Rob Wetzer - In Zijn huis (In His House)

Rob Wetzer - In Zijn Huis (In His House)
Text contributions by Antoine Bodar, Eric Luiten, Door Jelsma
Book, 40 pages
24 x 29.5 cm 9.45 x 11,61 inch
Full color offset
Edition: 500
Price: €20 (excl. shipping)

"About 7000 of the one-time 12.000 Dutch churches are still standing, but the existence is threatened of half of these. When the choice has been made to allow a church a new function, what, then, could be considered worthy reuse?"

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Frederic Lezmi - Beyond Borders, From Vienna to Beirut

Frederic Lezmi - Beyond Borders, From Vienna to Beirut
Design & production: Helge Schlaghecke and Frederic Lezmi
Book, 11 meters (36 foot) long Leporello folded together.
68 pages, 32 color plates, 24x17 cm / 9,5x6,7 inch
Edition of 150 each numbered and signed
Digitally printed on demand
Price: 88€ / 125$ / 80£

"In his first photo book Frederic Lezmi takes us on a trip from Vienna to Beirut, searching for the border between Europe and the Orient. He focuses on the cultural and geographical spaces and signs his finds traveling "in between'' these multifaceted worlds. Beyond Borders is the newest publication by White Press, a Cologne based independent publishing project that combines the book-on-demand concept with a high quality production in limited editions in order to publish art books that do not fit in any of the existing categories of big publishing houses. The book is distributed by Schaden.com."

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Jason Eskenazi - Wonderland

Jason Eskenazi - Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (reprint)
Trade cloth Book, offset print, 77 b&w photographs
224 pages; 5.1 X 7.1 inch 13 x 18 cm
Edition: 2000
Price: $32.00

"The story of Communism is the story of the 20th century. For many, the Soviet Union existed, like their childhood, as a fairy tale where many of the realities of life were hidden from plain view. When the Berlin Wall finally fell so too did the illusion of that utopia. But time changes memory. The ex-Soviets confused the memory of their innocent youth for their nation's utopian vision, unable to confront its history and thus creating nostalgia for tragedy. "

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(NB: before anyone starts protesting that this book is available on Amazon, and why did we list it nonetheless: this listing is for the reprinted version, not the original version. Also, if a collector is reselling a book as 'used', than it is out of control of the publisher/photographer.)

Sean Davey - Pidgin

Sean Davey - Pidgin (2006)
soft cover book
106 pages, 49 b&w photographs, 21 x 25 cm (8.3 x 9.8 inches)
digitally printed (offset printed cover)
Ed. of 50, signed + numbered (about 20 remaining)
AUD$100 + shipping (Australian dollars)

"Pidgin is a different kind of road trip. It is a road trip mostly taken at night by a group of friends as they navigate, or more likely stagger through a landscape of drinking, driving and the pursuit of the next good time. The title Pidgin means a language that is simplified and adapted so that small groups can communicate. To me, it refers to the language of friends and how they come to understand one another." - Jeffrey Ladd

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Olivier Cablat - Typological studies of the effects of causality observed on individuals exposed to physical exercices of a podiatrical nature

Olivier Cablat - Typological studies of the effects of causality observed on individuals exposed to physical exercices of a podiatrical nature.
Book, soft cover
66 pages, 20X25 cm 7.89 x 9.84 inch
Digital offset, POD
Digital unlimited edition (as long as it is not forbidden to publish the content)
€40

"Stickers, representative of portraits of footballers are neutralized of their first function by the obliteration of typographical information which they were carrying. The new lay-out become a version of a new type of album "Panini", a kind of contemporary and personal version of the studies of the human type, which wants to be at the same time a second reading of the history of Photography and Ethnology."

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Wim Bosch - Arrival Delayed

Wim Bosch - Arrival Delayed
With a text by Petran Kockelkoren
Book, 21.7x 26.8 cm 8.54x10.55 inch
Offset, Hardcover, 80 images full color + 12 b&w
Edition: 300, signed and numbered
NL €25, EU €30, World €39, includes shipping

"Since 2002, visual artist Wim Bosch uses found photographic footage in combination with self-shot pictures to create his constructed views on interior and exterior domestic scenes. His works show a familiar, unfamiliar world with suspensefull scenes related to both painting and cinema. For Arrival Devayled, which showcases works from the last five years, Dr. Petran Kockelkoren has written a philosophic essay about the influence of (digital) media on perception, perspective and alienation in relation to Bosch's work."

