MY HOUSE

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Seiji Kumagai
MY HOUSE



Published by: LibroArte

80 pages 19 x 26 cm Hardcover 

£27.00

I am always taking photos. The photos taken from 2009 to 2013 are brought together into a book. I usually press the shutter button only once when taking photos. That is because I value the moment captured through the finder. Taking a look around for anything worth taking a photo and compose into a picture would require thinking process which I’d rather avoid. So, I decided not to do that. I always want to follow my instinct rather than my head. ”MY HOUSE”, the title of this book, is the word which reflects the state of my mind and has almost the same meaning as “my mind”. Seiji KUMAGAI

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hotel pegasus

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Sakiko Nomura
hotel pegasus



Published by: LibroArte

32 pages 29.5 x 21 cm Softcover 

£17.00

The publication ‘hotel pegasus’ is the first book in a series by Nomura and these fleeting, haunting photos are all taken digitally, unlike her former film-based work.

Whispering with Elves, Trolls and Hidden Folks

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Keiko Kurita
Whispering with Elves, Trolls and Hidden Folks



Published by: LibroArte

56 pages 28.5 x 23.5 cm Hardcover 

£35.00

Whispering with elves, trolls and hidden-folks is a series of 50 photographs that I took in Iceland between 2011-2012 during my year as an Artist in Residence, granted by POLA Art Foundation. “Iceland is a country with an entirely unique culture among powerful weather and extraordinary nature such as geothermal activities, glacier-cut fjords, lava fields, valleys full of herbs, generous pure water and hot springs. Furthermore, Iceland is a mystical place. In this distinctive environment I was always attracted to eerie senses, as if I was spellbound by the mythical and imaginary beings that dwelled in that nature. When those mystical views were evoked in me, I took photographs. Optically speaking, only the visible real world can be depicted in the photographs. My attempt however, is to try and capture the correlative phenomenon between invisible figments and real natural principles, and I am gradually getting convinced that it is in truth possible to prove the fantastical recognition through optical media - photography. I try to show the results of my trial within this work, hoping what i have captured has an effect on other people too. This series of 50 photographs were taken with 1 shutter release on 5x4 films with a pinhole camera and printed in a darkroom. There were no double exposures and no digital manipulation.”

Breath

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Tomohide Ikeya
Breath



Published by: LibroArte

112 pages 32 x 25 cm Hardcover 

£90.00

“I only became aware of the existence of life and death after connecting deeply to the world of water. This happened long before I started photography: by chance, I was invited to go diving, and when I saw that underwater world it captured me at once. The various phenomena and life forms which exist only in the water and the beautiful play of water and light brought me a strong sense of elation and excitement. In that world, it is difficult to walk as you would on the ground, and weather conditions can sometimes prevent you from entering it at all. Training and careful preparation are necessary. Above all, though, there is a limit to the number of breaths you can take. Among the many restrictions that exist in this world, this work focuses on “BREATH,” the most essential factor. Breathing is indispensable to us; it repeats continually during our life, and we consider death to be the point at which breathing stops. Usually, breath is invisible, and I think it never registers in our consciousness. By separating ourselves from this phenomenon, which is so close to our own lives, we can consider its essence and value. This occurs in the water. When we are covered in water—a kind of death—the fear inside of us comes to the surface. Beyond this, the condition of not being able to breathe reveals our attachment to life. I capture this entirely unpredictable scene of struggle. I superimpose this highly restrictive scene onto human “life.” People encounter all kinds of troubles during their lives. Even if someone knocks down a barrier preventing them from doing something with their own hands, this will not change the fundamental essence of our own limitations. It is necessary to live together with such difficulty. Perhaps the essence of life, granted to everyone, is to live while struggling against death. Math or science can’t change this. Life is not just about visible beauty, but also about true strength, which we have from birth.”

Flash Up

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Seiji Kurata
Flash Up



Published by: Zen Foto Gallery

184 pages 38 x 26.5 cm Hardcover with slip case

£140.00

Seiji Kurata's Flash Up: Street Photo Random Tokyo 1975–1979 was his first released photo book and remains to this day a seminal work in the history of Japanese photography. It also is not easy to find nor usually affordable, all the more reason to salute this beautiful and considered new edition published by Tokyo's Zen Foto Gallery. Flash Up is a late-1970s look at the seedy and violent underbelly of Japanese society, the yakuza, far-right members, youth gangs, adult workers, et al. They're all here, tattoos and all, as famously shown in the original cover image of a heavily tattooed yakuza member in fundoshi and holding a samurai sword.

SHOWA 88

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Kazuyoshi Usui
SHOWA 88



Published by: Zen Foto Gallery

78 pages 18 x 25 cm Hardcover

£42.00

Japan is vibrant, colourful, successful, romantic, dangerous, exciting. Not the Japan you know? Japan uses a calendar based on the reigns of the emperors. Currently (2011) we are in the 23rd year of the Heisei Era. The reign of the Emperor Hirohito was called the Showa era and lasted for the 65 years 1926-1989. Showa was everything Heisei is not: vibrant, colourful, successful, romantic, dangerous, exciting. Many in Japan look back on the Showa Era with great nostalgia. ”Showa 88”（昭和88年） is Kazuyoshi Usui`s (薄井一議) latest project, and has taken the best part of a decade in its gestation. Imagine an alternative reality in which the Showa Era never ended. Showa 88 would have been the year 2013. 

