dewi lewis publishing catalogue 2011
A NEW KIND OF BEAUTY Phillip Toledano This is a book of portraits of people who have re-created themselves through plastic surgery. Phillip Toledano believes that we are at the vanguard of a period of human-induced evolution. A turning point in history where we are beginning to define not only our own concept of beauty, but of physicality itself. Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological means to mint our own, what choices do we make? Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon’s hand? When we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping away our very identity? Phillip Toledano was born in 1968, in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. His work is primarily sociopolitical, and varies in medium, from photography to installation. His installation project, ‘America, the gift shop’, was shown at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The premise: If George Bush’s foreign policy had a souvenir shop, what would it sell?
£30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 72 pages 32 colour photographs 375mm x 280mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-10-0
Cover photograph © Elin Høyland, from The Brothers
Toledano has published three previous books: Bankrupt – Photographs of recently vacated offices, (Twin Palms, 2005), Phonesex (Twin Palms, 2008), and Days With My Father (Chronicle, 2010). His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, The Times, The Independent, Le Monde, and Interview magazine, amongst others.
HALF LIFE
IN THE FACE OF SILENCE
Michael Ackerman
Christophe Agou
introduced by Denis Kambouchner
story by John Berger
According to Denis Kambouchner’s introduction, Michael Ackerman’s latest book Half Life is a haunted book. It is certainly disturbing; in Michael Ackerman’s world, something is always disintegrating. A feeling of isolation pervades; a space weighed down by history overwhelms everything.
£35.00 / $55.00 Cloth-bound hardback 168 pages,153 duotones 206mm x 305mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-00-1 Not available in France, Italy, Spain.
The landscapes are harsh and unwelcoming, combining frozen expanses, blackened houses, abandoned cemeteries and vestiges of the mining industry. But it is the anguish of individuals that stirs us most deeply – their expressions of distress and confusion, their unfinished gestures, the sense of damage. These are people who appear to live in the ruins of a drama. It is as if their whole bodies were given over to a scream. What all these people, these bodies and these images, have in common is the pure situation, that something is wrong – out of joint. Everything in the book is in the form of a response. Ackerman carefully constructs a whole system of recalls and echoes, reinforcing a primordial desolation, set against the backdrop of an entirely fragmented and disordered world. It is an extraordinary and unsettling vision.
In the Face of Silence is a powerful and moving portrait of the hard lives of French farmers living and working in the Forez region of France. Born and brought up in the area, Christophe Agou travelled to the less-known parts of the region, where he felt inspired by the silence and moved by the people he encountered. Over time, and through the gradual process of building trust and friendship, the farmers and their families accepted him and allowed him to both photograph and film their daily existence. The challenge was to go beyond just documenting their labour-intensive lives and present a deeper, more intimate portrait.
£30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 144 pages 77 colour photographs 240mm x 290mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-04-9 Not available in France, Spain, Greece, Italy or Germany.
Born in Tel Aviv, Michael Ackerman moved to New York in 1984. After studying he began to photograph in the city’s streets, nightclubs and on its waterfronts. Between 1993 and 1997 he made several trips to Benares, India. The photographs were published as End Time City by Robert Delpire, the legendary Paris based publisher. A member of Agence/Gallerie Vu, Ackerman has exhibited internationally and has won several international awards including the Prix Nadar, the SCAM Roger Pic Prize and the International Centre of Photography Infinity Award. His work is in many major collections and in 2010 it was included in Traverse, the book and exhibition of the collection of Marin Karmitz which was shown at Rencontres d’Arles.
Christophe Agou is noted for his personal documentary-style. His intimate images both haunt and intrigue – and create an intensely rich, layered, visual language. Agou came to prominence with his compelling body of work made in the New York subway, published as Life Below in 2004. He was a finalist for the prestigious Eugene Smith Award (2006), for Le Prix de la Photographie de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2008) and received a ‘Mention Spéciale’ for le Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique (2009). His photographs have been widely published and exhibited including shows at MOMA, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Les Rencontres d’Arles, France; and Noorderlicht Fotofestival, The Netherlands. John Berger, art critic, novelist, painter and author was the 1972 winner of the Booker Prize with his novel G. His book on art criticism Ways of Seeing is recognised as one of the seminal texts on the subject.
Winner of The European Publishers Award For Photography 2010
FALLEN EMPIRES
GUANTANAMO: If the light goes out
Shai Kremer
Edmund Clark
texts by Shai Kremer, Meron Benvenisti, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Talya Sasson, Amiram Oren, Ariella Azoulay
texts by Julian Stallabrass and Omar Deghayes ‘When you are suspended by a rope you can recover, but every time I see a rope I remember. If the light goes out unexpectedly in a room, I am back in my cell.’ – Binyam Mohamed, Prisoner #1458
Israel’s history can be understood through its vast archaeological heritage. Its past exists not only in the written word but also in its land, in the architecture and ruins, in the stones themselves. Each civilization overwrites another, layer upon layer – a sophisticated palimpsest.
£30.00 Cloth-bound hardback, 136 pages 50 colour photos 245mm x 305mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-20-9 Not available in the USA Also available by Shai Kremer: Infected Landscape ISBN: 978-1-904587-59-0
For over eight years the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba has been home to hundreds of men, all Muslim, all detained in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on suspicion of varying degrees of complicity or intent to carry out acts of terror against American interests. Labelled ‘the worst of the worst’, most of these men were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Many fell prey to a US military policy of paying bounty money for anyone the Pakistani secret service, border guards or village leaders on both sides of the blurred Afghan-Pakistan border considered a possible or potential ‘suspect’, thereby becoming currency in the newly defined ‘War on Terror’. Held in legal limbo for years and repeatedly interrogated, almost all have been released without charge and only a very few have been tried in the special military commissions set up for the purpose.
A single frame can expose the sediment of thousands of years. The recycling of spaces, from one empire to the next, shows how each sought to conquer and rule the land, all with a similar outcome: eventual failure. Kremer shows the vestiges of this complex multicultural saga, testimonies unearthed from the past that show a different perspective. It is landscape as a place of amnesia and erasure, for Israel is a strategic site where the past has been buried and history veiled by natural beauty. Kremer’s Israel exists beyond the media headlines and tourist hotspots: it is landscape as cultural force, an instrument in the construction of national and social identity. For Kremer, it is a provocation to critical debate about a country where different perspectives existed, and continue to exist, and where new possibilities can be reflected upon. Born in 1974 and raised in Israel, Shai Kremer currently lives in Tel Aviv and New York. He has exhibited widely internationally: Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; SF MoMA, San Francisco; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Red Cross Red Crescent Museum, Geneva; Guangzhou Photo Biennale, China; Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo; Vittoriano Art Museum, Rome; PHotoEspaña, Madrid. His work is held by several major museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; SF MoMA, San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
£30.00 / $50.00 Cloth-bound hardback, 192 pages 70 colour photos, 60 illustrations of letters 310mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-96-5 Also available by Edmund Clark: Still Life Killing Time ISBN: 978-1-904587-53-8
Guantanamo: If the light goes out illustrates three experiences of home: at Guantanamo naval base, home to the American community; in the camp complex where the detainees have been held; and in the homes where former detainees, never charged with any crime, find themselves trying to rebuild lives. These notions of home are brought together in an unsettling narrative, which evokes the process of disorientation central to the Guantanamo interrogation and incarceration techniques. It also explores the legacy of disturbance such experiences have left in the minds and memories of these men. Edmund Clark is known for his powerful, thoughtful and beautiful images exploring control and incarceration. His work is in several collections including The National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Awards include: Terry O’Neill / IPG Award for Contemporary British Photography (2008) for his book Still Life Killing Time. British Journal of Photography International Photography Award (2009). First Prize for Editorial Photography at the International Photography Awards/The Lucies (2010). Shortlisted for the International Photographer of the Year 2010.
TRANSIT
DIRECTION-SPACE!
Espen Rasmussen
Maria Gruzdeva essay by Matthew Shaul
How do you survive at subsistence level? How does it feel to leave the safety of home and not be able to return? What is life like for a child who is forced to flee from his home? What is it like to live in constant fear for your life and of losing those close to you?
£30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 192 pages 150 colour photographs 220mm x 305mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-06-3 Published to coincide with major exhibition at The Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo, from May to November 2011. Exhibition then tours internationally.
Fifty years ago, on April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. His orbit of the Earth made him a celebrity worldwide. His name is still synonymous with the Space Race and with Russian space exploration. Half a century after the legendary flight, Direction–Space! looks at two of the sites that were key to the Soviet Space programme: Star City and Baikonur.
For seven years, photographer Espen Rasmussen has travelled the world to document refugees and displaced people. TRANSIT tells the stories of some of the 43.2 million people on the run in the world today. From the makeshift camps in DR Congo to the slums of Colombia, the book presents stories of everyday life and the challenges displaced people and refugees meet every day, no matter in which country or on which continent they find themselves. Espen Rasmussen is picture editor at Norway’s largest newspaper VG. He constantly works on documentary projects, and has focussed particularly on social issues and climate change. For the last seven years he has worked on the long term project TRANSIT. Rasmussen has worked with NGOs, such as Médecins Sans Frontières, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UNHCR, as well as on stories for VG. He has won many awards for his work, including two at World Press Photo, seven at Pictures of the Year International and twenty six in the Norwegian Picture of the Year. In 2008, Photo District News (USA) named him one of the most promising young photographers in the world. His work has been exhibited widely, both in Norway and internationally.
above & below: DR Congo
Cosmonauts have lived and trained in Star City since the 1960s. In the Soviet era, it was a top secret location. Now also known as The Yuri Gagarin Russian State Science Research Cosmonauts Training Centre it is still a military research centre and consists of a training facility and a residential area for the cosmonauts and their families as well as the military and civilian personnel serving the facility. Baikonur, situated in Kazakhstan, was the world’s first space launch facility and it is still the largest. Nowadays, the site is leased from Kazakhstan and administered by Russia.
£30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 112 pages 110 colour photographs and illustrations 310mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-05-6 April 2011 is the 50th anniversary of man’s first flight into space.