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Florian Reischauer - Pieces of Berlin

Title: pieces of berlin
concept and photography > florian reischauer, text > isobel coquille, layout > karolina jacewicz
90 pages one-sided printed, Din A5
Edition size: 1st edition 100, 2nd edition 100
Type of printing: digital
19€

"an unconventional photo book about berlin, showing the beauty and varity of this metropole. oftentimes forgotten places or areas which disappeard already, collected and combined with abstract texts"

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Christian Patterson - Sound Affects

Sound Affects
Christian Patterson
Introduction by Robert Gordon
Essay by Dr. Susanna Ott

Hardcover, 9 x 12 inches (31.5 x 24 cm)
110 pages, 47 color plates (4-color offset)
Edition of 700. Signed copies available.
US $125

"Christian Patterson’s first monograph is a limited edition produced together with Kaune, Sudendorf (Cologne). Depiciting Memphis, the “Birthplace of Rock ‘n Roll” and the 'Home of the Blues', Patterson’s photographs are light borne visual melodies, musical arrangements of color, light, rhythm and form exploring musical places, music’s presence, and the musicality of everyday life."

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Donald Weber - Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl

Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl
Photography by Donald Weber
Text by Larry Frolick
64 pp., 60 colour illustrations, 8½x10″ (216x254 mm)
Softbound
Signed copies available.

Price: $35 + $7 Shipping (USD)

"These photographs were taken over three years, in the region of Chernobyl, Ukraine – some 20 years after the nuclear reactor incident of April 26, 1986. That first morning, as the plume of radioactive debris fell across the land and into the rest of Europe, the authorities evacuated the city of Pripyat and created a 40-kilometer Exclusion Zone around it. The 50,000 residents had fifteen minutes to leave, and never returned. Today a ring of silent fire surrounds these pine woods and abandoned apartment buildings. People are not supposed to live here; wild boars, rabbits and deer thrive in the lush greenery. Even the steppe wolves have returned.
Donald Weber began visiting this region, because he wanted to see what was there. He had little interest in theories of history, or root causes. His question was simple: What was daily life actually like, in a post-atomic world?"

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Anne Collier - Woman with a Camera (35mm)

Woman with a Camera (35mm)
Anne Collier
Essay by Tom McDonough
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 4 color offset
44 pages, 7 x 8.5 in (22 x 17.5 cm)
Edition of 600
US$25

"Woman With a Camera (35mm) consists of eighteen consecutive film stills taken from the trailer of the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, in which Faye Dunaway plays a fashion photographer who experiences visions of real-life murders while on photo shoots. In Collier's re-photographed presentation, Dunaway slowly lowers her Nikon in a gesture of stunned horror, casting a disquietingly direct gaze at the viewer/reader, who cannot help but feel implicated in this new, more generalized scenario in which the camera becomes a symbol for looking. With an essay by Tom McDonough."

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Dustin Shum - Themeless Parks

Title: Themeless Parks
Photographs by Dustin Shum
Hardcover, full color offset printing on 170g matt art paper
160 pages, 27cm x 21.5cm (10.6 x 8.5 in), 76 color illustrations
Edition: 1000
Price: US$23 (plus shipping and packing: US$15)

"The media is falling over itself to portray the economic development of Chinese cities; however Dustin Shum’s latest work 'Themeless Park' follows a different path. Dustin’s choice of subject matter wasn’t the workers of southern China, or residents who refuse to be relocated, or the disappearing Hutongs of Beijing, or the proud 'Birds Nest' and 'Water Cube' Olympic buildings. Or, rather, his Dustin’s work focuses on the parks of southern China as his grand scenes, revealing how the spirit of travelers at leisure and the strange things inside the parks reflect each other. The book portrays a strangely surreal atmosphere of park spaces in the southern China, in the time of the passage of consumerism and capitalism."

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Mahjong Vol.1

Title: Mahjong Vol.1
Photographs by Kantai Wong, Karl Chiu, Dustin Shum and Paul Yeung
Edition: 500
Offset full color printing on 157g matt art paper
Softcover, 52 pages, 25cm x 34cm (10 x 13 in)
Price: US$10 (plus shipping and packaging US$9)

"Mahjong is a traditional game for four players that originated in China and popular in the Chinese society. To be the winner of the game, it requires skill, strategy and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck. The self-published photography periodical, 'Mahjong', is a collaboration of four Hong Kong photographers from four different generations. They are Kantai Wong, Karl Chiu, Dustin Shum and Paul Yeung. Just like the different strategies of different players in the Mahjong game, the periodical manifests the unique visions of the four photographers towards the society of Hong Kong and mainland China."

