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• Loose Joints 2021
• Softcover, 1st edition
• used - good see below

For nearly two decades, Lichtenstein has worked in varied subgenres within photography’s historical archetypes: marginalized contemporary landscapes, refracted still life, performance-based portraiture and process-oriented abstraction. In Recorder, Lichtenstein embarks on an ambitious three-part series of images that recycle and reorient themselves within the limits of technology and photographic vision. 

Every image in Lichtenstein’s layered artist book departs from a singular work: Welcome Water, where Lichtenstein collaborated with J. Stoner Blackwell to make flatbed scans of the artist’s delicate sculptures derived from disposable carrier bags, which were then cut out and stitched into a sprawling sculptural floorpiece. Meditating on the waste and burdensome environmental significance of these single-use plastic objects, Lichtenstein accumulated and activated the detritus of Welcome Water, using the negative cutouts and test-prints of the work to recycle them into new photographic forms.

The results are three series that are both distinct and inseparably intertwined: Holes, a series of black-and-white images reworking Blackwell’s delicate laser-cut interventions to the carrier bags; Grounds, a physical layering of leftover cutout shapes, pinned and affixed, leaving a gaping void at the photographic centre; and finally, Untitled, Lichtenstein’s boldest foray into abstraction, where her source materials were repeatedly printed and scanned, sometimes up to thirty times, to create a giddying and vertiginous collaboration with the entropy of print technology. These works are layered with ink, program errors, exaggerations and obfuscations, eventually liberating her source material into pure free-form visual abstraction.

Lichtenstein creates images that are at once challenging and seductive, setting forth a chain reaction of feedback loops in which pictorial space is filled and mutated through collaboration with and against the limits of imaging technologies. Recorder contains profound depths and coalescent shapes that never fully resolve themselves, but within this profundity a clear thread can be drawn, connecting the push-and-pull of photography’s tendency to both record and obscure, with a meditation on waste, consumption, and the environmental changes set loose by the anthropocene. 

With limited 8×10" print (unsigned) of an exclusive unpublished work by the artist. Giclée print on Hahnemühle Rag.

Used copy - Book has light wear to edges/corners.

• Jim Mortram 2017
  
• signed print
• fine

A3 (42x30cm) sized print by Jim Mortram on heavyweight photo paper.  Signed and dated to the reverse.  

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

• Self published 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition 280p
  
• New

An exploration of Los Angeles’ neighborhoods and transient nature through an extensive typological record of its once-loved sofas.

• Setanta 2024
• Softcover, 1st edition. 48p
• New 

"The process of creating photos is a way for me to lean into my imagination - to bring things in the world together, to see what meaning comes out of that process.

• Stanley Barker 2018
• Hardback, 1st edition
  
• Fine
  

Mark Steinmetz’s new book Past K-Ville is a poetic collection of photographs dating from the mid-1990s, that were made on road trips throughout the American South: Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Chattanooga, and Athens, Georgia. Spray-painted rumours of romance punctuate a world comprised largely of teenagers and young couples.

"I love the South for its warmth and chaos. The vegetation down here grows rampant; the light is softened by humid air. The people are for the most part friendly and they are comfortable in their bodies. They tend to be more open to being photographed by a stranger. The unexpected happens here a lot." - Mark Steinmetz

Recommended.

• Dewi Lewis 2023
• Hardback, 1st edition, 104p
• New

Redolent with both sadness and hope Things Aren’t Always as Mother Reports is an extended series of colour portraits and landscapes made in the documentary style through which Paul Cohen interrogates the idea of family. It is a tense document about the here and now.

In the knowledge that photography can sometimes reveal what isn’t always apparent, Cohen made his sons the subject of this work in the hope that he might get to know them in a different way. By engaging in the ritual of photography with their father, Cohen’s sons become performers, enacting the traits of boyhood. The pictures raise questions in the mind of the viewer as to what these boys are about; what they are thinking, feeling and why?

