In 1996, a book of photographs by an unknown young British photographer was launched on to the London contemporary art market to immediate popular and critical success. The pictures were taken within the claustrophobic, chaotic interior of a Birmingham council flat where the photographer’s father, Ray, an alcoholic, lived with Liz, his sedentary and occasionally violent mother, and his younger brother Jason.\n\nFor the public, including cultured, art-loving viewers, the pictures were a shock: more intimate, more personal, more oppressive than the well-meaning photojournalistic study of working-class poverty to which they were accustomed. Some saw them as a betrayal – exposing unsuspecting family members to potential humiliation – but from Richard Billingham’s point of view they made moral judgements and had no social or political purpose. He had taken them as reference images for his painting, and their lives as artworks were as much a result of the interventions of other editors and gallerists as of Billingham’s own intentions.\n\nThis reader traces the history of a body of work which remains as vital and provocative as on its first release, and whose story tells us much about the workings of art, publishing, and the politics of dissemination. Editor Liz Jobey charts the history in a new essay drawing on interviews with Billingham and all the primary protagonists of the work’s emergence, including Michael Collins, Julian Germain, and Paul Graham. This is followed by an extensive selection of conversations and essays from 1996 to the present day, by writers including Charlotte Cotton, Gordon Burn, Lynn Barber, and Jim Lewis. This book coincides with the release of a new edition of Ray’s a Laugh restoring Billingham’s original vision for the book. \n\nDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, an idea, or another individual across an extended text. Explore the full series here.\n\n\n\nPaperback with flap\n12.5 x 19.5cm, 104 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-36-7

Ray's a Laugh: Reader

Signed by the photographer\n\nHarryda Kommun provides in one volume more of a combination of the urban and the rural than you commonly get in Johansson’s work. We have signed copies.\n\nGerry Johansson explores the municipality of Härryda, in Sweden. Winding forest roads, terraced houses, splendid white villas and a brutal concrete house with a small porch. Here are some of the Swedish characters that Johansson's geometric and elegant vision tells in this volume released in conjunction with the project exhibition.\n\nFirst limited edition of only 500 copies. Greger Ulf Nilsson has designed the book that was made when The City of Härryda commissioned Johansson to create a collection of photographs of the area.\nSoftcover,\nDimensions  171mm x 238mm,\nnumber of pages: 64

Harryda Kommun

Deutschland is the final part of Gerry Johansson's nation trilogy. As in the previous books, America (1998) and Sweden (2005), Johansson investigates a country by studying the nameless and anonymous. Drifting from town to town, he zooms in on the state of the nation. Where most of us see nobody and nothing, Gerry Johansson shows us everybody and everything. Gerry Johansson was born in 1945 in Örebro, Sweden. He has held four solo exhibitions at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and the USA. Johansson participated in the pilot study for the Swedish documentary project EKODOK 90 and photographed for the project 198991. In 1999 he photographed Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku Island for the Japan Today project, and in 2001 made landscape studies in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, as part of the culture program of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.\n\n \n\nEmbossed linen hardcover with tipped-in image\n24.5 x 17.5 cm, 352 pages \n\nISBN: 9781907946356\nPublication date: October 2012

Deutschland

Signed by the Photographer, this signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover.\n\nOver more than three decades, Gerry Johansson has brought his shrewd and sensitive eye to bear on peripheral landscapes the world over, from Ulan Bator to Antarctica. Spanish Summer sees him return to one of the first places that captured his imagination: the plains of central Spain. The chapel remained etched into Johansson’s memory and, decades later, led him to return and rediscover the country’s architectural heritage, religious significance, and beauty. With these images, a survey is conducted of a landscape into which thousands of years of cultural traces have bedded down. Johansson’s exacting composition and delicate black-and-white tonalities reveal a transient territory in which telephone wires transcend hoary crucifixes, modern plaster meets timeworn stone, and the shadows of industrial megaliths reach blindly across the dust.\n\n \nEmbossed linen hardcover with front and back tip-in\n17 x 24 cm, 320 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-912339-91-4

Spanish Summer

Signed by the Photographer.\n\nNothing but Clouds were the words used by the research commission in Andrey Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris to deny video evidence suggesting traces of alien life on the planet. Taking this disclaimer as its title, this meditative book by Kristina Jurotschkin brings together images from her photographic archive made in various places across Europe over numerous years. Jurotschkin’s alienating views of everyday spaces examine the fabric of our social reality and propose an archaeological survey of our future.\n\n \n\n﻿Silkscreened paperback with taped linen spine\n22.6 x 34 cm, 260 pages\n\nISBN: 978-1-910164-98-3

