City of Salt    Aperture   Hard Bound in Slip Case   Panoramic photographs of fantastical landscapes make a bizarre Baedeker to alternative realities in City of Salt, by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. The second volume, after Scotlandfuturebog, in an intended trilogy of such otherworldly guides juxtaposes those scenes with similarly inspired texts: Sufi tales, the writings of fabulist Italo Calvino, and parables by the artists themselves. The strange deserts, marshes, sandy shores, villages, and fields are often traversed by wandering figures, frequently in peril or precariously alone. Kahn and Selesnick's process combines sculptural and photographic media. The artists first construct the intricately detailed worlds in three-dimensional miniatures and dioramas, then digitally photograph the scene and populate it with characters in allegorical, though intriguingly puzzling, tableaux. Essays by Erez Lieberman and Sarah Falkner. Hardcover, 17.25 x 8.75 in./96 pgs / 40 color.

City of Salt

CALAIS LACE   Published by Nazraeli Press   Signed by the Photographer    Since 1993 Michael Kenna has visited Calais many times and wandered at length throughout the town, photographing its urban landscapes and its proud industrious heart: the lace factories. On his first visit he met Annette Haudiquet, then head curator of the Mus?e des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle. It was during this meeting that the idea for the book Calais Lace, and the exhibition it accompanies, was born. Pursuing the memories that still haunt the old laceworks of Calais, Michael Kenna's photographs capture a past deeply ingrained in the life of this town. The artist's own childhood in a working-class neighbourhood near Liverpool, together with his work on the Lancashire and Yorkshire cotton mills, led him to develop a language specific to a geography of disaster, the poetics of working-class escapism and the outdoors as a refuge. In Calais Lace, Kenna captures the spirit of this town and marks out the character-traits of a hardworking people. This first Nazraeli Press edition of Calais Lace is limited to 1,000 copies. It opens with an essay by No.l Jouenne, a PhD in social anthropology who shares with us his intimate knowledge of the vocabulary, the names of the sometimes eccentric-looking objects and their uses.   Hardcover, 10 x 12,  92 pages, 52 duotone plates. ISBN 1-59005-050-9

Calais Lace

Monique's Kindergarten    Published by Nazraeli    Signed by the Photographer    A delightful departure from Kenna's landscape work, Monique's Kindergarten explores the play world of a Waldorf kindergarten. Kenna first became involved with the school as a parent searching for an imaginative and supportive environment for his child. He returned later as an artist exploring childhood and inspiration.    Nazraeli Press, Munich, 1997. 96 pp., 60 duotone illustrations, 10x10        .

Monique's Kindergarten

These lively, explosive photos of people, fashion, and city-scapes from the iconoclastic  America in Paris  a revolutionized photography.

Stern Portfolio # 7 -William Klien

There is in the work of Kertész a sense of the sweetness of life, a free and childlike pleasure in the beauty of the world and preciousness of sight. --John Szarkowski, Looking at Pictures

Stern Portfolio #31 - Andre Kertesz

In The Museum Project, Korean photographer Atta Kim commandeers average scenes-city streets, department stores, freight depots, and forests-and turns them into exhibition spaces. On display are people crammed into acrylic boxes, stacked in sets, on end, or sometimes alone. In selecting his subjects and isolating them in their boxes, Kim aims to  detach them from reality; to display and deconstruct at the same time my own concept of the world.  Kim compares his efforts to that of an archaeologist, sifting through the cultural strata in order to unearth and hold up exemplary objects for our contemplation. The Museum Project is comprised of a number of series, such as  War Memorial, Sex, Suicide, and other human typologies, each intended to highlight a particular mode of behavior or belief. In certain series, the subjects are isolated from their natural settings, each display case simply framed and offset by backdrops in primary colors. The resulting images are curious and startling, straddling the indeterminate ground between performance, photography, and an alternate form of anthropology.  The subject of history is, finally, nothing but human beings,  Kim says.  [The] great order of . . . the cosmos is that all kinds of acts conducted by human beings are always watched by someone.

Atta Kim: The Museum Project

Mont St Michel  by Michael Kenna  Limited Editiion of 250 signed and numbered copies in Slipcase.     The small tidal island of Mont St Michel is situated just off the Normandy coast, connected to the mainland by a single causeway. Its abbey rises like a mirage, high above the sea, on this craggy, rocky perch. It is a spectacular sight, and one that Kenna has been drawn to many times over the years. By day, the island is alive with cars, buses, people, noise. It can seem a garish place. But at night, it becomes as originally intended: a place for peace, prayer, and quiet contemplation. It is that gentler face of Mont St Michel that Kenna wanted to photograph and, after the crowds have gone home, he has been able to do so. Alone, he has climbed the bell tower, explored the crypts and chapels, and ambled along the silent lanes of the island. He has watched, totally undisturbed, as the light changed, shadows came and went, and clouds subtley floated this way and that. While his camera shutter was open for long, long exposures, Kenna cherished the silence. He sees these photographs as a personal record of this time of solitary exploration; it is a record we are privileged to share. Kenna has dedicated this book to his father and, in a deeply moving introduction, he describes the connection he feels between this solid, calm, inspirational place and his much-loved parent.      Hardcover, 8 x 12, 84 pages, 64 duotone plates.   ISBN 978-1-59005-205-1

Mont St Michel (Limited Edition)

Japan   Nazraeli Press    Signed by the Photographer     Third Edition hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese folding slipcase, new. The beauty of the binding is surpassed only by the images.    Signed by the photographer.    JAPAN by Michael Kenna 'He has been reflective when others have been militant, romantic when others have been skeptical. Such isolation can starve all but the most independent of talents, but for these it can provide a sanctuary where visions can develop undisturbed. Kenna is one of these.' Joanna Pitman, The Times (London)    Michael Kenna's photographs have long inspired words such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The photographs in Kenna's important new monograph, Japan, are the result of an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Kenna has had a large following in Japan ever since his first exhibition there in 1987. His many subsequent exhibitions and publications in Japan have provided him with ample opportunities to visit and photograph. During the past several years, as this project began to take shape, Kenna?s trips became more frequent and intense. The resulting images are stunning. Superbly printed in tritone, Japan is hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese folding slipcase.    Text in Japanese and English by Kotaro Iizawa. Publication coincides with a series of exhibitions in the US and Japan.     Hardcover, slipcased, 12 x 13, 108 pages,    96 tritone plates.    ISBN 1-59005-068-1 (Second printing)

