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XXML

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

For twenty years Marc Lagrange�s photos have been a tribute to beauty. With this fourth book, Lido Publishers presents a survey of the career of this Antwerp photographer. Ever since the 1980s, the decade in which Lagrange dedicated himself for good to photography, he has created intriguing portraits and nudes of his muses, elusive femmes fatales full of secrets and fantasies, with an underlying decadent impulse. Lagrange�s penchant for touching can be seen in the series �And God create Women�, which portraits female and even male nudes.

Ruth on the Phone

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

A series of chronologically ordered photographs taken between 1995 and 26th January 2004, the book takes the form of a novel without words. The sequence shows Ruth, first at the end of the telephone receiver, later on a cordless phone, the one constant as time and place change around her.

To Draw With Light

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

This publication includes work from the photographer's series �and to draw a bright white line with light along with images from Compositions of Light on White, and a new series being created for the publication of this book.

New Delta Rising

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

The Mississippi Delta has been called "the most southern place on earth." This fertile expanse of flat land sprawls along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, southward to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Culturally rich as well, the Delta is the land where the blues began.

Black & White

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

Black & White is the definitive collection of Bruce Davidson�s black and white photography, spanning a period of forty years. This collectable five-volume set reprints of classic books of Davidson�s poignant and purposeful imagery, some of them newly edited and expanded. The seminal bodies of work are Circus (1958), an intimate portrait of a dwarf clown; Brooklyn Gang (1959), depicting a group of troubled youths; Time of Change (1961-1965), a civil rights documentation in America; East 100th Street (1966-1968), showing life on one block in Spanish Harlem; and Central Park (1992-1995), exploring layers of life in New York�s

On This Site

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

�I went to Central Park to find the place behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Jennifer Levin had been killed. It was bewildering to find a scene so beautiful ... to see the same sunlight pour down indifferently on the earth. As I showed the photograph of this site to friends, I realized that I was not alone in thinking of her when walking by the Met. It occurred to me that I held something within: a list of places that I cannot forget because of the tragedies that identify them, ..." -- Joel Sternfeld

Artist and Her Model

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

"Brotherus emphasis has shifted over the years from a diaristic documentary strategy to larger philosophical questions of life and art. Her deep understanding of art history has a paradoxical effect in that you consider her as a person but also a model. In her photographs there is a closeness you feel to her but also a cool conceptual distance. This complicates viewing the work in terms of self- portraiture, landscape or a diary, and so photographs that can often appear quiet and straightforward on first encounter become denser and laden with histories as you spend time with them. " -- Susan Bright

Arbeit / Work

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

This book showcases Chris Killip�s photography from 1969 to 2005, and is a retrospective of a photographer who has influenced an entire generation of younger documentary photographers. Arbeit / Work presents several of Killip�s long- term projects, primarily in North England, which explore the working and living conditions of people through portraits as well as images of landscapes and architecture. This comprehensive publication, with an extended essay by David Campany, includes many previously unseen works.

The Oracle @ Wifi

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

"What could an artist do with a cell phone camera?" This is the question artist Beth Lilly asked herself and her answer became an ongoing participatory art project. Loosely modeled on divination, she uses her cell phone to make photographs in exchange for a caller's questions. On the seventh day of every month when her cell phone rings, she stops whatever she�s doing and answers the phone. The person on the other end (usually a stranger) says, »I want a reading. Lilly replies, "OK, but don�t tell me your question yet, just give me your email address." Her location when she receives a call is her starting point for intuitionally finding and shooting three photographs in fairly rapid succession. She emails these to the callers who reply and re- veal their question.

A Natural Order

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

In the summer of 2006, Lucas Foglia set out to photograph a network of people who had left cities and suburbs to live off the grid in the rural southeastern United States. Many were motivated by environmental concerns, others were driven by religious beliefs or predictions of economic collapse. While everyone he photographed was working to maintain self-sufficiency, none lived in complete isolation from the mainstream.

Elegies of Manumission

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

Max de Esteban�s gorgeous new monograph brings together all three parts of his stunningly beautiful �Elegies of Manumission� series. Making use of portraiture as a conceptual tool, de Esteban's portraits, of architectural quality and extraordinary craftsmanship, build a narrative beyond the anecdotal and push the boundaries of contemporary portraiture. Open to many interpretations, �Elegies of Manumission� questions the construction of identity of the individual subjects portrayed. This oversized (11x14-inch) book is beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese stock, and bound in Japanese cloth. The first edition is limited to 1,000 casebound copies.

