Portrait in Landscapes   Nazraeli Press   Limited to an Edition of 500, now Out of Print this first edition hard cover with Illustrated Dustwrapper sold out almost immediately, new.   A Portrait in Landscapes.   Kerstin Adams has often accompanied her husband Robert when he has photographed the rural West. On those trips he would sometimes turn, after making a picture of the landscape, and make another that included her. Kerstin loves the forest and prairie and shore,© Adams writes, which is part of my love for her. When we are there, portraiture and landscape seem one; she shares nature's glory, and nature is warmed by her caring.© A Portrait in Landscapes reproduces a selection of these linked pictures, together with related views. They span almost forty years. Most have not been published before. Two of the photographs are of Kerstin reading. This volume might itself be understood as a letter. The pictures reproduced in this book record their affection for the places they have been, and for each other. Printed in an edition of only 500 numbered copies, this beautiful artist?s book is printed in duotone on matt art paper and bound in Japanese cloth. A must-have for the collectors of this important photographer?s books, and a heartwarming testament to the power of human love.

Portrait in Landscapes

West from the Columbia   Hard Cover   Slight bump top R sm tear on DW   West from the Columbia is an essay in photographs about the meeting of a great river with the sea. The book is at once a celebration of beauty at the ocean's edge and a meditation on our relationship with it. In the pictures the sea mirrors every condition through which our lives pass - fresh mornings, calm days, fog, storms, and night - and as in life, little is explained. Driftwood next to our feet is as mysterious as is the ship on the horizon. Lewis and Clark arrived here, the farthest point in their exploration, in 1805. Report of their journey was instrumental in opening the American West for development. Since then we have destroyed large and diverse forests that once stood along the Columbia, and polluted the river with waste from cities, paper mills, and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Though we now know that even the sea itself is finite - nothing can be hidden - we continue to look for hope at the ocean's shore. Might we be embraced, like the river, by so perfect a light? Robert Adams is fond of an entry in one of Theodore Roethke's journals -                 I see what I believe                .

West from the Columbia

Polska Wspolczesna Fotografia Artystyczna     Published by Muzeum Narodowe, 1985     Papercover rubbed binding split although spine intact except for some chipping.

Polska Wspolczesna Fotografia Artystyczna

... landscapes and cityscapes, blurred portraits of places that have been collected in a book,  All Day Every Day.

All Day Every Day

For fifteen years, men have been the focus of Thomas Frederick Arndt's street photographs: men at work, men in transit, men at bars, men in uniform, men at rest. Arndt describes the photos as  pictures of ... our male family,  and in them he documents, through his unique vision, an Everyman as full of pathos as Arthur Miller's Willie Loman.    Arndt provides an unrelenting look at the often lonely, sometimes alienated, always eyecatching position of American men in contemporary society. Men are always looking. For something. These photographs echo the question raised by Larry Heinemann in the introduction:  Men in America. Who are we?  He captures their common expressions and gestures against a backdrop of tickertape parades, the New Orleans jazz festival, the Holocaust Survivors convention, and gatherings of street punks.     These men are the spiritual heirs of that classic place in Robert Frank's The Americans. Like Frank, Larry Heinemann, a Vietnam Vet and National Book Award-winning author, considers the raw dilemma of men and the uncertain assumption about their new roles in society today.

Men in America (American Scene, No 2)

In the last ten years, the Austrian-born artist Irene Andessner has been working on a new definition of the self-portrait. Inspired by women's portraits from past centuries, she researches her chosen subjects in archives and libraries, only to enter into an alliance with them by means of photography, video and computer technology. Via new media, Andessner abducts these historical personages--women such as Nannerl Mozart, Frida Kahlo and Angelika Kauffmann--into the world of today, putting a cell phone or Polaroid camera into their hands.  In 2001, Andessner immersed herself in explorations of the person and myth of Marlene Dietrich, investigating the actress's innermost feelings and thoughts. In the course of a few months, Andessner was able to mentally and visually  transform  herself into Dietrich: accompanied by newspaper reporters and TV cameras, she went all the way to the Berlin registry office, where she married a Mr. Dietrich in order to make it official. Including this work and others, I am, designed by the artist herself, features a representative selection of Andessner's work.

