In 1975 Tod Papageorge made a cross-America trip that ended on the beaches of Los Angeles. There, taken by the blinding light, he produced some of his first medium-format (6 x 9 cm) photographs. In 1978 he returned to Los Angeles to expand on those first pictures and, in 1981 and 1988, on shorter visits, added yet again to this body of work. Here, he writes about “At the Beach”:\n\n“I think that part of what these beach pictures are about is the difference between our preconceptions of a place and what, when we get there, that place turns out to be. In this case (of Los Angeles and its coastline), I think it’s also fair to suggest that those preconceptions are particularly strong, shaped as they irresistibly have been by the movies and popular music. So, as a first point, what I wanted to do on this project was examine those preconceptions (at least as I conjured them) through the descriptive power of photography in order to pin down what two semi-myths - the world of surfers and the life of southern California beaches –‘really’ looked like.\n\n“To describe a place and yet at the same time reinvent it is a double intention on the part of the photographer that we should be used to by now when we look at and think about photographs. It seems to be a contradiction built into interesting pictures, if not the medium of photography itself. With these pictures, then, I worked with the belief that the closer I came to describing the literal nature of the place and people I was photographing, the more surprising the pictures that came out of that process might be. All while transforming (I hoped), the casual, unselfconscious physicality of these beachgoers moving from the boardwalks onto the sand and back again into form and meaning.\n\n“I'm speaking of what I hoped for the photographs, of course - they may not describe these things at all. But whether I'm right or wrong about these particular pictures, it should go without saying that a good photograph must, in some palpable sense, distinguish what it describes.”\n\nTod Papageorge is an American photographer and teacher who began his photographic career on the streets of New York City in the middle-1960s. Between 1979 and 2013, he directed the graduate photography program at the Yale University School of Art. He is well-known for his photographs of Studio 54, a body of work from the late 70s that was published by Stanley/Barker in 2014.\n\nISBN — 978-1-913288-59-4\nPages — 112\nCover — Hardback / Jacket \nSize — 245x280mm

At The Beach

FIRST EDITION now Out Of Print\n\nTrent Parke’s landmark publication Monument is a portal through which we bear witness to the disintegration of the universe over 294 expertly printed pages.\n\nThe monolithic publication is painstakingly hand bound in leather bearing totemic coordinates to the planet Earth, blind stamped end sheets, black sprayed edges, and a loose steel plaque, that once removed, leaves the volume without language.\n\nWhen Trent Parke moved to Sydney from a small Australian country town, his first impression was of the sheer volume of people. He would grab his camera and go out exploring at every opportunity, fascinated by the endless processions. \n\n\nAt rush hour, he watched as the city workers moved in a great mass, all walking the great conveyer belt of life. In a trance-like state, treading the same path day after day, week after week, year after year… clocking on, clocking off, all under the spell of the city. Parke would stand on the edge of the wave, on the outside of a new world, looking in. As if watching a newly discovered species. \n \n “At night I would watch the eclipse of moths, millions of them constantly circling the lights of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. At the same time, on my balcony, a miniature performance played out around the light above my head. The moths inevitably and without resistance were drawn to their ultimate demise. Spiralling out of control, like small spaceships caught in a tractor beam. Lured and blinded by the bright white light, they were taken out by hundreds of birds swooping in to snatch them from the air… spiders sat waiting on their webs. Built with precise coordinates across the face of the lights, they captured the hapless tiny creatures that slipped through. If any miraculously managed to survive that onslaught, they continued on, driven towards the flame, intoxicated by those burning hot light globes. Then suddenly an electrical charge in the still air. A small puff of smoke. Gone. Instant disintegration of a life form. Another blip in the universe. Another small spacecraft colliding with the blazing sun.” - Trent Parke\n\n\nISBN — 978-1-913288-57-0\n\nPages — 296\n\nDetails — Flexibound / Embossed leather cover / Blind stamped end sheets / Sprayed edges / Metal plaque / Multiple paper weights / Gatefolds\n\nSize — 314x251mm

