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It Don't Mean a Thing - Photographs by Saul Leiter with a story by Paul Auster
The Gould Collection 2019 ISBN 9780997359640 Acqn 32349
Pb 18x25cm 98pp col ills £41

'The Gould Collection' is a series of books that brings together contemporary photographers with
writers. The second volume presents 58 photographs by Saul Leiter with the story "It Don't Mean
a Thing" by Paul Auster. Black-and-white and colour photographs by Leiter from 1947 through the
1970s - with many images never before published - are paired with Auster's tale of
interconnected life events and chance encounters. Reflections on New York City, with its urban
rhythm, people, and places, feature prominently in the work of both photographer and writer,
providing a unifying focus for the book. This reprint of the original 2017 edition has an updated
binding and cover.

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Two Men Arrive in a Village - Photographs by Jo Ractliffe with a story by Zadie Smith
The Gould Collection 2021 ISBN 9780997359664 Acqn 32350
Pb 19x25cm 120pp ills £63.50

The fifth volume of 'The Gould Collection' contains a selection of photographs made by Jo
Ractliffe between 1985 and 2019 that depict South Africa, from the Great Karoo and the northern
provinces of Gauteng and Limpopo to Zimbabwe, and from the Western Cape up the coast to
Namibia and Angola. The dialogue between Ractliffe's images and Zadie Smith's parable is
simultaneously a forthright and subtle commentary on injustice and imbalances of power.
Together they work to displace familiar narratives of violence and unsettle cliched depictions of
the African region in favour of a more nuanced interplay between the real and allegorical.

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Simona Rota - Instant Village

Fabulatorio 2019 ISBN 9788494011580 Acqn 32353
Hb 17x22cm 102pp col ills £21.50

'Instant Village' is a collection of anti-postcards offering alternative and perhaps opposed images
to the fictions constructed and propagated by the tourism industry. Simona Rota confronts the
collective imagination in addition to her own mental fabrications in relation to the concept of
"island", which often rely on platitudes such as palm trees, virgin beaches, exuberant natural
beauty, a promise of escape, and so on. The series is a photographic essay about the use of land
on the Canary Islands, an environment that, due to its almost exclusive economic dependence on
tourism, has been subjected to increasing pressure and wholesale cloned urbanisations.

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Yukiko Sugiyama - Crash Phases

Seigensha Art Publishing 2022 ISBN 9784861528842 Acqn 32376
Pb 30x21cm 92pp col ills £50

Yukiko Sugiyama's collection 'Crash / Phases' is a collision between objects and nature, between
the human and the extra-planetary world. The first part consists of dystopian pictures of artefacts
and machinery abandoned in nature. The use of a near-infrared camera highlights the contrast
between the decaying metal and the natural plant life. The second part is a series that records
sci-fi challenges, from early spacesuits and experimental mannequins to the suborbital X-34
prototype and satellite dishes aimed into the depths of the galaxy. Nostalgic future images crop
up, like a defunct NASA laboratory, and collide with the ongoing material reality to create a new
future image.

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Venice Unlocked
Ivory Press 2022 ISBN 9788412279269 Acqn 32335
Hb 12x20cm 92pp col ills £28.25

In their first collaborative effort, writer Rachel Spence and photographer Giacomo Cosua gaze
with fresh eyes at the city of Venice. Having both lived there, they share a desire to capture the
essence of this Italian city. The images focus on the walls of buildings, their colours, and the play
of light. References to the past are interspersed with scenes from everyday life. In her text,
Spence invites the reader to delve into the various layers of time that can be experienced in
Venice. Together, text and images present an unexpected impression of the city, a personal and
calm vision, away from the hustle and bustle of visitors. It is the third instalment in the Ivorypress
Cities collection.