Irene Andessner: I am

THE GRAND TOUR  by Dick Arentz     Signed by the Photographer     Dick Arentz first established his reputation in the 1970s with his photographs of the American Southwest, and later turned his attention to the southern and central agricultural states. The Grand Tour is informed by these earlier works, but concentrates on the great cities and monuments of European cultures. While Arentz has captured scenes and subjects that appear unchanged from a century ago, his historical connectedness is not a romantic denial of the present in search for an impossibly remote past. Closer examination reveals a subtle but frank acknowledgement of radical changes in both his subjects and the travel experience.    Introduction by Thomas Southall.     Hardcover, 9 x 9, 40 pages, 22 duotone plates.    ISBN 3-923922-62-0

Grand Tour

Anrakuji by Emi Anrakuji     Signed by the Photographer     Emi Anrakuji?s unsettling self-portraits and other subjects have earned her a growing recognition in her home country, and we are pleased to present her ?rst monograph to be published outside of Japan. The artist represents herself as an alchemist of images and a catalyst for daydreams and desires. The vignettes of jigsaw puzzle-like shots of herself and others blur the boundaries between documentary and staged photography. Posing naked, clothed, or partially dressed, Anrakuji takes a uniquely obsessive interest in her own body. Her legs, arms, hands, toes, lips and hair create arresting compositions and erotic ambience. When she focuses on the opposite sex, it results in equally surprising elaborations on the male anatomy. This obsession with the human body at its most intimate is a result, in part, from her long periods spent hospitalized: after graduating from art school in Tokyo in the mid-1980s, Anrakuji suffered a cerebral tumor that prevented her from making art for more than a decade. During her gradual recovery, she began to make block prints, then photographs. Emi Anrakuji is this year?s winner of the prestigious New Photographer Award at the Higashikawa Photography Prize.      Hardcover, 6 1/2 x 10, 60 pages, 53 four-color plates.    ISBN 1-59005-167-x

Anrakuji

Robert Adams has for many years photographed the western American landscape, but here brings together thirty-two pictures made in his own back yard. In them, he records the pleasures that a small dog and her human companions have found in a sanctuary less than fifty feet to a side.    In his preface, the photographer gives us a metrical description of paradise from a dog?s point of view, a reply to those who might charge sentimentality, and an outline for a creation story. The book is at once amusing and serious, local and far-reaching. Its theme is gratitude.     Hardcover, 8 1/2 x 9, 48 pages, 32 duotone plates.

I hear the Leaves & Love Light

A photojournalist with Magnum who traveled around the world, Eve Arnold also worked on the sets of more than 40 Hollywood movies. At the end of a session, Arnold always took a parting shot of the hands?and sometimes the feet?of her sitters, for luck and for her personal records. Beautifully presented in a board-bound album with a die-cut slipcase, here are portraits of such luminaries as Isabella Rossellini, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Jimmy Stewart, with an unexpected focus away from their iconic faces. Here too are less famous hands, old and young, hands gripping guns and holding flowers, performing surgery and playing cards, painting, saluting, and blessing

Handbook (with footnotes)

Signed by the Photographer   In IPY, Anrakuji represents herself as an alchemist of images and a catalyst for daydreams and desires. The vignettes of her self-portraits blur the boundaries between documentary and staged photography. Emi Anrakuji originally studied oil painting at Musashino University of Art and Music in Tokyo. By her mid-20s, she was diagnosed with a cerebral disease that severely curtailed her activities for more than a decade. During her gradual recovery, she took up photography. Initially, Anrakuji's audience was only herself and the jurors of public competitions to which she sent her entries. Since 2001, her efforts have earned her several important awards as well as increasing support from the art community. A prolific producer of images, Anrakuji often arranges her work as handmade books, one of which serves as the catalyst for IPY. A special edition with original print is also available. 'Anrakuji suddenly appeared on the photography scene after more than 10 years of hiatus from art-making. She began to photograph seriously beginning in 1998. Combinations of various elements eroticism, humor, cruelty, strange peacefulness, sharpness, and magical tricks characterize her work. She is one of the most interesting up-and-coming photographers in Japan.' Kotaro Iizawa   Hardcover,    44 x 10,    80 pages, 79 plates   ISBN: 978-1-59005-218-1