Keen to observe how the place and time in which they live affects them Cohen pays close attention to how they navigate their world and where they sit within it. These pictures provide a glimpse into the boys. They also communicate the concerns of the photographer. Though nothing is explicit or explained, there is vulnerability here; happiness is always on the edge of being lost.

The cumulative effect of these pictures transcends a father’s deeply personal experience to communicate something more universal about boys growing up in the UK today.

Signed copy.

• Morel Books 2009
• Softcover, facsimile edition
• Near fine

A facsimile of Arthur Rimbaud’s 1873 self published book Une Saison En Enfer, the Mörel edition contains Patti Smith's illustrations of Rimbaud, as well as a selection of photographs from the illustrious late Robert Mapplethorpe, selected by Patti Smith.
In both French and English (translations by the late/great Oliver Bernard) 

Near fine used copy.

• The Europeans 2022
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

The Europeans is a portrait of modern Europe. Traveling from region to region and from theme to theme in this multi-year project, photographer Rob Hornstra and writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen will create a 21st century time piece on the European Heartland. Hornstra and van Bruggen see Europe on the eve of drastic change. Populism and authoritarianism are on the rise, ghosts from the past seem to return.

The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson published his book ‘Les Européens’ in 1955. He looked beyond nationalism or local customs in the individual countries. He sought evidence for a greater identity, a European parable shared by the people and the landscape. More than sixty years later, Hornstra and van Bruggen share this ambition. It’s time to come up with a new version of The Europeans.

‘Our Ancestral Home’ is the story of a stunningly beautiful region of Europe where the locals cherish their traditions, speak a mysterious language and pass down the picturesque houses and farms from generation to generation. That’s how it has always been. But tourists and wealthy urbanites have now discovered the region, and the original inhabitants are succumbing to the lure of the exorbitant amounts that outsiders are willing to pay for a rural retreat. “We have sold our country,” activists lament. But who can resist the laws of capitalism?

Text in English and French.

Note: different special edition print shown in video.



Special edition of 120 signed and numbered copies only with a signed 170 x 210 mm archival print. The same photograph is also displayed on the front cover.

• The Europeans 2022
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

The Europeans is a portrait of modern Europe. Traveling from region to region and from theme to theme in this multi-year project, photographer Rob Hornstra and writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen will create a 21st century time piece on the European Heartland. Hornstra and van Bruggen see Europe on the eve of drastic change. Populism and authoritarianism are on the rise, ghosts from the past seem to return.

The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson published his book ‘Les Européens’ in 1955. He looked beyond nationalism or local customs in the individual countries. He sought evidence for a greater identity, a European parable shared by the people and the landscape. More than sixty years later, Hornstra and van Bruggen share this ambition. It’s time to come up with a new version of The Europeans.

‘Our Ancestral Home’ is the story of a stunningly beautiful region of Europe where the locals cherish their traditions, speak a mysterious language and pass down the picturesque houses and farms from generation to generation. That’s how it has always been. But tourists and wealthy urbanites have now discovered the region, and the original inhabitants are succumbing to the lure of the exorbitant amounts that outsiders are willing to pay for a rural retreat. “We have sold our country,” activists lament. But who can resist the laws of capitalism?

Text in English and French.

Note: different special edition print shown in video.

Special edition of 120 signed and numbered copies only with a signed 170 x 210 mm archival print. The same photograph is also displayed on the front cover.

• Photo Editions 2022
• Softcover, 1st edition, 92p
• New

The coastline is an intrinsic part of British identity. Associated with freedom and escape, coastal towns have always drawn those seeking respite from landlocked cities, with seaside resorts serving a primary purpose: to entertain. In Silent Coast Rob Ball shows a different reality. Travelling the length of the English coastline, he captures the structures built along the edge – and in the process reflects on their vulnerability in the face of change.

Out of season these coastal resorts seem far removed from the fun they were designed to offer, revealing carefully manufactured environments, fortified by borders and surveillance. Silent Coast exposes the fragility that exists beneath the facade, a coast open to shifting economic forces and rapid environmental change. Devoid of people, the monochrome scenes reflect on the homogeneity of the coast; without place or time markers, resisting identification yet remaining deeply familiar.

