Photographer`s Showcase
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Photographer`s Showcase
the international publication for fine-art photography books photo eye Booklist Spring 2003 www.photoeye.com includes New Monographs Reviewed The photo-eye Awards An Interview with Andrew Roth $4 TASCHEN LENI RIEFENSTAHL: AFRICA Worldwide Limited Edition of 2,500 copies of AFRICA, each numbered and signed. XXL-format: 13.4” x 19.7”, 564 pages. Price $1,750 USD. Cat# TD109L Now available To order or request a free Africa teaser, call 1-800-627-6941 the international publication for fine-art photography books photo eye Booklist Spring 2003 www.photoeye.com Director’s Letter $4 cover illustration: Anthony Hernandez, #3, 1996 from the Nazraeli Press title, Waiting for Los Angeles (see page 5). Reprinted with permission. Welcome to the new photo-eye Booklist! Two major changes have coalesced with this issue, one obvious and the other not: COLOR & SUBSCRIPTIONS. As you can see we're sporting a fresh new color design giving you a better sense of the true look of the books we sell. With this issue our Booklist is now subscription based. However, if you place an order you'll receive the Booklist for a year at no charge. For full details, see page 27. Our coverage of the photography book world continues to expand. Reviews of new photography books form the core of the Booklist, but now you will find longer articles, guest essays, and more substantial reviews. Your orders and subscriptions assure the growth of the Booklist and the longevity of photo-eye. Thank you for your continued support. Best wishes, Rixon Reed Director CONTENTS Spring 2003 Volume 25, no. 1 Book Reviews 4–12 31 32 34–38 New Monographs Reviewed Limited Edition & Rare Books Histories & Visual Anthologies Essays & Criticism, Technical, Nudes & Erotica Features 8 13 17 21 The 2002 photo-eye Awards From The Village Voice: More, More, More by Vince Aletti An interview with fine book publisher Andrew Roth by Darius Himes New! Special Gallery section New Monographs Reviewed Michael Kenna: Japan Text by Kotaro Iizawa. Signed! Michael Kenna first travelled to Japan in the mid-80s to organize an exhibition of his work at what was then the Min Gallery in Tokyo. Over the ensuing years, he has returned to Japan numerous times, fascinated with the culture of spirituality that is based in the landscape. The New Yorker has praised his “lonely, expansive landscapes, so empty as to appear not just a world but an era apart from the country's cities...In one, the sky and the sea roil in a gray light so dreamy and diffused that it appears less a photograph and more a painting rendered in watery inks. Indeed, there are calligraphic elements in many of these photos, which seems appropriate for an artist who, rather than merely documenting a landscape, has captured the very essence of Japanese aestheticism.” This is Kenna’s 5th title with Nazraeli Press. The cloth for the book is a silky red and the book comes enclosed in a black cloth portfolio; absolutely stunning and guaranteed to sell out within months. Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2003. 108 pp., 96 tritones, 12×13″. Cat# TR120H Signed/Hardbound $75.00 Bruce Weber: All-American Short Stories Short Stories continues the searching and eclectic format of last years' identically titled and designed All-American (sans subtitle, Cat# ZB958S, $125). Weber has gone to pains to compile and construct a scrapbook of sorts, a guidebook to the AllAmerican Dream, updated and renewed for the 21st century. He has perfected the format and presentation (thanks to star designer Sam Shahid), producing a book that makes you feel like only a few copies were made by Bruce for himself and a handful of close friends. Nine chapters flesh out this volume, with 1930s-era photographs of swimmers in the Hudson River by George Daniell, paintings by Jeremiah Goodman, a gorgeous suite of black-and-white images by William Gedney accompanied by a remembrance of Gedney penned by long-time friend Maria Friedlander, image of various friends by Weber, including a session with Elizabeth Taylor, some summertime recipes, and a beautiful poem by Stephen Spender. Little Bear Press, New York, 2002. 144 pp., 69 color and b&w illustrations, 9×12″. Cat# ZC061S Softbound $135.00 Imogen Cunningham: Mother’s Days The importance of Cunningham to 20th century photography can hardly be understated. She photographed for more than 70 years (b. 1883–1976) and, as John Stevenson states in his narrative, “She lived through every phase of photographic art this side of a salt print.” She and etcher Roi Partridge bore three boys—Gryffyd and the twins Padraic and Rondal (himself an accomplished photographer)—the subjects of this collection of three dozen vintage prints. The work ranges from 1918 into the 1930s and shows the boys at rest and at play, with birds and rats, at the beach or on their grandfathers’ farm. The story of these prints—a tale complete with deceits, displeasures, and plenty of handwringing—is aptly told by Stevenson. Little Bear Press, New York City, 2002. 