This is an Artists Proof copy which is signed but not numbered, presented in a custom cloth covered slipcase.\n\nPublished to coincide with a major 2024 traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, this gorgeous new monograph presents 100 of Michael Kenna’s most iconic photographs of the Japanese landscape, many published here for the first time. A perfect pairing of artist and subject, these photographs of Japan comprise perhaps Kenna’s best known body of work and have been the subject of countless exhibitions throughout the world. Michael Kenna first visited Japan in 1987 on the event of his inaugural exhibition there, and he has returned dozens of times and made thousands of photographs throughout the country’s vast and incredibly varied landscape. Our earlier monographs Japan and Hokkaido have been out of print for many years, so we are thrilled to announce this important new publication that includes work spanning Kenna’s decades-long love affair with the country. Japan / A Love Story is beautifully printed in duotone on natural coated art paper and quarter bound in linen and silk. It opens with an essay in Japanese and English by the renowned critic and historian Kohtaro Iizawa.  \n\n“Japan has a long and rich tradition of reciprocal gift giving. I have been the grateful recipient of so much over so many years in Japan, and I know that I will never be able to give back in equal measure. I hope this work can be seen as a small token of my desire to do so. I also hope this work can be viewed as a homage to Japan and that it will serve to symbolize my immense ongoing appreciation and deep gratitude for this beautiful and mysterious country.” — From the Afterword by Michael Kenna \n\n"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\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-599-1\nHardcover, cloth, \n10.5 x 13 inches, 136 pages, \n100 plates.

Japan; A Love Story (Artists Proof Special Edition)

On March 6th 1984 miners at Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire went on strike. Six days later, on March 12th, NUM President, Arthur Scargill, made the strike official across Britain. And so began the UK’s biggest strike since the General Strike of 1926. It ran for almost a year until March 1985 - a year of bitter conflict between the miners and Margaret Thatcher and her government and marked the end of the mining era in Britain.\n\n24 year-old Michael Kerstgens was studying photography in Germany at the time. But he had strong links with South Wales having been born in Llanelli and spending his early years there. His father had also spent twelve years working in South Wales for an engineering company involved with the mining industry. As a sixteen year old Kerstgens took a summer job at the company’s Swansea office. He also experienced the underground life of the miners at Cynheidre Colliery. It’s not surprising therefore that once Kerstgens heard about the strike he went to South Wales to find out what was going on and to start what would be his first major photography project.\n\nKerstgens’ friends and contacts enabled him access to much that was closed off to the press and when he later moved on to Yorkshire he lived with the family of a striking miner whose wife, Marsha Marshall, was one of the leading lights of Woman Against Pit Closures (WAPC). He even met Arthur Scargill. The resultant photographs offer a powerful insight into what was a brutal strike that tore a rift through British society, entire mining communities, and even individual families.\n\nMichael Kerstgens has worked as a photographer and educator since 1986. In 2007 he became Professor of Documentary Photography at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Appointed to the German Photographic Association in 2006, he has received the Imke Folkerts Prize for Fine Art, a VG Bild-Kunst grant and the Rühr Prize for Art and Science. He has published six previous books.\n\nhardback\n152 pages 87 duotone plates\n210mm x 270mm\nISBN: 978-1-916915-03-9

The Enermy Within: The Miners Strike 1984/85

Signed and numbered edition of 250 copies, presented in a custom cloth covered slipcase.\n\nPublished to coincide with a major 2024 traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, this gorgeous new monograph presents 100 of Michael Kenna’s most iconic photographs of the Japanese landscape, many published here for the first time. A perfect pairing of artist and subject, these photographs of Japan comprise perhaps Kenna’s best known body of work and have been the subject of countless exhibitions throughout the world. Michael Kenna first visited Japan in 1987 on the event of his inaugural exhibition there, and he has returned dozens of times and made thousands of photographs throughout the country’s vast and incredibly varied landscape. Our earlier monographs Japan and Hokkaido have been out of print for many years, so we are thrilled to announce this important new publication that includes work spanning Kenna’s decades-long love affair with the country. Japan / A Love Story is beautifully printed in duotone on natural coated art paper and quarter bound in linen and silk. It opens with an essay in Japanese and English by the renowned critic and historian Kohtaro Iizawa.  \n\n“Japan has a long and rich tradition of reciprocal gift giving. I have been the grateful recipient of so much over so many years in Japan, and I know that I will never be able to give back in equal measure. I hope this work can be seen as a small token of my desire to do so. I also hope this work can be viewed as a homage to Japan and that it will serve to symbolize my immense ongoing appreciation and deep gratitude for this beautiful and mysterious country.” — From the Afterword by Michael Kenna \n\n"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\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-599-1\nHardcover, cloth, \n10.5 x 13 inches, 136 pages, \n100 plates.

