By John Gossage. Published by Steidl
The first publication of Gossage's color work, The Thrity-Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon is an innovative dual publication that presents two series at opposite ends of the book, each complete with endpapers and a reversible dust jacket, but joined together in a single binding. The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler explores a neighborhood in Washington DC while the images in Map of Babylon were taken around the globe. By fusing these two books in one cover, a fascinating interplay is created between the series. The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon was selected as a Best Book of 2010 by Alec Soth and Martin Parr.
By Paul Kooiker. Published by Van Zoetendaal Gallery
Selected as a Best Book of 2012 by Erik Kessels and Rémi Faucheux, Heaven by Paul Kooiker is a sizable collection of Kooiker's Polaroids from his famous nude series and also lesser known work. With the photographs arranged sequentially, a lyrical quality emerges, giving new dimension to Kooiker's evolving oeuvre.
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By Stephen Shore. Published by Walther Konig.
Stephen Shore's MOSE: A Preliminary Report investigates the MOSE Project, an experimental system of mobile gates designed to protect the city of Venice from flooding. The book combines Shore's images of the construction sites, laboratories and locations of this massive project with maps, archival photographs and newspaper clippings to tell the complicated story of the MOSE Project and the need for a solution to the problem of flooding in Venice. Dotted red lines cross some photographs to indicate the high water line on buildings during the worst of the flooding, while other red text transforms photographs into diagrams, showing how the project will change the landscape of the Venetian Lagoon.
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By Manabu Someya. Published by Tosei-Sha.
"The project of this book, as the artist describes it, is to explore the notion of 'Nirai Kanai' - a mythical locale to which the spirits of the dead are said to travel in the culture of the southern Japanese prefecture Okinawa. In the 74 colour images featured here, Someya sets out to visualize this place as it 'co-exists' with the lives lived by real people in the Okinawa region and further south, in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines." --Faye Robson
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