We are now closed for the holiday period. All orders from Friday 21st December until 2nd January will commence shipping on 3rd January 2019 on a first come first served basis.
Thank you for your support this past year. Happy holidays and best wishes for 2019 from Photobookstore.
Elswick Kids
 When Tish Murtha sadly died from a brain aneurysm in 2013, she had largely been forgotten. In 2017, her key work, Youth Unemployment, was published to universal acclaim, and was followed by a major retrospective at London’s Photographers Gallery. Tish has now been recognised as a social-documentary photographer of the first rank. The anger and frustration evident in Youth Unemployment even reached the House of Commons, where it was raised as a subject of debate. Elswick Kids is a less strident set of images. They were taken as Tish walked the streets of the working-class district of Elswick in Newcastle Upon Tyne and were not intended to be an exhibition in their own right. Today, though, they tell of a time when children had the freedom of the streets to play in and where friendship blossomed against a seemingly harsh background. The photographs have a stark beauty that shines from every page. Elswick Kids is a vital contribution to our understanding of life in a northern city in the late twentieth century.
Elswick Kids by Tish Murtha is available to order now here. See all our current British photobooks section here.
Still Feel Gone
 Still Feel Gone is a unique collaboration between Illinois natives Nathan Pearce and Tim Carpenter. Essentially two books in one, the work of the two photographers is presented separately; yet the pictures of each are in intimate dialogue with one another. Nathan and Tim chose a common motif - the railroad - to articulate shared feelings on landscape and longing. The nature of Nathan's search is evident in photographs made with a handheld camera from the
windows of such legendary trains as the California Zephyr, the Empire Builder, and the City of New Orleans. Houses, farms, and fields: all fly by in a blur as they give way to hills and mountains, as the traveler frees himself from his beloved commonplace. For Tim, pictures made with a view camera (placed on or near the rails of his home county, along which the Wabash Cannonball once roared) speak to both the insistent pull of the escape route and the joy that is to be found in a clear sighting of the current and the present.
Published in a signed and numbered edition of 500 copies, Still Feel Gone by Tim Carpenter and Nathan Pearce are in stock now here. Recommended.
Charlie Surfs on Lotus Flowers
On April 30th, 1975, a North Vietnamese tank rolled through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, signifying the end of the cruel American War and the beginning of a new independent era from Western regimes. More than 40 years later, Simone Sapienza’s photobook Charlie Surfs on Lotus Flowers depicts post-war Vietnam through a sequence of metaphorical responses to its current Hollywoodian limbo between the rise of the free-market
economy and the Communist only-one Party that still rule with uncontested power since the end of the war, disappointing the hope of a democratic and free country. Peopled by a young and energetic population, the country is likely to become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies – the next Asian Tiger – still ruled with undisputed order and control, yet eager to ride the wave of economic freedom.
Charlie Surfs on Lotus Flowers by Simone Sapienza is in stock now here.
Untitled
‘What if you were caught in a pond, a radiant fluid bottomless body of water, swinging.’ - Zeynep Kayan’s book does not have a title, neither a concept. Its search for positions has the same attitude of her artistic practice: Zeynep moves from the absurdity found in daily-life objects to a bizarre post truth reference, echoing meaningless actions observed in their own repetitions. The gaze from behind the glass of a phone boot,
behind bars of a birds’ cage, is oblivious. The phone keeps ringing while space is ripped open. Mundane objects are transfigured, meaningless daily actions are observed in their own repetitions, the stark naked absurdity of reality
Untitled by Zeynep Kayan, published by Akina, is in stock now here.
Now shipping: Looking at the Overlooked
Looking at the Overlooked by John Myers describes a way of encountering the world. The images, all taken within walking distance of Myers’s home in Stourbridge are scenes encountered without narrative or emotion, as if Myers were the first person to come across the places he turned his lens upon. The work is sequenced as a journey through a town, generic and not site-specific, a backdrop to the mundane and everyday that is too often seen
and yet not considered as part of our visual landscape. Looking at the Overlooked is available in a limited edition of 450 signed and numbered copies, each containing a 5 × 4” original silver gelatin print of ‘Bed, 1976’, which is signed and dated to the verso. A special edition is also available.
Watch our video preview and order Looking at the Overlooked by John Myers now here.
Photobooks of 2018 round-up
Our Photobooks of 2018 feature finished this week with the final lists by Sarah Allen, Mark Power and Martin Amis. A full summary is now online now here.
This year’s most popular books were:
Halfstory Halflife by Raymond Meeks – 11 votes
Jasper by Matthew Genitempo – 6 votes
Past K-Ville by Mark Steinmetz – 6 votes
Bright Black World by Todd Hido – 5 votes
One Wall A Web by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa – 5 votes
American Winter by Gerry Johansson – 4 votes
Margins of Excess by Max Pinckers – 4 votes
The Portraits by John Myers – 4 votes
My Birth by Carmen Winant – 3 votes
TTP by Hayahisa Tomiyasu – 3 votes
Waffenruhe by Michael Schmidt – 3 votes
A selection of books from the Photobooks of 2018 feature can be purchased here.
Back in stock
The 2nd printing of Christopher Anderson’s very popular Approximate Joy is now in stock. We also now have a few copies of the equally popular Provoke reprint, signed by Daido Moriyama available, with more unsigned copies due to come back into stock very soon. Similarly we also
expect more copies imminently of the new edition of Daido Moriyama’s first book Japan, A Photo Theater. Other popular titles to come back into stock this week include Dyckman Haze by Adam Pape, Photographs 1997-2017 by Hannah Starkey, Women’s
Market by Tom Wood, Eggs and Rarities by Paul Kooiker, Syracuse 1981 by Bruce Gilden and the new edition of Hiroshima 1965 by Kenji Ishiguro.
See all our current photobooks here.
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