Swiss-bound, tritone offset printed softcover, 28x24cm.

Slipcased special edition of 25 signed copies with a 10"x8" signed and numbered archival pigment print on Hahnemule Photorag.

See the alternative special edition here.

• Morel Books 2012
  
• Softcover, 1st edition
  
• New
  

Sam Falls explores the intersection of color, perception, digital imagery and natural processes - and in the case of Problems with Decomposition - Sam Falls also brings into context the element of temporal existence. This series consisting of organic matter juxtaposed against car tires takes on all of these concepts. Moving between the photographic image and their subjects imprint via stamping and via paints on the print. Limited edition of 1000. 5 colour screen printed cover tip-in.

• Nazraeli Press 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 144p
• New

Lucas Foglia’s newest book and exhibition, Constant Bloom, traces the world’s longest butterfly migration, just discovered by scientists. Each year, Painted Lady butterflies travel between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming flowers. They have followed this route for millions of years.

Now, with climate change altering when and where wildflowers bloom, Painted Ladies rely on flowers in our parks, farms, and gardens. As Foglia followed the butterflies from Kenya to Norway, he also met people experiencing unseasonal droughts, floods, or freezes. Many were refugees traveling to Europe along the same route as the Painted Ladies.

In Constant Bloom, the longest butterfly migration becomes a metaphor for connection across international borders. 

This beautifully printed book from Nazraeli Press gracefully explores the world and the urgent global issues of our time. With all text in English, French, and Arabic, Constant Bloom includes essays by curator Willemijn van der Zwaan and the scientists of the Worldwide Painted Lady Migration Project.

• Soft Copy 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition, 80p
• New

"Doldrums explores the therapeutic embrace of nature—the transformative power it holds in nurturing the spirit and facilitating self-reflection. California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, with its storied history as a beacon of prosperity and possibility, emerges as a familiar and compelling backdrop. It’s a place where people have always been drawn, seeking not only financial windfalls but also the promise of a better life — a westward pull that echoes through time.

As I navigate the present, no longer burdened by the same fog of depression that led to the creation of this body of work, but rather fuelled by a hunger and longing for love and connection, Doldrums becomes a testament to the transformative power of time. Doldrums invites you to explore the depths of emotion, the transient nature of darkness, and the profound beauty that emerges from life’s most challenging chapters. Life, in its complex ebb and flow, often defies immediate classification as good or bad. Instead, it beckons us to focus on living and loving in the present, with hindsight providing the lens through which we truly comprehend the fullness of our growth and experiences." – Brian Kanagaki

45 Duotone Plates. 26.25cm x 32cm.  Edition of 400 copies.

• Hopper & Fuchs
• Hardback, 1st edition, 240p
• New

Refuge is the sixth book by Lara Gasparotto, covering the past years of her family life and trips abroad. Constructed from Gasparotto's personal collection of photographs, including oil pastel works, friends in nature, animals, her young daughter, and beautiful landscapes, it accounts for Gasparotto's adoration for dwelling in nature. An art book personally edited by Gasparotto, Refuge offers an intimate encounter with her day-to-day life using analog photos and was designed in collaboration with her sister Lissa Gasparotto who illustrated the flower on a linen-bound front cover.

Hardback with linen cover, printed on Munken Lynx.

Edition of 750 copies

• GOST 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 180p
• New

In 2014, photographer Chris Donovan began documenting his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick on Canada’s east coast—a small, heavily industrialised city which is home to Canada’s largest oil refinery, one of the country’s wealthiest families, and one of its highest rates of child poverty. His photographs show the vibrant neighbourhoods and their inhabitants living in close proximity to and in the shadows of polluted industrial sites, and ‘the cloud factory’—an undefined industrial site which references both the refinery and large pulp mill in the city. Driven to explore environmental classism and injustices perpetrated on the city by others, Donovan’s aim is to expose the culture of censorship which has controlled the environmental narrative and tightened its grip on the community for decades.