Direction–Space! is a fascinating study of Star City and Baikonur. Incorporating unique archive materials, it explores the reality of the space community at first hand, investigating the physical and psychological space as well the routine and lives of its residents. It offers a new insight into a subject central to the Cold War history of the Soviet Union, and raises questions over attitudes and perceptions that have been formed over past decades. Russian-born photographer Maria Gruzdeva is now based in London. She is able to offer a unique perspective on her country of origin, its postSoviet history and aesthetics. She held her first major solo exhibition in Moscow in 2010 and has shown her work in several group exhibitions as well as at art fairs such as VOLTA6 in Basel and Art Moscow.
THE BROTHERS
UNDER GODS
Elin Høyland
stories from the Soho Road Liz Hingley
introduction Gerry Badger
texts by Elizabeth Edwards & Christopher Pinney
When Elin Høyland heard about two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living together in Tessanden, a small hamlet in rural Norway, she approached them to see if they would collaborate with her on a photographic project about their lives. The result is a fascinating and warmly human study of a way of life that has now almost entirely disappeared.
£30.00 / $48.00 Quarterbound hardback, 96 pages 45 duotone photographs 310mm x 230mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-08-7
Harald (75) and Mathias (80) had always lived on the smallholding in which they were born. Neither had married. Mathias once worked in Oslo for two months, but hadn’t like it, whilst Harald spent one night, ‘the worst of his life,’ he would say, in a hotel in Lillehammer, some three hours away. They’d worked for an electricity company, as loggers and also as carpenters, but now much of their time was taken up just managing firewood for their home. As Harald said, they chopped wood, carried wood and burned wood. At least twice a day, they also fed wild birds in the twenty bird boxes that they monitored. Their days followed a predictable and comforting routine. In their free time they listened to the radio or read the local paper. In the 1960s they rented a TV for a one month trial but returned it after deciding that it took up too much time. Little changed from year to year, though Mathias once said that changes were happening the whole time and it would probably end up with them getting an inside toilet with running water. Harald died from an asthma attack while shovelling snow in conditions of –20ºc. Mathias continued to live alone in the house until he moved into an old people’s home. He died in 2007. Norwegian photographer, Elin Høyland has freelanced for several major newspapers including The Guardian. She is currently photographer with the Norwegian Business Daily and her work has been exhibited in both Scandinavia and the UK. Gerry Badger is recognised world-wide as one of the leading writers on photography. Amongst his many projects he wrote the TV series The Genius of Photography and was co-author with Martin Parr of the two volume The Photobook: A History.
Liz Hingley, the daughter of two Anglican priests, grew up in Birmingham, one of the UK’s most culturally diverse cities, where over 90 different nationalities now live. It is hardly surprising therefore that she developed an interest in multi-faith communities and began to explore the complex issues involved, ranging from immigration, through to secularism and religious revival.
£30.00 / $48.00 Clothbound hardback, 84 pages 39 colour photographs 240mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-07-0 Not available in France Under Gods is a project developed during Liz Hingley’s residency at Fabrica, Benetton’s research centre on communication.
Between 2007-2009, Hingley focused on the three-mile stretch of Soho Road in Birmingham, one of the most varied and fascinating corners of the country. It is a junction of diverse faith, where Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jain, Rastafarian, Christian and Sikh meet. “Faith is exhibited in all the shops, shown off as symbols on hats and t-shirts, branded in tattoos,” says Hingley. “It is religion rather than race that now defines the local communities.” With more than twenty different religions represented in a single road, various buildings are used for religious purposes from churches in a school gym hall, to makeshift baptism tents in the local park. And with so many communities co-existing in such close proximity, the boundaries between faiths can, as Hingley has observed, become exaggerated. “It was as if these religions were challenging each other,” Hingley said “challenging each other to show themselves off the most.” Under Gods is a powerful celebration of the rich diversity of these religions and of the reality and intensity of their different lifestyles. London based, Liz Hingley has won numerous awards including the Canon AFJ and Figaro Magazine Award 2010, and the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Award, 2009. Her work was highly commended in the 2010 and 2007 Ian Parry Award and she was a finalist for the Eugene Smith Grant 2010. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, France, Budapest and New York.
THIS IS NOT A HOUSE
LONDON STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 1860-2010
Edgar Martins texts by Sacha Craddock & Peter D.Osborne
Street photography thrives in London today. It documents the movement, diversity and seeming incoherence of the most multicultural city in the world. Its defining characteristic is the keen eye of the photographer catching the moment of a chance encounter, a fleeting expression or a momentary juxtaposition in a decisive click.
The subprime mortgage crisis, which had its roots in the closing years of the 20th century, became apparent in 2007. The crisis exposed pervasive weaknesses, as well as deep-rooted inequalities, within financial industry regulation and the global financial system.
£35.00 / $55.00 Hardback, 108 pages 65 colour photos 265mm x 335mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-02-5
In the winter of 2008, Edgar Martins produced a series of photographs related to the collapse of the US housing market. He photographed abandoned homes, golf courses, ski resorts, hotels and other building projects in sixteen locations across six separate American states. His interest lay in catalysing and reuniting fresh experiences of a new form of architecture by summoning a disquieting conjunction of realism and fiction. And fiction, as the writer Jacques Ranciére states is elementary to understanding the real. This Is Not A House formed part of an assignment for the New York Times Magazine. The work became the focus of a heated debate due to Martins’ decision to employ digital processes on a select few images. The series has been described as ‘arguably one of the most poignant pieces of work produced by a photographic artist in recent years, not only because of the relevance of it’s theme, but because of the way it propels us to re-evaluate our understanding of photography and its fragile and difficult relationship with the real’. It proposes new models for re-conceiving and conceptualising a particularly contemporary phenomenon and landscape. It also remains a poignant reminder of the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of ordinary people.
However, photographing life on London’s streets is nothing new. The first ‘instantaneous’ London street scenes were taken in the early 1860s, and by the 1890s candid street photographers were snapping Londoners unawares. The 20th century saw many photographers, famous and lesser-known, continue to capture the daily life of London.
£19.99 Hardback, 120 pages 110 colour & b/w photographs 220mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-03-2
London Street Photography is published in association with The Museum of London to coincide with the major exhibition on show at the Museum until September 2011.
London Street Photography showcases the Museum of London’s unique historic collection of photographs. It contains the work of more than seventy photographers and is a fascinating view of London street life of the last 150 years. It includes the work of well-known photographers such as Paul Martin, John Thomson, Humphrey Spender, Bert Hardy, László Moholy-Nagy, Roger Mayne and Tony Ray-Jones as well as the work of many anonymous photographers whose contribution has been just as important in recording the story of the city. The book includes an introduction by Mike Seaborne, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum, in which he outlines the history of street photography in the capital, exploring the shifts in approach as well as the impact of new cameras that allowed photographers to capture the wealth of detail to be found in London’s teeming streets.
WHEN LIGHT CASTS NO SHADOW Edgar Martins texts by Gerry Badger & Sacha Craddock Edgar Martins was granted special airside access to some of the most interesting airports in Europe. The airports he chose have had a key role in history or the history of aviation. Almost all his images were produced at night, using the aprons’ floodlights, moonlight or long exposures of between ten minutes to two hours.
£30.00 / $45.00 Hardback, clothbound 88 pages, 60 colour photographs 270mm x 335mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-81-1
© Roger Mayne / courtesy Museum of London
Some images are incredibly abstract, with a very long depth of field and often with the use of minimal lighting. In others, sky and ground merge in darkness with only the lights and airport hieroglyphics to orient us. Yet even these are hard to decode, for whilst this is a landscape of signs that can be read by the knowledgeable – pilots and air traffic controllers, for instance – it remains perplexing to the uninitiated. This juxtaposition of sign and shape is at the heart of these remarkable images. Internationally recognised, Edgar Martins has exhibited widely and has received many awards including the prestigious BES Photo Prize (Portugal), a New York Photography Award (Fine Art Category), the Terry O’Neil Award and a SONY World Photography Award. © Nick Turpin / courtesy Museum of London
£25.00 / $40.00 Hardback, 96 pages 63 colour photographs 245mm x 297mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-88-0
CHINA BETWEEN
LAOS: LEGACY OF A SECRET
Polly Braden
Sean Sutton
texts by David Campany & Jennifer Higgie
Introduced by Tim Page.
China Between is a photographic exploration of the modern city culture of contemporary China. When the Peoples’ Republic set up its Special Economic Zones in the 1980s communist China entered into global trade and international capital. The goal was financial but new money also brought new values and new ways of life. Polly Braden’s photography is an intimate response to the material and psychological effects of the changes experienced by the country’s new urban class. Shot over three years in Shanghai, Xiamen, Shenzhen and Kunming, China Between is a revelatory portrait. No longer will images of epic scenes dominate our view of this country. Braden shows how a casual glance, a moment of doubt or a quick trip to the shopping mall can tell us as much about modern China as any image of a dam, a protest or a teeming workforce.
Between 1964 and 1973, during the war with the United States, the North Vietnamese used a network of supply lines, known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, running from North Vietnam through the jungles and mountains of neighbouring Laos and Cambodia. In an effort to staunch the flow of troops and weapons the U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. Kept secret from Congress and the American people, full details of the scale of the bombing sorties only became declassified in the 1990s.
… anthropological documents and a personal travelogue; a series of intimate portraits and, more generally, studies of a country undergoing a massive transition from a predominantly agrarian to an urban culture. Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze magazine Polly Braden has exhibited at venues internationally including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her photography has appeared in The Guardian, The Telegraph Magazine, Ei8ht, Portfolio, ICON, Photoworks, Frieze, The Sydney Morning Herald and D Magazine (Italy). The book is accompanied by texts by David Campany, Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London, and by Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze magazine.
By the time the aerial campaign ended in 1973 more bombs had been dropped on Laos, since renamed Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR), than the Allies dropped on Germany and Japan combined during World War II. Many failed to explode, leaving the landscape littered with hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of unexploded bombs, as lethal today as when they fell from the sky over three decades ago. £25.00 / $40.00 Hardback, 156 pages 93 duotone photographs 265mm x 240mm ISBN: 978-1-907893-01-8 Published in association with MAG Also available by Sean Sutton: Angola: Journey Through Change ISBN: 978-1-904587-43-9
For the past nine years photographer Sean Sutton has travelled with MAG’s projects (Mines Advisory Group), from Kosovo to Sri Lanka and Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan, documenting the humanitarian impact of armed violence, landmines, unexploded ordnance and other deadly remnants of conflict as well as the solutions that MAG provides.
