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| Wolfsburg Diary. By Peter Bialobrzeski. The Velvet Cell, 2016.  |
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Kitchen Table Series
Reviewed by Sarah Bay Gachot
Photographs by Carrie Mae Weems. Text by Adrienne Edwards and Sarah Lewis.
Damiani/Matsumoto Editions, Bologna, Italy, 2016. 86 pp., 34 black-and-white illustrations, 9¾x13½".
Kitchen Table Series, a set of 20 platinum-print photographs and 14 screen-printed texts by Carrie Mae Weems, was completed in 1990 and has been exhibited in museums and other institutions in a number of permutations and layouts since then. Now, it is a book. When something like this is published — the bound version of a vivid photo/text project made 30 years ago — it feels like finally having full access to a great film previously consumed with fervor in bits and pieces from television sets in random hotel rooms. And this would be the Criterion edition at that; a gorgeous presentation.
All titles listed below are in stock at photo-eye Bookstore at the time of the publication of this newsletter
NEW ARRIVALS
In Color
Photographs by Daido Moriyama
The most recent project by Daido Moriyama. Considered one of the great masters of contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is always on the road, a lone traveler whose images recount visions and worlds hidden just beneath the surface of reality.
In Color features 259 full-bleed images in an oversize volume measuring 6"x8¼"x¾".
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Photographs by Daido Moriyama
The most recent project by Daido Moriyama. Considered one of the great masters of contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is always on the road, a lone traveler whose images recount visions and worlds hidden just beneath the surface of reality.
In Color features 259 full-bleed images in an oversize volume measuring 6"x8¼"x¾".
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Reviewed by Blake Andrews
Photographs by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Mack, London, England, 2016. 144 pp., 79 black-and-white illustrations, 8x9¾".
Rosalind Fox Solomon's Got To Go is not a happy book. It's humorous, yes. But happy? No. In fact most readers may find it depressing. And — trigger warning alert — if you suffered from domineering parents or a browbeaten childhood, it will perhaps be even more unsettling. On the positive side, such readers may find catharsis amidst the tragicomedy. I suspect Solomon has.
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| Tundra Kids. By Ikuru Kuwajima. Schlebrugge Editor, 2016. |
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Reviewed by Karen Jenkins
Border Cantos
By Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo.
Aperture, New York, USA, 2016. 274 pp., 257 color illustrations, 13¼x10½".
Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo first crossed paths in 2012 at the line between the United States and Mexico, as ramped-up border politics continued to exact a heavy toll in lives and the landscape, and the wall between there and here, them and us, felt more mute and impenetrable than ever. Border Cantos is the culmination of their subsequent artistic collaboration, building on Misrach’s photographic exploration of the American West and expanding Galindo’s work as a composer and performer. Galindo created musical instruments from objects left behind by migrants, and later gathered by Misrach. He also created musical scores using the photographer’s images of the vast border region as raw material and points of departure. Visual languages play off of sound and music in this multi-media project and texts are presented in English and Spanish, running parallel down opposite sides of each page. Separately and together, Misrach and Galindo’s work deftly reckons with both the powerful physicality of the wall and the artifacts that surround it, as well as the numerous conceptual ways into and through its politics, economics, ideologies and aesthetics.
PRE-ORDER DEADLINES
The following two titles are published by Newfave Books who produce popular and hard to find books by emerging Japanese photographers like Daisuke Yokota and Hiroshi Takizawa. Supplies of these new titles are very limited.
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Still Life
Photographs by Motoyuki Daifu
Signed copies available to order!
Still Life, is an extension of Motoyuki Daifu's work in Project Family. In this installment, the family home is a dramatic stage, and the dinner table is Daifu's muse: a hectic disarray of mom's cooking, groceries, vivid product packaging, and the spectrum of anonymous objects forgotten in the course of quotidian life. This discordant ensemble is the physical embodiment of daily familial dissonance, illuminated in sharp relief with flash, shot from above.
photo-eye is taking pre-orders for copies of Still Life. If our supplier runs out, orders will be fulfilled in the order in which they are received. The cutoff time for ordering in our shipment is Tuesday, May 24th at 12:00 PM MDT.
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Provoke: Between Protest and Performance.
Edited by Diane Dufour and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Designed by Pierre Hourquet. Steidl, 2016. |
Reviewed by Adam Bell
Edited by Diane Dufour and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Designed by Pierre Hourquet.
Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2016. 720 pp., 600 black-and-white illustrations, 7½x9¾".
Despite covering a period roughly fifty-years ago, Provoke: Between Protest and Performance, took years of groundwork before it was possible in the West. Simply put, Japanese photography is finally getting the recognition and scholarly treatment it deserves after years of relative neglect by the West. To give some context, as recently as 2002, I was one of five people, including the artist and gallerist, at Daidō Moriyama’s book signing and opening for ’71 – NY at Andrew Roth Gallery in New York City. Flash-forward to 2011, Moriyama restaged a 1974 book-making event at Aperture in New York City and hundreds waited to get a customizable, limited-edition book from the acclaimed photographer. Although merely one figure in Japanese photography’s long-tradition, Moriyama’s lack of recognition and subsequent acclaim follows a pattern that is fortunately being addressed. In other words, we’re finally catching up. Since the early 2000s, multiple English language books and exhibitions have addressed the history of Japanese photography, and in particular the fertile period of the 60s and 70s in Japan, including The History of Japanese Photography, Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers, Japanese Photobooks from the 1960s and 70s, and most recently For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1974. This renewed interest might also be seen as running in tandem with the renewed appreciation of the photobook and its centrality in the dissemination of Japanese photography since the 60s. Provoke: Between Protest and Performance is an astonishing achievement and will be the benchmark for all subsequent treatments of this era for years to come. Combining scholarly essays, historic and contemporary interviews, translated texts from historical publications, and lush reproductions of rare publications, the book offers incredible insight and access into this important period of the medium.
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| Cig Harvey's Gardening at Night photo-eye Gallery |
We were delighted to host photographer Cig Harvey at the opening reception of her exhibition Gardening at Night, currently running through June 4th at photo-eye Gallery. After meeting the artist behind the marvelously colorful and spellbinding images, we were captivated, not only by Harvey's fabulous style and charming personality but by her unwavering devotion to storytelling and photograph-making. Harvey believes photography is the “most powerful medium in the world,” a belief that is evident in the remarkable fascination her pictures evoke.
Also central to Harvey's practice is the personal journey of making her photographs, which she beautifully discussed in a lecture for the School of Visual Arts. “Writing, journaling, mind mapping, …to make visual what's inside of us,” are all steps of her process and teaching methods, with the goal of "making pictures about things rather than of things." photo-eye’s Savannah Sakry asked Harvey to expand on a few points she made in the lecture, and for more insight into the photographs currently on view in the Gardening at Night exhibition at photo-eye Gallery.
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| Alone Together. By Martino Marangoni. The Eriskay Connection / Danilo Montanari Editore, 2014. |
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IN STOCK
On the Beach
Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto
In 1990, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto visited the seas of New Zealand. On one particular deserted beach, he discovered hundreds of car parts, probably from the 1960s, disintegrated and corroded by decades under the waves. Photographing them individually, he imagined that human civilization had ended, thinking that the sight of crafted objects rotting away is at once dreadful and beautiful.
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Reviewed by Adam Bell
Photographs by Raimond Wouda
Fw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015. In English. 160 pp., color illustrations, 9½x11¾".
Film sets can be incredibly boring places. Long stretches of inactivity are punctuated with moments of frenetic activity. In my short career as a still-photographer, I worked on a total of four films before tiring of the poor pay and long, long hours. Always secondary to the task at hand, the still photographer is constantly in the way; the AD yells at you to move while the producer urges you to go back in and get the shot. Despite the tedium of a film set, there are moments of luminous beauty. When the lights are set, when the stage is empty and about to be filled, the world waiting to be framed and filmed is transformed. Raimond Wouda first worked as a still-photographer years ago, but recently returned to document the strange rituals, quiet moments, and elaborately staged dramas that unfolded on small Dutch-language film productions in the Netherlands and Belgium. Alternating between arresting portraits of extras, still-lifes, and expansive shots of the often brightly lit stages, Ext.-Int. resembles a script supervisor’s luxuriously illustrated and annotated scrapbook. Despite the often humble illusions and stages it documents, the book reveals a world constantly on the edge of transformation, moving in and out of fantasy, fighting its humble surroundings, waiting for a frame to direct our attention and make the mundane world drop away.