As a boy growing up in the Saint John area, Donovan’s first job as a photographer was working at the local paper he had grown up reading—the Telegraph-Journal. He quickly realised the extent of censorship at the newspaper which at the time was published by Brunswick News Inc owned the Irving family—one of the richest families in Canada. In 2018, when he was no longer working for the paper, there was a butane leak from the Irving Oil Refinery, the largest in Canada. A neighbourhood was evacuated but the event received little media attention. Donovan went to speak to and meet those impacted by the leak and encountered a culture of fear amongst a largely impoverished population who feared retribution if they spoke out about the environmental catastrophe. Donovan had not set out looking for a connection to the region’s monopolised industrial ecomony but this is what he found—a censored environmental narrative which had tightened its grip on the community for decades.

Signed copy.

• GOST 2025
• Hardback, 1st edition, 160p
• New

‘In 2012, I found a piece of material in a rock pool that changed my life. Mistaking this moving piece of cloth for seaweed, started the recovery of synthetic clothing from around the coastline of Britain for the next ten years.’
 
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections is a typology of discarded clothing fragments found around the coast of the UK. A homage to the work of pioneering botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871)—the unique cyanotype images in the book mimic different species of marine algae found in waters around Great Britain. Through the creation of this work, photographic artist Mandy Barker hopes to raise awareness of fast fashion, synthetic clothes, and the harmful effect of microfibres in the oceans.

Over the course of a decade Barker recovered over 200 ‘specimens’ of clothing from 121 beaches from locations as far north as John O’Groats in Scotland, to Land’s End in the South of England. Items ranging from jackets to dressing-up outfits, wigs and trainers, football shirts to underwear, were salvaged from beaches, rockpools and directly from the sea. The items were representative of millions of tonnes of clothes manufactured and discarded each year—sometimes without being worn at all. Every year, the fashion industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all international flights and container ships combined.

For each alternative ‘specimen’ in the book Barker created a photogram of the clothing fragments using the cyanotype process to produce detailed Prussian blueprints. The project is inspired by the work of Victorian botanist and photographer, Anna Atkins who used cyanotypes in her groundbreaking book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843) to produce detailed depictions of botanical specimens. By combining art and science, Atkin’s work illustrated the potential of photography and changed how people looked at science in the 1800s.

‘Seeing the potential to re-create new work in a similar way, I realised I could engage how people view science today, and in connection with the present-day consequences of climate change.’

To coincide with the 180th anniversary of Atkin’s book, Barker painstakingly created a replica of the original publication with 202 illustrations, each with the botanical specimen substituted with found garments or fibres. The publication Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections is a carefully edited version of this replica project and begins with outer garments of clothing, such as a waterproof and parka coat, ending with inner garments of underwear worn closest to the skin.

Signed copy.

• Stanley Barker 2021
• Hardback, 2nd edition
• imperfect - see below

On a map of the south-eastern U.S., the 245-mile Ogeechee River cuts a diagonal path across Eastern Georgia before curling south of the city of Savannah and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is known locally as Blackwater River for its slow moving waters that are like black glass, reflecting the sky and flora overhead and masking the tangle of life forces beneath.

In November 2017, Robbie Lawrence, accompanied by writer Sala Patterson, travelled to the Low Country, the coastal region straddling Georgia and South Carolina near where the Ogeechee River meets the ocean with the aim of documenting the nuances of issues driving news cycles and political divisions through the lens of one place in America.

Blackwater River captures, in image and spirit, Lawrences time in the Low Country – a series of profound encounters and abstract reflections, some inspiring, others harsh but all indelible. Each moment is individually significant while collectively hinting at larger, more elusive truths.

Out of print 2nd edition.

Small bump to one corner - see photo.  Inside fine and unaffected by bump.

• Aperture 2023
• Hardback, 1st edition
• imperfect/near fine - see below

• Zhejiang Press 2016
  
• Hardback, 1st Chinese edition
  
• VG/Near fine
  

Rarely seen Chinese edition of the 2008 version of The Last Resort.  All text in Chinese.

Some rubbing to corners and light wear to cover.  

