Please be aware the books is new and shrink wrapped, but may have some minor imperfections to the cover which is the overprinted silk screen chopped boards.\n\nTo distill a feeling\nYou must still your feelings.\nBut the mind is its own mirage,\nThe desert a looking-glass.\n\n“Making pictures in Israel and Palestine was above all an emotional challenge. My photographs usually deal with something eternal in the landscape, but in this place the layers of history and conflict, fear and hostility, frustrated my camera. I happened to travel a lot in the West Bank, not for any political purpose, but because I liked the landscape between the cities. I tried to gaze at the land, without prejudice or judgment. I didn’t want to deal with the masks of the people and I didn’t want to put on my own mask. I wanted to see it as the olive tree sees it. But I felt overwhelmed by the realities around me. I felt sad and uncomfortable much of the time, and I found myself trying to make photographs in a place I didn’t want to be. It was difficult, but looking back, I can see that it forced me to change as an artist and I am grateful for that. On my final trip, I was able to see, not only the land, but my own mind, with its uneven terrain and movements, and to touch something elemental.” ― Jungjin Lee\n\nHer black-and-white images are self-contained worlds of stillness and wonder, as Lee searches for something constant in the life of the landscape. Her images suggest that despite the semblance of fluctuation, some fundamental truths do not alter: just as the surface of the ocean is constantly in flux, its depths in fact remain unchanged and enduring. Lee, who describes her photographic state as 'meditative', regards the act of photography as emotional and experiential, a moment when 'that absolute "echo" within myself travels through time and space'.\n\nThis new, expanded edition of Unnamed Road was designed by Jungjin Lee, and published on the occasion of an exhibition at GoEun Museum of Photography in Buson, South Korea.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-590-8\nHardcover, \n10 x 11.5, 120 pages, \n58 quadratone plates.

Unnamed Road

Taken by the Tide is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 4x5 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\nOur first book with Finnish artist Maria Lax explores the ideas of home, memory and place. Returning to her hometown after many years abroad, Lax realized that the place she once knew no longer in existed — except in her memory. Feeling as though she was drifting in search for a place to call home, Lax set out to create Taken by the Tide. The images in this book present a world where the familiar appears alien, and crashing waves from the rising tide pull one further out to the open sea of loneliness.\n\nMaria Lax is a Finnish artist based in London. Her work deals with the concept of identity, belief and modern folklore through photography and film, and is exhibited internationally. Lax was a winner of British Journal of Photography’s Female in Focus awards, 2019 and a finalist in the BJP Portrait of Humanity, 2020. She was a PHMuseum Photography Grant Finalist in 2020; selected as one of the ‘Best New Talent of Photo London 2020’ by the Guardian; and received the Finnish Art Promotion Centre’s One Year Grant in 2021.\n\nTaken by the Tide is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 4x5 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-563-2\nHardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 13 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 036) Maria Lax - Taken by the Tide

The pictures in Jason Lee’s TX I CA 17 were made in the summer of 2017 on a drive from his then adopted home state of Texas to Los Angeles, where he’d lived prior and from where he set out to start photographing from the road in 2006.\n \nTX | CA 17 is the first time Lee has published images from a single outing. They are presented in geographical and (rough) chronological order—North Texas, NM, AZ, the California desert, and finally DTLA, where we see the gentleman awaiting his bus. The exposures were made primarily along and surrounding Highways 287, 40/66, 62, and 10.\n\n\n“Many of these places I’ve come to know quite well, with some documented frequently before and since this particular drive. It’s always a pleasure revisiting the familiar—these somehow comforting landmarks; these reminders—and equally exciting to discover new sights, make new pictures, and collect new memories. So you keep going. After sixteen years of photographing outside, I remain fascinated by the American landscape and all its parts both beautiful and curious.” - Jason Lee\n\nISBN — 978-1-913288-58-7\nPages — 112\nCover — OTA Soft Back / Jacket / Tip On \nSize — 254x254mm

