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Eve Fowler Hustlers
Capricious 2014 ISBN 9780989865623 Acqn 23643
Hb 21x26cm 130pp col ills 25

Hustlers gathers a photographic series taken by Los Angeles-based artist Eve Fowler (born 1964)
on the streets of the West Village in New York and Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles
between 1993 and 1998. Drawing on her background in both journalism and photography, Fowler
explores queerness and social "otherness." Here, her untitled, intimate images lay bare the
ambiguities of identity, class, sexuality and gender--all of which combine to lend the figure of the
hustler a semi-dangerous allure, and the ambiguous attractions of the social outlaw. Stark and
unencumbered by typical compositional elements or dramatic lighting, Fowler's subjects demand
direct consideration, forcing the viewer to confront in a single face both masculine vulnerability
and intrepidity. Accompanying this collection is an essay by Kevin Killian, an award-winning
American poet, author and playwright well known for his contributions to LGBT literature.
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Julie Blackmon Homegrown
Radius Books 2014 ISBN 9781934435793 Acqn 23878
Hb 29x34cm 108pp 45col ills 38.50

Julie Blackmon has transfixed the contemporary art world with images of her children, nieces,
nephews and friends (and their children). As the oldest of nine children herself, Blackmon has
always been fascinated by family life, and her photographs are crammed with children and adults,
everyday objects, toys and playthings. The subjects in the distance are often as fascinating as
those highlighted in the foreground, and even the figures barely visible, hidden behind doors or
windows, add a sometimes sinister, always intriguing element to the scene. Following the
success of the best-selling volume Domestic Variations (2009), Homegrown shows how
Blackmon's style has evolved, as she continues to capture the tensions between the harmony
and disarray of domestic life. Though her photographs continue to be undeniably contemporary,
references to classic painting and portraiture can be detected: the influence of seventeenth-
century Dutch painter Jan Steen mixes with more contemporary figures, such as Balthus, Edward
Gorey, Tim Burton and Federico Fellini. Included in this new volume are 45 works made from
2009-2014, along with an introduction by renowned poet Billy Collins and an interview by the
actress Reese Witherspoon.


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Michael Light - Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain
Radius Books 2014 ISBN 9781934435854 Acqn 23903
Hb 27x41cm 128pp 73ills 52col 42

Until 2008, Nevada was the fastest-growing state in America. But the recession stopped this
urbanizing gallop, and Las Vegas froze at exactly the point where its aspirational excesses were
most baroque and unfettered. In this third instalment of Michael Light's aerial survey of the
inhabited West, the photographer hovers intimately over the topography of America's most
fevered residential dream, capturing castles on the cheap--some half-built, some foreclosed,
some still waiting to spring from empty cul-de-sacs. Throughout, Light finds beauty and empathy
amid a visual vertigo of speculation, overreach and environmental delusion. Janus-faced in
design, one side of the book plumbs the surrealities of "Lake Las Vegas," a lifestyle resort
comprised of 21 Mediterranean-themed communities. The other side dissects nearby Black
Mountain and the city's most exclusive--and empty--future community, where a quarter billion
dollars was spent on moving earth that has lain dormant for the past six years.
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Hiroshi Watanabe - The Day The Dam Collapses
Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780989798112 Acqn 23909
Hb 19x24cm 88pp 66col ills 31.50

The latest body of work from California-based Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe (born
1951), The Day the Dam Collapses consists (unusually for this artist) of digital pictures taken over
the past five years (since his son was born). Ranging from seemingly ordinary details of quotidian
life to poetic visual metaphors, the The Day the Dam Collapses paints the cycles of life as
fleeting, fragile and devastatingly ephemeral. In his introduction to the book, Watanabe writes:
"the truth is, we are all living like the characters in a disaster movie. We know we may someday
face a disaster or a terrible event, but we keep living calmly as we do not know what and when
that might occur. But a disaster will surely come to us. And the largest disaster must be our death
that we all have to face sometime in the future." Despite these looming intimations of mortality,
Watanabe persists in recording and sharing a life fully felt.
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Renate Aller - Ocean And Desert
Radius Books 2014 ISBN 9781934435816 Acqn 23877
Hb 43x29cm 136pp 104col ills 52.50