Signed by Martin Parr.

• Stanley Barker 2019
  
• Hardback, 1st edition
  
• Imperfect - see below
  

Christopher Anderson began photographing New York City cops in the wake of 9/11, as the visual landscape of the city he called home began to change. Bomb blast barriers went up, cops carrying larger guns seemed to be everywhere, and whilst the increased presence of security was designed, in part, to make New Yorkers feel safe, it reminded Anderson that something was deeply wrong. Then, in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, the death of Eric Garner and the election of Trump, Anderson found himself making photographs of cops on the streets of New York City once again, as a form of unconscious protest on a larger sense of authority. On assessing the images he was making, Anderson began to see them as something entirely different than a protest or commentary on power - there was almost a sentimentality.

“I saw a portrait of a working class, immigrant America. The uniform only served as a thread on which to hang a cross section sample. The photographs felt more like a love letter to New York” - Christopher Anderson

Sealed copy but with sunning/fading to spine, see example photo.  Otherwise new sealed and signed copy.

• Nazraeli Press 2025
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 16p with print
  
• New
  

Lucas Foglia's Living on Lava chronicles the allure of Hawaii’s Big Island, where volcanic forces shape both the landscape and the lives of its inhabitants. Five volcanoes form the Big Island of Hawaii. Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano in the world. Kīlauea has been erupting continuously since 1983. People build homes on the lava after it cools, despite the possibility of molten rock flowing over the same land again. Between eruptions, the cleanest air on Earth blows in with the Pacific Ocean waves.

Lucas Foglia is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow who creates stories about people in nature. His photographs are collected, exhibited, and published internationally. Living on Lava is his fourth book with Nazraeli Press.

Small format hardback 6" x 8 1/2", 16 pages.

Living on Lava is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

• Nazraeli Press 2025
  
• Hardback, 1st edition, 16p with print
  
• New
  

US Highway 61 runs for 1,400 miles between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota, generally following the course of the Mississippi River. This highway has been referenced in the lyrics of music by myriad artists with roots in the region. The junction of US 61 and US 49 in Clarksdale is the mythical crossroads where, according to legend, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues guitar style.

The Blues Highway portion of Highway 61 follows its path North from New Orleans to Chicago, passing through Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, past the western tip of Tennessee and through Missouri. It was here where Jeff Dunas headed in the mid-1990s to photograph many of the true blues legends for his portfolio and monograph State of the Blues.

For his contribution to our One Picture Book series, Jeff Dunas has retraced his steps from that journey, presenting here a selection of landscapes and portraits with accompanying texts describing what he saw, and why it is as important as ever.

Small format hardback 6" x 8 1/2", 16 pages.

Highway 61 to Honeyboy is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

• Editorial RM 2022
  
• Softcover, 1st edition
  
• Used: near fine
  

n Solus Vol. I, Pieter Hugo reflects on the values that constitute the fashion industry’s shifting aesthetic through a series of straightforward portraits of street-cast models. Hugo found himself captivated by sitters with unconventional and atypical looks, particularly before they underwent fashion’s machinations of wardrobe, makeup and hair. Drawn to this uniqueness and recalling the sense of not-belonging that is part of the intense experience of youth, Hugo’s invitation to the models was “Simply present yourself”. The resulting photographs embrace vulnerability and frailty as much as they do the agency and idealism of their subjects.

Commenting on the gap between what may be understood as “yourself” and “model”, Hugo notes: “They seem so different to how I felt at their age. I was much more cynical, more nihilistic. They are more comfortable in their bodies than I ever was.”

Display copy some light wear and few faint marks to the cover.  Inside very fine. 

• Eriskay 2016
  
• Softcover, 1st edition
  
• Used: very good
  

(Un)expected is a memorable photo project about the coping process of surviving relatives of suicides in West Flanders.

In 2008 the mother of documentary photographer Peter Dekens (BE) took her life and just recently a friend did the same. West Flanders, the region where he grew up, has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe, one and a half times higher than the European average and twice as many as the Netherlands. Every month in West-Flanders 20 people commit suicide.