Signed by the Photographer   A self-confessed 'plain dresser,' Katharine Adams instead dazzles the world with the fabulous collection that is Couturier Dreams. Gorgeous floating emulsion garments dance on every page, with a life and style all of their own. Essentially self-taught, Adams makes collaged emulsion images by removing Polaroid photographs from their paper backing and placing them into baths of warm water. She then remounts them onto Arches Watercolor paper, coaxing them into a suggestive silhouette, sometimes taking up to six hours to achieve what she wants. The results are joyful, playful, sensual and original, with a sense of freedom that is gloriously liberating. Spending long hours in the darkroom, Adams describes getting into a dream state as vital to her work. 'A type of alchemy occurs,' she explains, 'when the image is set free, floating, and my journey starts.'    This beautifully produced book features forty of the artist's most powerful images, richly printed on matt Japanese paper. A stunning first monograph, Couturier Dreams is limited to 1,500 casebound copies. It opens with an essay by Dana Friis-Hansen.   ISBN: 1-59005-131-9   Hardcover, 11 x 14,    64 pages, 40 four-color plates.

Couturier Dreams

Desirer Walks the Streets presents a dark stream of black and white photographs that are culled from Andy Summers's life as a traveling musician. From a working life that outwardly would appear to be extroverted and chaotic, Summers has created a set of quietly compelling images that contradict the obvious.    Made between 1983 and 2008, with a preference for the night shot, and covering a wide geographical graph from the Alto Plano of Bolivia to the alleys of the Golden Gai in Tokyo, the photographs convey a sense of intimacy, surrealism and situations that may be described as 'in media res.' Summers states that his photography may indeed be influenced by his absorption with music and that in a sense the photography he creates is a visual counterpart to the music that never leaves his head.    Thus in Summers musical predilections 'that may be termed as a taste for the melancholic, the convulsive melodic line, the dark chord with a few stray notes added' we find the brooding minor key photography he is attracted to. He adds that music and photography are kindred spirits in that they are nonverbal arts, but handily, may have interchangeable terms. He describes his own act of photography as tearing pages from a book and then reshuffling the results into a new visual syntax.    Desirer Walks the Streets is the third monograph by Andy Summers and his first for Nazraeli Press. Andy Summers has been active as photographer since 1979 with numerous exhibitions, magazine essays, publications, and recently, keynote presentations of his photography. The recipient of a large number of music awards he is also a Doctor of the Arts and a Chevalier des Artes et Lettres.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-256-3   Hardcover, 9 x 14,    128 pages, 84 duotone plates.

Desirer

Anrakuji  by Emi Anrakuji    Emi Anrakuji?s unsettling self-portraits and other subjects have earned her a growing recognition in her home country, and we are pleased to present her first monograph to be published outside of Japan. The artist represents herself as an alchemist of images and a catalyst for daydreams and desires. The vignettes of jigsaw puzzle-like shots of herself and others blur the boundaries between documentary and staged photography. Posing naked, clothed, or partially dressed, Anrakuji takes a uniquely obsessive interest in her own body. Her legs, arms, hands, toes, lips and hair create arresting compositions and erotic ambience. When she focuses on the opposite sex, it results in equally surprising elaborations on the male anatomy. This obsession with the human body at its most intimate is a result, in part, from her long periods spent hospitalized: after graduating from art school in Tokyo in the mid-1980s, Anrakuji suffered a cerebral tumor that prevented her from making art for more than a decade. During her gradual recovery, she began to make block prints, then photographs. Emi Anrakuji is this year?s winner of the prestigious New Photographer Award at the Higashikawa Photography Prize.   Hardcover, 6 1/2 x 10,    60 pages, 53 four-color plates.   ISBN 1-59005-167-x

