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• Important Flowers and Éditions 7L 2025
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 448p
  
• New
  

At the age of fifteen, Sofia Coppola took up a summer internship at the Chanel studio in Paris, moving from her family home in Northern California. This indelible experience initiated a relationship with the fashion House which has flourished over decades and resulted in numerous collaborations. The latest is this luxurious and compelling volume, in which Coppola uses her signature style of collage and assemblage to present a bespoke visual history of Chanel’s Haute Couture designs.

The story of the Haute Couture House unfolds across this 450-page tome through unseen sketches, photographs of Chanel clients wearing creations, runway photographs, and archival ephemera. Encompassing the distinct eras of Chanel’s lead designers – Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Virginie Viard – their teams, their famous clientele, and the models of each period, as seen by renowned photographers, this book is a definitive guide to the extraordinary creations that have influenced generations of designers and a piece of fashion history in its own right.

The signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by Sofia Coppola and glued into the inside back cover.

• Stanley Barker 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 104p
• New
  

In 1959, Arthur Tress began taking his camera with him on walks through the Ramble, an overgrown corner of Central Park that had become New York’s best-known outdoor meeting place for queer men. Designed as a picturesque woodland in the nineteenth century, by the late 1960s it had grown wild, a hidden, half-forgotten place of chance encounters in the middle of the city.

For a little over a year, Tress returned again and again, recording the everyday choreography of cruising and creating what is now recognised as the earliest known photographic record of outdoor cruising in a natural setting.

His images show the flow of men through the Ramble, some caught from a distance, others posed or gently staged in small scenes. He saw these photographs not just as documentation but as a kind of queer still life, part allegory, part dream.

Long unseen, The Ramble is now considered a vital piece of New York’s queer history, part ethnography, part fantasy. More than fifty years later, it stands alongside a new generation of queer landscape projects that share its quiet focus on how bodies, longing, and hidden places shape each other.

The Ramble is the first publication of this remarkable archive: an early portrait of a hidden world, a city’s wild corner, and an artist searching for himself among the trees.

• Stanley Barker 2025
• Flexibound, 1st edition, 80p
• New
  

In the summer of 1949, Susan Weil introduced her partner Robert Rauschenberg to the process of exposing blueprint paper at her family home on Outer Island, Connecticut. What began as a playful experiment rooted in Weil’s childhood memories grew into a striking series of large-scale works created together. Weil and Rauschenberg laid sheets of light-sensitive paper in the sun, arranging everyday objects and human figures to capture fleeting silhouettes and delicate traces of presence.

This new publication brings together the complete blueprint works from this short but influential period, alongside rare photographs by Life magazine photographer Wallace Kirkland, who documented Susan and Robert’s collaboration in New York — images that quietly hint at the erasure women artists so often faced, even in their own stories.

At the heart of the book is a new interview between Susan Weil and writer Lou Stoppard, exploring the long summer on Outer Island and the years the couple spent working side by side as young artists in New York and Paris. The book stands not only as an archive but also as a record of a relationship — a creative partnership that unfolded into marriage, parenthood and, eventually, separation, as their lives and practices moved apart.

For all women who were abstract artists, you were investigating your complicated thoughts about being an individual and everything. It wasn’t so simple or direct as being a statement — ‘I want my place in the world’ — but it was about trying to be at one with your own work and take it seriously and have a sense of force.”- Susan Weil 

• Self-published 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition
• New

To the north of Hadrian’s Wall, the northern frontier of the Empire, the Romans dug a deep ditch as a first line of defence against some of the Celtic tribes of northern Britain. The Wall itself ran from Wallsend in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west, crossing the region of Tyneside and the counties of Northumberland and Cumbria. The ditch ran parallel to the Wall across much of its length, except where higher cliffs and crags provided a natural form of defence. Remarkably, after almost 2,000 years, long stretches of the ditch have survived relatively intact and are clearly visible today. Some parts on private land are largely inaccessible, whilst other sections have all but disappeared under farmland or been built over by roads, farms and houses. Other stretches of the ditch, now running beneath woodland, have been long forgotten, traces of which can still be found.

Over five years, Damien Wootten photographed Hadrian’s Wall ditch, often returning to specific locations and retaking exact compositions. Through mapping this man-altered topography, he brings both a physical and archeological context to the ditch, whilst marking historical time through the recording of climatic and seasonal changes. The work also suggests a political and philosophical reading of the landscape, drawing parallels between the Roman Empire’s control through territorial boundaries and present-day geopolitics: from Palestine to border control. These quiet images of this historically contested (often violent) landscape of northern England resonate with the past and echo with notions of ‘frontier’ and everything that conjures up: colonialism, conflict and death. Damien also acknowledges the role of photography as a tool of imperialism, mapping and recording unknown territories and peoples - inevitably ending in the plundering of natural resources, and the subjugation, displacement and genocide of indigenous populations.