HOME WORK
MISSING LIVES
Domestic labour in the suburbs and villages in and around Hanoi, Vietnam Tessa Bunney
Nick Danziger text by Rory MacLean Missing Lives brings together fifteen, heartbreaking stories from the Balkans – stories that tell of the immense tragedy that took place between 1991 and 2001 during the Yugoslav Wars when tens of thousands of Europeans vanished. Desperate for news, families of the missing prayed for a message, begged for the truth and often fell prey to blackmail. In almost every case, those missing had been murdered. But without any word, witness or body, the bereaved could not accept their loss. Their torment was to last years – for many it still continues. Children waited for parents to return from the grave. Mothers made up their dead son’s beds. Old men couldn’t bury their descendants. The living also ‘lost’ their lives.
Home Work looks at Vietnam’s ‘craft’ villages. These specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle-making to snake-catching. Some date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed income.
£19.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 112 pages 53 colour photographs 236mm x 165mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-90-3
Dubbed ‘bombies’ by Laotian villagers, these often brightly coloured cluster bomb submunitions are still found in the clefts of bamboo branches, by children playing in shallow dirt, or in the fields where farmers till the soil by striking the earth with a hoe. Since 1974 more than 20,000 people, many of them children, have been killed or injured by bombs or other unexploded ordnance. Today, the lives of about 300 Laotian people are still devastated each year by the deadly remnants of this war.
Tessa Bunney spent two six month periods in Vietnam and visited many of these villages. The traditional village house is typically single storey and consists of three rooms. The large central room is a multi-purpose living, sleeping and working area and it is in this room where many of Bunney’s images are taken, the mix of work and everyday objects fascinating her visually. Interspersed with images from daily life in the rice fields and in the villages, these photographs depict ‘working from home’ in an unromanticised sense, where their subjects, mostly women, balance childcare with the routine work necessary for survival. 75% of Vietnam’s population live in rural areas but as the country moves towards urbanisation, its agricultural labour force faces losing its land to urban projects – and its way of life. The country’s growing population is reducing the availability of farming land, and rural families, no longer able to sustain themselves from the land, are turning to the creation of various products. These ‘craft’ villages have become the meeting place between rural and urban, agriculture and industry. During the last decade, along with rapid national economic development, many craft villages have increased production up to five fold through small-scale industrial development. However, the consequence is increased waste and environmental pollution with the resources of the landscape becoming overused.
£15.99 / $25.00 Softback, 184 pages 101 colour photographs 216mm x 162mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-87-3 Published in association with the International Committee of the Red Cross
For the first time in war DNA has been used to match blood and bone, reuniting families divided by death, enabling survivors to find closure and to begin to live again. Since 1991 the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Balkans has been asked by families to trace 34,384 missing men and women. The remains of half of them – most of whom were murdered over a decade ago – have now been found. Missing Lives gives a voice to the unacknowledged suffering of these families, to all who went missing ‘by force’, and reminds us that in war there is no greater loss than the disappearance of those we love. Nick Danziger has published several books including Danziger’s Britain (1996), a social and political commentary on the state of Britain, described by The Independent as ‘so important that every one of us should read it and weep’. Rory MacLean’s six books, including UK best-sellers Stalin’s Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing. He has twice been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Prize and nominated for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award.
FASCISMO ABBANDONATO
WASTELANDS
Dan Dubowitz
Dan Dubowitz
texts by Patrick Duerden & Penny Lewis
The nature of any society and its future can be read in its entrails – in what is left behind, what is discarded. Each creates, uses and casts aside its wastelands in very different ways and it seems that a proportion of every city is always wasteland. These neglected or abandoned places are fragile and ephemeral, a transient aspect of a changing, living city, yet development appears unable to clear them away for good, only to move them on to a different site. This book explores some of these wastelands that collectively form a sustained and permanent feature of the modern city.
During the period of Mussolini’s Fascist regime (1923–43) ‘colonia’ – holiday centres for children – were established on the northern Italian coasts. Run by paramilitary youth organisations, they brought together modernist architecture, fresh air and discipline with the intention of converting the body and soul of Italian youth to fascist principles.
£35.00 / $55.00 Hardback, clothbound, with gatefolds 108 pages, 94 colour & b/w photographs 300mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-80-4 – English language edition ISBN: 978-1-904587-86-6 – Italian language edition Not available in Germany
The colonia were far removed from both the towns of Italy’s past and from the traditional structures of family and community. They offered a dramatic daily programme of activity with marching, synchronised exercise and gymnastics, flag-raising, saluting and swearing allegiance to the regime. It was a programme that in turn inspired architectural features in the buildings – including towers, ramps and elevated platforms – all designed to dramatise the parades and presentations by the young people. Even in the context of massive public works programmes, the building of the colonia offered unprecedented opportunities for progressive architects. They became a distinctive type of fascist building that evolved under the directives of the youth organisations. Despite the spectacle of the buildings, official policy declared luxuries as antieducational and anti-social. Accordingly only the most basic of accommodation was provided. Dormitories were intimidating, open plan and stark; each might accommodate several hundred children. Italian parents routinely admonished recalcitrant children with the threat ‘ti mando in colonia!’ (Behave, or I'll send you to the colonia!). For a generation of Italians the experience of fascism was a formative one, from which some never recovered.
Sites featured include the following:
£35.00 / $55.00 Hardback, cloth bound 176 pages, 106 colour plates 295mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-83-5
Beelitz, Germany – an entire settlement built for victims of TB. Vockerode, Germany – a giant pre-war power station in the East German industrial heartlands. Cardross, Scotland – St Peter’s Seminary now widely recognised as Scotland’s modernist masterpiece. Orford Ness, England – a decommissioned nuclear research facility and military complex. Gorton, England – a monastery and church designed by AW Pugin; the largest parish church of its time in the UK. In 1989 the Franciscan monks held their last mass. Ellis Island, USA – the hospital wing; during the Second World War it was used as a prisoner of war camp. San Gimignano, Italy – former convent and prison, now put to various uses by the local community. Santa Teresa, Cuba – colonial church and convent. Once a closed wall community and now a dense microcosm of a city within the larger city. An architect by training, artist and photographer Dan Dubowitz is also an established specialist public arts consultant and has worked on projects both in the UK and abroad. His photography has been exhibited in the UK, Italy, Canada and the United States.
AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK
BABYLON
Jason Bell
Surreal Babies
introduced by Zoë Heller, interviews by Guy Harrington
from the collection of James Birch with an introduction by George Melly
In 2008 Jason Bell undertook an assignment for American Vogue at ‘Tea & Sympathy’, an English tea room in the heart of Manhattan. In conversation with the owner, Nicky Perry, he was astonished to discover that over 120,000 British men and women lived in New York City. As an Englishman, himself living in New York, Jason was inspired to investigate further. An Englishman in New York is the result.
£35.00 / $55.00 extensive interviews included Hardback, 160 pages 65 colour & b&w photographs 280mm x 335mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-97-2
These weird and wonderful postcards show babies as never seen before. Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields – an anarchistic world of baby heaven. James Birch first came across the postcards when he was a student in Aix-en-Provence. “A froth of smiling babies boiling away in a cauldron” caught his eye and he bought a small number of cards. He didn’t really pay much attention to the cards again until years later in the 1980s when he visited the Pompidou Centre for an exhibition on Surrealism. There in one of the display cases was a collection of fantasy baby postcards shown for their inspirational importance to both the Dadaists and the Surrealists.
The book documents a wide cross-section of English people living in the city. Their jobs are massively varied: taxi driver, cop, construction worker, diver, helicopter pilot, chef, burlesque dancer, drug dealer, UN ambassador and even dog walker. Jason was also struck by the significant influence that many Brits exercise on New York’s cultural agenda, which led him to include: writer, Zoë Heller; director, Stephen Daldry; artists, Cecily Brown and Bill Jacklin; Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas P Campbell; historian, Simon Schama; actor, Kate Winslet; and the musician, Sting. The book offers an extraordinary insight into the British sub-culture which forms an intrinsic part of everyday life in New York City. As Bell says, ’I went for a walk in Central Park with Sting, for a cup of tea on Kate Winslet’s roof terrace, sat on Zoë Heller’s stoop and watched Stephen Daldry cycle down 8th Avenue. I was given a private tour of both the Metropolitan Museum and Barneys’ shop windows. And amidst all the questions about why people had come here and what they had left behind, I learnt a little bit more about what it means to be English, what it means to be a New Yorker, and where the two intersect.’ Jason Bell’s work regularly appears in the world's leading publications including Vanity Fair and Vogue (US & UK) and he has shot film posters for Billy Elliot, About a Boy, Bridget Jones, Love Actually and Golden Compass amongst others.
£16.99 / $29.00 Hardback, 128 pages 148 colour illustrations 235mm x 170mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-85-9
Despite the immensely varied subject matter of the postcards little is known of their history. They were produced from around 1900-1920 and were found from Russia, to Spain to Great Britain and most countries in between, however the majority appear to be from Germany. The postcards were a source of inspiration to many artists in the 1920s and 1930s, in particular to both the Dadaists and the Surrealists. They were collected by Paul Éluard, André Breton, Salvador Dali, Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, and Man Ray. The popular images excited inspiration in these artists because of their boundless inventiveness. A foreword is written by George Melly who was an acknowledged expert in the field of surrealism. Best known as a jazz and blues singer, writer and broadcaster, he was also an art critic and a devotee of the Surrealists. This is one of the last pieces he wrote before his death in 2007 at the age of 80.
A LANDSCAPE OF WALES
FORTUNATE STEPS
James Morris
Havana: In the Calzada del Diez de Octubre photographs & text by John Comino-James
A Landscape of Wales takes an expansive look at the contemporary Welsh landscape. James Morris challenges the tourist clichés and looks at the impact of human presence and the layers of history in the landscape. He reflects upon issues of identity, exploitation and regeneration; it is a land of beauty and of hardship where – in this post industrial, post rural economy – Tesco and tourism are now the great employers.
£30.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 108 pages 83 colour photographs 270mm x 335mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-89-7 Supported by Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Welsh Books Council, Arts Council of Wales.