The Anasazi Project

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

"Sitting with Joan and Don�s photographs spread on my old library table, I marvel at the way they capture this perception. Much as an x-ray goes beyond the skin to capture bone structure, their visual language reveals a world beneath the surface world, a ground truth of energy gathered temporarily into form. In shades of silver and ebony, lightening flashes on cresting sandstone, flames leap, the deluge descends. The play of light and shadow, the tracings of water and wind offer metaphors for spirit, metamorphosis, migration. The photographs of rock art, some thousands of years old, some contemporary with the cliff dwellings,

Still Standing, Standing Still

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

This series began in 2010 when I became obsessed with a single tree. Slowly � around and around and around � I examined it in varying light and perspective. It was alone, with its scars unclothed, threatened by vines, but still standing. A branch had broken off by lighting or another violent act. The tree didn�t seem to mind, the flaw added to its power, a permanent reminder that it had survived the violation and was unashamed of the defect.

Trade

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

Dear Sir or Madam:
It is with great honor to present to you the inaugural edition of Trade created by artist Chad States.
Trade is a collection of photographs culled from smart phone cruising applications that allow men seeking physical connections to find one another. The artist�s own �pics� were used in exchange for the photographs that make up this collection. The photographs have been released from their bonds of the virtual world are now existing in the physical world for the first time.

Die Son Sien Alles

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) photographed the series Die Son Sien Alles in the townships of Cape Town during several visits between 2002 and 2004, looking at the interior decoration of people's homes, shops and bars. This is her third book for Libraryman, following Sol & Luna (2010) and A day in the life of... (2009).

The Dutch Photobook

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

The Dutch photobook is internationally celebrated for its particularly close collaboration between photographer, printer and designer. The current photobook publishing boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that precedes World War II, but the postwar years inaugurated a period of particularly close collaboration between photographers and designers, producing such unique photography books as Ed van der Elsken�s Love on the Left Bank (1956) and Koen Wessing�s Chili September 1973 (1973). Innovations such as the photo novel and the company photobook blossomed in the 1950s and 60s; later, other genres emerged to characterize the publishing landscape in Holland,

Odo Yakuza Tokyo

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:05 EST

ODO YAKUZA TOKYO is an intimate personal account of a Belgian photographer documenting the inaccessible subculture of Japanese organized crime: the Yakuza. Anton Kusters teams up with his brother Malik and documents the inside of the Shinseikai family, who control Kabukicho, the infamous red light district, in the heart of Tokyo. From funerals to covert training camps, business meetings to full on tattoo displays, the modern day enigma that is �Yakuza� in Japan is shown.

In the Fields of Gold

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

It�s at twilight and on the outskirts of his hometown of Terrassa, located in the province of Barcelona, that Miquel Llonch realized the photographs of In the Field of Gold. The light captured, urban and remoter, immersing characters and setting in an ephemeral space, border between city and nature, light and darkness, noise and silence.

Watershed

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Because they help us cross over a river without seeing it, the soaring railroad trestles and highway bridges in Watershed act as symbols of our tendency to blank out natural phenomena. We need to transcend the idea that rivers are barriers, potentially destructive competitors that get in our way. In some of (Jeff Rich�s) images, for example, it is easy to see the damage a flooded river would do or has done: sometimes nature wins and knocks down our bridges and tears up our pipes, dams and electric poles. That gets our attention.

Antonia's Garden / Le Jardin d'Antonia

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Portolese here transforms family wounds into testaments � Far from just processing her feelings toward her family, of reconciliation. By virtue of her artistic practice the suffering caused by the physical or psychological loss of a loved one morphs into a public healing ritual.�

Grace

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

For 26 years, Elisabeth Sunday has found her muse in Africa: a place of origins, devastating beauty, great troubles and unyielding expressions of life. She has traveled alone and lived among various original peoples who amidst a changing world, have clung tenaciously to traditional ways of life. From the hunter-gatherers dwelling in the primeval forests of the Congo Basin, to the nomadic tribes inhabiting the vast stretches of the Sahara Desert, Sunday's photographs reveal an interplay of invisible forces that connect her subjects with the world of nature. Utilizing a flexible mirror of her own design, Sunday photographs reflections that blend and dissolve the boundaries between her figures and their environment.