TX | CA 17

Jungjin Lee’s extraordinary new artist’s book, Voice, comprises 46 large-scale photographs made in 2018 and 2019. While the photographs were originally made in deserts, mountains, oceans and plains, the artist writes, “My images should be seen as metaphors, a form of meditation. I do not depict landscapes or nature. The desert allows me to see my inner self, and my goal is to make images of what I feel there: the eternal sense of being open and present to the world.”\n\nLee’s work has expanded the boundaries of the photographic process to create images that are simultaneously textural and minimalist. After printing an image on hand-emulsified cotton or mulberry paper, she then alters its finish, using technological processes that result in a distinct, high contrast image.\n\nBorn in Korea in 1961, Lee began photographing while a student at Hongik University in Seoul, where she earned a BFA in ceramics in 1984. After graduating, Lee worked as a photo journalist and freelance photographer. She earned an MA in Photography from New York University in 1991. While in New York City, Lee worked for the photographer Robert Frank. Later, she traveled across the country and was deeply moved by the American desert, which became the subject of several of her photographic series. \n\nLee’s work has been exhibited widely and is in countless collections, including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, LA County Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Goeun Museum of Photography in Busan, Korea. Her work has been the subject of numerous publications; Voice is the Jungjin Lee’s third monograph with Nazraeli Press.\n\nISBN: 978-1-59005-585-4\n\nHardcover, 12 x 15, 110 pages, 46 quadratone plates.

Voice

First edition, second printing\n‘A collection of pictures so contemporary in feel, it's difficult to reconcile them with the Lange we know‘ Wall Street Journal Magazine\n\n‘There is a peculiar grace to many of the photographs in Day Sleeper, prompting us to revise any preconceived opinions of Lange, who emerges as a surprisingly contemporary image-maker attuned to small, telling gestures as well as bigger defining moments.‘ The Observer\n\n‘An ingenious new monograph, plumbing the unconscious of Lange’s oeuvre to dream her work anew.‘ Bookforum\n\n‘Sam Contis has made a book, a collaboration with Lange really, from pictures she unearthed … What was once plainly political has become familial, casual, intimate, or all of those together, and then back round to political again.‘ London Review of Books\n\nIn this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper – at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Lange’s ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured alongside other works of Contis’ in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February–May 2020.\n\nOTA-bound paperback with jacket\n17 x 24 cm\n\nFirst edition, second printing\nISBN 978-1-912339-64-8

Day Sleeper (First Edition, Second Printing)

Jack Lueders-Booth's The Orange Line is a tenderly produced archive of a community that lived and worked along the southern route of Boston Public Transportation’s Orange Line: an antiquated, clattering, overhead railway that was constructed in 1901. The pavement vibrating din of this deteriorating railway, its unsightliness, its increasing crime rate, and its inefficiency depressed property values in the neighbourhoods that it served. An unintended consequence was affordable housing for this largely low-income population. \n\nIn 1985, the southern section of the Orange Line was scheduled for demolition and rerouting, which seeded fears of rising rents, possible displacement, and the loss of public transportation to metropolitan Boston. Change seemed imminent, and displacement probable. \n\n“These photographs were made in the interest of preserving some record of the people who lived and worked along the southern stretch of Boston’s Orange Line.” - Jack Lueders-Booth \n\nIn 1970, Jack Lueders-Booth left a business career at age 35 to pursue photography. He taught photography at Harvard University from 1970 to 1999 where he was three times nominated for Harvard’s Joseph P. Levinson Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching.  He then went on to teach photography at The Rhode Island School of Design, Tufts University, The school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Art institute of Boston.\n\nISBN — 978-1-913288-47-1\nPages — 160\nCover — OTA / Tip On\nSize — 290 x 230mm

The Orange Line

Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road trip’ across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.\n\nInspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected. A Field Measure Survey sheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.\n\n \n\nPaperback with buckram cover\n23.32 x 17 cm, 368 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-41-7