Monument

Signed by the Photographer\n\nThirty years ago, Mark Power embarked on a journey to photograph the thirty-one sea areas around the coasts of the British Isles to create a visual representation of the shipping forecast. For nearly 100 years, the forecast has been broadcast four times a day by BBC radio and has seeped into the British public consciousness—it is a constant in an ever-changing world. Power’s book, The Shipping Forecast was originally published in 1996 and this newly edited, revised and much-expanded edition includes over 100 previously unpublished photographs.\n\n‘The shipping forecast, of course, exists to save lives. It warns those at sea, or about to put to sea, of approaching storms. But for the majority of us, in Britain at least, its’ strange, rhythmic language is unashamedly romantic and oddly reassuring, despite forming an image of an island nation perpetually buffeted by wind and waves.’  – Mark Power\n\nText by Mark Power and David Chandler\n250 x 310\n240 pages, 163 duotone images\nHardback\nISBN 978-1-910401-85-9

The Shipping Forecast

This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places – London and Athens – both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou conjures a third fictional staging that she has become all the more attached to. Her images are infused with a sense of the familiar but are equally beholden to the states of uncertainty and vulnerability that arise in alternative realities. Stripped of inhabitants this hybrid city appears silent yet strangely resonant. Paleologou offers a modern mapping of transitory and liminal spaces. She is drawn to train stations, hotels, carparks, seaports and airports, sites in which encounters, departures, disappearances, and endings unfold perpetually. Shadows and artificial light cast across urban geometries reveal phantasmagoric scenes and uncanny moods. If this is home, there is a restless theatre at play too. Alienation and belonging belong together here.\n\n\nWith essays by Brian Dillon and Iain Sinclair.\n\n \nEmbossed hardcover\n27 x 33 cm, 112 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-59-2

Tales of Estrangement

Signed by the Photographer\n\nA Perpetual Season lays a photographic trail through a dream-like city, offering glimpses into a network of spaces that loom as silent witnesses to some forgotten order. Recurring concrete shapes and perplexed human beings punctuate the journey with a faintly elegiac tone which conjures up an inverted Arcadia, illuminated by the hopes and visions of a bygone era. This is fertile ground for a series of unsettling encounters which act as cryptic symptoms of an ominous presence – a reversed staircase, an unreachable doorway, people frozen in precarious gestures, disturbed conversations.\n\nThis 'perpetual season' alludes to a self-contained pictorial space, and the naturalistic approach embedded in such photographic practice is a guise for the construction of a world that ultimately belies its own familiarity. The formal and thematic echoes running throughout the sequence can be viewed as transverse lines drawn within an apparent chaos, connecting discarded buildings with bewildered passers-by, decaying natural arrangements with enigmatic corridors. As each is seemingly doubled or reincarnated, they condense in this peculiar scope of light and space, like an ever-returning cross-section of a global cycle.\n\n \n\nPrinted linen hardback\n\nISBN: 978-1-910164-05-1

A Perpetual Season

In the city there are ways to escape the grid and walk along lines unseen. The city parks of New York offer this escape, eliciting both alienation and intoxication. They allow citizens and nature both a space for growth, a second city away from eyes on the street. Adam Pape?s photographs utilize the city parks in Washington Heights and Inwood as the backdrop for a narrative that unfolds in between day and night. Like a church or temple, parks are transformative. Here, young people have a public stage where they can try on different roles in the dark. Other citizens wander, fish, smoke, and pass time while animals lurk in the urban fringes, a reminder of nature?s promises and perils. These monochromatic images, directed by Pape and artificially lit, depict an ongoing exchange between humans, animals, and the landscape. In the furthest reach of Manhattan, sectioned off from further development, history and myth are at play.   OTA bound paperback   96 pages   21 x 26 cm   Publication date: November 2018   ISBN:978-1-912339-21-1

Dyckman Haze

Signed by the photographer   From Morris Men and Tortoise Keepers, Don's and undergraduates, the boat race and thrashing, Martin Parr, one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photographic agency has undertaken a photo-documentary book project. Oxford is a collection of around 100 photographs documenting an academic year in the life of the university. They capture the day-to-day life of the colleges and University at work and play, and the colourful and arcane rituals that make it so distinctive.    His photographs are accompanied by an extended afterword that draws on, and enriches, the photographic material and penned by Simon Winchester, OBE, the British writer, journalist and broadcaster.    The very first photo-documentary of Oxford was created by William Henry Fox Talbot. A century and a half later, Martin Parr's new project pays tribute to the great the pioneer of photography, and coincides with the Bodleian Library's bid to secure his personal archive.   Hardcover: 224 pages   Publisher: OUP Oxford   Language: English   ISBN-10: 9780198724414   ISBN-13: 978-0198724414