These are the contrasting realities of the Welsh landscape – that seen by the many visitors and that experienced by most inhabitants. Morris moves between tourist hot spots and the terraces and back streets where the majority of people live. The latter are often hard-bitten unpretty places. No longer the world’s largest producer of iron, coal, copper or slate, they have lost their historic reason and heroic status, sometimes even their raison d’être. By contrast the tourist landscape is one of pleasure seeking and escape – this is the Wales that visitors are sold and want to see. But in a small country, this selling of culture for the tourist pound has difficult consequences that build on the complexities of history that have shaped so much of this landscape. James Morris is an acclaimed photographer of landscape and the built environment. His work is in many private and public collections including The British Council; Museum of African Art, New York; Princeton University; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Library of Wales.
Authentic and fresh… the streets remain the preserve of those who live there … and when photographing the people he is among them, not sneaking a snap from across the street. – AG Photography Magazine reviewing ‘A Few Streets’, John Comino-James’s first book about Havana.
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 168 pages 110 duotone photographs 165mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-91-0 Texts in English and Spanish Also available by John Comino-James: In A Very English Town ISBN: 9781904587729 A Few Streets, A Few People ISBN: 978-1-904587-34-7 Fairground Attraction ISBN: 978-1-899235-74-2
Brought up in Manchester, Jim Perrin is an award-winning writer of Welsh descent. His books include River Map (Gomer, 2001), The Villain: the life of Don Whillans (Hutchinson, 2005) and Travels with the Flea (In Pinn, 2003). The Climbing Essays won the Mountaineering Literature Award at the 2006 Banff Mountain Festival.
The specification is as follows: Slipcase in Cialux cloth with foil stamping 72 pages with 58 colour plates, 210mm x 247mm Printed on 170gsm high quality matt art paper £35.00 ISBN: 978-1-904587-98-9 Collector’s Edition is limited to 100 signed and numbered copies and includes a specially produced inkjet print. £95.00
Also available by Paul Hill: Dialogue With Photography (With Thomas J. Cooper) ISBN: 978-1-899235-61-2
Although its once important function as the principal route to the south has been superseded, the Calzada still remains a busy urban thoroughfare. Through engaged portraits and candid observation and with an eye for both architectural detail and the imposing façades that stand as testimony to the changing architectural styles of well over a century, John CominoJames creates an intimate and sympathetic record of the Calzada del Diez de Octubre which, through its long history, occupies an important place in the imagination and memory of Habaneros today. John Comino-James has published four previous books of photographs.
CORRIDOR OF UNCERTAINTY
THE GRAND TRUNK ROAD
Paul Hill
from Delhi to the Khyber Pass photographs & text: Tim Smith oral histories: Irna Qureshi
Corridor of Uncertainty is a metaphorical meditation on loss and pain, despair and hope, beauty and banality, and seeming to be in a foreign country without a map, where reactions range from pity to incredulity. The work was made following the death of his wife, Angela, in 2006 and although a very personal journey, it has resonances for a wide audience. It is the first major monograph that Paul has published since White Peak, Dark Peak in 1990.
This is a slipcased hardback edition limited to 400 copies plus a Collectors Edition of 100 copies.
In his second book of photographs made in Havana, John Comino-James has again set out to explore a part of the city not normally visited by tourists. The geographical scope of the photographs is restricted to a single road, the Calzada del Diez de Octubre. The route itself predates the foundation of the Parish of Jesús del Monte in the 17th century and was formerly known as the Calzada de Jesús del Monte. In 1918 the road was renamed in commemoration of one of the most important events in Cuban history – the declaration of the first full-scale war of independence against Spanish colonial rule on 10th October 1868.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential UK photographers and teachers of photography of the last forty years, Paul Hill began his career as a freelancer for regional and national newspapers. In the early 1970s he began working in photographic education at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, where he became head of the ground-breaking Trent / Derby Creative Photography course – the forerunner of every art photography degree now available. In 1976, he and his late wife, Angela, established The Photographer’s Place, the first residential photography workshop in the UK, and a centre which influenced a generation of British photographers. Paul Hill has exhibited extensively. His work is in many permanent collections including The National Media Museum, the V&A, the British Council and the Arts Council; and, overseas, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Japanese Photography Foundation; the Australian National Gallery; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Birmingham City Archives acquired his archive in 2004 to add to its national collection of photography. Paul Hill has published several books: Dialogue with Photography, co-written with Thomas Joshua Cooper, Approaching Photography and White Peak, Dark Peak. He has also received numerous awards including a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, a Hasselblad Foundation Fellowship, and an M.B.E..
The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, and most famous highway in southern Asia. Through oral testimonies, photographs and texts this book explores its history, and shows why it was so crucial to the process of migration to Britain and how the close links between Britain and places along the road continue to this day.
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 120 pages 116 colour photographs 210mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-99-6 Also available by Tim Smith: Coal, Frankincense & Myrrh – Yemen and British Yemenis ISBN: 978-1-904587-65-1 Asians in Britain ISBN: 978-1-904587-09-5
For millennia the Grand Trunk Road has been used by invaders to conquer the subcontinent. After the British arrived in the 17th century it became the main artery for their conquest and rule of the northern areas of British India. Known locally as the ‘GT Road’ it was also used by its residents to begin journeys that ended all over the world, and since the days of the British Raj large numbers of them have settled in Britain. Between Delhi and the Khyber Pass, the GT Road travels through the homelands of over 90% of British Pakistanis and the vast majority of British Sikhs and Hindus from the Indian Punjab. Using stories gathered by Irna Qureshi and photographs taken by Tim Smith this book tells the story of the profound impact of the British on the GT Road and its people, and how they in turn have irrevocably altered the fabric of modern day Britain. Irna Qureshi is an anthropologist and oral historian specialising in British Asian and Muslim arts and heritage. Tim Smith is a freelance photojournalist who combines editorial and commercial work with long term exhibition and publishing projects.
EAST TO EAST
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Klavdij Sluban
Vee Speers
Introduced by Erri De Luca
This is a series of portraits of children about to attend an imaginary birthday party. Inspired by her daughter’s birthday party Speers imagined what characters might be created if role play were pushed to imaginative extremes. The children are placed in front of the same white wall and gaze into the lens of the camera, performing within a strictly laid out frame. They reveal very little of themselves and yet this is what makes the portraits so magnetic. The childlike game of dressing up, of putting on costumes, reinforces the surreal tone of the series.
East to East describes a journey, bringing together photographs made by Sluban during extensive travels, frequently following the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Sluban’s use of deep blacks and backlit silhouettes embues his work with a highly individual photographic style. These powerful images are remarkably moody and atmospheric and permeated with a strange melancholy and an overwhelming sense of isolation. This is deeply memorable work.
£30.00 / £48.00 Hardback, 120 pages 70 tritone photographs 270mm x 290mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-84-2 Not available in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain .
Klavdij Sluban is an established and well-respected photographer. Born in Slovenia he moved to France at a young age and is now based in Paris. His photographs have been exhibited widely including the Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, Canton, China; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; and Centre Pompidou/Beauborg, Paris. He has published several books and is included in the well-known Photo Poche series which features the world’s leading photographers. He was winner of the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2004 and the Prix Niépce in 2000. Erri De Luca is one of Italy’s leading writers and the winner of several literary awards in both Italy and France.
The Birthday Party is ‘anarchistic’ in its take on childhood and play, ‘both improvisatory and highly theatrical... unsentimental but playful, macabre... in a way which is liberating both for us as viewer and perhaps for her subjects too.’ Clare Grafik, The Photographers Gallery, London
£30.00 / $55.00 Hardback, 96 pages 44 colour photographs 330mm x 272mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-64-4 Not available in France or Germany
The Birthday Party featured in the inaugural exhibition that opened Sweden’s new gallery of photography, Fotografiska, in Stockholm in May 2010.
AFTER THE WALL
ZEBRATO
Traces of the Soviet Empire Eric Lusito
Michael Levin foreword by Barry Dumka Michael Levin’s photographs have gained international attention. The American fine art magazine Focus declared that “Michael Levin’s captivating images are soulful and evocative; he is truly one of the rising stars in the world of photography.”
The Berlin Wall was the physical embodiment of the ‘Iron Curtain’ that divided the Soviet world from the West. Once it fell the Soviet Empire itself also began to crumble. At its heart was a military system which extended throughout its territories exerting huge control and influence. There were miltary bases in every country.
Shortlisted for the PHotoEspaña Book Award 2010 Voted as one of PDN’s Best Photo Books 2010 Winner of PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris – Book Prize 2010 Awarded Kaunas Photo Star at Kaunas Photo Festival, Lithuania, 2010
For the past fifteen years Vee Speers has been based in Paris, working in fashion, photojournalism and fine art photography. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout Europe, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and Australia.
Winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography 2009.
Introduction by Francis Conte, Professor of Russian & Soviet Culture, University of Paris-Sorbonne
£30.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 120 pages 150 colour photographs 240mm x 297mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-75-0
‘My intention was to show a real side of human nature, to expose a side of childhood that is not carefree or clichéd, and project a range of emotions and definitions which are part of an imperfect world.’ Vee Speers
Eric Lusito travelled throughout the former Soviet Union from East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to Kazakhstan in search of these former Soviet military bases and his photographs are an extraordinary record. The military departed but much else was just left behind. Lusito discovered everything from gas masks to propaganda posters, books and magazines, instruction manuals and personal photographs. But it is the buildings themselves which are the most resonant symbols of the fall of a once powerful Empire. A lecture hall is laid out with chairs, and theatre spotlights are still mounted on the walls, yet the ceiling has begun to collapse; a swimming pool is full of water but this is stagnant water unchanged for years. And throughout there remain symbols of the old regime – murals of heroic deeds and national glories, photographs of political and miltary leaders, posters exhorting young soldiers to give their all for their motherland. The book includes photographs not only of the military bases but also of the murals, posters, books, instruction manuals etc. that Lusito found abandoned. It is a rich collection of work and illuminates the miltary world of the Soviet Union in a way that is both fascinating and unique.