Japan; A Love Story (Special Edition)

Published to coincide with a major 2024 traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, this gorgeous new monograph presents 100 of Michael Kenna’s most iconic photographs of the Japanese landscape, many published here for the first time. A perfect pairing of artist and subject, these photographs of Japan comprise perhaps Kenna’s best known body of work and have been the subject of countless exhibitions throughout the world. Michael Kenna first visited Japan in 1987 on the event of his inaugural exhibition there, and he has returned dozens of times and made thousands of photographs throughout the country’s vast and incredibly varied landscape. Our earlier monographs Japan and Hokkaido have been out of print for many years, so we are thrilled to announce this important new publication that includes work spanning Kenna’s decades-long love affair with the country. Japan / A Love Story is beautifully printed in duotone on natural coated art paper and quarter bound in linen and silk. It opens with an essay in Japanese and English by the renowned critic and historian Kohtaro Iizawa.  \n\n“Japan has a long and rich tradition of reciprocal gift giving. I have been the grateful recipient of so much over so many years in Japan, and I know that I will never be able to give back in equal measure. I hope this work can be seen as a small token of my desire to do so. I also hope this work can be viewed as a homage to Japan and that it will serve to symbolize my immense ongoing appreciation and deep gratitude for this beautiful and mysterious country.” — From the Afterword by Michael Kenna \n\n"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\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-599-1\nHardcover, cloth, \n10.5 x 13 inches, 136 pages, \n100 plates.

Japan; A Love Story

Limited edition of 1,000 signed copies including a signed and numbered print handmade by the artist\n\nThis new publication from Justine Kurland presents two interwoven narratives drawn from the road trips across the United States that she undertook with her young child between the years 2005 and 2010. The first thread is a sequence of arresting large-format photographs of her child and herself, disentangled from the renowned images of roads, trains, infrastructure, and fellow travelers Kurland was making at the same time. Revisiting these photographs, Kurland suggests a clarified reading of them as an anti-history of family and travel, upending the conventional family album to tell a story of queer motherhood and image-making in step with Kurland’s maternal line, for whom crossing the American landscape was a matter of dire necessity.\n\nOn the other side of this unspooling concertina publication are Kurland’s photographs of the railroads which traverse the American landscape. Deconstructing the familiar mythology of the railway as a pioneering symbol of modernity, these images observe the reality of the ways these routes carve and stain the landscape, often overwhelmed by surrounding nature, leaving behind barren strips of sun-stained asphalt and eerily perfect parallel tracks. Bookended by new texts from Constance Debré and Lily Cho, This Train treats the American landscape as the fabricated tableau that it is, a cultural fable which conceals histories of Chinese migrant labor and the human cost of freedom. Kurland re-appraises an interwoven set of paradigms which retain a tenacious grip on contemporary American life: the nuclear family, the open road, the violence of expansion, and the intractable force of the land itself.\n\nLimited edition of 1,000 signed copies including a signed and numbered print handmade by the artist\n\n \n\nLeporello bound hardcover, embossed with 2 flaps and tipped-in image to front cover\n25.3 x 18.3cm, 102 pages\nIncludes a handmade print by the artist (20.3 x 16.4cm)\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-29-9

This Train

Signed by the photographer, this signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.\n\n\nThe German dramatist Heiner Müller observed that German history lies as if smothered by a rheumatism blanket: beneath there is warmth and stagnation, just enough to give the impression all is well, while the peripheries are freezing. Georg Kussmann’s photographs in FRG were created under this metaphoric blanket. Made in the Federal Republic of Germany over a single summer, they depict everyday scenes of life, work, and leisure under which threats of discontent and violence simmer. Sometimes this unease is explicit in the form of physical acts or graffitied slogans, but more often it is uncannily suppressed.\n\n\nKussmann made these photographs by exploring his home country on foot, sleeping on the streets and often propelled to keep moving by fear as much as curiosity. Brought together in an extensive and determined sequence, they describe a place caught between the weight of the past and the demands of the present. Evoking the particular German histories of work ethics, dictates, and acronyms, Kussmann takes a dogged yet always subtle approach to contemporary Germany and the ways it struggles to understand itself.\n\nPublished as a limited edition of 1000 signed copies\n\n\nPaperback\n21 x 24cm, 224 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-915743-27-5