A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture

?We step and do not step into the same rivers; we are and are not.? Heraclitus of Ephesus       MASSIMO LEARDINI is an Italian photographer who has been based in the Norway for the past 30 years where he works with a small number of models on extended collaborations.       This new publication ELV (Norwegian for River) explores Leardini?s fascination with the body and the landscape. Presenting a series of transcendental images of contorted fragments of the female body, set deep within in the primordial forests of Scandinavia. The map that Leardini unfolds is not built, but behaves like a puzzle in the imagination.       The photographs were made in summers between 2014 and 2019 when the Scandinavian light lengthens the shadows due to the obliqueness with which the sun reaches this part of the world. This causes the light to draw the silhouettes of the subjects on the background with a high but delicate contrast.      ISBN ? 978-1-913288-11-2   Pages ? 104   Cover ? Hardback / 3/4 bound boards / foil stamped / Dust jacket    Size ? 335x236mm

This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology.   Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics are discussed including: the meaning of software in the production of photograph; the nature of networked photographs; the screen as the site of photographic display; the simulation of photography in the videogame; photography, ubiquitous computing and technologies of ambient intelligence; developments in vernacular photography and social media; the photograph and the digital archive; the curation and exhibition of the networked photograph; the dominance of the image bank in commercial and advertising photography; the complexities of citizen photojournalism.   A recurring theme addressed throughout is the nature of ?photography after photography? and the paradoxical nature of the medium in the 21st century; a time when the traditional technology of photography has become defunct while there is more ?photography? than ever.   This is an ideal book for students studying photography and digital media.

The photographic image in digital culture

Limited to 2,000 slipcased copies, Opening features an accordion binding which creates two back-to-back panoramas each measuring some 11 feet long when fully spread out.   Following up on her widely-acclaimed book Everglades, published by Nazraeli Press in 2016, Jungjin Lee has created a true artist?s book with this series of desert and mountain landscapes entitled Opening. Made in some of her favorite places in Arizona, New Mexico and Canada, these images inspire a sense of the deep and quiet interaction between the beholder and the landscape, and the physical presence of earth, stone, tree and sky.    Born in Korea, Jungjin Lee began photographing in the early 1980s while a ceramics major at Hongik University in Seoul. Known for her laborious and handcrafted photographic work printed on handmade mulberry paper, she creates cross-cultural photographic landscapes which combine techniques and materials of Eastern and Western traditions of both painting and photography.   Jungjin Lee?s photographs have been widely published and exhibited internationally, and are housed in many important collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; FNAC, Paris; the LA Museum of Art; and Houston Museum of Fine Art.   ?Jungjin Lee creates images that are poetic, disturbing, and bewitching and which incite our introspection. They are an ?echo? of her inner being. Like the photographer Robert Frank, for whom she had been an assistant, Lee is thoroughly convinced that an image acts like a poem that we wish to read again and again.? ? Thomas Seelig, Director, Fotomuseum Winterthur   Accordion-bound with cloth covers, slipcased,    400 x 200mm inches,    56 pages, 28 duotone plates.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-470-3

Opening

Kevin Lear    A Glass Darkly   Signed by the Photographer   Kevin Lear's photographs are an intense poetic meditation on urban spaces in Kent and London, dating from 1971 until the 1990s   Often shot at twilight, the works transform everyday street landscapes into sculptural forms. The photographs are imbued with a foreboding and unease, offering alien scenes of a world made unfamiliar by the photographer?s lens.   Kevin Lear studied at Rochester College of Art in the 1960s and later lectured at Saint Martin?s School of Art, London. In the late 1970s, between freelance photography commissions, he worked as a truck driver, and continued to work on A Glass Darkly. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award. His work is currently held in collections of the V&A, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Medial Museum, Bradford. A Glass Darkly is his first book.   Hardback   96 pages   36 tritone plates   22 cm x 28 cm   Publication date: May 2017   ISBN 978-1-910164-56-3

