Landscape and Nature

• Stanley Barker 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition. 88p
• Imperfect - see below

• Nazraeli Press 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition 136p
• Imperfect - see below

Published to coincide with a major 2024 traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London, this gorgeous new monograph presents 100 of Michael Kenna’s most iconic photographs of the Japanese landscape, many published here for the first time. A perfect pairing of artist and subject, these photographs of Japan comprise perhaps Kenna’s best known body of work and have been the subject of countless exhibitions throughout the world. Michael Kenna first visited Japan in 1987 on the event of his inaugural exhibition there, and he has returned dozens of times and made thousands of photographs throughout the country’s vast and incredibly varied landscape. Our earlier monographs Japan and Hokkaido have been out of print for many years, so we are thrilled to announce this important new publication that includes work spanning Kenna’s decades-long love affair with the country. Japan / A Love Story is beautifully printed in duotone on natural coated art paper and quarter bound in linen and silk. It opens with an essay in Japanese and English by the renowned critic and historian Kohtaro Iizawa. 

“Japan has a long and rich tradition of reciprocal gift giving. I have been the grateful recipient of so much over so many years in Japan, and I know that I will never be able to give back in equal measure. I hope this work can be seen as a small token of my desire to do so. I also hope this work can be viewed as a homage to Japan and that it will serve to symbolize my immense ongoing appreciation and deep gratitude for this beautiful and mysterious country.” — From the Afterword by Michael Kenna

"He has been reflective when others have been militant, romantic when others have been skeptical. Such isolation can starve all but the most independent of talents, but for these it can provide a sanctuary where visions can develop undisturbed. Kenna is one of these.” — Joanna Pitman, The Times

Imperfect copy with marking to cover in several places - see photos.

• GOST 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition, 88p
• New

• Twin Palms 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition, 412p
• New

Mike Brodie’s first monograph, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity touched down more than a decade ago, depicting his fellow rail-riders and drifters in a rebellious and wildfire pursuit of adventure and freedom. “Brodie leapt into the life of picture-making as if he was the first to do it,” Danny Lyon wrote about the book in Aperture. Next came Tones of Dirt and Bone, a collection of earlier SX-70 pictures Brodie made when photography first led him to hopping freights, when he was known as “The Polaroid Kidd.” And then Brodie seemed to disappear from the art world as suddenly and mysteriously as he’d first appeared. Maybe his vanishing was another myth. Maybe it was just a necessary retreat. “I was divorcing myself from all that,” he says. “I was growing up. I was pursuing this other life.”

In Nashville he became a diesel mechanic. Fell in love. Moved across the country again. Got married. Bought land on the long dusty Winnemucca road Johnny Cash sang about. Started his own business. Built a house. Put down roots. And when that life exploded, the open road called again. Throughout almost all of it, his cameras were with him, and at last those pictures are coming to light.

If Michael Brodie’s first monograph was a cinematic dream, Failingis the awakening and the reckoning, a raw, wounded, and searingly honest photographic diary of a decade marked by love and heartbreak, loss and grief — biblical in its scope, and in its search for truth and meaning. Here is the flip side of the American dream, seen from within; here is bearing close witness to the brutal chaos of addiction and death; here are front-seat encounters with hitchhikers and kindred wanderers on society’s edges, sustained by the ragtag community of the road. Failing often exists in darkness but is tuned to grace. Brodie’s eye stays forever open to the strange and fleeting beauty that exists in forgotten places — the open country and the lost horizons that sweep past dust-spattered windows in a spectral blur.

"Looking back, it's as if it never really happened. I was never a photographer holding a camera but a vessel to tell a story. It's like it all existed within a dream, and this is just God's plan for my life."

In stock - shipping begins January 3rd 2025.

• Twin Palms 2024
• Hardback, 2nd edition, 96p
• New

'pines grow pulling the old dreams through the soil pinesap climbing into its limbs lifting a ladder like solitude'

Inspired by the life and work of the poet and land surveyor, Frank Stanford, these photographs of hermetic homes and men living in solitude were taken in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri

By capturing the foggy landscapes, cluttered interiors, and rugged men that are tucked away in the dark woods, Jasper explores a fascination with running away from the everyday. The work bounces between fact and fiction, exhibiting the reality and myth of what it means to be truly apart from society.

