Lex Thompson - Cave Drawings

Title: Cave Drawings
Artist: Lex Thompson
50 pages
8.5x11"
Edition size: 100
digital press printed
Price: $20 + shipping

"Like Plato’s allegorical cave, a physical cave is a place distended with mystery. Photography records dark shadows and vignettes of otherworldly light, while the delicate intimacy of the bright drawings depict the formations that are hidden within. Together, they generate some understanding of the place and what is necessary to represent it, depicting both the darkness and the detail of the underground landscape."

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John M. O'Toole - Painted Walls

Title: Painted Walls
Artist: John M. O'Toole
22 pages
size: 5x7in
edition of 50
Archival Inkjet print
$10

"'Painted Walls' plays with the idea of how anything can be conceived as something different with just a splash of color. Each book comes in a different sequence of images."

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Hannah Reynolds - A New Market Town

Title: A New Market Town
Artist: Hannah Reynolds
Graphic Designer: Arthur Carey
54 Pages
381 x 254mm
Edition Size: 20
Digitally Printed / Hand Screen Printed Cover
Price: £30.00 ex shipping

"Over the past year, Hannah Reynolds has documented aspects of horse racing, from its beginnings in the studs and the dedicated stable lads that care for and ride out the horses, to the highly skilled work of saddlers, right up to the event that it all culminates in - a race day, with its unique atmosphere of the anticipation in the present moment combined with a constant awareness of the tradition and unspoken rules that are adhered to."

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Rei Yanagi - Long Shots

Long Shots
Rei Yanagi
24 pages
13 x 18 cm / 5 x 7 in
Edition of 50 (numbered)
Color digital
6USD

"The 'ground truth' of an image encompasses elements of a composition that individuals are most likely to fixate on. Spanning a period of 19 months, these images depict and catalog places and moments that made one individual regret the established reality for which these images provided an escape. In some, the ground truths are obvious - a person or central object; in others, the long format is an invitation to gaze and identify one."

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Inge Schoutsen - Jo

Title: Jo
Artist: Inge Schoutsen
offset print
8 pages
a5 size
5 euros ex shipping

"A little picturestory on a man called Jo."

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Łukasz Rusznica & Thomas Schostok - The most important I do not tell you at all

Title: The most important I do not tell you at all. | Najważnieszego i tak Wam nie powiem.
Artists: Łukasz Rusznica & Thomas Schostok a.k.a. {ths}
Texts (in English and Polish) by Krzysztof Solarewiz, Eric Tscheou, Waldemar Pranckiewicz.
Type of printing :Offset
132 pages
210 x 297 cm | A4
Price € 15 + shipping costs

"This book is a personal story about the family, friends and times which passed. Thanks to {ths} I got away from mythologizing my life. I hope we managed to get out of stories about me to something much more universal."

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Stuart Bailes, Bea Fremderman, Ingo Mittelstaedt and Athena Torri - Hired Hand

Name: Hired Hand
Artists: Stuart Bailes (UK), Bea Fremderman (US), Ingo Mittelstaedt (DE) and Athena Torri (US)
Additional Contributors: Flemming Ove Bech + Johan Rosenmunthe (edit and design), Rasmus Michaëlis (design)
64 pages, 32 plates
Offset printed on Munken Polar Rough 170gsm at Narayana Press
Perfect bound with perforated dust cover
20x26cm
Edition of 350, 50 of which are special ed. with archival pigment print
Special edition: 82€(Europe) 86€(World). Shipping included.
Remaing 300 copies (regular, no print) will be available through selected stockists this summer at 40€/$50

"Elegant landscapes and still lifes are re-appropreated – collaged, juxtaposed and presented alongside internet stock photographs to make up a softspoken picture poem in which brute force and a slight caress suggest an undefined plot."

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Tammy Mercure - Wrestling

Title: Wrestling
Artist: Tammy Mercure
10 pages
5x5"x7.75"
Edition size: 30
type of printing: Pigment Prints, letterpress
Price: $12

"TCB Press/Tammy Mercure is publishing a book a month for 2012 on a single topic. June 2012 is Wrestling."