A Glass Darkly

Marten Lange    The Mechanism   Signed by the Photographer   The Mechanism is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society. Lange attempts to trace the effects of technological developments on human experiences, using architectural tropes to build a narrative loaded with the threats and promises of the future. Cutting back and forth between close-up views and cityscapes, The Mechanism offers a filmic sequence of photographs that is at once affective and estranging.   Marten Lange (b. 1984, Gothenburg, Sweden) studied photography at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, United Kingdom. His books include Citizen (Études Books, 2015) and Another Language (MACK, 2012), as well as a number of self-published books including Chicxulub (2016) and Machina (2014; 2007), among others.   Hardcover bound in Japanese paper   96 pages   56 tritone plates   22 cm x 28 cm   Publication date: May 2017   ISBN 978-1-910164-82-2

The Mechanism

Signed by the photographer   Limited to just 500 signed and numbered copies   Elaine Ling was an exuberant adventurer, traveler, and photographer who felt most at home backpacking her view camera across the great deserts of the world and sleeping under the stars. Born in Hong Kong, she grew up in Canada and studied the piano, the cello and medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Toronto, and practiced family medicine among various First Nations peoples in Canada?s North and Pacific Northwest as well as on the other side of the world, in Abu Dhabi and Nepal.   Sadly, Elaine Ling passed away in August of this year after a long illness. One of her last projects was working on Habitación Cubana, her contribution to our One Picture Book series. This vibrant and colorful book comprises seven pairs of photographs made in Cuba on two separate trips: the first in 2002, and the second in 2015. In each of the pairs, Ling presents a chosen subject in black and white, and again thirteen years later in color. The double layers of time and color create diptychs that can be contemplated endlessly, always with new discoveries to be made. The last pair of images in the book substitutes a signed, original color print in lieu of the reproduction.   Elaine Ling?s photographs have been widely exhibited and published, and are included in the permanent collections of museums around the world, including those of he Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Centro Portugues de Fotografia, Porto, Portugal; Scavi Scaligeri International Centre of Photography, Verona, Italy; Fototeca de Cuba, Havana; Lishui Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-457-4   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 7 duotone plates,    6 four-color plates,    1 original signed photograph

(OPB#094) Habitacio?n Cubana opb

Secret City   Published by Nazraeli 2006    The book opens with an introduction by Michael Kenna, for whom Langer apprenticed some 15 years ago.   Unfortuantly these books have been damaged in transit and have been bumped in one corner, but this is probably your only chance of having this book signed by both Langer and Kenna.   Hardcover    Jason Langer's first monograph is a journey through damp-lit streets of anonymous cities, an experience that could be frightening 'alone, in the dark' but is here infused with poetic sensibility and intrigue. His subjectivity and privateness seem to harken back to the symbolist photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Steichen in his early years. The beauty and romanticism are a lure, asking questions and probing oneÒs psyche. There is a strong feeling that Langer finds adventure exploring a side of the world that many would choose to avoid:  a world of shadows and portents, where he openly faces and challenges the powers of the night. In Secret City, the viewer can choose to travel with him as he guides us to our own underworld, or be content with looking over his shoulder. Either way, these pictures are a reminder of the place within ourselves that is solitary, private and has a touch of fearlessness and yearning. Superbly printed in Japan on uncoated natural paper, Secret City is limited to 1,000 casebound copies. The book opens with an introduction by Michael Kenna, for whom Langer apprenticed some 15 years ago.    Hardcover, 11 x 13, 64 pages, 44 duotone plates. ISBN 1-59005-157-2

Secret City

A worthy tribute to a masterful photographic storyteller   A key figure in post-war European photography   Robert Lebeck excels at capturing complex stories in deceptively simple compositions. Internationally recognized for his photojournalism and portraits of figures in the arts and culture, he is a master of interacting with his subjects in a playful manner that encourages them to open up?revealing both the public figure and the hidden private emotions. While being candid, he never sought to shock or make his subjects uncomfortable?in doing so, he earned their lasting trust. They in turn granted him images that are iconic and highly personal like his portraits of personalities such as Willy Brandt, Alfred Hitchcock, or Maria Callas. It might be said that it is hard to define Lebeck?s style. He?s not known for stylistic shortcuts or repetitive gimmicks. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment is the unique and careful approach he brings to all of his work.   Hardcover, 146 pp.,   59 colour,  4 b/w photographs   ISBN 9783652002790