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 96 pages 46 duotone photographs 295mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-70-5
Top Photography Books of 2009, PDN, New York PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris Awards, 2nd place art book
Using long exposures, Levin pulls his world taut, so that what remains in the landscape feels essential and revealed. There is a deceptive simplicity in his images as if these places need only to be found to be realised. Places that are simple and totemic. It is Levin’s pure sensibility which arranges this view, which finds these small moments and gives them weight and value and timelessness. He is particularly adept at capturing the smooth skin of light, the way it rolls over a place in the course of minutes rendering his subjects with their own private beauty. Levin illuminates these common places with new intent, making images which are both transfixing and transformative. Michael Levin has won numerous prestigious awards. In 2009: 1st Place Fine Art Category, 2nd Place Fine Art Book Category – International Photography Awards (USA). Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year – PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris Awards.
ALLOTMENTS
BINGO & SOCIAL CLUB
Andrew Buurman
photographs Michael Hess, texts Maxine Gallagher
There’s something about the word ‘allotments’ that conjures up an image of traditional values, of balmy summer days spent working the land, escaping in honest toil. A rural idylll far removed from our everyday experience. And even though allotments can be found throughout the world, in our minds they still seem to encapsulate a certain Britishness.
Around 1pm, every day of the week, nearly 600 bingo halls across the UK open their doors to thousands of loyal customers. But, although they can be found on almost every British high street, surprisingly few people ever see what goes on inside. In Bingo & Social Club, photographer Michael Hess opens up this world to a new audience. Behind the often-crumbling exteriors, he finds vibrant places full of strong characters, quirky details and more than a hint of nostalgia. In his own words: “I want people to feel that they’ve spent a night at the bingo – to sense what it feels like to be there.”
Andrew Buurman’s photographs capture the essence of the allotment and convey the enthusiasm and diversity of today’s plotholders. These photographs were all taken on Uplands Allotments, in Handsworth, in the heart of Birmingham. The largest allotment site in the UK – with 422 plots – it opened in 1949, with its own office and meeting hall. Even today it retains much of the communal spirit of the postwar era with weekly tea dances, bingo nights and an annual flower and vegetable show.
£20.00 / $35.00 Hardback, clothbound 96 pages, 61 colour photographs 215mm x 200mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-73-6 Shortlisted for the PHotoEspaña Book Award 2010 Listed in Photeye Best Books of 2010
The history of allotments tracks the major social and political changes in British life: the move away from open field agriculture, the urbanisation of the Industrial Revolution, the need for home grown produce during both World Wars. By 1943 there were some 1.4 million allotments in the UK growing 10% of the nation’s food. Inevitably both increasing affluence and the redevelopment of many sites led to a dramatic decrease in numbers, though in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest. There are now some 300,000 allotments in the UK often shared between families and friends.
Michael Hess and Maxine Gallagher spent many nights in the clubs, playing bingo, chatting with the managers and customers, and collecting stories from the people they met. They wanted to find out who these people really were. “Bingo halls are not just about gambling; they’re about human beings. They really do act as social hubs for many communities.”
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 112 pages 80 duotone photographs 250mm x 210mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-95-8
Jack, the manager of a bingo club in Newcastle, forms the backbone of the book.“He’s quite a character – tough and yet extremely dignified – and I knew straight away he could add the extra dimension I was looking for.”
Andrew Buurman is a World Press Photo award winner and his work has been exhibited in the UK and USA.
SILVER FOOTPRINT
OFF PISTE
Robin Bell
an alpine story Lois Hechenblaikner
As digital photography has become increasingly dominant, the more traditional film-based black and white photography and the chemically produced photographic print have become uniquely repositioned in art, craft and culture. The art of photographic printing is now recognised as a serious craft, a rare skill that is much admired and respected. For Robin Bell this recognition as a craftsman of extraordinary ability has been earned over a career that stretches back some 35 years. He has worked with the biggest names in international photography including Bill Brandt, Eve Arnold, Don McCullin, Lee Miller, Ernst Haas, Terence Donovan, John Swannell, Ian Berry, Patrick Lichfield, Kevin Cummins, Tom Stoddart, Linda McCartney, Terry O’Neill, Norman Parkinson and Snowdon. Bell’s position as Britain’s leading black and white photographic printer is unassailable. £25.00 / $40.00 Hardback, 144 pages 120 photographs 270mm x 270mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-82-8
This book brings together 126 photographs by these and other leading photographers whose work Bell has printed over the years. In his introduction David Litchfield, a central figure in photographic London in the 1980s and editor of Ritz newspaper and Image magazine, contextualises Bell’s career. Robin Bell himself provides the captions, describing both some of his favourite images and the most memorable photographs that he has printed over the years. Robin Bell’s printing and processing techniques are still as much sought after as ever by a wide range of photographers and their estates. His expertise and his collaborative approach make him a popular choice for many photographers and this retrospective survey of his work portrays both his passion for images and for the silver gelatin print.
texts by Thomas Weski & Wolfgang Ullrich Off Piste is a very funny and powerful satire. It looks at the enormous changes to Austria’s alpine region, the Tyrol, over recent decades. It juxtaposes images from two very different worlds – the old, ‘traditional’ rural Austria and the increasingly consumer-driven culture of today. Once there was a strong dependence on the natural world – the landscape, work and everyday lives were intertwined. The black and white photographs, taken by agricultural engineer Armin Kniely, that depict this ‘lost’ world have a particular charm. Today though, as Lois Hechenblaikner’s colour photographs vividly show, it is a much changed environment where the excesses of our consumerist world are clear to see. £19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 120 pages 100 duotone & colour photographs 225mm x 250mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-78-1
Wonderful ironies abound, yet despite the humour that underlies them there are chilling implications for the region and for the sustainability of its natural landscape and social traditions. With over 40 million overnight stays a year Austria’s tourist industry is all important to the country. Here there is ‘Something for everyone, summer and winter, season after season, event after event. A well-oiled leisure machine. A tourist paradise. Big business and big profits.’ But at what cost? Lois Hechenblaikner was born and raised in the Tyrol where his parents ran a guesthouse, and so he experienced tourism and the tourism industry from an early age. He is recognised as a critical observer of the changes in the Alpine area.
FRENCH KISS
LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK
Anders Petersen
Ed van der Elsken
Swedish born, Anders Petersen is internationally recognised for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs.
A facsimile of the ‘classic’ photobook. It focuses on the Left Bank in Paris – the centre of creative ferment in the 1950s which would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. The book tells of a fictional love story in photographs and short passages of text. Gritty and unconventional, it was acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography and established van der Elsken’s reputation as one of the leading photographers of the 20th century.
Petersen explores the fringes of society and his images depict a raw, and sometimes disturbingly brutal, social portrait. Taken in the South of France, French Kiss is characteristic Petersen, exuding the poetic sadness, restlessness and sense of urgency that runs through all his work. When the work was first shown at Arles Photography Festival the response was astounding: ‘They made everything else on display at the huge photography festival pale in comparison. They became the ‘buzz’ in Arles. And everyone realized that Anders Petersen (that wildly energetic 62-year-old guy) is still making some of the most arresting personal documentary photographs today’ Jim Casper, Lens Culture. £19.99 / $39.00 Hardback, 116 pages 87 duotone photographs 247mm x 165mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-58-3 Not available in Germany, France, Italy
Anders Petersen has published more than 20 books and his work has been exhibited widely. He first became known for his series Café Lehmitz, a daily chronicle of the regulars – transvestites, prostitutes, drug addicts and harbour workers – of a Hamburg bar in the Reeperbahn, the city’s once notorious red-light district. Starting in 1967, Petersen continued the project for three years. The photobook of the same name was published eight years later, in 1978, first in Germany, and then in France (1979) and Sweden (1982). Café Lehmitz has since become regarded as a seminal book in the history of European photography.
£24.00 / $39.00 Hardback, 112 pages 200 duotone photographs 275mm x 195 mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-22-3
THE TEDS
THE ANIMALS
Chris Steele-Perkins & Richard Smith
Giacomo Brunelli introduced by Alison Nordström
In early 1954, on a late train from Southend, someone pulled the communication cord. The train ground to a halt. Light bulbs were smashed. Police arrested a gang dressed in Edwardian suits. In April two gangs, also dressed Edwardian-style, met after a dance. They were ready for action: bricks and sand-filled socks were used. Fifty-five youths were taken in for questioning. The following August Bank Holiday the first ‘Best Dressed Ted Contest’ was held. The winner was a twenty-year-old greengrocer’s assistant. The Teddy Boy myth was born.
‘Giacomo Brunelli has been looking hard at animals. His focus is not on the framed and caged exotica of zoos but on the ordinary animals that remain with us to some extent: horses, dogs, cats, chickens, pigeons. He shows us a fox, looking sharply at the camera and poised to flee, and there are numerous birds, a snake and several toads, but this wildness is small and fragile, living in the familiar liminal space where manmade and natural meet and overlap. His animals inhabit farmyards, cobbled streets and the façades of stone buildings. There are no tigers here.
The Teds is a classic of British documentary photography. Originally published in 1979, it is a vivid and absorbing book combining image and text to tell a fascinating story that spans some three decades.
£15.99 / $29.00 Hardback, 128 pages 72 duotone photographs 235mm x 170mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-44-5
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, clothbound 72 pages, 33 tritone photographs 300mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-71-2
Chris Steele-Perkins is a member of Magnum Photos.
In association with The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Brunelli’s animals are often composed only of suggestive fragments… He favours the profile and the counterintuitive angle, setting dark unobservable features against dark undiscernable backgrounds. A dead mouse, on its back, paws in air beside an oversized flower against a stark and distant mountain is no more or less frozen in time than is the growling dog, eyes alight and teeth forever bared; both are icons of states we fear but cannot know. These pictures are timeless and uncanny, powerful in their ordinariness, and emotionally much bigger than their simple subjects.’ Alison Nordström
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 96 pages 70 colour photographs, 260mm x 290mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-40-8 Not available in France
SMALL WORLD
BLEED
Martin Parr
Simon Norfolk
introduced by Geoff Dyer
The war in Bosnia in the 1990s raised to common currency the terms ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘humanitarian intervention’. It brought back to Europe a barbarism not seen since the Second World War, and was the first war fought very much under the eyes of the media. It was also the first conflict fought by killers who knew, even before the war had finished, that a war crimes tribunal awaited them.