Cinci Lei

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Joost Vandebrug
Cinci Lei



Published by:

182 pages 19.5 x 27.5 cm Hardcover 2014

£36.00

The book Cinci Lei follows the lives of Nicu, Stefan, Costel, Liviu and many friends that inhabit tunnels underneath the streets of Bucharest."A teenage utopia of freedom, rebellion and lawlessness is set in a parallel society, fuelled by destructive drugs and little state or parental protection."

THE ARDBEG

May 30, 2014, 8:14 pm

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Leo Rubinfien
THE ARDBEG



Published by: Taka Ishii Gallery

15 pages 22 x 22 cm Softcover

£21.50

Rubinfien became known in the early 1980s as one of the young American photographers working with the new color materials of the period, and his work was featured this year in the Cincinnati Museum of Art’s survey of that period,Starburst: Colour Photography in America, 1970-1980. However, his interests were always international, and from the beginning of his career, each of his projects has developed as another approach to the phenomenon of globalisation. In recent years, Rubinfien has worked in both color and black and white, developing an exquisite technique for varnishing his prints, and giving them the richness and beauty that were once looked for in dye transfer printing. The photographs have an intimacy, a richness and a global sweep that come together in the work of no other contemporary photographer.

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2THESKY, my Ender

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Nobuyoshi Araki
2THESKY, my Ender



Published by: Taka Ishii Gallery

144 pages 21 x 26 cm Softcover

£39.00

After having an operation for prostate cancer the previous year, Araki worked quickly to produce this work. This is a diary that depicts daily “things” and “feelings about death” with calligraphy, painting and collages on his black-white photos of the sky, which are used here as a kind of canvas. The first 254 photographs of the series, produced from January 2 to August 15, were published by Shinchosha in a limited edition of 1000 copies. The final 144 photographs, produced from August 16 until the end of the year, are included in this book. Araki has dealt with grief in his work before, confronting the deaths of his father, mother, and wife Yoko; he has, indeed, turned this grief into his very power for taking photographs. This book represents a confrontation with his own death. A solo exhibition of the same title was held at Taka Ishii Gallery in December 2009.

DOTS. FUNGUS, CRYSTALS & MOONLIGHT

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Taisuke Koyama
DOTS. FUNGUS, CRYSTALS & MOONLIGHT



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48 pages 21.5 x 30.5 cm Hardcover Edition of 300

£17.00

This book collects four projects that Taisuke Koyama realized as part of his participation in the 2013 Setouchi Art Triennale. Koyama spent a few months living on Shodoshima Island, off the coast of Shikoku, in an area known for its production of soy sauce. This book includes images made with soy sauce cultures, as well as the latest installment of his going "Rainbows" project and installation views of an exhibit he held in a 100-year-old soy sauce stockhouse.

Abandon / Hope

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David Sylvian
Abandon / Hope



Published by: Eyescencia

Two books  and one play button  15 x 26 cm Hardcover

£69.00

Contains two hardcover books / one play button (original music composed by Taylor Deupree), contained in a hard card sleeve. 250 copies signed limited edition.

Tsugaru

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Masako Tomiya
Tsugaru



Published by:

80 pages BW Offset

£30.00

To follow soon.

Monkicho: 2013-2014 Autumn/Winter Collection

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Minä Perhonen
Monkicho: 2013-2014 Autumn/Winter Collection



Published by:

70 pages 29.5 x 21 cm Hardcover 

£21.00

"Color oozing in nature that receives light,  circle of light emitted, in the dark covered in veil of leaves  under the warm light at sunset, ' silhouette of the material shadow draw. Clothes who color emits light begins to spring out at any place. Against the background of the trajectory textile design and Mina perhonen is born Please enjoy."

Tokyo TDC 1000

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Tokyo TDC
Tokyo TDC 1000



Published by: 1000BUNKO

1000 pages 15 x 10 cm Softcover 

£42.50

Tokyo TDC resulted in a response to the design world of the world, discrimination The reason that is of, in the openness to accept the work on the basis of this value exploratory. Engender a desire to inspire giving a stimulus to all who see each yearbook, and directed the reader to ask about the approach and his work, and want to join the rich conversation that never ends this is the reason why.  Prior to the era of the iPod and digital downloads visit, there was a radio with a big dial. The dial, odd number corresponding to the frequency of the main radio stations had been attached. Signal is undeniably the static When you turn the dial, turning carefully slowly dial, had a thing you find another station in the clouds of static. Airwaves from countries far away, it was news unfamiliar that arrived from the star in the distance often. Music sung in the language of the foreign country attract people, I brought the possibility of "the foreign", a strong impulse. And this book is a summary of this meeting of 22 times was achieved because of "strong impulse". Hopefully, I want you to feel the readers of this book, and you want to enrich the conversation of the future in the same way. Intent of the Tokyo TDC is only "welcome", in our world full of stimulation and excessive commercialization, this is that it is very valuable. 