84 pp., 40 b&w illustrations, 8×9¾″. Cat# ZC062H Hardbound $80.00 Johan Simen: Room to Play In Lyle Rexer’s wonderfully descriptive and quirky essay, he describes his reaction to seeing Simen’s work for the first time in a gallery in Chelsea. “It was as if Jerry Uelsmann had grown up in the Village of the Damned.” Quite perfectly, that statement sums up Simen’s work, both technically (referencing the multiple-image style of Uelsmann) and conceptually (possessed children who embark with supernatural powers upon a plot of mass hysteria...loosely speaking). From a technical point of view, anyone working in a digital darkroom should purchase Room to Play simply to study the seamless composites that Simen has produced. Artistically, he has striven to unsettle the viewer, creating “surreal and narrative tableaux of corrupted youth.” This work was extremely well-received at the recent photo LA show in mid-January. The limited edition of 50 copies comes with an original color print (at right) in a clamshell box. Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 2002. 96 pp., 44 color illustrations, 12×13″. Cat# TT113H Cat# TT113L photo eye Hardbound Limited Edition $60.00 $750.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com MONOGRAPHS 5 Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street Signed! East 100th Street in Harlem was one of New York's most neglected and infamous neighborhoods at the time that a young Davidson began to regularly visit and photograph with his 4x5 camera. This slightly revised reissue of that 1970 classic immediately grabs you with the elegance of the book materials and design. You're set up to expect something powerful, and that 'something' arrives on page 3, in the form of a foreword by Mildred Feliciano. A resident of East Harlem for generations, she speaks openly about what living conditions were like during the time these images were made (1966–68). "Our main bedroom was called the icebox because it was so cold that meat and milk were stored there." The images descry hardships yet evoke a stirring dignity. Most difficult perhaps are the images of children. Turn to page 19 and look closely. Gently holding a dead pigeon in his hands, the young boy’s eyes carry the pain of one that cares desperately about even the smallest living creatures. Is not one of the roles of image-making to remind us of feelings as pure as this? Visit photoeye.com/east100thstreet for ltd. ed. image. St. Ann’s Press, Los Angeles, 2003. 166 pp., 145 tritones, 11¼×12¼ ″. Cat# PK844H Cat# PK844L Signed/Hardbound Limited Edition $75.00 $750.00 Anthony Hernandez: Waiting for Los Angeles Signed! Anthony Hernandez is a photographer for whom waiting has long been a theme, with his bus stop pictures in the late 1970s, and his fishing shots in the 1980s. Hernandez's vision is both abstract and documentary, and there is a pattern to his work in every sense of that word—whether he is focusing on an empty waiting room, a phone hanging in a booth, or random scribbles etched on a sheet of glass. Hernandez skillfully draws attention to the simple geometric beauty that can be found in even the most utilitarian fence, wall, or window. There is not a soul in sight, but there is a strong sense that someone has been here, and there is enough to grip the attention until they, perhaps, return. With an informed and descriptive essay by photographer, writer, and critic Allan Sekula. Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2002. 92 pp., 46 color illustrations, 11×11½″. Cat# TR110H Cat# TR110L Signed/Hardbound Limited Edition $60.00 $400.00 Sally Gall: Subterranea Text by Mark Strand and Nan Richardson. In this beautiful new book, her first since the acclaimed 1995 publication of Water’s Edge (Cat# CI079H, $25) Sally Gall continues her exploration and distillation of the raw sensuousness of nature, concentrating this time on the underworld of caves. “For the past twenty-five years I have been compelled by open spaces and sensuous light to photograph the outdoor world, composing landscape photographs which I intend to be evocative of intimate natural experiences...I have also sought to capture and convey that sublime something I can only call ‘nature’s threatening beauty.’” The limited ed. comes with an 11x14 inch gelatin-silver print, signed and numbered to 50. Umbrage Editions, New York, 2003. 80 pp., 28 duotones, 12×12 ″. Cat# PY084H Cat# PY084L Hardbound Limited Edition $45.00 $750.00 David Gibson: Canyonland Vision The Colorado Plateau of Southeast Utah Signed! Gibson’s methodical, detail-oriented approach to photography, coupled with an willingness to travel to remote areas of the Western United States, has yielded a body of work of stunning vistas all rendered in exquisite panoramic black-and-white photographs. In many of the images, Gibson allows himself to be drawn towards the trees that inhabit the area. In plate 17, Ancient Tree, Hell’s Backbone, the weather-worn trunk and branches of a time-tortured juniper balance on the edge of a ravine, the view giving way to the sheer cliffs and treedotted landscape stretching endlessly beyond. Each book is signed and numbered (to 800) by the photographer. Waterous & Co., Calgary, 2002. Unpaged, 44 tritones, 14½×10¼ ″. Cat# ZC056H Spring 2003 Signed/Hardbound $65.