Tina Modotti : photographer and revolutionary     Pubblished by Pandora, 1993   Hardcover in excellent condition, lacks dustwrapper    From Publishers Weekly An Italian-born film star, Modatti learned photography with her lover Edward Weston in California during the early 1920s. She went on to develop a camera career of her own; she acquired several additional lovers, including Diego Rivera, in Mexico City's prevailing ferment of avant-garde art and politics; and, during the next 20 years, she became a major Communist revolutionary figure in Germany, Moscow and Spain. She was accused and exonerated of the assassination of one revolutionary lover; she risked her life to carry funds from Moscow to political prisoners in Romania; and she endured hardship, privation and deadly bombardments in Madrid and Barcelona. Repatriated to Mexico, she died in 1942 at the age of 46. Many of Modotti's portraits of celebrities and of common people as well as her journalistic photos are included here, along with characteristically simple, strong compositions--massed straw hats of workers on parade, telegraph wires akimbo, the heart of a calla lily. One of her studies, Roses, Mexico , fetched $165,000 at a Sotheby's auction in 1991. Hooks is a freelance foreign correspondent living in Mexico. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This detailed study of the Italian-born photographer and political activist seeks to gather recognition for Modotti (1896-1942), who has been overshadowed by her lovers Edward Weston and Diego Rivera. Having acted in Hollywood silent films and theater, she accompanied Weston to Mexico, serving as his apprentice, model, and lover. Her images of Mexico's workers, its poverty and political unrest, and her abstract depictions of flowers and interior architecture have recently been sold at record-setting prices. In 1924, she joined the Mexican Communist party, supporting antifascist ideals. When a revolutionary leader with whom she was passionately involved was assassinated, Modotti devoted the remainder of her life to communism. Despite a bothersome journalistic style, Hooks ( Guatemalan Women Speak , EPICA, 1991) conveys the dramatic life of an extraordinary woman. Recommended for large collections. - Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Tina Modotti : photographer and revolutionary

Zebras in the California desert, polar bears on an island off the Irish coast, a crocodile in the Loire, a buffalo in a snowy Swiss forest?in the computer-enhanced world created here by fashion and documentary photographer Frank Horvat, native habitats become irrelevant and animals appear in alien settings where they nevertheless blend in comfortably.  Taken in zoos and then digitally manipulated, the 46 images in this collection explore the boundaries of photography, highlighting the inherent subjectivity of a documentary medium.  The books in this photography series showcase the works of post-World War II masters. Each contains more than 40 duotone or color images, and represents an original approach to a particular theme by one of the century's finest documentary or fine-art photographers.     Author  Frank Horvat, photog.    Danielle Brolli, foreword.       Publisher Smithsonian       Format hardcover      ISBN 1560984430  Pages/Publication Date 58/1998

A VIRTUAL ZOO

Between the Two    New    Hardbound    Second Printing   Todd Hido's striking new monograph, Between the Two, weaves photographs of abandoned houses together with portraits of anonymous models in motel rooms that have obviously seen better days. Hido's uncanny ability to let seediness shine with an internal beauty was first displayed in book form with his 2001 monograph, House Hunting. That first monograph, as well as his follow-up book Outskirts, are now out-of-print, and highly sought-after in the rare book market. Between the Two comprises 35 photographs beautifully printed on matt art paper, and bound in an oversized format.  Todd Hido?s work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and is included in the permanent collections of such museums as the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.    Hardcover, 15 x 12,   76 pages, 35 four-color plates.   ISBN 1-59005-176-9

Between the Two (second)

Yemen: Photographic Works     Photographs and text by Josef Hoflehner      Signed by the Photographer     This gorgeous new monograph Yemen: Photographic Works, takes us on journey through the country of Yemen. The book feautures breathtaking photographs by renowned Austrian photographer Josef Hoflehner. He has been intensely photographing in Yemen for the past year, this new publication highlights dramatic, peaceful and hauntingly beautiful black and white images of the desert country located on the Arabian peninsula.    Superbly printed in duotone - this First Edition is limited to 1000 casebound copies only. With text in English, German and Arabic, this is an absolutely must have photography book.     Hardcover, 30x32cm / 12 x13 , 132 pages, 96 duotone plates ISBN 978-39501510-5-3, Most Press, August 2006

Yemen

Signed by the Photographer     Awards German Photography Book Award, Austria's Most Beautiful Books.     At the turn of the twentieth century the geographical South Pole was the object of one of the last great races of discovery. This 'heroic age' of exploration is a chronicle of hardship, courage, endurance and tragedy. It is a record of men who overcame great odds and often their own fears and foibles to reach the South Pole. The British names of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton are writ large in the legend of this frozen continent. The 'heroic age' saw a number of British Antarctic expeditions mounted and dozens of men risked their lives to conquer the last great frontier on earth. These parties built substantial wooden huts at locations accessible by ship and from these bases the sledging parties left for the interior.  About one century after their construction, Josef and Katharina Hoflehner present this premiere detailed portrayal of these historic sites. Many of these fine photographs are accompanied by excerpts from diaries gathered from Antarctic historic site authority and author David L. Harrowfield. In his foreword he wrote: ?... for the first time a book now captures the true feeling and uniqueness of the huts and their contents.?     Hardcover, 24x30cm / 9.5 x12 , 288 pages, 182 duotone plates ISBN 39501510-2-8, Most Press, October 2003

Frozen History

Using a large-format view cameras, photographer John Eric Hawkins sojourns into deserts and forests, old quarries and rugged shorelines, seeking patterns and parallels in nature that are manifested in rock, wood, sky, plants, and the occasional nude in the landscape. He then takes his captured exposures into the darkroom, where he can reinterpret what he has seen in subtle mid-tones and charcoal blacks. Printed as large duotone plates centered in square, medium-gloss pages, Hawkins' images of Monterey and Taos, bristle cone pines and bull kelp, and dark-skinned and light-skinned women, are set with poetry by Nate Benyousky and Shari Messenger.