2024 2nd edition.  

In stock - shipping begins January 3rd 2025.

• IBASHO & the(M) éditions 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition, 124p
• New

Air, flowers and colours is Mika Horie's  second artist book co-published by IBASHO & the(M) éditions.

For this book Horie immersed herself in nearly-forgotten traditions such as kimono-making, the tea ceremony, and even duck hunting. Particularly fascinated by the intricate beauty of the Obi and the entire kimono-making process, she met with artisans who specialise in crafting silk yarns and Obi. Over two months, she raised silkworms to gain a deeper understanding of the silk production process. During this time, she also experienced the enchanting world of native wildflowers and plants during her weekly tea ceremony practice. Her tea instructors shared profound Zen wisdom while discussing the seasonal decorations in the tea room, revealing the deep significance and beauty of each arrangement. These teachings enriched her creativity, inspiring fresh ideas and imagery she eagerly anticipated exploring.

Throughout this journey, she delved deeply into the rich and complex facets of Japanese culture, uncovering uncharted aspects of the island's history. She hopes that her newest book, “Air, Flowers, and Colours”, provides readers with an insightful glimpse into her profound connection to her identity and ancestral heritage. 

Each copy of the book is different, for it has  its own cyanotype print of a poetic scenery on handmade paper, which makes each book a unique experience. For the interior, the perception of the original is perceived by the artistic photography that almost makes it look like the original, and enhanced by the choices for ink and paper. The rough edges of the book emphasise the character of the handmade paper and its softness. 

Edition of 300 signed copies.  Each copy unique.

• Origini Edizioni 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition, 96p
• New

'Cross the garden and step over the palisade. Descend into the high grass until the end of the field. Enter the wood. It is here that L’Aval begins. A couple of small steps through the forest pushing into clearings, an invisible path. Alternating slopes gentle and steep. There is an abandoned hamlet: five crumbled houses that the ivy consciously devours. Descend until you awake the river. A barrier. A couple of shoelaces left until you stop walking. Steps as if your feet were to slow down time. So I counted them. Little by little. Steps like a measure unit on a map. Water flowing downstream to never come back and the slow movement of wind in the trees, a continuous discovery of the area. An exploration. Step by step.'

Handmade edition of 250 signed and numbered copies.  Text in French and English.


Video courtesy of the publisher.

• Lamaindonne 2023
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

In 2015, a lone male wolf traveled from high in the Italian Alps to make its permanent home in south central France. This remarkable return brought an end to a century-long absence of the predator in the region, peaking the interest of photographer Julien Coquentin who became fascinated by its reappearance.

The history of the wolf in the region is rich, its myth permeates local folklore settling ghostlike over the pastoral countryside. For Coquentin, the return of the wolf opens a portal to the past. The nature of the woods he once strolled through has changed; flesh has reappeared where once only myth existed. Through the use of text and image, the photographers new book Orielle Coupée explores the enigmatic return of the wolf.

Signed copy.

Text in French

• Nobody 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition
• New

"A pillar knocked into the ground next to a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, beneath a vast sky. That is the backdrop to all of Stephen Gill´s photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, in autumn and winter, we see it in sunshine and rain, in snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony about these pictures, for in almost every one there is a bird, and each of these birds opens up a unique moment in time. We see something that has never happened before and will never happen again. That it takes place in the midst of a landscape characterised by repetition, in which time is cyclical, sets up a keen existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has happened before, there’s nothing new under the sun; on the other, every moment is unique and carries the hallmark of the miracle: what happens happens only once and never again.

But this wasn’t what I thought about the first time I looked at these photographs. In fact, I barely thought at all, for I was shaken, as a person so often is when confronted with an extraordinary work of art. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives. Ancient, forever improvising, endlessly embroiled with the forces of nature, and yet indulging too. And so infinitely alien to us."

- Karl Ove Knausgård

This hand assembled new artists book produced by Stephen Gill, features 30 unpublished and new small c type prints from The Pillar, each book has a unique printed dust jacket incorporating lino cut and mono prints by Stephen, all housed in music scores. 

132 x 198 mm. Edition of 180 signed and numbered copies. Each book features 30 6"x4" Tipped in c-type machine prints on crystal archive paper.