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• Nazraeli Press 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 76p
• New

"These pictures describe a long-ago time, and yet in looking at them I become once again the young photographer who took them on a hot summer day, sweat and dust pungent on the breeze; in the distance, I can hear the laughter of children who are now middle-aged.” — Sage Sohier, from the introductory interview by Mark Steinmetz

Easy Days is the third title in Sage Sohier’s trilogy which also includes Americans Seen and Passing Time. Made between 1978 and 1986, the 56 photographs presented in Easy Days capture the prosaic moments of ordinary people, always with respect and often with humor.

Sohier finds her subjects in the open spaces of parking lots, front yards and public streets, and in the quieter confines of modest homes, back yards and porches. She depicts “the boredom of hot summer days” with a precise attention to the surroundings, with cold drinks, propane grills, sprinklers and pets each providing small comforts and revealing the quiet tempo of the days. Sohier’s observation that “images…gain a historical perspective over time that adds to their interest,” is proven true in this collection of black and white images.

• New Heroes 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 112p
• New

"Saved by a Deer" is more than just a collection of photographs and words; it's a heartfelt expression crafted by Canadian photographer Chiara Zonca, serving as a love letter to the rural island she fondly calls home. Through this project, Zonca delves into the ethereal landscapes of coastal British Columbia, using them as a metaphorical gateway to self- discovery. Unlike conventional nature photography, Zonca's images transcend mere objectivity; they serve as vivid reflections of her deep emotional connection to the land, offering a glimpse into her soul. Through a captivating blend of self-portraits and meticulously captured natural elements, Zonca paints a vivid tapestry of sense of place, brought to life through vibrant colors and rich textures. 

• Journal 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 128p
• New

Joey Judita Abrait’s second book is about men, nature, friendship, death and life.

“On my first visit to the farm, the “Sanctuary” I was appalled and intrigued at the same time. On the one hand shabbiness, neglect around the living quarters and abandoned farmhouses nearby, on the other hand a feeling of elevation and spirituality in the air and the surrounding countryside … There were no rules except a few: to be however you like without exceeding the needs of the group, to take care of your own mess and to be part of the annual cleaning and planning weekend.”

• Journal 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 108p
• New

“I moved from London to Gotland, Sweden in 2019. My grandmother was 93 years old and she and I started going on regular car outings. She liked it best when I drove on old roads through the parishes.

On a cold winter’s day, when we passed the cross erected in the forest grove on the road between Endre and Dalhem, my grandmother told me about the last execution that took place there in 1863. ‘Many people had come to watch the spectacle.’ One of them was her grandmother. The man who was beheaded was a murderer, and ‘wise women’ collected his blood in vessels they had brought with them. Blood from a murderer was considered to have great powers and magical properties.

After several car journeys and many conversations, I also began to visit the National Archives regularly and read everything I could find about Gotland folklore and its healing and protective rituals. How might these cures, remedies, rituals and traditions have been like?

The COVID-19 pandemic came and went. It showed how little we actually know about disease and viruses. New and closer wars broke out and showed how unprotected we actually are. I looked further into folklore and found inspiration.”

- Jessica Lindgren-Wu

• Journal 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 136p
• New

Hardangervidda is Northern Europe’s largest high mountain plateau, covering 8 000 square kilometers. If you stand in the middle of the plateau, the view is almost infinite in all directions. You will see rivers, large lakes and weathered mountains.

About 8 000 meters ago, the first people came to the highland plateau, they lived by hunting reindeer and fishing.

From 2015 to 2024 Eirik Brekke has been a regular visitor to Hardangervidda to see who uses the plateau today. After many of the photos were taken, restrictions have been introduced on human traffic on parts of the Hardangervidda. This is to protect the wild reindeer herd that has been on the plateau since the last ice age.

• Dashwood / Session Press 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 232p
• New

Over the past four decades, Takashi Homma has become one of the most influential figures in Japanese photography. From his early exploration of Tokyo’s suburban landscape in Tokyo Suburbia (1998) to conceptual investigations of architecture, nature, and urban history, Homma’s work continues to challenge and expand photography’s role in visual culture. His influence extends far beyond Japan, with exhibitions and publications that contribute to a global conversation around identity, place, and the evolving language of the photobook.

Portrait of J joins the rich tradition of socially engaged portraiture, echoing seminal works such as August Sander’s Face of Our Time, Irving Penn’s Small Trades, and, more recently, Wolfgang Tillmans’s Portraits, Rineke Dijkstra’s studies of adolescents and Paul Graham’s End of an Age. In Japan, similar approaches resonate in the work of Shomei Tomatsu, whose postwar portraits offered intimate glimpses into daily life; Yoshihiko Ueda’s Portrait, which documented leading cultural figures; and Hiroh Kikai’s Asakusa Portraits, as well as Issei Suda’s Tokyo-kei and Katsumi Watanabe’s Shinjuku Guntōden 66/73—all of which captured the individuality and quiet dignity of anonymous Tokyoites.