This new project by German-born photographer Renate Aller is an extension of the ongoing
series and book Oceanscapes (2010). Aller has continued to make images of the ocean from a
single vantage point--for which she is internationally known--but for the last several years, she
has also photographed sand dunes in New Mexico and Colorado. She has now paired the
resulting images in a fascinating new series that continues her investigation into the relationship
between romanticism, memory and landscape in the context of our current sociopolitical
awareness. There is both a visual and visceral relationship between the two bodies of work. The
desert images also capture visitors to the dunes, who engage in beach activities far away from
any large body of water. And while these parallel realities are from completely different locations,
the simultaneous, multiple activities on the sloping sand hills appears as if layers of different
people and activities were choreographed next to rolling waves of the sea. Aller's first
combination of these images was in book form, for a mammoth handmade book that was 36
inches wide. The overwhelming success of that publication has inspired this new trade edition,
which features the largest binding that can be mechanically bound, and includes an expanded
selection of the work.
Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in New York. Ocean and Desert is her third
monograph published with Radius Books, following Dicotyledon and the long-term project
Oceanscapes-One View-Ten Years. Pieces from that series and other site-specific artworks are
in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including the Lannan
Foundation, Santa Fe; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery,
Conneticut; the George Eastman House, Rochester; New Britain Museum of American Art;
Hamburger Kunsthalle; and the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison.


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Fiasco - A Photo Essay By Janet Riedel And Katja Pratschke. Based On The Novel By Imre
Kertesz
Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957631022 Acqn 23838
Hb 17x24cm 144pp 349col ills 22.50

Fiasco describes the attempt of a new beginning, to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, in an inhumane
totalitarian system, the Stalinist Budapest, as the author Imre Kertsz himself has experienced.
The photo essay is about the visual adaptation of Kertsz's own literary method: the attempt to
put together fragmentary evidence, fragments of the present age and Dj vus into a complete
picture. From the assembly of excerpts from the novel and photographic image sequences results
a superposition of time, an exciting ambiguity, a picture puzzle.

The photonovel transforms Imre Kertsz literary method into a visual language: by joining
fragmentary elements from the past and the present, by finding traces that link experience and
remembering. The book with its filmic images moves the reader to think movement; by flicking
through the book, the editing, the montage is effected through the readers exploration of it.
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An-my Le - Small Wars
Ludion 2014 ISBN 9789491819124 Acqn 23848
Pb 21x26cm 52pp 27ills 6col 22.50

Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at MAS by photographer An-My L, whose work
examines the sites and rituals of war and the military, this book presents three series of her large-
format images, which draw upon the language of documentary photography and its perceived
intentions of objectivity. Her work interweaves ideas of landscape and our relationship to it, as it is
transformed into a site of conflict, conjuring a sense of clarity in the midst of chaotic and
polarising subjects. Included are Vietnam War re-enactments by amateur enthusiasts in North
Carolina, desert war training in California, and the humanitarian and scientific missions of the US
military.


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Patricia De Ruijter Beings
Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260634 Acqn 23741
Hb 27x21cm 72pp 62ills 60col 31

Patricia de Ruijter has been intensively photographing her own habitat, 'De Oeverlanden' in
Amsterdam, since 2009. 'De Oeverlanden' is a green strip of land along the New Lake,
sandwiched between motorway and Schiphol. This is where she zooms in on nature. She studies
and photographs in a poetic way, and continues where words are not enough. Whoever sees it
will understand: wild and edible plants co-exist with condoms, discarded plastic packaging, car
lights and indefinable debris. From a distance no more than spots on a road, but from close up,
the wild manifestations of today.


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Anja Ligtenberg - Pongezi. Alternative Rites Of Passage For Masai Girls
Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260610 Acqn 23802
Hb 21x27cm 112pp 68col ills 30

'Pongezi' is the story of the alternative rites of passage for Maasai girls in Kenya. Nice Nailantei
plays a central role in the book. She is a young Maasai girl who grew up to become a leader and
worldwide advocate of the alternative ritual. She was able to escape the Maasai circumcision and
now stands up for the other girls in her community. Anja Ligtenberg photographed Nice Nailantei
last September in New York, where she spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative in order to raise
awareness for her case. In December she photographed her life in Kenya, in her own traditional
community.


