Afterword
Afterword by Masahisa Fukase
was published in November last year, and went out of print within a
matter of a few weeks of publication. A second edition has just
been published and has similarly gone out of print upon it’s
release. With a different colour cover, but otherwise identical
to the first edition, Afterword features Fukase’s evocative and
playful images of his cats. Here we see Fukase and cat on express
trains, to Ueno Zoo and the seaside - he took his beloved Sasuke out with him
wherever he went. Referring to himself as ‘papa’ while turning his camera
upon Sasuke, the depth of Fukase’s affection for his cat can be felt
through his photos of its charming visage. An interesting companion to
Fukase’s considerably darker Ravens, the recommended Afterword is available to pre-order now here.
Already out of print, our copies are expected in stock week commencing
June 12th. A few first edition copies of Afterword are available here.
All about Saul Leiter
Also expected in stock very soon and available for pre-order are new books featuring works by Saul Leiter and Terri Weifenbach
both published to accompany exhibitions in Japan. All About Saul Leiter
has jist been published to accompany the first exhibition of his work
in Japan at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo. Including paintings,
painted nudes, and ephemera such as Leiter’s cameras and personal
correspondence, in addition to classic and previously unseen
photographs, amazingly the book has already gone into a fourth
printing. Expected to arrive early next week, All About Saul Leiter is available to order now here. At the same time we anticipate delivery of The May Sun
by Terri Weifenbach which features The May Sun series produced during
Weifenbach’s long-term residency at Izu Photo Museum in 2015 as well as
older work The Politics of Flowers. Available to pre-order now here.
On The Road, Everglades
Since
the mid 1990’s photographer Bert Teunissen has been on the road,
photographing the landscape, always in the same way from behind the
steering wheel while driving. New photobook On The Road, Everglades
focuses on his journeys through the dense American landscape of the
Everglades in Florida. Bert Teunissen uses an Olympus Pen; the
legendary half frame camera from the 60s and 70s. All photographs are
printed on out of date photographic paper-stock, creating different
flares in colors and contrasts, which makes every print unique and
impossible to create again. For Bert Teunissen this irreversible
process is part of his search to capture the fluid state of mind while
traveling. Signed copies of On The Road, Everglades are in stock now here. Recommended.
Nekyia
Nekyia
has two meanings; the first is the inner journey into the unconscious
through which you reconnect with and heal your wounded self. The second
is the ancient Greek ritual in which spirits were quizzed on what the
future would be.
Using the river Acheron as a guide for his own
personal nekyia across Epirus, photographer Rocco Venezia has creates a
metaphorical and allegorical perspective on modern day Greece in his
acclaimed series and now photobook Nekyia.
Juxtaposing the mythologic heritage of the region to the current
political-economical situation, the subtly nuanced and perfectly
sequenced Nekyia by Rocco Venezia is in stock now here. Signed copies are available.
Mathematics
British photographer Peter Fraser’s new exhibition and book Mathematics
features works made while photographing from Northern Ireland to
Istanbul, and Norway to Sicily 2011 to 2016, which draw their energy
from the idea that at the deepest level ‘reality is mathematical in
nature’. As David Campany elaborates in his accompanying text,
“...there is a lot of detail in many of the photographs in this
project. A lot to look at, a lot to get lost in. Detail, of course, has
always been part of the photographic illusion, part of its sleight of
hand. Open the shutter and the camera will receive the light
bouncing off whatever is before it. It could be a blank white wall. It
could be a million pebbles. A photographer may have considered every
little detail before taking the picture, or barely looked at
all.” The compelling Mathematics by Peter Fraser is published in an edition of 750 copies and is available to order now here.
In Most Tides an Island
 Seductive, disorienting, informative and allegorical, Nicholas Muellner’s new book In Most Tides an Island
is at once a glimpse of contemporary post-Soviet queer life, a
meditation on solitude and desire, and an inquiry into the nature of
photography and poetry in a world consumed by cruelty, longing,
resignation and hope. In Most Tides an Island
challenges photographic and literary conventions, collapsing
portraiture and landscape, documentary and fiction, metaphor and
description into the artist’s distinct form of hybrid narrative. This
shape-shifting work is threaded together by the voice of the wandering
narrator and the unexpected visual echoes between these far-flung
landscapes. A mysterious stream of faceless but expressive online
profile pictures further links the divergent stories. These anonymous
figures serve as an emotional semaphore, signaling across genres and
geographies and between language and image. Five years in the making,
the impressive In Most Tides an Island is in stock now here. Recommended.
Other new arrivals
Other new arrivals include the latest handmade book from Italy’s Origini Edizioni, the striking Fireflies
by Aram Tanis, which comes with a signed and numbered cyan serigraphy
on rice paper. Also new in stock this week we the Roger Ballen
and Asger Carlsen collaboration No Joke, along with signed copies of Ekaterina by Romain Mader which recently won the 2017 Paul Huf Foam Award.
Stock update
We now have further signed copies of the recommended Past Perfect Continuous by Igor Posner and the equally excellent The Mechanism by Mårten Lange.
Browse all our photobooks here.
Bestsellers list
The bestselling photobooks in May 2017 at Photobookstore were as follows:
1. Ravens by Masahisa Fukase
2. Beyond Here Is Nothing by Laura El-Tantawy
3. Photobook Phenomenon by Various
4. People in Cars by Mike Mandel
5. Past Perfect Continuous by Igor Posner
6. Nausea by Ron Jude
7. The Mechanism by Mårten Lange
8. Nothing's In Vain by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
9. Incoming by Richard Mosse
10. Clear of People by Michal Iwanowski (sold out)
New review
Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, reviewed by Robert Dunn (Part I)
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