What distinguishes Portrait of J is its intentional focus on ordinary individuals photographed with the same care and reverence often reserved for cultural icons. Shot across a variety of familiar, recognizable locations, mainly in urban environments, Homma’s portraits have an illuminating quality that reveal a psychological depth in their subjects. His approach is less overtly political than Tomatsu’s, more nationally reflective than Kikai’s or Watanabe’s, and more humanistic than Ueda’s. His portraits are guided by empathy and a desire to observe people as they are—free from manipulation or staging. The result is a more inclusive, nuanced visual representation of Japanese identity—expanding the lens through which Japanese people are seen both within Japan and internationally.

While Japan has long fascinated audiences in the U.S., Europe, and beyond—often admired for its aesthetics, traditions, and technological innovation—the lived realities of its people are often idealized, misunderstood, or overlooked. Portrait of J is especially meaningful in that it offers a platform for a Japanese photographer to speak directly, intentionally, and reflectively through his work—presenting a grounded and authentic portrait of contemporary Japan.

At once systematic and deeply personal, Portrait of J is a quiet yet powerful milestone in Takashi Homma’s enduring career—and a poignant, timely archive of the people who shape Japan toda

• Akio Nagasawa 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 96p
• New

Despite the fact that I usually have all kinds of things and ideas on my mind, the lifestyle that I’m leading is quite simple. I find myself swinging back and forth between worrying if I’m alright, and reassuring myself that I’m doing just fine. Today I wonder whether there’ll be that one great shot among the photos that I take, and tomorrow... well that’s another day. So I wander about with my little camera in my hand, and when I’m at home at night, I sit down in my chair and grumble. “Hmm… Well… Yeah…”

– excerpt from the afterword by Daido Moriyama

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• Setanta 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 92p
• New

We take those things that give us meaning for granted; we believe they will be there forever. We tend to think those who are our beacon, our guide, our home and safe place, our sofa-and-blanket nights, will never leave our side. We assume we will always have a hug, a few laughs with the occasional lousy TV film, homecooked dinners, good advice and endless love when needed. But one day, suddenly, they are no longer there. And everything changes. And missing them becomes your new routine. You have to do something with all that pain.

Ángeles Isidora Zabalo passed away in 2022 after a life full of hardship, struggle, smiles, and humility. Sixty-three years of trying not to draw attention to herself, insecurities, hard work and generosity the size of all the seas in the world. She gave when she had none and helped when she had no time for herself; she cared for the elderly, collected clothes and food for refugees, assembled first aid items for the homeless and engaged with the community with her serene look, with a humanity that could not hide her timid nature. Pieza Madre is a series of photographs and concepts created by her son, Andoni Beristain, whose hands, which hold the camera, are a copy of hers.

Ángeles left suddenly, without leaving a manual to understand how to go on without her. From her memory, from her life, from her courage despite everything and from her tireless sense of humour, Pieza Madre is born. This is an exploration of the exterior, a need to fill a void, tell a story, and honour a woman, using yellow, the colour of bad luck but also joy, sun and happiness, as a motto.

Each individual in this world has their way of opening up; some people do it through writing, others through crying, others sing, others suffer in silence, others don’t know how to do it, and Andoni Beristain has done it through 63 photographs, one for each year that his mother passed through this strange planet, compiling a unique and personal work and fulfilling the dream of publishing it. Ángeles has given Andoni this last gift, which is dedicated to her.

• FW: Books 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 306p
• New

• The Eriskay Connection 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 320p
• New

With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me is an intensive field study. Every other day for a year, Yan Wang Preston (CN/GB) went to a particular love-heart-shaped Rhododendron ponticum bush and photographed it. The ritual walks offered her time and space to experience, observe, and explore the land from different perspectives. She not only looked, listened, touched, and played, but also used a variety of methods to highlight the ‘invisible’ aspects of the otherwise bare landscape. Her infrared motion-sensitive cameras saw more than 20 different animal species, while her sound recorder heard over 45 different bird species in the area.

Other than observing and documenting, she also selected another tiny rhododendron shrub to have ‘hands on’ interactions. She collected all its fallen leaves in autumn, its seed capsules and aborted flower buds in winter, its fading flowers in spring and summer. This lengthy process of collecting in the field led to further embodiment with the British landscape and enabled Wang Preston to respond subjectively and intuitively to the materials, resulting in a complementary series Autumn Winter Spring Summer.

These Rhododendron ponticum plants are located at the outskirt of Burnley in Lancashire, UK. The plants thrive in this area as a legacy of the local hunting estate during the 19th century, when the plants were grown to provide cover for the game. British rhododendrons are all introduced plants, brought from southern Europe and East Asia for science and horticulture. Once the subject of the “rhodo-craze” in the Victorian era, the plant’s reputation has changed dramatically since the mid-20th century. Although still common and a much-loved sight in most British gardens, one hybrid species, the ponticum variety, is frequently labelled as non-native invasive in conservation management, targeted to be removed with often violent means. For example, Forestry and Land Scotland has ‘used chainsaws, pesticides, and considerable human power to remove this unwelcome alien.’