Japan 4th

Easter Island    Published by Nazraeli Press   Second Edition Hardbound cloth with illustrated dustwrapper, new.    The Dust Wrappers have some Sun bleaching, The books themselvies are Perfect     EASTER ISLAND by Michael Kenna Situated in the South Pacific, Easter Island is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest population centers, making it one of the most isolated places on earth. Best known for the giant stone monoliths, or Moai, dotting its coastline, the island was named by Admiral Roggeveen, who chanced upon the triangle of volcanic rock on Easter Sunday in the year 1772. Michael Kenna has photographed Easter Island over a period of two years, creating a powerful new body of work which pays homage to the beauty of the island and the continuing mystery of its past. Kenna selected forty images from this project for publication in Easter Island. Our fourth publication on the work of Michael Kenna, Easter Island is beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper and bound in cloth. Michael Kenna?s work is represented in the permanent collections of such institutions as The National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.   Hardcover, 12 x 12, 72 pages, 40 duotone plates.    ISBN 1-59005-029-0

Easter Island

Signed by the Photographer   The land wears its furrows the way a lion wears the bars of a cage. The picture is the record of a hard lesson taught by an unforgiving landscape. Properly considered, such scenes can teach us our place in the creation. What could be more beautiful than a landscape larger than our ideas 'What is more beautiful than a brutally honest face.' From the introduction by Richard Manning, 'Don Kirby grew up turning the surface of the earth upside down, the son of a sharecropper in northwestern Missouri. A half century later, he has emerged as the preeminent photographer of wheat country, a master of both his medium and chosen subject matter. Kirby's sweeping, geometric photographs of wheatfields in the American Northwest manage to convey both a sense of wonder and a deep understanding of the land our dependence on it for our survival, and its own survival of the uses and abuses we impose upon it.'    The artist's first monograph, Wheatcountry is printed in a first edition of 2,000 casebound copies. The forty plates are beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, accompanied by essays from Richard Manning and Jay Dusard. Don Kirby's photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States.   ISBN: 1-59005-001-0   Hardcover, 12 x 12,   72 pages, 40 duotone plates.

Wheatcountry

Signed and Numbered   Limited edition of 500 with small original print   In June 1976, Michael Kenna first arrived in the United States to work at the Heiden Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. It was to be an authentic 'coming of age' summer for him. Since then, Kenna has documented the slow decline and eventual fall of the hotel. In June 2008, the crumbling structure burnt to the ground. Kenna drove ten hours with a ruptured appendix to make photographs of the remaining ashes   Nazraeli Press, 2009.    16 pp., 13 duotone illustrations,    one original print,    5 x 7".

(OPB#056) Heiden Hotel (OPB)

Books on Books 8    Facsimilie copy of the original book, complete with current essays    Koen Wessing's Chili, September 1973 is a shocking document from a socially concerned and politically engaged Dutch photojournalist. Published in 1973, just months after the fall of Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet's coup d'etat, it describes the tense days of the military attempt to root out public opposition in the streets of Santiago. Books on Books 8 reproduces every page spread from Wessing's gritty documentation of Chile's darkest historical moment.    The art historian and film theorist, Pauline Tereehorst, contributes a contemporary essay called The Man in the Grey Suit    Essays by Pauline Tereehorst, Jeffrey Ladd   Hardcover w/ Dustjacket   64 pp, 9.5 x 7 in.   30 Duotone illustrations   ISBN: 978-1-935004-14-1

BoB Chilli - September 1973

Signed by Photographer   "It is difficult to imagine scenes more politically relevant at this very moment than these photos from America?s great grasslands. The pivotal period for most of these places occurred in a time that is a close parallel to our own, so grasslands stand as living, breathing records of an age of upheaval, economic depression and well-meant policy gone wrong. That they persist is testimony to a unique American strength: an evolved and evolving commitment to conservation. Yet they are at the same time not so much a recollection of the past, as they are an exhortation of what we must do to honor this legacy."  From the Introduction by Richard Manning. Eight years ago, Nazraeli Press published Don Kirby's first book, Wheatcountry, to wide critical acclaim. We are pleased to announce Kirby's second monograph, Grasslands, which serves both as a companion book to Wheatcountry, and as stand-alone monograph of this important and timely series of photographs. In 2005, Kirby began a major study of the National Grasslands in the United States. The resulting monograph comprises 47 duotone plates, sequenced geographically from America's heartland of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas and Oklahoma through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, to the Oregon and California coastlines. Printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies, Grasslands opens with an introductory essay by Richard Manning, and concludes with Jay Dusard's insightful and feisty afterword.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-264-8   Hardcover, 12 x 12,    82 pages, 47 duotone plates.

Grasslands

A comprehensive rediscovery of an overlooked genius. Relive the vitality and style of 50's glamour Heinz Koester's celebrity photography brought much-needed hope and distraction to the austerity of post-war Germany. His skilful lighting and unique camera angles are still striking to the modern eye.   Although very advanced in photographic techniques, Koester treated his subjects with old-world courtesy. 'Warts and all' documentary style was not for him. A master of the careful touch-up and flattering composition, these works showcase public figures in a way that's both intimate and inspiring. Working by day and by night, Koester?s output was monumental. Mighty statesmen, theatrical impresarios, screen legends; his lens captured them all! This collection presents the artistic highlights of a most prolific career.   ISBN:  978-3-570-19899-5    Hardcover  96 pp,   10 5/8 x 14 1/6 in   61 b/w photographs    Text in English and German

Stern Portfolio #59 - Heinz  Koster

This is the first book for Nazraeli Press for this Korean Photographer   Edited by the curators of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Korean photographer, Boo Moon's sumptuous color photographs tell of a poetic journey from land, to sea, and finally the sky.   Photographs by Boo Moon. Edited by Taro Amano.    Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 1998.   96 pp., 60 four-color illustrations, 12 x 12".