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Screendump #1: On virtual Strolls

Title: Screendump #1: On virtual Strolls
Artists: Karin Krijgsman & Suzan Geldhoff (authors), Michael Wolf, Mishka Henner, Hans Gremmen, Jon Rafman, Diederick Overbeke and Nicolas Mason
20 x 27 cm
64 pages
Edition size: 500
Type of printing: offset
Price: €19,50 (exclusive shipping costs)

"Screendump is an investigation and collection of works from a new genre in a new photography era: the age of virtual photography in a 'Googleworld'."

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Ola Lanko - Required reading

Title: Required reading
Artist: Ola Lanko
Hardcover book
264 pages
21 × 27 cm (8.26 x 10.62 inch)
Price: 50 euros + shipping

"Book introduces the mechanics of visual information processing and aims to find a universal system of image reading, using sets of visual examples, based on free interpretations and personal views and ideas."

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Guillaume Thiriet - RIEN

 

Title: RIEN
Name of artist: Guillaume Thiriet
Additional contributors : Romain Champalaune, Caroline Lollo, Tristan Happel
Book, Soft Cover
36 pages, 20x27cm
Edition:  30
Type of printing: Digital, ElectroInk
Price: 15 euros

"RIEN brings together pictures from four photographers. Neither a sign nor a caption. Not a single word. These are just fragments of lives you have to deal with. Raw matter. See how the pictures vibrate through the paper, the grain fills all the space of the book, saturates all the pages."

 
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Bojan Radovič - Marumage

 

Title: MARUMAGE
Artist: Bojan Radovič
Type: Zine
Pages: 52 colour pages
Size A5
Printing: Xerox
Edition: 90 copies hand numbered & signed/ First 50 numbers include original
signed and stamped photo of your choice printed on 100% cotton paper
Price: 10,00 EUR + pp (from number 51-90), 25,00 EUR + pp (from number 1-50)

"Images in this edition were made at Marumage Festival, a festival for young unmarried women to pray for a happy marriage. Every April around 40 young women from around Japan gather to dress up in geisha garb with a slight twist. The marumage coiffure was once a longstanding symbol of the married woman, and only married women were permitted to coif their hair that way. Geisha, in the hope they could one day wear it permanently, borrowed it for a single day to pray for happy marriages at the local shrine.

This work is part of European Eyes on Japan 14, project organized by EU-Japan Fest from Tokyo."

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Tomé Duarte - Nome de Doença Rara

Nome de Doença Rara
Tomé Duarte
52 pages
21 x 15cm
Edition of 100, signed and numbered
Xerography on 80g recycled paper
5€ Europe / 7€ World 

"Fernando Lanhas was ................................ died on the 4 2 '12. Luisa Duarte ............................................ isn't dead yet."

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Grant Willing

Grant Willing
Designed by Jesse Hlebo
Publication with Risograph printed envelope, screen-printed cover, two c-prints
44 pages — 9x12" / 8x10"
Edition of 150
Risograph, Screen print, C-Prints
$30 + shipping

"Julian Assange
Citrus
Nature
Drawings"

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Carlos Cancela Pinto and Fábio Silva - Shoreline

Title: Shoreline
Artists: Carlos Cancela Pinto and Fábio Silva
18 pages
A4 (210 × 297 mm)
Edition size: 50
Digital printing
Price: 4€

"'Shoreline' is a self-made publication, and it is the result of collaboration work between two photographers, Fábio Silva and Carlos C. Pinto. The photos in the publication are intended to capture the fringe of land located near the sea in a very personal way."

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Luis Díaz Díaz - A casa do Oscar

Title : A casa do Oscar
Photographer: Luis Díaz Díaz
Texts (in english and galician/portuguese) by Chico Buarque and Benoît Sindt
Little book / sewn, with translucid dust jacket and two different papers: Olin Regular 120 g/m² (pictures) and Pop’set 90 g/m² (texts)
36 pages / 142 x 210 mm (5.6 x 8.3 inches)
Offset (color and BW pictures)
Edition : 200 numbered and signed by the author (including a Special Edition of 5, along with 30 x 40 cm color print)
Price : 12€ + shipping

"A casa do Oscar (Oscar’s House) is the first of a series of dossiers in which Fabulatorio wants to explore, through photography, the relationships between space and life, and culture and civilization. It is, moreover, a visual homage to the architect Oscar Niemeyer, a perennial and distinguished account of the Utopian project that transformed modernity, and one to which he professionally committed himself from one of the peripheries of the Central European and North American intellectual hub."

