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Monica Haller - Riley and His Story

Monica Haller - Riley and His Story
One Star Press 2009
hardback, 1st edition
480pp
NEW
Monica Haller’s project Riley and His Story presents the daily life of the Iraq war, as lived and photographed by Riley Sharbonno, an army nurse who served at Abu Ghraib prison from 2004-2005. Riley used his camera as an almost prosthetic device to record the events his memory suppressed; on other occasions he used the camera to store overwhelming experiences with the aim of processing them later. Many of these images are indeed overwhelming–these aren’t the photos we’re likely to find in grandma’s photo album 50 years from now, he rightly observes–and the photo pages in this book are variously sized, creating intersection and overlap to mimic the unstable nature of such memories and convey the blurry jumble of amnesia and trauma. Riley and His Story is an invitation to all, including war veterans, family and friends, to encounter the realities of warfare as related by one who was there.

1st edition of 1000 copies.

£55.00  BUY

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Robert Frank - Seven Stories

Robert Frank - Seven Stories
Steidl 2009
124pp
Seven softcovers in slipcase
NEW AND SEALED

After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the single image and concentrated throughout the 1960s on film-making. He only returned to still-photographs in the 1970s, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. He frequently layered the images with text, which he inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative. Frank found that these works allowed him more freedom to “destroy that image, that perfect image”. In recent years Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work. As always the photographs and stories relate to Frank’s life and milieu, his homes in Mabou and New York, or a trip to China or Spain. This collection of small books is a new stage in the practice of this remarkable artist who continually challenges the limits of photography and film and strives to avoid repeating himself.

SOLD OUT with publisher and already very scarce.

£56  BUY

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Michael Kenna - In Hokkaido (SIGNED)

Michael Kenna - In Hokkaido (SIGNED)
RAM 2009
softcover, 1st edition
64pp
NEW
SIGNED BY MICHAEL KENNA

Published by RAM (Tokyo) on the occasion of Michael Kenna’s exhibition at the Kushiro Art Museum in Hokkaido, Japan. Contains 50 of Kenna’s minimal landscape images of Hokkaido, beautifully printed on matt art paper in this exquisite production. With foreword by Michael Kenna.

Limited edition of 1200 copies, already sold out.

Elegantly signed on the front cover by Michael Kenna.

£85  BUY

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Mark Steinmetz - Greater Atlanta

Mark Steinmetz - Greater Atlanta
Nazraeli Press 2009
Hardback 1st edition
NEW

Mark Steinmetz completes his powerful and moving trilogy, “South”, with Greater Atlanta. Photographing in Atlanta and its outlying regions, Steinmetz provides his testimony on contemporary American civilization. Combining portraits and landscapes, he weaves a symbolic and lyrical investigation that subtly questions notions of progress. He further develops motifs – on the automobile, on the telephone – that were first introduced in South Central, and catalogues car culture, fast food, convenience stores, and suburban sprawl. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, Greater Atlanta is printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies

£42  BUY

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Todd Hido - Crooked Cracked Tree in Fog (OPB 60)

Todd Hido - Crooked Cracked Tree in Fog (OPB 60)
Nazraeli 2009
Hardback 1st edition with print
NEW

Limited edition of 500 hand numbered copies with print (3-5/8 x 4-3/4 inches) signed on reverse by Todd Hido.

From the publisher: “In the winter of 2009, Todd Hido was approached by elementary school art instructor Wilhelm Matthies about using his photographs in class for the students to work from as a source of inspiration for some of their own exercises. The resulting book of four construction paper collages by 1st grade students shows some of the remarkable pieces generated from the class.”

£125  BUY

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Rineke Dijkstra - The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL

Rineke Dijkstra - The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL
Hannover Sprengel Museum 1998
32pp
Softcover 1st edition
Near Fine
Scarce book by Rineke Dijkstra containing 20 plates (video stills) from a video project of moving portraits of youths in nightclubs/discos. Essay by Thomas Weski in English and German.

Near fine condition.

£89  BUY

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Josef Hoflehner - Unleashed Two (SIGNED)

Josef Hoflehner - Unleashed Two (SIGNED)
Most Press 2007
96pp
Hardback, 1st edition
NEW

From publisher: Unleashed Two features Josef Hoflehner’s recent work he has made in China, Vietnam, Iceland, as well as at the North and Baltic Sea in Germany. With a series of new Snowscapes images and his Eiffel Tower studies. Some of these photographs are so surreal that they don’t seem to be made in this dimension. Superbly printed in duotone, Unleashed Two is truly wonderful book. Printed in a first edition of 1000 casebound copies only.

SIGNED COPY of this out of print book.