Nothing but clouds

"Acts of homage and acts of witness, these photographs induce the requisite wonder and gratitude to spur a much-needed sense of accountability" ? Los Angeles Times   12 Hz?the lowest sound threshold of human hearing?suggests imperceptible forces, from plate tectonics to the ocean tides, from cycles of growth and decay in the forest, to the incomprehensibility of geological spans of time. The photographs in Ron Jude?s?12 Hz?allude to the ungraspable scale and veiled mechanics of these phenomena, while acknowledging a desire to gain a broader perspective, beyond the human enterprise, in a time of ecological and political crisis.       12 Hz? consists of?images of lava tubes and flows, tidal currents, glacial ice and welded tuff formations: pictures describing the raw materials of the planet, those that make organic life possible.? The images were made in multiple locations ? from the high lava plains, gorges and caves in the state of Oregon, to the glaciers of Iceland and lava flows of Kilauea in Hawaii.   Jude?s photographs don?t attempt to tell us how to live or what we?ve done wrong, nor do they reduce the landscape to something sentimental, tame and possessable. Rather, they endeavour to describe and reckon with forces in our physical world that operate independently of anthropocentric experience. The photographs in?12 Hz work in service to a simple premise: that change is constant, whether we are able to perceive it or not. By stepping back to look at the larger system of flux?of which we are only a small part?this book evokes us to find our own pulse, as it were, and assert an appropriately scaled sense of being within the hierarchy of this system.       With text by Paul Kingsnorth   Large format embossed hardcover with tipped-in image   32.2 x 24.3cm, 128 pages   ISBN 978-1-912339-92-1

12 Hz

Ron Jude   Nausea   Signed by the Photographer   Nausea?taken from the title of Sartre?s 1938 existential novel?is a body of photographs that registers the interiors of public schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Atlanta, Georgia from 1990-92 by American photographer Ron Jude. Departing from mere documentation, however, Jude lures us into peering through windows, doorways and crevices of walls into empty classrooms and corridors, as we become increasingly conscious of the perils of our own gaze. Rousing, rather than abating, the uncertainty of looking, Nausea established the building blocks for the next twenty-five years of Jude?s photographic output, including Other Nature, Alpine Star, Lick Creek Line and Lago.   At the heart of Nausea lies the premise that philosophical inquiry might be filtered and consumed through photographs, just as it is filtered through Sartre?s work of literary fiction. Taking as his subject the banality of institutional learning, the monotonous spaces and objects captured in Nausea serve as a platform for exploring the nexus between the narrative limitations of photography and consciousness. Employing a distinctive visual language, marked by an acute sense of colour, radical framing and shallow focus, Jude created a world both familiar and uncanny, imbued with a pervasive sense of unease.   To mark the 25th anniversary of the inaugural exhibition of Nausea in 1992 at The Photographers? Gallery in London, Jude has made an entirely new edit of this work. Many of the photographs in this volume have never before been published or exhibited.   Ron Jude (b. 1965, Los Angeles) lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. His photographs have been exhibited at galleries including The Photographers? Gallery, London; Daugeu Cultural Center, South Korea; Proekt_Fabrika, Moscow; and Roth/Horowitz Gallery, New York. He is the co-founder of A-Jump Books and the author of Alpine Star, Postcards, Other Nature and Emmett. His other books include Lago (2015, MACK) and Lick Creek Line (2012, MACK). Jude has lectured extensively about his work, most recently at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rochester Institute of Technology. He is represented by Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica, Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg, and Galeria Alfacinha in Lisbon. He currently teaches photography at University of Oregon.   96 pages   22 cm x 26 cm   Hardback with embossed raw board cover and silkscreen printed jacket   Publication date: May 2017   ISBN 978-1-910164-79-2

Nausea

One of the most imaginative and original photographers working today   Work that entertains?and holds up a mirror to our bizarre muddling of private and public worlds   Alison Jackson's staged realism toys with our voyeuristic and fame-fueled fantasies. Her mockumentary approach uses look-alikes to create elaborate imaginary scenes of famous people. Cheeky and often shocking, her fabulously fake scenarios question the levels of reality present in our media-saturated existences. Along the way, she challenges us to question how much of what we know (or think we know) about well-known figures can actually be true. Could it all really be a deluded projection of our own mundane lives? Is loneliness and disconnection at the heart of wanting to come close to our famous 'friends'. Why are we so curious about people we'll probably never meet, whose whole existence might just be a carefully constructed performance?      96 pp., Hardcover   45 color and 10 b/w photographs   Text in English and German   ISBN:	978-3-652-00071-0   Format:	10 5/8 x 14 1/6 in

Stern Portfolio #70 - Alison Jackson

Signed by the Photographer   Although taken over a five-year period, the photographs in Sweep Out Cottage timelessly evoke one single summer's day in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Here, with the wistful sense of an earlier era, is evidence of two people who love the simple things in life: gardening, reading, eating and drinking in their beautiful holiday surroundings. For some years now Peter Jones and his wife have rented the sweep out cottage every July, and in this quiet colonial hamlet they have realized a dream of summer as it should be, with the breeze off the water, the fragrance of flowers and soft fruit, a good book, a favorite chair, and the breakfast table set for another idyllic day.    Jones has been involved with many aspects of photography all his adult life, but it is here in Sweep Out Cottage that he has found his own true artistic inspiration. The work in this, his first monograph, is not only a celebration of a place and a way of life; it is also homage to a happy marriage and a time of blissful serenity.    Beautifully printed on Japanese matt art stock, Sweep Out Cottage opens with an essay by Michael Shnayerson.   ISBN: 978-1-95005-093-4   Hardcover, slipcased, 12 x 13,    56 pages, 39 four-color plates.

Sweep out Cottage

View from here, photos of the World Trade Center - 2000   Published by Flying Plastic Press, 2002     Signed and number from an edition of only 50 books, very scarce.     11 B/W Photographs taken of or from the World Trade Center in 2000.

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