• Overlapse 2018
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 216p
  
• Used: near fine see below

A storybook revelation about Icelandic people who believe in magical beings like elves, trolls, fairies and monsters — that they are everywhere, living, and regularly interacting with humans. Bego travelled around Iceland, knocking on doors in a search for seers and believers to record this extraordinary book of electrified portraits, fairytale landscapes, and compelling, unforgettable stories.

Out of print.  Used copy with a few faint marks to the linen cover.

• Benrido 2024
• Set of 8 collotype prints
• New

Following the release of Hokkaido in 2023, this is Michael Kenna’s second mini-portfolio by Benrido, This portfolio is based on the pilgrimage of Shikoku region to visit the 88 sacred places associated with Kobo-Daishi (Kukai). It is said that if you walk the entire journey, it will take more than 40 days and cover a total distance of about 1,400 kilometers. Kenna has traveled to many sacred places in Shikoku multiple times since 2003, photographing pilgrimages, temples, rock gardens, offerings, lanterns, stone carvings of Buddha and more, with his own poetic perspective. This portfolio includes eight works, and is a series that gives off a different atmosphere from Hokkaido.

Set of 8 Black and White Collotype Prints

Print size: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Portfolio size: 20.6 x 25.8 x 0.8 cm

Signed to the case by Michael Kenna

• Nobody 2020
  
• Hardback, 2nd printing
  
• New
  

A pillar knocked into the ground next to a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, beneath a vast sky. That is the backdrop to all of Stephen Gill´s photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, in autumn and winter, we see it in sunshine and rain, in snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony about these pictures, for in almost every one there is a bird, and each of these birds opens up a unique moment in time. We see something that has never happened before and will never happen again. That it takes place in the midst of a landscape characterised by repetition, in which time is cyclical, sets up a keen existential dynamic: on the one hand, everything has happened before, there’s nothing new under the sun; on the other, every moment is unique and carries the hallmark of the miracle: what happens happens only once and never again.

But this wasn’t what I thought about the first time I looked at these photographs. In fact, I barely thought at all, for I was shaken, as a person so often is when confronted with an extraordinary work of art. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives. Ancient, forever improvising, endlessly embroiled with the forces of nature, and yet indulging too. And so infinitely alien to us.

- Karl Ove Knausgård

The Pillar / Winner of the 2019 Les Rencontres de la Photographie author book award.

2nd printing.  Signed copy.

• Deadbeat Club 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition. 146p
  
• New

In the distance, there's the ocean. But here, it's the land of high, rounded mountains, of rivers, of pastures. Of those who cross, share and tend it. This land is the Basque hinterland. Straddling France and Spain, nestled between the Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay, it's a proud land of wild beauty, often fantasized about and surrounded by a mystical mist, as if to better protect it from foreign eyes. 

Anne Rearick nevertheless crossed this misty barrier by setting foot for the first time, in 1990, in the small village of Donibane Garazi (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port). Since then, and for more than 30 years, Rearick has returned again and again, establishing a deep bond with the inhabitants over generations. And therein lies the strength of Rearick's work: a deep, sincere feeling for the people she photographs. It's not naive romanticism, but an open, tender and generous gaze, characteristic of her long-term work and her humanist vision of photography. Her honest understanding of the photographer's work is evident in her square compositions, where concentration of vision and subtle black and white tones harmonize to convey not only the beauty of the Basque country, but also the reality of its raw land and of its rural world we see evolving over the decades.

Gure Bazterrak, which if it were easy to translate the nuances of Basque language, could be transcribed as « our land », is the representation of the visceral attachment of the inhabitants to this land, and is Rearick's love song to those she has loved and still loves there. 

• RRB 2024
• Hardback, 1st RRB edition, 96p.
  
• New

The granite spine of Cornwall acts as a watershed from which many rivers and streams flow north and south into the Atlantic and English Channel respectively. The Red River rises east of Troon and flows just six or seven miles, north then west, into the sea between Gwithian and Godrevy...

It is the purpose of this book to describe and evoke something of the distinct, rich history and culture of the valley. The work is divided into seven parts. These bear no relation to
any geographic, social or cultural divisions along the river but rather serve as a structure for realising a further ambition within the work – to reflect on a succession of myths concerning the history of our perception of the landscape which surround us.

- Jem Southam in the Red River

Revised edition of Jem Southam's iconic 1989 publication the Red River. The book contains 50 remastered images and revised texts, with a new afterword by Southam.

