Cathédrales

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Laurence Aëgerter
Cathédrales

Published by: RVB Books

248 pages 21 x 26 cm Softcover BW Offset

£44.00

The starting point of Laurence Aëgerter’s facsimile Cathédrales, is the 1949 catalogue Cathedrals and churches of France, published by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Tourism. The artist placed the book by the window in her studio and allowed the incidence of natural light to impact a reproduction of the façade of the Saint-Étienne cathedral in Bourges. She photographed the book every minute during two hours, obtaining 120 photographs of light variations upon this unique image. The play of shadow and light of the Gothic architecture in the orignal photograph, is superimposed by a new shadow that slowly glide on the cathedral and, imperceptibly but irreparably, swallows it up. Aëgerter’s photographs contain thus three stratified layers of times : the 12th century, 1949 and 2012. Cathédrales presents a photographic sequence and as we turn the pages, we are aware of the temporal dimension of this visual exploration, a metaphor of transcience.

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Those were the days...

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Espen R. Krukhaug
Those were the days...

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64 pages 17 x 25 cm Hardcover Colour Offset

£25.00

The title refers to a period in the artist’s life when he toured with several punk and metal bands, traveling through Europe, China, and America…rock’n’roll style. Going for days without sufficient sleep, his only real rest came late late at night, when the musicians themselves were sleeping; and he never knew what the next day would bring…only that there would be a new town, a new show, a new party, and possibly a fight. Everyone knows what bands do when they are on stage, but these images are from behind the scenes, from the traveling and the partying, They document the world through the windows of a van, as these modern-day nomads rush from one city to the next, through unknown landscapes, with never enough time to really stop. Though unable to explore these cities the way a typical tourist might, Krukhaug manages to capture his images from a unique point of view, seeing things that a normal visitor just might miss. The result is a provocative series of photographs about the life of the tour, the perpetual motion, the late night parties, as well as the quiet moments of endless waiting; waiting for the next city to appear on the horizon, waiting for a definitive photographic moment, and waiting for the next show to finally begin.

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Dora Fobert

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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Dora Fobert

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64 pages 28.9 x 38 cm Newspaper Second Edition

£50.00

This is the first publication to be produced exclusively by Chopped Liver Press, now in its second edition. It contains the work of Dora Fobert who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–42. She assisted Jakub Boim, official ghetto photographer and began her own series of portraits of women in the Warsaw Ghetto shortly before being deported to Treblinka, August 1942. These photographs were saved by Adela K, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. They were taken in a studio in the ghetto on Chlodna Street in June 1942. Because of the limited supply of photographic chemicals, they were never properly fixed and remain unstable under natural light. Broomberg and Chanarin presented this works for the first time at Alias Photo Month in Krakow, 2011. These works are now included in major collections including the Saatchi collection, London.

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SELF-PORTRAIT 1973–1986

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Luciano Castelli
SELF-PORTRAIT 1973–1986

Published by: Edition Patrick Frey

168 pages 35 x 26.3 cm Hardcover Colour Offset

£63.00

When the painter Luciano Castelli began posing for the camera in the early 1970s, he adopted a variety of roles, acting out every conceivable facet of himself. In utter disregard of gender distinctions, he variously transformed himself into an androgynous mythical creature and a glam rock diva. His virtuoso, surreal self-portraits, so far published only in limited form, are of an undiminished vibrancy in their playful eroticism and darkly narrative thrust. They reveal a hitherto underrated aspect of Castelli’s ouevre, which now, several decades later, could well be seen in an entirely new light. Very much in the spirit of the French psychoanalyst and art critic Jean-Michel Ribettes, who already in 2001 read Castelli‘s expressive theatricality as a timeless phenomenon and critique of a puritan society: „Castelli‘s expressive theatricality is there to protest at the confusion of a gregarious, prudish, vilely mercantile period.“

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Paris+

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Daido Moriyama
Paris+

Published by: Getsuyosha

504 pages 14.9 x 11 cm Hardcover BW Offset

£30.00

A hardback volume with Daido Moriyama's impressions of Paris from spells spent in the city 1988-1990 and 2003.