Oxford

?When I arrived in Hollywood in 1971, I was smitten by the sunshine and the art deco cityscape. Prominent on her streets were the lavish movie palaces, first appearing in the 1920s, that were emblematic of the immense popularity of the movies and the importance of the movie industry to the economy of Southern California. The architects of the early movie theaters believed that the movie-going experience began on the sidewalk in front of the building where the movies were viewed. The box offices were the tiny stand-alone structure where tickets were sold. The elaborate little buildings, occupied by one or two ticket sellers, provided a preview to the opulent decoration of the interior, and reflected its style. I referred to these as 'bijou', the French word that translates as ?jewel?.? ? Ave Pildas.   Comprising 11 duotone reproductions of photographs made in the early 1970s, Bijou is limited to 500 numbered copies, and includes an original signed photograph by Ave Pildas.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-459-8   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,   16 pages, 11 duotone plates,   1 original signed photograph.

(OPB#096) bijou opb

"Instead of putting the Gross National Product at the center of our endeavors, let us strive for Gross National Happiness." The words of Bhutan's fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck reveal the essence of what makes this Himalayan country so exceptional. The faces in this book mirror the dignity and self-confidence of these people, including members of the royal family, monks, religious dancers, peasants, herders, artisans, children, and the elderly. Each one stepped into the portable studio of German photographer Gunter Pfannmuller, resulting in a series of intriguing formal portraits, presented here in context with scenes of daily life and the dramatic landscape of Bhutan.   Hardcover: 11 x 10 x .9 inches   192 pages    ISBN; 9788174366788

Bhutan

Signed and Numbered with an original print tipped in   Nazraeli One Picture Book   One Picture Book 78: Juliette   Melanie Pullian   'I was inspired to create a series showing a female perpetrator -  a true femme fatale. As opposed to High Fashion Crime Scenes, which focused on the victim and was based entirely in reality, the Juliette series is a fantasy, and flips the model's role to one in a position of power.  I approached Juliette Lewis with the idea and she became my muse for the series. I wrote scripts for each shot and she acted out the scenes. Each shot in essence is a film still. The only film still. The series was shot in Los Angeles in 2004.'  Melanie Pullen   ISBN: 978-1-59005-378-2   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,   16 pages, 7 four-color plates,    1 original photograph.

(OPB#078) - Juliette (OPB)

Signed and Numbered with an original print tipped in   Nazraeli One Picture Book   One Picture Book 74: 7 Cups of Tea   Martin Parr   Martin Parr completes his One Picture Book "Seven-of-Trilogy" with 7 Cups of Tea. Here, Parr shows us how a cup of tea in Kent might differ from one in Chew Stoke or Bristol. And just when we think there's a pattern emerging, Nuwara Eliya, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, shows us how it should be done. The series of images concludes with a signed original photograph of a lovely spot of tea in Worcestershire.       Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 6 four-color plates,   1 original print.    ISBN: 978-1-58005-357-7

(OPB#074) - 7 cups of Tea - Martin Parr OPB

Very Early and hard to find book by Swiss photographer Andri Pol and an early book from the Nazraeli Press dating back to 1992.   This was limited to a numbered edition of just 500 copies.

Flowers.   Photographs by Marin Parr.   Galerie du Jour Agn?s b., Paris   2001 reprint   Thicker than the other Galerie du Jour publications, Stiff photo-illustrated wrappers. Color reproductions.    The title say's it all pictures of Flowers.