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Myles Haselhorst (Editor) - Women I Never Knew No. 1

Women I Never Knew No. 1
Myles Haselhorst (Editor)
5 x 7 in.
67 pages, 32 photographs
Edition of 100
$25 for standard copy/$75 for signed copy with vintage photograph

"Women I Never Knew No. 1 is the first in an ongoing series of publications that explore sexuality & nudity in found photography. The title itself is both a play on words & the statement of a simple fact: I never knew these women until I found photographs of them. Inherent in the act of collecting found photography is an element of voyeurism, of stumbling upon the record of a moment that we are not supposed see. When the photograph in question is sexual or erotic, the sense of invading a moment that was essentially private is heightened. This dichotomy of a private act made public through a mix of amateur photography & passing time is fascinating. It compels us to assume that by the very act of taking these photographs the people in them (& the photographer) wanted them to eventually be seen, evening if the moment of unveiling took decades."

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Céline Marique & Daniel Piaggio Strandlund - interfering with peaceful delusion

interfering with peaceful delusion

Céline Marique & Daniel Piaggio Strandlund
200 x 265 mm (7.9 × 10.4 in), 20p., edited by in de keuken, 2012.

Graphic design : Andreas Stathopoulos

Numbered edition of 100

Risograph print @ PTTL

€ 8 + shipping

"interfering with peaceful delusion is the first common project of the artists Céline Marique and Daniel Piaggio Strandlund. Their sensual vision of the interference between organic and non-organic matter in the urban context show the poetry of dissonance. The graphic and print process pursue this idea pointing out the visual noise of the images in particular by integrating a part of accident, of non-control."

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Vernacular monument: Golf MK2

Title: Vernagular monument: Golf MK2
Artists: Jošt Bukovec, Aljaž Celarc, Dejan Kralj, Manca Medved, Eva Pavlič Seifert, Boštjan Uršič - Hanibal
30 pages
250 x 176 mm, 9.8 x 6.9 in
edition of 20
inkjet print
4 euros + shipping

"Young Slovenian photographers (b. 1989) were exploring the visuality of a single consumer type, that changed the attitude towards consumerism and other consumer goods. The visual exploration is dealing with our own regional identification and our position in diversified post-modern society. How did the Golf MK2 become Das Auto?"

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Erik van der Weijde - This is not my wife

Title: This is not my wife
Artist: Erik van der Weijde
104 pages
18,5 x 25 cm / 7.3 x 9.8"
Edition size: 700
type of printing: B/W offset printed, with 3 color dustjacket
Price: € 22

"Rollo nr. 24; File Under: Photography, van der Weijde, Wife, not"

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Curtis Wallen - Silhouettes

Silhouettes
Curtis Wallen
76 pages
6x9"
Numbered edition of 50
$14 (+ shipping)

"Using the psychology of the crime scene photograph as the primary model, Silhouettes explores the function of the photograph as document, and its implications of biography."

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Bryan Krueger - Mejor Vista General: West of Del Prado

Mejor Vista General: West of Del Prado
Bryan Krueger
Publication
22pgs
Edition of 100
Three Color Risograph
$15

"Mejor Vista General: West of Del Prado explores the photographic power to embower the viewer in a displacing illusion - both in the realm of photography and bookmaking in general. The arch of the project is based on a stereoscopic view made by the artist which pictures a particular cove in Southern California."

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Nicolas Cabos - Incident en Bordure du Parc

Incident en Bordure du Parc
Nicolas Cabos
36 pages
13,8 x 18,5 cm — unbound / in a blister
b/w laser
gray paper
50 numbered copies
5 euros (+ shipping)

"A young man waiting at the roadside at night. What he expects ? What is he looking for ?

