A Series of Disappointments

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Stephen Gil
A Series of Disappointments



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78 pages 32.2 x 30 cm Hardback 2008

£26.00

The betting slips illustrated in Stephen Gill’s A Series of Disappointments were discarded in Hackney in north-east London, in and around the many betting shops in the borough – 71 at the time of the book’s publication. Betting shops are classed as financial services, so if they move into premises previously occupied by banks or solicitors they don't have to apply for any special permit. The average number of betting shops in other London boroughs is 23. Each of these papers began as hope and was shaped by loss and defeat, then cast aside. Their residual forms reveal a state of mind framed by nervous tension and grief. After the images were made, little autopsies were performed on the papers to reveal the failed bets held within. The book is published in three different cover designs based on jockeys’ racing colours. It can be exhibited by removing the book block from the outer cover, expanding the pages and hanging the resulting chain of paper from nails or small hooks using the holes provided.

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Best Before End

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Best Before End



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72 pages 26.5 x 36 cm Hardback 2014

£44.00

Tiredness can indeed kill – but then, what's death if not a big Chandleresque sleep in which wiseacre gumshoes drive to the end of the night only to discover that it's their own involvement in the case that led to the murder-spree. I'll sleep when I'm dead, for all sleep is the sleep of reason. We need our wits about us: its an accelerated world out there, demanding split-second decision-making capability to hit the right button so as to make the right multi-million dollar trade, or order the next pizza, or download the next app. We swim through an orangey brinelight: a carbonated energy field of unified, fizzing awareness – it's dreamlike, this existence, most certainly, but its a waking dream, and for that we have energy drinks to thank. Stephen Gill's beautiful images, which incorporate energy drinks as an integral part of their processing, capture this strange state of being at once driven and aqueous, simultaneously sweet and oh so bitter. The Best Before End series memorialises the freewheeling decline of the west, which – to paraphrase Alfred Jarry, the founding father of pataphysics – is best conceived of as a downhill bicycle race sponsored by a major-brand energy drink, in which all of the pursuit riders have the red head of the Minotaur. For myself, I'm way out in front of them and pedalling HARD. Will Self

Pigeons

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
Pigeons



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52 pages 20 x 25.2 cm Hardback 2014

£38.00

Stephen Gill's photographs are devoid of sentiment or affectation – rather than showing the pigeon in our world, they take us into theirs. The lens noses in under bridges, squeezes through cracks and scopes out crannies. These are images that bestow on the despised flying rats that oft-trumpeted but seldom realised attribution: their dignity. Here are pigeons making their lives in a natural landscape, for whatever else humans may be, we are animals too, and as such our buildings are analogous to the earthworks of termites, and our bridges to the dams of beavers. It's this inversion of the anthropocentric view that makes Gill's images so compelling. That, and another revelation – for fluffed-up and blinking in the dust and the grime and the rust and rime, we see those mythical beings: the young pigeons. I suspect it's because we've entered this otherworldly realm that we find these juveniles to be arousing not of pity, but a grudging respect. Far from being scroungers or undeserving poor, these doughty birds survive and even thrive despite barbs and more barbs of outrageous human fortune. They are, like the urban foxes, the economic migrants of the animal world – forced into the cities to scratch a living as best they may – and before we condemn them, we would do well to ask ourselves this question: would we do as well were the tables to be turned? Will Self

Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Wassink
Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!



Published by: AMC

56 Pages 17 x 21.5 cm Softbound 2008

£48.00

In Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later, Thijs groot Wassink shows us London from the viewpoint of a photo booth. Go into the booth, open the curtain, feed in the money, hold up a mirror, press the button – and pop! In post offices and train stations, supermarkets and shopping centres, the booth camera captures its first uncertain view of the world outside. It sees vague figures – blurred, menacing, oblivious, suspicious. It sees shelves of gaudy merchandise, the fingers of a man, Bob the Builder. Thank you for using Photo-Me.

