Individual photographers Books
Hatje Cantz Tom Hegen: Salt Works
Book SynopsisSalt’s ionic lattices are one of the central elements of organic life. But even though the extraction of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human landscaping, we rarely ask where salt comes from and how it is produced. Sea salt production sites are found all over the world, usually located around shallow shorelines. Tom Hegen has explored these magical landscapes from the air and obtained spectacular images in the process. This gorgeously illustrated book shows how the landscape has been shaped by salt mining and how the mining process has created structures that take on an almost painterly, abstract quality in Hegen's photographs. Salt Works is a study of color and geometry, an ode to beauty of the everyday.
£62.40
Kehrer Verlag Dust To Dawn
Book SynopsisA stunning documentation of Nevada's notorious Burning Man Festival.
£45.00
Edition Patrick Frey Roswitha Hecke - Irene
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£41.40
Edition Patrick Frey Photographs
Book SynopsisAfter Drawings (1997), Paintings (2001) and Kirschgarten (2005), Photographs is the fourth artist's book by the Philadelphiaborn and based Karen Kilimnik (b. 1955) to be published by Edition Patrick Frey. It brings together the sporadically exhibited and by and large unknown photographic works of the artist, who gained fame in the 1980s with her scatter art installations and later with her paintings. Karen Kilimnik takes pictures with the same gesture she paints with: an unerring sense of the glut of shiny surface beauty, under which lurk the shades of monstrous things unseen and unspoken. She takes pictures with a shrewd, informed eye. She adores kitsch, but she knows how phony it is and how much this phoniness makes it irresistible. She is a wise old soul but she's absolutely determined to preserve the innocence and vulnerability of a young and restless mind. In Bourdieu's words, her photography strikes a perfect balance between the ritual and the artistic. Kilimnik takes pictures of what she unconditionally loves, and this love is eclectic and deeply darkly romantic. She photographs idylls ad nauseam: the rolling hills of the Cotswolds in south central England, so leafy they almost seem unreal; a ladies' bicycle, hedge-lined streets, sheep in the shadow of a tree, cows in the morning mist, a squirrel that seems to be nibbling on a flower, sitting ducks on the banks of a stream. Kilimnik views profane reality through the mercilessly wide-open eyes of her camera lens, transforming it in her photographs into a stage for her fabulously dreamy / nightmarish fairytale figurations and arrangements. When reality does not suffice, she embellishes it, trimming the trees in the garden, for example, with glass Christmas ornaments or with fairy lights.
£41.40
Edition Patrick Frey Basile Mookherjee: Fully Fueled
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£27.00
Edition Patrick Frey Billy Buehler and Dominique Frey: Skuter
Book SynopsisSkuter (Indonesian for scooter) shows a slice of motorized life on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. These pictures of people on motor scooters, many on their way to or from work, were shot through the window of a moving car on a two-day trip from the Aceh highlands to Medan, the capital of North Sumatra. Motor scooters, sometimes used to carry whole families, provide Indonesians with an affordable form of mobility and have become a permanent fixture of daily traffic and everyday life on the archipelago.The authors took these snapshots in the fall of 2015 while shooting a documentary film about the palm oil industry and rampant deforestation in Sumatra.Most beautiful Swiss books, 2017
£29.70
Edition Patrick Frey Luciano Rigolini: As 15-16
Book SynopsisThree long sequences of pictures show a desert landscape of dust and rock. It's hard to make out the imperceptible differences between one picture and the next. Only on closer inspection do we notice minimal shifts in the frame. The small-square Cartesian coordinate systems on the pictures suggest an underlying scientific purpose. And indeed, the pictures are parts of a series of NASA Archive photographs shot by astronauts for scientific purposes during the lunar landing missions Apollo 15 and Apollo 16. But Luciano Rigolini's minimalistic conceptual approach brings out an unlooked-for aesthetic dimension to the pictures. The artist uses a photographic sequence for a metaphorical trip to the moon that bears little resemblance to all the jingoistic hype around the moon landing as a heroic milestone of conquest. By closely scrutinizing our faithful satellite, Rigolini transforms the NASA photographs from documentary material into artworks that tap into man's eternal musings on the mythological and symbolic sides of the moon. AS 15-16 includes allusions to avant-garde and Land Art as well as minimal music, which also makes use of serial patterns and minute variations.