During his research Dekens came into contact with people who had experienced a suicide of a loved one. For some this happened totally unexpected, for another the traumatic event was not ­unexpected at all.

(Un)expected contains five stories about the grief of survivors of suicide and the way people cope with their loss in different ways: the sadness, the grieving process, but also the attempts at finding a new way to live.

There is the story of Hanne who takes a daily walk to the woods for months to sit by the tree where Ime took his life. We see how Dekens’ father who continues to perform household tasks on autopilot after his wife’s death. How José repeatedly feels the emotion on the train ride as she passes the spot where Steven left his life. The pain and the fight against depression of Kris who lost her son. And the children of Walter who have to cope with the loss of their mother.

Dekens hopes that the book will play a socially useful role, and that it is seen by caregivers, ­general practitioners, specialists, nurses and ­students in psychology, psychiatry and social work. But above all, he would like the book to be a ­support for survivors and to make the taboo regarding suicide widely debatable.

Display copy with a few marks to the front cover and a blemish to the rear - see photos.  Inside very fine. 

Signed and dated 2016.

• VOID 2022
• Hardback, 1st edition
• Imperfect - see below

“Whether a photo was taken yesterday or two years ago is immaterial. Inspired by theories of non-linear time, astrophysics and quantum mechanics, Julie van der Vaart has begun experimenting in the darkroom. [...] A photo is prosaically a record of the past, but now it remains eternally afloat in imaginary time.” - Merel Bem

• Chose Commune 2020
  
• Hardback, 1st edition
  
• Fine
  

Afterlife is the sixth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with this myth and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, Vasantha Yogananthan has retraced the legendary route from north to south India. A Myth of Two Souls is informed by the notion of a journey in time and space and offers a modern retelling of the tale.

Afterlife is centered around the bloody war between the army of Ravana and the army of Rama. As its title suggests, the chapter deals with death and reincarnation. With Rama’s cruelty finally revealed, the series can be read as a visual exploration of one man’s descent into the darkness of the soul. Although the pictures were shot in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu over two editions of Dussehra — the Indian festival celebrating the victory of good over evil — they do not document the festivities. They focus on the trance people try to reach night after night, as if during one week they were allowed to escape their bodies to become somebody else.

Back to his studio, Yogananthan did collages by mixing several pictures together to put the viewer in a state of disorientation. The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time, and for Yogananthan’s Afterlife has been retold by Indian writer Meena Kandasamy. Amma — the seventh and last chapter of A Myth of Two Souls — will be published next year and will mark the end of the project (2013-2021).

Signed to a sticker - see photo.

• Bullfinch 1994
• Hardback, 1st edition
• Used:good - see below

A fascinating celebration of street photography features works by such renowned masters as Atget, Stieglitz, Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank, as well as unknown photgraphers, and is filled with detailed text that chronicles the history of this energetic movement.

Used copy of the 1st edition with  mark/general wear and tear to the dustjacket.  Book inside very good.

• Kehrer 2024
• Hardback, 1st edition, 240p
• New

The title Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) refers to the poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud, in which he uses the image of a boat to represent a man’s journey through life. In a poetic photographic essay structured like a play in five acts, Martin Essl redraws the outline of a city in transformation and composes an abstract and contemporary map of Paris. »Le bateau ivre leads us on a Parisian tour that shows the eternal return of the same, like a curtain that opens and closes endlessly. As if diluted and transformed, under the influence of variations around cold colors, the Parisian space gradually becomes acqua alta, geographical, social, cultural, and temporal boundaries are dissolved.« (Sarah Sauquet)

Signed copy.

• 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.

• Self 2017
• hardback 1st edition
  
• Used: Near Fine
  

"J.B. about men floating in the air" was inspired by the story of two Lithuanian-American pilots who tried to set a new world record by flying over the Atlantic into Eastern Europe in the early 1930s. I found a reference to the attempt in a Joseph Brodsky poem and decided to create my own ‘parallel world’ in black-and-white images.