Flowers

Signed by the Photographer   'With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving it a twist,' says British photographer Martin Parr, who is most known for his satirical images of the ostentatiously wealthy. Luxury is Parr's epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption, with candid images of the fabulously wealthy on the international party circuit: champagne-fuelled lunches, horse races, Moscow's Millionaire Fair, the Dubai Art Fair and the Beijing Motor Show, to name a few locales. Both biting and affectionate, this series, which comprises 35 works created between 2003 and 2009, is part of the touring exhibition Parrworld.    Documenting the trends, tastes and social mores of the bourgeoisie' diamond encrusted jeweliry, pure breed puppies, racecars, endless canap?s and empty champagne bottles 'Parr succeeds in capturing the clich?-laden tedium of excess, while making the whole scene seem a little more human.' ?Parr's mobile perspective and viewpoint is that of a housefly;' critic Neal Brown writes, characterizing the photographer's style as 'buzzing around people's heads, landing on the edges of their plates and food displays, and viewing everything as a fantastically enlarged, over-colored world upon which to masticate regurgitated vomit, and enjoyably shit.'   Exquisitely designed, this volume 'with a padded, gilt-foiled mock-leather cover' is the perfect souvenir of the era before the bubble burst. Also featured is an introduction by leading fashion designer and Martin Parr fan, Paul Smith.    Chris Boot, 2009.   112 pp., 83 color illustrations,   Hardbound 10x10".

Luxury

These groundbreaking images are a must-have for all photography aficionados   An original voice at the intersection of journalism and fine art    Paolo Pellegrin is a journalistic and fine-art photographer with few equals. As well as becoming a full member of Magnum in 2005, he is a contract photographer for Newsweek. The recipient of many prizes, he has achieved various awards including eight World Press Photo and numerous Photographer of the Year accolades. Taking photographs worldwide, his subjects often include the underprivileged and those caught in political conflicts. Pellegrin?s painterly images are both evocative and remarkably original. He is also a celebrity photographer in his own right, profiling some of the most famous faces of our time.        96 pp., Hardcover    c. 60 color and b/w images    Text in English and German    ISBN: 978-3-570-19847-6    Format: 10 2/3 x 14 1/6 in.

Stern Portfolio #57 Paolo Pellegrin

Signed by the Photographer   '. . . Later still, when the images resolved to such a point of clarity that Plato's perfect, eternal forms were now clearly visible as rubble, from which the imperfect, mortal bodies of Iraqis were exhumed daily, we found it 'sad.' None of us had seen Iraq from the vantage point of a glass eye suspended in a dark and astral orbit, naming as violent geometries what we below knew to be people. Such a vantage point seemed like blindness itself, viewed from a great distance. We were its spectators. Night of a Thousand Stars documents, in text and photographs life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion in 2003.'    Joel Preston Smith traveled in central and northern Iraq as an independent journalist, living with Iraqis and Kurds, and patrolling with U.S. soldiers. His book is the first comprehensive portrait of Iraqi society in a time of war, as seen from the perspective of both Iraqis and U.S. soldiers. But this is not a book of military and political analysis; Night of a Thousand Stars is a humanistic portrait, focusing heavily on Iraqi home, work and social life during the occupation   ISBN: 1-59005-152-1   Hardcover, 10 x 12,    128 pages, 117 four-color plates

Night of a thousand eyes

Martin Parr    Witness #3   Now out of Print    Martin Parr is the subject and guest-editor of Witness Number 3, the successful new series published by JGS, Inc and distributed by Nazraeli Press. For his contribution to the series - in which one artist is selected for each volume to present their own work as well as work by other artists - Parr unleashes his scorching humor in the series, 'Art World,' photographs made at art gallery and museum openings which reveal more about the art world than some may be comfortable with. This highly entertaining body of work is tempered by the somewhat gentler look at Sri Lanka, made in collaboration with Susie Parr, called 'Little England.' Together, Martin Parr's photographs and Susie Parr's text create a verbal and visual snapshop of Nuwara Eliya, a hill town lying some 6,000 feet above sea level in the heart of Sri Lanka. Parr rounds out his volume of Witness with a section called 'Three Ways to Make a Book,' which documents how photographers Rob Hornstra, Mark Neville, and Bart Sorgedrager were able to self-publish and distribute their own books; a presentation of portfolios by Japanes photographers Keizo Kitajama, Kohei Yoshiyuki, and OSamu Kanemura; and an interview with Parr conducted by Gerry Badger.

Witness #3

Signed by both Martin Parr and Marcelo Brodsky.   Published in Chile in an edition of 1000 copies   Book of colour photographs by the two photographers which echo each other in a visual dialogue across continents. Limited edition of 1000 copies.    As well as a transcontinental friendship, the two photographers have struck a dialogue via photographs, resulting in their October 2008 joint exhibition at Galeria AFA and subsequently, this book.   Signed by both Martin Parr and Marcelo Brodsky.   Published in 2008, Santiago de Chile [not distributed widely]   64 pages, 6.5 x 8 in / 16.5 x 20 cm,    in Spanish and English.

