\n12.5 x 19.5cm, 96 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-77-6\nJune 2022.

Paperback. Condición: New. 'An exquisitely crafted little hand-grenade lobbed at the gentrification of the carnivorous mind. With breathtaking verve and elegance, Husain traces through phenomena such as #cottagecore influencers, King Charles III's views on harmony, Plato, Pythagoras, horror movies, and celebrity cooks. I am not exaggerating when I say I have thought about Meat Love every day since beginning it. As someone who cut their teeth politically in vegan climate justice circles, I didn't think any of the arguments in it could possibly surprise me; I was wrong. ' Sophie Lewis\n 'A bracing interrogation of the bourgeois romance with so-called 'ethical' meat. What does it mean, Husain asks, that our love of animals is not only compatible with, but culminates in, our consuming their flesh? Her answer disturbs and dazzles.' Amia Srinivasan\n\nIn an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and by looking, learn to treat them with love. We are asked to tenderise our carnal desire for flesh and dignify our relationship with the land. Yet can our appetite for meat be redeemed by this new way of seeing? Can an 'ethical' approach to the farming, sale, and consumption of meat really save both the planet and our souls?\n\nIn Meat Love, Amber Husain deconstructs the beauty, tragedy, and mystery with which our images of meat are embellished, drawing on a range of visual sources from contemporary art and film to Instagram and advertising. Probing the nature of 'love' in contemporary human-animal relations, this illustrated essay casts a materialist's critical eye on the visual culture of meat as it gentrifies and mutates, informing, for better or for worse, our political imaginations.\n\nDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, an idea, or another individual across an extended text. Explore the full series here.\n\n \n\nPaperback with flap\n12.5 x 19.5cm, 112 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-03-9.

softcover. Condición: New. "The tension implicit in any photograph is the tension between an inert, black-and-white, two-dimensional object, and an event that actually existed in the phenomenal world. A successful photograph mediates, though never completely resolves that tension.? In 1972, as his career was beginning to take off, Lewis Baltz conducted a revealing interview, his first considered statement about photography. Never published, the interview has recently resurfaced, and is printed here for the first time. In an increasingly sardonic exchange Baltz describes the character of his practice, articulates his position within and against the world of photography, and comments on his intellectual heritage and professional ambition. A penetrating exploration of the character of his medium, Baltz?s artistry and mercurial presence are strikingly laid bare. Baltz?s interview is fully annotated with an introductory essay by Duncan Forbes. DISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text. Paperback with flaps 12.5 x 19.5cm, 120 pages ISBN 978-1-913620-02-8.

softcover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer\n\nJason Fulford's latest book is a vibrant riff on conceptual artist Sol LeWitt's 1977 publication PhotoGrids. Lots Of Lots transforms the seemingly quotidian objects captured by Fulford in nearly seven hundred photographs into an evocative collection of interconnected and overlapping forms. Employing a 3x3 format with nine square images on each page, the book groups subjects by idiosyncratic features such as colour palette, slogans, distinctive shadows, and geometric shape. Untethered by location, style, or time, Fulford's collection moves between coherence and collision in reflection of the varying order and disorder of our world. An empty laundrette, a lone park bench, and a cascading waterfall find new resonance in Fulford's wry and illuminating compositions, showing us the extant beauty among endless production and consumption.\n\nPaperback\n26 x 26.35 cm, 80 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-46-6.

Soft Cover. Condición: New. A widely connected pioneer of Pop and mail art, Ray Johnson was described as 'New York's most famous unknown artist.' Best known for his dense, allusive collages, he stopped exhibiting in 1991, but his output did not diminish. Between 1992 and 1994, using 137 disposable cameras, he created a large body of work that is only now coming to light. Staging his artworks in settings near his home in Locust Valley, Long Island parking lots, sidewalks, beaches, cemeteries Johnson made photographs that make the world of everyday 'real life' a part of his art. Within a few months, he devised a large new freestanding format for the simplified collages he began calling the 'movie stars' of his camera tableaux. When he swam to his death at sea on 13 January 1995, Johnson left behind a vast archive that included over three thousand of the late photographs. What he called his 'new career as a photographer,' which makes its debut in print here, marked the close of a romance with the camera that had spanned four decades of relentless invention.\n\n\nThe book accompanies an exhibition running 17 June - 2 October 2022 at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and includes an essay by the curator, Joel Smith.\n\n\nPaperback\n17 x 24 cm, 256 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-912339-87-7.

