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Hans Bol - God's Allies

Recto Verso Publications 2018 ISBN 9789080876743 Acqn 28420
Pb 12x17cm 70pp 48ills £31

Crows, with their black plumage, their sparkling, bright eyes, and dark, shimmering beaks, belong
to the night and to witches, heralds of doom and disaster. But their playful and unpredictable
behaviour has also made them widely symbolic. In ancient times, they were even worshipped.
The god Odin was accompanied by two ravens, representing "memory" and "thought". The
concept of the crow as a symbol of the two principle faculties of humans is irresistible. You are
never alone when crows are present. Photographer Hans Bol presents a tribute to the crow
family, from the smallest jackdaws to the larger rooks and ravens, illustrating a fascination with
these mysterious birds.

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David Maisel - Mount St. Helens: Afterlife

Ivory Press 2018 ISBN 9788494509629 Acqn 28423
Hb 11x15cm 144pp ills £38.95

As a young photographer, David Maisel travelled to Mount St. Helens in 1983, just three years
after the volcano erupted in a devastating blast which flattened forests and claimed the lives of
many people. Witnessing the radical transformation of the land on such a massive,
incomprehensible scale affected him deeply, and set the course for his future work.
Reconsidering these images more than three decades later, Maisel can appreciate them with
greater clarity. The pictures are both desolate and delicate, and show a young artist at work,
experimenting with new techniques and wrestling with the traditions of landscape art. With texts
by Gary Snyder and Marcia Bjornerud.

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Ryo Kameyama – Yamakumata

Seki Shobo 2018 ISBN 9784909179012 Acqn 28523
Pb 19x25cm 134pp 75ills £39.95

Having built his reputation as a photographer of conflict, Ryo Kameyama here turns his attention
to the village of Yamakumata, located in the mountains of Japan's Niigata prefecture. His
photographs of everyday life there - hunting bears, traversing snowy forests, fishing in rivers -
seem completely out of time, but it is the lifestyle of these people, in balance with nature, that
attracts him. The villagers rely on the mountains for everything, from wild vegetables and
mushrooms to tree bark for weaving traditional fabric. Observing how they calmly face their reality
and mortality, we get a strong sense of life and death in the traditions that they have continued
since ancient times.

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Daido Moriyama - Record 35

Akio Nagasawa 2018 no ISBN Acqn 28524
Pb 21x28cm 120pp 100ills £33

Daido Moriyama reflects on two new photo books. The first, entitled 'Pretty Woman', is a recent
publication; an "encyclopaedia of Tokyo vulgarities", as he calls it. The second, the completion of
a year-long project by Thames & Hudson to produce a compilation volume of the 'Record'
journals from 1 to 30. The first five of these were conceived and put together in 1972, but then the
project was shelved for quite a long time, until being revived again 2006. For Moriyama, looking
repeatedly at these two new photo books at the same time resulted in a bizarre feeling, as if
looking at his own photographs and at once watching a totally strange world, full of scenes he
had never seen before.

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Daido Moriyama - Record 36

Akio Nagasawa 2018 no ISBN Acqn 28525
Pb 21x28cm 128pp 95ills £32.75

In November 2017 Daido Moriyama had some business to do in Zushi, a city located in
Kanagawa Prefecture which he visits a few times a year. The visits trigger memories of his
friendship with Takuma Nakahira, another well-known photographer, when they were both young
and eager to discuss their art. Moriyama reminisces about a particular morning in the late
summer of 1965, when Nakahira called him and asked to meet up at their usual hangout, a hotel
cafe on the Zushi coast. They ended up walking along the coast until dusk that day, with Nakahira
taking pictures of the waves and Moriyama aiming his camera at whatever caught is attention,
including his friend.

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Carine Thevenau - Seasonal Abandonment Of Imaginary Worlds

Editions Edizioni 2018 ISBN 9780646982526 Acqn 28553
Hb 21x26cm 48pp 32col ills £45

This book comprises a photographic collection by Carine Thevenau of recently deserted

playgrounds in rural Japan. Pictured during the winter, the snow-covered playgrounds might
arouse a nostalgic sensation, yet a more critical analysis reveals a portrait of a place and offers
us a glimpse of space and time paused. Thevenau interprets the emptiness within the
playgrounds as a silence or tension that our minds feel compelled to fill, akin to the pause in a
musical score or the interval of a theatrical play. These playgrounds are the residue of an ageing
Japanese population, revealing economic shifts but also cultural philosophies about nature,
respect, waste, and sustainability.

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Kintsugi
Peperoni Books 2018 ISBN 9783941249226 Acqn 28570
Hb 21x25cm 80pp 40ills 30col £41

Edith Maria Balk pays homage to silence. Life, with all its hustle and bustle, stress and setbacks,
can be an imposition. One must contemplate memories and question routines now and then, in
order to distinguish the essential from the non-essential and to open oneself up to the elemental
and wondrous state of being. 'Kintsugi' is a traditional Japanese method for repairing damaged
ceramics. The break is not a blemish to be rendered invisible, and instead transforms the vessel
into a uniquely beautiful piece. With her quiet images of water and clouds, flowers and trees, sun
and light, people and magical instants, Balk engenders precious moments of pause and
contemplation.

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Alexis Pazoumian - Faubourg Treme

Andre Frere Editions 2018 ISBN 9791092265651 Acqn 28044
Hb 24x30cm 110pp col ills £45

Alexis Pazoumian sees many similarities between Louisiana and his native Armenia. Whether
they have been victims of natural disasters or crimes against humanity, history has afflicted these
populations relentlessly, yet these tragedies have not affected their fighting spirit, their vital
energy. Ten years after Hurricane Katrina ravished New Orleans, Pazoumian began a project to
photograph its citizens. There he found that music is a part of everyone's daily life, and the key to
reconstruction. From churchgoers and brass bands, to Mardi Gras costumes and the serene glow
of bars late at night, he offers a portrait of this city's soul, resilient despite the hostility of life.

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Franco Lanteri - People Of Lentini 1972-1980

A+M Bookstore Edizione 2018 ISBN 9788887071672 Acqn 28134
Pb 21x30cm 408pp 400ills £60

The portraits in this book were made by Franco Lanteri in Lentini, a town located in south-east
Sicily. He was part of a generation of photographers in 1950s Italy that learned by doing. Lanteri's
job in this provincial town covered a range of social ceremonies, such as weddings, birthdays,
and baptisms, but also ID photos. Here the averted gazes of the nameless subjects, their almost
three-quarters poses, and use of lights and black-and-white film are aspects that seem entirely
contrary to today's canons of photography for identification documents. Compiled as large-format
reproductions, they reflect a narrative approach, or perhaps one more befitting to an
anthropological investigation.

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