Ancient Shape of Man

Signed by the Photographer     Josef Hoflehner's ninth book features his recent work from Japan, India, Canada and United States. Josef brings freshness and originality to objects often photographed before - for this book he captured some of the most spectacular places, including the Taj Mahal, New York City, Niagara Falls and Florida Keys, among others.    'Hoflehner takes a landscape and turns it into art' (B&W Photography Magazine). 'Nine' is perfectly printed in duotone.   Hardcover, 30x32cm / 12 x13 , 96 pages, 73 duotone plates ISBN 978-3-9026000-3-5, Most Press, September 2008

Nine

Limited to an edition of only 50 copies with a Print      Signed and numbered by the Photographer     It comes with an original signed silver gelatine print of the cover-image.     The Limited Edition is will be housed in a custom-made Slipcase     Limited to 50 signed & numbered copies only.     Josef Hoflehner's ninth book features his recent work from Japan, India, Canada and United States. Josef brings freshness and originality to objects often photographed before - for this book he captured some of the most spectacular places, including the Taj Mahal, New York City, Niagara Falls and Florida Keys, among others.    'Hoflehner takes a landscape and turns it into art' (B&W Photography Magazine).    'Nine' is perfectly printed in duotone.       Hardcover, 30x32cm / 12 x13,   96 pages, 73 duotone plates   ISBN 978-3-9026000-3-5,    Most Press, September 2008

Nine (Limited Edition with print)

China Li River is limited to a 1st edition of only 1000 copies      Signed and by the Photographer     The Li River is a 270-mile long waterway in Guangxi, Southern China. It is surrounded by thousands of limestone hills, making the river a unique place ? and maybe the most beautiful landscape on our planet. Josef Hoflehner has photographed this dreamlike landscape over a period in the past two years.   Twenty-Seven photographs are superbly printed in duotone. The book itself is bound in deep black Chinese cloth.       Hardcover,   24x25cm / 9.5?x10?,   Unpaged with duotone plates  ISBN 978-3-9026000-4-7,   Most Press, September 2008

China Li River

Limited to an edition of only 30 copies with a Print    Signed and numbered by the Photographer     It comes with an original signed silver gelatine print of the cover-image.     The Limited Edition is will be housed in a custom-made Slipcase covered by  black Chinese silk with golden embossed Chinese symbols.     Limited to 30 signed & numbered copies only.     The Li River is a 270-mile long waterway in Guangxi, Southern China. It is surrounded by thousands of limestone hills, making the river a unique place ? and maybe the most beautiful landscape on our planet. Josef Hoflehner has photographed this dreamlike landscape over a period in the past two years.            Twenty-Seven photographs are superbly printed in duotone.    The book itself is bound in deep black Chinese cloth.       Hardcover,     24x25cm / 9.5"x10",    Unpaged with duotone plates   ISBN 978-3-9026000-4-7,      Most Press, September 2008

China Li River (limited Edition with Print)

Perfectly printed in Duotone on finest matt art paper.    Limited Edition of 500 copies.    No Hoflehner collection would be complete without this little gem,   Piece of Paradise: This new catalog features twenty-two photographs from Hawaii by Nature Photographer of the Year Josef Hoflehner.    Softcover, 20x20cm / 7.9" x 7.9" ,    unpaged with duotone plates    Most Press, September 2008

Big Island

As guest editor of Witness Number 7, Todd Hido creates a relationship between his own photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes 'the first time this series has been published as a group'  with portraits made by Leon Borensztein during the 1980s. Hido's images contain traces and impressions of lives previously having been lived in the now-empty homes. His potent and surreal photographs of empty spaces evoke a longing for the time when things were better in those homes. What went wrong? Who used to lived there? Borensztein, an immigrant from Poland, visited homes and businesses in the suburbs of Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield, photographing his subjects in front of a generic backdrop to create a rich sociological document. In Witness Number 7, Borensztein's subjects stand in metaphorically for the families evicted from Hido?s foreclosed homes. The book closes with what Hido describes as 'a slowly cooked stew of books' 'a 40-page run of images documented off the pages of certain books' in his library that have influenced Hido's work during the past 20 years, curated into a narrative of echos and inspirations.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-244-0    Hardcover, 9 1/2 x 12,    96 pages, 49 plates.

Witness #7

Two major events in the Buddhist world occurred in 2002. In January, the small village of Bodhgaya in Bihar, India, was chosen by the Dalai Lama as the site for the highly important Kalachakra Initiation ceremony. Some half-million pilgrims made their way there by any means possible. In May, at the holy Mount Kailash in Tibet, the celebration of the Buddha's birth and death was particularly auspicious in this Year of the Horse, and the usual trickle of pilgrims swelled to tens of thousands. Photographer Lena Herzog, wife of film director Werner Herzog, presents this evocative album of 146 color images of the holy and the penitent.    Author  Lena Herzog, photog. Werner Herzog, intro.    Publisher Periplus Editions      Format hardcover     ISBN 9781902699431   Pages/Publication Date 178/2002

Pilgrims: Becoming the path itself

Poodle Parlour.    One Picture Book #45.   Signed by the Photographer   Signed and Numbered edition of 500 with print    A long-time wish to do a fashion shoot came true when Nancy Honey took over the reception room of a chi-chi poodle parlour on the outskirts of London. Honey transformed the interior and organized models, clothing and even diamond jewelry to fulfill this fabulous fantasy. The dogs, it should be noted, were borrowed from customers of the real poodle parlour.    Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2008.    16 pp., 12 four-color plates, one original print., 5 x 7".

(OPB#047) Poodle Parlour (OPB)

Signed by the Photographer   "Josef Hoflehner's China monograph spans four years of intensive travel to the Middle Kingdom and is an amazing testament to the unique confluence of geography, history and commerce that has shaped this vast nation. Through an original and often startling juxtaposition of images, classical sites from antiquity mix with new urban skylines to form a collection that underscores the contrasts of modern Chinese life and the sweeping changes taking place." - from the Introduction by Scott Minick.   This new book features more than 100 of Josef Hoflehner's epic photographs of China. Most of them are published here for the first time. Superbly printed in duotone by China's leading art book printer.       Hardcover, 30x32cm / 12"x13", 132 pages, 100 photographs    ISBN 978-3-9026000-5-9, Most Press, September 2009

China

More details will be added when they are available   "Airliner" was shot on the tiny caribbean island of St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies, despite the islands small size, and with only a few flights landing every day, it has the busiest airport (Princes Juliana) in the whole of the caribbean. Even the Airbus A340 and 747's land a couple of times a week. The images that were shot on an old Hasselblad SWC on the beach and around the bay at the end of the runway. These images certainly have a strong impact, although I do find them a little unsettling, the rest of the island may be beautiful, but I think this is one place that will not be on my list of Holiday destinations; unless I was on route to an island somewhat quieter.

Airliner

Limited to 500 Signed and Numbered Copies   with a small original print tipped in    Our sixth book by Eduardo del Valle & Mirta G¢mez, En Vista takes us on a rare and astonishing journey into the transformation of the human form after death. In the rural cemeteries of Yucat n, Mexico the dead are not normally embalmed before burial. Typically, the remains are unearthed after three years in the ground and transferred to an ossuary or makeshift container for all eternity and for all to view. En Vista offers a strikingly beautiful and memorable selection of 14 color reproductions and one original type-c print from an original negative. The book opens with an insightful excerpt from The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-262-4   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 12 four-color plates, 1 original print.