Correspondencia

For a little over a year, and conceived as part of The New Yorker's redesign of its front section in 2005, Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer ever to be assigned to shoot the opening photograph of the essential Goings On About Town section of the legendary magazine.    From the Mermaid Parade on Coney Island to Forest Park in Queens, and from backstage to center stage, in Goings On About Town, Plachy explores the city?s dynamics from the inside out, revealing the vital and at times wacky creativity that energizes New York around the clock. In doing so, she presents hidden gems that we might otherwise never get to see up close, such as Macy?s workshop in New Jersey for the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.   Plachy's particular humor and way of looking feels particularly suited to these assignments. Almost entirely in color, this volume also includes some images that have never been published. Joyful and idiosyncratic, Goings On About Town is quintessentially Sylvia Plachy, and quintessentially New York.   Copublished with The New Yorker    Hardcover   81 four-color and black-and-white images    104 Pages   9.75" X 6.5"   ISBN: 978-1-59711-051-8

Goings on about Town

Martin Parr    Witness #3   Signed by the Photographer   Now out of Print    Martin Parr is the subject and guest-editor of Witness Number 3, the successful new series published by JGS, Inc and distributed by Nazraeli Press. For his contribution to the series - in which one artist is selected for each volume to present their own work as well as work by other artists - Parr unleashes his scorching humor in the series, 'Art World,' photographs made at art gallery and museum openings which reveal more about the art world than some may be comfortable with. This highly entertaining body of work is tempered by the somewhat gentler look at Sri Lanka, made in collaboration with Susie Parr, called 'Little England.' Together, Martin Parr's photographs and Susie Parr's text create a verbal and visual snapshop of Nuwara Eliya, a hill town lying some 6,000 feet above sea level in the heart of Sri Lanka. Parr rounds out his volume of Witness with a section called 'Three Ways to Make a Book,' which documents how photographers Rob Hornstra, Mark Neville, and Bart Sorgedrager were able to self-publish and distribute their own books; a presentation of portfolios by Japanes photographers Keizo Kitajama, Kohei Yoshiyuki, and OSamu Kanemura; and an interview with Parr conducted by Gerry Badger.

Long known for addressing the most challenging issues in photojournalism, Gilles Peress's photographs in The Graves served as evidence for the U.N. anthropologists investigating war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia. These images, relentless and overpowering, help detail the processes of discovery and identification. Stover's extensive text adds to the horror of Peress's photographs by striving, detail by detail, to return identity to the murdered.     Hardcover: 224 pages     Publisher: Scalo; French Ed edition (Aug 1998)    Language French    ISBN-10: 3931141861  ISBN-13: 978-3931141868     Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.2 x 3 cm  Product Weight: 1.0Kg

Les Tombes: Srebrenica et Vukovar (French)

A wide-ranging collection of images by renowned photographer Robert Polidori is showcased to great effect in this Stern Portfolio. Haunting cityscapes of Shanghai and Brasilia are included, along with photographs that reveal the social life beneath the patina of Havana's old quarter and imbue the city with its distinctive identity. Also included are Polidori's disturbing yet stunning pictures from the abandoned region around Chernobyl 15 years after the nuclear plant was destroyed there. By contrast, the chapter on Versailles highlights the restoration of faded aristocratic elegance. On the surface, this Canadian-born, New York-based photographer's subjects are buildings but his real interest is habitat. He focuses his camera on the remnants and traces of the living he finds left in backrooms, in solitary corridors, and worn on naked facades to set up surprising contrasts and unique perspectives. In doing so, he succeeds in capturing the true essence of a place and, in his masterful compositions, the inner lives of people and their memories spring to life and unfold before our eyes.

Stern Portfolio #41 - Robert Polidori

Collected in this portfolio are provocative color images from a British photographer who has become the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr has best expressed himself through books (Home and Abroad, Think of England, The Last Resort) in which he uses a subjective documentary approach that is often at odds with the more journalistic style of reportage. His focus on the themes of mass tourism, mass consumption, mass marketing, and global homogenization shows us an environmentally destroyed world in which the major saving grace is a gritty, very British sense of humor. A collection of provocative color images from a British photographer who has become the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr's work is the subject of an exhibition traveling through Europe in 2004. Parr's use of a documentary approach to show us an environmentally destroyed world is amply illustrated in books such as Home and Abroad, Think of England, and The Last Resort.