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Zheng Yaohua - Sleepwalk

Title: Sleepwalk
Artist: Zheng Yaohua
14 x 20 cm (5.5 x 8 in), 52 pages, full colour, softcover, matt art paper
Edition: 500
type of printing: offset
15US$

"It's beginning in a subway train.
Through the window, the city is moving ahead flat and softly.
People on the street are slowly falling asleep."

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Gu Fan - Paper 001

Title: Paper 001
Artist: Gu Fan
box of prints
20 x 28 cm (8 x 11 in), 6 papers, full colour, special paper
Edition: 150
type of printing: offset
9US$

"6 papers
big card
small poster
dreamful, wordless stills of life on paper"

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Gu Fan - Small View

Title: Small View
Artist: Gu Fan
10.5 x 14 cm (4 x 5.5 in), 68 pages, 30 images, full colour, softcover, matt art paper
Edition: 500
type of printing: offset
9US$

"a small photobook
polaroid photos
taken in 2006 summer ~ 2007 spring
magic city life
gifts of simplicity"

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Gu Fan - The Sea Vol.1

Title: the sea vol.1
Artist: Gu Fan
20 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in), 28 pages , 29 images , full colour , softcover , special paper
Edition: 500
offset
12US$

"a white photobook
We have been to the moon
travel on the moon
a big sea there"

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Yanni Florence - self-conscious

Title: self-conscious
Photographs by Yanni Florence
Hardback book
320mm by 220mm (12.6 in x 4.7 in)
108 pages
71 B&W and 1 colour photographs
AUD$110 includes airmail postage

"Images from Yanni Florence's self published book Self Conscious, an edited selection of photographs taken between 1976-1983 (age 11-18).
"When I first met Yanni ten years ago he was starting to design books for other artists and galleries after (temporarily) winding down Pataphysics journal which he co-founded and edited with Leo Edelstein (there's a neat story of Florence sneaking into a vacant university office in the middle of the night to phone John Cage for an interview). It's great to see this archive of images surface, intimate and beautifully awkward, it maps a photographic learning curve, a suspended vulnerability dangling between subject and photographer."
Ricky Swallow

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PUBLICATION #1 Inspiration

Title: PUBLICATION #1 Inspiration
Format: 7 in. x 9 in (18 cm x 23 cm).
Booklet of essays with 22 unbound prints, offset printed.
Edition: 2000
Price: $22 + shipping
Edited by Nick Turpin
Design by Pali Palavathanan and Eng Su
Produced by Sarah Ewing

"The launch edition of PUBLICATION: Inspiration is now printed and available to order. Featuring essays by Michael David Murphy, David Gibson, Hin Chua and Nick Turpin and the work of photographers including Joel Meyerowitz, Tod Papageorge, Martin Kollar, Trent Parke, Roger Mayne and some wonderful images from comparatively unknown Street Photographers."

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Rob Hornstra - 101 Billionaires

Title: 101 Billionaires - Crisis Edition
Author: Rob Hornstra
Text: Hans Loos & Arnold van Bruggen
Size: 176 x 205 mm (7 x 8 in)
172 pages
Photographs: 101 Colour Photographs
Binding: Hardbound with photo-illustrated boards
Print run: 1,000 copies
Price (incl shipping): NL: € 32.00 / Europe: € 38.00 / Overseas: € 46.00

"Early 2008. The Russian business paper Finans publishes an overview of the richest Russians. There are 101 billionaires on the list. They become the ironic title of Rob Hornstra’s new book. 101 Billionaires reveals the other side of modern Russian, the raw reality that lurks behind the façade of the power elite.
Early 2009. On the day that the first edition of 101 Billionaires sells out, Finans announces that the number of billionaires has dropped to 49. Not that it makes any difference to the people in this book. In the Russian hinterland, people saw little of this exorbitant wealth anyway."