Signed by the Photographer   Limited to 500 numbered copies with 1 original print tipped in    Corey Arnold's first monograph, 'Fishwork: The Bering Sea' was published by Nazraeli Press in 2011 to wide critical acclaim. In his contribution to our One Picture Book series, Arnold 'curates' a group of photographs his father made of him growing up; in each of the photographs, Arnold is either fishing or showing off his catch. Knowing who the subject of these photographs is, his relationship to the one who made these photographs, and how his passions for photography and fishing would later play out, make 'Fishing with My Dad' resonate on many levels.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-323-2   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 16 color plates, 1 original print

(OPB#069) - Fishing with my Dad (OPB)

Robert Adams - Tree Line: Hasselblad Award 2009   On the occasion of the award of the Hasselblad Award to Robert Adams of the band appeared with photographs of trees. Between 1999 and 2003, the black and white pictures were taken in Oregon. As Robert Adams understood as documentary and landscape photographer, he also displayed his photographs of trees from anything that has been created by humans and possibly could interfere with the pure aesthetics of nature. The moods that lie in the photographs - most arose on sunny summer days - are thereby and by the light and shadow in the photographs even more realistic and nachempfindbarer for the viewer.      This volume commemorates Robert Adams' receipt of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2009. Described by the Swedish foundation as "one of the most important and influential photographers of the last 40 years," Adams joins a very distinguished line of contemporary photographers who have won the award, such as Graciela Iturbide (2008) and Nan Goldin (2007). The Foundation singled out Adams' ability to consolidate the medium's history: "as photography has altered and fragmented, he has refined and reaffirmed its inherent language, adapting the legacies of nineteenth-century and modernist photography to his own very singular purpose. Precise and undramatic, Adams' accumulative vision of theWest now stands as a formidable document, reflecting broader, global concerns about the environment,while consistently recognizing signs of human aspiration and elements of hope, across a particular changing landscape."   Hardcover: 116 pages, 57 plates   Dimensions: 1.6 x 25.9 x 27.7 cm   Publisher: Steidl,    Language: English   ISBN-13: 978-3865219565

Tree Line: Hasselblad Award 2009

Robert Adams - Gone   'No one wants to be a prophet, if the job can be avoided. What you want to try to be is a psalmist.' (Robert Adams)   Robert Adams began by photographing suburban landscapes along the edge of the Rocky Mountains. His goal was then, and remains, to acknowledge the disappearance of wilderness but also to discover a basis for affirmation. In the 1980s he went on to revisit semi-rural areas through which he had walked as a boy - landscapes no longer pristine but still notable for their quiet, space and light. The views in this book, none published before, record some of what he found compelling.   Hardcover: 128 pages, 120 plates   Dimensions: 2 x 26.4 x 26.2 cm   Publisher: Steidl   ISBN-13: 978-3865219176

Gone

Robert Adams - The question of Hope   The question of hope is especially urgent because of environmental threats. One such peril, deforestation, is the subject of the first half of this book, where pictures of it suggest a war zone. The subject of the second half of the book, light on the sea, might initially seem disconnected from the first, but in combination they have about them what Samuel Johnson once called 'the stability of truth,' in this case a recognizable balance of harsh facts and dateless, mysterious consolation. Robert Adams has studied both elements 'our failed stewardship and the promise implied by beauty' across much of the American West. He has over the years also photographed them near where he lives on the Oregon coast, and it is this local caring that gives The Question of Hope much of its intensity. Published in association with the Portland Art Museum, this important new monograph is beautifully printed on Japanese art paper in a first edition of 1,000 copies. It includes a text by Adams, and an essay by Julia Dolan, Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum.   Hardcover: 8.5 x 9.5 inches   56 Pages, 40 duotone plates   Publisher: Nazraeli Press   ISBN-13: 9781590053829