Soft Cover. Condición: New. In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture. How does the essential indeterminacy of photography square with the need to work out alternative practices? How is visibility achieved beyond the consensual categories of the mass media and the commodification of art? What models are there for the making and reception of photographic books and exhibitions that might cultivate an active spectatorship beyond boutique consumerism? These urgent questions and more are discussed in a spirit of speculation and possibility, in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past.\n\nDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended text.\n\n \n\nPaperback with flap\n12.5 x 19.5cm, 160 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-48-6\nJune 2022.

Paperback. Condición: New. First edition, second printing\n'A collection of pictures so contemporary in feel, it's difficult to reconcile them with the Lange we know' Wall Street Journal Magazine\n\n'There is a peculiar grace to many of the photographs in Day Sleeper, prompting us to revise any preconceived opinions of Lange, who emerges as a surprisingly contemporary image-maker attuned to small, telling gestures as well as bigger defining moments.' The Observer\n\n'An ingenious new monograph, plumbing the unconscious of Lange's oeuvre to dream her work anew.' Bookforum\n\n'Sam Contis has made a book, a collaboration with Lange really, from pictures she unearthed What was once plainly political has become familial, casual, intimate, or all of those together, and then back round to political again.' London Review of Books\n\nIn this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured alongside other works of Contis' in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, FebruaryMay 2020.\n\nOTA-bound paperback with jacket\n17 x 24 cm\n\nFirst edition, second printing\nISBN 978-1-912339-64-8.

Paperback. Condición: New. Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an investigation into the charged genre of portraiture and its various approaches, navigating tensions between intimacy and publicity.\n\nWhile the three artists collected here share a wide set of historical touchstones, each deploys the camera differently: Dean exploits cinema's capacity for duration; Lacombe takes her cameras out on assignment; Opie works in the tradition of the studio photograph. Often overlapping in the subjects depicted, Face to Face offers an opportunity to look closely at bracing, intimate, and resonant portraits of the seminal thinkers and makers that these artists have encountered across the fields of music, painting, photography, film, and literature, among them Hilton Als, Maya Angelou, Richard Avedon, Joan Didion, David Hockney, Joan Jonas, Fran Lebowitz, Patti Smith, Kara Walker, and many others.\n\nPublished in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, the book includes essays by the exhibition's curator, Helen Molesworth, and the artist and writer Jarrett Earnest\n\nPaperback with PVC jacket\n24 x 29 cm, 164 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-90-5.

Paperback. Condición: New. The roots of this book lie in the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, where Sally Stein and Gail Rebhan met in the 1980s, discovering their shared interests in feminism and critical modes of thinking and seeing especially those that involved shades of the comic. They stayed in touch over the course of the intervening decades, Stein pursuing teaching and writing about the history of photography while Rebhan pursued teaching and image-making in various formats, with increasing recourse to text as an integral part of her graphic statements. When Rebhan was invited to show a retrospective at the American University Museum, she invited Stein to serve as guest curator.\n\nLed by Stein's insightful and often humorous commentary, this book charts Rebhan's unique artistic and political progressions, from early works using serial snapshot photographs to track the repetitive actions of domestic life through to wider-reaching studies of gentrification and inequality her home city of Washington, DC. The publication culminates with her most recent series, which examines the ways her own body bears the marks of time that women especially have learned to fear. Among the incisive, inquisitive, and politically engaged work in this collection, Rebhan's consistent rejection of photography's affiliation with stillness and silence in favour of sequence and transformation reveals time itself as the artist's perennial muse.\n\n\nPaperback with flap\n22.5 x 25.4 cm, 144 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-92-9.