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Unverbunden

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Sonja Trabandt
Unverbunden

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54 pages 16 x 24 cm Hardcover Edition of 300

£27.00

For the book Unverbunden (Unconnected), Trabandt has collected staged and documentary photographs, produced between 2005 and 2012, and combined them in order to juxtapose her world of theatrical exaggeration against the prosaic grimness of everyday life realities. These images reflect impressions drawn from Trabandt’s sceptical observation of her surroundings and, taken as a whole, spring from her frequently recurring notion that no one is actually connected to anyone else. That the pursuit of happiness is only a hormone-driven selfishness that has controlled us since primeval times and every quest for connection is doomed to failure due to this pervasive, animal-like compulsiveness. While they are not exactly romantic, these photographic confrontations are not as bleak as one might think. If nothing else, they serve to illustrate that a mutual feeling of unconnectedness is, in itself, a connection.

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Jonathon Monk

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LV3
Jonathon Monk

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48 pages 17.8 x 24 cm Softcover Edition of 1300

£16.00

Edited by Roger Bywater & Reid Shier Artist bookwork featuring a series of amateur photographs of pop singer Morrissey performing in concert. Monk has cleverly designed the book so that the images are mirrored on each verso page of the publication creating a series of photographic “Rorschachs”.

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Roe Ethridge and Cheyney Thompson

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LV6
Roe Ethridge and Cheyney Thompson

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100 pages 19 x 16.5 cm Softcover Edition of 750

£17.00

Lynn Valley 6 is collaborative bookwork by New York artists Roe Ethridge and Cheyney Thompson. Ethridge is a photographer known for his clear depictive style and eclectic subject matter, while Thompson’s most recent works are abstract and semi-representational paintings on canvas. Together, they have created a book that combines two highly diverse practices into a unique dialogue. Published in conjunction with a two-person exhibition at Art Basel Miami in 2009, Lynn Valley 6 includes selected documentary details of Thompson’s paintings together with outtakes from Ethridge’s commercial magazine work. Their juxtapositions, which at fi rst appear haphazard, coalesce into an increasingly complex rumination on the creative process. Along with glimpses of both artists’ studios, the book also includes notebook sketches, collages, fabric samples and color charts. Utilizing a collagist approach, Lynn Valley 6 presents each artist’s work in a way never seen before.

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Zhang Dali: A Second History

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Zhang Dali: A Second History

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136 pages 24.1 x 16.5 cm Softcover Edition of 1000

£17.00

Edited by Roger Bywater and Reid Shier Designed by Roger Bywater In his book A Second History, Beijing-based artist, Zhang Dali, examines the widespread use of photographic manipulation carried out by the Chinese government during the regime of Mao Tse-tung (1949–76). Using a compare and contrast format this artist book presents a chronological sequence of original, unmodified images together with their doctored doppelgängers which were manipulated in party-run, photo labs in the 50s, 60s and 70s for the Chinese propaganda market. Altered histories are all around us, embedded in our lives to such an extent that it’s become difficult to imagine what reality really is. In today’s era of 24 hour news coverage and its associated “spin” the idea of getting to the “truth” of something seem almost futile, however with projects like A Second History it is now possible to see a small glimpse of historical media manipulation laid bare. Scanning the spreads one can see the modifications made by the Chinese censors: In some images key people have been erased, while in others people have been added. Backgrounds have been modified and written slogans on flags have been altered. In other parings the edits appear almost unnoticeable as seen in the spread entitled The Sun Comes to the Kucong People, which features images of women workers harvesting hay in a field. The undoctored image, struck from the original negative, shows a young child peeking out from behind a cluster of busy workers… a detail the censors felt a need to remove. The image of a hapless youngster among robust agrarian workers was obviously at odds with the official party line at the time so the child ended up on the cutting room floor. Unlike his Chinese forbearers who used photography as a tool for indoctrination, Zhang’s use of the medium is more subjective… the core of his presentation is the manipulation itself, with all its associated political, social and artistic implications.