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com 6 MONOGRAPHS Two books by Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Landscapes & Festschrift Erasmuspreis 2002 The Bechers are one of the true pillars of 20th century art-making, continuing in the artistic footsteps of such greats and fellow countrymen as August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt. Two books have recently been published, one of which present unpublished work, and another which celebrates their overall output. In an interview with the Bechers, Susanne Lange questions the team about this grouping of images which is less about individual components—houses, furnaces, or tipples—and more about the context of these industrial sites. The Bechers were awarded the Erasmus Prize this past October and Festschrift Erasmuspreis is the anthology published to accompany the award exhibition. A wonderful collection of their work is reproduced therein, and numerous artists, writers, and former students offered work in homage. But none surpass the hilariousness of Bernd Becher’s poses for Douglas Huebler’s “Variable Piece #101” from March 1973. MIT, Cambridge, 2002. Np, 180 duotones, 12×9¾″. Schirmer/Mosel, Germany, 2002. 168pp., 95 illustrations, 7×9¾″. Industrial Landscapes Cat# MI121H Festschrift Erasmuspreis Cat# SM166H Hardbound Hardbound $85.00 $52.00 Morley Baer: California Plain. Remembering Barns One of the great photographers of the West Coast School whose main proponents and more widely known practitioners include Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, Morley Baer (b. 1916–1995) continues to gain well-deserved recognition. His last major monograph, Light Years, is a classic of the genre and Stones of the Sur (Cat# SU006H, $60) from 2001 is equally contemplative. Baer was also an avid architectural photographer, and over the course of years developed a body of work that took the slowly disappearing barn as its subject. Presenting these agrarian icons in all their austerity, Baer managed to steer clear of sentimentality and the desire by most to romanticize rural life. What he did accomplish, however, is a testament to the welcoming nature of simple architecture amidst a glorious Western landscape. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002. 120 pp., numerous duotones, 9¾×10¾ ″. Cat# SU009H Hardbound $60.00 Julia Margaret Cameron: The Collected Photographs Text by Julian Cox and Colin Ford. This gorgeous, newly published catalogue raisonné of Cameron’s work gathers together for the first time every known image she made. There is also ample additional material, such as her initial experiments and techniques, small-format photographs, the albums she produced, and her commercial endeavors. A selected bibliography of publications on her work and a summary of exhibitions held both during her time and in recent years rounds out this massive resource on one of the 19th century’s most applauded photographers. The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2003. 532 pp., 60 color and 1300 duotones, 9¼×11¾ ″. Cat# GM035H Hardbound $150.00 The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographers, 1885-1920 Text by Suzanne Flynt and Naomi Rosenblum. Sisters Mary and Frances Allen set themselves apart from other prominent fin-de-siècle women photographers in their pastoral, quotidian subject matter of New England country life. Presented as a collection of platinum prints, this clothbound exhibition catalogue accompanies a travelling show originating at the Memorial Hall Museum, in Deerfield, MA. Considered two of the foremost women photographers in America in their own time, the Allen sisters’ photographs continue to resonate today with the timeless, romantic quality of their landscapes and portraits. Also of interest is the just-published Ambassadors of Progress, which reproduces the entire exhibit of 30 American women photographers, organized by Frances Benjamin Johnston, for the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris. Pocumtuch Valley Memorial Assoc., Deerfield, 2002. 192 pp., numerous b&w illustrations, 9×10½″. The Allen Sisters Ambassadors... photo eye Cat# ZC074H Cat# ZC075H Hardbound Hardbound $50.00 $40.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com The Year in Review Sam Abell NAZRAELI PRESS My Favorite Books of 2002 Jackie Nickerson: Farm Cat# TS024H $55.00 Jean Gaumy: Men At Sea Cat# AB255H $39.95 Bruce Davidson: A Time of Change Cat# PK783H $65.00 Adam Bartos: Kosmos Cat# PP008H $40.00 Mark Klett: Ideas About Time & The Third View Project Cat# AS007SH $19.95 Cat# ZC043H $20.00 Martin Parr Cat# PI084H $75.00 Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes Cat# FL037H $75.00 William Christenberry: Disappearing Places Cat# PK803H $55.00 Jack Kotz: Ms. Booth's Garden Cat# MS017H $35.00 Lewis Carroll: The Princeton Univ. Albums Cat# PR014H $49.95 Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution Cat# AE038H $45.00 For over 30 years, Sam Abell has led a life devoted to the joys and vicissitudes of being a working photogra- Michael Kenna: Japan The Japanese landscape is mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful. Likewise the work of Michael Kenna, and this important new monograph is an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Numerous exhibitions and publications in Japan have given Kenna many opportunities to visit and photograph. As this project developed, his trips became more frequent and intense. The results are stunning. Text by Kotaro Iizawa. Hardbound in red cloth, with a Japanese folding slipcase. 