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Tokuko Ushioda - My Husband (Two Volumes)

Torch Press 2022 ISBN 9784907562359 Acqn 32380
Hb 19x24cm 500pp £66.95

Tokuko Ushioda launched her career as a photographer around 1975, befriending figures such as
Shigeo Gocho and Fusako Kodama, who became important inspirations. While studying under
Kiyoji Otsuji, she crossed paths with Shinzo Shimao, who would later become her husband. In
1978, Ushioda and Shimao had a daughter and got married. The next year, the family moved into
a single-room unit in a historic Western-style house. In this intimate setting, she continued to
photograph, resulting in a wealth of images with a nostalgic familiarity and refined calmness.
Published as a set of two books, this collection can be considered the starting point to her
photography.

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Jason Dodge - Cut a Door in the Wolf

Spoonbill Books 2022 ISBN 9789464590296 Acqn 32384
Pb 21x30cm 68pp col ills £31.50

'Cut a Door in the Wolf' is an exhibition in the form of a single, site-specific artwork by Jason
Dodge. In exploring systems made up of organic and inorganic matter, he is interested in the
refuse that humans shed every day: micro- and macro-landscapes made up of the familiar and
often discarded things that result from our individual and collective habits. Dodge recognises this
not as a singular artistic process, but rather as a shared landscape in which cause and effect are
circular phenomena that belong to everyone. He therefore investigates the potential of his
audience as producers of meaning. This publication documents the work through a series of
photographs.

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Vali Asr - Faces of a street in Tehran

Lecturis 2022 ISBN 9789462264328 Acqn 32391
Pb 24x30cm 208pp col ills £42.25

Valiasr is the longest street in the Iranian capital of Tehran, stretching twenty kilometres across
this metropolis of fourteen million people. It is a centre of cultural life and a major commercial hub
and nightlife area. Photographic anecdotes by Jorg Winde depict the people who live and work
along the street. The images reflect an attentiveness and closeness to the subjects, and attest to
the contradictory lives of people in Iran today. Interspersed are street views against the scenic
backdrop of the snow-covered Alborz Mountains. With contributions by writer and social observer
Mahmoud Doulatabadi and Charlotte Wiedemann, journalist and author of books on Islamic
culture.

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Mikael Olsson - Olsson Mikael

Art And Theory Publishing 2022 ISBN 9789198672022 Acqn 32392
Hb 15x21cm 64pp col ills £36

Mikael Olsson's self-portraits/selfies challenge the narcissistic use of selfies as well as the status
of influencers. Further he destabilizes the composition of a traditional selfie where the eye line is
recommended to be one-third down from the top frame. Through tireless play and intuition,
Olsson's images are marked by both intimacy and distance, the role of his own physical presence
and the perceptive relationship to the surroundings. Olsson Mikael includes an essay by writer
and psychoanalyst Sinziana Ravini.

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Desiree van Hoek - Notes on Downtown - Los Angeles 2007-2022

Desiree Van Hoek 2022 ISBN 9789082414929 Acqn 32403
Pb 24x33cm 112pp col ills £47.25

Downtown Los Angeles has undergone a spectacular transformation over the last decade. The
historic city center was given a face-lift, with new museums, skyscrapers, designer stores,
restaurants and bars. In 2018, DTLA was the most rapidly gentrifying area in the US, putting
pressure on many of its long-standing residents and businesses. The photographer Desiree van
Hoek, who had been working in the area since 2007, has recorded the changes in the district in
over 200 images. The book contains interviews with the international experts Adrienne Brown,
Cody Hochstenbach, Norman M. Klein, Saskia Sassen, Jennifer Wolch and Sharon Zukin, as well
as an essay by the architect and urban planner Hans Teerds.

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Daido Moriyama - Record 49

Akio Nagasawa 2021 no ISBN Acqn 32409
Pb 21x28cm 136pp ills £36.50

Daido Moriyama recounts how it was more than 60 years ago that Seiryu Inoue (1931-1988), a
documentary photographer who started out in Osaka's run-down neighbourhoods in 1950s,
taught him what street photography was all about. Rather than verbal lectures, this happened by
simply following and watching Inoue as he swiftly captured scenes in the area of the city around
Kamagasaki street. The experience left such a deep impression on Moriyama that the street
inevitably became his own early hunting ground. Shifting ahead to the present moment, this
volume of 'Record' contains recent photographs taken in the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo.

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