Certainly not the only species treated this way, the Rhododendron ponticum is a case study for such naturalised hierarchy between the native and the non-native. This unquestioned hatred of the non-native rang alarm for Wang Preston. Like millions of others, she is a migrant in the United Kingdom. The contested perceptions of rhododendrons suggest that politics is at play within the apparent objectivity of science and the definition and ownership of the British landscape. What is a ‘national’ British landscape and its associated ‘national ecology’? Who defines it? And in whose favour? Wang Preston sought to understand both rhododendrons and her own position in this land. What she finds, through the making of With Love. From an Invader. and Autumn Winter Spring Summer, is that the rhododendrons in this area are certainly not invasive. Rather, they are a keystone species that plays a central role in the local ecology.

With Love. From an Invader. celebrates the life and resilience of the rhododendron. The book creates space to contemplate the intimacy, beauty, and strength of nature, and the eternity of time within an ecological and political framework. It is a love letter from a non-native species to the cosmopolitan ecology of contemporary Britain. It is also a love letter to the British land from its non-native inhabitants who make it a home for its multicultural residents, both human and non-human.

With Love. From an Invader. is published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and includes two historical image collections from their archive. Wang Preston’s eclectic projects are complemented by essays by Emma Nicolson, Alan Elliott, Bergit Arends, Matthew Gandy, Monty Adkins, Michael Pritchard, Liam Devlin, and Wang Preston herself, an interview with Cosima Towneley, and a poem by Kate Kinoshita. The essays in the book underscore the interdisciplinary approach, bridging art, ecology, post-colonial studies, and cultural memory. Together, they encourage readers to explore how plant life reflects histories of exchange, resistance, and survival, enriching the

• Stanley Barker 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

During times of darkness and moments of deep turmoil in her personal life, Dutch photographer and mother of six, Marjolein Martinot, found herself lost, searching for a renewed sense of self. Each evening, she sought solace in nature, walking to a nearby river in the South of France with her camera in hand. There, she captured the quiet beauty of the natural world in the golden light of dusk, forming connections with the animals and families she en- countered at the river’s edges—jumping, splashing, climbing, and swinging from the trees.


What began as a ritual of aimless wandering and photographing soon became a form of visual journaling—a quiet meditation on healing and transformation. The water, ever-flowing and unpredictable, mirrored her own emotional state, while the families she met, however briefly, embodied the warmth and belonging she longed for.


Through these intimate, unguarded moments—children mid-leap, ripples catching the last light of day, trees bending towards the water, and horses galloping in the fading glow—Martinot began to piece together a new sense of self. Her photographs, though
 deeply personal, transcend autobiography, offering a universal reflection on resilience, connection, and the subtle magical beauty of the everyday.”

• Setanta 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 128p
• New

This photographic project by Marta Bevacqua traces the evolution of a childhood dream — sparked by a novel at age twelve — into a lifelong connection with Svalbard. Between 2016 and 2024, she returned five times, always in winter, drawn to the Arctic’s stark beauty and constant transformation.

Each visit reveals a new aspect of the landscape: from the polar night to the first return of sunlight, from snowstorms to melting ice. In a place where nature sets the rhythm, nothing stays the same.

Bevacqua’s imagery blends landscape photography with symbolic elements — like a red sweater marking human presence — alongside polaroid experiments and surreal visions of the Arctic moon. Her work reflects on memory, solitude, and the fragile balance between humans and nature.

More than a fulfilled dream, Svalbard became a refuge — a place of return and reflection. A visual meditation on silence, time, and the signs nature leaves behind.

• Deadbeat Club 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition. 112p
• New

“You gotta love it”, says 65-year-old Bill Delaney, beauty salesman in the greater Los Angeles area. Yes, you gotta love it. You gotta love the hustle, the getting-up-and-going-out, the repeating sales pitches, the flirting and the haggling; the unending calls, all week, Monday to Sunday, all day, morning till night. You gotta love the dance, the rush, and the territory. 

In 1980, as a young photographer just beginning her MFA in San Francisco and developing a keen interest in documenting labor, Janet Delaney embarked for a week on the job with her soon-to-retire father. The days are long and exhausting, but there is, in the incessant driving, carrying and chatting, a restless, pulsing energy streaming from Delaney’s photographs. Picturing the beauty parlors with a critical distance (she did, after all, grow up in a time of questioning constricted gender roles and capitalist consumer culture), using frontal, wide shots and often harsh flash, Delaney created a witty documentation of a day in the life of a salesman. Despite the photo-novella humor, Delaney came to see her father’s work under new light. All the tough business dealings, all the missed dinners and the Saturday meetings became a testament to his efforts to provide for his children what he himself had not received. The story, ultimately, became a testament to his love.

Yes, you gotta love it—as it is a true labor of love.

Janet Delaney is an American photographer known for her poignant documentation of the intersection of work, home, and shifting cityscapes. Supported by research and interviews, her projects reflect a deep engagement with the passage of time and photography's role as a historical record. Delaney gained recognition for her South of Market series, chronicling 1980s San Francisco gentrification. Her later projects, Public Matters and Red Eye to New York, captured civic life and street scenes in San Francisco and New York during the 1980s. 