Cross Road Blues presents a selection of 33 photographs from UK-based Oli Kellett’s iconic series of the same name. Kellett began the project in 2016 during a visit Los Angeles, during which time the United States was literally at a political crossroads. The series evolved naturally from there, eventually taking on a more universal meaning as Kellett continued his work in other countries including Spain, Japan, Brazil and Mexico.\n\nThe binding context in each of Kellett’s images is their setting at a crossroads – a familiar place and metaphor for the tension we encounter throughout life. “We live in an era of fake news, political polarization and algorithmic echo chambers,” Kellett explains. “Our experience of the world is fractured as we live out multiple identities on and offline. But crossroads are a democratic place; we all have to wait.”\n\nKellett’s masterful use of use of natural light and subtle composition lends a cinematic quality to these unstaged scenes. The contrast between the anonymity of urban space and the individuality of  human experience reveals the artist’s deep interest in the human psyche. As the writer and philosopher Nigel Warburton writes in his introductory essay for the book: “The step each person is about to take seems far more momentous than simply crossing a street”.\n\nAn admirer of the great American painter Edward Hopper, who famously reflected American life in silent spaces and melancholic moments, Kellett creates mesmerizing photographs of everyday people waiting at crossroads, providing us with a powerful contemporary metaphor.\n\nOli Kellett’s first monograph, Cross Road Blues is published to coincide with a solo exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art, London. Beautifully printed on a natural art paper and bound in gray cloth over board, with a large tipped-in cover plate, this first printing is limited to 1,000 casebound copies.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-591-5\nHardcover, \n14 x 11.5 inches, 68 pages, \n28 four-color plates.

Cross Road Blues

Signed by the Photographer\n\nInspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage — heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy — has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art. Kurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland’s earlier photographic projects Girl Pictures (1997–2002) and Mama Babies (2004–07). Each work in SCUMB sounds an electrifying call for freedom — the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world.\n\nIncludes essays by Marina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines.\n\n \nSwiss bound paperback with sillkscreen printed gauze on spine\n18 gatefolds, with 2 paper stocks\n48 x 60cm poster inserted into back cover\n24.5 x 32cm, 282 pages, 116 plates\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-56-1

SCUMB Manifesto

“31st August 2019 … from that moment on, the way I look at the world has changed. Everything has changed. Maria’s untimely death, her decision to end her own life, has made a distinct cut, a sharp delineation of the before and after.” - Martin Kollar\n\nAfter was formed in the wake of the death of Martin Kollar’s partner, Maria.\n\nAs time slowly went by after the cataclysmic event, Kollar cautiously started to browse through his photographic archive. He was returned to the years, months, and days they spent together by the scores of materials from trips they made to location-scout and film together. In their last two years together, they had visited various research centres and public institutes as they started to prepare and shoot 'Chronicle', the film they were to make together.\n\nThese excursions into the past happened in various stages, from Kollar’s original inability to bring himself to open the archive, through to periods of obsession during which he was unable to stop browsing through the multitude of photographs of his and Maria’s past life. What gradually started to emerge from the pictures were hidden contexts and threads he had not seen before.\n\nKollar started to assemble them, but not with the aim of reconstructing their life. Instead, he sought to express how the before transcends into the after; how the most anticipated events always find you unprepared.\n\n\nSilkscreened linen hardback\n20 x 25.5cm, 64 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-34-9

After

Mark is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\nISBN: 978-1-59005-552-6\nHardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 11 duotone plates, 1 original signed photograph.\n\nBorn in 1933, Kikuji Kawada is best known for his seminal 1965 book The Map (“Chizu” in Japanese), a disquieting exploration of the trauma of World War II and subsequent westernization of Japan. This series, as well as Kawada’s subsequent bodies of work, has been exhibited and collected around the world, influencing generations of photographers.\n\nMask is our third publication on the work of this extraordinary artist, and his first contribution to our One Picture Book series. Limited to 500 numbered copies, Mask presents for the first time all 11 images from this series of the same name that Kawada created in the mid-1970s.\n\nMask is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-552-6\nHardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 11 duotone plates, 1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 028) Kikuji Kawada - Mask