Stern Portfolio #36 - Martin Parr

Signed by the Photographer   Photographs by Martin Parr,  Introduction by Rogelio Villarreal   Martin Parr show us, almost shamelessly, the likeable and hateful aspects of our characters ? themselves a product of our history and culture. It?s a merging of the dramatic and the picturesque; the folkloric with the grotesque. Our caricature or our essence ? or both. Maybe we Mexican are all portrayed in these photos. -Rogelio Villarreal     This is Martin Parr?s journey into and beyond the clichés of Mexico ? a photographic enquiry into the battle being fought out on the streets of Mexico between visual cultures: Mexican vernacular versus the brands of American and global consumerism. While we are at once in recognizable territory ? many of the series? visual themes will be familiar to Parr fans, including colorful and mocking close ups of food, hats, signs and souvenirs, garishly shot with medical efficiency ? there are new motifs here too. For instance, the series includes portraits of Mexican working men sporting baseball caps with American logos; what is surprising for Parr is how he grips us with straight records of human faces, with photographer and subject both in the act of mutual contemplation. Parr?s Mexico photographs are typically comic and direct, balancing affection and rudeness towards his subjects. His essay offers a critique of globalization, even while Parr is clearly captivated by the visual pollution it generates.    Martin Parr is a polymath of contemporary photography. Artist, collector, curator and writer, he is recognized as a brilliant observer and satirist of consumer culture. Author of over 30 photography books, including Common Sense, Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight and Boring Postcards, his photographs have been collected by museums worldwide, including the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Modern, London. He lives in Bristol and is a member of Magnum Photos.    Rogelio Villarreal is a Mexican cultural critic and iconoclast. He is the author of El dilemma de Bukoski (Bukowski?s Dilemma, 2004) and editorial director of Replicante magazine. He lives in Guadalajara.    Hardback,   88 pages   21 x 30 cm /8.25 x 11.75 inches,    80 Colour photographs    ISBN 0-9546894-8-8

Mexico

Parking Spaces   Martin Parr    Between 2002 and 2007, Martin Parr photographed ?the last parking space? available in 41 countries ? somewhere you could have parked your car, had you been there at the time. Using a compact camera, and driven by wanting to express ?the individual frustration of finding somewhere to park, but on a global level?, this is the latest body of work in Martin?s methodical personal address to the issues of globalisation ? the desire for a precious parking space being a banal unifier of the middle classes the world over.   Countries featured in Parking Spaces are Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA and Uruguay.   Parr?s concept for the book Parking Spaces is to present it in the manner of a wedding album ? white and terribly precious, as befits the value of the last parking space. Featuring 63 photographs, it is published by Chris Boot in a boxed limited edition of 1000 copies each with a signed and numbered card.    Extent: 88 pages   Photographs: 63 Colour   Trim size: 36.5 x 27.5 cm, 14.5 x 10.75 inches

Parking Spaces

In the National Museum of American Art's new series,  American Scene,  the series editor and series curator express a hope to  present the evolving portrait of America  in a time when  the myth of the 'melting pot' has given way to a social fabric woven into a 'coat of many colors.'   While that noble dream is well on its way to being realized here, the reality still does not quite feel like art.  The work of Bernice Abbott and Robert Frank, referred to in the introduction, provides insights into American life but is also characterized by a particular way of seeing. These books have less the effect of art than of photojournalism-though perhaps the best sort, one encouraging contemplation rather than sensationalism. Unfortunately, the problem lies largely in the nature of series, the constraints of size and format and introduction, which here places as much weight on the editors' vision as the individual photographer's ability to see.   That said, these are nonetheless valuable documents of today's middle America, by turns pleasant and disturbing, honest, and mythical.   In Search of the Corn Queen - Greta Pratt.  Pratt focuses on the county fairs of the Midwest, the traditions they maintain, and, most importantly, the people who attend them. Arndt photographs men, mostly working class, mostly in crumbling cities, establishing a sense of unity among his subjects that makes it the more successful of the books. In these two multiple-image portraits, public libraries will find a moving record of fading people and their traditions.  Eric Bryant,  Library Journal  Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In Search of the Corn Queen  (American Scene, No 1)