(OPB#059) Cracked Trees (OPB)

Signed by the Photographer   This book has been bumped, see photo   Awards 'German Photography Book Award' 'Austria's Most Beautiful Books'.  At the turn of the twentieth century the geographical South Pole was the object of one of the last great races of discovery. This 'heroic age' of exploration is a chronicle of hardship, courage, endurance and tragedy. It is a record of men who overcame great odds and often their own fears and foibles to reach the South Pole. The British names of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton are writ large in the legend of this frozen continent. The 'heroic age' saw a number of British Antarctic expeditions mounted and dozens of men risked their lives to conquer the last great frontier on earth. These parties built substantial wooden huts at locations accessible by ship and from these bases the sledging parties left for the interior.  About one century after their construction, Josef and Katharina Hoflehner present this premiere detailed portrayal of these historic sites. Many of these fine photographs are accompanied by excerpts from diaries gathered from Antarctic historic site authority and author David L. Harrowfield. In his foreword he wrote: ?... for the first time a book now captures the true feeling and uniqueness of the huts and their contents.?    Hardcover, 24x30cm / 9.5 x12 , 288 pages, 182 duotone plates    ISBN 39501510-2-8, Most Press, October 2003

Frozen History (B Grade - Bumped)

Signed by the photographer   For his newest book, Josef Hoflehner turned moments into magic. From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Pyramids of Giza, and from the Grand Canal to the Strait of Malacca. Hoflehner continues to raise known views to new visions. Unleashed 3 has his recent landscape work from four continents. More than 75 stunning photographs have been selected, including from Malaysia, Borneo, Taiwan, France, Italy, California, New York, Florida and Egypt. Published as a companion to the popular Unleashed and Unleashed Two books, this new release is once again superbly printed in duotone on finest matt art paper. The first edition of Unleashed 3 is limited to 1,500 copies only.    Hardcover, Silkbound,    30x32cm / 12x13 inches    96 pages, 76 duotone plates    ISBN 978-39026000-8-0,    Most Press, April 2010

Unleashed 3

This is the Regular edition which is Signedby the Photographer   Zanzibar - an island off the coast of Tanzania, known for it's sandy white beaches and traditional fishing boats - has proven to be perfect terrain for photographer Josef Hoflehner. A collection of more than 30 fine black-and-white photographs are published in this new book, a truly distinctive Josef Hoflehner monograph.   Superbly printed in duotone on finest matt art paper, this first and only printing of ZNZ: Zanzibar is limited to 1,000 copies only.      ISBN 978-39026000-9-7   Hardcover, 30x30cm / 12x12 inches   72 pages, numerous duotone plates

ZNZ Zanzibar

Limited Edition of 400 copies   If a camera could capture poetry, this might well be what it would look like.? ? The Guardian (May 2008) referring to work included in Corridor of Uncertainty.   'The book is an instinctive response to the uncertain and new world I entered without my best friend and constant companion of 42 years who died in 2006.' Paul Hill   Corridor of Uncertainty is a metaphorical meditation on loss and pain, despair and hope, beauty and banality, and seeming to be in a foreign country without a map, where reactions range from pity to incredulity. The work was made following the death of his wife, Angela, in 2006 and although a very personal journey, it has resonances for a wide audience.    It is the first major monograph that Paul has published since White Peak, Dark Peak in 1990. Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential UK photographers and teachers of photography of the last forty years, Paul Hill began his career as a freelancer for regional and national newspapers. In the early 1970s he began working in photographic education at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, where he became head of the ground-breaking Trent / Derby Creative Photography course  the forerunner of every art photography degree now available. In 1976, he and his late wife, Angela, established The Photographer's Place, the first residential photography workshop in the UK, and a centre which influenced a generation of British photographers.   Paul Hill has exhibited extensively. His work is in many permanent collections including The National Media Museum, the V&A, the British Council and the Arts Council; and, overseas, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Japanese Photography Foundation; the Australian National Gallery; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Birmingham City Archives acquired his archive in 2004 to add to its national collection of photography.   Paul Hill has published several books: Dialogue with Photography, co-written with Thomas Joshua Cooper, Approaching Photography and White Peak, Dark Peak. He has also received numerous awards including a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, a Hasselblad Foundation Fellowship, and an M.B.E..   400 copies only.   Slipcased hardback,   Cialux cloth with foil stamping.   215mm x 247mm.   64 pages with 57 colour plates.   Printed on 170gsm high quality matt art paper

Corridor of Uncertainty

New copy of this long out of print book   This is the second printing of ths book, which waslimited to 500 copies and is out of print   Whether focusing his lens on soft and misty undergrowth or stark, man-made structures, Rolfe Horn has a natural talent to arrest one's gaze and hold it captive. This striking selection of 28 black-and-white photographs will impress from the very first viewing; the inevitable desire to explore more deeply will uncover significant details that might otherwise go unnoticed. With his subtle use of tone and lighting, this talented young photographer has produced a body of work that is touched with a quietness and an alluring, dream-like quality. The first printing of "28 Photographs" sold out upon publication.    This second printing was limited to just 500 casebound copies and is now out of print as well. Hardbound in blue cloth with photo-repro plate affixed to front cover, without dust jacket, as issued.

Twenty Eight Photographs

Our first choice for the new 11+1 Series is Houston based photograper and alternative process master, Clay Harmon.. His Telos series has long been a favorite of ours and it is high-time it had a home in print. Not only are we honored to publish a selection of this project, but to offer it in this series complete with a hand pulled photogravure made by the photographer is a rare treat.   As with all the books to come in this series, this one is being released in a very limited edition of only 100. Each book had 11 reproductions and 1 original photographic print of varying processes and is signed and numbered by the photographer.

Telos

Signed by the Photographer   Limited to 500 numbered copies with 1 original print tipped in    The Indian Girl collection, created by artist duo Neil Krug and Joni Harbeck, taps into the savage yet simple existence of a past Native woman living on, and protecting, the land of her people. With its blend of guns, beauty and ritual mixed with Pulp Art Book's signature style, these photographs lay down a story that plays again and again in our society. Indian Girl was first introduced in Pulp Art Book: Volume One, published by Nazraeli Press earlier this year, and is the subject of Krug and Harbeck's B-movie-esque contribution to our One Picture Book series.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-324-9   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 11 four-color plates, 1 original print.