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• Deadbeat Club 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition. 92p
• New

Between 2014 and 2020, Ian Bates traveled tirelessly along the West Coast of the United States. For years, he has photographed there a charred land suffering from increasing scorching wildfires. But, far from any voyeuristic dramatization, scarce are the depictions of the roaring flames, or of the fire’s fury. Rather, standing at a respectful distance, Bates photographs in rich black and white tones what is at the margin, the traces, the aftermaths. The beauty and horror of the landscape, too, enshrouded in a grey cloak of ashes and plumes. “There is a moment after a wildfire burns but before humans return”, says Bates, “where the land and forests are both beautiful and terrifying.” 

His photographs, seemingly suspended out of time in a muffled silence, at the edge of the catastrophe, are a meditative exploration on this liminal stage between calm and violence, on the fine line we dance on when we build and expand on nature’s ground. A meditation on the harshness, anxiety, and beauty of wildfires—which can, as well as destroy, prepare a fertile ground for new life to start.

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• IBASHO & the(M) éditions, 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 136p
  
• New

Norio Takasugi’s first artist book As the twig is bent, so grows the tree  is published by IBASHO & the(M) éditions and focuses on silver leaf artworks. 

Takasugi’s subjects are always nature related and although the photographic negative of an image remains the same, its reproduction produces subtle differences, resulting in unique pieces of work. In earlier works he had been experimenting with various analogue photographic techniques. A turning point came with his silver leaf works, where Takasugi merges classical photography with ancient Japanese craft of printmaking. Using screen printing and sulphur reactions on silver leaf, the artist creates luminous botanical and landscape images that blur the line between image and object, reproduction and uniqueness. Because of the unpredictability of the chemical reactions between the silver and the sulphur, the outcome is different every time and never perfect. Sepia tones and control strips embedded in the work serve as both aesthetic and technical markers, underscoring the handcrafted nature of each piece.

• Benrido, Inc 2025
• Set of 6 collotype prints
  
• New

Known for his tranquil and poetic photographs and installations, Yamamoto Masao’s new portfolio marks his second installment, following his 2020 release of “Birds.” The selection was made in collaboration with Benrido and the artist, and, like his previous works, the prints have been faithfully reproduced from the sepia-toned originals. Furthermore, some of the works in this portfolio have already sold out in his original editions, making them available exclusively as collotype prints.

Set of 6  collotype prints printed by Benrido, Inc.

Print Size: 25.4 x 20.3cm. Case Size: 20.6 x 25.8 x 0.8cm

Video courtesy of Benrido Inc.

• Benrido, Inc 2025
• Set of 6 collotype prints
  
• New

This is the second volume of Fan Ho’s collotype portfolio, known for his black-and-white photographs capturing the streets of Hong Kong and its people in the 1950s. Echoing the highly acclaimed previous “Selected Works,” this selection conveys the street atmosphere of Hong Kong at the time, showcasing Fan Ho’s signature works, skillfully utilizing the contrast of light and shadow to create dramatic atmospheres.

Set of 6  collotype prints printed by Benrido Inc.

Print Size: 25.4 x 20.3cm. Case Size: 20.6 x 25.8 x 0.8cm

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• Zen Foto  2020
• Softcover, 1st edition, 156p
• New

Part two of Tamiko Nishimura’s photographic journey through 1960s-80s Japan.

Japanese photographer Tamiko Nishimura has never ceased to travel, and has never stopped documenting her journeys in photographs. Since her first photobook Shikishima in 1973, she has continued to develop her own style of snapshot photography, capturing her surroundings, her impressions as well as her personal life in brilliantly composed photographs. In this second volume of snapshots taken between 1968 and 1989, Nishimura, accompanied by her young daughter, takes us with her to Okinawa, Tohoku, Hokkaido, the Joto and Johoku areas of Tokyo, and many other regions in Japan. In each of her photographs, Nishimura manages to weave together layers of stories and moods, creating images that echo both the external as well as her internal world.

“As we walked along the seashore, we saw a solitary lady gathering seaweed on the rocks in the cold wind. She noticed us and gave us some freshly picked seaweed in a plastic bag. After arriving at our accommodation, I asked the owner to add them to our miso soup for dinner. The flavor of the sea was fragrant; I was grateful for its deliciousness.” — from Tamiko Nishimura’s afterword (included in Japanese & English translation)

• Akio Nagasawa 2018
  
• Softcover, 1st edition, 120p
  
• New

"As I get older with the camera in my hand, I realize that all the different things that I depict in my photographs are ultimately rooted in my childhood memories, the various things I have seen and experienced in the postwar years of the early 1950s.
My memories of wandering from one town to another for a while after the war have piled up at the bottom of my conscious mind, and it appears to me that they are reflected in the myriad images I’ve been capturing as a street snap photographer, responding to my index finger as it releases the shutter. In other words, regardless of whether I was aware of it at the place and time of shooting, it seems that the majority of my photographs represent an instant communion with the here and now that is established through some kind of time tunnel."  - Daido Moriyama

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• Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 2025
• Hardback, reprinted edition, 184p
• New

A new edition of one of the most important and genre-defining photobooks of the twentieth century.