12 x 13 inches, 108 pages, 96 tritone plates. Cat# TR120H Signed/Hardbound $75.00 Lee Friedlander: Staglieno The 19th century Staglieno cemetery near Genoa is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the splendidly ornate sculptures erected in their memory. Now feathered with a gentle coat of dust, each appears to have taken on a life of its own. These photographs by the inestimable Lee Friedlander will delight with their beauty; they may also surprise with their warmth and sense of immortality. Afterword by Maria Friedlander. Hardbound in velvet, 12 x 12 inches, 56 pages, 48 duotone plates. Cat# TR111H Signed/Hardbound $65.00 Anthony Hernandez: Waiting for Los Angeles bination of images and text—the The stunning photograph on the cover of this book—of square, colorful ceramic tiles—could be almost anything you might imagine it to be. For Anthony Hernandez’s vision is both abstract and documentary as he skillfully draws attention to the simple geometric beauty that can be found in even the most utilitarian object. With an essay by Allan Sekula. 11 x 11 inches, 96 pages, 46 4-color plates. direct result of years spent engaging Cat# TR110H pher. Some of the most compelling page-spreads in National Geographic were the result of this devotion, defining the way countless people have pictured the world in which we live. His recent monograph, The Photographic Life (Rizzoli, Cat# RZ186H $60), is an elegant, educational com- Signed/Hardbound $60.00 friends, co-workers and students in a vital dialogue about the import of image-making. May that conversation ever continue. BOOKS ON THE FINE & APPLIED ARTS 02 20 -eye to S pho ARD AW A Very Large Array The Great Diversity of the Year’s Best Photography Books THE LIST OF WINNERS 1. Snake Eyes. John Gossage and Terri Weifenbach (Loosestrife Editions) Cat# ZC017H $150.00 2. Nakazora. Masao Yamamoto (Nazraeli Press) Cat# TR091H $200.00 3. The Shadows. Debbie Fleming Caffery (Twin Palms Publishers) Cat# TT116H $60.00 4. A Body. John Coplans (powerHouse Books) Cat# PY052H $60.00 5. Thomas Struth, 1977-2002. (Yale Univ. Press) Cat# YU044H $50.00 6. People of the 20th Century. August Sander (Harry N. Abrams) Cat# AB253H $195.00 7. The Key Set. Alfred Stieglitz (Harry N. Abrams) Cat# AB258H $150.00 8. 50 Unpublished Photographs. Stephen Shore (Edition Mennour) Cat# ID624H $64.00 9. Changing the Earth. Emmet Gowin (Yale Univ. Press) Cat# YU043H $45.00 10. 100 Years, 100 Days. Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Turner Publicaciones) Cat# ZB975H $150.00 11. S M T W T F S. Marco Breuer (PPP Editions) Cat# PK757S $50.00 12. The Romance Industry. John Gossage (Nazraeli Press) Cat# TR108H $60.00 13. A Time of Change. Bruce Davidson (St. Ann’s Press) Cat# PK783H $65.00 14. Ramadan Moon and A Camel for the Son. Fazal Sheikh (Nederlands Foto Instituut) Cat# ID591H and Cat# ID589H $25.00/ea. 15. The Chain. Chien-Chi Chang (Trolley) Cat# PI088H $39.95 16. Farm. Jackie Nickerson (Jonathan Cape) Cat# TS024H $55.00 17. The Phone Book. Martin Parr (Rocket Gallery) Cat# ZB983S $60.00 18. Uta Barth. (St. Ann’s Press) Cat# PK788L $1500.00 19. Earthly Bodies. Irving Penn (Bulfinch Press) Cat# BF181H $75.00 20. Poo-Chi. Mayumi Lake (Nazraeli Press) Cat# TR107H $35.00 21. Morceaux Choisis. Bettina Rheims (Steidl) Cat# ZB970S $55.00 22. One Picture Books. (Nazraeli Press) $35.00 Spring 2003 Each Winter since 1994 the staff of photo-eye has the pleasure of poring over the books of the previous year at an informal party, the goal of which, by the end of the night, is to come up with a list of titles which are deemed to be the year’s best. The preliminary discussions, always boisterous and heated—for we’re an opinionated bunch—are then followed by raucous voting which produces a group of roughly two dozen amazing titles. They represent what we feel are the most significant, in terms of the work contained, beautiful, in the overall quality of production, and well-designed books of the last year. By Darius Himes Let it be stated from the outset: this gets harder and harder every year. And by this is meant: narrowing the field to a select few. Photography book publishing rushes headlong towards a clamoring public, and the sheer number of titles is near-impossible to digest. Nonetheless, great books are being published, and the best of 2002 are on these pages. Best Monographs. Without a hint of hesitation, the two most elegantly conceived, designed, and presented books of the year are: Snake Eyes, by husband-and-wife photographers John Gossage and Terri Weifenbach (Loosestrife Press) and Nakazora, by Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto (Nazraeli Press). Nothing can be so edifying to the creative spirit than to witness two great photographers working on the same subject (a small town in the Italian Alps) or so rejuvenating to one’s child-like sense of visual curiosity as unrolling the intimate-yet-majestic boxed scroll of Yamamoto. These two titles won the unalloyed praise of the entire photo-eye staff. Several other major monographs stand deserving of mention, including The Shadows, by Debbie Fleming Caffery, her first major monograph since the critically acclaimed Carry Me Home, John Coplans’ A Body, a brilliant collection of self-portraits that act as a meditation both on perception and mortality, and the major retrospective by Becher-student Thomas Struth (catch the show now up at The Met in New York). Two musts for the complete library are August Sander’s sevenvolume People of the Twentieth Century and Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, massive books (both literally and metaphorically) by photographers of obvious historic importance. Shore’s classic body of work, Uncommon Places, was published in 1982 and his ‘heroic articulation of the real’ continues to influence today’s photographers. A Paris gallery gathered previously unpublished work from those years (1973–1978) and issued a beautiful catalogue, 50 Unpublished Photographs, that also contains brief excerpts from Shore’s writings. Another treasure of the photography community, Emmet Gowin, saw the release of a handsome volume reproducing in tritone his prayer-like, air-borne studies of the landscape, titled Changing the Earth. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who turned 100 and then gracefully retired to the realms above, left us with his own selection of 100 images. 100 Years, 100 Days is the most beautiful book of his work. On a more conceptual front, both Marco Breuer’s S M T W T F S, and John Gossage’s The Romance Industry embody a spirit of searching for and tugging at the boundaries of photography. Breuer’s work is made entirely in the darkroom sans camera; in short, he abuses traditional b&w photographic paper with extraordinary results. Gossage is a thinking man’s photographer and his Romance Industry is a study of the Venetian industrial docks. Gossage seeks out views and objects that act to define the larger whole through fragmentary evidence. continued on p. 20 MONOGRAPHS 11 Hasselblad Award 2001: Hiroshi Sugimoto Text by Gunilla Knape and Masashi Ogura Since 1980, the Hasselblad Center in Sweden has offered a yearly award to a major figure in photography whose work is internationally known. Past winners have included Koudelka (Cat# ZA699S $22.50), Meiselas (Cat# HA011S $19.50), Sherman (Cat# HA014H $45), and for 2002, Jeff Wall (Cat# PK848H $50). In October of each year an exhibition is mounted and a catalogue is published. The award for 2001 went to Hiroshi Sugimoto, a Japanese-born photographer who has lived in New York since 1974 and whose work is deeply concerned with the paradoxes of time. This softbound catalogue, which is extremely well-printed, contains an essay by critic Masashi Ogura that succinctly describes the major themes and concepts animating Sugimoto’s photography. Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, 2001. 46 pp., 21 duotones, 9½×13 ″. Cat# ZC076S Softbound $35.00 Recontres 2: James Turrell Recontres 6: Philip-Lorca diCorcia Editions Images Modernes is a small French publisher that has begun a brilliant series entitled Recontres (Meetings), featuring contemporary artists and photographers. The design and concept of the book is the same throughout the series. The goal is to present recent work and place it within a critical context. In the case of Turrell, an extensive interview with the artist (in French and English) by Sebastian Pluot accompanies the work, while Jeff Rian—one of the chief editors of the European art journal Purple—offers an insightful and penetrating read of diCorcia’s commissioned ‘fashion’ work. Occupying seemingly opposites ends of the photographic spectrum, Turrell and diCorcia relate in this sense—each asks their audience to make a shift away from a traditional understanding of the photograph. Editions Images Modernes, Paris, 2001. 32 pp., 10 color illustrations, 6¾×9½″. James Turrell Philip-Lorca diCorcia Cat# CF079S Cat# CF080S Softbound Softbound $20.00 $20.00 Ed Templeton: The Golden Age of Neglect Regarded as one of the architects of modern skateboarding, Templeton was born and raised in the belly of Los Angeles and was a regular at the Vans skateboard park in Orange, California. He has been a professional skater for over 10 years, an absolutely unheard-of length of time in a world that regularly eats its own due to the commonality of injury and high burn-out rates. Throughout the years, Templeton has kept a camera close by, documenting this eminently American subculture, producing a body of work that remains true to its subject matter. This is not a casual observer bent on imposing outside values, but rather a hard-core insider creating images based on familiarity and passion. Described by some as a Larry Clark-of-the-90s, Templeton’s work deserves the same amount of attention here in the States as it currently enjoys in Japan and Europe, where this book originated. Drago, Rome, 2002. 104 pp., numerous color illustrations, 8×10″. Cat# ID626S Softbound $36.00 Esko Männikkö: The Female Pike Signed! Revolving around the experience of fishing for pike in midwinter, Female Pike is a native son’s study of rural Finnish people and their culture. Documentary/editorial in nature, the work has a sympathetic quality that comes only from an intimacy with the language and life these people live. Männikkö's color photography is shimmering at times and gorgeously muted at others, carrying the quiet paradox of despair and acceptance that pervades all rural towns, whether in North America or, in this case, Finland. One image in particular deserves to be described: the bare cream-colored interior of a room—perhaps a kitchen—is bathed in soft, northern light. A large silver milk jug and red bucket on the right is visually balanced by a blue milk crate and cardboard box to the left. In the center of the image, a man dressed in gray, blue, and rubber boots takes a drag on a cigarette while the pinkish lamb at his feet suckles the milk bottle in his hand. The printing in this book is extremely luscious, of the same quality as IChickenMoon (Cat# ZB744S, $49.95) by Eskildsen (also printed in Nordic lands). In English and Finnish. Oulu, 2000. 144 pp., numerous color illustrations, 10¼×9¾″. Cat# ZC055H Spring 2003 Signed/Hardbound $49.