My story is about the dream of every person to break out from the vice of all kinds of prohibitions and fly away to a distant unknown in search of unlimited freedom and find there his true motherland and real home.

Also it is a story about a personal attempt doomed to fail to find a way to himself through time and space, breaking the invisible boundary between himself and his mirror twin, the mortal Castor and immortal Pollux.

At first I made a series of mockumentary photographs to get the effect of stopped time, but then decided that it was necessary to increase a gap between the documentary and imaginary world, therefore I added a few collages and drawings.

In the result the book was made in Leporello format, which allows the viewers to choose how to browse the images and find their own ending in this story.

2nd edition of 300 numbered copies.  Signed.   Faint shelfwear to white cover.

• Self 2015
• Hardback, 1st edition
• Used: Very good/good
  
  

"Eamonn Doyle’s second photo-book, ‘ON, follows last year’s ‘i’, a collection of street portraits from Dublin city centre. In ‘ON’, black and white figures stalk across Dublin streetscapes, by turns lost, menacing, wary, browbeaten or entranced – but always at odds in some way with their environment. As in ‘i’, the photographs were mostly taken on Dublin’s Parnell Street and O’Connell Street. But here the historic role of those two streets as zones of resistance, protest and insurrection is far more present. The very title of the book itself evokes a resistance – that doggedly existential kind identified by Samuel Beckett’s narrator in ‘The Unnameable’: ‘You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.’

The figures are dynamic – muscles taut, heads in mid-turn, bodies in motion. Some flee the photographic gaze itself. Others stare challengingly down the barrel of the lens. Most appear caught up in projects so intensely private that they have an air of total inaccessibility. Rarely does the photographic act intrude so little on the lives of its subjects. Paradoxically, the energy is sought at precisely those moments when the unruly subjects look most likely to tear the images asunder. The central drama of the book could thus be said to be its subjects’ struggle with representation – not necessarily against it but writhing, wriggling, jockeying with it.

The resulting images invariably draw attention to the photographic act. One never forgets that these images have been selected, framed, constructed. One is never tempted to identify the image with the subject of the image or to respond ‘I know exactly how that person feels.’ The interiority of the subjects is preserved; their dignity remains intact."

Blue cover.  Signed and numbered (046)

Small bump to spine end - see photo, and some light wear to cover, inside very fine.

• Cafe Royal 2017
• Softcover, 1st edition, 36p
• New

First printing of this rare zine.

• The Europeans 2022
• Hardback, 1st edition
• New

The Europeans is a portrait of modern Europe. Traveling from region to region and from theme to theme in this multi-year project, photographer Rob Hornstra and writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen will create a 21st century time piece on the European Heartland. Hornstra and van Bruggen see Europe on the eve of drastic change. Populism and authoritarianism are on the rise, ghosts from the past seem to return.

The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson published his book ‘Les Européens’ in 1955. He looked beyond nationalism or local customs in the individual countries. He sought evidence for a greater identity, a European parable shared by the people and the landscape. More than sixty years later, Hornstra and van Bruggen share this ambition. It’s time to come up with a new version of The Europeans.

‘Our Ancestral Home’ is the story of a stunningly beautiful region of Europe where the locals cherish their traditions, speak a mysterious language and pass down the picturesque houses and farms from generation to generation. That’s how it has always been. But tourists and wealthy urbanites have now discovered the region, and the original inhabitants are succumbing to the lure of the exorbitant amounts that outsiders are willing to pay for a rural retreat. “We have sold our country,” activists lament. But who can resist the laws of capitalism?

Text in English and French.

(Note: Different special edition shown in video)

Special edition of 120 signed and numbered copies only with a signed 170 x 210 mm archival print. The same photograph is also displayed on the front cover.

• Twin Palms 2007
• Hardback, 2nd edition
• New

"William Eggleston’s latest monograph features photographs taken during the early 1970s using a large-format 5 x 7 camera. The book includes imagery typical of the Eggleston oeuvre—streetscapes, parked automobiles, portraits of the strange and disenfranchised. It also offers never-before-published photographs taken in the nightclubs Eggleston frequented. The portraits are offhand and spontaneous but insistently stark; their brutality is heightened by the absence of color. They have a leveling effect—whether biker or debutante, the people are clearly denizens of the same realm."

