Photography

140 Illustrations 22 x 31.5cm 192pp Hardcover ISBN 978 0 500 025550 Thames & Hudson Ltd October £35.00

Photography

Liam Wong: After Dark

Liam Wong

Text by Evie Tarr

An intimate, one-of-a-kind photographic journey that documents Liam Wong’s nocturnal wanderings through the world’s most captivating cities.

Liam Wong weaves together a series of cinematic images that reveal the people and places, the slivers of life, that inhabit the mysterious space of night-time cities.

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ISBN 978 0 500 545461 PB £25.00 Through sleepless and solitary nights, After Dark explores the phenomenon of loneliness in city life, capturing urban interstices between dusk and dawn – mysterious silhouettes representing lives lived in shadow, portrayed as intricate cinematic visions, all before the sun rises.

• A new kind of photography book, at the intersection of ne-art photography and videogame imagery, enhanced by its cinematic format. • Expands on the success of his previous book, TO:KY:OO, to capture the most exciting cities on Earth, from Hong Kong and Seoul to London, Warsaw and Rome. • Award-winning former videogame designer Liam Wong is a coveted name globally in photography, graphic design and game development, and one of Forbes in uential 30 under 30. • Bespoke typography, inspired by the art direction of Wong Kar-Wai, was specially developed for this book by award-winning type designer Toshi Omagari.

• A new kind of photography book, at the intersection of ne-art photography and videogame imagery, enhanced by its cinematic format.

100 colour illustrations 27.5 x 21.5cm 160pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 545560 Thames & Hudson Ltd August £35.00

The Unseen Saul Leiter

Margit Erb and Michael Parillo

New in paperback Compact edition

The rst sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter’s abundant archive of colour slides.

Now widely acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s. Leiter’s images evoked the ow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment.

The Saul Leiter Foundation has begun a full-scale survey and organization of his more than 80,000 works. This volume contains works discovered through this process, speci cally colour slides never before published or seen by the public. Meticulously curated by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation and supported by texts that explain how Leiter built the slide archive and how it is now being explored, catalogued and restored, this new monograph in luxurious cloth binding is a must-have for photography connoisseurs.

Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive

Alex Prager Prager is a photographer and lmmaker whose elaborate sets and complex staging draw on a rich cultural heritage of cinematic style, informed by street photography, to produce work that is unerringly memorable. At once temporal and timeless, bright but shadowed, Prager’s images exist within a hyperreal world, deeply rooted in the eerie undertones of Los Angeles.

• An introduction to Prager’s critically acclaimed work spanning a decade of photographic work and ve lms. • Complemented with texts by curators from the Smithsonian, the Photographer’s Gallery and LACMA, and an interview with Nathalie Herschdorfer.

120 colour illustrations 25.8 x 20.9cm 224pp Paperback ISBN 978 0 500 025352 Thames & Hudson Ltd September £25.00

Vivian Maier

Anne Morin, Ann Marks and Christa Blumlinger

A one-volume compendium of Vivian Maier’s most enduring images.

Little- known during her lifetime, Maier is now recognized as one of the great American photographers of the 20th century. Her incredible body of work consists of more than 150,000 photographic images, super 8 and 16 mm lms, various recordings, and a multitude of undeveloped lms. Working primarily as a street photographer, Maier’s work has been compared with such luminaries as Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Joel Meyerowitz.

• Draws on previously unpublished archives and recent scienti c analyses. • Organized thematically in sections: self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, colour work and forms. • Includes critical analyses of Maier’s life and work.

250 illustrations 28.8 x 21.6cm 256pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 025703 Thames & Hudson Ltd October £45.00

Toiletpaper Magazine 19

Maurizio Cattelan Pierpaolo Ferrari Toiletpaper is an artists’ magazine born out of a passion or obsession: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts.

Since the rst issue in June 2010, Toiletpaper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination, combining the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery.

22 illustrations 29 x 22.5cm 40pp Paperback ISBN 978 8 862 087834 Damiani September £13.00

Toiletpaper Calendar 2023

Maurizio Cattelan Pierpaolo Ferrari For the old and new loves, for the platonic and the imaginary ones, for the self-lovers and the universal loves, for love at the rst sight and for the slow seductions. Disruptive aesthetic and provocative images live together in the hypnotic background images of this love-themed 2023 calendar. Close your eyes and make your wish of love!

13 illustrations 28 x 21cm 13pp Calendar ISBN 978 8 862 087810 Damiani October £21.00

Roger Ballen: Boyhood

Roger Ballen

New and expanded edition This new and expanded edition of Roger Ballen’s widely acclaimed 1979 photobook features new and unpublished images taken by the photographer in the ‘70. Ballen leads us across the continents in search of boyhood: boyhood as it is lived in the Himalayas of Nepal, the islands of Indonesia, the provinces of China, the streets of America. Each stunning black and white photograph depicts the magic of boys revealed in their games, their adventures, their dreams, their mischief.

More of an ode or a memory than a literal document, Ballen’s rst book is as powerful and current today as it was 43 years ago.

70 illustrations 26 x 21cm 112pp Hardback ISBN 978 8 862 087759 Damiani November £45.00

Nomenus

The Language of Flowers

Edited and curated by Erik Madigan Heck

Limited edition of 1000 copies

A rare, limited edition artist’s publication that combines photography, painting, and literature.

For the second installment of Nomenus, Erik Madigan Heck has curated a special issue titled The Language of Flowers, that seamlessly weaves together a curated selection of oral and gurative contemporary paintings and photographic studies from Anselm Kiefer, Rita Ackermann, Helen Frankenthaler, Gabriel Orozco, Nick Knight, Mircea Suciu, Miranda Lichtenstein, Ida Applebroog, Emily Mason, Christophe Yvore, Ben Sledsens, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Brigitte Lustenberger, Alex Foxton, Kaye Donachie, Jesse Willenbring, Aubrey Levinthal, Erik Madigan Heck, and Tomo Campbell.

141 illustrations 30.4 x 26.4cm 240pp Paperback in slipcase ISBN 978 0 578 907871 Nomenus Quarterly September £60.00

The Shadow’s Wandering

Per Bak Jensen Book editor, Johannes Riis, states: “At rst the world in which Per Bak invites us is rigorous and relentless, but at second glance a diverse richness unfolds. The sternness inhabits its own unfathomable beauty. It is not beauty that appears magically by the lightest touch. ...The photos do not present a key to understand every single frame. Rather, it invites us into the eye-opening and original world of Per Bak Jensen.”

59 illustrations 23.7 x 30.2cm 136pp Hardback ISBN 978 8 794 102476 Strandberg Publishing October £50.00

Khamsa khamsa khamsa

Julia Gat Khamsa, the number ve in Arabic, a reference to the ve ngers of the hand, is repeated three times as a protective mantra. This work is a visual autobiography in the form of a family archive. With its intermittent portraits of friends and domestic tableaux, the work focuses on ve main protagonists: her sisters Sara and Nina, her brothers Michael and Jonathan, and Julia, the fth sibling whose presence is projected on them from behind her lens.

At a time when home-learning is regulated by government policies, Julia Gat’s rst work is a tribute to a di erent form of education based on experimentation and the importance of allowing early artistic expression to ourish.

44 illustrations 30 x 20cm 48pp Hardback ISBN 978 2 330 165628 Actes Sud October £16.00