Issue 9: Amore e Piombo

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Amc2 Journal
Issue 9: Amore e Piombo



Published by: AMC

136 Pages 21 x 28 cm Softcover 2014

£29.00

Published to coincide with the exhibition Amore e Piombo: The Photography of Extremes in 1970s Italy at the 2014 Brighton Photo Biennial (which runs from 4 October to 2 November 2014), Issue 9 of Amc2 looks at the tumultuous era of Italy's Years of Lead – a period when bombings, kidnappings and assassinations became the standard currency of Italian politics. The press photographs collated for Amore e Piombo from the archives of Rome-based agency Team Editorial Services reflect the manifold aspects of the period, as the photographers oscillate between pursuing film stars at play and capturing the violence on the streets against a backdrop of industrial unrest and a sexual revolution embracing free love, divorce, abortion, feminism and gay rights. Far from offering answers or uncovering definitive truths, the photographs reveal only tantalising fragments of evidence about this most turbulent and tangled decade, while the true puppet-masters and string-pullers remain just out of frame.

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82

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David Thomson
82



Published by: AMC

Two volumes 157 Pages each 25.5 x 28.5 cm Hardcover 2013

£100.00

The title of this two-volume set, 82, gives little clue to the content beyond the fact that 82 photos are included in each volume. Like some bureaucratic code, it marks but does not describe. All the images included in the two volumes date from WWII and none were taken by professional photographers. In the back of each volume the images are exhibited at their actual size, like specimens, showing both front and back sides. In the front sections, meanwhile, the same images are enlarged and we can travel inside them. The edit is like a guidebook to the stratified emotions that exist in our warlike nature. Volume 1 gives us a fleeting glance at the temporal nature of material culture as it rides alongside unfolding conflict. Volume 2 draws on the human cost. 82 is like no other narrative you will have seen before and is so layered that no amount of analysis will end in firm conclusion.

The Night Climbers of Cambridge

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Thomas Mailaender
The Night Climbers of Cambridge



Published by: AMC

88 pages 25 cm x 33.5 cm Black velvet hardcover 2014

£65.00

Night-climbing was a low-key activity, made up of nothing more than ‘a string of disconnected incidents’. The participants hardly knew each other, and climbed for the fun of it without the competitive edge that characterised mountaineering and rock-climbing proper. Records were kept, if at all, by individuals, and there were no societies of roof-climbers to regulate behaviour and keep the score. Symington’s night-climber was a secretive, romantic creature, like a character from Buchan ‘crossing a Scottish moor on a stormy night’. Thomas Mailaender, the contemporary artist who acquired the Cambridge climbers’ archive, identifies the night-climber as a prototype – a wary traveller, mixing with others whilst attempting to make his way across a chancy terrain without much in the way of rules and etiquette.

Issue 8

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Amc2 Journal
Issue 8



Published by: AMC

68 Pages 19.3 x 6.6 cm Fan sampler in a PVC box 2013

£42.00

Issue 8 of Amc2 features a selection of full-length portraits, some black & white and others hand-coloured, made in Chinese studios between the 1930s and the 1980s. This serendipitous reunion of 60 anonymous portraits reveals – through the dress codes and behavioural mores they present – fragments of the history of Chinese society and ideology.

A Complete Examination of Middlesex

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Bruce Gilden
A Complete Examination of Middlesex



Published by: AMC

104 Pages 22.5 x 33.5 cm Hardcover 2013

£50.00

In 2011, New York-based street photographer Bruce Gilden was commissioned by the Archive of Modern Conflict to capture the people and places of London. Kalev Erickson, who accompanied Gilden in his daily forays to photograph passers-by on the streets and wrote about the highs and lows of their various encounters in Issue 1 Amc2 Journal, has now drawn on the photographs made by Gilden for the London project to produce this book.

Don McCullin

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Don McCullin



Published by: AMC

120 Pages 23.9 x 31 cm Hardback 2013

£35.00

Don McCullin has been making photographs for more than 50 years, first capturing the small dramas of everyday life in 1950s London, then travelling to the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, and more recently exploring the landscapes of Somerset in England. Published to accompany an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Canada, this book includes more than 130 works drawn from all of McCullin’s major series – his social documentary work in England, his Berlin Wall series, his award-winning work on war and famine, his anthropological expeditions, and his still lifes and landscapes.