Tokyo Tokyo

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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WassinkLundgren
Tokyo Tokyo



Published by: AMC

192 Pages 20 x 30.5 cm Softbound with dust jacket 2010

£32.00

“Tokyo Tokyo consists of a series of diptychs in which the mythical ‘decisive moment’ of traditional documentary photography is lampooned. In their projects, WassinkLundgren playfully turn the unwritten rules of the photography upside down. But behind the joke is always a serious attempt to expand both the artistic as well as the social significance of their medium.” – Frits Gierstberg, Dutch Photo Museum, Rotterdam

Happy Tonite

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Ed Jones & James Welch
Happy Tonite



Published by: AMC

104 Pages 24.5 x 21 cm Board covers with PVC veneer 2010

£35.00

The photographs in Happy Tonite have been selected by Ed Jones and James Welch from the collection of Chinese photography assembled by Thomas Sauvin for the Archive of Modern Conflict. The photographers represented in the book are Liu YiQing, Cai Hongshuo, Chang He, Zeng Han, Yang Changhong, Bai Chuan, Dustin Shum, Chang Qing, Fang Er, Feng Li, Luo Dan and Jiang Yiming. Each has his or her individual and unique ideas and preoccupations, but collectively they can be seen to demonstrate and reflect a concerted move outside the traditional Chinese boundaries and restrictions. The book has been produced in a single limited edition of 1,000. Each copy is individually hand-numbered and contains one of three different stamped and numbered original Liu YiQing prints that do not appear in the book itself.

Talking of Ants

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Stephen Gill
Talking of Ants



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72 pages 25 x 25 cm Hardback 2014

£35.00

The photographs in this series were made in East London between 2009 and 2013. They feature objects and creatures that I sourced from the local surroundings and placed into the body of my camera. I hoped through this method to encourage the spirit of the place to clamber aboard the images and be encapsulated in the film emulsion, like objects embedded in amber. My aim was to evoke the feeling of the area at the same time as describing its appearance, the subject being both in front of and behind the camera lens at the same moment. I like to think of these photographs as in-camera photograms in which conflict or harmony has been randomly formed in the final image depending on where the objects landed. Stephen Gill

A Series of Disappointments

September 14, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Stephen Gill
A Series of Disappointments



Published by: Nobody Books

In association with AMC 78 pages 32.2 x 30 cm Hardback 2008

£26.00

The betting slips illustrated in Stephen Gill’s A Series of Disappointments were discarded in Hackney in north-east London, in and around the many betting shops in the borough – 71 at the time of the book’s publication. Betting shops are classed as financial services, so if they move into premises previously occupied by banks or solicitors they don't have to apply for any special permit. The average number of betting shops in other London boroughs is 23. Each of these papers began as hope and was shaped by loss and defeat, then cast aside. Their residual forms reveal a state of mind framed by nervous tension and grief. After the images were made, little autopsies were performed on the papers to reveal the failed bets held within. The book is published in three different cover designs based on jockeys’ racing colours. It can be exhibited by removing the book block from the outer cover, expanding the pages and hanging the resulting chain of paper from nails or small hooks using the holes provided.

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Infinite Power

September 28, 2015, 8:15 pm

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David Brandon Geeting
Infinite Power



Published by: Pau Wau Publications

128 pages 19cm x25cm Softbound  Exposed Smyth Binding  Silkscreened Polybag  Numbered Edition of 500

£24.00

Geeting has created pleasing compositions out of everyday common objects found around the household. Interested in the relationship between objects that otherwise mean nothing towards eachother, Geeting has put these together in a book format to "give them a place to live other than the internet."

Happy Purim

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Estelle Hanania
Happy Purim



Published by: Shelter Press

68 pages 24,5 x 31 cm perfect bound / clothbound hardcover 2015

£40.00

Text by David Ivar (english) Interview with Delphine Horvilleur (french + english)

New York Polaroids 1976 – 1989

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Edo Bertoglio
New York Polaroids 1976 – 1989



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232 pages 18,5 x 27cm Paperback twist-stitching / Faux leather cover

£25.00

New York Polaroids 1976—1989 is the first polaroid book by Swiss photographer and director Edo Bertoglio. A personal diary of the daily life of the New York downtown scene, with pictures of Arto Lindsay, Grace Jones, Maripol, Glenn O’Brien, Debbie Harry, Madonna, Andy Warhol and John Lurie, among others. With an essay by Mariuccia Casadio and an extract from the interview between Stefano Bianchi and Edo Bertoglio.

Ceremony

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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aa.vv.
Ceremony



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68 Pages 17 x 24cm Soft Cover

£9.00

Ceremony is a selection of pictures taken by graffiti writers during the ’90s, the years when graffiti culture first started emerging in Rome. The publication is focused entirely on the social rite of graffiti writing, rather than on the artworks themselves. All the pictures were part of photo albums of Roman crews and writers and each page reveals something about the expeditions, the crews, the meetings and all other forms of activities that constitute the social ties within the writers’ community. Published on the occasion of the collective exhibition From Street To Art,that was hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. With an essay by Simone Pallotta.