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com 12 MONOGRAPHS Araki Mythology Text by Jean-Christophe Ammann. Ammann’s relatively brief essay—three short pages—is the primary reason to purchase Mythology. Of course, there are also 1500 black-and-white images, all classic Araki: Godzilla, cityscapes, flowers, the random cat, and scores of naked, and at times classically bound, women. But one of the ever-present difficulties— for a Western audience at least—is the absence of a cultural or theoretical framework with which to approach Araki’s images. Seemingly unending volumes have been published and sell well, but one is never quite sure what to do with the work. How do you think about the bondage, the apparent degradation, the overt sexuality, the multitudinous symbolic objects employed continuously in his imagery? Ammann deftly maneuvers this symbolic-laden territory that Araki has built over 30 years of exuberant and excessive image-making. Araki’s most telling statement, that Tokyo is like a vibrant, immense female body to explore, sets the tone for the entire book. Editions Images Modernes, Paris, 2001. 200+ pp., numerous b&w illustrations, 9¼×12¼″. Cat# CF081S Softbound $55.00 Michael Ackerman: Fiction Text by Gilou le Guiec, Christian Caujolle, and Michael Ackerman. Photography’s ability to tell a story has long been recognized as one of its most powerful traits, though this characteristic is often tied to the documentary/reportage genre. Ackerman, whose award-winning work in the holy city of Benares, India (End Time City, PK521H, $49.95) brought him much attention, tackles the more difficult task of fictional story-telling. Containing some text at the end of the book, Fiction is essentially a short, personal story told entirely in black-and-white photographs. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich, 2002. 168 pp., 90 duotones, 7¾×10½ ″. Cat# KF010S Softbound $45.00 John Cohen & Wynn Bullock The Shape of Survival, on the work of John Cohen, and Wynn Bullock are the latest in an ongoing, informal series of exhibition catalogues by the Stephen Daiter Gallery which has included, to date, photographers Gary Schneider (Cat# ZB850S, $25) and André Kertész (Cat# ZB946S, $25) . Finely printed in duotone and ingenuously designed, these petite volumes each present around 25 images. In the case of Cohen, an interview accompanies a portfolio of his Peruvian Andes work, all made during the late 1950s. James Rhem offers an insightful essay on Bullock, whose metaphorical landscapes are laden with magic and a seriousness born of deep contemplation. Bullock is a beloved though oft-misunderstood figure in mid-century American photography, and hopes for a revival of his work are awakened with this intimate publication. Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, 2003. 34 pp., 27 b&w illustrations, 8½×10½″. Cat# ZC071S Cat# ZC072S Softbound Softbound $25.00 $25.00 Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus Circa 1910 Photographs by F. W. Glasier. Text by Mark Sloan. Fred Whitman Glasier was a commercial portrait photographer with a studio in Brockton, Massachusetts who documented every circus that came through northern Mass. during the first third of the 20th century including The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circuses. Most of the photographs were made on sheet film or glass plate negatives, meaning exposure times and tonal ranges ran long, thus giving the portraits of equestriennes, clowns, and wirewalkers a richly detailed, timeless quality. Perhaps the greatest curiosity is the portrait of what is described as "a small breed of cranial hoppers—a brief fad that could only end badly." See page 114 for the live-action shot! Quantuck Lane Press, New York, 2002. 128 pp., 75 duotones, 11×9¾ ″. Cat# NT123H photo eye Hardbound $39.95 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com Critic’s Choice: The Best Photography Books of 2002 More, More, More by Vince Aletti Winogrand 1964. Trudy Wilner Stack (Arena) Cat# AE051H $60.00 Here Is New York. A Democracy of Photographs (Scalo) Cat# PK789H $49.95 Freedom. A Photographic History of African American Struggle (Phaidon) Cat# PI098H $59.95 Louis Faurer. Anne Wilkes Tucker (MFA Houston/Merrell) Cat# RZ179H $65.00 Polaroids. Walker Evans (Scalo) Cat# PK675H $39.95 Uncommon Places. 50 Unpublished Photographs 1973-1978. Stephen Shore (Conrads/Mennour) Cat# ID624H $64.00 '71-NY (PPP Editions) and Shinjuku (Nazraeli) Daido Moriyama Cat# PK756H $85 and Cat# TR109H $125.00 Martin Parr. Val Williams (Phaidon) Cat# PI084H $75.00 Earthly Bodies (MMA/Bulfinch) and Dancer (Nazraeli) Irving Penn Cat# BF181H $75.00 and Cat# TR096H $50.00 Portraits. Richard Avedon (MMA/Abrams) Cat# AB261S $35.00 Polaroids. Carlo Mollino (Arena) Cat# AE054H $55.00 Assemblies of Magic. John O'Reilly (Twin Palms) Cat# TT117H $75.00 Peter Hujar. Animals and Nudes. Klaus Kertess (Twin Palms) Cat# TT102H $60.00 A Maverick Eye. The Street Photography of John Deakin. Robin Muir (Thames & Hudson) Cat# NT118H $60.00 Changing the Earth. Emmet Gowin. (Yale) Cat# YU043H $45.00 Twilight. Photographs by Gregory Crewdson (Abrams) Cat# AB245H $35.00 The Shadows. Debbie Fleming Caffery (Twin Palms) Cat# TT116H $60.00 Pictures of Paintings. Richard Misrach (powerHouse/Blindspot) Cat# PY065H $65.00 Chuck Close. Daguerreotypes. Demetrio Paparoni (Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore) Cat# FL037H $75.00 A Body. John Coplans (powerHouse) Cat# PY052H $60.00 Once again, I found it impossible to keep my list of the best