£30.40
Edition Patrick Frey Piotr Uklanski: Pornalikes
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£36.00
Edition Patrick Frey Giorgio Wolfensberger: Foto Povera
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£41.40
Edition Patrick Frey Vera Lehndorff & Holger Truelzsch: Body Paintings
Book SynopsisLehndorff & Trülzsch developed an oeuvre of remarkably innovative staged photographs of body paintings a synthesis of painting, photography, and performance during an intensively creative period from the 1970s to the late 1980s. In The Seen and the Unseen, Lehndorff & Trulzsch approach their artistic work from a new angle by interweaving the images of their work series, the facsimiled archive material (such as essays by Susan Sontag and Gary Indiana), contributions by critics Richard Milazzo and Jörg Scheller as well as contextual explanations and reference images. The book retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body against the backdrop of history and contemporary art in the second half of the twentieth century....that of one artist who is unseen...and another artist who is straining towards invisibility... Susan Sontag, Fragments of an Aesthetic of Melancholy, in Veruschka' Trans-figurations, 1986The method of Trulzsch/Lehndorff restricts their assertion from physically altering what already exists in the environment. This is an art of reflection rather than an intervention...it could...be said, that the...objects... are examples of double photography, or teleplastic photography (sculptural photography). Gary Indiana, Imitation and Its Double, Village Voice, April 9, 1985
£58.50
Edition Patrick Frey Cary Loren: Polaroids
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£43.20
Edition Patrick Frey Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions
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£36.00
Edition Patrick Frey Charlie Engman: Mom
Book SynopsisThe book's title reveals the identity of its protagonist: Kathleen McCain Engman has been posing for her son Charlie since 2009. And yet MOM shows us a face we never really get to know: while we soon become acquainted with her freckled complexion and intense gaze, her position in the images becomes increasingly unclear. Engman first began shooting his mother because she was available, ever-willing to meet the demands of one of her children. But what began as a casual, organic process evolved into an intense collaboration. The result is neither a family album nor a filial tribute but a much deeper and far more complex interaction: one that raises questions about the limits of familiarity, the rules and boundaries of roles and representation, vulnerability and control, and what it means to look and to be seen.
£40.50
Edition Patrick Frey Christian Lutz: Citizens
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£36.00
Edition Patrick Frey Yana Wernicke & Jonas Feige: Zenker
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£46.80
Edition Patrick Frey Armando Alleyne: A Few of My Favorites
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£41.40
Edition Patrick Frey Giuseppe Micciché No Ponte
Book SynopsisOver summer vacation, when we'd return to our village along with so many other families who'd emigrated abroad, our first taste of home was the arancini we ate on the ferry crossing from the Italian mainland to Sicily. We were welcomed back by the golden statue of the Madonna, the patron saint of Messina, visible from afar on the other shore. It wasn't till much later in life that I began taking an interest in the coastline around Messina, which has been of great geopolitical importance since ancient times. The Italian mainland is so close here that whole generations of locals have been obsessed with the idea of building a bridge between the Calabrian and Sicilian shores. This gigantomaniac and highly controversial bridge project was announced by Mussolini during the war and fleshed out by Berlusconi during his term as prime minister. It has been repeatedly thrashed out, planned out and then ultimately rejected. It would be the world's longest and tallest suspension bridge and built on sandy, earthquake-prone ground. To some, this prestigious undertaking would symbolize Sicily''s economic upswing; to others, it hangs like the sword of Damocles over the region and the whole country. I myself was fascinated by that bridge that's not on any map, so I began photographically documenting the coast in 2005. The result of my long-term project is a portrait of a region at a standstill, waiting in a state of indifferent, frustrated or hopeful anticipation. This photo essay documents the transformation and hesitant attempts to refurbish the (sub)urban coastal stretches, and shows locals in their workaday lives, such as fishermen, whose earnings from swordfish hunting have long since ceased to be enough to live on. NO PONTE seeks to show how something's absence affects us as much as its presence would. If the bridge is ever built, I won't include any pictures of it in this series: I'll take the last shot when they lay the foundation stone. Giuseppe Micciché
£58.50
Edition Patrick Frey Noah Noyan Wenzinger: Noyan 2015-2022
Book SynopsisNoyan 20152022 is the first photo book by Zürich-based photographer Noah Noyan Wenzinger. It's the story of a young man coming of age, carrying his handy point-and-shoot camera around with him everywhere he goes to capture all sorts of different goings-on in his very own way. The protagonists are Noyan's close friends, keeping him company, inspiring him and growing up with him. His visual idiom is hard to categorize, for it's an amalgam of diverse influences from the worlds of cinema, music and gaming, as well as photographers like Nan Goldin, Sandy Kim and Walter Pfeiffer, his role models. Noyan's work is clearly about Zürich, and yet its inside look at the world of Switzerland's Generations Y and Z, aka millennials and zoomers, is not typically Swiss at allwhether in terms of pictorial content or form. And it's precisely this contrast that makes the project appealing and meaningful. Noyan 20152022 is a very personal selection culled from an already extensive archive, which the artist keeps at his Zürich home. It includes photographic documentation of his day-to-day life, shots of nightlife, concerts and vacations and even some music video stills. The book is rounded out by 16 drawings by Noah Stark (aka Clutterstew), who puts his idiosyncratic mark on everything he lays his hands on. The two artists are old friends with plenty of shared interests, aesthetics and stories to tell.