(OPB#070) - Indian Girl (OPB)

It does not matter that the text is in Welsh as the images speak for themselves, add this book to your library, you wont be disappointed, also look at his other book "Rhyw Deid yn Dod Miwn (A Tide is Coming)"    Sea of Light Dark Land   A rich collection of powerful photographic images mainly from Pembrokeshire placed side by side with short extracts from the poetry of Waldo Williams (1904-71) reflecting the duality of the poet's basic concepts. 65 colour and 9 black-and-white photographs.    M?r Goleuni Tir Tywyll   Casgliad cyfoethog o ddelweddau ffotograffig grymus o leoliadau yn sir Benfro yn bennaf wedi eu cyfosod ? dyfyniadau byrion o gerddi Waldo Williams (1904-71) yn adlewyrchu deuoliaeth cysyniadau gwaelodol y bardd. 65 ffotograff lliw a 9 ffotograff du-a-gwyn.   About the Photographer   Aled Rhys Hughes is a lens-based artist from south Wales. He has been described by critics as a 'maestro' and Peter Finnemore described his 'images full with their emptiness and subtlety.' He has always been intrigued by the shape, form and history of the landscape of his home in south Wales. Most recently, the sea has been the focus of his work, in photographs inspired by R. S. Thomas's 'The sea starts where the land ends; its surface is all flowers.'    His work has been displayed in group shows and individual exhibitions since 1984, at venues in Wales including the National Library of Wales, MOMA Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, Mission Gallery Swansea (2010), and St David?s Hall Cardiff (2011), and in various galleries across Europe. At the prestigious National Eisteddfod he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Art in 2006 (purchased by Glynn Vivian Gallery through a CASW award) and the People?s Choice Award in 2008. His work is also owned by the University of Aberystwyth, the National Library of Wales and by private collectors.    Aled's work was included in Welsh Lens (Machynlleth, 1997: MOMA Cymru), a showcase of young Welsh talent, and he has published two books, M?r Goleuni Tir Tywyll (Llandysul, 2004: Gomer) and Rhyw Deid yn Dod Miwn (Llandysul, 2008: Gomer), which won the Welsh Publishing Industry Award in 2010 for the best illustrated book from the previous three years.    Language Welsh    Hardcover: 122 pages, 24.2 x 21.8 x 1.6 cm    Publisher: Gomer Press (1 Aug 2004)    ISBN-10: 1843233789    ISBN-13: 978-1843233787

Mor Goleuni Tir Tywyll (Sea of Light Dark Land)

It does not matter that the text is in Welsh as the images speak for themselves, add this book to your library, you wont be disappointed, also look at his other book "Mor Goleuni Tir Tywyll (Sea of Light Dark Land)"   A Tide Coming In   A combination of poetry and striking photographs of the Welsh coast. This volume gives a new and fresh light on our familiar coast. The photographer's notes offers an insight to his work, and the volume also includes a colour map of the locations featured.    M?r Goleuni Tir Tywyll   Casgliad cyfoethog o ddelweddau ffotograffig grymus o leoliadau yn sir Benfro yn bennaf wedi eu cyfosod ? dyfyniadau byrion o gerddi Waldo Williams (1904-71) yn adlewyrchu deuoliaeth cysyniadau gwaelodol y bardd. 65 ffotograff lliw a 9 ffotograff du-a-gwyn.   About the Photographer   Aled Rhys Hughes is a lens-based artist from south Wales. He has been described by critics as a 'maestro' and Peter Finnemore described his 'images full with their emptiness and subtlety.' He has always been intrigued by the shape, form and history of the landscape of his home in south Wales. Most recently, the sea has been the focus of his work, in photographs inspired by R. S. Thomas's 'The sea starts where the land ends; its surface is all flowers.'    His work has been displayed in group shows and individual exhibitions since 1984, at venues in Wales including the National Library of Wales, MOMA Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, Mission Gallery Swansea (2010), and St David?s Hall Cardiff (2011), and in various galleries across Europe. At the prestigious National Eisteddfod he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Art in 2006 (purchased by Glynn Vivian Gallery through a CASW award) and the People's Choice Award in 2008. His work is also owned by the University of Aberystwyth, the National Library of Wales and by private collectors.    Aled's work was included in Welsh Lens (Machynlleth, 1997: MOMA Cymru), a showcase of young Welsh talent, and he has published two books, M?r Goleuni Tir Tywyll (Llandysul, 2004: Gomer) and Rhyw Deid yn Dod Miwn (Llandysul, 2008: Gomer), which won the Welsh Publishing Industry Award in 2010 for the best illustrated book from the previous three years.    Language Welsh    Hardcover: 128 pages, 28 x 24 x 2 cm    Publisher: Gomer Press (24 July 2008)    ISBN-10: 1843237776    ISBN-13: 978-1843237778

M?r Goleuni Tir Tywyll ( A Tide is Coming)

Photographs by ELIN H?YLAND, introduced by GERRY BADGER   When Elin Hoyland heard about two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living together in Tessanden, a small hamlet in rural Norway, she approached them to see if they would collaborate with her on a photographic project about their lives. The result is a fascinating and warmly human study of a way of life that has now almost entirely disappeared.   Harald (75) and Mathias (80) had always lived on the small farm in which they were born. Neither had married. Mathias once worked in Oslo for two months, but hadn't like it, whilst Harald spent one night, 'the worst of his life,' he would say, in a hotel in Lillehammer, some three hours away. They'd worked for an electricity company, as loggers and also as carpenters, but now much of their time was taken up just managing firewood for their home. As Harald said, they chopped wood, carried wood and burned wood. At least twice a day, they also fed wild birds in the twenty bird boxes that they monitored. Their days followed a predictable and comforting routine. In their free time they each listened to a radio or read the local paper. In the 1960s they rented a TV for a one month trial but returned it after deciding that it took up too much time. Little changed from year to year, though Mathias once said that changes were happening the whole time and it would probably end up with them getting an inside toilet with running water. Harald died from an asthma attack while shovelling snow in conditions of -20C. Mathias continued to live alone in the house until he moved into an old people?s home. He died in 2007.   Norwegian photographer, Elin H?yland has freelanced for several major newspapers including The Guardian. She is currently photographer with the Norwegian Business Daily and her work has been widely exhibited in France, USA, China, Scandinavia and the UK.    Gerry Badger is recognised world-wide as one of the leading writers on photography. Amongst his many projects he wrote the TV series The Genius of Photography and was co-author with Martin Parr of the two volume The Photobook: A History.   Quarter bound hardback   96 pages, 47 duotone photos, 230mm x 310mm   ISBN: 978-1-907893-08-7

The Brothers

Stern FOTOGRAFIE Portfolio No. 67  -  Volker Hinz   Compelling portraits of celebrities and politicians from four of history's most eventful decades    An overdue and in-depth retrospective of one of the most important German photojournalists   For almost four decades Volker Hinz's photographs defined the look of stern magazine. His subtle yet revealing portraits of German politicians from Willy Brandt onwards are a vivid historical and artistic record of the Federal Republic.       As masterful as any of the major figures he profiled, Hinz excelled at capturing exactly the right moment. His reportage from the U.S. and across the globe gave us memorable images of greats such as Muhammad Ali, Woody Allen, Pel? and Franz Beckenbauer. Hinz?s works are classics that linger indelibly in our collective consciousness. Unlike most celebrity photography, his images have both the crisp candor of a snapshot and the reflective depth of fine art.   Hardcover, 96 pp.    19 color and 44 b/w photographs   Text in English and German   ISBN: 978-3-652-00068-0   Format: 27 x 36 cm

