Photography and photographs Books
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Rocky Mountain Madness: A Historical Miscellany
Book SynopsisThis entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters celebrates the capricious antics that the Rockies and Selkirks summoned in Victorian residents and visitors. From climbers, cowboys, cooks and shopkeepers to hunters, guides, photographers and poets, these were people with a mania for mountains, beauty and challenge. It led them to draw maps, take fine photographs, analyze the rocks and geological structures around them, create fine paintings and, in general, plunge into the unknown and write about their wonderful adventures. Rocky Mountain Madness offers up a miscellany of their images and writings, including accounts of occasional accomplishment, accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse.
£14.39
Anvil Press Publishers Inc A Room in the City: Photographs of Gabor
Book Synopsis'A Room in the City' is a self-revelatory journey into a world of darkness and light, a place of blatant lies and transcendent truths. Photographer Gabor Gasztonyi presents a Vancouver with deep roots in an otherwise forgotten past, and an East End populated by people seeking shelter, safety, and love in extreme social conditions. 'A Room in the City' presents Gasztonyi's five-year project of photogrpahing the residents of the Cobalt, Balmoral, Regent, and Sunrise Hotels in Vancouver'sDowntown Eastside, the poorest postal code in the country. They are represented in private moments, with respect and dignity-in their rooms and on the streets-as they wish to be seen. Gasztonyi's style continues in the great documentation tradition of Czech photographer Zdenek Tmej and Jousef Koudelka, the photographer of the Roma. " 'A Room in the City' is a haunting collection of photographs by Gabor Gasztonyi. ... There's more here than prostitution and crack pipes, although they're in evidence. Whether confronting the lens or averting their gaze, the subjects expose their vulnerability but also their attachment to another human being or a cosseted pet. In the book's foreword, addiction expert Gabor Maté notes that for many of these people, mental illness or substance abuse is a response to trauma. Their entire life,' he adds, has been one of survival against odds.' We're left wondering how people have to live this way in Canada." -Uptown Magazine "Gabor Gasztonyi spent five years photographing and talking to the men and women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and 'A Room in the City' is the mesmerizing result. The black-and-white images, and Gasztonyi's diary entries, forcefully and unforgettably capture the desperation-and the unexpected glints of dignity and joy-of lives ravaged by poverty, drugs, mental illness and social dislocation." -The National Post Finalsit , George Ryga Award for Social Awareness In Literature
£26.34
Antenne Publishing Philip Glass 5th October 1995 New York City
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£34.20
Hoxton Mini Press London Youth
Book SynopsisA tender series of portraits of inner city teenagers alongside their thoughts about modern life.
£16.16
Hoxton Mini Press Funland: A Journey Through the British Seaside
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£999.99
Sansom & Co Dead Ground: War and Peace: Remembrance and
Book SynopsisPaul Gough examines the aftermath of the Great war and the impact of terrain militaria on contemporary British and Australian painters, photographers and writers.
£19.00
MACK The Camera: Essence and Apparatus
Book SynopsisVictor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his artistic practice he produced a series of groundbreaking theoretical essays that drew on semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism in order to think through the ideological role of photographs in the production of beliefs and values, and in the understanding of memory, history, subjectivity and space. In the last decade or so, Burgin has worked with computer-generated imagery and the virtual camera. But rather than accepting a radical divide between so-called ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ realms, Burgin has emphasised the continuity of the virtual camera, the various physical cameras in use today, and the painted images of Quattrocento painting – all of which have their essence in the perspectival system of representation. Further to this, Burgin argues that no image is merely an optical experience – all images are essentially psychological events and thus virtual also. Inseparable from language, they form the psychical spaces of fantasy and projection, recognition and misrecognition. Whether on pages, walls or screens, in galleries or online, single views, or swarms of picture fragments, images are the making and unmaking of our sense of self, and the world around us. This collection brings together for the first time Victor Burgin’s writings related specifically to the camera, following the shifts and nuances in his thinking over nearly five decades. Moreover, it allows us to chart the evolution of what the camera was and is, and how its affects are to be understood.
£17.00
MACK Colazione sull'Erba
Book SynopsisFrom 1970 Luigi Ghirri roamed around the houses, streets, squares and suburbs in his adoptive town of Modena and built a body of early work which contains within it signposts to many of the directions his practice would subsequently take. Most of the time he worked in Modena, only occasionally travelling further afield to the beaches of Rimini on the Adriatic or the Swiss Lakes. He began to map out projects and themes – some specifically grouped around a subject, others gathered around a more poetic organising principle. One of the latter was Colazione sull’Erba (Breakfast on the Grass) in which he bought together photographs made between 1972 and 1974 on the outskirts of Modena which he states he “visited in an ironic and anxious manner”. His focus was the juncture of nature and artifice in the man-made environment; the symmetries of cypress trees, well-kept lawns, the personalising touch of plants in pots, palm trees and cacti with their promise of somewhere else. Modeled on Kodachrome, Ghirri’s seminal paean to photography which he self-published in 1978, this volume is the first book in a planned series which will take Ghirri’s original categories for his own work as the basis for a collection elaborating the great photographer’s oeuvre. Original texts by Massimo Mussini and Roberto Salbitani with a contemporary essay by Francesco Zanot [All texts in English, Italian, French, and German]
£33.25
MACK The Triple Folly (single volume)
Book SynopsisThe Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and textile makers Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus. The basis of the building is three found paper objects – a legal pad, a paper plate, and a soda jerk hat – which Demand brought to Caruso St John with the simple question: ‘Can you make this into architecture?’ In response, the architects created a sculptural tripartite folly, a kind of inhabitable still life poised on the area’s rolling seaside hillocks, encompassing a meeting room, a kitchen, and a flexible living space which holds a textile work by the artist Rosemarie Trockel. Inspired by Kvadrat’s role as a celebrated textile producer, Demand initially pursued the idea of the tent as an archetypal architectural structure with many iterations across contexts of leisure and shelter, simplicity and grandeur. Translating these concepts into his own artistic idiom of paper, he tasked Caruso St John with materialising this lightness of form, with a touch of his distinctive, duplicitous whimsy. The final building, completed in September 2022, achieves this through a harmonious sequence of steel and fibreglass structures which create their environments through the fall of light and shadow, textured opacity and welcoming transparency. This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside in-depth illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, Anders Byriel, Emilie Appercé, and Thomas Demand.
