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March 11th 2013 |
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Nazraeli have new titles from some of their most popular photographers due out this Spring. April sees the release of Todd Hido’s latest Excerpts from Silver Meadows, named after a street that runs through the neighborhood in Kent, Ohio where Hido grew up. The setting of Hido’s childhood, it also became the creative wellspring for his work. He describes this latest work as ‘a trip through the innocence of childhood and adolescence and into the darker aspects of life beyond.’ Beautifully printed on matt Japanese art paper, and featuring an ‘installation’ of tipped-in images on the case binding, Silver Meadows is printed in a first edition of 3,000 copies. We are taking advance orders for SIGNED (£57.50) and unsigned (£45) copies. (We have tried to minimize the price for signed copies but they have to be shipped separately from the US and each copy weighs 2.3 kilos!)
Jason Langer was an assistant to Michael Kenna many years ago and Possession, his follow-up to Secret City, shows signs of Kenna’s continuing influence. In his own words, Langer’s images are the product of “walking the streets alone as a stranger in a strange land.” His subjects include amusement parks, lonely bars, nighttime streets and alleys. You can preview the contents here. We will have signed and unsignedcopies. We also have a few signed copies of Langer’s now out-of-print Secret City still in stock. We had a few copies of Jeff Liao’s Habitat 7 in our old Cockburn Street shop. I hesitated about buying a copy of this enormous tome and have regretted it ever since as its 500-copy print-run sold out fast. His large-scale panoramic photographs captured in detail the urban and social environment of New York City. His new monograph Coney Island focuses on this fabled location as it goes through a process of redevelopment. It is also printed in an edition of only 500 copies, printed on Japanese art paper in an oversized, 24 x 12 inch format. Each book comes with its own carrying case. We will have signed and unsigned copies. Finally from Nazraeli, there’s Mark Steinmetz’s Paris in My Time, the product of several extended trips to Paris over a twenty-five year period. “In the streets, parks, and along the Seine, Steinmetz plays with the conventions of the Paris photographic tradition, from Atget to Kertész.” This is printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies. We will have signed and unsigned copies; however please note that a date has not been agreed for signing so, if you order a signed copy, you may have to wait several months before getting your copy. |
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A third edition of a photography book is a rare thing these days but Christian Paterson has achieved this in a short time with Redheaded Peckerwood, one of the most influential photo books of recent years. Patterson plays with fact and fiction in a retelling of the harrowing tale of two American teenagers who carried out a multiple killing. It’s worth considering even if you have an earlier edition as there have been substantial changes including an altered sequence incorporating new images and additional pages. Mack have also published a collection of photographs by Martin Boyce, a Scottish artist best known for his sculpture. A Partial Eclipse brings together photographs from an on-going private library of images which feeds into Boyce’s work. The images adopt a sombre and darkened palette, as if the light has been stolen from each photograph. Images of trees and foliage permeate the collection. We will have signed copies. |
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Originally published as a limited edition by Mack Books and soon out-of-print, Taryn Simon’s monumentalLiving Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters has now been republished by Rizzoli.
It’s been a while since there’s been a good collection of the great innovator Harry Callahan’s work in print so that’s reason enough to welcome a new publication from Kehrer. Harry Callahan Retrospective is pretty comprehensive with 280 photographs and measuring 240*300 mm. It includes some colour work as well as the black-and-white for which he is best known. |
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Beyond Words customer Graham Miller is producing a book of his own black-and-white photographs of families with children with Down’s Syndrome, accompanied by his interviews with them. Six Percent will be launched on 21 March, World Down’s Syndrome Day, and will coincide with an exhibition at Summerhall in Edinburgh EH9 1PL which will then run till 22 May. All profits from sales through Beyond Words will go to Down’s Syndrome Scotland. See here for details of Graham’s work.
Bruce Percy’s beautiful book of photographs of Iceland has been on our bestseller list since it was published last autumn. Bruce has now authorised us to offer the three limited edition versions of the book as well, two with one print and one with three. See here for the full list of versions. |
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Guy Archard has been garnering a lot of positive attention for his first book, Almost, a work which may contribute to the controversy as to originality in photography as many of the images are old photographs in varying degrees of decay which Archard has rephotographed to create a ‘visual poem’. The book is bound in soft Japanese cloth, and beautifully printed on Japanese paper, with a tipped image on the front, and silver foil blocked titling on the cover and spine. We are selling signed copies. See here for an interview with Archard and images from the book.
While living in London between 2008 and 2010 Dutch photographer Sipke Visser sent out 500 handwritten letters accompanied by a photograph to random addresses all over the UK. He asked the recipients for a response. The book Return to Sender is the result of this exercise and contains over one hundred of his photos and the correspondence that came from it. It’s a beautifully designed hardback, 480 pages. Seehere for a selection of the contents. |
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| In 1999, the now defunct Stemmle published Corpus, a stunning book of the nudes of Alvin Booth. Osmosisis his first major publication since then and promises to have equal impact. It’s beautifully designed with an open spine of stitched colored thread with four double gatefolds and a full page embossed front and back cover on the slipcase. You can find sample images here. | ||
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| Even if flora and fauna are not your favourite subject matters, I think many of you will be stunned by the power of Kate Breakey’s cameraless photograms and the beauty of her book Las Sombras/The Shadows. See sample pages here. (I’m taking a risk linking you to the PhotoEye website but they have the best online display of this title and, unless you’re based in North America, it will be much cheaper from us!)
In a newsletter with quite a few titles experimenting with format and design, I’ve left the oddest till last. Thomas Flechtner has had success previously with Snow and Bloom. Now for News, Flechtner has collected newspaper front pages over a period of one year, scattered plant seeds from very different countries over them, watered them, and, finally, exposed them to the sun. He recorded the way the ‘news’ was gradually bleached and overgrown with plants in more than one hundred color photographs. News is presented as a portfolio of 112 newspaper pages in a box. |
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As always if you would like to order any of the titles listed or would like more information concerning anything mentioned in our newsletters please contact us by phone or at the email address at the bottom of this message. You may also order any of these books at www.beyondwords.co.uk. |
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