Stern Portfolio #67 - Volka Hinz

Todd Hido   -  Bright Black World   We are thrilled to announce the publication of Todd Hido?s new monograph, Bright Black World. For over two decades, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and stylized portraits. He has traversed North America capturing places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which translates into the ?endless winter?, many of Hido?s new images allude to and provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending winter.   Exploring the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan enchanted Hido, calling him back on several occasions. This newest publication highlights the artist?s first significant foray extensively photographing territory outside of the United States, chronicling a decidedly new psychological geography.   Opening with a text by Alexander Nemerov, Bright Black World comprises 48 plates printed in an oversized format, and featuring two vertical gatefolds and a fold-out poster measuring some 25 x 40 inches. This first printing is limited to 3,000 clothbound copies.    Todd Hido?s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido?s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was most recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d?Arles, France.   Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur. Bright Black World is Todd Hido?s seventh monograph.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-475-8   Hardcover, 17 x 12,   104 pages, 48 four-color plates.

Bright Black World

Signed by the photographer,   Limited edition signed and numbered, containing 1 small signed print   Betty Hahn is an American artist known for working in alternative photographic processes. Hahn?s work emphasizes photography, while challenging established ideas regarding the medium?s presentation. Her work incorporates a variety of techniques including: appropriation and serial imagery and mediums such as lithography, painting, and embroidery.    Her extended series of images of the Lone Ranger, created in the 1970s, is one of her best known. Each print in the series is unique; during the decades since the work was made, the series has been broken up, with individual prints being acquired and held in collections across the country.     We are pleased to bring together a collection of some of the finest prints from Hahn?s Lone Ranger series and present them in this limited edition book. Each copy of the book comes with a loose, signed original print created specially for our One Picture Book Two series.   Betty Hahn?s work is held within the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;  Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Norton Simon Museum of Art, Los Angeles, among many others.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-493-2   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2,   16 pages, 10 four-color plates,   1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 002) Betty Hahn - Lone Ranger

In this dark and beautiful book, Takashi Homma traces the blood trails of deer killed in Shiretoko National Park on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Like ritualistic stains or calligraphic compositions, the photographs, which Homma made in the winters of 2009 to 2018, are at once abstract and symbolic. Considered by some to be sacred, deer in Japan have controversially faced culls due to their growing population, which upset agricultural communities struggling to protect their crops. To aid their mission in reducing numbers, the government encourages local hunters to take matters into their own hands. Homma photographs the effects ? the red vestiges of wild life in the snow.   Paperback with die-cut jacket   66 pages   22 x 31.5 cm   ISBN 978-1-912339-34-1

Trials

Signed and Numbered Special Edition    limited to 250 copies in slipcase   ?Todd Hido?s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious? and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air.?   ? From our description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000      We are excited to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido?s iconic and highly sought-after first monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book ? certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time ? we have collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases, this new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. It will be a welcome addition to collections lacking access to the very scarce original printings; and to those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further illuminates the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame.    Todd Hido?s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido?s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d?Arles, France.   Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur.   This new edition of House Hunting is limited to 4,000 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-505-2   Hardcover, 14 x 17,   56 pages, 26 four-color plates.

House Hunting (New Special Ed 2019)

?Todd Hido?s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious? and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air.?   ? From our description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000      We are excited to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido?s iconic and highly sought-after first monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book ? certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time ? we have collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases, this new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. It will be a welcome addition to collections lacking access to the very scarce original printings; and to those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further illuminates the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame.    Todd Hido?s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido?s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d?Arles, France.   Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur.   This new edition of House Hunting is limited to 4,000 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-505-2   Hardcover, 14 x 17,   56 pages, 26 four-color plates.

House Hunting (New  Ed 2019)

All books are Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, are book is numbered and contains a signed photograph approx 5 x 7 inches and limited to 500 numbered copies. Housed within a custom slip case.   Book 17 Michael Kenna - Notre Dame de Paris     ?From the moment I entered its dark, sacred precincts, I was in love with Notre-Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris). I walked around wide-eyed, awestruck by the grandeur of its architecture and esthetics. I inhaled the atmosphere, the faint smell of incense, the whisperings from the crowds of other people also experiencing these wonders in their own particular ways. I lit candles and sat in front of the altar praying quietly, relishing the tranquility and meditative ambience. I listened to the choir as it practiced for Vespers. This was in 1972, on my first visit to Paris?    My affection for Notre-Dame has only increased over the years. Now, when arriving in Paris, often early in the morning and jet-lagged, I greatly enjoy a ritual walk along the Seine to the Île de la Cité and Notre-Dame, where I can spend some solitary time. Of course, I am never alone. Notre-Dame is an extremely important religious, national and cultural monument, with over twelve million visitors annually. Fortunately, it is always possible to find a quiet pew and reconnect with this alluring space. Notre-Dame continues to capture and inspire my imagination.   On Monday, April 15, 2019, along with countless other people throughout the world, I was shocked and saddened to see the media coverage of Notre-Dame burning. It seemed unimaginable that this architectural wonder, filled with over eight centuries of history, memories and mystique could be destroyed in a few hours. Yet, this devastating fire was happening before our eyes. In the days after the fire, I looked through my archive of negatives for some personal homage to this most beloved place that has given me so much. The fourteen photographs in this book, many of which I have just printed for the first time, were made over a period of forty years on my various wanderings through Paris.   Please get well soon Notre-Dame. We miss you. I miss you.?      ? From the Introduction by Michael Kenna   Book 18 David H. Gibson A Walk Through A Bamboo Grove   With his masterful sequence A Walk Through A Bamboo Grove, Hokoku-ji, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, David H. Gibson brings the viewer into another space and time. Kamakura, a seaside Japanese city famous for its many Buddhist Zen temples and Shinto shrines, is also home to immense groves of moso bamboo. Attaining heights of over 90 feet, this giant timber bamboo sheds its older leaves as new ones unfurl, blanketing the ground within the dark, cool groves.   One experiences a sense of awe, vicariously wandering in the grove on the paths provided, with unexpected vistas, ancient stone lanterns, and the repetitive rhythm the bamboo segments. Looking up, one sees what appears to be a gothic cathedral, with the sky as the roof.   David H. Gibson?s work has been widely exhibited and written about, and is the subject of several monographs. The artist?s original photographs are housed in numerous public and private collections, among them Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Citibank North America, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Deloitte & Touche LLP, Washington, D.C.; and Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland.   Book 19 Alia Malley - Captains of the Dead Sea   Captains of the Dead Sea examines how the experience of place is influenced by the way in which the world has been previously photographed. A visitor can stand in Death Valley, for example, and realize that it ?looks like? Mars... or the Moon... or a scene from Star Wars. At its core, Captains of the Dead Sea considers the cinematic use of landscape-as-location, the role of the American desert, and the implications of how the boundaries between documentary and fictional narrative have become blurred.   Based in Los Angeles, Alia Malley received her BA in Critical Film Studies from University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, and her MFA in Visual Arts from University of California Riverside. She works with photography and video to explore modes of representation ? specifically the roles of landscape, cinematic narrative of place, technology, and human geography in structures of power.    Malley?s work is held in numerous private and public collections, among them the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UCLA Library Special Collections, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.   Book 20 - Untitled #11856-0820   Published in 2018 to wide critical acclaim, Todd Hido?s Bright Black World explores the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which translates into the ?endless winter?, many of Hido?s new images allude to and provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending winter.   An important and already highly sought-after monograph, Bright Black World benefited from its oversized format in presenting the epic landscape photographs of which it is comprised.   Hido?s latest contribution to our One Picture Book series takes this a step further: rather than dividing the sheet into 16 pages, Hido presents one of Bright Black World?s most recognizable images, ?Untitled #11856-0820?, over an entire form which, when unfolded, measures some 16 x 21 inches.   Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