Re-release of the photo / video / sound project of Nicolas Cabos, self-published as leporello in 2007. Originally a book of 12 meter long, containing the series of pictures of the short film Heureusement le ciel bleu... accompanied by a CD of the soundtrack."

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Luke A.R. Hamblin - o1. polaroids

o1. polaroids
Luke A.R. Hamblin
24 pages, 21 colour plates
10cm x 13cm (4x5 inches)
Edition of 50 + 5 AP
£5 + postage

"01. polaroids collects a selection of polaroids from artist Luke A.R. Hamblin."

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Gordon Sean Magnin - 10:10

Title: 10:10
Artist: Gordon Sean Magnin
16 pages 8.5"x5.5"
Edition size: 100
Price: Free or shipping donation by interested party

"Intricate, precise, geometric destruction"

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Jonas Kambli - Ilha de Moçambique

Title: Ilha de Moçambique
Photographer: Jonas Kambli
42 pages
200x250 mm
Edition of 500 (including 30 special editions)
Hardcover edition
Offset print, black and white
Price: $ 28

"The present book features photographs I took during my stay on the Island of Mozambique (Ilha de Moçambique) in 2009. They offer a glimpse into the lives of the people living in the ruins of the former capital of Mozambique. By using only the simplest photographic techniques, I explored people’s daily routines away from tourist destinations and captured these moments in black and white. The pictures resulting from this study create an impression of authenticity and closeness that reflects the spirit of the island and its inhabitants."

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Kim Thue - Dead Traffic

Dead Traffic
Kim Thue
96 pages + 12 interview pages
18 x 24 cm
Hardcover, clothbound
1000 numbered copies
Offset
24.90 Euro

"This book is a raw and bewildering journey through the fringes of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone. Shot over the course of two separate trips, Kim Thue spent 10 months living in close proximity to a notoriously rough area of the slums, digging deep into the livelihoods and emotions of his subjects. Through a visual stream of unsung tragedies, vulnerable integrity and chance encounters, his efforts leave us with an engaging account of a corner of the world normally unrevealed to most of us."

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Native Publications: Volume III

Title: Native Publications: Volume III
Artists: Vivien Ayroles, Argider Aparicio, Khrystyna Chekhlata, Drew Echberg, Rhi Ellis, Patrick Joust, Titus Simoens and Luke Swenson
Newspaper
When folded, 298 mm x 190 mm. Unfolded, 578 mm x 380 mm
Edition Size: 50 copies
Price: $8.00 + Shipping

"Volume III is a 12 page full color newspaper. Each newspaper comes folded, numbered and sent in a hand stamped mailer."

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Alex Bocchetto & Valentina Abenavoli - Fallen empire

Fallen empire
Alex Bocchetto, Valentina Abenavoli
Photo Book
98 pages, B&W, 84 pictures
A5 (148 mm x 210 mm - 5.83 in × 8.27 in)
Printing: Digital
Price: 10 GBP + shipping

"1 city, 1 year, 2 cameras, 98 pictures, 2 colours, 8 millions of people, 500.000 CCTV, 1 dinosaur, 2 dark divinities, 1 old negative found in Tel-Aviv, 1 book.  A story of flesh and concrete, high hopes and broken dreams, a psychogeographical account of getting lost in the maze of London, AD 2012. An on the road pub crawl novel of an invisible city."

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David Galjaard - Concresco

Title: Concresco
Photographer: David Galjaard
Text: Slavenka Drakulic & Jaap Scholten
Design: Katie McGonigal
Book, 168 pp
213 x 340 mm
Offset printing
Edition: 750 (including 78 special editions)
Price: € 45 plus shipping

"Out of fear for a foreign attack, the Albanian Stalinist leader Enver Hoxha built approximately 750.000 visible bunkers during his reign (1945-1985). Today, their massive presence seems to impress mainly foreigners. The Albanians prefer to look to the future, instead of the past. Even though a possible accession to the EU might take another ten years, the population of Albania feel they are ready for it. Within this documentary, the bunkers serve as a guide to illustrate the development of a European country that was the last to step away from communism and started the difficult journey to become part of the capitalistic West."