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Derek Sullivan

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LV8
Derek Sullivan

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24 pages 11.4 x 16.5 cm Softcover 2013

£8.00

With the proliferation of personal digital devices in contemporary society one has seen an explosion of imagery flooding the media landscape. In today’s interconnected virtual universe every aspect of human existence is documented to such an extent that the boundary between private and public have become all but indiscernible and subjects that would have seemed unworthy of a simple snapshot in the past (like one’s meal) are mainstream topics on popular photo sites like Instagram and Facebook. Exploring this new reality, Toronto artist, Derek Sullivan has created a set of 40 different books featuring imagery pulled from the web. What makes this project interesting is not so much the imagery itself, which encompasses the full gambit of just about everything imaginable, but Sullivan’s selection process. Rather than arrange photographs around a particular theme or subject matter Sullivan instead chose to feature images that had an identical IMG-.JPG photo tag number. Anyone who has taken a digital picture will be familiar with this photo numbering system; it’s the default program used on all iPhone and Canon digital devices. Basically every image that flows through these devices is automatically assigned a number starting with IMG-0100.JPG. Working in a format somewhat akin to the devices themselves Sullivan chose only images from the web bearing the IMG-0100.JPG identifier for his first book, IMG-0101.JPG images for his second book, IMG-0102.JPG for the third, and so on, working his way through the IMG-.JPG numbering chain until he reached IMG-0139.JPG, which his last book in the series. This uncanny editorial approach transforms the imagery into something akin to pure poetic data. Removed from their normal habitat for dating services, promotional announcements, and the like, Sullivan’s subtle manipulation begins to reveal a larger reality that extends beyond the picture frame. A fascinating study of photography today, Sullivan’s Lynn Valley 8 provides a rare glimpse into the larger societal compulsions that fuel the creation and dissemination of digital imagery over the internet.

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Jack Pierson

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LV9
Jack Pierson

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84 pages 24.1 x 16.5 cm Softcover 2014

£17.00

Utilizing an unconventional design layout in which imagery has been dropped in with a complete disregard for page breaks and centerfolds, this compendium quickly establishes itself as something other than a straightforward photo book. Tomorrow’s Man, Lynn Valley 9, combines familiar imagery from Pierson’s vast repertoire—portraits, vintage ‘Physique’ magazines, celebrity promo shots, and oddball ephemera—alongside work from an eclectic range of contributors such as David Carrino, Florence Derive, Alex Jovanovich, Dan McCarthy, Ryan Sullivan, Evan Whale, and others. The unusual design and diverse imagery presents Pierson in way never seen before and shows off his skill as an inventive editor. Includes a short story by Veralyn Behenna entitled The Lobster.

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UK77

June 10, 2014, 8:14 pm

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Shinro Ohtake
UK77

Published by: Getsuyosha

656 pages 25 x 17.6 cm Hardcover 2004

£76.50

In 1977 at age 22 Ohtake spent time In London documenting through a reduced photography style, drawing, painting and obsessive scrapbooks of ephemera. What emerges is a grim portrait of England still mired in the drab left overs of the 60s but with odd flashes of excitement; on the cusp of the emergence of Punk. Moreover it is a particularly lonely portrait of youth with the artist himself sketching figures in pubs and parks and on trains, collecting matchbooks and bus tickets and traipsing the streets, photographing frenetically.

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Hawaii

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Daido Moriyama
Hawaii

Published by: Getsuyosha

432 pages 30 x 22 cm Softcover 2007

£66.00

"In Spring, I am going to go to Hawaii to photograph. I'm so excited, and a little anxious - I've never been there before. The idea of Hawaii has been stuck in my mind for many, many years, just as the idea of a place. I try to imagine what it's like, and I have a certain image of it - a nostalgic place, a place where time has stopped. When I get there, I'll probably find out it's nothing like that...." - Daido Moriyama Comprising photographs taken on the islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and Kauai from 2004-2007, this substantial and satisfying collection traverses through the full extent of Moriyama's range and offers over 400 images reflecting his astounding, singular vision.

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Nanika eno tabi 1971-1974

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Daido Moriyama
Nanika eno tabi 1971-1974

Published by: Getsuyosha

484 pages 26 x 18 cm Softcover 2009

£40.50

Nanika eno tabi 1971-1974 (Journey for something) Published in September, 2009, this is a the second of a two-book set collecting Daido Moriyama's major magazine projects over a 10 year period from 1965 to 1974. This particular volume includes the following series: New York City (1972), the 12-issue serialized On the Ground (1973), Cherry Blossoms (1974), and The Three Views of Japan (1974).