£37.80
Edition Patrick Frey Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka
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£47.50
Edition Axel Menges Albrecht Ade, Painted with Light, Photages:
Book SynopsisText in English and German. Albrecht Ade's 'photages', created with special light techniques, have nothing in common with the 'photocollages' or 'photomontages' of the 20th century. When artists as different as El Lissitzky, John Heartfield, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Raoul Hausmann or Hannah Höch constructed futuristically bold, surreal or satirical images from photographic materials as a response to quotations from reality cut out and then stuck into Cubist 'papiers collés' by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, they worked mainly with someone else's material, with trouvailles. In contrast, Ade uses only his own material for his combination images, and his method for mounting images, for 'editing them into each other', does not need of scissors and paste either. He cultivates the usually involuntary effect of double exposure, a hazard from the days of analogue photography. He controls the chances of pictorial superimposition and confusion, artfully and purposefully arranging his own, deliberately positioned images among and on top of each other, using a technically elaborate matching and omission process. Ade, as well as teaching at the Stuttgart Akademie der Bildenden Künste, has intensively promoted cinematic animation techniques in his years as director of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, and since 1990, as founder-director of the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg, has allowed animated film and camera arts to develop in the greatest possible breadth, in fact has helped to win the Ludwigsburg model the highest artistic respect in the film world. This all suggests how inventively and ingeniously his creative output mingles artistically creative and elaborately echnical ideas and fascinations. Photography as a creative method for fine art -- something the pioneers of photography dreamed of in the 19th century -- becomes reality in Albrecht Ade's 'photages'.
£32.40
Edition Axel Menges Judith Turner: Seeing Ambiguity: Phototgraphs of
Book SynopsisIn 1980 the book Judith Turner Photographs Five Architects was internationally recognized by architects who admired and valued Turner's unique way of seeing and photographing architecture. This new book contains photographs taken between 1974 and 2009 of buildings designed by 17 well-known architects including: Peter Eisenman, Louis Kahn, Fumihiko Maki, Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Alvar Aalto, Shigeru Ban and Renzo Piano. From the beginning of her career, Turner has used architecture as subject matter. Ambiguity has always been a hallmark of her work where solids become voids, causing positive and negative to reverse. The photos are small fragments of architecture taken out of context. Through her eyes, the subject is decomposed and recreated, assuming a new meaning. The photographs are quiet, yet dynamic, beautifully framed compositions. Architects have commented that she exposes elements of their work they never imagined existed. Thus, while using architecture as subject matter to invent her own worlds, Turner is also revealing some of its inherent complexities.