Stern Portfolio #75 -Welt - Robert Lebeck

A photographic history of film spanning nearly 40 years   A kaleidoscope of reverential yet intimate celebrity photographs in black-and-white and color   In 1975, the young Parisian photographer Brigitte Lacombe met Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman at the Cannes Film Festival; these new acquaintances would go on to open doors for her. That same year she was hired as a photographer for the filming of Fellini's Casanova. Since then, Lacombe?' famous images have reflected a who's who of Hollywood cinema. This collection spans a masterfully choreographed array of photographs Lacombe took - all the way from the sets of 1970s cinema classics to film milestones of the new millennium, including Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Conveying a certain intimacy without unmasking any mystery, Lacombe's images capture classical beauty in a way that is fresh and exciting.   Hardcover, 96 pp.,   22 colour, 23 b/w photographs   ISBN 978-3-652-00157-1

Stern Portfolio #73 - Brigette Lacombe

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, born in Taiwan and based in New York, is well-known for his large-scale panoramic photographs that capture magnificent detail of the urban and social environment of New York City.   Liao received broad critical acclaim for his Habitat 7 series, published in book form by Nazraeli Press in 2007 and now an out-of-print, sought-after first monograph.    We are pleased to follow up with the artist's second oversized monograph, 'Coney Island'. In 2010, Liao began photographing Coney Island during a period of transition, for both the place and the artist. A new incarnation of Luna Park opened to the public, the municipal government actively engaged in redevelopment, and the area visibly transformed. At the same time, Liao's approach to picture making changed as he experimented with new strategies and techniques. He started the project working with traditional transparency film. Although he had always used digital technology to transform the film images into a finished image, he slowly introduced digital picture-making technology to the process of recording the scenes. The resulting large-scale prints have a visual sweep often associated with cinema, encompassing the viewer and providing a strong sense of place.    Jeff Liao's work is widely exhibited and collected, and is included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Bronx Museum of the Arts; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.    Opening with an introduction by Sean Corcoran, 'Coney Island' is printed in an edition of only 500 copies, printed on Japanese art paper in an oversized, 24 x 12 inch format and bound in cloth. Each book comes with its own carrying case. A special edition with a choice of two original photographs is also available.   Hardcover, 24 x 14,    52 pages, 22 four-color plates.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-372-0

Coney Island

Signed by the Photographer   Following 'Secret City', Jason Langer's sold-out, debut monograph, comes 'Possession', a volume of 42 images made between 1990 and 2012. 'Over the past two decades, Langer has established a reputation for his masterful black and white photography representing contemporary urban life. Evoking the lustrous style of the symbolist photographers, his carefully crafted images, rich with lush, black tones, exude an air of vintage, timeless mystery - as much Hopper and Raymond Chandler as Steichen' (Bomb Magazine).   Langer follows in the tradition of the fl?neur-photographer. His images are, as he puts it, the product of 'walking the streets alone as a stranger in a strange land.' To shadow Langer on his walks is to visit the haunts of amusement parks, lonely bars, nighttime streets and alleys, beautiful women and their chaperones, gardens, hotels, and supper clubs. Both the still life and the intimate figure study are frequent objects of his quiet gaze.   Regardless of their subject, Langer's images return us to a place where what happens in front of the lens is unanticipated and distinctly photographic. 'Possession' is printed in an oversized 11"x 14" format on uncoated paper and bound in cloth. This first printing is limited to 1,000 casebound copies.   Hardcover, 11 x 14,    52 pages, 42 duotone plates.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-347-8