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| Straws no. 4, Mono Lake, California, 2015 – © Thomas Jackson |
Thomas Jackson's Emergent Behavior is inspired by the instinctual self-organizing systems found in termite mounds, schools of fish, or flocks of birds. Colorful and animated, Jackson views images in the Emergent Behavior series as an 'experiment in juxtaposition,' photographing everyday mass-produced consumer goods against the backdrop of a pristine and natural landscape. Sublime in character, the images in Emergent Behavior produce equal parts wonder and worry as we consider the intention and agency of these commodities gathering in uninhabited areas. Originally introduced to the Photographer's Showcase last May with a corresponding gallery exhibition, photo-eye is excited to introduce six new images in the Emergent Behavior series, and asked Jackson for some insight about how these images are constructed as well as the intention behind the new photographs.
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| Body of Work. By Bruce Connew. Vapour Momenta Books, 2016. |
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Negative Publicity
Reviewed by George Slade
Photographs compiled by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black. Text by Eyal Weizman.
Aperture and Magnum Foundation, New York, USA, 2016. 288 pp., 35 color illustrations, 8½x11½".
Negative Publicity is an exasperating, aggravating book. And I mean this as a compliment. It offers an unusual amount of thorny issues to address. And it does so in the most labyrinthine manner imaginable. This book of photo- and xerographic images, in toto, carries out its mission of tracking something that supposedly doesn’t exist with dogged perseverance and total success. Even its physical construction, using one of those plastic coil bindings that allow spreads to lie flat but often snags the pages as you flip them, reinforces the difficulty of access inherent to the book and its subject.
Nudes
Photographs by René Groebli
Signed copies available to order!
In the long history of nude fine art one is hard pressed to find a photographer comparable to the Swiss photographer René Groebli. His images appear timeless and exhibit a technical perfection and expression of joy in experimentation that one usually ascribes to the avant-garde.
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Reviewed by Sarah Bay Gachot
Block
Photographs by Aapo Huhta
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015. 94 + pp., 39 color illustrations, 6½x9¼x1".
There is a certain light in New York City — especially in winter, and in the late afternoon — that blinds. The sun sinks from up high in the sky and becomes intrusive. It makes one feel side-swiped, or as if walking into the strongest wind. In SoHo, for instance, I’ve seen it cut and glint up off cobblestones, bounce off of parked cars, and slice through dusty windows that wrap around the corners of buildings. This late afternoon light is solid gold and thick, but cold (just once in awhile warming one’s face — after all, it is coming from nearly 100 million miles away). It stares daggers and reminds one of our planetary status. It makes one’s eyes fail. Sunglasses make it worse. Everything becomes chiaroscuro.
Block
Photographs by Aapo Huhta
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015. 94 + pp., 39 color illustrations, 6½x9¼x1".
There is a certain light in New York City — especially in winter, and in the late afternoon — that blinds. The sun sinks from up high in the sky and becomes intrusive. It makes one feel side-swiped, or as if walking into the strongest wind. In SoHo, for instance, I’ve seen it cut and glint up off cobblestones, bounce off of parked cars, and slice through dusty windows that wrap around the corners of buildings. This late afternoon light is solid gold and thick, but cold (just once in awhile warming one’s face — after all, it is coming from nearly 100 million miles away). It stares daggers and reminds one of our planetary status. It makes one’s eyes fail. Sunglasses make it worse. Everything becomes chiaroscuro.
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| Selections from Bob Cornelis's Carta I & II installed at photo-eye Gallery |
photo-eye Gallery is excited to have selections from Bob Cornelis's Carta I and Carta II series on view along side our current exhibition of Cig Harvey's Gardening at Night, up through June 4th, 2016. Originally introduced on the Photographer's Showcase last June, this is the first time photo-eye Gallery has exhibited Cornelis's exquisite platinum/palladium prints here in Santa Fe. A professional fine art printer by trade, Cornelis is obsessed with paper, and through the Carta series, the artist creates formal abstractions utilizing the material as both subject and substrate. photo-eye asked Cornelis to detail the inspiration behind, and process of creating, a few of the images currently installed at photo-eye Gallery.
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| High and Mighty. By Peter Sutherland. Super Labo, 2010. |
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| Post-Script. By Laura El-Tantawy. RRB Photobook Publishing, 2016. |
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