Hardcover Special Edition of 250 copies, containing a signed and limited 10x8" pigment print of Fortescue Shaft, The Great Flat Lode, Brea, printed by Jem Southam - see first image. Each print is signed and numbered in a limited edition of 250.

Note: softcover edition shown in video, contents are identical.

• Stanley Barker 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition. 88p
• NEW

• Chose Commune 2018
  
• Softcover, 1st edition
  
• Used: good to very good

Over the course of multiple summers, Raymond Meeks has ventured the few miles from his rural home in the Catskill Mountain region of New York, to a single-lane bridge spanning the tributaries of Bowery and Catskill Creeks. Beneath the bridge, a waterfall drops sixty-feet over moss-covered limestone toward a forbidding pond. The local youth have come here from time immemorial, congregating near outcroppings and around a concrete altar – a remnant of an earlier stone bridge. Most allow themselves a brief running start before launching their pale bodies into the void, where tentative suggestions of flight mark the response to gravity. Taken collectively, their gestures allude to ritual, a prayerful response to the exigencies of budding sexuality and a future rife with uncertainty. Halfstory Halflife is a distillation of the photographs made in the shadows of these falls, marked each summer by the emergence of young adults perched at a precipice both in space and in their lives.

Recommended.

Signed copy with some wear to one edge and mark to page edges.  Faint bump to rear corner.  See photos.

Signed in pencil by Raymond Meeks.

• Dust Collective 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition.
  
• New

For one year, artists Barbara Bosworth and Jem Southam embarked on a cross-Atlantic duet of sorts.

Barbara photographed one apple tree in New England, while Jem photographed one apple tree in England.

Images began on the winter solstice and were made until the following winter. This continues a tradition of botanical exchange across oceans.

Signed by Barbara Bosworth and Jem Southam.

9"x7", 27 images. Numbered edition of 200 copies only each with a 4”x5” inkjet print of a botanical scan in a glassine envelope.

• the(M) éditions / Ibasho 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition, 104p
  
• New

Watanabe’s second artist book features entirely new images from his latest series ‘Beyond What You See'. Like Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Watanabe depicts the subjects in his photographs in-between the mystical and the real world, creating a sense of confusion in the viewer. Watanabe’s work has also something similar to the Japanese concept of ‘ma’, a moment of silence or emptiness for awareness and contemplation. His work stimulates the viewer to pause, reflect and engage with the world around us.

Limited edition of 400 numbered copies.

• Stanley Barker 2024
  
• Softcover, 1st edition, 120p
  
• New
  

The quiet images of a waning American landscape featured in Jason Lee’s new book TX | CA 19 were made in June and July 2019 on a drive to California from his adopted home state of Texas. This would be the last of such photo outings before he would relocate back to his native Southern California that September.

“Many of these color photographs were made along and surrounding Highways 287 and 40/66, from Decatur, TX to California—a stretch that I’ve travelled one direction or another many times now and have become extremely fond of, making it a point to revisit certain locations and produce current photographs (collecting time-span exposures of familiar sights is for both curiosity and pleasure and remains ongoing). And so you will find quite a few scenes repeated in this companion to TX I CA 17. 

"Here, however, when in California this time, despite having photographed in the desert east of Los Angeles between Highways 40 and 10 where I’d previously made a handful of the pictures seen in the California section of 17, I didn’t expose any color film. Instead, the California images in this offering were made northbound along Highways 14/395 and 6 after departing L.A. for the drive home. A route that I don’t take often enough and did not take two years prior. Beautiful country out that way. And coincidentally it was thereabouts that I made some of my first pictures from the road when I started photographing the American landscape in 2006.“

• Void 2024
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 168p
  
• New

In 1667 a 12-year-old girl, Gertrud Svensdotter, was accused of walking on water in Älvdalen, Sweden. This event marked the beginning of the Swedish witch-hunts, a period of mass hysteria and horror in Älvdalen and its neighbouring regions. The book ‘Gertrud’ by artist Maja Daniels uses photography to reconfigure the history and myth of these events, igniting a contemporary dialogue around Gertrud.

Edition of 900 copies.