Soft Cover. Condición: New. A Civil Rights Journey presents the astonishing archive of Dr Doris Derby: photographer, activist, and professor of anthropology. Active throughout the Civil Rights Movements of the mid twentieth century in the southern United States, particularly Mississippi, Derby acted as a photographer, organiser and teacher, making photographs of the intimate and human side of the everyday struggle for survival and human rights. She photographed both the organisation of political events, meetings, and funerals, alongside the literacy, co-operative and community theatre programmes, many of which she founded, and encountered much danger and tragedy along the way.\n\nHere we see the speeches and protests that gave the movement its defining moments, as well as vital figures including Muhammad Ali, Alice Walker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Jesse Jackson. We also see classrooms and church halls, doctors and secretaries: everyday scenes of joy, frustration, curiosity, and connection, in which the determination and collective actions and resolve and actions of the movement are equally expressed.\n\nThis extensive volume presents Derby's images in sequences that between them document rural and urban poverty, offer lucid ethnographies of particular streets and families, track the day-to-day lives of African American children growing up in the Mississippi Delta, and bear witness to such pivotal events as the Jackson State University shooting, the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., and the 1968 Democratic Convention. Derby's photographs offer us an invaluably rich portrait of a historical moment whose effects have defined today's world and issues a vital reassertion of the work that remains to be done. Derby recounts the events photographed in extensive texts which accompany the images.\n\nEdited by Doris Derby, in collaboration with Hannah Collins and Gregory Harris\nEdited recordings of conversations between Doris Derby and Hannah Collins\n\n"The story behind Derby's wonderful, intimate pictures is enmeshed with the rest of her extraordinary life Her experience also provides a revealing snapshot of the rupture that America went through in the 1960s and 70s." \n The Guardian\n\n"Many of [Derby's] photographs from this time feel very joyful full of positive energy and activity or otherwise depict everyday scenes, quite removed from the Civil Rights protests and all the violence the black community was experiencing" \n Apollo\n\n"Derby's photographs capture small, private moments but carry the weight of the momentous groundswell of change for a people who wanted and deserved better." Storied\n\n?Paperback with flaps\n21.5 x 28.5cm, 168 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-44-8.

softcover. Condición: New. Funny, profound, absurd, and filled with unexpected beauty, this new photobook from American artist Jason Fulford is a collection of twelve stories drawn from a decade of encounters with Italy. Taking the form of a novel-sized paperback, the book includes meetings with ball-breaking bakers, an exploding museum cellar, Aldo Rossi's notes on happiness, the center of the Earth, and Guido Guidi's garage.\n\nFulford's pictures are deceptively simple, imbued with a gift for composition that brings forth metaphors and meaning. Known internationally for his skill as an editor, Fulford uses layered articulation and careful sequencing to suggest ambiguous meaning and invite endless reading.\n\n \nEmbossed paperback with flaps\n13.6 x 20cm, 320 pages\nISBN 978-1-913620-96-7.

Hardback. Condición: New. This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places London and Athens both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou conjures a third fictional staging that she has become all the more attached to. Her images are infused with a sense of the familiar but are equally beholden to the states of uncertainty and vulnerability that arise in alternative realities. Stripped of inhabitants this hybrid city appears silent yet strangely resonant. Paleologou offers a modern mapping of transitory and liminal spaces. She is drawn to train stations, hotels, carparks, seaports and airports, sites in which encounters, departures, disappearances, and endings unfold perpetually. Shadows and artificial light cast across urban geometries reveal phantasmagoric scenes and uncanny moods. If this is home, there is a restless theatre at play too. Alienation and belonging belong together here.\n\n\nWith essays by Brian Dillon and Iain Sinclair.\n\n \nEmbossed hardcover\n27 x 33 cm, 112 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-59-2.

Hard cover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer\n\n'Do you know the land where lemons trees bloom, Where oranges glow like gold in a dark leafy gloom' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796\n\nSONATA is an extensive body of photographic work made by Aaron Schuman in Italy over the past four years. Rather than attempting to capture and convey an objective reality, these images are consciously filtered through the many ideas, fascinations, and fantasies associated with the country and what it has represented in the imaginations of those countless travellers who have visited it over the course of centuries. Drawing inspiration from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Italian Journey (17861788), Schuman pursues and studies what Goethe described as 'sense-impressions', reiterating many of the introspective questions that Goethe asked himself during his own travels through Italy: 'In putting my powers of observation to the test, I have found a new interest in lifeCan I learn to look at things with clear, fresh eyes? How much can I take in at a single glance? Can the grooves of old mental habits be effaced?' The resulting images are curious, quizzical, and entrancingly atmospheric, conveying a foreigner's sensitivity to details, quirks, and mysteries: cracks that spider across ancient statues and museum walls, paths that have been shaped and trodden over millennia, the piercing eyes and looming presence of saints and gods all around, accumulations of dust, bones, sunlight, and lucky pennies. Using the classical sonata form three movements moving through exposition, development, and recapitulation as a guide, Schuman invites us to explore an Italy as much of the mind as of the world: one soaked in the euphoria and terror, harmony and dissonance of its cultural and historical legacies, and yet constantly new, invigorating, and resonant in its sensorial and psychological suggestions.\n\nEmbossed and printed hardcover\n17 x 24 cm, 120 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-58-5\nJune 2022.