SOLD OUT

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Daido Moriyama - Magazine Work 1965-1970

Daido Moriyama - Magazine Work 1965-1970
Getsuyosha 2009
Softcover 1st edition with obi
AS NEW

Fascinating book featuring a selection of 5 projects that Moriyama completed for magazine between 1965-1970 (some in colour). Approx 10″x7″ and over 1″ thick. Text in Japanese.

£68  BUY

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Daido Moriyama - Magazine Work 1971-1974

Daido Moriyama -  Magazine Work 1971-1974
Getsuyosha 2009
Softcover 1st edition with obi band
AS NEW

Fascinating book featuring a selection of projects that Daido Moriyama shot for magazines between 1971-1974 (many in colour!). Approx 10″x7″, and over 1″ thick. Text in Japanese.

BACK IN STOCK AND SELLING FAST.

£72  BUY

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Toshio Shibata - Still in the Night

Toshio Shibata - Still in the Night
Soh Gallery 2008
Hardback 1st edition
32pp
NEW

Lovely small (22cm x 15cm) hardback catalogue produced for Toshio Shibata’s exhibition at Soh Gallery, Tokyo. Contains a beautifully printed set of his early black and white night city images. Text in English and Japanese.

Set to become scarce like all Toshio Shibata books.

£30  BUY

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Eikoh Hosoe - A World of Eikoh Hosoe: Spherical Dualism of Photography

Eikoh Hosoe - A World of Eikoh Hosoe: Spherical Dualism of Photography
Seigensha 2007
Softcover 159pp
Fine

Retrospective of acclaimed Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe. Text in Japanese.

£65  BUY

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Ryan McGinley - Moonmilk

Ryan McGinley - Moonmilk
Morel Books 2009
Softcover 1st edition
96pp
AS NEW

From publisher: Over the past year, Ryan McGinley and his crew explored huge underground caves, venturing into unknown territory and seeking out spectacular natural spaces, -some previously undocumented.

The title, “Moonmilk”, alludes to the crystalline deposits found on the walls of many caves; it was once believed that this substance was formed by light from celestial bodies passing through rock into darkened worlds below.

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Foreword by Raphael Gygax & Brian Dillo.  Sold out upon release.

LIMITED AVAILABILITY CHECK HERE

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Michael Kenna - Love in Black and White

Michael Kenna - Love in Black and White
Nazraeli Press 2009
hardback, 1st edition
96pp
NEW
From publisher: British-born photographer Michael Kenna and Brazilian-born author and actress Bianca Rossini worked together to create a book of photographs and poems entitled “Love in black and white.’ Beautifully printed on natural Japanese paper in a limited edition of 1,500 hardcover copies, this gorgeous new book comprises 45 of Rossini’s original poems, accompanied by selected photographs of Kenna’s landscapes taken in locations around the world. Michael Kenna’s photographs have been the subject of over thirty books and catalogues, and are included in such permanent museum collections as The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2001, Kenna was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. Italian-Brazilian Bianca Rossini is well-known as a film star, model, actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, comedic performer, and talk show host, as well as a novelist and poet.

NEW AND SEALED.

£40  BUY

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Peter Bialobrzeski - Neon Tigers (Italian edition)

Peter Bialobrzeski - Neon Tigers (Italian edition)
Hatje Cantz / Contrasto 2004
110pp
Hardback
Fine

Italian edition of the much sought after Peter Bialobrzeski title Neon Tigers (Tigridiluce). Text by Florian Hanig and Christoph Ribbat in English as well as Italian.

From publisher: “Photographer Peter Bialobrzeski here merges the seven Asian cities of Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Singapore, and Shenzhen into a virtual megatropolis. The result is a view of a world that no longer seems real but appears instead as a series of dream-images from an eccentric director or computer game designer. References to reality evoke a sense of conflict in the viewer, as appreciation for the beauty of the absurd competes with recognition of an irreversible process of change in urban living space. Two different growth models are exposed: unscrupulous, uncontrolled expansion, as in Bangkok, and controlled, yet equally unscrupulous growth in a city like Shanghai. The pictures burst with conflicting signs and symbols, mostly indecipherable to the western viewer, a semiotic overkill held in check only by the edge of the picture frame.”

£105  BUY (FEW COPIES NOW BACK IN STOCK)

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Hiroh Kikai - Persona

Hiroh Kikai - Persona
Shoshisha 2005
Softcover with obi band
236pp
AS NEW

Small format (21cm x 15cm) collection of Hiroh Kikai’s acclaimed portrait series. Scarce like all Kikai titles. Essay in Japanese, photo captions in Japanese/English.

£42  BUY

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