The Decisive Moment (Images à la Sauvette in French) is one of the greatest photography books ever published. It brings together photographic material from the first twenty years of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s career.

Images à la Sauvette was published in 1952 by Verve, with an original cover by Matisse. It was the result of a collaboration between the photographer, the famous art critic and publisher Tériade, and the painter, at the peak of his career. The American version, published the same year by Simon and Schuster, was the first to introduce the now-famous expression “decisive moment”.

The book, which reveals the intrinsic duality of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work, the combination of intimate interpretation with documentary observation, received tremendous critical acclaim within the art world and is considered a “bible for photographers”, in the words of photographer Robert Capa. It remains an essential reference for photographers to this day.

The original book, now out of print, has become a collector’s item. The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson sought to make this classic photography book accessible again, in a smaller and practical format, at an affordable price. The latest print features the same material as the original 1952 edition, and is accompanied by a comprehensive study of the book’s making, its enduring popularity and the considerations behind its title, written by Clément Chéroux, Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

2nd printing.

• Tall Poppy 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 112p
• New

To Be Developed, To Be Continued is a book about changing visibility as a tween becomes a teenager, and the ever-changing relationship between mother and daughter, youth and age, who is seen and who is not. Through photographing her daughter/muse, Odette England’s images are both collaborative and playful - with the photographer and her daughter often obscuring what can be seen and how easily it can be seen.

Accompanied by England’s adaptation of text by Season Butler, the work is not trying to bottle the moment or hold onto a fleeting period, but is celebrating the changes in a person and their relationships to others and the world. Change is temporal and inevitable, and for that reason is savoured here. The design of the book mimics this, made all the more precious because it of the softness of construction and paper.

• Nazraeli 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 48p
• New

The essence of Joshua Amirthasingh’s work lies in the stories it unfolds. Fueled by a deep sense of nostalgia for the vibrant energy of his childhood in India, and his love of cinematic storytelling, Amirthasingh has created a dreamlike document of his adopted city of San Francisco.

Within the everyday bustle of San Francisco, Amirthasingh seeks out quiet moments, using the city's unique interplay of golden hour light—casting a warm, nostalgic glow—and ethereal fog, which creates a dreamy, evocative atmosphere. This interplay becomes a character in itself, adding another layer to the stories he weaves with my camera. Tales from the City offers a conversation between the familiar and the unexpected, inviting viewers to engage with the stories embedded within, and to embark on their own journeys through their pasts.

Hardcover, 10.5x13 inches, 48 pages, 28 four-color plates.

• Mack 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 392p
• New

• Mack 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 96p
• New

Synthesis is a striking artist’s book that brings together six years of work by acclaimed Japanese multimedia artist Mari Katayama. Created between 2019 and 2025 – a period marked by the birth of her daughter and a return to Gunma, the rural province where she grew up – the book brings together nine photographic series, including the brand new Tree of Life, all produced in her home studio. This space becomes both a site of meditation and a stage for transformation. 

In these intricately composed self-portraits, Katayama places her own body in relation to hand-sewn sculptures, threaded forms, and delicate paper collages. The resulting images are dense with material and memory, each one an act of making in which identity, history, and gesture are stitched together. ‘How do we perceive others, and how are we perceived by others?’ she asks. ‘What is “correct”? What is “natural” and “artificial?”’ 

Across the book, her practice unfolds as a continual act of transformation – where nothing is fixed or discarded, but rather reshaped and carried forward. This process resonates with the philosophical notion of synthesis in its dialectical sense: a holding-together of opposites, where past and future, beginning and end, presence and absence, are preserved and transcended in new form. At its core, Synthesis is a fierce and intimate celebration of the body – not as static or whole, but as a shifting, powerful site of beauty, resilience, and becoming. 

The signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.

• Roshin 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 120p
• New

Published by roshin books in 2017, Untitled was a culmination of Shin Yanagisawa’s travel photography. Now, Tracks of the City returns to print, his first and most iconic photobook, originally published in 1979 by Asahi Sonorama. It captures Tokyo in the 1960s, at the height of the country’s rapid economic growth.

The photographs in this book were taken between 1965 and 1970, during a time when Tokyo was engulfed in a wave of “scrap and build” redevelopment. As old neighborhoods disappeared and new structures rose in their place, Yanagisawa turned his lens toward this transitional moment. Through precise and composed framing, he revealed the evolving forms and atmosphere of the city, without relying on narrative or symbolism.

“Photographs don’t need words”, Yanagisawa remained unwavering in this belief throughout his career. His work was neither part of the Provoke movement nor the so-called Konpora trend. What emerges here is not a category, but a singular vision—one that could only belong to Shin Yanagisawa.

Edition of 900 copies, of which 50 are solely available from Photobookstore, with an exclusive cover image as shown.

• Thames & Hudson 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 440p
• New

Quartet explores Daido Moriyama’s early career through four foundational photobooks that highlight his place as one of Japan’s most radical photographers: Japan: A Photo Theater,  A Hunter, Farewell Photography and Light and Shadow.