Hard cover. Condición: New. The images Stephen Shore took in 1977 of scenes from the Rust Belt captured the start of a slow-rolling social catastrophe.? ? The New York Review of Books ?An astonishing series . images from forty years ago which echo the economic and societal turmoil of America today . A structure of luminous formalism lets the sharp reality of economic hardship show through, under an autumnal light in which the fall of dead leaves echoes the tragedy of the steelworkers.? ? Libération ?Shore shot the commonplace and made it seem suddenly arresting . There is a sense of someone discovering a whole new world of surprises under his nose: an America so obvious as to go unnoticed.? ? The Observer In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio ? an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across these images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on the precipice of disastrous decline. Hope and despair alike lurk restlessly behind the surfaces of shop fronts, domestic interiors, and the fraught expressions of those who confront Shore?s 4x5? view camera. Originally commissioned as an extended photographic report for Fortune Magazine in the vein of Walker Evans, Shore?s multifaceted investigation has only gained political salience in the intervening years. Shore?s subjects ? including workers, union leaders, and family members ? had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit; now he found them disillusioned with the new president, fated to leave behind the Democratic party and become the ?Reagan Democrats? Through unfailingly engrossing images by one of the world?s acknowledged masters, Steel Town provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent. With a text by Helen C. Epstein, author, translator and professor of human rights and public health. Embossed hardback with tip-in 23.5 x 30cm, 104 pages ISBN 978-1-913620-06-6.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Referencing a wide range of photographic tropes and traditions, Chetrit studies the power dynamics between photographer and subject as they spar and collude. JOKE deals in high humour and deadly seriousness, plunging us into a world in which social roles are inverted, norms are examined, judgements of taste and value are suspended, and everything coalesces, dead and alive, true and false, sincere and affected.\n\n \n\nEmbossed hardcover with tip-in\n24 x 31.5 cm, 128 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-72-1.

Hard cover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer\n\nBeautiful, Still. is the first monograph from photographer Colby Deal, documenting the people, objects, and environments of everyday life in the Third Ward neighbourhood in Houston, Texas, where the artist grew up. In this ongoing project, currently consisting of over a thousand negatives, Deal sets out to provide a visual record of overlooked communities and the cultural characteristics gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as a depiction of communities of colour whose members are often portrayed with negative connotations. Through these instinctive black-and-white photographs, Deal's down-to-earth approach to his subjects is made apparent; at times candid and blurred, other times poised and sharply focussed, the series builds to convey the dynamism and vibrancy of family, community, and individual life in the Third Ward. The scratches and dust left on the negatives reflect the marks of lived life and simultaneously suggest the fragility of these documents and the corresponding precarity of the fabrics of social life they often depict. Deal's almost conversational tone the antithesis of media portrayals of the neighbourhood invites his viewers in with a sense of joy and intuitive playfulness. From these alternately staged and documentary images, a new narrative emerges about a reductively and oppressively narrativized place, celebrating the agency and freedom that the photographic medium can offer.\n\n\nIncludes an extended essay by Houston-based fiction writer, art critic and essayist, Garry Reece.\n\n \nFaux leather embossed hardcover\n24 x 28 cm, 160 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-61-5.