(OPB2 SET5) COMPLETE #17-20 Kenna / Gibson / Malley / Hido

Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, book are numbered and contains a signed photograph approx 5 x 7 inches and limited to 500 numbered copies.   Published in 2018 to wide critical acclaim, Todd Hido?s Bright Black World explores the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which translates into the ?endless winter?, many of Hido?s new images allude to and provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending winter.   An important and already highly sought-after monograph, Bright Black World benefited from its oversized format in presenting the epic landscape photographs of which it is comprised.   Hido?s latest contribution to our One Picture Book series takes this a step further: rather than dividing the sheet into 16 pages, Hido presents one of Bright Black World?s most recognizable images, ?Untitled #11856-0820?, over an entire form which, when unfolded, measures some 16 x 21 inches.   Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-541-0   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2,    16 pages, 1 four-color plate,    1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 020) Todd Hido - Untitled #11856-0820

Signed by the Photographer   Self published by undergraduate photographer Richard Hall, this is the best photographic project I have seen to date taken during the UK lockdown. Hall wanted a photographic project that would get him out of the house and meet other people whilst conforming to the UKs lockdown regulations and maintaining social distancing.  Hall's series of Doorstep Portraits begain as a series of a dozen or so local families in the village where he lived, photographed at their garden gate or front door; that is until word got around on social media. Hall would set off in the morning with his camera and prearranged list of appointsment, returning home several hours later with his growing portfolio of images.  Between the 3rd April and 10th May, Richard Photographed 150 families within the rural Lincolnshire parish of Caythorpe and Frieston.    Richard's idea of photographiong people during the lockdown really took off, it had a real postive effect on our community.  Probably for the first time we realised all the different people that live in and around our community, I think this idea has brought us all closer together as a community.  from the foreword by Neil Fritzsche, Chairman of Caythorpe and Frieston Parish Council.   This 190 page full colour self published softcover A4 book has been commercially printed and bound and contains 185 photograps of familes from this small rural community.

Caythorpe & Frieston in Lockdown

Signed by the Photographer\n\nINTRODUCED BY FRANCIS HODGSON   The Fens, a region of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, is one of the richest arable areas in the UK. It is a landscape of agribusiness that Paul Hart has been photographing for over eight years. In his new book, DRAINED, he continues the exploration of this wide-open environment which he began with FARMED, the first in a planned series of three books about the region. This is a linear landscape of straight lines and flat horizons, with monoculture at it?s core. Hart?s narrative pinpoints the objects that remain when all that surrounds has been cleared by modern agricultural practice. He conveys nature?s vulnerability within this unsheltered, unprotected environment.   Hart?s working method is in the vein of documentary, exploring our relationship to the landscape by highlighting elements that are so often overlooked. He employs the analogue process and traditional darkroom techniques, to convey something of the soulful in a landscape. As Francis Hodgson says in his insightful introductory essay: ?Paul Hart is a photographer interested in the slow harvesting of hidden truth from the ordinary places that most of us pass by ? (his) placid, formally peaceful landscape is pregnant with stories that lurk in the mud or the mist.   Hart explores our relationship with the landscape in both a humanistic and socio-historical sense. His work has been exhibited widely at venues such as the Royal Academy of Art, The Photographers? Gallery and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, as well as at prestigious art fairs such as Paris Photo, AIPAD New York, and Photo London. He has received several major awards including the International Photography Awards (USA) and PX3 Prix de la Photographie (France) His work is often featured in international publications and his two books, Truncated and Farmed (both published by Dewi Lewis), have received cosniderable critical acclaim. Hart regularly collaborates with Ilford Photo, and is widely known as a leading traditional printmaker, making finely crafted silver gelatin prints.   Francis Hodgson is Professor in the Culture of Photography at the University of Brighton. Highly respected as a writer and commentator on photography, he was previoulsy photography critic at the Financial Times, and Head of Photographs at Sotheby?s, London. Francis was a co-founder of the leading photography prize the Prix Pictet.   Clothbound hardback, 295mm x 295mm   96 pages, 49 Duotone plates   ISBN: 978-1-911306-37-5

Drained

Signed by the Photographer\n\nPaul Hart's new book Reclaimed concludes his three-part series on The Fens in the UK. The first two books Farmed (2016) and Drained (2018) have received several international awards and considerable critical acclaim. In 2018 work from the series was awarded the inaugural Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize (Austria/UK) and in 2019 it was shortlisted for the Hariban Award (Japan).   The Fens, originally a region of low-lying marshland in the east of England, has been artificially drained over centuries to provide some of Britain?s most fertile agricultural land. It is a landscape of agribusiness with monoculture at it?s core, defined by human migration and long-term reclamation from the sea.   Paul Hart has photographed the area for over ten years. His narrative examines the complex interrelation between humanity and nature and raises important questions about human-altered topography and our occupation and stewardship of this land. By focusing on the often-overlooked elements in familiar vistas Hart?s aesthetics carry a documentary sensibility that allows the landscapes to define themselves. He works solely with the analogue process employing traditional darkroom practice to convey something of the soulful in a landscape that is rarely considered of aesthetic merit.   As the respected French curator and writer Isabelle Bonnet states in her insightful introductory essay; ?Hart?s landscapes create a dialogue between art and document, lyricism and storytelling, the sublime and the ordinary. Almost everywhere, rectilinear and regular shapes unfold, impeccably drawn furrows responding to rows of trees, industrial constructions and metal structures? No movement animates this nature morte, no bird awakens these low and heavy skies and endless horizons? Hart?s images take on a universal value: the battered and exhausted Fens resonate like a subtle metaphor for what humanity engenders and inflicts on itself.?   Paul Hart has exhibited internationally at galleries including The Austrian Cultural Forum London, The Royal Academy of Art, The Photographers? Gallery, The Royal Photographic Society and The Cultural Foundation ARCADE (Dijon, France), and at major art fairs including Paris Photo, Photo London and AIPAD New York. His work resides in many important collections including the V&A Museum, the Ivor Braka Collection, and the MoMA Library (USA).   Isabelle Bonnet is a photography art historian, writer and curator based in Paris. She is currently studying for a PhD at the Sorbonne. Before resuming her studies she worked for 25 years in fashion photography in Paris and New York. In 2019, she curated the exhibition Home Sweet Home for the Rencontres d?Arles and the Institut pour la Photographie of Lille, and is the author of the eponymous book published by Textuel.   Clothbound hardback, 295mm x 295mm   108 pages, 52 Duotone plates   ISBN: 978-1-911306-63-4