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Jefferson Hayman - I'll Find Another One Prettier Than You

I'll Find Another One Prettier Than You
Jefferson Hayman
5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
98 pages (45 photographs)
Edition of 200
Digital on Mohawk Superfine
$25

"This intimate collection of Jefferson Hayman's photographs coincides with an exhibition at Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books in Portland, Oregon. 'When viewing his photographs,' Robert E. Jackson writes in the book's foreword, 'we are captivated by a sense of stillness & timelessness. Each image, whether depicting something man-made or containing a face, exists as a still life. Flesh is mutely rendered as if the skin of some exotic fruit. Objects take on the somber persona of a timeworn visage.'"

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Pascal Amoyel & Thomas Bouquin - Trois, Montréal-Paris

Title: Trois, Montréal-Paris
Photographers: Pascal Amoyel & Thomas Bouquin
24 pages
14*21,5 cm - 5,5*8,5
Edition of 100
Digital print

"Montréal-Paris is the result of a photographic collaboration between Thomas Bouquin and Pascal Amoyel, both of them looking for a way of showing the city they live in. Issued in a numbered edition of 100 copies, TROIS is the third out of 6 periodical chapters which will form a final book."

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Stephen Wooldridge - Who Dares Wins

Who Dares Wins
By Stephen Wooldridge

Digital Colour print
289mm x 380mm
Edition of 300
Newspaper
28PP
Price: £4.00

"Who dares wins is a fictional portrayal of four young men preparing for a career with the British Army. The series is a comment on both the Armed Forces and society, politically and socially. Using these autonomous characters, the viewer is prompted to consider these young men as individuals and as a representation of the British Army today. The series is at times absurd, dull and melancholic. Such are the lives of these individuals."

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Peter Puklus - Handbook to the Stars

Title: Handbook to the Stars
Author: Peter Puklus
64 pages, hardcover, 16 x 21 cm
offset print, 13 color and 37 black and white images
Edition: 300 copies
Price: 28 EUR

"This series is the photo-documentation of a sculpting experiment, resembling the form and light exercises of the 20-s avant-garde. Handbook to the Stars attempts to visualize the infinitely flexible and tricky associative capacity of our brain. Peter Puklus chooses not to leave his studio during the making of this series, but to commit himself with body and soul to his vision and observations, in the company of trash and bric-a-brac, in complete isolation of the outside world. Following inner voices, he reveals and gives proof to deep, unknown and invisible relations and conspiracies. (written by Gergely László)"

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Charles John Hewitt - 29 States

Title: 29 States
Artist: Charles John Hewitt
44 pages
A4
 type of printing: black and white xerox photocopy
100 copies split between pink and pale blue covers
Price: £2.50 (plus postage)

"29 States is a photography zine documenting three months spent travelling around the usa on amtrak trains and greyhound buses with a handful of different cameras."

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Scheltens & Abbenes - Unfolded

Unfolded
Scheltens & Abbenes
Designed by Laurenz Brunner & Julia Born, 3D rendering by Thomas Traum
Published by Kodoji Press
Printed by Calff & Meischke
Hardcover book (with additional edition poster)
41 pages / 23x33 cm / 9x13 inch
Edition size: 1000
Offset Printing
Price: 28,50 Euros (+shipping from The Netherlands)

"Unfolded is a book that can function as an exhibition. The physical experience of walking through the exhibition route has been been imitated playfully in the book with renderings, so that readers imagine themselves to be walking through the different rooms of the gallery.

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Federico Ciamei - 80s SWM seeks LTR

80s SWM seeks LTR
Federico Ciamei
48 pages
20x15 cm
50 copies
digital print
15 euros + shipping from Italy

"80s SWM seeks LTR is an net acronym that stands for '80 years old single white male seeks long term relationship'. This is a book about love, internet dating and old cupids."