Hardback. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer, The signed edition was signed by the artist on press, June 2023\n\nLos Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies, Volume 1\n\nFor the past decade, photographer Mark Ruwedel has been compiling an epic photographic account of the natural environment of his home city of Los Angeles. From the stark Californian coast to the vast expanses of the interior many of which have been further lain bare by wildfires Ruwedel tracks a unique ecology in constant, if subtle,dialogue with the human life that surrounds it: one where wildness is designed, contested, permitted, or resisted to varying degrees of success. In this first of four volumes, \nRuwedel follows the Los Angeles River from Big Tujunga Wash to the Pacific Ocean. Using patient, forensic large- and medium-format photography in black and white, Ruwedel recalls the legacy of nineteenth-century photographer-cartographers such as Carleton Watkins and Timothy O'Sullivan, as well as land artists and New Topographics photographers of the 1970s, while forging his own elucidating relationship with the landscape. The series title Landscapes of Four Ecologies recalls architectural critic Reyner Baynam classic study Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, which describes the city as 'one of the ecological wonders of the modern world'. The scale of this four-part project, Ruwedel's most ambitious to date, is an artistic statement in itself: 'When I say epic,' he explains, 'I am thinking of a project that is too large, which has porous boundaries, which is almost out of control.'\n\n\n\nEmbossed printed hardcover\n30 x 24cm, 136 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-14-5.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer, This signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover.\n\nThe title of this new book from renowned photographer and book-maker Torbjørn Rødland suggests that the artist is looking for the divine in his sitters. If the child in Madonna and child paintings symbolises truth, then the pregnant virgin might represent a temporarily concealed truth one masked or hidden behind compromised shells and failing bodies, young and old. The photographs in this arresting new collection negotiate surface and interiority and welcome tensions between contingent reality and archetypes, often uncannily recalling day-to-day life in intensely physical and opaquely allusive scenes.\n\nConstructed with characteristic precision and an instinct for surrealism and surprise, this sequence feeds on symbolism and visual texture in a sense reminiscent of classic 'art' photography or religious painting, but its self-conscious edge gives it a distinct and hard-to-fathom charge. With The Pregnant Virgin, Rødland explores analogue photography in dialogue both with online digital culture and visual art from before photography existed as a stable medium.\n\n \nEmbossed hardcover\n21 x 27cm, 112 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-06-0.

Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer. \n\nMeaning 'event' or 'incident', Olay is a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in Turkey, tirelessly documented by Emin Özmen. This first book by Özmen is a retrospective of his work to date, recounting the photographer's homeland in a ceaseless state of turmoil, hit by dramatic events: a failed coup d'état, popular uprisings, natural disasters, political purges, and ongoing military operations. This vivid and fast-paced series of black-and- white photographs is punctuated with moments of calm in the form of meditative colour images and personal texts. Despite the omnipresent tension, a feeling of graciousness and warmth emerges from Özmen's work, which unfolds to form a nuanced and necessary comment on the Turkish state and the sentiments of its people.\n'We are constantly being tossed around between violence and quiet daily life. Turkey gives no respite. Never a week without a drama, never a month without a major event. Olay is a documentation of Turkey, on the brink of violence and grace. Here, nothing is simple, everything intertwines and clashes, the beautiful as well as the ugly, sadness as well as joy.' Emin Özmen\nThe book includes an extensive timeline introduced by Piotr Zalewski, Turkey correspondent for The Economist, as well as personal texts written by Özmen, and is co-edited with Cloé Kerhoas.\n\nSwiss-bound hardcover\n17 x 21cm, 192 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-73-8.

Hard cover. Condición: New. This signed edition includes a slip signed by Raymond Meeks and George Weld, glued into the inside back cover.\n\nAs the sixth Immersion laureate, a FrenchAmerican Photographic Commission established by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Raymond Meeks took up residence in northern France during the summer of 2022. The work created over the course of this residency will be exhibited in New York and Paris, and accompanied by this artist's book combining Meeks' photographs with an extended poem by George Weld.\n\nCo-published with Fondation d'entreprise Hermès\n\nEmbossed hardcover with slipcase\n21.5 x 30cm, 172 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-15-2.

Hardback. Condición: New. 'I wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill-conceived I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures.'\nBetween 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black-and-white documentary photograhs he found in a Red Cross swimming manual, Sultan soon began exploring an urge to create pictures that were physical, sensual, immersive, and painterly. The resulting work is saturated with colour and inflected by the unpredictable forms and chance abstractions which emerge through the distorted refractions of the water as a second lens. Often beautiful and regularly unsettling in their ambiguity, the series builds to create a feeling of sensory immersion alive with the fluid and uncertain atmospheres to which Sultan was drawn.\n\nThis collection presents all the pictures from the series Sultan himself chose and exhibited, and expands to include additional images he marked on contact sheets as well as further selections from his archive which he likely never even reviewed.\n\n \n\nEmbossed hardcover\n30 x 25.2cm, 144 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-05-3.