photography books of the past year to a neat Top 10, and even this sprawling Top 20 is straining at its limits: Both Irving Penn and Daido Moriyama are represented by two titles each. With the growing recognition of photography's importance, not just historically but in the moment, publishers are attempting to supply a demand that only a few of them fully understand or appreciate. The result is more but not necessarily better books; for all the worthy titles gathered here, there are very few that succeed in matching intelligent design—one that gives careful consideration to reproduction, format, binding, typeface, and sequencing—with important content. Still, the 13 sheer volume of new photo books is exciting and published in the Feb. 11th issue of The Village Voice, reprinted w/permission encouraging to any photo aficionado, especially when it includes such genuinely substantial projects as the definitive seven-volume edition of August Sander's People of the 20th Century and the twovolume Key Set, which reproduces the vast Alfred Stieglitz archive that Georgia O'Keeffe donated to the National Gallery of Art (both sets from Abrams). Though they certainly deserve to be there, I didn't put either of these titles on my list because their historic heft places them so far above the competition it seemed pointless to rank them...But this doesn't even begin to account for all the other great photography in print this past year...You'll probably understand the necessity of collecting not just the year's key monographs (in addition to the...Top 20, they'd include books devoted to Danny Lyon, Michael Spano, Graciela Iturbide, Aaron Rose, Lewis Carroll, Wolfgang Tillmans, Flor Garduño, Abelardo Morell, Colin Jones, George Tice, Wright Morris, David Armstrong, and Adam Fuss) but its quirks, flukes, and ephemera. Quirkiest: Scotlandfuturebog (Aperture), the first hardcover book to preserve one of the elaborately conceived, painstakingly staged sagas the collaborative team of Kahn & Selesnick have been weaving over the past decade. This one conflates prehistory and a post-apocalyptic future in a series of otherworldly panoramas that, typically, seesaw between hilarity and dread. Flukiest: Ryan McGinley (Index Books), the slim paperback volume that helped launch one of 2002's spunkiest believe-the-hype talents. Best ephemera: gallery catalogs, many of which aren't ephemeral at all. Roth Horowitz continues to put out the most intelligently designed of these, and its dense, dark, compellingly cinematic Daido Moriyama title, '71-NY, which made the Top 20, is a knockout. available March 2003 pre-order now Cat# YU053H $65.00 Changing Mines in America Photographs by Peter Goin. Text by C. Elizabeth Raymond A bumper sticker says it all: "If it isn't grown, it has to be mined." This book explores the full-cycle of mining—from extraction, to tourism, to healing the land—in provocative new ways that expand our vision of the American landscape. 240 pgs., 101 four-color and 34 duotone plates, 10.75" x 8.25" (landscape) $27.50 Paperback (Cat# ZC082S) $55.00 Clothbound (Cat# ZC082H) Books live. Books endure. Books are gifts to civilization. SIGNED BOOKS available from photo-eye 800.227.6941 photoeye.com 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 11 1. Debbie Fleming Caffery, The Shadows Cat# TT116H $60 7. Eugenia Parry, Crime Album Stories Cat# PK516H $29.95 2. David Graham: Alone Together Cat# ZC012S $17.95 8. Jack Kotz, Ms. Booth’s Garden Cat# MS017H $35 3. John Coplans: A Body Cat# PY052H $60 9. Timothy Hearsum, Road Trips Cat# ZB848S $55 4. William Christenberry, Disappearing Places Cat# PK803H $55 10. John Robbins, Himalayan Odyssey Cat# ZC013H $65 5. Lee Friedlander, At Work Cat# PK781H $55 11. Bruce Gilden, Go Cat# ZB818H $50 6. Mark Steinmetz, Tuscan Trees Cat# ZC049S $25 12. Ed Grazda, New York Masjid Cat# PY050H $35 Publishers in Focus / by Darius Himes 17 Andrew Roth and the fine photography book Since January of 1999, Andrew Roth, in association with Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, has occupied a welcoming but austere space on the upper East Side of New York City (160A E. 70th), a space where the photography book— its historical importance, its aesthetic presentation, its publication—is the cynosure of all attention. In four short years, Roth’s exhibition and publishing activities have brought a renewed sense of vigor and wonder to the photography community, the books finding their way into serious collections and Best-of lists, year after year. One of the most recent titles is a tour-de-force of the history of the photography book in the 20th century. The Book of 101 Books—essentially Roth’s own Best-of list— draws various minds and practitioners—Vince proved to be a testing ground for his still nascent ideas about the collectibility of photography books. It was shortly thereafter that he met Glenn Horowitz, one of the country’s premier rare book and manuscript dealers, with whom he began to work. The intense environment of dealing and developing collections for private collectors nurtured and refined Roth’s love for photography books. Few dealers had elevated the photography book to ‘object’ before, and Roth found his clients highly responsive. In 1996, Roth published the first of three catalogues which featured rare and collectible editions of a wide variety of photographic liter- The photography book was a link to the rest of the world. It was a way of integrating oneself