Ke Lefa Laka/ Her Story - 2 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\n“In my attempt to make sense of my loss and as a post-grief, after my mother passed away, I started looking for pieces of her in her house. I found many of her photographs and clothes, which have always been there, but which I had ignored over the years. Photographs present us, therefore, not just with the “thereness” of the object but its “having-been-there”, thus having the ability to present a past, a present and future in a single image (Barthes, 1980, p.77). Like Barthes looking at the photo of his mother, we look at the person and see the trajectory of their life. The fact that no matter how alive they look, the photograph points to all of our mortalities. The essence of my mother that I identify in these photographs is, in fact, my essence, my constructions, my memories and fantasies of this person whom I met in only one capacity: namely, mother.” — Lebohang Kganye\n\nWe are thrilled to announce the publication of Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story by Lebohang Kganye. Comprising two volumes (Volume 1 is available here) in our One Picture Book series, this important body of work was created in 2012-2013.\n\nKganye's work is centered around personal and familial history. Her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story stems from confronting grief from the loss of her mother, while maintaining a connection to her and generational history. The title translates to “it’s my legacy” in seSotho. Kganye explains, “That work just came on its own, somehow it gave birth to itself through me.”\n\nLebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works. Kganye received her introduction to photography at the Market Photo Workshop, in Johannesburg, in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently doing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University. Notable awards include the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/22, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, 2020, Camera Austria Award, 2019 and the finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, 2019.\n\nKe Lefa Laka Volume 2 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-554-0\nHardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 15 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 027)  Lebohang Kgante - Ke Lefa Laka/ Her Story - 2

Ke Lefa Laka/ Her Story - 1 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\n“By inserting myself into my mother’s pictorial narrative, found in her photo album—her stories became ours. Through digital photomontages, I juxtaposed old photographs retrieved from the family archives of my mother in her 20s and 30s, to reconstruct a new story and build the bridge, where she is me and I am her. I restaged my mother’s photographs in the same location she had been photographed, wearing the same clothes and mimicking the same poses and expressions to reconnect with her spirit. My reconnection with my late mother became a substitute for the paucity of memory through visual manipulation. Thus, studying and visually emulating my adoption of the role of mother to my younger sister after our mother’s death, as well as an exploration of masquerading strategies in autobiographical acts.” — Lebohang Kganye\n\nWe are thrilled to announce the publication of Ke Lefa Laka / Her-story by Lebohang Kganye. Comprising two volumes (Volume 2 is available here) in our One Picture Book series, this important body of work was created in 2012-2013.\n\nKganye's work is centered around personal and familial history. Her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story stems from confronting grief from the loss of her mother, while maintaining a connection to her and generational history. The title translates to “it’s my legacy” in seSotho. Kganye explains, “That work just came on its own, somehow it gave birth to itself through me.”\n\nLebohang Kganye was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works. Kganye received her introduction to photography at the Market Photo Workshop, in Johannesburg, in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently doing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University. Notable awards include the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/22, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, 2020, Camera Austria Award, 2019 and the finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, 2019.\n\nKe Lefa Laka Volume 1 is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-553-3\nHardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 15 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 026) Lebohang Kgante - Ke Lefa Laka/ Her Story - 1

The Complete set 7 containing 4 books Each book IS LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES WITH A SIGNED PRINT APPROX. 7 X 5 inches.\n\nSet 7 titles,\n\n#25 - Kikuji Kawanda - MAsk\n#26 - Lebohang Kganye - Her Story vol. 1\n#27 - Lebohang Kganye - Her Story vol. 2\n#28 - Alec Soth - If You Want to Ride

(OPB2 SET7) COMPLETE #25-28  Soth; Kawada; Kgantex 2

“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

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

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.

Rafu

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.

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

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 (Yellowcover)

One Sunday in Beijing (Redcover)

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 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

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

Abruzzo

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

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)

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   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

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   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 slight bump to a cornewr of this rare and hard to fine 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 (bumped)

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

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

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

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

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

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 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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Stern Portfolio # 7 -William Klien

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

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

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