—Walter Hopps

• Stanley Barker 2018
• Hardback, 1st edition/1st printing
  
• New
  

Christopher Anderson’s photographs of the citizens of of Shenzhen, China, describe a megacity that didn’t exist thirty years ago, but today has some twenty million inhabitants. Working almost invisibly and bringing the viewer in close, into tightly cropped images that exclude all context except the ghostly light that illuminates the faces of his subjects. Anderson’s etherial portraits ask “Who are these individual people? What do they dream about?”

“I have seen the future and it is now and it is China. There is no need for the past. It can be erased. A new happiness is being constructed, an approximation of joy, better than the real thing.”  -  Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson first gained recognition in 1999 when his poignant images of the rescue of Haitian refugees taken onboard a sinking wooden boat named the “Believe in God” won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal.  In 2005 he joined the renowned photo agency, Magnum. In addition to regular personal and editorial assignments Anderson is currently the first ever “Photographer in Residence” at New York Magazine.

Sealed 1st printing.

• RRB 2019
  
• Hardback, 1st edition
  
• New
  

John Myers’ The End of Industry is the third and final volume of Myers’ work to be published by RRB Photobooks, forming a Catalogue Raisonne of his entire photographic output.

These photographs were taken between 1981 and 1988 in ‘The Black Country’ a part of England that was famous for making things from metal.

Changes occurred in the early 1980s that hit metal manufacturing particularly hard. A record number of bankruptcies resulted in high levels of unemployment. Factories either closed completely or realigned their business model to warehousing and retailing components that had been manufactured overseas. Foundries, forges and steelworks - not easily transformed into industrial units or office space - quickly morphed into housing estates, enterprise zones or retail parks.

The change was rapid and irreversible. A landscape that had been formed by the Industrial Revolution disappeared.

The End of Industry is available in a signed and numbered edition of 450 copies. Each book is accompanied by a 5x4” signed and dated silver-gelatin print of ‘Bricks Drying, William Mobberly Brickworks, Kingswinford, 1983’.

Special edition of 50 copies, which also includes a 10x8” signed, dated and limited silver-gelatin print of ‘Cupolas, Crqadley Casting, Cradley Heath, 1983’.

• Mack Books 2019
  
• Hardback, with print
  
• New
  

My entire family, whose image I see inverted in the frosted glass, will die one day. This camera, which reflects and freezes their images, is actually a device for archiving death’. – Masahisa Fukase

For three generations the Fukase family ran a photography studio in Bifuka, a small provincial town in the northern Japanese province of Hokkaido. In August 1971, at the age of 35, Masahisa Fukase returned home from Tokyo, where he had moved in the 1950s. He realised that the Fukase Photographic Studio, which his younger brother managed, combined with the growing family members, constituted the perfect subject for a series of portraits. Between 1971 and 1989, he returned regularly and used the family studio, the large-format Anthony view camera and the changing family line-up as the basis for the series. True to his style, Fukase often introduced third-party models and humorous elements to juxtapose the ineluctable reality of time passing and the dwindling family group. He continued the series through his father’s death in 1987, up until the closure of the Fukase studio due to bankruptcy in 1989, and the consequential dispersion of the family.

Family (Kazoku) was released in 1991, and was Fukase’s last book. It begins with a photograph of the family studio and the following 31 images are family portraits made in the studio in chronological order. The book includes an extensive text written by Fukase himself and a modern essay by Tomo Kosuga.

Embossed hardback bound in red buckram, housed in a silkscreened sleeve. Collotype print produced by Japanese atelier Benrido. Print size: 26 x 17 cm 

Limited edition of 150 copies, each comprising of a first MACK edition book and print [both numbered and stamped by the Masahisa Fukase Archives].

• Dewi Lewis 2011
  
• Softcover, 1st UK edition
  
• Used: Near Fine