• Void 2024
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 176p
  
• New

"Epitome is a fairly personal visual journey—my attempt to look at some things more than once. It consists of pictures shot in war-torn places I was visiting in two subsequent years (2022–2023) and pictures printed from my archive of previous years. The process of making the palm-sized prints became, for me, a meditation, an urge to find personal balance and a contemplative search for meaning in a wartime reality. While navigating the wounded land, I look for a glimmer of hope in people and places. I keep coming back to the same trinity that absorbed me—the soil, body, and warmth of a distant landscape. For me, uncertainty, fragility, and chaos, but also tenderness and hope, are the real essence of the series."—Vic Bakin

Edition of 750 copies.

• Roshin Books 2024
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 80p
  
• New
  

Born in Aomori in 1924, Ichiro Kojima depicted the lives of people living in the harsh environment of Japan’s Tohoku region. Under the vast sky, he faced the landscapes spread before him with his camera in hand.
 
His career as a photographer lasted only about ten years. Kojima, who passed away suddenly at the age of 39, left behind a dramatic world that still resonates with us today. Despite his attempts to distance himself from the images of Tsugaru, Kojima could never escape the persistent imagery of the Tohoku region that followed him everywhere.
 
This book offers a new perspective on Kojima’s journey, appealing both to those already familiar with his work and those discovering it for the first time.

Text in English and Japanese.  Edition of 1000 copies.

• Trespasser 2024
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 188p
  
• As new (see below)*

Sons of the Living is a photobook about the land and people along the highways of America’s deserts. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “open road” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, Sons of the Living draws attention to trouble on the road ahead and searches for our hope to withstand it.

11.75x14.75 inches. 188 pages. 90 tritone plates on uncoated paper. Cloth cover and foil stamp text. Page edges painted black.

* Please note there have been a few production issues with this books as follows:-

Due to the pages edges being painted black there is a possibility of a few stray paint marks/black dots on the uncoated paper pages.   The black linen cover also has a tendency mark very easily during handling of the book.  We are checking all copies of the book that we will send out, to ensure that customers receive copies without serious errors, but note that minor imperfections may well exist in the copy you receive, so please consider this before purchase.  This does not detract from the high quality of the production or enjoyment of this title, which in our opinion is without doubt the best photobook of the year.

FINAL FEW COPIES.

• Tall Poppy Press 2024
• Softcover, 2nd printing, 64p
• New
  
  

Morganna Magee’s Extraordinary Experiences encapsulates a world that feels like it is looking back at you. Never a passive mirror, the seductive romance of nature lures us in only for jump scares and that leads to morbid curiosity. Everything seems the wrong type of fragile: one misstep from a twisted neck or a nameless, quiet death. Tenderness is a form of mortality, not romance.

If this world is a mirror, it sometimes shows us what we don’t want to see. Flashbacks and deja vu unexpectedly bring back memories we have tried to forget but haven’t been able to. Like your first childhood experience alone in the woods, agraphoic and terrified, suddenly the menacing and uncaring side of life seems all too real. Nature’s too old, too ancient, has seen too much for one to feel entirely comfortable.

Moving between tension and relief, Extraordinary Experiences is not a quiet reflection of peace among nature, but a snatch of a dream you’re relieved you woke up from before it became a nightmare.

2nd printing of 100 copies.  Signed copy.

• GOST 2024
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 88p
  
• New

Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’—a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia. His photographic survey, made over a 10-year period, depicts fading traditional events, shrinking small towns, Aboriginal connection to Country, the impacts of globalisation and the adversity of climate change to illustrate the complex realities of contemporary life in the ‘Outback’.

The ‘Outback’ has no demarcated border but refers to Australia’s vast and sparsely populated interior—73 percent of Australia’s territory, more than two million square miles—is inhabited by just 5 percent of its 24 million people. In spite of its relatively small population it is an important and diverse segment which defines the character of the country and has been  mythologised in poetry, song, literature and screen. 

Ferguson was originally inspired by Richard Avedon’s portrait project, ‘In the American West’—which shattered romantic notions of the west. Ferguson’s project is similar in scope and ambition but stylistically divergent. As the project evolved it became evident that portraiture alone could not narrate the stories of the people he met. 

‘Part of the experience of living in this huge, sweeping landscape is the relationship each individual has with the land and environment. It made sense to position everybody in the spaces they  occupy. I wanted to construct a scene which complemented, or reinforced the stories of the people I photographed.’

Signed copy.