From The Critics  The New York Times 'Starting with the cover, a publicity picture by Annie Leibovitz of the cast of ''The Sopranos'' having a last supper, the book takes an ironic and sometimes irreverent approach that includes the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Duane Michals, Andres Serrano and Pierre et Gilles. Obviously, if people choose to be outraged, there are representations here that will oblige them.'    - Andy Grundberg Publishers Weekly 'With an Annie Leibovitz image of The Sopranos posed as if comprising The Last Supper on the cover, this book may be blasphemous to some, but it riffs on an artistic tradition that is hundreds of years old. Perez, curator of photography at the Israel Museum, notes in his introduction that a trait that differentiates relgiously allusive photography from painting  is the unconditional focus on the person acting as Christ while the background generally suffers from an obvious lack of attention.  Photos from 19th-century masters like Julia Margaret Cameron, Fred Holland Day and Oscar Gustav Rejlander bear this out; their composed images of Christ and the Virgin rivet attention on the figures. Yet Orlan's Madonna at the Garage in Assumption on a Pneumatic offers a colorful visual composition worthy of Van Eyck. With 195 plates, including work from Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe and young British artist Sam Taylor-Wood, the book covers a lot of photographic ground. The final essay,  Jesus on the Silver Screen,  explores the possibilities of Christian imagery in moving pictures. The title's promised revelation may not come, but this is a welcome update to a dormant genre. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.    Library Journal Perez focuses on Christian iconography-both sacred and secular-as viewed through the mechanical eye of the camera. Photographer Annie Leibovitz's cover image, a reinterpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, sets the book's tone and scope. Using the cast of The Sopranos, Leibovitz emulates da Vinci's painting, making Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) into Jesus. Obviously, no photographic images of Christ exist, making the medium of photography a complex choice for such subject matter. This is the first book to examine these complexities, and it does so in a thorough and scholarly manner, featuring 195 photographs along with essays by Perez and Adele Reinhartz (biblical studies, McMaster Univ., Canada). These important essays provide both historical and cultural contexts for a wide range of images from the Shroud of Turin to Andres Serrano's Piss Christ. Many important photographers are represented, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Man Ray, Paul Strand, and Robert Mapplethorpe. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, where Perez is curator of photography. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.-Shauna Frischkorn, Millersville Univ., PA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography

What We Already Know is the first major monograph by Richard Page, whose luminous and distorting photographic images depict an unsettling and unsettled landscape. Employing shallow focus, the buildings and spaces he photographs appear reductive, where scale becomes deeply deceptive, and where our scrutiny can become more intense. The works are made in areas on the fringes of cities, anonymous places which reflect a new breed of generic architecture: tower blocks and call centres, suburban housing and service stations, places and sites so commonplace they almost function subliminally.   Page?s subjects ? beautifully illustrated in this fine volume ? provoke a sense of familiarity, yet the dramatic ambience conjures up the spectre of something unusual which we cannot be sure of what that may be. This imbues the pictures with an underlying sense of anxiety, which pertinently mirrors the climate of fear that bubbles beneath the surface of our media-driven culture today.     edited and foreword by Christopher Coppock     essay by Mark Bolland     ISBN 9781872771688 Pages 56 Binding hardback Illustration 25 colour illustrations Dimensions 246mm x 266mm

What we already know

One Day Trip   Published by Mission Photographique Transmanche    Long out of print this stiffcover with print dustwrapper is in new condition.     Keeping with Parrs vein of phototgraphing Brits at there best, he has captured a booze cruise which became popular in the 80's and documented it the way we have come to love and expect from him.   ISBN 2-904538-19-4

One Day Trip

Stern Portfolio No. 36     Large format softbound quality magazine type book     Martin Parr has Signed inside across his Self Portrait     This is a good opportunity to see Martin's works as the material here is gleaned from several different books but presented in a larger format.      Collected in this portfolio are provocative colour images from a British photographer who has become one of the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr has best expressed himself through books (Home and Abroad, Think of England, The Last Resort) in which he uses a subjective documentary approach that is often at odds with the more journalistic style of reportage. His focus on the themes of mass tourism, mass consumption, mass marketing and global homogenization shows us an environmentally destroyed world in which the major saving grace is a gritty, very British sense of humour.