Lebensmittel

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Photographer Michael Schmidt�s latest obsession is the mechanized, industrialized food system of contemporary Western culture. Using his trademark style combining social documentary and urban topographics, he explores the fascinating topic of how we feed ourselves, from the farm to the table (or the fast-food restaurant). This impeccably produced book, clothbound, embossed and slipcased, is a series of images only � no text � that looks at the processes and residue of the food system in Europe. The images are arresting, and the subject matter urgent,

Öglunda

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Landscape photographs from Öglunda in Skara municipality, Sweden. The photographs were taken between August 2010 to November 2012.

Foreword in English and Swedish by Robert Adams. Calligraphy by Kerstin Adams.

Nature Nurture

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

New Orleans based photographer, Jennifer Shaw makes use of plastic, toy cameras in the creation of her work and in book #3 of the 11+1 Signature Series, we draw on her Nature/Nurture project. This series is an intimate study focusing on minute elements of the land, tame and wild. From the seeds of a spent rose, to a bee in the act of pollinating, these photographs depict intimate visions of plant an animal life.

Sarah Hobbs

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

In her carefully staged photographs of domestic spaces, Sarah Hobbs (born 1970) explores phobias and obsessive-compulsive behavior with affection and even celebration, filling rooms with (for example) meticulously arranged color swatches or hundreds of pieces of scrunched-up paper. This volume compiles three photographic series.

Slowlight

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Published by the Etherton Gallery, Slowlight by Kate Breakey offers a previously unseen selection of landscapes taken over the artist's 30-year career. Primarily known for her portraits of birds and flowers, Breakey's landscapes offer a different perspective on her view of the surrounding world. The photographs are often subtle, quiet depictions of ephemeral moments and are beautifully printed in this thoughtfully designed edition.

Playground

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

My award-winning project PLAYGROUND portrays Dutch training grounds where the Fire Department, the Police and the Military are trained in realistic scenarios. In surrealistic ghost towns the emergency services try to prepare for what is factually unknowable: the future. Within the boundaries of this 'playground' the chaos seems controllable for a moment; even if only for the duration of the exercise. I have now compiled these pictures, taken the the last few years from atop a cherry picker, into a book.

Ice Blink

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

�When we look at Antarctica, from the deck of a ship, or in a make-believe tableau, and fix it in our gaze, what we see is a figment of the imagination,� writes prominent New Zealand photographer Anne Noble in the first part of her trilogy on the myth of Antarctica. Noble set her sights on Antarctica early in the 21st century, undertaking three missions there and making a world tour of Antarcticstudy centers as well. Ice Blink juxtaposes the real and the imaginary, presenting imagery taken in the study centers (including aquariums and museums)

Un Messaggio Dalla Camera Oscura

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Carlo Mollino (1905�1973) was possessed of both tremendous energy and incredibly diverse abilities: famed as an architect and furniture designer, he was also a writer, photographer, race-car driver and downhill skier. His private life was no less intense. Mollino had a closely guarded obsession with erotic portraiture, and would regularly invite prostitutes from the streets of Turin to come to his home and pose for him.

You Look at Me Like an Emergency

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Cig Harvey�s You Look At Me Like An Emergency is a visual autobiography populated by the photographer�s central relationships over the course of more than a decade. Through rich, vibrant photographs and startlingly revealing writing, Cig transforms quotidian experiences that reference time, childhood, and femininity in totems that mark key moments in her life.

War Is Only Half the Story, Vol 4

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:05 EST

Published December, 2011: �War is Only Half the Story, Vol Four� features the work of 2010 grant winners Danny Wilcox Frazier (�Surviving Wounded Knee�) and Monika Bulaj (�Nur/Light: Afghanistan, Not the War Only�). It also features photo essays by the 2010 finalists: Jessica Hines (�My Brother�s War�); Helena Schaetzle (�The Time in Between � 4,756 Kilometers of Memory); and Olga Kravets, Maria Morina, and Oksana Yushko (�Grozny: Nine Cities�). 104 pages, with gatefold front and rear covers.