Reclaimed

Pico Boulevard is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ?Pico Boulevard begins in Santa Monica between two luxury beachfront hotels and ends at the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Central Avenue in downtown L.A. Traveling east on Pico Boulevard takes you through the Japanese and Iranian neighborhoods of West Los Angeles to the wealthy, predominantly white neighborhood of Rancho Park. Passing Fox Studios and the Hillcrest Country Club, Pico continues through the upscale business and entertainment center of Century City, the Jewish and Russian neighborhoods of South Robertson, the largely African American and Latino Mid-City District, and Koreatown. It then passes through the mostly lower income area of recent Central American immigrants in the Pico Union district and finally, to the crowded commotion of the Garment District in downtown Los Angeles. In short, Pico Boulevard is a veritable microcosm of Los Angeles.? ? John Humble   Brought up in a military family, John Humble spent his childhood moving around the country from one military base to another. Humble was drafted during the Vietnam War, then became a photojournalist for the Washington Post before pursuing a graduate degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. His itinerant nature continued when he traveled the world in the early 1970s, going from Europe to the Middle East, then to Africa and Asia in his Volkswagen van. However, since the summer of 1974 Humble has lived in one place: Los Angeles. In 1979, Humble acquired a 4x5 view camera and began to photograph the Los Angeles that he perceived every day ? a Los Angeles that tourists seldom see, and that locals seldom notice.    John Humble?s large-scale photographs have been exhibited and collected since the 1970s, and are included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The LA County Museum of Art; and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Pico Boulevard is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-549-6   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 13 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 024) John Humble - Pico Boulevard

Each edition limited to just 200 editions      \nPrinted on uncoated paper using monochromatic cold inkjet.\n \nAll we have left is the Chain by ROBIN HAMMOND      \n\nThe title comes from a quote by Stephen Asante, a Ghanian mental health nurse and founder of Mental Health Advocacy Foundation (MHAF), a not for profit organisation in northern Ghana dedicated to ensuring people living with mental health issues live with dignity. His full quote, made in reference to the collapse of the infrastructure of mental health care in the region, is as follows: ?Since we ran out of medication, the only thing on offer is the chain.? It speaks to the complexity of this situation. Most of us think this practice is inhumane, but these situations are complex. Often it is desperate families that are restraining loved ones. Chains are not a symbol of evil, but a sign of failed mental health care systems. What we also have to remember is that it is not just in developing countries where mental health care is failing - incarceration and restraining of people with mental health conditions happens in many places, often in state run institutions - and even in where it is rare, mental health care is rarely where it should be.      \n\nBecause each book is hand produced it nmay contain some minor imperfections in the printing or binding.\n\nL?Atelier RisoGraphique n°4 : Soft-Binding ? 210 x 297 mm ? 36 pages   Limited Edition of 200 copies   Book Designer : Thibault Geffroy      Language : English

All we have left is the Chain

“Todd Hido finds the poetry in that strangeness, which consists of all the matter implied but unsaid in the margins of thrillers. It lurks in the high-tension wires, the high-intensity lights, the leafless trees and ambitious weeds, the hurricane fences and concrete knee-walls, the red night sky of light pollution. If in these pictures it is forever midnight and you are forever stranded and chilled and at a loss, you still have to pay attention to the way the prowler’s footprints hover in the snow around the window. The jumble of cars around the bungalow may mean that many adults live there, but it may mean something you don’t really want to know about. These pictures might represent views from the undercover surveillance car, if the driver drinking endless coffee waiting for someone to leave or to arrive were capable of appreciating the scene. The silence that permeates these pictures is before or after the fact, or a result of the muffling effects of weather, or else it is permanent, deathlike.” — From the Introduction by Luc Sante\n\nWe are thrilled to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and long-out-of-print second monograph, Outskirts. As with our new edition of House Hunting, released in 2019, we collaborated closely with the artist to achieve the highest possible fidelity reproductions. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, our new printing of Outskirts surpasses the original printing with more accurate color rendition and subtle nuances in tone and saturation. It will be an important addition to libraries and collections lacking access to the elusive 2002 edition, which itself solidified Hido’s position in the art world following on the heels of his groundbreaking first monograph, House Hunting.\n\nTodd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.\n\nWork by Hido is held in many important public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur.\n\nThis new, remastered edition of Outskirts is limited to 3,000 copies.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-543-4\n\nHardcover, 14 x 17, 56 pages, 26 four-color plates.

Outskirts  2021 edition

The signed edition includes a slip signed by Eikoh Hosoe and glued into the inside back cover.\n\nEikoh Hosoe (b. 1933, Yamagata) is one of the most influential Japanese photographers in the history of the medium. This comprehensive volume will be the primary resource on Hosoe’s oeuvre, edited, designed, and produced under the artist’s direction and with the collaboration of internationally renowned curator and scholar Yasufumi Nakamori.\n\n\nSince the mid-1950s, Eikoh Hosoe has been at the forefront of photographic practice in Japan: as an image-maker encompassing a broad range of subjects; a curator introducing works of master European and American photographers to Japan in 1968; a teacher informing the careers of numerous distinguished photographers, such as Daido Moriyama. He co-established an influential lens-based art journal, co-founded the photographic cooperative Vivo and later the progressive Photography Workshop, created a university education curriculum and photography collection, and exhibited and published numerous books and catalogues of his own photographs in Japan. In the process, he pioneered the establishment of postwar Japanese photography, rescuing the medium from the pre-existing modes of documentary and realism and positioning it at a new nexus of art, literature, performance, and film.\n\n\nThis career-defining publication not only features Hosoe’s major photographic series but also reveals his lesser-known collaborative works with writers, critics, dancers, and artists, including Yayoi Kusama, in portraiture and beyond. Additionally, the volume includes two newly-commissioned essays offering new perspectives on Hosoe’s oeuvre, alongside reprints of a selection of previously-published seminal essays on Hosoe by a range of Japanese writers, including the novelist Yukio Mishima and the art critic Shuzo Takiguchi. As well as serving as a survey of Hosoe’s work, this book uncovers the essential protagonists of Japanese art, photography, dance, and literature across the post-1945 era.\n\n“The new monograph shows ... a narrative marked by a relentless imaginative curiosity and a creative fearlessness that took [Hosoe] – and photography – into a new place of uncertain possibilities.” The Observer\n\n“In this sprawling MACK-published survey, we see the full magnitude of the image-maker’s career, from his most influential photographic series to his lesser-known collaborations.” AnOther\n\n“In front of [Hosoe‘s] camera, bodies are presented in their rawest form – skeletal, genderless and abject but still powerful.” The Independent\n\nEmbossed hardback\n25 x 32.5cm, 400 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-24-0

