John Angerson’s English Journey, on which work began in 2008, retraces the steps taken by J B Priestley for his famous book of the same title 75 years earlier, starting in the south before traveling to the Cotswolds, the Midland cities, then the north and finally England’s east coast. Colin Pantall nominated English Journey as his favourite photobook of 2019, finding “that rarest of things, a beautifully designed book that takes a critical look at English identity without resorting to cliché or regionalism... Brilliant design layers the combination of sober image and factual text into a nuanced view of what it means to be English today.” We will have signed copies. Sample images.

Boras/Gerry Johansson is a book of an exhibition held to mark the awarding of the Tunbjork Prize to Johansson last year. Boras is the hometown of the late Lars Tunbjork and all the images in the book are of the town, about 65 kilometres from Gothenburg. We will have signed copies. See webpage for sample images.

Old Tjikko is a tree that stands in a deserted landscape on a mountainside in Dalarna, Sweden, and is considered to be the oldest in the world - 9,600 years. A single photographic negative of this exceptional spruce has become the many different photographs in Old Tjikko by the Danish artist Nicolai Howalt. By exposing the same image onto 97 different types of aged analogue light-sensitive photo papers – some dating back as far as the 1940’s – Howalt has created a book where the unpredictability of the long expired photographic papers has become an integral and dynamic part of each image. We will have signed copies. Sample images and review.

Mack Books are making a very productive start to 2020. Firstly, a new title by Guido Guidi. A project composed across several decades, Lunario brings together several strands of work all relating – directly or obliquely - to the moon. Distortion, experimentation and illusion inform Guidi’s earlier work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, further developed by the introduction of a fish-eye lens. Lunar landscapes give way in the 1980s to colour photographs, all of which culminate in the dramatic partial solar-eclipse of August 11, 1999. We will have signed copies.

Finally from Mack, Sam Contis follows up her previous work Deep Springs with Day Sleeper, her interpretation of the work of Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Lange’s ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay. Sample images and article.

Day Sleeper will feature in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the MOMA, February–May 2020. Starting from a quote from Lange – ““All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary’... can be fortified by words” – this exhibition looks at the relationship between images and text in Lange’s work. The book of the exhibition, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, brings fresh attention to iconic works from the collection together with lesser-known photographs—from early street photography to projects on the criminal justice system. The book includes original contributions from contemporary writers and artists including Sally Mann, Sandra Phillips and Rebecca Solnit. Sample images.

The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips is how Issei Suda named his Minox Camera that he used obsessively in 1991 and 1992. The Minox camera is popularly known as a spy camera - it fits in the pocket with a shutter release as light as the blink of an eye. The resulting images developed from 8x11mm negatives are grainy and have a flat perspective. This title is in a limited edition of 700 copies and includes 400 images. See webpage for sample images.