Boo Moon

This is the third book from Korean Photographer published by Nazraeli Press   'The winter sea that Boomoon photographed was so stormy it could just as well be called a sea of snow. The snow is constantly, imperceptibly, burying and sinking the landscape in a uniform whiteness. But the accumulating snow does not simply cover and hide the landscape, it strips away the cover of existing meaning that envelops the figure of nature. At times the windblown snow violently agitates the scene, but this agitation can also be seen having the same endpoint. The snow is making the landscape new.' from the introduction by Shino Kuraishi. Our third monograph with the contemporary artist Boomoon presents a series of 33 photographs of a snowstorm where the sea meets the coast of Naksan. The series takes its name from a beach in northeast Korea that faces Japan. But the photographs construct an encounter for the beholders with themselves, wherever they may be, to reflect on the place they are in now, so the location is 'nowhere.' Or, as was the case with Boomoon's previous book, On the Clouds, 'anywhere'.    Photographs by Boomoon.   Nazraeli Press, Portland, 2011.   44 pp., 33 duotone illustrations, 9x13".

Naksan

Boomoon's third book with Nazraeli Press, Stargazing at Sokcho comprises 19 dreamlike land- and skyscapes made in the artist's secluded hometown in north-eastern Korea. Resembling nothing so much as the way the skies might look from the inside of a snow-globe, these gorgeous color photographs include hints of Sokcho's soaring granite peaks and dense forests, clear, bitterly cold skies, and an almost audible roar of silent eternity. Boomoon is widely considered one of South Korea's most important contemporary artists. His photographs and films have been shown widely in Asia and Europe, and are included in important collections throughout the world.    Stargazing at Sokcho is printed on matt art paper, with a double varnish, in an oversized horizontal format; this first printing is limited to 500 casebound copies.   1-59005-159-9   Hardcover, 17 x 13,   24 pages, 19 four-color plates.

Star Gazing at Sokcho

Hardbound Exhibition Catalogue   1st Edition, edition size just 750 copies   The Book and exhibition takes you on a journey through Asia, across the landscapes of India, Thailand, Vietnam, China, South Korea and Japan. On his first visit to Japan in 1987, he was instantly entranced by the land and has returned to Asia time and again. The 48 black and white photographs, part of an ongoing project, display his - passion, almost addiction or love affair with the land. He explores the relationship, juxtaposition, and interaction between the landscape and the structures that humans leave on the landscape. Kenna seeks out even the faintest of human interventions; traces, evidence, footprints, history, memories. In Japan he felt a deep sense of history in the terrain and through his subsequent trips to Asia he continues to search for the latent atmosphere of a place.   Rather than describing or reflecting reality, Kenna provides a more subjective interpretation. Shooting in black and white, he believes that as we see in colour all the time, black and white is instantly more mysterious. He favours working at dawn or dusk, as too much light tends to reveal all the details of a scene. Furthermore he gives free reign to the unexpected and unpredictable, using exposures of up to ten hours. Kenna gives up total control and allows nature to transpire; clouds come and go and condensation might appear on the lens. The long exposures eliminate or subdue distracting details and visually dense areas such as water become calmed. Infused with quietness, the photographs offer a place of contemplation and solitude in our fast paced world of noise and colour. Within the meditative landscapes, the viewer's imagination is invited to wander.   Born in 1953 into a working-class Irish catholic family in England, Kenna initially trained to become a priest. However his aspirations changed and despite no artistic background, he enrolled at art school and went on to study photography at the London College of Printing. Here he was first exposed to the photographers Bill Brandt, Ansel Adams, Josef Sudek and Alfred Steiglitz, whom were to become profoundly influential. After moving to San Francisco in 1977, he started to focus his attentions on his hobby, landscape photography. Today Kenna's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the world and is held in over 80 permanent collections including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has won numerous awards including the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. To date there are 42 published books of Kenna's photography.   Hardcover, 100 pages    49 Black and white illustrations    1st Edition, limited to 750 copies   Foreword by Tyga Helme, interview with Michael Kenna   2013

A Journey through Asia

Mont St Michel by Michael Kenna     Signed by the Photographer   This is the slipcased first edition, which has been signed by the photographer. This is not the limited edition signed and numbered edition.   The small tidal island of Mont St Michel is situated just off the Normandy coast, connected to the mainland by a single causeway. Its abbey rises like a mirage, high above the sea, on this craggy, rocky perch. It is a spectacular sight, and one that Kenna has been drawn to many times over the years. By day, the island is alive with cars, buses, people, noise. It can seem a garish place. But at night, it becomes as originally intended: a place for peace, prayer, and quiet contemplation. It is that gentler face of Mont St Michel that Kenna wanted to photograph and, after the crowds have gone home, he has been able to do so. Alone, he has climbed the bell tower, explored the crypts and chapels, and ambled along the silent lanes of the island. He has watched, totally undisturbed, as the light changed, shadows came and went, and clouds subtley floated this way and that. While his camera shutter was open for long, long exposures, Kenna cherished the silence. He sees these photographs as a personal record of this time of solitary exploration; it is a record we are privileged to share. Kenna has dedicated this book to his father and, in a deeply moving introduction, he describes the connection he feels between this solid, calm, inspirational place and his much-loved parent.      Publication Date: November 2007   Hardcover, 8 x 12,    84 pages, 64 duotone plates.   ISBN 978-1-59005-205-1

Mont St Michel

Signed by the Photographer   Following on from the exquisitely produced 'In Japan' (2006 & 2010) and 'In Hokkaido' (2009) we are delighted to announce ?In France?, an equally beautiful artist's book published by RAM (Tokyo).   With 58 images made by Michael Kenna between the years of 1984 and 2011, ?In France: merci bien pour tout? is not simply a visual appreciation of a very beautiful country; it is the photographer?s own personal homage to the memory of his dear friend and agent, Martine d'Arc. Bound in vellum with traditional Japanese thread, 'In France' opens with an introduction by Michael Kenna, and is printed in an edition of just 2,000 copies.