Hard cover. Condición: New. First Mack Printing, Signed by the photographer\n\nAn iconic project made at the height of the 'Troubles', Troubled Land deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At the heart of the Irish conflict lays the land who owns it, who controls it, whose history it expresses. Paul Graham's quietly radical book keeps this material truth in mind as it uniquely combines landscape and conflict photography, seducing us with bucolic views in which telling details only gradually appear: painted kerbs, distant soldiers or helicopters, flags and graffiti, paint-splattered roads, each tacitly aligning that location to its Republican or Loyalist allegiance. Pastoral photographs of green fields and hedgerows reveal themselves to be images of conflict and dispute despite the steadiness of the photographic frame and the clarity of Graham's vision, this is unsettled land. Originally published in 1986, Troubled Land is reprinted here for the first time in thirty-five years. Controversial then for its use of colour and refusal to follow the clichéd tropes of photojournalism, the book was pivotal in providing a fresh perspective on Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' and left a lasting impact on landscape photography, suggesting how it might engage with politics and society rather than escape from them. Together with A1 The Great North Road and Beyond Caring, it completes a new edition of the remarkable trilogy of books Graham made in 1980s UK.\n\n \nLinen hardcover with tipped-in image\n32.2 x 24.3 cm, 80 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-60-8.

Hard cover. Condición: New. Signed by the photographer The signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.\n\nAMERICAN POLYCHRONIC presents the first comprehensive catalogue of Roe Ethridge's work from 1999 to 2022, comprised of two interlocking threads of his celebrated photographic practice. Ethridge's artistic and personal work is sequenced chronologically, interwoven with his commercial photography in chronological reverse, together forming a vibrant sequence of harmonies and dissonance, hits and B-sides. This long-form sequence moves fluidly between genres in the pursuit of a distinctive visual language blending and playfully juxtaposing the realms of fine art, fashion imagery, and advertising with the everyday, personal, and generic. Ethridge explores how new visual experiences can be created through the reproduction and recombination of images, photographing and distorting the real as way of suggesting or disrupting the ideal.\n\nWith an essay by Jamieson Webster and a conversation between the artist and Antwaun Sargent.\n\n \nEmbossed paperback with folded jacket\n25 x 27.5 cm, 480 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-65-3.

Hard cover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer\nThe signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.\n\nDi sguincio meaning aslant, asquint, or seen from the corner of an eye brings together more than a hundred black-and-white photographs made by Guido Guidi with small-format cameras between 1969 and 1981. These images record experimental early dialogues between Guidi and his camera: made without looking through the viewfinder and lit with a bright flash, they capture people, bodies, gestures, minor events, and fragments of space in moments of sudden and even abrasive encounter. While formally stark and even verging on the abstract, they document people and places close at hand his family home in Cesena; friends with whom he shared an apartment in Treviso; colleagues at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Venice forming affectionate personal works which explore the performative tension at the heart of images.\n\nThis book reproduces Guidi's own prints from the period, with their high contrast, unusual blurring and definition, and oblique, occasionally indiscernible handwritten annotations. Evoking the joys of invention and collaboration early in an artistic career, these fragments equally reflect the psychological, social, and political turmoil of Italy in an era of crisis and contestation of social values, metabolising the influences of neorealism and postmodernism in the search for new forms. The fundamental photographic theme of time as it is recorded, experienced, and manipulated is their elusive constant. With Di sguincio, we discover a set of anti-documents or anachronistic records stamped, annotated, and sometimes artificially aged which comment wryly on photography's claims to truth and reveal the foundations of a lifelong engagement with the possibilities of the medium.\n\n \nHardcover with tipped-in image\n30 x 24 cm, 144 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-01-5.

Hard cover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer\n\nThis limited edition artist's book brings together digital collages and manipulated photographs by painter James White based on the celebrated and hugely influential series Evidence by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. In Evidence, Sultan and Mandel drew on the archives of more than a hundred US government agencies, finding surreal narrative suggestions in deadpan images that were intended as functional documents, upending and interrogating the documentary natures they espoused. The book has been a continual reference for the grayscale photographic paintings for which James White has become known. In this volume, White pays tribute to Sultan and Mandel's project by further undermining the evidentiary nature of the photographic medium through a process of intervention and painterly gesture which disrupts and reconstitutes the images' mercurial surfaces.\n\n\nPublished as a limited edition of 1000 signed copies.\n\n\nSilkscreened hardcover\nPrinted with metallic ink\n24 x 32cm, 104 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-68-4\nJuly 2022.