Possession

Signed and Numbered with an original print tipped in   Nazraeli One Picture Book   One Picture Book 75: Honk if you love Stieglitz   Stu Levy   Stu Levy follows up on his previous One Picture Book #30 with a fold-out grid portrait of Jerry N. Uelsmann. Levy's composites - in which multiple photographs of his subject, taken from various perspectives and distances, are combined to create one portrait - are the subject of his 2010 Nazraeli Press monograph "Grid Portraits." The centerpiece of the grid portrait reproduced in this One Picture Book is a signed original print mounted to the sheet. A limited number of copies are available at this price.   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages,   1 duotone plate, 1 original photograph.    SBN: 978-1-59005-358-4

(OPB#075) - Honk if you lov Stieglitz - Stu Levy - OPB

A limited edition facsimile of Danny Lyon's original photobook/diary compiled after his six trips to Shanxi Province in northeast China   A pioneer of 'New Journalism', Lyon's fearless determination to immerse himself in local culture enabled him to create a unique portrait of the place and its people   Lyon's vivid descriptions bring the photographs alive to portray the traditions and idiosyncrasies of a rapidly changing nation   A unique and highly collectable edition   With his vintage Leica and accompanied by a young translator named Lolly Pop, American photographer Danny Lyon traveled across Shanxi Province in northeast China six times between 2005 and 2009. The result of Lyon's unfailing enthusiasm for immersing himself in local banter and customs is an extraordinary portrait of China and the Chinese, one seldom seen by foreigners. Lyon's unparalleled photographic findings and discoveries are presented in this limited edition photobook alongside his handwritten annotations and commentary, as well as his ever-inquisitive and non-judgmental prose.       Shanxi was once the Middle Kingdom and its border to the north with Inner Mongolia is marked by the Great Wall and Fire Towers. Lyon's China is a portrait of what is gone, not just in China but in all of the advanced world. The images hark back to simpler times and look like they could have been made in the 1940s and 1950s: mechanics are covered with grease and flat tyre repair shops line the highways, people ride bicycles, play cards in their pajamas and railroad workers work in gangs with picks, while a foreman blows a whistle. We see almost nothing of this century's technological advances in Lyon?s pictures and the relationships between people are close and affectionate. An homage to Lyon's own childhood in1950s America and a China that is quickly vanishing, this portrayal reveals a uniquely personal and human perspective. Eighty-five black and white photographs are accompanied by the photographer's own writings, handwritten notes and travel ephemera, including business cards, scrap papers, taxi receipts and tickets.    A travel journal and artist's book in one, this is a must for anyone with an interest in the curiosities of foreign discovery, photography and the myriad elements that go into welding the two together for reflection and reminiscences.   Specifications   Hardback - English   280 x 330 mm, 11 x 13 in   136 pp, 85 black and white illustrations   ISBN-13: 9780714861043   ISBN-10: 0714861049

Deep Sea Diver

Signed by the Photographer   In the mid-1980s, Stu Levy began making 'grid-portraits' in order to overcome his his frustration with traditional portraiture's limited point of view. These constructs of photographs, consisting of twelve to twenty-five individual images, scan the architecture and flow of time in a subject's living or working environment. The resulting portraits, usually of artists, craftspeople and musicians, are made in the subjects 'studios or living spaces and serve as a backstage tour of the artist's mind and creative process. Levy is fascinated by the artifacts that fill these spaces  the possessions by which the subjects are themselves possessed. Rather than confining himself to a single 'decisive' moment, Levy explore its antithesis, a maze of scrambled time. These are made with a view camera using 4 x 5-inch negatives to allow for precision of detail. The sections are printed together to form the illusion of glancing through a window at a 'snapshot' of an event, which in reality might consist of fragmentary views made months apart and in totally separate rooms or environments. Among the subjects included in this important new monograph are Dr. Stanley Burns, Linda Connor, Barbara Crane, Jay Dusard, David Hockney, Graham Nash, and Jerry Uelsmann. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper and bound in black Japanese cloth, this first printing of 'Grid-Portraits' is limited to 1,000 copies.   ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-59005-307-2   Hardcover, 10 x 13,   108 pages, 68 duotone plates.