£38.61
Edition Axel Menges Michael Nether: On Stage
Book SynopsisText in English & German. When at the end of the 1960s Michael Nether set out for Berlin, that city held enormous attraction for young intellectuals and artists, just as it had done in the Roaring Twenties. There were demonstrations and happenings, there was Kommune 1 with Rainer Langhans and Uschi Obermeier, and everywhere people held endless discussions that continued throughout the night. Scandalous theatrical performances and legendary concerts with musicians such as Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen and George Moustaki gave expression to a new sensibility. And then there was Klaus Kinski, in his unforgettable performance of Jesus Christ and other one-man shows. Nether photographed what he saw face to face -- 'on stage' -- including stars of international cinema like Claudia Cardinale, Roman Polanski, Peter Ustinov or Pier Paolo Pasolini. One of his first photos was the scene of a 1969 student demonstration at the Berlin Gedächtniskirche. Crowds of people throng the streets observed by countless curious passersby, and the police are there with their vans. The composition of the picture can hardly have happened by chance. Cars and the façades of buildings are points of reference past which people wind like a huge serpent. At the centre top of the picture there is a bright light. The photo sums up the atmosphere of departure and the state of mind of an entire generation. Here Nether demonstrates that he is an articulate documentary photographer. Towards the end of the 1970s, Nether returned to his home region of Swabia. Here he went into business with a partner, worked for advertising agencies -- for instance, taking photographs for Porsche in the company's research and development centre in Weissach -- but he also gradually made a name for himself as a photographic artist, with his own gallery in Bietigheim-Bissingen; particularly noteworthy were his pictures of prominent celebrities such as Wolf Biermann, Martin Walser, Woody Allen or Helmut Newton, as well as numerous photos of performances by the Stuttgart Ballet, but also of "street people". He succeeds in subtly communicating with the latter in these photos and making this dialogue visible. Today his main interest focuses on photographing portraits and nudes. In 2009 the International Center of Photography in New York purchased 100 photographs by Nether.
£26.91
Peperoni Books Oliver Most - Kind
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£24.00
Edition Taube Saskia Groneberg - Buropflanze ( Office Plant )
Book SynopsisSaskia Groneberg casts a tenderly ironic look at plant arrangements, whose often misjudged purpose lies in disorganized intervals. Without much ado, Sansevieria, cacti, succulents and other barren plants nestle as an inventory in the modern office worlds. The primary order of these spaces is rational. Thus, the mostly private green grows and proliferates over tables and shelves, occupies corners and corridors, divides spaces and connects them. With cuts and glimpses, as a faded trail or in an expansive gesture, Saskia Groneberg circles the radius of the office plant and reveals her mostly peripheral status. - Thomas Seelig, Fotomuseum Winterthur
£30.24
Edition Taube Georg Lutz - Intrusion
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£23.75
Steidl Publishers Michel Comte: Light
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£63.75
Steidl Publishers Mikael Olsson: on - auf
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£32.00
Steidl Publishers Diana Michener: Song of Life
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£26.25
Steidl Publishers Hans Georg Näder: Futuring Human Mobility
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£15.00
Steidl Publishers Mark Ludwig: Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music
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£27.20
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Living Roofs: Urban Gardens Around the World
Book Synopsis"And Living Roofs is landscape inspiration galore."—Living Magazines(Cheshire, Cotswolds, Essex, Hampshire, Hereford, Oxford and Wiltshire) A green paradise high above the city’s rooftops is something so many people dream of, including those living in cities and searching for peace and quiet. Whether it’s a communal garden for an entire building or an exclusive personal and private oasis, a colourful sea of flowers, home-grown vegetables or a pool, there are no limits when it comes to the imagination of amateur gardeners. This book of photographs showcases the most beautiful and varied urban rooftop terraces and exotic garden paradises from all around the world: from the Berlin country garden and the sprawling sundeck of the U Penthouse in Madrid to the enchanting rooftop expanse of the Willow House in Singapore. The featured locations, both unusual and individual, offer ample inspiration for your own dreams of a rooftop garden. Just sit back and enjoy this gorgeous book on your sundeck or in your cosy alcove. The following locations are included in the book: Milan, Italy (3) Mantua, Italy Madrid, Spain Athens, Greece London, UK (3) Antwerp, Belgium (2) Rotterdam, Netherlands Munich, Germany (2) Berlin, Germany Dresden, Germany Singapore (2) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Sydney, Australia (2) New York City (8) Austin, Texas San Francisco, California Berkely, California Mill Valley, California Toronto, Canada (2)Trade Review"Detailed plant listings mean that you can start to plan out your own rooftop oasis, knowing which varieties will best suit your space, climate and capabilities." - Homes & Interiors Scotland"And Living Roofs is landscape inspiration galore." - Living MagazinesTable of Contents5 A Roof with a View Introduction 9 Willow House Singapore 17 Edgeland House Austin, Texas, USA 23 Hilgard Garden Berkley, California, USA 31 Watermarque Sydney, Australia 35 Sky Garden Singapore 41 Mill Valley Cabins Mill Valley, California, USA 47 House for Trees Ho Chi, Minh City, Vietnam 55 41 Bond New York, USA 61 Euclid Avenue Toronto, Canada 65 Archilabo Milan, Italy 73 U Penthouse Madrid, Spain 77 Forest Lodge Eco House Sydney, Australia 85 Pacific Heights Rooftop Garden San Francisco, USA 89 Green Roof + Garden Toronto, Canada 101 Tribeca Loft New York City, USA 109 Carnegie Hill House New York City, USA 115 Rotterdam Rooftop Oasis Rotterdam, The Netherlands 121 Kᾱfer Rooftop Garden Munich, Germany 127 Central Park West Rooftop Terrace New York City, USA 133 Roof Terrace in Holland Park London, United Kingdom 139 Roof Garden Dresden-Strehlen Dresden, Germany 143 Spain on the Roof Antwerp, Belgium 149 Crosby Street Rooftop Terrace New York City, USA 157 Outside Urban Mantua, Italy 163 Copacabana De Luxe Antwerp, Belgium 169 Rooftop Munich Bogenhausen Munich, Germany 175 Milan Rooftop Terrace Milan, Italy 181 Thames Roof Terrace London, United Kingdom 187 West Village Co-op New York City, USA 193 Romolo Private Terrace Milan, Italy 199 East Village Rooftop Garden New York City, USA 205 Chelsea Creek Dockside House London, United Kingdom 211 Roofescape Melissia Athens, Greece 215 Tribeca Penthouse Garden New York City, USA 222 Index 224 Imprint
£43.96
Steidl Publishers Gordon Parks Born Black
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£40.00
Torch press Elena Tutatchikova - After an Apple Falls from
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£27.00
Torch press Tinted Lines - Fumi Ishino
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£42.30
Cornerkiosk Press Cropping the Ocean
Book SynopsisCropping the Ocean is a book made out of a single negative containing an image of a splashing wave. By cropping the negative and making several new images from the initial one, the works create room for a stronger depiction of the force of the ocean, thus exploring the potential of the single images body through repetition.
£14.25
Elemental Music Records Suffo Moncloa 17 8 176 8 6 (evidences)
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£51.75
Mousse Publishing Stefan Burger
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£24.70
L'Artiere Cousins
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£40.50
Afterhours Dennis
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£25.20
APE Tom Callemin (Ape#41)
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£25.65
APE Dominique Somers - 00a
Book SynopsisDominique Somers' work 00A consists of a remarkable compilation of found images. The title of the series refers to the starting-point markings printed between the sprocket holes on the leader of a 35-mm photographic film. Somers has been collecting the first, automatic exposures made on this 00A frame of the negative strip for years. They are the result of a photographic practice that in today's digital age has almost become a form of archaeology: when positioning a roll of analogue film in the camera, one has to release the shutter a few times and wind a couple of frames forward to reach the starting position (1A) of the unexposed part of the spooled film. It is precisely these throwaway shots, made while loading the camera before the real work begins, that Somers has appropriated. The 00A image is given, not made. It is the antipode of the naïve, redundant photography of amateurs and journalists, the users of 35-mm cameras. As a series, 00A investigates the boundaries of the technical and conceptual identity of photography. With the support of the Flemish Government and KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent
£20.90
APE Thomas Min - the Perfect Document
Book SynopsisEvery conceivable objectfrom an ordinary thing to a readymade that is presented in an artistic context or an intentionally constructed artefactonce probably had a photographic pendant, either as a document or an artistic interpretation. On the one hand it's a lovely and even comforting idea that things are given a second life, but on the other hand it's a depressing thought that reveals something about our obsession to portray.
£20.90
APE Michiel & Arnout De Cleene - F#1-13
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£17.10
The Eriskay Connection Arturo Soto - A Certain Logic of Expectations
£352.53
Gefen Publishing House My Jerusalem: The Eternal City
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£41.59
Blacksmith Books How to Hong Kong: An Illustrated Travel Journal
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£17.99
Little, Brown & Company Underwater Dogs
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£21.60
iUniverse He Saw a Hummingbird How the Tiniest Bird and a Mans Indomitable Spirit Combined to Bring about a Miracle
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£13.62