Rooted in the complexities of Japan during a transformative era from 1968 to the early 1980s, these seminal photobooks not only offer profound insights into the nation’s evolving cultural, economic and social landscape, but also trace the emergence and development of Moriyama’s distinct style.

Slipcased hardback.

• Skira 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 224p
• New

Dedicated to one of the great figures of contemporary photography, this selection of over 90 images explores the most significant moments in the career of Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938), from his early images of the 1960s to his more recent work. It is divided into thematic chapters analyzing Meyerowitz's photographic series, from his evocative still lifes to the tragedy of 9/11; his sociological research which helped redefine the concept of street photography; and his conceptually provocative images reflecting American individualism during the Vietnam War. Meyerowitz's photography favors precise humanistic insight. With his calm and methodical reading of our reality, he reminds us of how photography can be a tool for reflection on the experiences of both the individual and society—a way of appreciating the present in all its aspects.

• Self 2025
• Hardback, 2nd edition, 108p
• New

Since 2020 Jackie Mulder has been working on her ongoing project 'Thought Trails'. With her unique approach to photography and mixed media art, she aims to challenge the viewer's perception of photography and push the boundaries of the medium. Her creative process always starts with a self-made photo or the combination of several photos, followed by very labour-intensive operations in which she deconstructs and reconstructs, leading to unique multi-layered works of art, mostly very tactile. She lets the thread or pen connect and separate as an abstraction for a life of memories, searching and thinking. 

2nd edition of 1000 copies.

Signed copy.

• Fw:Books 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 192p
• New

Heap-O-Livin’ features a selection of images by Wyoming photographer and diarist Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). Nichols created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives and 65 years of diaries throughout her lifetime in the town of Encampment.

In addition to the industrial and economic aspects of this sparsely populated ranching and copper mining town, Lora’s images and diaries documented the lives of the girls and women within private households.

Despite the inherent isolation created by geography, the long brutal winters, and the patriarchal ideology that undervalued the role of women in Encampment in the late 19th and early 20th century, a robust female-led community emerged that provided a network of spiritual and emotional support. This was cultivated through the habitual visitations of immediate and extended family and friends into each other’s homes during their transition from children to wives and mothers. In Nichols’ sphere, these visitations often involved the act of picture-making.

Lora photographed their duties as mothers and homemakers but also made photographs that reveal the pleasure they experienced in simply being in each other’s company.

“Heap-O-Livin’” is following the sold out book‘Encampment, Wyoming’

• Fw:Books 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 168p
• New

‘Black Stone Burns’ interweaves the complex stories of the communities and people whose lives have been irrevocably shaped and moulded by the global mining industry and rampant extractivism. Spanning four years, five countries, and three continents, the project starts with family stories and pictures from Olga Sokal’s hometown of Bełchatów in Poland. She continues to the lost American dreams of Appalachian coal mining towns and then investigates the United Kingdom’s fraught history with coal through an analysis of advertising and greenwashing. Finally, Sokal’s journey takes her to the vast coal mines of China and the environmental degradation caused by large-scale extraction.

• Fw:Books 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition, 240p
• New

In "Ukraine," photojournalist Eddy van Wessel documents a raw account of three years of war in Ukraine through (analogue) photography and firsthand testimonies. With decades of experience covering conflict zones, he focuses on what war means for those living through it – the soldiers on the front lines, civilians sheltering in devastated towns and cities, and those forced to flee. His images capture the visible destruction and the psychological and emotional toll of prolonged violence, making this book a visual and narrative testimony with a complex and layered depiction that is reflecting on the human cost of the largest war in Europe since World War II. It explores displacement, survival, and the boundaries of humanity in times of crisis. Where does humanity end and inhumanity begin? How do individuals maintain dignity and resilience under constant threat? What does survival look like when basic needs – and life itself – are no longer guaranteed?

• Akio Nagasawa 2018
  
• Softcover, 1st edition, 120p
  
• New

As you have probably recognized, the photo across the last two pages of this issue shows a young Nobuyoshi and Yoko Araki. When I met Mr. Araki for the first time in years in connection with my recent business for a certain magazine, the photo was pasted into a handmade scrapbook he had brought with him, in accordance with the theme of that particular project. He jokingly showed it around among the staff, and I seized the opportunity to make a copy of it. It is such a magnificent picture of the two of them together that I just had to do it. The photo must have been taken around the time of Araki’s early photo book, Sentimental Journey, and I was totally captured by the impact and the message that the genuine print of that snapshot of two youthful naked fellows conveyed. - Daido Moriyama

Signed copy.

• Underlife 2025
• Softcover, 1st edition
• New

Harrison Miller’s “Yellow Pine” is a collection of 21 photographs and one poem. These were made while working with his dad to log pines, oaks, and dogwoods felled by an aggressive storm during one of Knoxville, Tennessee’s volatile summers. Stained by sweat, sap, and sawdust, the lives of these few world weary faces are set against an overgrown, unforgiving landscape in disarray.