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Henry Roy - Spirit

'Spirit'
Photographs & short stories by Henry Roy
Design: Nicholas Gottlund
Translation: Nicolas Allinder
Softcover book (#'s 1-30 contain a print and a clamshell book box)
64 pages, 8x10 inches / 20x25 cm
Edition of 1,000
Offset Lithography
$55


"Spirit is as subtle and intangible as a breath of air.
It is an energy circulating between beings and things.
It travels with light, winds, clouds or waves, it penetrates in stones, plants and animals.
It affects humans, seizing control of their bodies, whose sentiments and sensuality it reveals.
It manifests itself at the boundaries of the visible, in a dimension where only imagination can penetrate."
-Henry Roy, Paris 2009

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Richard Renaldi - Fall River Boys

Fall River Boys
Photographs by Richard Renaldi
Introduction by Michael Cunningham

10.25 in. x 12.25 in. / 184 pages / 89 tritone images / Casebound with jacket / Edition of 1200
US$85.00

"In the spring of 2000, Richard Renaldi began making frequent trips to the small New England city of Fall River, Massachusetts. Situated just a short distance from the Atlantic coast, Fall River was once at the very center of American textile manufacturing. Renaldi’s aim was to photograph the young men of Fall River coming of age amidst an industrial landscape well past its boom years. This extraordinary body of images—both portraits and landscapes—is gathered here for the first time in Renaldi’s second monograph, Fall River Boys."

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Michael de Kooter - Périphérique

Michael de Kooter - Périphérique
Additional contributors: Alban Kakulya & Yann Mingard (Introduction text)
Design : Jonathan Roorda
Softcover book with flap & print
50 pages / 30x20 cm or 12x8 inch
Edition: 100 (30 remaining)
Digital offset printing
37,50 Euro / 55 dollar

"Michael de Kooter photographed the blurred area between town and border: tidy and improbable spaces created for family leisure where low cost residential areas and odd sport places unroll one after another in a tedious fashion, each of them imposing their presence between protective demarcations that seem too neat to be true. He mastered the delicate step between the “decisive moment” and a more Germanic and analytic distance from the subject: a busy highway is frozen in its eternal desolation during a short pause between two cars, another photograph shows the arm of a swimmer in the distance that reminds us of the strange apparition of an improbable Swiss Nessie. Page after page, we discover through Michael’s eye the strange relationship between humans and their surroundings, between humans and nature." - Alban Kakulya & Yann Mingard

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Cary Markerink - Memory Traces

"Memory Traces is a recent publication, in which I relate to notions about landscape, culture, history and memory. Memory Traces is an unconventional photo-book, composed to be an experience, in which a selection of landscape photographs are combined with a multi-layered range of texts including excerpts from travelogues, ‘written photographs’ and a short story situated in the art-world which, among other things, deals with 'The Artification of Photography' and ‘The End of Silver-based Photography’. In a second separate booklet a Chernobyl family album of found negatives has been reproduced."

The large format photographs were made in Sarajevo; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Berlin, Bitterfeld-Wolfen and Ronneburg; Bikini Island and Nam Island; Chernobyl; Khe San and My Lai.

Photography & text: Cary Markerink, Amsterdam
Designed by Irma Boom Office, Amsterdam

Oversized Clothbound Hardcover
30,5 x 41 cm / 12 x 16 inch
202 pages
together with two small booklets, 'Höffding Step' and 'Dark Star'
12x16 cm / 4,7x6,3 inch
each in a printed box.

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Louis Porter - 100 flowers

Louis Porter - 100 flowers
edited by Laurence Vecten, design by Pierre Hourquet & Julien Hourcade
book, 28 pages, 18x22cm, 7.1 x 8.6 inches
edition: 100
15 euros + shiping (19 euros in UE, 20,5 euros rest of the world)

"Louis Porter worked on this project during the Olympics in China last year. He made 100 photographs to recall the 100 flowers movement initiated by Mao Tse Toung."

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Michael Kim - Weeping

Michael Kim - Weeping
(part of a series entitled AFTER MODERN HISTORY)
48 pages, 4x5.75 inches, 10.16x14.6 cm
US$7.00

"AFTER MODERN HISTORY is a report on world events that re-edits the news of the day by linking together images according to a totally idiosyncratic perspective of pattern recognitions and typologies. AFTER MODERN HISTORY lifts photos from daily newspapers and re-organizes disparate, often atomized subjects into newly imagined affinities. For most people caught on the hard end of luck, the newspaper can be a lonely place. But in this second draft of history, bad news is no longer so isolated. There is no dateline."

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