Erick Hoscoe: pioneering post 1945 Japanese Photography

This is the Signed and numbered edition limited to just 250 copies in a custom slipcase.\n\n“Todd Hido finds the poetry in that strangeness, which consists of all the matter implied but unsaid in the margins of thrillers. It lurks in the high-tension wires, the high-intensity lights, the leafless trees and ambitious weeds, the hurricane fences and concrete knee-walls, the red night sky of light pollution. If in these pictures it is forever midnight and you are forever stranded and chilled and at a loss, you still have to pay attention to the way the prowler’s footprints hover in the snow around the window. The jumble of cars around the bungalow may mean that many adults live there, but it may mean something you don’t really want to know about. These pictures might represent views from the undercover surveillance car, if the driver drinking endless coffee waiting for someone to leave or to arrive were capable of appreciating the scene. The silence that permeates these pictures is before or after the fact, or a result of the muffling effects of weather, or else it is permanent, deathlike.” — From the Introduction by Luc Sante\n\nWe are thrilled to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and long-out-of-print second monograph, Outskirts. As with our new edition of House Hunting, released in 2019, we collaborated closely with the artist to achieve the highest possible fidelity reproductions. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, our new printing of Outskirts surpasses the original printing with more accurate color rendition and subtle nuances in tone and saturation. It will be an important addition to libraries and collections lacking access to the elusive 2002 edition, which itself solidified Hido’s position in the art world following on the heels of his groundbreaking first monograph, House Hunting.\n\nTodd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.\n\nWork by Hido is held in many important public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur.\n\nThis new, remastered edition of Outskirts is limited to 3,000 copies.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-543-4\n\nHardcover, 14 x 17, 56 pages, 26 four-color plates.

Outskirts  2021 special edition

Signed by the Photographer, this signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover.\n\n“An unflinching closeup of [Harris’] traumas, as well as a tender account of the support he received from those close to him.” – The Observer \n\n"Harris’ black and white photographs are direct emotional depictions ... captured in a delicate style which pays particular attention to the body’s storytelling ability.” – Elephant\n\n"This extraordinary debut invites you to accompany the photographer through a perilous passage in his young life … a hugely life-affirming story of self-acceptance, bravery, and love.” – Dazed \n\n“At first the focus of my project was my gender transition, but along the way I found out that it’s about an ongoing search for myself: being a human with feelings, who is continuously developing.” — Marvel Harris\n \nMARVEL describes the journey of Marvel Harris’ personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years. These photographs present a new-found visual language; a tool with which Marvel was able to express those emotions that, on account of his autism, he previously struggled to make sense of. The process of making these portraits allowed him to connect to the world around him at the time he needed it most.\n \nWinner of the MACK First Book Award 2021, MARVEL is an important new voice which contributes to an increased awareness of the issues surrounding gender identity and mental health. In doing so, this deeply personal book demands a more tolerant attitude from society towards transgender people and those who don’t identify as entirely male or female.\n\n \n\nEmbossed hardcover\n24.6 x 37 cm, 140 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-49-3

Marvel

By the age of four Dave Heath had been abandoned by both of his parents. By the age of fifteen he had lived in a series of foster homes and, finally, in an orphanage.\n\nIn 1947, Heath saw Ralph Crane’s photo-essay “Bad Boy’s Life” in LIFE Magazine. Struck by the success of how succinctly these pictures connected to a deeply felt shared experience, Heath knew he wanted to become a photographer. Using the orphanage’s darkroom, he began to master the mechanics of the medium. Heath drew his influence from W. Eugene Smith and photographers of the Chicago School including Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan.\n\nIn the early 1960s, working in the streets on North Eastern American Cities, Heath used its inhabitants to capture individual moments in tightly structured compositions that are charged with the importance of their individuality and the seriousness of their situation.\n\nOn speaking about his collection of vernacular photographs Heath said "When I was 25, I had five photographs from my past, snapshots of myself and my foster family, and one of my mother and father, and I tore them up - because I wanted to purify myself, to cleans the background out of my system. And I think now that I shouldn't have done that, because I’ve collected all these old photographs to replace those five. So in a sense shoes five have generated themselves into thousands. In a way it’s like trying to recreate, through these old photographs, a family album of my own for a family I never had. On a simple, kind of emotional level that's my motivation for collecting these photographs. And in the beginning there was all this intense feeling of trying to reclaim from oblivion all these people, all these images of people, which were destined just to disappear." - Dave Health  \n\nThis new book reproduces Heath's original prints, many of which only exist as individual work prints, with beautiful precision. \n\nISBN — 978-1-913288-48-8\nPages — 120\nCover — Flexibound / foil stamped \nSize — 250 x 200mm

One Breif Moment

While at grad school in the early 1970’s Henry Horenstein would attend Speedway races, in New England to see his brother in law compete. In front of his camera the drivers would fly around the track in beat-up cars customised for racing at break neck speeds in the hopes of small town glory. \n\nHorenstein's joyful images present us with a slice now of what the world of motor racing looked like then, before racing became big business, as it slowly morphed into Nascar - the worlds fastest growing sport. \n\n“I was still in grad school and I was looking for subjects. There had to be good pictures there for a wanna-be historian-with-a-camera. What better than an old-school sport that would certainly be extinct one day? I’m still waiting. My brother-in-law Paul raced stock cars—old. Paul’s cousin Dickie Simmonds owned the local Gulf station and modified the junkers that Paul drove at places like the Seekonk Speedway (Seekonk, MA) and the Thompson Speedway (Thompson, CT). Paul and Dickie had friends in low places.”  Henry Horenstein\n\n"As I started to look at the photos I recognized most of the cars and I began to marvel at the skills of some of these drivers and their teams for keeping these heaps going. They must have been geniuses... As I looked over the photos for a second time I noticed that for a book about stock car racing there are more pictures of the people than their cars and this is something else that Henry and I share. On Car Talk we used the cars as an excuse to talk to people and get to know them and their stories."  Ray Magliozzi\n\nISBN — 978-1-913288-47-1\nPages — 88\nCover — Hard back / Tip on / silkscreened\nSize — 254 x 254 mm

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