Photobookstore

• Stanley Barker 2021
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

After leaving Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the city where he was born and raised, Paul McDonough went first to Cambridge, Massachussets and then New York City, where his life as a photographer began in earnest.  And while he never tired of New York’s kaleidoscopic street scene, he felt the tug of the west, and of the sprawling, dreaming country that lay between the two coasts. 

From the 1960’s through the 1990’s McDonough made numerous photographic treks, seeking to capture people, animals, architecture, land-and-cityscapes — in short, the American life, pre-internet, pre-cell phone, that was thrumming all around him. 

As Hilton Als of the New Yorker so aptly put it: “McDonough’s project, it seems to me, is a kind of record of his life as a walker… his pictures are a map of experience, of his consciousness. He is a thinker who looks through the eye of his camera to distinguish truth from reality.”

• Setanta 2021
• Softcover, 1st edition
• New

Lauren Tepfer is a 21 year old photographer and director living and working in New York City. Having grown up in southern New Jersey, Lauren is particularly adept at capturing the essence of a teenager living in suburbia. She first began shooting portraits of her friends and family at the age of 13 and has since developed an evolving body of work. Lauren has had her photo work exhibited in both LA and NYC and her films screened in NYC. She is currently studying at Parsons School of Design where she is pursuing a BFA in photography.

“Growing up with a creative mind in the boundaries of a town populated by less than 7,000, I’ve learned to create my own magic and nurture it myself.

To me, capturing my suburban surroundings in photographic form is like a digital love letter. I connect most to genuine and intimate settings and I feel that small towns are where most of that energy blossoms from. Aside from giving me good feelings, I hope that my suburban narratives can provide comfort for those growing up feeling lonely or unaccounted for.”

48 Page softcover 21cm x 16cm book with card wraparound cover in an edition of 350 copies.

• Self 2021
• Softcover, 1st edition
• New

“I know I stayed

But my dream will go

Carried by the wind, by the clouds, by the wings.”

This excerpt, translated from the original Portuguese, is from Song of the Island Boys by the Cape Verdean poet Aguinaldo Fonseca (1922-2014).  Two thirds of the Cape Verdean population live outside the archipelago and this poem is about those who remain.  Song of the Island Boys expresses the longing and dreams of departure of the Cape Verdeans who stayed. 

This book is dedicated to the many residents of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde who invited me into their homes and who graciously agreed to be photographed.

The photographs in this book were taken in 2014.

Photos printed on a 120 gram slightly rough cotton/paper mix paper.  The pages are either a warm grey or a warm sand beige, inspired by the breeze block buildings all over the island of Santiago and by the sandy earth near the capital Praia.

Handmade edition of 18 copies only.

• Self 2021
• Softcover, 1st edition with print
• New

“I know I stayed

But my dream will go

Carried by the wind, by the clouds, by the wings.”

This excerpt, translated from the original Portuguese, is from Song of the Island Boys by the Cape Verdean poet Aguinaldo Fonseca (1922-2014).  Two thirds of the Cape Verdean population live outside the archipelago and this poem is about those who remain.  Song of the Island Boys expresses the longing and dreams of departure of the Cape Verdeans who stayed. 

This book is dedicated to the many residents of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde who invited me into their homes and who graciously agreed to be photographed.

The photographs in this book were taken in 2014.

Photos printed on a 120 gram slightly rough cotton/paper mix paper.  The pages are either a warm grey or a warm sand beige, inspired by the breeze block buildings all over the island of Santiago and by the sandy earth near the capital Praia.

Handmade edition of 18 copies only, this copy with a signed A4 print (spiders image)

• Akio Nagasawa 2021
• Softcover, 1st edition
• New

“Shinobu” the first volume of a four books new series by Daido Moriyama: “Woman in the Night”.

There was a woman called Shinobu in Shinjuku’s red light quarter.
She was a person who loved flowers.
It’s already ten years since I last saw her.
Even now, I still think of her sometimes.
This is a profile of her as she appears in my memory.

Edition of 350 signed and numbered copies with a silk-screen canvas cover.

Due in stock approx 24 May 2021, reserve your copy now.

• Journal 2020
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

“I needed to move, start again. It was seven years  ago, after a traumatic loss. 
My new home became Rågsved, south of Stockholm. I started taking photographs of my everyday life, my friends and people who live here. I wanted to get to know the place – and myself again. I have grown very attached to and formed a deep love for this neighbourhood. I have found a kind of community and an honesty that makes me feel safe.

It is my home.”

- Angelica Elliott

• Loose Joints 2021
  
• Hardback, 1st edition
  
• New
  

Photographs is a story of British artist Jack Davison’s experiments with image making from 2007 to present. First published in 2019, Davison’s debut monograph has now sold through two print runs. To celebrate the third printing of this book, Davison and Loose Joints invited thirty-two different artists to have a carte blanche at responding to Jack’s images.

For the Photographs Annotated Artists Edition, an international selection of artists were sent a physical copy of Davison’s original book and given free rein to scribble, annotate, rework, cut out, destroy and generally enjoy Jack’s malleable images. The result is a uniquely collaborative reworked version of Photographs, which within the same format, sequence and layout as the original creates a hybridised, playful and open-ended book, ranging from extravagant and visceral reworkings, where Davison’s original source images are near-obliterated, to schoolboy doodles and crayon scribbles by Davison’s young nieces and nephews.

Shoulder-to-shoulder are artists foremost in their mediums, such as Nathalie du Pasquier, Atelier Bingo, Ruth van Beek, Stefan Marx, Marie Jacotey and John Booth, alongside emerging, new and young voices in illustration, collage and contemporary drawing.

• Loose Joints 2021
  
• Hardback, 1st edition / 3rd printing
  
• New
  

Loose Joints is proud to present Photographs, a story of British artist Jack Davison’s experiments with image making from 2007 to present.

A self-taught photographer, Davison makes pictures like a painter paints, using intuition and instinct to craft photographs that excavate the surreal and sensual from the fabric of daily life. Relying heavily on chiaroscuro and the power of photography to obscure as well as reveal, Davison’s unique, crafted approach to image-making oscillates from crisp, sharp details into dissolving mirages – the world inverted and submerged.

With their deep shadows and tight framing, the images in Photographs have an unmistakably cinematic quality; each layered image leaves a breadcrumb trail of associations that extend far beyond its initial context. Despite Jack’s recent successes, he remains humble and all-encompassing in his photography, and the book indistinguishably shifts from staged, meticulous editorial setups to simple everyday occurrences, infused with mystery and depth.

Two recurring motifs in Davison’s work are the hand and the eye: here a clenched fist, there caressing a face; here glaring out from a billboard and elsewhere shimmering in a reflection. They represent a dynamic tension within Davison’s work, of seeing versus feeling, or the threshold between perception and imagination. The delicate sequence in Photographs hovers between these two states, creating a complex, soulful interpretation of the world through Jack's enigmatic portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

Sealed 3rd printing.