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Mika Kitamura - Einmal ist Keinmal

Title: Einmal ist Keinmal
Artist: Mika Kitamura
20 pages
210×297mm
Edition size: 20
type of printing: laser print
Price: ￥1500JPY (+shipping)

"'Einmal ist Keinmal (once is never)-What happens but once,might as well not have happened at all.If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all'―'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,'Milan Kundera― It is about freezing a single moment that will never recur and looking at it again and again. It is about capturing a moment which never happened at all through a camera lens. Or it may be an act of capturing a sole and precious moment. Attempting to perfectly preserve a certain moment, or trying to accurately convey a message, is impossible. But for the photographers, it's a good thing. Maybe photography is simply a means to connect with people. Or maybe it is merely a symbol for the things we perceive. So what is photography? That remains a mystery. A certain moment will never recur, ever again. That being said, although everything seems accidental, surely nothing happens by sheer chance.(Mika Kitamura)"

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Facundo Pires - Continente

Continente
Facundo Pires
20 pages
21x30cm
50 numbered copies
Digital printing
7 euros + shipping

"Continente is a first monograph by Argentinian photographer Facundo Pires. His unique vision presents an alien-like world inhabited by nondescript shapes and strange objects. One might even be tempted to say that he doesn't photograph the world as much as he creates it through his looking." 

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Various - Walden

Walden
Curated by Miriam Neitzel
Photographs of Chris Friel, Sarah Hermans, Marina Richter, Ugne Straigyte and Marina Weigl
Screenprinted Wood Cover/Coptic Binding/Recycling Paper
100 Pages
190 x 250 mm
Edition of 65 - Handnumbered
50 Euro

"Walden is a composure of young contemporary photography. It is about the four elements, the human perception of nature, the longing and the construct of romanticism."

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Tiane Doan na Champassak - Tantra

Tantra
Tiane Doan na Champassak
Artist zine
16 pages
137 copies
Risograph printing by Après Midi Lab in Paris
15 euros + shipping costs

"Alternating seven of his photographs taken in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district, with seven yantras designed by his father thirty years before, Tiane Doan na Champassak delivers a vision of the sexual act made sacred. Altogether elegant and suggestive, the yantras are usually geometrical magical diagrams, bearing explicit sexual and esoteric symbolism. Used in the tantric ritual, they possess considerable power and allow both man and woman to surpass their human condition."

Tantra is also available as a limited edition boxed set of gelatin silver photographs printed by the artist, together with reproductions of the drawings on tracing paper.

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Giulia Di Lenarda - Sainte Sara et Saintes Maries

Title: Sainte Sara et Saintes Maries
Photographer: Giulia Di Lenarda
Book
Size: 132 pages, 15x21 cm
Edition: 150
Printing: offset
Price: 20 Euros

"Rom, Manouches, Sinti – together with pilgrims from all over the world – come each year at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a village on the coast of southwestern France, to honor their saints."

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Yannik Willing - Before tomorrow

Before tomorrow
Yannik Willing
60 pages
32cmx45cm / 12,6inch x 17,75 inch
300 copies
offset printed
22 Euros (incl. shipping within Germany), 25 Euros (incl. shipping worldwide), 18 Euros (personal pickup)

"Before tomorrow is a so far unpublished newspaper print publication and was exhibited during the International Photobook Dummy Award 2012 exhibition at Le Bal, Paris. It deals with the imminent radical changes of tourist regions in Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war in 2009 that had lasted almost thirty years."

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Vanya Georgieva-Michel and Andreas Stathopoulos - In Pace

In Pace
Vanya Georgieva-Michel and Andreas Stathopoulos
Artist zine
210 x 297 mm (8.27 × 11.69 in)
32 pages
Hand numbered edition of 100
Risograph print @ PTTL
€10 + shipping

"« È toi men prôtista Khaos genet : First became the abyss " In pace originally indicates a monastery dungeon. Declined in a contemporary vision of partition of society into individual units, Vanya Georgieva-Michel and Andreas Stathopoulos' creation reflects certain process of blinding/concealment, whether through successive layers of city soil ​​or closings affixed to bourgeois homes. The pictures interact with quotes by, amongst others, Castoriadis and Bataille."