Grid Portraits

In this, Karl Lagerfeld?s second Stern Fotografie portfolio, he focuses exclusively on his muse, supermodel Claudia Schiffer. The fashion master has been photographing the legendary beauty for twenty years now. For the first time he shares his favorite images to date in this fascinating collection. By turns provocative, elegant, and intimate, Lagerfeld captures Schiffer?s many moods. Join us as we discover intriguing aspects to two of fashion?s most powerful personalities.   There are 6 different cover versions for this book so the cover image may differ from the one shown   ISBN:  978-3-570-19900-8    Format:  10 5/8 x 14 1/6 in.

Stern Portfolio #60 - Karl Lagerfeld

Signed and Numbered   Limited Edition of 500 copies with small original print   In this calm yet emotionally charged photographic narrative, Japanese artist Mayumi Lake traces her family history back some 60 years and revisits her childhood fantasy of bring back her grandfathers, both of whom were killed in combat during World War Two. Rural landscapes evoke memories of battlefields, and female portraits pay tribute to those who suffered the loss of their loved ones.    Nazraeli Press, 2009.    16 pp., 6 four-color illustrations,    one original print,    5 x 7".

(OPB#055) Ex Post Facto (OPB)

Re-shaping the conventions of fashion photography, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin subvert the status quo to explosive effects. Bringing an underground perspective to exclusive brands and top-shelf celebrities, this provocative duo delight and vex in equal measure. Sometimes startling but always stylish, both their fine art and commercial work challenge the outer limits of digital wizardy. In 2006 van Lamsweerde and Matadin were invited to design the iconic Pirelli calendar- an assignment they undertook with characteristic verve. To dub their work unpredictable would be mere understatement?This photographic Dutch "dreamteam" has trail-blazed for the likes of Vogue, Harper`s Bazaar or The New York Times Magazine. An extensive advertising clientele includes Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney and Jean-Paul Gaultier.    ISBN: 9783-570-19845-2    Format: 11 x 14 1/3 in.    96 pp., Hardcover    c. 34 color and 23 b/w images    Text in English and German

Stern Portfolio #55 Lamsweerde & Matadin

Signed by the Photographer     Jason Langer?s first monograph is a journey through damp-lit streets of anonymous cities, an experience that could be frightening ? alone, in the dark ? but is here infused with poetic sensibility and intrigue. His subjectivity and privateness seem to harken back to the symbolist photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Steichen in his early years. The beauty and romanticism are a lure, asking questions and probing one?s psyche. There is a strong feeling that Langer finds adventure exploring a side of the world that many would choose to avoid: a world of shadows and portents, where he openly faces and challenges the powers of the night. In Secret City, the viewer can choose to travel with him as he guides us to our own underworld, or be content with looking over his shoulder. Either way, these pictures are a reminder of the place within ourselves that is solitary, private and has a touch of fearlessness and yearning. Superbly printed in Japan on uncoated natural paper, Secret City is limited to 1,000 casebound copies. The book opens with an introduction by Michael Kenna, for whom Langer apprenticed some 15 years ago.     Hardcover, 11 x 13, 64 pages, 44 duotone plates

Text by Rian Malan     South African photographer David Lurie's remarkable and arresting images within this volume of photographs documents the years spent by Lurie photographing the squatter camps in the area known as Cape Flats, just outside Cape Town. It is intended as a testament to those victims of the poverty and deep social divisions created by the policy of apartheid.     ISBN 0948797282 Pages 84 Binding softback Illustration 62 b&w images Dimensions 225mm x 250mm Weight 445g

