Fleur: Plant Portraits   Published by Fuel Publishing, 2005   Signed by Fleur Olby    Absolutely beautiful is the best way to describe this book of plant portraits by Fleur Olby.    A great deal of thought and attention has been given to the composition and structure of each shot. Fleur has used the natural shapes and colours of the flora and combined this with a precise depth of field and point of focus to produce a collection of very stylish photographs.    Although each species will be recognisable to horticulturists and keen gardeners alike this is in no way a horticultural reference book, but a very beautiful art photography book.    A must have book for those of you who like, beautiful photographs, still life?s and the budding horticulturalists alike.   Bound in white cloth with embossed title and a colour print on the front cover.    Publishers Note    Fleur Olby photographs plants and flowers in beautiful and intricate detail. Her photographs illustrated Monty Don's gardening pages in the Observer Magazine for seven years, developing a loyal following. This book is Fleur Olby's first photographic monograph and contains some of her most popular iconic images - as well as many previously unseen photographs.     Photographs by Fleur Olby.    Designed and edited by Murray & Sorrell.   Fuel Publishing, 2005.    112 pp., 67 color illustrations, 8ðx11ð.   ISBN 0955006104

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Julian Opie     Album Photos     Produced for his Calais exhibition 28 January - 2 April 1995     Soft Cover     This photo album contains 36 real photographs (6 x 4 ) of landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes. The photographs are sealed within the plastic pages and cannot be slipped out, although you may be able remove them by cutting out the album pages if you wanted to mount the photographs for display purposes.

Photo Album

A self published book of humorous and interesting black and white images captured in the 80's mainly in and around the Eccles area of Greater Manchester. Taken on a Olympus XA camera which he kept with him all the time.   "These shots were O'Neill's way of escaping from the formality and constraint required in his press photography, where pose and fact were more important than moment and feel. He recalls a time he tried to inject a little levity into his newspaper photography receiving the reply 'Save the arty stuff for your day off!'.   So he did, and shot with his little Olympus as he went about his everyday life; around his home in Eccles, at rather less-than-glamorous locations such as Morrison supermarket, on the bus in the pubs and clubs around town.    This fascination with life many of us recognize with intrigued interest today reveals much about British society and leisure of the time. O'Neill also captured life on his travels around the world, from the heavily-guarded Christmas tree in Carrick Fergus to the oddly-jumping chap on the quayside in Kowloon .    By carefully juxtaposing the imagery in this book he continues a dialogue that displays the reoccurrence of daily themes and quirks of life we all notice but often forget to record." - Laura Noble, from the foreword    About the Photographer    Martin O'Neill grew up in Eccles, Manchester , and has been a professional photographer since 1978. He spent four years as a press photographer on local weekly newspapers before turning freelance, spending the next 18 years working for the Manchester Evening News. He now works with a wide range of other clients in the PR, corporate and magazine worlds.

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"Every family is a culture unto itself, a province with its own history and borders. It is defined in part by that history, carrying its past weight and bound by a promise to do better by it in the future. Both tenses, past and present, are the family?s to carry forward."  Stuart O'Sullivan. Born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Stuart O'Sullivan lives and works in New York City. His first book, How Beautiful This Place Can Be (Nazraeli Press, 2005) dealt with re-visiting his homeland after a decade in the United States. From the perspective of distance and time, he realized just what an 'isolated paradise' his family had occupied and he reflected on their place within the new, rapidly changing social and political climate. We are pleased to present his second monograph, A Shared History, which takes as its theme the history of his wife Dionicia's family. Her late grandfather's family were Quakers who migrated to this country in the 1700s. They were among the founding members of the state of Pennsylvania, and their history is long and detailed. His family estate, in which Dionicia?s grandmother still lives, is a fortress containing much of this history, and a ripe subject for O'Sullivan's uncanny ability to bring us all home again.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-248-8   Hardcover, 13 x 14,    64 pages, 43 four-color plates.

A Shared History

The publication of "Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955" marks the discovery of a previously unknown and unpublished body of work by one of America?s earliest masters of color photography. Outerbridge built his extraordinary reputation by making virtuoso carbro-color prints of nudes and still lifes, mainly in the studio, during the 1930s. In the late 1940s and 1950s he took his camera to the streets, crossing the border between California and Mexico and photographing the people and places he found. In the tradition of such photographers as Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Anton Bruehl, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, all of whom made significant photographic forays into Mexico, Outerbridge ventured south in his 1949 black Cadillac, frequenting the seaport towns along the Baja peninsula. Shooting in bold, luminous Kodachrome, his photographs explore the quirkiness of 1950s leisure culture and examine the blending of two interwoven societies at a distinctive time in history. From governors to gauchos, and from stevedores to bathing beauties, Outerbridge captured the humanity, and occasionally the absurdity, of people as they gathered at weddings, pool parties, and picture spots. As brilliant and innovative today as when they were made, these images demonstrate a breathtaking mastery of the new art of color photography, and Outerbridge's characteristic style and dramatic use of color anticipated the work of photographers who strove a quarter of a century later to develop a similar, bold new color vocabulary. The publication of this forgotten body of photographs includes an introduction by Outerbridge biographer Graham Howe and a preface and essay by curators William Ewing and Phillip Prodger.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-261-7   Hardcover, 12 x 13,   88 pages, 50 four-color plates

New Color Photography

”Art can contribute to changing the world. It can bring new forms of subjectivity. We need to bring people to see things differently. Political subjectivities are not just an expression of a position you’re in. They are discursively constructed in a multiplicity of practices.” – Chantal Mouffe\n\nIn 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe, ‘Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy’ (2002). In the essay, Mouffe critiqued the then-dominant ‘beyond left and right’ politics of neoliberalism and warned of its dangers – the rise of right-wing populist parties. Fascinated by Mouffe’s strikingly prophetic ideas, as well as her bold call to fight the status quo in order to radicalise democracy and to prevent violence, Ostoya returned to the booklet in 2019. She composed for it a series of portraits based on sketches of people on the New York City subway and on reproductions of her paintings and collages from the preceding decade. She also conducted a conversation with Mouffe about the politics of the last forty years, about the contemporary moment and about art, which is included in this publication.\n\n \n\nDISCOURSE is a new series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text. Explore the full series here.\n\n\nPaperback with flaps\n12.5 x 19.5 cm, 224 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-19-6

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