In France: merci bien pour tout

There is a small bump to one corner   Signed by the Photographer   1st Edition, edition size just 750 copies   Hardbound Exhibition Catalogue   The Book and exhibition takes you on a journey through Asia, across the landscapes of India, Thailand, Vietnam, China, South Korea and Japan. On his first visit to Japan in 1987, he was instantly entranced by the land and has returned to Asia time and again. The 48 black and white photographs, part of an ongoing project, display his - passion, almost addiction or love affair with the land. He explores the relationship, juxtaposition, and interaction between the landscape and the structures that humans leave on the landscape. Kenna seeks out even the faintest of human interventions; traces, evidence, footprints, history, memories. In Japan he felt a deep sense of history in the terrain and through his subsequent trips to Asia he continues to search for the latent atmosphere of a place.   Rather than describing or reflecting reality, Kenna provides a more subjective interpretation. Shooting in black and white, he believes that as we see in colour all the time, black and white is instantly more mysterious. He favours working at dawn or dusk, as too much light tends to reveal all the details of a scene. Furthermore he gives free reign to the unexpected and unpredictable, using exposures of up to ten hours. Kenna gives up total control and allows nature to transpire; clouds come and go and condensation might appear on the lens. The long exposures eliminate or subdue distracting details and visually dense areas such as water become calmed. Infused with quietness, the photographs offer a place of contemplation and solitude in our fast paced world of noise and colour. Within the meditative landscapes, the viewer's imagination is invited to wander.   Born in 1953 into a working-class Irish catholic family in England, Kenna initially trained to become a priest. However his aspirations changed and despite no artistic background, he enrolled at art school and went on to study photography at the London College of Printing. Here he was first exposed to the photographers Bill Brandt, Ansel Adams, Josef Sudek and Alfred Steiglitz, whom were to become profoundly influential. After moving to San Francisco in 1977, he started to focus his attentions on his hobby, landscape photography. Today Kenna's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the world and is held in over 80 permanent collections including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has won numerous awards including the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. To date there are 42 published books of Kenna's photography.   Hardcover, 100 pages    49 Black and white illustrations    1st Edition, limited to 750 copies   Foreword by Tyga Helme, interview with Michael Kenna   2013

A Journey through Asia (Bumped)

Signed by the Photographer   Published by Gallery K.O.N.G., this first edition of Tranquil Morning  continue Kenna's unique style of minimalist landscapes and long exposures.   Introduction by Michael Kenna   English and Korean   Gallery KONG, 2011.   Hard CoverSize: 200 x 270 mm,  8 x 10"   80 pp., 31 duotone illustrations,   31 selected texts,.

Tranquil Morning

Limited to just 500 signed and numbered copies   One Picture Book - Signed by the Photographer   Produced in 1979, Steve Kahn's Corridor images were the final chapter of his black-and-white project 'The Hollywood Suites 1974-76', which was eventually published as a Nazraeli Library monograph in 2014. In keeping with the style and concerns of the earlier work, the Corridor photographs were originally intimate, pull-and-peel Polaroid prints shot in Hollywood's aging apartment buildings.  These furtively snapped images of common hallways were intended to capture the stifling desperation of the tenants - lives through the metaphor of shared interior space. The series was Kahn's first venture into color.  Limited quantity at this price.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-425-3   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,   16 pages, 8 four-color plates,   1 signed original photograph signed by Steve Kahn

(OPB#089) Corridors (OPB)

Signed by the Photographer   Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies   'In the winter of 2002, I was most fortunate to have a serendipitous meeting with a glorious Japanese Oak on the banks of Kussharo Lake in Hokkaido, Japan. That particular morning was brutally cold, and heavy snow fell relentlessly. The lake was completely frozen over and white. I remember the muffled silence of the place, broken only by the piercing calls of hungry swans as they slid across the ice.'    'I have photographed countless trees, but this one had a special character, like an oversized bonsai - elegant, and graphically powerful. There was something quintessentially Japanese in its shape, reminiscent of a woodblock print....?'   'Kenna's Tree', as it is still referred to by locals, was cut down at a very old age in August 2009, but not before it became immortalized by the artist; exhibition prints of various studies of the tree are among Kenna's most sought-after work. This One Picture Book is the artist's farewell to one of his favorite subjects   ISBN: 978-1-59005-428-4   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 13 four-color plates,    1 signed original photograph by Michael Kenna

(OPB#092) Kussharo Lake Tree (OPB)

Steidl reprint of this excellent book   Chris Killip first attempted to photograph Seacoal Beach in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England, in 1976, but it took him six years to gain the trust of the people who worked there. Living, on and off, in a caravan on Lynemouth?s Seacoal camp from 1982 to 1984, Killip immersed himself in their struggles to survive. Fourteen images from the Seacoal series were also included in Killip?s groundbreaking book In Flagrante (1988).   "When I first saw the beach at Lynemouth, in January 1976, I recognized the coalmine and powerstation above it but nothing else. The beach beneath me was full of activity with horses and carts backed into the sea. Men were standing in the sea next to the carts, using small wire nets attached to poles to fish out the coal from the water beneath them. The place confounded time; here the Middle Ages and the twentieth century intertwined."    Chris Killip   Biography   Chris Killip, born on the Isle of Man in 1946, is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991. His works are held in the permanent collections of, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books include Isle of Man (1980), Pirelli Work (2006), Here Comes Everybody (2009), Seacoal (2011) and arbeit/work (2012).   Hardback / Clothbound    114 pages, 27 x 23 cm   English   ISBN 978-3-86930-256-0

Seacoal

Steidl reprint of this Seminal work   Chris Killip - In Flagrante Two   With original copies of this book selling selling between £200 and £500 dependant on condition this Steidl reprint is long overdue, although i would not be surprised to see this go out of print quite qickly.   The photographs that Chris Killip made in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were first published by Secker & Warburg in the book In Flagrante in 1988. The new oversized Steidl edition is a radically updated presentation, showing a single image on the right side of each double-page spread. In Flagrante Two is strident in its belief in the primacy of the photograph, embracing ambiguities and contradictions in an unadorned narrative sequence devoid of text.   Biography   Chris Killip, born on the Isle of Man in 1946, is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991. His works are held in the permanent collections of, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books include Isle of Man (1980), Pirelli Work (2006), Here Comes Everybody (2009), Seacoal (2011) and arbeit/work (2012).   Clothbound hardcover   Tritone, 110 pages   36.4 x 28.8 cm / 14.25 x 11.25 in   ISBN 978-3-86930-960-6