Issue 2

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Amc2 Journal
Issue 2



Published by: AMC

128 + 68 Pages 20 x 28cm + 16 x 26.7cm Softcover 2012

£28.00

The second issue of Amc2 journal features the funerary practices of the Fali tribe of Cameroon, Martin Parr’s appreciation of the concrete hotels of the Spanish Costas, the tragic story of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s love Sophie, Ian Jeffrey’s history of Berlin’s KaDeWe department store and much more.

Hackney Flowers

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Hackney Flowers



Published by: AMC

114 pages 22 x 28.5 cm Hardback 2015  

£160.00

In Hackney Flowers Stephen Gill has again used his east London surroundings as the inspiration for his work. This time he has collected flowers, seeds, berries and other objects from various locations in Hackney, pressed them in his studio and photographed them alongside his own photographs and found ephemera. Some of the base photographs were also buried in Hackney Wick, and the consequent staining and decay has left its imprint upon the images, stressing the collaboration with place. A parallel series within the book shows members of the Hackney public with floral details imposed upon their person.

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Hackney Kisses

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Hackney Kisses



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96 pages 23.5 x 27.5 cm Hardback 2014

£40.00

Stephen Gill has worked for many years exploring the culture and environment of Hackney in East London. Some time ago he discovered the work of a lost photographer who had begun to interpret the photo of a kiss in a special and personal way. Kissing can be quite like the reverie in a beautiful forest; it can also be end-of-pier theatre. Our Master of the Hackney Kisses knows how these traits combine. His sensibility transcends the profession of wedding photographer – in each kiss you see the future; the past recedes. Reenactment is a pleasure. —Timothy Prus

Roger Hilton – Night Letters

September 11, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Timothy Bond
Roger Hilton – Night Letters



Published by: AMC

320 Pages 23 x 27.6 cm Clothbound hardcover 2009

£55.00

Roger Hilton (1911–1975) produced the works now known as the Late Gouaches and Night Letters during the final two years of his life at his cottage in Cornwall’s West Penwith. Confined to bed and sustained mainly by the whisky and cigarettes that were at least in part the cause of his sickness, the insomniac Hilton created upwards of a thousand colourful gouaches and illustrated messages to his long-suffering wife Rose. Sometimes bitter, occasionally insulting, but always poignant and amusing, the letters record Hilton’s thoughts on art, his own imminent death, the irritations and pleasures of everyday life, and his often controversial assessments of colleagues and contemporaries. This full colour book reproduces nearly 300 of the artist’s Night Letters and Late Gouaches, and includes many drawings and gouaches not previously seen in public.

LDN2

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Antony Cairns
LDN2



Published by: AMC

96 Pages 25 x 34 cm Softcover, unbound 2013

£55.00

This is a second, updated and completely reformatted edition of Antony Cairns’s (originally handmade) 2010 book LDN. In this new edition the large 25 x 34cm pages and fine 170 gsm Claro paper draw the viewer into a late-night expedition across a mysterious city of tilted landscapes that flicker past like reflections in the windows of a moving train or car. This is a London whose inhabitants are only hinted at, a London of glaring subterranean lights and inhospitable buildings of indecipherable purpose. The images form an architectural frieze that is tantalisingly familiar yet hard to pinpoint for those who know the city, with an edge that will be recognised by anyone who has experienced the latent tension that permeates the streets in the hours before dawn. A selection of 60 metal prints from the LDN series was exhibited at Les Rencontres D’Arles 2013, and will be on show in the Atelier de Chaudronnerie, Parc des Ateliers, Arles until 1st September 2013.

Archaeology in Reverse

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Archaeology in Reverse



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114 pages 22 x 22.5 cm Hardback 2007

£45.00

Continuing to photograph where his award-winning book Hackney Wick left off, Stephen Gill has made Archaeology in Reverse in his cherished area of east London, again using the camera he bought at Hackney Wick market for 50p. This time, however, he focuses on things that do not yet exist, revealing traces and clues of future developments in a sometimes eerie photographic study of a place in a state of limbo prior to the rapid transformation that the area faces during the build-up to the 2012 Olympics.

Outside In

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Outside In



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64 pages 17.5 x 21.5 cm Hardback 2010

£55.00

Outside In was produced as part of Stephen Gill's commission to make a series of photographs for the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial curated by Martin Parr. The images offer us views of the seaside town that are distorted and obscured by objects Gill has found on the streets and beaches and placed inside his camera before shooting, creating surreal montages. Insects crawl across the film emulsion like creatures caught in amber. The objects introduced to the camera chamber – which include seaweed, local plant life, a false eyelash, a jelly bear and fishtails – are integral to the photographs then produced, rather than being merely superimposed, their place in the composition occurring entirely at random and establishing both harmony and conflict. The photographer has said he felt he was using his camera as a vacuum cleaner, absorbing everything in the area around Brighton where he took up residence while working on the project.