This is a revised and updated edition of Martin Parr’s classic book which was first published in 1996. It is a biting, very funny satire in which Parr looks at tourism worldwide, exposing the increasingly homogenous ‘global culture’ where in the search for different cultures those same cultures are destroyed. The issues that Parr raised over a decade ago when the book was first published are even more relevant today. Parr’s larger-than-life troupe of tourists are ultimately bemused victims of consumerism, locked into our insatiable craving for ‘the new’. Internationally recognised as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life Martin Parr has led the development of British documentary photography with wit, style, and intelligence in a career that boasts numerous publications and exhibitions. Martin Parr is a member of the prestigious MAGNUM photo agency.
THE LAST RESORT Martin Parr essay by Gerry Badger
£30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 88 pages, 40 colour photographs, 245mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-79-8
When Martin Parr’s The Last Resort was first published and exhibited in 1986 it divided both critics and audiences alike. Some saw it as the ‘finest achievement to date’ of colour photography in Britain whilst others viewed it as ‘an aberration’. However it was viewed, it was undoubtedly a sharp, bitter satire of the Britain of the Thatcher years. With the benefit of hindsight there is little doubt that it transformed documentary photography in Britain and placed Parr amongst the world’s leading photographers. The book is now recognised as a ‘classic’ and early editions are highly sought by collectors worldwide.
Not available in Germany and France
COMMON SENSE Martin Parr Common Sense combines extravagantly lurid and luscious colour with Parr’s trademark sense of irony. Though hilariously funny there is a sharp and biting edge to the humour. The launch of this extraordinary book was celebrated by simultaneous exhibitions in more than 40 different cities world-wide making it probably the largest exhibition of work ever held by one artist – a truly global project.
Norfolk’s photographs initially appear almost abstract. Yet through these still and beautiful images of ice, water, snow and the land, we can sense the arrogance of killers who believed they could conceal the brutal evidence of their crimes by reburying their victims in ‘secondary graves’. But over time secrets escape, and the truth bleeds out. Slipcased Limited Edition £75.00 / $150.00. 1,000 copies. Slipcased hardback. 64 pages, 24 colour plates, page size: 320mm x 400mm. Printed on heavyweight 200gsm paper incorporating matt and gloss varnishes. ISBN: 978-1-904587-19-4 Collector’s Edition A special Collector’s Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies is also available at the current price of £650 / $1,250. Shipping is charged at cost. This consists of the slipcased edition of bleed and a digital c-type print encased in acrylic (see left). The image block is 330mm x 264mm and 50mm thick. Each print is signed and numbered on the reverse. The set is packed in an imitlin bound, presentation box, with foam insets to protect and support the image block.
AFGHANISTAN: CHRONOTOPIA Simon Norfolk Afghanistan: Chronotopia is already recognised as a classic of photography. First published in 2002 the work received international acclaim and established Norfolk as one of the UK’s most respected photographers. Norfolk’s primary concern is with the aftermath of conflict – to record beyong the surface of events, and to show the nature of war through its lasting effects and consequences. Winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography 2002. Hardback, 100 pages 47 colour plates, 285mm x 320mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-54-4 Currently out of print. Reprint due Autumn 2011
AFGHANISTAN: CHRONOTOPIA Limited edition box set
£150 plus shipping at cost.
This special edition box set contains 12 images (420mm x 597mm) printed in four colour on 300gsm Zen paper, a beautiful uncoated paper from GF Smith, and presented in an exquisite box, which is bound in mid green and ebony 135gsm colorplan cartridge and blind-embossed. The edition is limited to 300 signed and numbered copies.
£25.00 / $50.00 Hardback, 160 pages 158 colour photos, 206mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-07-0
AUTOPORTRAIT Martin Parr
Please note that this set does not include a copy of the book.
introduced by Marvin Heiferman £12.99 / $24.00 Padded hardback 120 pages 54 colour photographs 154mm x 108mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-72-8
For several years, when Martin Parr has travelled he has had his picture taken by a local studio photographer, or street photographer, or in a photo booth. The result is a wonderfully varied portfolio of portraits.
FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE selected by Martin Parr £10.99 / $16.99 Padded hardback 96 pages 86 photographs 170mm x 170mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-34-6
‘Warm, funny and frequently hilarious – this is a wonderful collection of cards celebrating the American Christmas.’ Martin Parr has put together another wonderful book from his personal collection of cards. This time he celebrates the American Christmas card. These are a fascinating eye-opener into American culture, as proud families everywhere pose before the camera to send their Christmas greetings across the nation.
FOR MOST OF IT I HAVE NO WORDS Simon Norfolk Simon Norfolk has photographed sites of genocide and war crimes – names that ring like a death toll for the twentieth century – Rwanda, Cambodia, Vietnam, Auschwitz, Dresden, Ukraine, Armenia, Namibia. His photographs are charged with an overwhelming emotional intensity as they document where humans have left their trace: a tooth lying in a field, or the worn steps of prisons and death camps. They are a moving record of man’s inhumanity to man. Introduced by Michael Ignatieff, leading Canadian politician. Widely known for his work as an historian, author, and broadcaster before he entered politics in 2006. £30.00 / $55.00 Hardback, 80 duotone photographs 220 pages, 320mm x 225mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-66-7
£35.00 / $55.00 Hardback, 240 pages 300 photographs, 240 x 280mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-35-4 Not available in France and Italy
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 96 pages 45 colour photographs, 225 x 285mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-38-5 With support from University of Gloucestershire
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 120 pages 66 colour photographs, 247 x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-59-0
GABRIELE BASILICO
THE MOTHER OF ALL JOURNEYS
Workbook: 1969-2006
Dinu Li
Gabriele Basilico
Inspired by the memories of his mother, originally told to him as bed-time stories, Dinu Li’s photographs tease out fragmented moments in time. Li collabrated with his mother, using each other’s recollections and comparing the actual with the images lodged in their minds. Spanning two decades from the mid 50s, Li turns his attention to a Hong Kong at a stage of transition, morphing from fishing village to urban metropolis. Finally Li focuses on Britain, from the resettlement of his family there in the 1970s, at a time of strikes and de-industrialisation, through to the new millennium, and an era of multi-culturalism and globalisation. Aided by family snapshots and Li’s mother’s narration, The Mother Of All Journeys triggers a sense of repetition and nostalgia, invoking glimpses of the times we live in.
This is the first complete monograph dedicated to the work of the Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico, who is recognised internationally as one of the most important contemporary landscape photographers. With more than 300 photographs included – from Glasgow to Tel-Aviv, from Milan to Beirut – it is a comprehensive overview of a major figure whose career has spanned some 40 years. Born in Milan in 1944, Gabriele Basilico first studied architecture. This early training is reflected in his work and shows in his understanding of the landscape and architectural form. His landscapes avoid human presence and explore the complex interrelationships between the built environment and the natural one. £25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, Cloth bound with insert, 96 pages 69 colour photographs, 280 x 215mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-41-5
LANDSCAPES: 2001-2003
BOMBAY MIX
Richard Billingham
Ketaki Sheth
Trained as a fine artist, Richard Billingham took up photography whilst an art student as a way to inspire his paintings. In 1996, his book Ray’s a Laugh brought him to the attention of the photography and art worlds. Over recent years Billingham has photographed increasingly within the landscape and this book brings together this work for the first time. The images are contemplative and thoughtful and reflect his primary concern for the ‘making’ of an image. Billingham first exhibited in 1995 at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, who still represent him. His work has received significant international acclaim – in 1997 he won the Citibank Photography Prize and his work was one of the talking points of ‘Sensation’, the exhibition of Contemporary British Art from the Saatchi Collection. In 2001 he was shorlisted for the Turner Prize.
Ketaki Sheth’s photographs, so formally interesting, so sharply seen, so deeply felt. — Salman Rushdie Bombay Mix brings together the street photographs of leading Indian photographer Ketaki Sheth, images taken over a period of almost 20 years. Bombay is a city that never sleeps. Its population (almost 20 million) and its geography put a premium on space. A lot of ‘living’ happens on the street, where a disparate and unlikely blend of humanity defines its boundaries in a tightly confined space. The thrill of Bombay is the thrill of contrast. The streetscape of the city is as much psychedelic as it is kaleidoscopic: there is so much to see. £19.99 Hardback, 120 pages 75 tritone photographs, 250mm x 250mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-47-7 Not available in United States
In association with SEPIA/Alkazi Collection of Photography.
INFECTED LANDSCAPE
COAL, FRANKINCENSE & MYRRH YEMEN AND BRITISH YEMENIS
Israel: Broken Promised Land
Tim Smith
Shai Kremer
The reputed home of the Queen of Sheba, Yemen has been the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and Asia for thousands of years thanks to its position on the ancient spice routes. It was a meeting point of people, ideas, money and goods and the centuries of trading generated much wealth. There has been a British presence ever since the early 1600s when the East India Company set up trading posts. The relationship lasted some 130 years until 1967 when the British finally pulled out. Yemen is the mother country of the longest-established of Britain’s Muslim communities. Yemenis came to Britain from the 1890s onwards, many as an indirect result of having joined the British Merchant Navy, and after World War Two there was further emigration. By the mid-1970s there were some 15,000 Yemenis in Britain, though today this figure has reduced considerably.
Infected Landscape is a searing portrait of the military disfiguration of the landscape of Israel. The accumulation of ruins and military remnants is an important part of what defines the Israeli landscape today – wounds in the landscape that correspond to the wounds in the Israeli collective consciousness. The book includes photographs from the ‘Chicago’ miltary training centre in Israel. This centre encapsulates the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Over the years it has been rebuilt to represent different war environments and reflect varying scenarios – from Lebanon through to Gaza City. A further area was also constructed to simulate a refugee camp. The more recently established Urban Warfare Training Center also features.
£16.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 120 pages 100 colour photos, 225mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-65-1 With the support of The British Council
TRUNCATED
FLATLAND A LANDSCAPE OF PUNJAB 2003-2006
Paul Hart
Max Kandhola
foreword by Gerry Badger
India’s Punjab is the land of the five rivers, five (Punj) rivers (Aab) – Ravi, Satluj, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum.
The forest interior is more architecture than landscape. Amongst the trees, your concept of time is changed. As you move deeper inside, and the outside world disappears, the wind is calmed and noise filtered, temperature is altered, and light is bounced and subdued. Some trees stand like sentinels, others are stolid in ranks, an army of trees appearing out of the dark. This apparent sanctuary of stillness can strangely transform. Stepping into the forest is always like stepping into the unknown, with the semi-dark concealing much, revealing a little. A place sometimes mysterious, sometimes secretive, but always seductive, always dark.