£38.00
MACK I carry Her photo with Me
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£30.00
MACK Lots Of Lots
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£25.00
MACK Over Time: Conversations about Documents and
Book SynopsisThis intimate, conversational reader transports us to the enchanted world of Alessandra Sanguinetti’s photographic series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, exploring the evolution of this celebrated work and the themes and questions it raises. Made in the countryside of Buenos Aires Province, Sanguinetti’s series follows the lives of two cousins as they come of age alongside the realities of rural life. From a young age, Guille and Belinda have been Sanguinetti’s collaborators, co-conspirators, and playmates, evoking the unique worlds suspended between dreams and reality that define childhood, adolescence, and eventually adulthood. Here, they reflect with Sanguinetti on the work’s making and their changing relationship to it over time in an extended conversation illustrated with previously unseen images from across the years. This discussion is complemented by a conversation between Sanguinetti and curators Clément Chéroux and Pierre Leyrat, unpacking the ways this work engages with and disrupts conversations around documentary photography, artistic collaboration, and the depiction of the lives of girls and women the world over. This reader coincides with a solo exhibition of Alessandra Sanguinetti’s work at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, opening 30 January 2024.
£16.72
MACK Remember to Forget
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£114.00
MACK Cursed
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£42.75
MACK Closeups from Afar Selected Short and Longer
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£40.82
MACK Kunié Sugiura
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£52.25
MACK The Western Edge
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£42.75
MACK Amores Perros
£42.75
MACK Against Barthes The Eye and the Index
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£16.72
MACK Hola Mi Amol
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£33.25
MACK Say So
Book SynopsisSay So brings together American artist Whitney Hubbs' recent self-portraits, which were taken in the style of cheap, lewd pornographic pin-ups. After her acclaimed book Woman in Motion in which she photographed models, Say So continues her quest to explore and challenge the relationship between the camera and the female body.
£38.00
MACK Promise Land
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£38.00
MACK Image Text Music
Book SynopsisImage Text Music by writer and editor Catherine Taylor is a series of textual and photographic essays that explore our encounters with the place where the visual meets the verbal. Taylor riffs on and subverts Roland Barthes' classic 1977 essay collection, Image Music Text, using his title as playful points of departure for her thinking.
£15.80
Guest Editions Padanistan
Book SynopsisIn the past thirty years the word Padania has become part of everyday life in Italy. It refers to an area in Northern Italy that extends from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. A territory that exists in the ideas of many, but that geographically, culturally and juridically remains undefined. Padanistan (using stan' as an alternative marker for land), seeks to challenge ownership of this region. Creating a new conceptual space in order to question the existence of Padania and the legitimacy of the right wing politics that created it. The title Padanistan deliberately hijacks the nationalistic rhetoric found within Padanian politics. It questions the notion of place, of boundaries and of defined identities, directly confronting the singular and divisive vision of Italian culture, and the misguided idea of one ''real'' Italy. Padanistan presents a much more nuanced and complex reality, a vision that celebrates a fluid connection with Italy, surrounding countries and the world beyond. The project is the result of a personal view developed as a long road trip along the main national road that connects Torino to Venezia, to discover the places and people living along the way, giving birth to a contemporary reflection on the Northern Italian province. Co-published by Guest Editions (UK) and studiofaganel (Italy). Edited by Peter Bialobrzeski with afterword by Italian writer Gianluca Didino.
£31.50
Guest Editions Common Place
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£23.75
Guest Editions Belief Truth
Book SynopsisBelief & Truth, Inside the Freemasons'' is an exploration of the mysterious brotherhood of Freemasonry by Caitlin Chescoe. Born into a family with three generations of Freemasons, this book goes beyond her close links and reveals insightful surprises about the 300 year old organisation. Having long been labelled an ''old boys club'' and ''secret society'', Chescoe shares the individual experiences of both male and female Freemasons focusing on the many pre-conceived ideas about Masonry through a series of portraits, interiors, still lifes, archives and testimonials. Accompanying the documentary series is an essay written by Camilla Brown which further investigates the history of Freemasonry and its public perception, discussing the roles of gender, religion, class and charity as well as a photographic history.
£36.00
MACK Omaha Sketchbook Second Edition
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£52.25
MACK Early Work
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£52.25
MACK Magic Eyes
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£33.25
MACK Fragments of Fietas
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£33.25
MACK Synthesis
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£38.00
MACK Small Death
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£42.75
MACK I Will Keep You in Good Company
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£47.50
MACK La Casa Isla
£33.25
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£15.80
MACK Distribution
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£57.00
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£47.50
MACK Album 196982
£61.75
MACK TIME TO KILL
£42.75
MACK Mixed
£30.00
MACK Bounty
£52.25
Monash University Publishing Personal View: Photographs 1978-1986
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£13.29
Wilkinson Publishing Rock N Roll Gallery: A Journey from Sheffield to
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£56.10
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada An Adventurous Woman Abroad: The Selected Lantern
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£26.34
Pointed Leaf Press Paris, Before It Is Too Late: The Photographs of
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£49.50