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Gazed Upon

Gazed Upon
Guest curated by Amy Elkins
Photographs by Jen Davis, Cara Phillips & Stacey Tyrell
Essay by Sarah Palmer Perfect
5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
74 pages
Edition of 100
Digital on Mohawk Superfine
$25, $145 for signed copy with print by each artist

"In bringing together the work of North American artists Jen Davis, Cara Philips & Stacey Tyrell in the current exhibition, Gazed Upon, curator & artist Amy Elkins asks the viewer to interrogate his or her own sense of looking. We are presented with three artists who challenge standard notions of “beauty” & perception, causing a schism between what we think we see & how we might read or interpret it. Along these lines, we, as viewers, are directed through the title of the exhibition to employ the gaze, that loaded Lacanian term that piles all of our potency & desires onto the “object” upon which we gaze. These artists, working in different media & different shooting styles all dance with this complex set of ideas about the role of the observer, how the gaze, itself, is employed & how it might reflect back on an audience." - Sarah Palmer (from the book essay)

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Manca Juvan - Unordinary Lives

Unordinary Lives, Afghanistan 2003 - 2009
Manca Juvan
afterwords by Clare Lockhart and Karim Merchant, design by Bostjan Pavletic
196 pages
21 x 26 cm
Offset printing
Edition size: 700 copies
Price: 50 Euros + shipping

"More than ten years after 9/11 and the international community’s intervention against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the promises of bringing democracy and rebuilding this war-torn nation have proved elusive. The ongoing war and instability in Afghanistan - justified in the name of international security yet sweetened with fleeting glimpses of domestic peace, development and prosperity - continues to diminish the hope of the Afghan people, who have been caught up in this endless conflict of interests and struggles for money, power, and control. Stories of ordinary Afghans deserve to be both told and seen in order to remind us what the real images of war and poverty - of lives far from ordinary - look like."

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Augusto Mendoza - Walls Clean Dumb People

Walls Clean Dumb People
Augusto Mendoza
30 pages
9 x 12 in. (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
digital press
$22

"Walls Clean Dumb People is a collection of photos I took while traveling in Europe during the winter of 2011. This book documents my exploration of the local and tourist culture, while also seeking humor in the consumerism and embracement of American pop culture overseas."

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Miquel Llonch - In the fields of gold

Title: In the fields of gold
Artist: Miquel Llonch
40 pages
16 x 22 cm
type of printing: Offset
Price: 16 Euros

"t’s at twilight and on the outskirts of his hometown of Terrassa, located in the province of Barcelona, that Miquel Llonch realized the photographs of In the Field of Gold. The light captured, urban and remoter, immersing characters and setting in an ephemeral space, border between city and nature, light and darkness, noise and silence."

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Zheng San-Xi - The Birds

The Birds - reprinted in July 2011
Original version March, 1963
Zheng San-Xi (Taiwan)
self-published by: the wife of Zheng San-Xi, his families and friends
Chinese text: photographers Long Chin-San, Zhang-Cai, Huang Tse-siu
Hardcover, 44 Pages, 32 B&W images, 28.5cm x 22cm x 1.2 cm,
Reprinted in a limited edition of 700 copies only
Price: US$45 (including shipping charges) - PayPal only!

The Birds is one of the important photo books in Taiwan. Originally self-published in March 1963, it was out of print for a long time. Reprinted version was self-published by the wife of photographer for a memorial exhibition after he passed away in 2011. Taiwan senior photographer Zheng San-Xi taking the role of continuation in the history of Taiwan photography unfortunately passed away in Feb 2nd 2011, aged 74. Born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1937, Professor Master Zheng purchased first camera in 1955 and started wandering the streets and taking pictures. He joined the Xin-Shuei Photography Exhibition Group under the guidance of photographer Zhang Cai. He was under great influence from Zhang Cai with concepts of socialist realist photography introduced from Japan, and started taking picutures of every corner of his hometown Keelung in the 1950s and 60s. He held his first individual exhibition of "birds" since 1963. The birds photo book was issued in 1963, and belonged to one of top important Taiwan Photobooks, the first themed photo book in Taiwan. Please write to me in advance if you want to order it.

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Tammy Mercure - Elvis

Title: Elvis
Artist: Tammy Mercure
10 pages
5x5"x7.75"
Edition size: 30
type of printing: Pigment Prints, letterpress
Price: $12

"TCB Press/Tammy Mercure is publishing a book a month for 2012 on a single topic. April 2012 is Elvis."

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