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 72 pages 37 duotone photographs, 295 x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-69-9
Shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles Book Award. Published with support from Arts Council England
Max Kandhola visited the region as part of his continuing project to map family history through an odyssey of ancestral narratives, exploring memory, diaspora and identity. Flatland provides a context and a beginning. It is a land which is unfamiliar, yet it is the birthplace of Kandhola’s family, who historically were landowners, connected to farming and agriculture and also to the military. Kandhola’s journey began in Nurmahal, in the district of Jalandhar, from which most of his family came. Using this as a starting point he travelled from the centre of Punjab outwards. £30.00 / $55.00 Hardback, cloth bound, 96 pages 40 colour photographs, 320mm x 320mm ISBN: 978-1904587-39-2
With support from Arts Council England, Nottingham Trent University, Birmingham City Council
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 144 pages 60 colour photographs 260mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1904587-46-0
SHUTTING UP SHOP
STILL LIFE: KILLING TIME
The decline of the traditional small shop
Edmund Clark
John Londei
foreword by Simon Norfolk, afterword by Erwin James
Shot over a fifteen-year period beginning in the early 1970s, Shutting Up Shop is a tribute to an era that has all but disappeared: the traditional small shops that feature have now almost all gone. In all there are 60 shops. Each is unique, the range diverse: from tea to tobacco, flowers to condoms. As well as shops from London, the series covers many regions of the UK, from the Isle of Harris to the Isle of Wight. Additional to the photographs of the shops are their stories, vividly told through anecdote and interviews with the staff. Londei has also updated what has become of the shopkeepers and shops he photographed so long ago. His findings are included in the fascinating ‘afterword’ section. Almost every single one has changed beyond recognition.
Taken over the course of more than a year of exclusive access, this work applies large format still life photography to the context of a unique prison community, E Wing at Kingston Prison in Portsmouth. For eight years this was Britain’s only wing dedicated to holding elderly lifers: murderers, rapists, paedophiles and other violent criminals aged from their late 50s to over 80 years old. Elements of metaphor, abstraction and documentary explore the experience of long term incarceration and the passage of time, and touch on how ageing and physical decline affect the prison environment. £16.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 72 pages 42 colour photographs 310mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1904587-53-8
THE LAST THINGS
IN A WINDOW OF PRESTES MAIA 911 BUILDING
David Moore
Julio Bittencourt
£19.99 / $38.00 Hardback, 80 pages 50 colour photographs 275mm x 275mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-67-5 Not available in Germany
In March 2006 the residents of 911 Prestes Maia, a 22 storey ramshackle tower block in the centre of sprawling São Paulo, learnt that they were to be evicted. Whilst the neglected building had apparently been empty for over a decade, 1,630 people, including some 468 families, with 315 children, lived there. In 2003 the ‘Movement of the Homeless’ had moved in hundreds of homeless families. The new residents cleaned up the place, and it became possibly the largest squat in the world, complete with a library, workshops and other educational activities. Bittencourt’s photographs are a powerful record of this diverse community. Bittencourt has won The Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Germany), Aperture Portfolio Prize (USA), and Fundacio Conrado Wessel de Arte (Brazil).
texts by Chris Petit & Angela Weight David Moore was allowed unprecedented access to a Crisis Management facility below ground in central London. Moore was able to observe a live working space, continuously on standby, and fully prepared for the most extreme national emergency. The facility’s hermetic, tightly regulated environment, artificially lit and air conditioned, is prescient with the threat of crisis. At once sophisticated and touchingly ordinary, part military and part civilian, Moore has documented its labyrinthine depths with chilling clarity. £25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 96 pages 64 colour photographs 300mm x 240mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-66-8
£14.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 88 pages 40 photographs 280mm x 228mm ISBN: 978-1904587-51-4
With support from University of Hertfordshire, Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Belfast Exposed, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London
GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS
MILLENNIUM SCHOOL
in the footsteps of 19th century British photographers
Krzysztof Zielinski
John Hannavy
Millennium School focuses on the primary school which Zielinski attended as a child in the small Polish town of Wabrzezno. ‘Primary School no 3’ was built in 1962 as a part of a major government development masterplan – ‘A thousand schools for the thousand years of the Polish state’. This is why these schools were called ‘millennium memorial schools’. Essentially a propaganda plan, the new schools were presented as a gift from the Communist party to the nation, even though the post-war demographic boom meant that they were a necessity. Built around standard layouts, usually two or three storeys and constructed from prefabricated concrete, they were designed to be adaptable for military purposes with many having underground shelters and the capability of being converted into temporary hospitals.
One hundred and fifty years ago travelling with a camera was both a novelty and an enormous challenge. The intrepid photographers who took their cameras to remote corners of the world brought back images which amazed their peers.
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 256 pages 370 colour & b/w photographs and illustrations 210mm x 260mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-54-5
With support from Prison Reform Trust and Millenium Images
Photographer and historian John Hannavy has recreated some of their epic journeys – he followed routes taken by: William Henry Fox Talbot to Scotland (1844); Charles Kinnear & Thomas Melville Raven’s to France (1857); Francis Frith’s route along the Nile (1856-1859); Roger Fenton’s journey through Russia and the Ukraine; Samuel Bourne’s travels across India in 1863; and John Thomson’s travels in China and Cyprus between 1863 and 1878.
£15.99 Softback, 112 pages 44 colour photographs 220mm x 270mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-77-4
A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
DREAMS & GOALS
Harvey Benge
The World Cup & World Football 1990-2010
text by Gerry Badger
Alistair Berg
While looking through his contact sheets, Harvey Benge noticed that one of his pictures reminded him of a ‘Friedlander’, another someone else. All photographers do this, and if the photograph in question apes another photographer too closely, it’s usually a cause for rejection. But Benge did the opposite. Picking out his ‘Friedlander’ and his ‘Parr’ and his ‘Baltz’ he decided to make an ‘anthology’ of contemporary photography featuring some of its biggest names. Yet they are all genuine, original Benges. They are also all good pictures, not mere pastiches of the ‘originals’ of which they gently but insistently remind one. This may be a game, but games can be very serious, and this fascinating book is both a serious and light-hearted exploration of photographic style. – Gerry Badger
introduced by Dr. Rogan Taylor
Harvey Benge has published over a dozen books and his work is held in many major international collections.
In this outstanding collection of photographs Alistair Berg has captured fan culture around the world at its most vibrant and characterful. Images are drawn from Europe, South America, Asia and Australia with a chapter devoted to each World Cup from 1990 to 2006, and a special extended section on the game in Africa to mark the World Cup 2010. The images are drawn from a 20 year period which has seen many changes in the profile of the football supporter, and a massive surge in the numbers that attend the World Cup. £30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 288 pages over 300 colour & b/w photographs 290mm x 230mm ISBN: 978-1-905928-06-4 Not available in France
Alistair Berg has worked as a freelance photographer for over twenty years visiting more than fifty countries for some of the world’s most prominent publications and advertising agencies.
CATS, DOGS & OTHER RABBITS The extraordinary world of Harry Whittier Frees
£12.99 / $24.00 Hardback, 80 pages 90 photographs 150mm x 205mm ISBN:1-904587-24-0 Not available in France or Belgium
Frees began his career taking photographs of animals for novelty postcards. By 1905 he was adding props and clothing to give the animals a more human appearance. The photographs lent themselves immediately to children’s books, and by 1915 Frees had published several. His mother made most of the early outfits, which were designed to hold the animals in what can only be described as ‘unnatural’ poses. In all his books though, Frees reassured readers that the photographs were made possible ‘only by patient unfailing kindness on the part of the photographer at all times’.
EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY The European Publishers Award for Photography is a major initiative to encourage the publication of contemporary photography. The competition requires the submission of a substantial, completed and unpublished photographic book project. The winning project is then published in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in their own country resulting in perhaps the most extensive cultural collaboration currently existing in Europe. For further details visit: www.dewilewispublishing.com
2009 WINNER EAST TO EAST Klavdji Sluban
His work was popular for several decades, and he continued to photograph and publish books until his death in 1953. Almost a century on from when he began, his work remains as surprising and appealing as ever.
£30.00 / $48.00 Hardback, 120 pages 70 tritone photographs 270mm x 290mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-84-2
THE VISITORS Charlotte Cory Charlotte Cory’s images rework cartes de visite, the photographic visiting cards that were a Victorian craze. Many millions were produced and are now so commonly discarded in junk shops that they are almost worthless. To the Victorian men, women and children posing proudly in the studio she adds the heads of animals – stuffed animals shot long ago and preserved in museums for posterity to gawk at.
£14.99 / $29.95 Hardback, Cloth bound with insert 96 pages, 71 photographs, 210mm x 145mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-50-7
Cory’s ‘Visitors’ are truly creatures of fantasy and fascination – each so carefully chosen and delicately posed that we think “can that be real?” A noble tiger in full military regalia, a dejected donkey slumped in a chair in a sparse studio setting, a haughty kangaroo holding a cricket bat and gazing out at us dismissively. What kind of extraordinary creatures are these?
2008 WINNER I, TOKYO Jacob Aue Sobol
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 112 pages 70 tritone photographs 300mm x 227mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-68-2
2007 WINNER AS I WAS DYING Paulo Pellegrin
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 140 pages 70 duotone photographs 301mm x 244mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-55-2
2006 WINNER BEIJING: THEATRE OF THE PEOPLE Ambroise Tézenas
2005 WINNER PARADISO Lorenzo Castore
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 120 pages 50 colour photographs 300mm x 210mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-26-2
2004 WINNER THE DODO Harri Kallio
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 104 pages 150 colour photographs 240mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-13-2
Out of print
Out of print
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 120 pages 70 colour photographs 270mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-36-1
2003 WINNER A CUBAN PORTRAIT Haris Kakarouhas
2002 WINNER AFGHANISTAN Simon Norfolk
2001 WINNER INNOCENT LANDSCAPES David Farrell
2000 WINNER KARENNI Dean Chapman
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 128 pages 100 duotone photographs 210mm x 285mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-96-4
£25.00 / $40.00 Hardback 140 pages 80 colour photographs 310mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-43-8
1996 WINNER HAITI Bruce Gilden
1995 WINNER STORIES OF WOMEN Shanta Rao
1994 WINNER CHILDREN OF BOMBAY Dario Mitidieri
Out of print
DINKY TOYS ‘much loved’ Dinky Toys of the 1950s Kim Sayer
£14.99 / $25.00 Hardback, 144 pages 75 colour photographs 150mm x 210mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-49-1
Dinky Toys must be one of the most successful and collectable toys ever made. The toys that feature here are neither pristine or shiny. Collected over the years by photographer Kim Sayer, their charm is in the chips, dents and worn paint work – toys that have been played with and loved. Each model is given its own delightful setting, reflecting a more gentle and innocent era. Visual puns abound – the Landrover, “a fine model of a vehicle designed to go anywhere and do anything” climbs its way up a staircase, whilst the Avro York Airliner takes off from the ironing board. Many of the photographs also play off against the original marketing tagline used to sell the models: “Just look at the remarkable detail on this exciting model of Britain’s famous centurion tank. It is a welcome reinforcement for the playroom army.”