In Flagrante Two

Here Comes Everybody? - Chris Killlip's Irish Photographs   Here Comes Everybody? is a phrase that echoes through James Joyce?s Finnegans Wake. It aptly captures the intense poetry of this new collection, taken over repeated trips to Ireland between 1993 and 2005 on each of which Killip attended the annual pilgrimages at Croagh Patrick and Máméan, places of wild beauty and ancient spirituality.   His poignant photographs are a personal reflection on the contemporary pilgrims? journey, and are complemented by landscapes, townscapes and details photographed in the west of Ireland and beyond. They include the first colour photographs Chris Killip has ever published.      Hardback   96pp, 24.00 x 33.00 cm   121 Illustrations, 78 in colour   ISBN 9780500543658

Here comes Everybody

Martin Kollar    Provisional Arrangement   Signed by the Photographer   Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollar?s new work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provisional situations and solutions. "We are tenants of culture", wrote Nicolas Bourriaud, foreseeing a world of precarious inhabitation of ideas. ?I grew up in Czechoslovakia during the Communist era,? says Kollar, ?and with the motto, with the Soviet Union for all Eternity ? which has been one of my few experiences with eternity... People of my generation fight against the void left behind the abandoned dogmas.? It is this world that Kollar turns to, one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties ? to situations which reveal the disintegra-tion of permanences, capturing their fall into the provisional.    Martin Kollar was born in Zilina, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava and has been working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer since he graduated. As a cinematographer, Martin has worked on a number of films, including Koza (2015), Velvet Terrorists (2013), Cooking History (2009), 66 Seasons (2003) and his directorial feature debut 5 October (2016). He has received several grants and awards, including the Prix Elysee and Oscar Barnack Award and his work has been exhibited across the world, including the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Musée de l'Élysée (Lausanne). His previous books include Nothing Special (2008), Cahier (2011), Field Trip (MACK, 2013) and Catalogue (Slovak National Gallery, 2015).   Embossed hardcover with coloured boards   72 pages   38 colour plates   20 cm x 25.5 cm   Publication date: September 2016   ISBN 9781910164501

Provisional Arrangement

Steidl reprint of this Seminal work   Chris Killip - In Flagrante Two   With original copies of this book selling selling between £200 and £500 dependant on condition this Steidl reprint is long overdue, although i would not be surprised to see this go out of print quite qickly.   The photographs that Chris Killip made in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were first published by Secker & Warburg in the book In Flagrante in 1988. The new oversized Steidl edition is a radically updated presentation, showing a single image on the right side of each double-page spread. In Flagrante Two is strident in its belief in the primacy of the photograph, embracing ambiguities and contradictions in an unadorned narrative sequence devoid of text.   Biography<   Chris Killip, born on the Isle of Man in 1946, is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991. His works are held in the permanent collections of, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books include Isle of Man (1980), Pirelli Work (2006), Here Comes Everybody (2009), Seacoal (2011) and arbeit/work (2012).   clothbound hardcover   Tritone, 110 pages   36.4 x 28.8 cm / 14.25 x 11.25 in   ISBN 978-3-86930-960-6

First Edition in Slip case   Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ?green region of Europe? because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has one of the highest biodiversity indexes in Europe, and one of the richest areas of flora in the world.    In Abruzzo, Michael Kenna found a cultural identity that elsewhere, for the most part, has been lost to globalization and instant communication. Kenna photographed medieval ruins, ancient villages and a countryside rich in traditional cultivation. As curator Vincenzo de Pompeis writes in the book?s introduction, ?Abruzzo?s heritage, together with its impressive natural scenery, brings to mind romantic connotations that have historically attracted many international landscape artists, particularly in the 19th century. Michael Kenna fits perfectly into this rich historical vein of celebrated landscape artists who have worked in Abruzzo. Kenna?s work often evokes the influences of Romanticism. In his photographs of historic rural landscapes, for example, there is an air of melancholy, which accompanies memories from the past. His images of ruins stir up feelings of passing time, of the constantly evolving  ties between history and nature.?   This gorgeous new monograph by renowned landscape photographer Michael Kenna is published to coincide with a major museum exhibition opening in July, 2017 in Loreto Aprutino, Italy. Richly printed in duotone on matt art paper, and presented in an olive-green cloth slipcase with black debossed text on one side and a tipped-in image on the other, Abruzzo presents 65 images from the series, published here for the first time. Abruzzo opens with a bilingual essay by curator Vincenzo de Pompeis. This first printing is limited to 2,500 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-463-5   Hardcover, slipcased,    12 x 13, 80 pages,    65 duotone plates

Abrazzo

Signed and numbered special edition in custom slipcase   Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ?green region of Europe? because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has one of the highest biodiversity indexes in Europe, and one of the richest areas of flora in the world.    In Abruzzo, Michael Kenna found a cultural identity that elsewhere, for the most part, has been lost to globalization and instant communication. Kenna photographed medieval ruins, ancient villages and a countryside rich in traditional cultivation. As curator Vincenzo de Pompeis writes in the book?s introduction, ?Abruzzo?s heritage, together with its impressive natural scenery, brings to mind romantic connotations that have historically attracted many international landscape artists, particularly in the 19th century. Michael Kenna fits perfectly into this rich historical vein of celebrated landscape artists who have worked in Abruzzo. Kenna?s work often evokes the influences of Romanticism. In his photographs of historic rural landscapes, for example, there is an air of melancholy, which accompanies memories from the past. His images of ruins stir up feelings of passing time, of the constantly evolving  ties between history and nature.?   This gorgeous new monograph by renowned landscape photographer Michael Kenna is published to coincide with a major museum exhibition opening in July, 2017 in Loreto Aprutino, Italy. Richly printed in duotone on matt art paper, and presented in an olive-green cloth slipcase with black debossed text on one side and a tipped-in image on the other, Abruzzo presents 65 images from the series, published here for the first time. Abruzzo opens with a bilingual essay by curator Vincenzo de Pompeis. This first printing is limited to 2,500 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-463-5   Hardcover, slipcased,    12 x 13, 80 pages,    65 duotone plates

Abrazzo (Special Edition)