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Olaf Nicolai - Hotel Nacional Rio
Rollo Press 2014 ISBN 9783906213071 Acqn 24042
Pb 20x29cm 300pp 300ills 290col 20

Hotel Nacional in Rio with its trademark cylindrical tower, constructed between 1968-1972, is one
of the highlights of architect Oscar Niemeyers later work, yet has been abandoned and left to
deteriorate for some time. German artist and photographer Olaf Nicolai visited the site in
September 2011 to exhaustively document its state of disrepair through hundreds of images.
From elevator shafts plunging into darkness, stairways covered in guano and empty swimming
pools, to rotting ceilings and wide interior spaces stripped bare, the collection of photos of this
once shining jewel of architecture and luxury is as haunting as it is regrettable.
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Danila Tkachenko Escape
Peperoni Books 2014 ISBN 9783941825635 Acqn 24051
Hb 30x24cm 120pp 43col ills 42.95

Man does not need society at all, its the society that needs man. Society is a forced measure of
protection and survival. Unlike a gregarious animal, man must live alone - in nature among
animals, plants and in contact with them. - Andrey Tarkovsky. Strong words that the young
Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko uses to start his book 'Escape'. No matter how
overused the term of the dropout is, Danila Tkachenko in this series portrayed the most radical of
their kind and calls them "Escapers". Men who have turned their backs on society to live alone as
hermits in the wilderness of Russian and Ukrainian forests. Confronted with this disturbing work
the questions regarding our own personal freedom and the consequences arise anew.


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Vintage Alpen - When We Were Young
Metro Verlag 2014 ISBN 9783993001704 Acqn 24091
Hb 17x25cm 160pp 180ills 80col 22.50

Brimming with treasured pictures from personal photo albums, Vintage Alps depicts views of
alpine recreation through the years. Available in book form for the first time, the project by
Michael Martinek and Daniela Horvath used social networks to make private contemporary
documents of amateur photography accessible to the broader public. From family picnics and
summer getaways at the lake to rugged hiking, mountain cottages and the early days of
recreational skiing, the collection will awake old memories and inspire new appreciation for the
history and enjoyment of the Alps.


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Stephan Keppel - Entre Entre
Fw 2014 ISBN 9789490119256 Acqn 24092
Pb 21x30cm 208pp 193ills 3col 31.50

Stephan Keppels photographic work originates from marginal phenomena related to architecture,
interiors and suburbs. He collects and arranges images and objects in order to engage them in a
long-term relationship, resulting in a process which engages photography, reproduction and other
supporting media. Entre Entree is a project about the Parisian suburbs and the citys ring road,
the Boulevard Priphrique, wherein Keppel conceives a fragmented and claustrophobic urban
landscape, manifested through numerous black-and-white images of concrete facades,
vegetation and the textures, shapes and materials that together form the entity of the city.


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Anjes Gesink - Vogels Huilen Niet
Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260627 Acqn 24096
Pb 20x28cm 144pp 55col ills 26.50

Portraying birds in need at the Vogelklas Karel Schot bird sanctuary in Rotterdam, this book
depicts a motley collection of all types, from starlings to swans. A blue-gloved hand, present in
almost every picture, both symbolizes the care the birds get and refers to the human impact on
their lives in the city. Directly or indirectly, each was put in a difficult situation by people, and now
people are helping their recovery. Since 2012, photographer Anjs Gesink has volunteered at the
sanctuary. Collaborating with Andr de Baerdemaeker, urban ecologist and sanctuary chairman,
she tells a story of resilience and hope. With texts by Baerdemaeker, Ernest van der Kwast and
Kees Moeliker.


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Mika Kiritani - Mind's eye
Heibonsha Ltd. 2014 ISBN 9784582278095 Acqn 24102
Hb 23x30cm 98pp 43col ills 34.95

Artist Mika Kiritani has extensively studied the tatehana and rikka disciplines of flower
arrangement, which originated in 16th-century Japan during the Muromachi and Momoyama
periods. Seeking the root of these two floral art styles in pre-Buddhist Japanese antiquity, she
began her own creative activities in 2007, themed around the continuation and passing on of life.
Kiritani creates contemporary flowers of prayer in her photographs and three-dimensional
works, which depart from more commonly seen decorative forms. Serene, meditative and
astonishingly beautiful, the works presented in this collection find place in both minimal interiors
and natural settings.
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Tables To Meet - Erik Kessels, Erik Steinbrecher, Erik Van Der Weijde
4478Zine 2014 ISBN 9789491047053 Acqn 23815
Hb 16x22cm 330pp 200ills 27.50

Three photographers who share the same name have planned to meet each other in person for a
long time. The only obstacle to this is that one lives in the Netherlands, one in Germany and the
third in Brazil. In the meantime, they began exchanging pictures of tables, each one a possible
table at which to hold their prospective meeting. Those many pictures of tables are now
assembled in this unusual book, printed in greyscale on bright blue paper with an orange cover.
Every kind of table imaginable is here, along with some objects not intended to be tables but
which could function that way if needed. Still, the Eriks have yet to actually meet