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 120 pages 88 colour photographs 300mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-05-7
£30.00 / $55.00 Hardback, 100 pages 47 colour photographs 285 mm x 320mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-54-4
£25.00 / $40.00 Hardback, 112 pages 65 colour photographs 225mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-88-9
1999 WINNER NATURE OF THE BEAST Alfons Alt
Reprint pending
PAINTED LADIES Postcards of the early 20th century edited by Nick Hedges In the early 20th century the picture postcard provided an immediate and direct form of cheap communication – rather like text messaging today. Made by anonymous photographers and hand-coloured by thousands of unknown women working in their studios, hand-tinted cards became one of the most popular of art forms. This extraordinary collection encompasses cards from throughout the world including Africa and the Middle East, many raising issues of colonialism, and exoticism, but many also just celebrating everyday relationships, friendship and family. Painted Ladies provides a colourful and fascinating insight into the fashion, culture and interests of the early twentieth century. £14.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 160 pages 300 colour photographs, 235mm x 160mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-18-7
1998 WINNER SIDEWALK Jeff Mermelstein
Hardback, 120 pages 320mm 279mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-62-9 Out of print
1997 WINNER LIFE AND STILL LIFE Toni Catany
£30.00 / $50.00 Hardback, 108 pages 46 colour photographs 300mm x 290mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-41-4
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 120 pages 70 duotone photographs 332mm x 250mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-55-1
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 136 pages 100 duotone photographs 286mm x 248mm ISBN: 978-1899235-30-8
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback £15.00 softback 160 pages, 69 tritones 280mm x 240mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-00-1 (h/b) ISBN: 978-1-899235-01-8 (s/b)
MOUTHPIECE Justin Quinnell
£9.99 / $15.00 Hardback, 96 pages 60 colour photographs 115mm x 150mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-33-0
DIALOGUE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY Paul Hill & Thomas Cooper
£12.99 / $25.00 Softback, 352 pages 234mm x 156mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-61-2
NOT HERE NOT THERE Harvey Benge £15.95 / $29.95 Softback, 112 pages 73 colour photographs 290mm x 235mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-76-6
EVERYDAY DADA Sian Bonnell
£9.99 / $15.00 Hardback, 96 pages 55 colour photographs 115mm x 150mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-31-6
THE SOMNAMBULISTS Joanna Kane £19.99 / $40.00 Hardback, 112 pages 53 duotone photographs 297mm x 240mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-56-9
£15.99 / $29.95 Hardback, 112 pages 83 duotone photographs 240mm x 170mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-07-1
ROUGH BEAUTY Dave Anderson
£25.00 / $40.00 Hardback, 120 pages 90 duotone photographs 250mm x 250mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-29-3
A RECORD OF ENGLAND Sir Benjamin Stone £19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 156 pages 122 duotone photographs 225mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-37-8
DARK DAYS John Darwell
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 176 pages 138 colour photographs 240mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-42-2
LONDON Sergio Larrain
£12.95 / $24.95 Softback, 64 pages 41 duotone photographs 235mm x 165mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-71-1
KNOCK THREE TIMES Chris Coekin £16.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 96 pages 60 colour photographs 250mm x 250mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-28-6
Not available in France, The Netherlands
LUCKY BOX – A GUIDE TO MODERN LIVING Harvey Benge
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 112 pages 88 colour photographs 260mm x 195mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-93-3
A FEW STREETS A FEW PEOPLE John Comino-James
BEYOND THE IMAGINARY GATES Iain Brownlie Roy
Text in English and Spanish
Not available in Germany
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 156 pages 121 duotone photographs 225mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-34-7
HOMES FIT FOR HEROES Bill Brandt
£30.00 / $49.95 Hardback, 176 pages 120 duotone photographs 250mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-06-4
VITAL SIGNS Harvey Benge
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 128 pages 62 colour photographs 265mm x 200mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-47-6
SHADOWS OF SILENCE John Demos £30.00 / $50.00 Hardback, 144 pages 80 tritone photographs 312mm x 276mm ISBN: 978-9-608744-22-6 Not available in Italy, Greece
IN A VERY ENGLISH TOWN John Comino-James
£19.99 Hardback, 168 pages 110 duotone photographs 160mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-72-9
STEAM Stephen Dupont
£19.95 / $35.00 Hardback, 100 pages 65 duotone photographs 290mm x 240mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-27-8
FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION John Comino-James
£30.00 Hardback, 168 pages 190 duotone photographs 240mm x 285mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-74-2
AMERICA’S IDEA OF A GOOD TIME Kate Schermerhorn £12.99 / $19.95 Softback, 96 pages 104 duotone photographs 205mm x 230mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-48-3
CONSUMING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE John Ganis
£30.00 / $50.00 Hardback, 144 pages 86 colour photographs 245mm x 320mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-00-2
OFF STAGE Cambridge Jones
£19.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 160 pages 100 duotone photographs 280mm x 225mm ISBN: 978-0-954684-32-7
AFTER THE OFF Bruce Gilden Story by Dermot Healy £30.00 / $49.95 Hardback, 120 pages 55 duotone photographs 336mm x 246mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-17-9
RETURN OF THE MAYA Thomas Hoepker
£25.00 Hardback, 160 pages 120 colour photographs 282mm x 222mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-81-0 Not available in the USA
UNMADE BEDS Nicholas Barker
VERY SIMILAR Frank Horvat
1999: A DAILY REPORT Frank Horvat
Not available in Italy
Not available in Germany & France
ILLUSTRATION OF LIFE Max Kandhola
WRITING IN THE SAND Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
CROSSING THE LINE Sara Davidmann
Not available in USA
Not available in Finland & Sweden
HOTEL AFRIQUE Stuart Franklin
LOVE, POWER, SACRIFICE John Angerson
£12.95 / $20.00 Softback, 88 pages 140 colour photographs 170mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-26-1
£20.00 Hardback, 64 pages 42 colour photographs 260mm x 235mm ISBN 978-0-935445-28-2
£16.99 / $35.00 Hardback, 48 pages 48 colour photographs 336mm x 243mm ISBN: 978-1904587-52-1
THE CLOSE SEASON Ken Grant £25.00 / $40.00 Hardback, 104 pages 60 duotone photographs 245mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-04-9
£15.00 / $25.00 Hardback, 88 pages 36 colour photographs 230mm x 165mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-57-5
£15.99 / $27.50 Hardback, 120 pages 90 tritone photographs 197mm x 243mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-97-1
£12.99 / $25.00 Hardback, 64 pages 38 duotone photographs 225mm x 247mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-48-4
I AM Allan Grainger Introduced by Ivor Cutler £16.99 / $29.95 Hardback, 68 pages 290mm x 235mm 40 duotone & colour ISBN: 978-1-899235-13-1
£16.99 / $30.00 Softback, 560 pages 460 colour photographs 141mm x 196mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-18-6
ANATOMY LESSONS Karen Ingham
£14.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 64 pages 42 colour photographs 200mm x 210mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-14-9
THE ETERNAL LIGHT Arlene Gottfried
£15.99 / $28.00 Hardback, 96 pages 64 colour photographs 235mm x 170mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-39-1
£14.99 / $29.95 Hardback, 80 pages 60 colour photographs 200mm x 295mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-32-2
LANDMARKS Fay Godwin
HAVANA Burt Glinn
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 184 pages 150 photographs 240mm x 230mm ISBN: 1-899235-73-6
£25.00 Hardback, 128 pages 83 photographs 298mm x 217mm ISBN: 978-1-899235-19-3 (Bilingual English/Spanish)
CALCUTTA BOMBAY Andreas Herzau
£16.99 / $30.00 Hardback, 108 pages 120 B&W photographs 210mm x 300mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-22-4 Not available in Germany
LOST & FOUND IN AMERICA Edited by Lenny Gottlieb
£16.99/ $30.00 Hardback, 160 pages 150 colour photographs 240mm x 170mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-11-8 Not available in Germany
OUT OF PRINT
The following titles are now out of print. If you wish to acquire these please contact us as it is sometimes possible to track down copies though prices will be considerably higher than the original retail price.
Diamond Matters, Kadir van Lohuizen
Pictures Without Borders, Steve Horn
All Zones Off Peak, Tom Wood
51 Photographs In Black & White Frank Horvat
Hardback, part suede bound 216 pages, 100 photos, 120mm x 110mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-23-1
ANGOLA Sean Sutton
£25.00 / $45.00 Hardback, 144 Pages 86 duotone photographs 265mm x 240mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-43-9 In association with MAG & ECHO
ASIANS IN BRITAIN Tim Smith/Naseem Khan £15.99 Hardback, 132 pages 120 duotone photographs 220mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-09-5 In association with Bradford Heritage Recording Unit
BABY Sirish Rao
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Legacy, John Darwell
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New York, William Klein
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Shanghai Odyssey, Homer Sykes
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A People Called Palestine, John Tordai
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Naked in Paradise Michael von Graffenreid
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The Midland Hotel, Simon Webb
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White Sea Black Sea, Jens Olaf Lasthein
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Rehearsal, Eleni Leoussi
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Once Upon A Time In Wales, Robert Haines
Between Dogs & Wolves, Jodi Bieber
As I Was Dying, Paulo Pellegrin
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CARNAVAL Claudio Edinger
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MADNESS Claudio Edinger
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