The Question of Hope

Robert Adams - Sea Stories   One of the preeminent chroniclers of the American West, over the past decade Robert Adams has turned his attention to the woods and shores near his home on the Oregon coast. "Sea Stories" is a sequence of three narratives that follow Adams and his wife, Kerstin, as they walk among alder and maple trees, along the beach to observe the annual migration of shorebirds, and back eastward through meadows and what remains of the inland forest. Featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this book describes the cycles of nature with a new naturalism.   Softcover, 241 x 210 x 18mm   124 pages, 106 tritone illustrations   Yale University Art Gallery   ISBN:9780300180046   Publication Date: 03 Feb 2012

Sea Stories

Robert Adams - This Day: Photographs from Twenty-five Years, the northwest Coast   In "This Day", Robert Adams observes two kinds of landscapes - that inside his home, including arrangements of nasturtium leaves and apples on the kitchen table, as well as the views outside his window and beyond. The windswept headlands, beach grasses, and felled trees seen by the photographer on his walks are animated by an atmospheric light. Together, these pictures reveal the undeniable presence of the sublime in everyday life.   Softcover, 241 x 210 x 15mm   106 pages, 68 tritone illustrations   Yale University Art Gallery   ISBN:9780300180046   Publication Date: 03 Feb 2012

This Day

Softcover in slipcase   Limited to 1,750 copies      One of the most influential photographers of our time, Nobuyoshi Araki is known for his diaristic style or ?shi-shashin? (I-photographs) through the publication of over 500 books throughout his career.  His work has become practically synonymous with Japanese photography; closely associated with his work on bondage, his late wife, Yoko, as well as still lifes and nudes.  It is, however, less known that Araki had explored experimental film projects since the mid 80s. In 1986 at Cinema Rise in Tokyo, Araki staged a live performance entitled Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story). Using two projectors, Araki and his assistants, Nobuhiko Ansai and Shiro Tamiya, selected and sequenced slides to create a succession of overlapping images fading into one another, accompanied by a musical soundtrack. Tokyo Monogatari became the first in a series of live performances entitled Arakinema, which he staged until the mid-2000s in museums and art institutions around the world. Blue Period and Last Summer are made up primarily of nudes and portraits alternating with street scenes and images of flowers.  The majority of the work is derived from Shashin Jidai, the important underground sub culture magazine of the 1980s in Japan.  We especially feel excited about our publication since these two projects are essential among his film work. As Araki also explained at our initial meeting in Shinjuku last year, ?The two films should be seen as a set, since Blue Period is about the past and Last Summer is about the future. By removing color using a chemical solution, Blue Period is about an act of subtraction (past), whereas adding color to the images in Last Summer is about an act of addition (future). This project is just like life itself.? Working directly from the 140 original slides used for both projections, the book successfully offers a fresh review of the photographer?s hidden oeuvre and regains the true spirit and atmosphere of the original Arakinema performances.

Blue Period/Last Summer

Robert Adams  -  The Place We Live   3 volume Set, US Edition published by The Yale University Press   "Are there affirmable days or places in our deteriorating world? Are there scenes in life, right now, for which we might conceivably be thankful? Is there a basis for joy or serenity, even if felt only occasionally? Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?" Robert Adams   The Place We Live traces Adams? deep engagement with the geography of the American West, weaving together various aspects of over four decades of work into a cohesive, epic narrative of the American experience. Taken as a whole, this publication elucidates the photographer?s civic goals: to consider the privilege of the place we were given and the obligations of citizenship. Printed with an unprecedented fidelity to the photographer's original prints, volumes one and two reflect Adams? exacting, compelling sequence of nearly four hundred plates and bring together texts written by the photographer to accompany his photographic projects. Volume three offers a detailed chronology of Adams? life, an illustrated bibliography of his monographs, selections from his personal archive, and a series of critical essays on hiswork by Joshua Chuang, Tod Papageorge, Jock Reynolds and John Szarkowski.   Hardcover: 627 pages   Publisher: Yale University Press (September 13, 2011)   Language: English   ISBN-10: 0300141378   ISBN-13: 978-0300141375   Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 3.8 x 13.2 inches   Shipping Weight: 6Kg

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