Soft Cover. Condición: New. Signed by the Photographer\n\nInspired by Valerie Solanas' iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland's own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men's Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art. Kurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland's earlier photographic projects Girl Pictures (19972002) and Mama Babies (200407). Each work in SCUMB sounds an electrifying call for freedom the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world.\n\nIncludes essays by Marina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines.\n\n \nSwiss bound paperback with sillkscreen printed gauze on spine\n18 gatefolds, with 2 paper stocks\n48 x 60cm poster inserted into back cover\n24.5 x 32cm, 282 pages, 116 plates\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-56-1.

Hardback. Condición: New. Since 2014, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin, creating the photographs that would come to form the stark and elliptical series Some Say Ice. The same town is the subject of Wisconsin Death Trip, a book of photographs taken by Charles Van Schaick in the late 1800s documenting the bleak hardships of the lives and deaths of its inhabitants. Sanguinetti first came across this book as a child, and the experience is engraved into her memory as her first re-ckoning with mortality. This encounter eventually led her to explore the strange relationship of photography and death, and ultimately to make her own visits to Black River Falls. \nThe austere, sculptural scenes and ambiguous, uneasy portraits that make up Some Say Ice depict a place almost outside of time. Presented unadorned by text or explication, the photographs are touched with the spirit of the gothic as well as the unmistakable tenderness familiar from Sanguinetti's series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda. By bringing undercurrents of doubt and darkness to the surface of her images, Sanguinetti alludes to things absent or invisible, playing on atmospheres both real and imagined, as well as the ghostly possibility of undoing death through the act of photography. With its title inspired by Robert Frost's famous poem equivocating on how best one's inevitable death might be met, Some Say Ice is a humane look at the melancholic realities underpinning our lives, seen with glacial clarity by one of the world's foremost photographers.\n\n \nBuckram hardcover with tip-ins front and back\n28.5 x 30.5 cm, 148 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-71-4.

Hard cover. Condición: New. With I Want to Live Innocent, Torbjørn Rødland takes a break from the nomadic lifestyle reflected in his first book and returns to Stavanger, the city he grew up in. He doesn't revisit old haunts and the images aren't dominated by the geography of the region but Stavanger becomes a generous theatre for Rødlands exploration of the incongruous complexities both of his own mind and that of our culture. The centre of Norways oil industry, this Protestant coastal city has seen a tremendous economic growth since the late 1960s and Rødland utilises a diverse array of pictorial languages to reflect on the paradoxes which arise with the addition of newfound wealth and materialism.\n\nTorbjørn Rødland was born in 1970 in Stavanger, Norway. Since the mid-90s his photographs and experimental video works have been exhibited extensively. Rødlands White Planet Black Heart was released in 2006 by SteidlMack. I Want to Live Innocent is co-produced by Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture. \n\n \n\nEmbossed linen hardcover\n25 x 20 cm, 144 pages\n83 plates\n\nISBN: 9783865216175.

Soft Cover. Condición: New. First MAck Printing, Signed by the Photographer\n\nFollowing on from the bestselling box set Gathered Leaves, published to accompany Alec Soth's touring exhibition which opened in London in 2015, this unique publication brings together five of Soth's major books in their entirety in a single, compact, and densely detailed volume. Across more than 700 pages of newsprint, Soth updates and reimagines the original version of Gathered Leaves by reproducing every spread from these five books with detailed annotations in the form of notes, text extracts, and additional photographs. This new roadmap through Soth's oeuvre also includes a new introduction by the artist.\n\nSoth's meteoric rise to international acclaim began with his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), an elegiac road trip down the 'third coast' of the United States, which has since has sold through numerous print runs and is widely acknowledged as a classic. The success of his subsequent volumes Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010), and Songbook (2015) elaborated Soth's lyrical but unflinching approach and reinforced his position as a master of the book form. His most recent work, A Pound of Pictures (2022), brings a new, poetic perspective to the idiosyncrasies of American life and the practice of image-making, broached once again through Soth's now-distinctive road trip format.\n\nThis publication accompanies a solo exhibition at Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung in Munich, May 2022 and at The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan, June 2022. \n\nPaperback with fold-out map jacket\nPrinted on newspaper\n21.5 x 26 cm, 720 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-78-3.