Limited edition includes small print signed by Tomoko Sawada   Souvenirs is a recreation of sixteen hand-tinted Japanese "Geisha" postcards originally printed in the early 1900s.  This book is number one hundred in the Nazraeli "One Picture Book" series, and it includes an original signed photograph by Tomoko Sawada, a photographer well-known for her chameleon-like self-portraits. In this case, she has transformed herself into a wistful turn-of-the century geisha.     Sawada?s cameo appearance in this book is also a play on the One Picture Book series itself, as she authored book number ninety nine in the series.    Gloria Katz is a screenwriter whose credits include "American Graffiti" and "Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom".  She is an avid collector of Japanese Photography ? an interest that stems from her love of Japanese cinema.  She is co-author (with her husband Willard Huyck) of "Visions of Japan", a new book about her adventures collecting photography.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-474-1   Hardcover, 185 x 140mm,    16 pages, 16 four-colour plates,    1 signed original photograph by Tomoko Sawada

(OPB#100) Souvenirs

Michael Kenna  Huangshan: The Yellow Mountain   Signed and numbered edition of 100 copies, presented in a custom greyboard slipcase.   Huangshan, also known as The Yellow Mountain, is an exquisite one hundred and sixty-square mile mountain range in Anhui province in eastern China. The range is particularly known for its seventy-two uniquely-shaped granite peaks, the ubiquitous pine trees that literally grow right out of the rock faces, and the ever-changing configurations of flowing clouds as seen from above. Originally named Yishan (Yi Mountain), legend has it that the mountain was renamed after the Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) ascended to heaven there in 747 AD. Huangshan has been, and continues to be, the subject of numerous traditional Chinese paintings and literature, and was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990. Today, it is one of China?s most popular tourist attractions.   In 2007, Michael Kenna made his first pilgrimage to Huangshan, and three years later Nazraeli Press published a monograph of the photographs he made on this and subsequent visits. The first edition of Huangshan sold out quickly, so we are pleased to announce a new, expanded edition of the book published on the tenth anniversary of Kenna?s first visit to the site. Huangshan: The Yellow Mountain includes fourteen new, previously unpublished photographs as well as the original forty-six. This new edition features a special Chinese-style binding, and is limited to 1,000 copies of which only 500 will be sold outside of Asia, where the book is co-published by Monogram Asia. Huangshan: The Yellow Mountain is beautifully printed on Japanese art paper using our exclusive ?Daido black? ink.   Softcover, 8.5 x 11.5 inches,    84 pages, 60 duotone plates.    ISBN 978-1-59005-469-7

Huangshan: The Yellow Mountain (Special)

We are excited to announce the launch of One Picture Book Two: an upgraded, upscaled follow-up to our much-loved One Picture Book series of artists? books. Each title will be limited to 500 numbered copies, and will include a removable, signed, original print.    Complete set of four books   The first four titles of One Picture Book Two will be released in March 2018: DMZ (Korean Demilitarized Zone) by Michael Kenna; Florida Dogs by Tony Mendoza; Lone Ranger by Betty Hahn; and Monument by Carrie Mae Weems.    Subsequent releases will include titles by JoAnn Callis, Mark Ruwedel, Daido Moriyama, Susan Zadeh, Laurie Simmons, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Toshio Shibata, Todd Hido, Mark Steinemetz, Leon Borensztein, Corey Arnold, and many others.

(OPB2 SET1) COMPLETE #1-4 Kenna Mendoza Hahn Weems

Limited to just xx copies   Contains a small colour c-type print approx, 18cm x 20cm   With a lenticular colour images that changes from colour to Black and white.   Tinged with a spirituality that is at the same time gentle and powerful, his images paint a picture of a sacred land where the signs of the human condition are a set of structures that offer mysterious, yet soothing, views. Speaking beings may seem absent from the space of contemplation, but let us make no mistake, [there is] every sound of invisible presences and of words unspoken. The abstract scenes which the British photographer loves to create are invitations to meditate on the dual nature of our appearance in the general order of animal species,   Hardcover   size approx 28cm x 30cm   approx 66 bw images

One Sunday in Beijing (Redcover)

One Sunday in Beijing (Yellowcover)

Signed by the photographer,   Limited edition signed and numbered, containing 1 small signed print   The first title in our new ?One Picture Book Two? series is by Michael Kenna, and it is a most timely one. The DMZ, known also as the Korean Demilitarised Zone, is two hundred and fifty kilometers long, four kilometers wide, and runs across the thirty-eighth parallel, dividing the Korean peninsula into North Korea, (Democratic People?s Republic of Korea), and South Korea, (Republic of Korea). The DMZ has been a de facto buffered international border since an Armistice Agreement was signed in 1953.    Today, thousands of troops from North and South Korea are stationed on both sides of the DMZ. Constant visual and electronic surveillance is conducted. Electrified barbed wire fences, armed guard posts and watch towers defend the perimeters of the zone. Land mines and heavy weapons are in place, ready to be used.   The thirteen photographs presented here were made by Michael Kenna during his visits to the South Korean DMZ locations of Cheolwon, Gangwondo in 2005 and Paju, Gyeonggido in 2012.    Limited to 500 numbered copies, each copy of DMZ ? The 38th Parallel is hand-numbered, and comes with an original 5x7 inch print signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-492-5   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2,    16 pages, 13 duotone plates,   1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 001)  Michael Kenna - DMZ

For over thirty years, Michael Kenna has photographed temples, shrines, gardens, seascapes and landscapes, in black and white, throughout Japan. Ten years ago, he also began to photograph female nudes in various locations in Japan. A selection of these photographs was unveiled to the public for the first time at Paris Photo in November 2018.    The Japanese women who modeled were actresses, dancers, office workers, photographers and yoga practitioners. ?Their willingness to express themselves in front of the camera and their trust in my integrity as a photographer, enabled us to engage in creative visual explorations and conversations?, says Kenna. ?The human body is an absolutely amazing, mysterious miracle in a myriad of ways?, adds the British photographer. ?I view both historical and contemporary creative representations of the nude as open invitations to explore this esthetic challenge. My efforts may add little or nothing to the enormous existing mountain of artistic treasures, but that is not important. This is another chapter in an ongoing story?.   Nazraeli Press is pleased to announce the publication of Kenna?s Japanese nude studies, entitled Rafu. Beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese art paper, and hand-bound in deep purple silk, this gorgeous artist?s book presents 42 images from the Rafu series. The first printing is limited to 1,000 copies. A special slipcased edition, individually numbered and signed by the artist, is available here -  A deluxe edition of 25 copies, including a gelatin silver print made by the artist and presented with a copy of the book in a custom clamshell box, is available here -   Rafu was published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition of Michael Kenna?s photographic work at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photographic Art.    ISBN: 978-1-59005-498-7   Hardcover,    210 x 304mm, 64 pages,    41 duotone plates.