Fashion Magazine: Summer 2005 v. 1    Published by Magnum Books May 2004   Signed by Martin Parr   Published in May 2004 this pastiche of a Fashion magazine was quickly out of print.  With everything from the 'editorial' and 'advertising' photographs all taken by Parr, this is a very Satirical look at the Fashion World.    Fashion Magazine is set to become a collector's item. Published to coincide with the opening of La Mode de Martin Parr, an exhibition at the Bon Marche store in Paris and at the Rockett Gallery in London, this publication is 100 per cent Martin Parr, bursting with photo stories, magazine sections and fashion columns, almost half of which have been created specially for this book.   FASHION MAGAZINE Summer 2005 by Martin Parr is a witty, graphic, ironic and joyful insight in the world of fashion and its excesses. It was launched in May 2005 for the opening of La Mode de Martin Parr, an exhibition at the Bon Marche store in Paris and at the Rockett Gallery in London.   The publication features 100% Martin Parr, bursting with photo stories , magazine sections and fashion columns. Most have been produced especially for the magazine. Fashion and design trend reporter Laurence Benaim is the Editor in Chief. Martin Bethenod, Director of the art fair La FIAC as much as Christian Lacroix, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Charles de Castelbajac and Paul Smith have been invited to contribute to the editorial content.     FASHION MAGAZINE is already considered a collectible must have!

Fashion Magazine: Summer 2005 v. 1

Common Sense   Published by Dewi Lewis   Signed by Martin Parr   A very close up look at life and evertytnig gaudy and tacky.  The contrast of content is matched with the contrast of colours of each image. These images are very different to those in Last Resort they are much more 'In Your Face' but still capture the quirky side of the British.   A collection of reproductions of the work of Martin Parr, which coincided with the launch of a travelling exhibition of his work during the spring of 1999.   Hilarious & Ironic - Luscious & Lurid - Parr at his best! The launch of this extraordinary book was celebrated by simultaneous exhibitions in more than 40 different cities world-wide including London, Cardiff, Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Stuttgart, Rome, Milan, Florence, Zurich, Stockholm, Oslo, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Montreal, Ontario, Tokyo, Singapore & Sydney. This was probably the largest exhibition of work ever held by one artist a truly global project.     Internationally recognised as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life Martin Parr has led the development of the British documentary tradition with wit, style, and intelligence in a career that boasts numerous publications and exhibitions. His work is held by major galleries and museums worldwide. Common Sense combines extravagantly lurid and luscious colour with Parr's trademark sense of irony. Though hilariously funny as always with Parr's work there is a sharp and biting edge to the humour.

Common Sense

A8   Privately Published by John McAslan & Partners   A Large format softcover new    Signed by Martin Parr on the back cover   A8, This is set to become one of Martin Parr's rarest publications!  This publication was privately published for limited distribution and only a handful have been signed by Parr.    Commissioned by the Architech this contains 28 new photographs by Martin Parr from his study of the area around the A8 road in Scotland.    36 pages, 15.5 x 11 inches / 40 x 28 cm

Seven Colonial Still Life    Nazraeli Press    Limited to 500 numbered books with a signed print tipped in    Martin Parr's 2nd One Picture Book this was sold out before it was even printed   Martin Parr's second contribution to our One Picture Book Series, Seven Colonial Still Lifes, takes us to Colombo, Kandy, and Newara Eliya, Sri Lanka. A logical companion book to his previous book in this series, Seven Communist Still Lifes, this colorful little book highlights some of the lighter sides of colonialism-gone-awry.    Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4, 16 pages, 7 four-color plates    ISBN 1-59005-133-5

(OPB#028) 7 Colonial Still Life (OPB)

From Our House to Your House    Dewi Lewis Publising   Signed by Martin Parr   Leading photographer Martin Parr has put together another wonderful book from his personal collection. This time he shows us the American Christmas Card. These are a fascinating eye opener into American culture, as proud families everywhere (pets included) pose before the camera to send their Christmas Greetings across the nation.     Magnum photographer Martin Parr's work features in newspapers and magazines worldwide and has been exhibited in every continent. A dedicated collector of cards, his books Boring Postcards and Boring Postcards USA have been major publishing successes.

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