Anti MTV Day Book

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Achille Filipponi
Anti MTV Day Book



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80 Pages 21 x 29cm Saddle – Stitched

£10.00

Anti MTV Day Book is an instant book shot on September 17, 2011 at the AntiMtvDay in Bologna (XM24). The book consists of a series of b/w photographs of the biggest Italian DIY punk festival anthropological insight on the people, the bands, the places and the iconography of an underground community. Cover artwork by Ratigher. With an essay by John D. Raudo.

Atem

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza
Atem



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300 pages 24,5 x 33,5cm Paperback twist-stitching / Soft cover

£25.00

In agreement with the author, who does not feel his production strictly related to the book format and who thinks photography is a mutable and manifold matter, we publish a book free of the precepts that habitually regulate the flux of its content and the usual relations between the photographs and the pages. The volume’s content does not derive from a sequence of images designed according to aesthetic rules, based on formal and conceptual balance, but it has been obtained through a purely random process lacking of any type of selection refinement. All the photos in the book rigorously respect the numeric order of the photographic source, that is the author’s archive made of thousands of images, and are presented consecutively respecting their original format regardless of the book’s page dimensions. At a later moment in the book’s design, the individual pages were randomly shuffled without caring about the page bleed or the overlapping between the photographs. The book that results from this process becomes a container that houses the images without any control over them but granting them the uncommon freedom to create new ones.

piK

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Issue 9
piK



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48 pages 30 x 21 cm perfect bound 2015

£14.50

Featured photographers: 1/ John Divola 2/ Vittorio Mortarotti 3/ Grant Willing 4/ Melanie Willhide 5/ Marco Barbon 6/ Sebastian Collett 7/ Albert Elm Special feature: Krakow Photo Month

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GUAPAMENTE Vol. 4

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Ewen Spencer
GUAPAMENTE Vol. 4



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36 pages 21cm × 27.5cm Softcover 2015 

£7.00

The fourth issue in Ewen Spencer’s series of zines on youth cultures looks at roller skaters in Stratford Centre, London. Guapamente 4 accompanies a new short film by Spencer, Jam & Cheese. The zine is published by See-W, Spencer’s new publishing company in collaboration with Olivia Gideon-Thomson of We Folk.

Image System #2

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Geoffroy de Boismenu
Image System #2



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152 pages 19,3 x 31,6cm Soft cover / No binding

£28.00

Rather than re-publishing Image System, Geoffroy de Boismenu pursued a comparable discovery of his America, going through his archive to suggest a sequel to the quickly sold-out book. Back again to the 90s and the chaotic atmosphere that he fancies. The new selection of Polaroid images is reproduced full-page in a large unbound format. Once again, the book offers a double reading of his photographs:  1. The double pages confront two half-Polaroids, thus composing through vis-à-vis and loss of scale a brand new image – a “third photograph”.  2. With the absence of binding, readers can retrieve the original images in full and recompose their own sequencing.

Status: Delivered

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Thomas Mailaender
Status: Delivered



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50 pages 13 x 21cm  Soft cover

£9.00

Thomas Mailaender continues his collection of fun images he finds on the internet. This time the yellow cover of the fourth little book is referring to a postal company or any parcel delivery  services. For the net surfers, it's all about making fun of them by posting pictures of the so-called "status delivered".

Champagne

October 1, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Mazaccio & Drowilal
Champagne



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48 pages 20 x 25cm Soft cover  

£25.00

       Champagne is the first title of a book series to be published by artists Mazacio and Drowilal with RVB Books. In this project closer to iconography than to photography, the duo confronts a series of representations of Misses of all sorts to those of various car racers celebrating their victory by sprinkling champagne around, an exhilarating and iconoclastic form of attack against “good taste”. The artists have applied paint drippings over each book cover, making each copy unique.

To the Moon and Back

October 2, 2015, 8:15 pm

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Mario Zamora
To the Moon and Back



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64 pages 16 x 26 cm Soft cover

£18.00

To the Moon and back was Life magazine’s headline for the mythical Apollo 11 adventure in 1969. A statement also found on the website of Spanish anti-riot police forces, obviously here referring to a very different mission: ensuring the security of people and also – Mario Zamora’s focus of interest – of goods and social order.  The Spanish economic context was shaken by the violence of the last crisis; some voices evoke criminalization of poverty while large urban centers suffered general strikes and sometimes-violent demonstrations between 2012 and 2014,  During that period, Mario Zamora turned his gaze to the confrontations, and more specifically to enforcement authorities. He focused on their condition as individuals, scrutinizing their reactions and gazes, recording the distance marked with demonstrators, striving to restitute their body language. A photography that fragments – sometimes to the point of abstraction –, while it perfectly illustrates the correlation between physical and political mastery.