For a Language to Come

June 2, 2014, 8:14 pm

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Takuma Nakahira
For a Language to Come



Published by: Osiris

160 pages 30 x 20.5 cm Hardcover BW Offset 

£69.00

Published in 1970, For a Language to Come is recorded in the history of photography as the first photobook by Takuma Nakahira, the photographer who brought about a turning point in contemporary Japanese photography from the late 1960s to the early 1970s by radically breaking away from the existing image aesthetics at that time. This book consists of one hundred black and white photographs including his work from the legendary photography magazine Provoke. However, forty years after the publication of the original book, we have not as yet had the opportunity to examine (and enjoy) his works enough with the exception of a few photographs that has been repeatedly introduced on various occasions (this is particularly true in Europe and the U.S. where the history of contemporary Japanese photography remains less appreciated). Through radical self-critique, Nakahira would repudiate much of this early body of work in his 1973 essay, “Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?” and considered it as something that must be overcome. Yet, for us to reconsider the meaning of the author’s rejection of his inaugural work, it is extremely valuable to know what the works themselves show. Has our history of photography finally caught up with Nakahira? The 2010 republication of For a Language to Come with a new cover design is an attempt to engage Nakahira’s photographic point of departure again in the present, to discover this work as one that is more vibrantly resonant today.

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Alien

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H.R. Giger
Alien



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

660 pages 23.5 x 13 cm Hardcover BW Offset 

£90.00

HR Giger worked in the Shepperton Studios near London from February to November 1978, creating the figures and sets for the film Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott. The film became an international success, earning Giger an Oscar. In the transcribed Alien Diaries, published here for the first time as a facsimile, HR Giger describes his work in the studios. He writes, sketches, and takes photographs with his Polaroid SX70. With brutal honesty, sarcasm and occasional despair, Giger describes what it is like working for the film industry and how he struggles against all odds — be it the stinginess of producers or the sluggishness of his staff — to see his designs become reality. The Alien Diaries (in German transcription with an English translation) show a little-known personal side of the artist HR Giger and offer an unusual, detailed glimpse into the making of a movie classic through the eyes of a Swiss artist. The book contains almost completely unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids showing the monster coming to life, and several still shots from the plentiful film material that Giger took in Shepperton.

Scrapbooks 1969-1985

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Walter Pfeiffer
Scrapbooks 1969-1985



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

460 pages 32.3 x 25.2 cm Hardcover 

£74.00

Walter Pfeiffer’s Scrapbooks from 1969 to 1982 are a very unique Wunderkammer. Pfeiffer’s polaroids and photographs alternate with miscellaneous objects – newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets – and brief punning notes. Pfeiffer assembles all of this into a large collage full of surprising references and comparisons that is both a visual diary and creative foundation of his artistic work. In his Scrapbooks, Pfeiffer’s keen view of Eros, Zeitgeist and popular culture, his disrespectful humor as well as his appreciation for the poetry in the mundane and banal, are sharply revealed. They offer a view into Pfeiffer’s meandering and playful universe and are a contemporary document that captures the Zeitgeist of the 1970s and 1980s with ephemeral elegance.

A Happy Marriage

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Daniela Comani
A Happy Marriage



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

69 pages 23 x 16.5 cm Hardcover

£35.00

Daniela Comani has been working on her photographic project, A Happy Marriage, since 2003. In her multifaceted photo series, she is her own model, playing man and woman at the same time in a modern intellectual marriage where the assignment of gender supposedly no longer plays a role. However, this is belied by the facial expressions, gestures, poses, and clothing of the subjects. The status of man/woman, relying entirely on the convention of the heterosexual couple, is so disconcerting, so subtle and subversive, that we find ourselves wondering who is who or who is playing which role. With texts in German, English and Italian.

MONDFOTOGRAFIE

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Erik Steinbrecher
MONDFOTOGRAFIE



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

46 pages 27 x 24.5 cm Softcover BW Offset

£22.00

Pictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography, have been given a new twist in Erik Steinbrecher’s MONDFOTOGRAFIE. The Swiss artist collects pictures of the moon and rephotographs them, placing a finger on the lens. In this way, images of the full moon are transformed into obscure crescents.  MONDFOTOGRAFIE is a dark and witty artist’s book that takes a subtle, yet illuminating approach not only to the discourse on the photographic image but also to the interpretation and reading of images in general.

Live Life Like

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KCBR
Live Life Like



Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

168 pages 28.5 x 22 cm Hardcover

£0.00

Over the last few years the Sprayers from KCBR have been working intensely, putting their names on pretty much every corner of Zurich – on building facades, rooftops, delivery trucks, trams, bus stops and SBB trains. They pursue their activities with great discipline, planning everything down to the very last detail. They know the public transportation schedules by heart. This is essential since the timing of their activities requires a high degree of precision. KCBR LIVE LIFE LIKE, with a text by Das Magazin journalist Daniel Ryser, is a radical contemporary document about one of the most active graffiti crews in Zurich. It is also a book about the blind spots in the city’s history.