Rafu

A special edition of 160 copies featuring a numbered and signed copy of the book presented in a custom greyboard slipcase.   For over thirty years, Michael Kenna has photographed temples, shrines, gardens, seascapes and landscapes, in black and white, throughout Japan. Ten years ago, he also began to photograph female nudes in various locations in Japan. A selection of these photographs was unveiled to the public for the first time at Paris Photo in November 2018.    The Japanese women who modeled were actresses, dancers, office workers, photographers and yoga practitioners. ?Their willingness to express themselves in front of the camera and their trust in my integrity as a photographer, enabled us to engage in creative visual explorations and conversations?, says Kenna. ?The human body is an absolutely amazing, mysterious miracle in a myriad of ways?, adds the British photographer. ?I view both historical and contemporary creative representations of the nude as open invitations to explore this esthetic challenge. My efforts may add little or nothing to the enormous existing mountain of artistic treasures, but that is not important. This is another chapter in an ongoing story?.   Nazraeli Press is pleased to announce the publication of Kenna?s Japanese nude studies, entitled Rafu. Beautifully printed on uncoated Japanese art paper, and hand-bound in deep purple silk, this gorgeous artist?s book presents 42 images from the Rafu series. The first printing is limited to 1,000 copies and A special slipcased edition, individually numbered and signed by the artist.    Rafu was published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition of Michael Kenna?s photographic work at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photographic Art.    ISBN: 978-1-59005-498-7   Hardcover,    210 x 304mm, 64 pages,    41 duotone plates.

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.   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   Limited to 500 numbered copies, each copy of Notre-Dame de Paris comes with an original 5x7 inch photograph signed by the artist, of an image made during a trip to Paris in 1973.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-538-0   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2,    16 pages, 14 duotone plates,    1 original signed photograph

(OPB2 017) Michael Kenna - Notre Dame de Paris

First Edition in Slip case, There is a small bump to the outer slip case   Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ?green region of Europe? because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has one of the highest biodiversity indexes in Europe, and one of the richest areas of flora in the world.    In Abruzzo, Michael Kenna found a cultural identity that elsewhere, for the most part, has been lost to globalization and instant communication. Kenna photographed medieval ruins, ancient villages and a countryside rich in traditional cultivation. As curator Vincenzo de Pompeis writes in the book?s introduction, ?Abruzzo?s heritage, together with its impressive natural scenery, brings to mind romantic connotations that have historically attracted many international landscape artists, particularly in the 19th century. Michael Kenna fits perfectly into this rich historical vein of celebrated landscape artists who have worked in Abruzzo. Kenna?s work often evokes the influences of Romanticism. In his photographs of historic rural landscapes, for example, there is an air of melancholy, which accompanies memories from the past. His images of ruins stir up feelings of passing time, of the constantly evolving  ties between history and nature.?   This gorgeous new monograph by renowned landscape photographer Michael Kenna is published to coincide with a major museum exhibition opening in July, 2017 in Loreto Aprutino, Italy. Richly printed in duotone on matt art paper, and presented in an olive-green cloth slipcase with black debossed text on one side and a tipped-in image on the other, Abruzzo presents 65 images from the series, published here for the first time. Abruzzo opens with a bilingual essay by curator Vincenzo de Pompeis. This first printing is limited to 2,500 copies.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-463-5   Hardcover, slipcased,    12 x 13, 80 pages,    65 duotone plates

Abrazzo (sml bump)

Kawada’s The Map / Chizu is the most famous and sought after book in the history of Japanese photography and has seen numerous editions since its original publication in 1965. \nHowever, this iconic volume has only even been seen in the form which emerged out of Kawada’s collaboration with the noted graphic designer Kohei Sugiura. \nThis MACK version is a facsimile of the original two-volume maquette, a unique object discovered in the holdings of The New York Public Library, and which is the form of the book first settled on and designed by Kawada and Sugiura. A revelation in its own right, this edition includes an accompanying bilingual booklet featuring new scholarship by Joshua Chuang and Miyuki Hinton, together with an extended interview with the artist, detailing the evolution of one of the greatest photobooks ever made.\n\nTwo hardback books, each with a jacket, plus one paperback booklet with leporello fold. Housed in a buckram bound hardback slipcase, protected in a printed cardboard mailer\n\nThe Map by Kikuji Kawada   Originally published on August 6, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, The Map (Chizu) by Kikuji Kawada is a true icon in the history of photographic publishing. Its status as the ultimate photobook-as-object,© coupled with its scarcity, combined to make it one of the most famous and sought-after photographic publications in existence. The Map combines powerful graphic design with a masterful photographic narrative exploring recent Japanese history  its imperialistic past, western-influenced popular culture, and brutally violent clash with the United States. The photographs, many visible only with the opening of the multiple gatefolds, capture on high-contrast film scenes of places and objects seared with the memory of horrific wartime events, from the atomic-bomb dome in Hiroshima to a trampled Japanese flag.\n\nOriginally published on August 6, 1965 to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima, the guiding idea of Kikuji Kawada's memorial is archaeological layering. Using multi-panel foldouts, the "various layers inside peel away like archeological strata. The whole process becomes one of uncovering and contemplating the ramifications of recent Japanese history. Kawada's photographs are a masterly amalgam of abstraction and realism, of the specific and the ineffable, woven into a tapestry that makes the act of reading them a process of re-creation in itself. In the central metaphor of the map, in the idea of the map as a series of interlocking trace marks, Kawada has conjured a brilliant simile for the photograph itself: Scientific record, memory trace, cultural repository, puzzle, and guide"\n\n(Bilingual: English, Japanese)\n19.7 x 29.9cm, 272 pages (total)\nISBN 978-1-912339-71-6

The Map (Chizu)