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Shrove Tuesday

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Keijiro Kai
Shrove Tuesday

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28 pages 30 x 26 cm Softcover Colour Offset

£22.00

Japanese photographer Keijiro Kai traveled to Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England to take photographs of the Shrovetide Football Match. Over two days in winter, Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, people flock to this small town for a football match like no other. Unlike a conventional football match this game is played over two eight hour periods, the goals are 3 miles apart and there are very few rules. As you may have already guessed, the game is infact nothing like a standard football match.

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Toshi fukei zukan (City landscape photo book)

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Takuma Nakahira
Toshi fukei zukan (City landscape photo book)

Published by: Getsuyosha

646 pages 25.5 x 18 cm Softcover Colour Offset

£70.00

A retrospective of the magazine work by Takuma Nakahira, collected from 1964 to 1982.

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Nippon Gekijo

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Daido Moriyama
Nippon Gekijo

Published by: Getsuyosha

410 pages 26 x 18 cm Softcover 2009

£36.00

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Polaroids

June 11, 2014, 8:14 pm

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H.R. Giger
Polaroids

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52 pages 28 x 21 cm Softcover First Edition

£20.00

Polaroids contains a selection of unpublished photographs from the personal archives of the Swiss artist and set designer H.R. Giger. Given the ephemeral nature of the Polaroid format, these are snapshots that the artist used as references for his own work as well as for process and work documentation. He personalized many of the Polaroids that customarily lay in piles around his crowded, darkly decorated home in Zurich by scratching, painting, and drawing over the motifs in a surreal and animating style. Casual and light in their approach, the photographs intimate sex, death, pop, and his inscrutable sense of humor. They provide a view into a corner of Giger’s world that until now had remained largely overlooked. H.R. Giger (1940-2014) was a Swiss painter, sculptor, and industrial and set designer.

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This Is Not A Book About Gavin Turk

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Gavin Turk
This Is Not A Book About Gavin Turk

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224 pages 16 x 21 cm Softcover

£14.99

Gavin Turk — one of the group of artists known in the British media as YBAs — might seem a familiar figure to us, but how many of us really know or understand what we are looking at when we see a piece of his work? A diverse mix of contributors were invited to discuss his recurring motifs — from eggs to trash, via tramps and punk. Each short essay is accompanied by illustrations; signposting shows how they interconnect and overlap along the way. The book’s title is a playful spoof on René Magritte’s famous work Ceci n’est pas une pipe because it is not biographical or even really about Turk’s work. Instead it unpacks the imagery and references within it with the help of a myriad of writers, artists and thinkers, from Damien Hirst to Hari Kunzru, taking the reader on a tragi-comic jamboree through the contemporary world, seen through the eyes of the artist Gavin Turk. The book will have a special presence at The Art Car Boot Fair on Sunday 8th June, with an official launch on Thursday 12th June at Trolley’s gallery TJ Boulting when an exhibition of new work by the book’s illustrator Jim Hollingworth aka JIMP, presented by Gavin Turk, will be previewed.10% of proceeds will go to The House of Fairy Tales, a children’s arts and education charity.

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Vers L'Infini et Au-Dela

June 16, 2014, 8:14 pm

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Mathieu César
Vers L'Infini et Au-Dela

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180 pages 30 x 42 cm Softcover with slip case

£61.00

Just 27 years old, Mathieu César has already found his aesthetic footing in timeless black and white and established himself in the cultural sphere. Published by LO/A Edition, Vers l’infini et au delà is the first book by the photographer, diving into a distinctive world with illusory scenes. In Vers l’infini et au delà, Mathieu César leads us on a trip through an expanding world,the world of a photographer plotting his imagination and his visions before our eyes. A world marked by childhood and his capacity for the invention of fantastic spaces and figures. A world populated by women and men who, through his perspective, ascend to the rank of mythical heroes. Immortalized against beguiling scenes which fuse references to the past, present, and future, César’s powerful, sensual women become timeless icons with a natural elegance. A warrior in metallic armour conjures an image of Joan of Arc as much as Metropolis’ robot. Not surprising for the photographer, whose work underlines his passion for mechanics and movement (cars, planes and rockets...).

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