10in x 16in (25.4cm x 40.64cm)

First edition of 100 copies. 38 pages, 21 images

• Underlife 2025
• Softcover, 2nd printing 52p
• New

First published in 2022, Tommy Nease’s collection of photographs detail landscape in constant flux. The Earth is broken and burning, fickle as the format with which he displays his awe and sharp eye. Though photographed in the Western parts of the United States and North America, the images are void of the conversations and conventions that this setting usually demands. The focus here is narrow, surgical. Simply watch the forms, in a revolving door, reflect a metamorphic land.

9.5x15 in (24.13cm x 38.1cm)

52 pages, 26 photographs, with a poem by Zachary Zalman Green

• Lamaindonne 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 108p
• New

"This book is a tale or a fable, a story like those we tell at night by the light of a small lamp before the other person falls asleep; that we tell one evening and then again the next, and again every evening, each time a little differently, leaving gaps for the next time.

It tells of children and animals, of undergrowth and clearings, and perhaps a monster. It contains metamorphoses, the unknown, and things left unsaid; shadows and lights without which there would be no images or room to imagine all that is not shown."  - translated from the French.

• St Ann's Press 2003
• Hardback, expanded edition, 126p
• Used: very good - see below

Bruce Davidson's groundbreaking Subway, first published by Aperture in 1986, has garnered critical acclaim both as a documentation of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City and for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. In Davidson's own words, “the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks and closed off from each other.”

First St Ann's Press edition.  Some light scuffing and edge wear to dustjacket.  Very faint bump to rear corner.  Inside near fine.

• Getsuyosha 2017
  
• Softcover, 1st edition, 176p
  
• New
  

“The dog in me tells me to seek out bustling streets, the cat tells me to enter every back-alley I come across, and the bug in me drags me towards the red-light quarters. Copying the world from the view of a lowlife, particularly loitering through Tokyo every day, I feel that this is all the meaning there is to my life and my taking photographs.” (from Daido Moriyama’s afterword)

“K” (from the Japanese “kei” for “view, vista”) collects Daido Moriyama’s latest photographs (2017), fragments of the city, its corners and crannies of the city, the figures that populate it.

• L'Artiere 2023
  
• 2 x Softcover in folder, 1st edition
  
• New
  

The pictures were shot by Anders Petersen in Napoli in the year 2022 during Spot home gallery’s first artist residency, curated by Cristina Ferraiuolo, in collaboration with Massimo Nicolaci.

Edition of 1500 copies. 

• Roshin 2017
  
• Hardback, 1st edition
  
• New
  

Roshin Book’s seventh publication focuses on Japanese photographer Shin Yanagisawa (1936-2008), whose photography was highly regarded by contemporaries such as Daido Moriyama and Ryuichi Kaneko. From 1963 on, after having recovered from an illness, Yanagisawa focused on photographing a variety of places throughout Japan. It was Yanagisawa’s philosophy to create photos that require no further commentary, that already say and contain everything there is to convey.

Yanagisawa held only four exhibitions in his lifetime and published only three photobooks. He chose to focus on his work at his own pace, ignoring trends in contemporary photography. In the 1970s, this work ethic has even led him to decline a request by Shoji Yamagishi, editor at the influential Camera Mainichi magazine, to publish new work.

Shin Yanagisawa - Untitled collects photography shot throughout Japan between the years 1965 and 1992 and includes a short essay by Naomi Yanagimoto in Japanese and English.

Edition of 1000 copies.

Out of print recommended title.

• Kominek 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 276p
• New

Snack Sakura. A Journey Through the Bars of Japan.

If you know Japan you’ll know a certain kind of drinking place called a snack. They are found all over the country, in large cities and small towns.  Typically they consist of a counter and a few stools, perhaps a booth or two, usually presided over by a middle-aged woman, the mama, or less often, by a man, the master. The customers tend to be regulars. Unlike a regular bar where a first time customer simply walks in and sits down, the etiquette in a snack for a newcomer is to first ask the mama if it’s ok to come in. The entertainment, if one can call it that, apart from a simple drink menu, is conversation with the mama, conversation with other customers, and karaoke. At the time of writing they are considered the least fashionable places in the country to have a drink.

Some years ago while travelling in Japan I noticed that every town seemed to have a snack named “Sakura”. Sakura, or cherry blossom, is so common a name for a business as to be a bit unimaginative perhaps. Though in a way that seemed in keeping with how unfashionable these places were. It really did seem like every town had one and, upon checking with the All Japan Snack Owners Association, they confirmed that indeed, among their members, Snack Sakura was the most common name. And so I decided to try and visit and photograph as many as I could, across the country from Okinawa to Hokkaido.

In the beginning I had simply stumbled across Snack Sakuras, without looking for them. Once I decided to actually try to find them, things got rather more difficult. Many of them have no phone numbers or web presence. For others that do, by the time you get there you discover they have changed their names, or the building was torn down, or they closed and never re-opened. But little by little I started to make headway. Until after six years of travelling the country I’ve now photographed snacks named “Sakura” in more than half of Japan’s forty-seven prefectures. “Snack Sakura” introduces this not exactly “hidden” world of snacks but one that only comes into view when you look at it from a certain angle.