This is to reserve a copy, to make an advance order for the book which will ship in September.       “This book is an early vignette from Michael Kenna’s far-reaching photographic odyssey. Some of these photographs, made almost forty years ago, are familiar, even famous, but many have never been seen before. They have been lying in wait, stored in a series of negative files. Normally, Kenna travels extensively and is not able to keep up with printing his extensive collection of negatives. It took the Covid pandemic and lockdown for him to search through his archives, rediscover these long-forgotten images, and print them in his darkroom. These photographs reveal a Northern England from Kenna’s youth that, for the most part, no longer exists.” — From the Introduction\n\nMichael Kenna was born in the small industrial town of Widnes in northwest England. The youngest of six children, Kenna grew up in a poor, working-class, Irish-Catholic family. He attended a seminary school for seven years with the intention of becoming a priest, after which he studied at the Banbury School of Art and later at the London College of Printing, before moving to the USA in the late seventies.\n\nThe adjoining counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Kenna photographed in the early eighties, have much in common regarding their industrial development. Fiercely competitive, they share a border, a spine of mountains known locally as the Pennines, which helps to produce rain. The rise of a powerful cotton and wool industry, and the building of innumerable mills, canals, railways, chimneys and terraced worker houses, have been attributed in part to these high levels of precipitation. The local textile industry proliferated until the second half of the twentieth century, when there was a sudden, rapid decline and eventual decimation. It was during this precise time period that Kenna returned to the area to photograph, during the day and also at night.\n\nKenna’s early photographs of England launched his career and brought him international acclaim; yet it wasn’t until last year, 2020, that he revisited this particular body of work to find many unprinted images. These discoveries are exquisitely presented in this important new Nazraeli Press monograph, Northern England 1983–1986.\n\nBeautifully printed on a natural textured art paper, accompanied by an introductory text by Dr. Ian B Glover, the seventy-five plates are reproduced in quadratone and bound into cotton cloth-covered boards reminiscent of the era.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-544-2\nHardcover, cloth, 10 x 13 inches, 96 pages, 75 plates.

Northern England 1983-1986

This is to reserve a copy, to make an advance order for the book which will ship in September.         This is the Special edition, signed and numbered in a slipcase.\n\n“This book is an early vignette from Michael Kenna’s far-reaching photographic odyssey. Some of these photographs, made almost forty years ago, are familiar, even famous, but many have never been seen before. They have been lying in wait, stored in a series of negative files. Normally, Kenna travels extensively and is not able to keep up with printing his extensive collection of negatives. It took the Covid pandemic and lockdown for him to search through his archives, rediscover these long-forgotten images, and print them in his darkroom. These photographs reveal a Northern England from Kenna’s youth that, for the most part, no longer exists.” — From the Introduction\n\nMichael Kenna was born in the small industrial town of Widnes in northwest England. The youngest of six children, Kenna grew up in a poor, working-class, Irish-Catholic family. He attended a seminary school for seven years with the intention of becoming a priest, after which he studied at the Banbury School of Art and later at the London College of Printing, before moving to the USA in the late seventies.\n\nThe adjoining counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Kenna photographed in the early eighties, have much in common regarding their industrial development. Fiercely competitive, they share a border, a spine of mountains known locally as the Pennines, which helps to produce rain. The rise of a powerful cotton and wool industry, and the building of innumerable mills, canals, railways, chimneys and terraced worker houses, have been attributed in part to these high levels of precipitation. The local textile industry proliferated until the second half of the twentieth century, when there was a sudden, rapid decline and eventual decimation. It was during this precise time period that Kenna returned to the area to photograph, during the day and also at night.\n\nKenna’s early photographs of England launched his career and brought him international acclaim; yet it wasn’t until last year, 2020, that he revisited this particular body of work to find many unprinted images. These discoveries are exquisitely presented in this important new Nazraeli Press monograph, Northern England 1983–1986.\n\nBeautifully printed on a natural textured art paper, accompanied by an introductory text by Dr. Ian B Glover, the seventy-five plates are reproduced in quadratone and bound into cotton cloth-covered boards reminiscent of the era.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-544-2\nHardcover, cloth, 10 x 13 inches, 96 pages, 75 plates.

(Special Edition) Northern England 1983-1986

This is to reserve a copy, to make an advance order for the book which will ship in September.   This is the deluxe edition with a print, signed and numbered   A deluxe edition of twenty-five copies, numbered, signed, and presented in a custom clamshell box with a toned, gelatin silver print of the front cover image, printed from the original negative by Michael Kenna, matted and mounted on archival board.\n\n“This book is an early vignette from Michael Kenna’s far-reaching photographic odyssey. Some of these photographs, made almost forty years ago, are familiar, even famous, but many have never been seen before. They have been lying in wait, stored in a series of negative files. Normally, Kenna travels extensively and is not able to keep up with printing his extensive collection of negatives. It took the Covid pandemic and lockdown for him to search through his archives, rediscover these long-forgotten images, and print them in his darkroom. These photographs reveal a Northern England from Kenna’s youth that, for the most part, no longer exists.” — From the Introduction\n\nMichael Kenna was born in the small industrial town of Widnes in northwest England. The youngest of six children, Kenna grew up in a poor, working-class, Irish-Catholic family. He attended a seminary school for seven years with the intention of becoming a priest, after which he studied at the Banbury School of Art and later at the London College of Printing, before moving to the USA in the late seventies.\n\nThe adjoining counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Kenna photographed in the early eighties, have much in common regarding their industrial development. Fiercely competitive, they share a border, a spine of mountains known locally as the Pennines, which helps to produce rain. The rise of a powerful cotton and wool industry, and the building of innumerable mills, canals, railways, chimneys and terraced worker houses, have been attributed in part to these high levels of precipitation. The local textile industry proliferated until the second half of the twentieth century, when there was a sudden, rapid decline and eventual decimation. It was during this precise time period that Kenna returned to the area to photograph, during the day and also at night.\n\nKenna’s early photographs of England launched his career and brought him international acclaim; yet it wasn’t until last year, 2020, that he revisited this particular body of work to find many unprinted images. These discoveries are exquisitely presented in this important new Nazraeli Press monograph, Northern England 1983–1986.\n\nBeautifully printed on a natural textured art paper, accompanied by an introductory text by Dr. Ian B Glover, the seventy-five plates are reproduced in quadratone and bound into cotton cloth-covered boards reminiscent of the era.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-544-2\nHardcover, cloth, 10 x 13 inches, 96 pages, 75 plates.

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