Life in the Liberated Zone

For decades the king of Paris fashion, Karl Lagerfeld is an artist whose work comes to life in front of the camera. But what happens when this legendary designer steps behind the lens? Magic, mystery, and more, as is evidenced by this volume of beautiful, sensual, and imaginative images that reveals an entirely new dimension to Lagerfeld's genius.    Spanning all aspects of the genre from classic to avant-garde, these photographs-many of which have never before been published-recall the work of Atget, Richter, and Peter Lindbergh. Scenes of Paris streets and buildings, fashion models, celebrities, nudes, still-lives, and other objects of beauty provide insight into Lagerfeld's aesthetic. And his discerning eye captures the life of high fashion, while also possessing a reverence for the unexpected moment. Known for his exacting demands when designing and producing clothing, Lagerfeld is an equally precise photographer. His technical skills, use of lighting, and sense of composition rival that of his most accomplished contemporaries. Anyone new to the talents of Karl Lagerfeld will discover a practiced and often surprising sensibility, while his many fans will delight in the designer's newest collection, one that exposes him truly to be a man of many talents.

Stern Portfolio #30 - Karl Lagerfield - Dreams

Arriving in mainland China by chance just a day after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, young Chinese-American photographer Mark Leong was compelled to stay and explore with his camera's lens the fascinating contradictions of a rapidly changing but still intensely traditional Chinese society. Living in Beijing and traveling across China for the past fifteen years, he has captured images that astonish with their power and with his unprecedented access to both official and underground Chinese culture. This is a China rarely seen, where schoolchildren learn the tenets of Mao and an addict sifts heroin on a bill bearing the Chairman's benevolent likeness; where nervous stockbrokers carry handguns and teenage rollerbladers hope for fame and financial sponsorship. In more than 150 photographs, with a foreword by noted Chinese poet Yang Lian and an afterword by author Peter Hessler, China Obscura is an intimate and exquisitely detailed portrait of a society accelerating toward an uncertain future, precariously straddled between old and new.      Mark Leong lives in Beijing. His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek,Fortune, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Peter Hessler is the author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, which was awarded the prestigious Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction. He lives in Beijing. Yang Lian has been exiled from China since the political turmoil in 1989. Active on the international literary scene, his poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages. He now lives in London.      Hardcover: 224 pages     Publisher: Chronicle Books (August 5, 2004)     Language: English     ISBN-10: 0811844617  ISBN-13: 978-0811844611     Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 inches     Shipping Weight: 1.00 Kg

China Obscura

Secret City    Published by Nazraeli 2006   This has been signed by both Jason Langer and Michael Kenna   The book opens with an introduction by Michael Kenna, for whom Langer apprenticed some 15 years ago.    Unfortuantly these books have been damaged in transit and have been bumped in one corner, but this is probably your only chance of having this book signed by both Langer and Kenna.    Hardcover   Jason Langer's first monograph is a journey through damp-lit streets of anonymous cities, an experience that could be frightening 'alone, in the dark' but is here infused with poetic sensibility and intrigue. His subjectivity and privateness seem to harken back to the symbolist photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Steichen in his early years. The beauty and romanticism are a lure, asking questions and probing one's psyche. There is a strong feeling that Langer finds adventure exploring a side of the world that many would choose to avoid:  a world of shadows and portents, where he openly faces and challenges the powers of the night. In Secret City, the viewer can choose to travel with him as he guides us to our own underworld, or be content with looking over his shoulder. Either way, these pictures are a reminder of the place within ourselves that is solitary, private and has a touch of fearlessness and yearning. Superbly printed in Japan on uncoated natural paper, Secret City is limited to 1,000 casebound copies. The book opens with an introduction by Michael Kenna, for whom Langer apprenticed some 15 years ago.    Hardcover, 11 x 13, 64 pages, 44 duotone plates. ISBN 1-59005-157-2

The most beautiful women    Published by Elm Tree, 1981   1st Edition Hardcover in excellent condition.     As the title suggests a collections of Lichfields photographs of Beautiful women

The most beautiful women

The most Beautiful Women     Published by Elm Tree, 1983    First paperback edition 1983 illustratred soft cover price has been clipped from bottom left rear cover peice approx inch x half inch removed otherwise excellent condition.   As the title suggests a collections of Lichfields photographs of Beautiful women.

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