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February 2020

New titles

Stephen Shore |Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979

Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979 offers an alternative account of one of the most fabled episodes in photographic history: the cross-country journeys that produced Stephen Shore’s luminous new vision of the American landscape, Uncommon Places. Along with his large-format camera, Shore also brought a 35mm Leica on his travels. The images made with it, on luminous colour slide film, are intimate, spontaneous and personal – and unpublished till now. See our webpage for sample images.

Jan Tove | Night Light

Swedish photographer Jan Tove started out as a nature photographer but has moved closer to the likes of Stephen Shore and the other New Topographics artists. With his latest work, Night Light, there are shades of Todd Hido’s compositions of houses at night – with one significant difference: Jan Tove has moved to black-and-white images. “Strolling around these night landscapes is a lonely walk. The empty streets, the deserted park benches, the parked cars, the silence, gives a sense that time has stopped, and that the surroundings await a new day's life and movement.” We will have signed copies. See our webpage for sample images

Keld Helmer-Petersen | Keld Helmer-Petersen 1941-2013

The great Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen was one of the earliest photographers anywhere to have his colour images accepted as art photography. His work was immediately notable for its inventive composition, which turned landscapes and buildings into abstract patterns. “The pictures aim at illustrating nothing whatever beyond the fact that we are surrounded by many beautiful and exciting things,” he said. “And that there can be a great deal of pleasure in spotting them and capturing their beauty by means of colour photography.” With 350 images, Keld Helmer-Petersen 1941-2013 is as comprehensive a retrospective as you could hope to find. See our webpage for sample images

Paul Cupido | Amazonia

Next two titles from Paul Cupido whose work has been attracting a great deal of favourable attention. First Amazonia.‘My work is about play,’ he says, ‘the little moments of wonder in life.’ An artist’s residency at LABVERDE, a programme for artistic immersion in the Brazilian Amazon, plays to his strengths as he enter into a silent dialogue with this enchanting and mystical environment, focusing on leaves, foliage, water, and the moon. See our webpage for sample images

Paul Cupido | Ephemere

Ephemere is an overview of Cupido's projects so far, which stress the fleetingness of existence as well as focusing on the symbolic correspondences between earth and body. The ephemeral is also expressed through the moonlit landscapes and the dusk, that transitional zone in between the harsh light of day and the depths of the night. Sample images.

Paul Hart | Reclaimed

Dewi Lewis are about to publish Reclaimed, the final volume of Paul Hart’s trilogy on Fenland. Hart has photographed the area for over ten years. He examines the complex interrelation between humanity and nature and raises important questions about human-altered topography and our occupation and stewardship of this land. He works solely with the analogue process employing traditional darkroom practice. We will have signed copies. We also have signed copies of Farmed and unsigned copies of Drained. Sample images.

John Comino-James | In The Land From Under The Sea,

Also from Dewi Lewis comes John Comino-James’ follow-up to The Rhodes Project which explored his family’s relationship with the Greek island he first visited more than fifty years ago. In his new book, In The Land From Under The Sea, he confronts some of the ways in which present day Rhodes differs from his initial vision of the island. Seen in winter, the closed hotels and shops and the deserted beaches suggest the island’s dependency on industrialised tourism and the vulnerability of its economy. Themes revealed in the photographs are further explored in a series of poems. See our webpage for sample images

Mathieu Asselin | Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation
The first edition of Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation won the Franco-Venezuelan photographer Mathieu Asselin the Aperture Foundation First Book Award in 2017 and many other prizes. His research and photographs illustrate the ravages which mark the company's history. These include the small town of Aniston (Alabama, 1970), that became a ghost city as a result of releases into the air and water of the poisonous chlorinated PCB derivatives produced by the local factory; and Agent Orange which the US military detonated in Vietnam from 1968 to 1971, permanently contaminating up to ten percent of its territory and causing thousands of victims. The book also methodically illuminates Monsanto's propaganda and communication. Sample images.
Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris | Water Gold Soil: American River
In Water Gold Soil: American River, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris use a combination of text, photographs, and archival images to tell the complex story of American River that flows thirty miles from the Sierra Nevada until its confluence with the Sacramento after being dammed multiple times. It spills into the Delta only to be extracted by pumps and pushed towards the Central Valley for the benefit of large-scale agriculture. It demonstrates the ecological consequences of California’s exploitation of its river systems. Sample images.
Valentino Barachini | Cuore Velato
Cuore Velato is a signed limited edition of only 100 copies by Valentino Barachini. It is the synthesis of years of reflection on oriental art and culture, culminating in a long journey to Japan. Influenced by Shinto animism, Cuore Velato has many very evocative images – mostly in black-and-white and of trees, rivers and other natural elements. See our webpage for sample images.
Tom Kondrat | Typhoon Blues

Born in Poland, Tom Kondrat has long been resident in Taiwan, an island subject to regular typhoons. Kondrat has pictured several typhoons before they arrive: in his work, this strange peacefulness is translated into colour and composition. “Typhoon Blues is an ode to anticipation, to the calmness that fills the air before the storm”. Sample images

Jan Scheffler | 89 Licht

Jan Scheffler has been photographing the dramatic landscapes, seascapes and weather of Iceland, Norway and Finland for the last twenty years. His best work has now been collected in 89 LichtSample images.

Saskia Boelsums | Landscape Photography
Dutch photographer Saskia Boelsums considers herself to be a visual artist with a camera. The 100 images in Landscape Photographs are painterly in nature, evidence of her strong connection with the Dutch tradition of landscape painters. Sample images.
Mark Steinmetz | Carnival: Artist Edition

If you missed out on Mark Steinmetz’s Carnival, which went out of print almost immediately after publication last year, you have another chance of getting a copy in the form of Carnival: Artist Edition. There are only fifty copies and the book comes with a signed print. 

Bernd and Hilla Becher | Basic Forms
Schirmer Mosel have reprinted two of the most significant titles in their catalogue. Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Basic Forms – with its typologies of industrial buildings – has influenced generations of photographers in Germany and worldwide. 
Anders Petersen | Café Lehmitz
For three years in the 1960s Anders Petersen photographed the late-night regulars in a bar in Hamburg. The resulting photobook, Café Lehmitz, was first published in 1978 by Schirmer and has since become regarded as a seminal book in the history of European photography.
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