Outside In

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Outside In



Published by:

64 pages 17.5 x 21.5 cm Hardback 2010

£55.00

Outside In was produced as part of Stephen Gill's commission to make a series of photographs for the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial curated by Martin Parr. The images offer us views of the seaside town that are distorted and obscured by objects Gill has found on the streets and beaches and placed inside his camera before shooting, creating surreal montages. Insects crawl across the film emulsion like creatures caught in amber. The objects introduced to the camera chamber – which include seaweed, local plant life, a false eyelash, a jelly bear and fishtails – are integral to the photographs then produced, rather than being merely superimposed, their place in the composition occurring entirely at random and establishing both harmony and conflict. The photographer has said he felt he was using his camera as a vacuum cleaner, absorbing everything in the area around Brighton where he took up residence while working on the project.

B-Sides

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
B-Sides



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72 pages 25 x 33 cm Hardback 2010

£50.00

B Sides is a companion book to Coming up to Air

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The Corinthians

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Ed Jones & Timothy Prus
The Corinthians



Published by: AMC

258 pages 20.5 x 21 cm Hardback 2008

£60.00

With the demise of Kodachrome film in 2009, the colour palette that in many ways defined an era also disappeared. The 200+ Kodachrome slides selected by Ed Jones and Timothy Prus for reproduction in The Corinthians: A Kodachrome Slideshow – a visual commentary on the letters of St Paul – portray the new prosperity of a postwar United States, where TVs, barbecues, big cars and summer vacations take centre stage.

Hackney Wick

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Hackney Wick



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126 pages + 24 page section 22.5 x 22 cm hardback

£350.00

Hackney Wick sits in east London between the Grand Union Canal, the River Lea and the Eastway A106. Stephen Gill first came across the area at the end of 2002 when he was photographing the backs of advertising billboards. His first visit was on a Sunday, to the vast market that used to take place in the old greyhound/speedway stadium. At first glance, apart from few pot plants, most of the items on sale looked like scrap – exhausted white goods, mountains of washing machines and fridges, copper wire and other metals stripped from derelict buildings, piles of old VHS videos. Stephen bought a plastic camera for 50p. It had a plastic lens and no focus or exposure controls, and he started making pictures with it at once. Over the next two years he visited Hackney Wick again and again. The market closed in July 2003, and the remains of the old stadium were demolished weeks later as part of the preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Coming up for Air

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Coming up for Air



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100 pages 25.5 x 33.5 cm Hardback 2010

£60.00

Coming up for Air surfaced out of an extended body of photographic work produced by Stephen Gill as he bobbed back and forth between Hackney and Japan during 2008 and 2009. Using his lens like a portable fish tank, Steven transports us to a strange and disorientating fictional aquatic world, in which contextual information is limited or completely absent and our breath mists the view as our noses push up against the glass. Each book has its own unique cover, individually hand painted by Gill – don’t worry, yours will be the best one!

Issue 1

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Amc2 Journal
Issue 1



Published by: AMC

152 Pages 21 x 29.5 cm Softcover in slipcase 2011

£26.00

The Archive of Modern Conflict collects material dating from prehistory to the present day. As the subject areas expand, they intertwine to reveal unexpected stories about the nature of our world. The inaugural issue of Amc2 journal brings together different groups of work that illuminate lost corners of our cultural life. Photography is, as ever, the keystone of the collection.

Issue 4: Collected Shadows

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Amc2 Journal
Issue 4: Collected Shadows



Published by: AMC

138 Pages 20 x 23 cm Softcover 2012

£25.00

Issue 4 of Amc2 comprises photographs from Collected Shadows, an exhibition curated by the Archive of Modern Conflict for Paris Photo 2012 and on view at the Grand Palais from 15–18 November 2012. The works span a period from the early 1850s to the present day and are by photographers both known and unknown, amongst them Bertha Jaques, Gustave Le Gray, Robert Frank, Willi Ruge, Paul-Émile Miot, Johann Böhm, Ferdinand Quénisset, Mario Giacomelli, Eugene Atget, Josef Sudek and many others, while subjects include earth, fire, air, water and ether as well as divinity, astronomy, meteorology, flight and dance.