into a larger culture. Aletti, David Levi Strauss, Daido Moriyama— simultaneously into the arena to discuss the panoply of great photography books in the 20th century. In early November of 2002 I had a chance to speak with Roth about his love of photography and books and what led him to this point. Roth himself studied photography and subsequently taught the history and technique of photography during the late 80s at Tel Aviv’s renowned Camera Obscura school. During these years abroad, photography became profoundly significant. “The photography book was a link to the rest of the world. It was a way of integrating oneself into a larger culture.” After returning to New York, Roth spent a brief period working for Harvey Zucker at A Photographer Place’s (now defunct), which Spring 2003 ature. That first catalogue contains an introduction (reproduced on p. 35) that delineates and sums up Roth’s appreciation and respect for photography books. “Without a doubt, the book as an object is an integral part of the history of photography. It is where a body of work takes shape and is realized as a totality; where a collection of pictures may become a vehicle for influence.” These three catalogues themselves are treasure-troves of information on the history of the photographic book. Each item is carefully described according to its historical and aesthetic value, with bibliographic information systematically detailed prior to a summation of the contents or working method of the photographer. At times, the descriptions are factual and straightforward, at others, poetic and philosophic with a tinge of social commentary, and continued on p. 35 “Part autobiography, part retrospective, this much anticipated new book illustrates how rich his photographic life has been and how integral photography is to how he exists in the world.” —Darius Himes Rizzoli, New York, 2002. 260 pages, 200 b&w and color illustrations, 11½x10¼”. Cat# RZ186H, $60.00 A Very Large Array/ Awards continued 20 Best Documentary. In a classic documentary vein, four books are notable with Davidson’s A Time of Change clearly at the forefront. It consists of newly published photographs from the Civil Rights Movement and poignantly brings racism, clearly America’s most challenging issue, to our attention. A pair of jointly published books on Fazal Sheikh’s work, A Camel for the Son and Ramadan Moon, also make the case for social change, this time in relation to the Somali refugee situation. On the other side of the world, Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang created quiet but stirring images of the mentally handicapped who have been chained together in pairs at a Buddhist work-camp. The diversity of facial expressions in The Chain is astounding and is perfectly presented in an accordion-fold format. Lastly, Farm was the surprise book of the Holiday season. Ostensibly studying the resourcefulness of African subsistence and communal farmers, Nickerson has used washed out color to great effect. Best Foreign Title. Martin Parr, the photography community’s court jester—his humor dry and witty as only the English can perfect— offered up The Phone Book, in which he turns his ring-flash and color film to all manner of cell-phone users, organized by country. Best Deluxe Edition. Numerous books listed here have an attendant deluxe version, but none is more exquisite than the reissue of Uta Barth’s MoCA catalogue. Her deceptively simple color images are perfectly reproduced, and the catalogue is housed in a separate slipcase within a larger clamshell box, which also holds an original color print mounted to archival birch wood—the effect of the entire package is drool-inducing. Best Figure Study/Nude. Three completely different books stand apart here, headed by this year’s winner, Earthly Bodies, by Irving Penn. The Rubenesque bodies fill the image space such as has rarely been attempted or matched since. Mayumi Lake’s quirky and deceptive Poo-Chi explores the female body’s wakinoshita, Japanese for....well, I’m not going to say; just buy the book. Swinging the pendulum to the erotic is Bettina Rheims’ Morceaux Choisis, a gray-paper-with-red-thread bound book housed in a sexy red tin case. The content? Let’s just say it all takes place on a white shag carpet. Best Series. Once again, this award goes to the One Picture Books, brainstorm of Nazraeli Press publisher Chris Pichler. 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SPECIAL GUESTS: Prague, Czechoslovakia 1990 Michael Kenna Michael Kenna Anne Wilkes Tucker Annette Fournet Academic Director Metropolitan College Division of International Education Box 1097 New Orleans, La 70148 (504) 280–7318 phone/ (504) 280-7317 fax [email protected] "Santa Fe is an art mecca. However, in 1994, an exhibition by young artists from the Santa Fe Boys & Girls Club was censored and removed from a local mall. An authentic community voice was silenced. From this incident, Reality from the Barrio was born. 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These three anthologies are now offered as a set at one price: $295 (a savings of $155 on these three titles) 3 Trade Edition Anthologies Cat# ZC083H $295 INCLUDED IN THIS SPECIAL SET: Volume I ($150 list) Michael Kenna, Jock Sturges, Luis Gonzales Palma, Olivia Parker, Duane Michals, and others. Volume II ($150 list) Robert ParkeHarrison, Adam Fuss, Vik Muniz, Joyce Tenneson, Tom Baril, Arthur Tress, and others. Volume V ($150 list) Sally Mann, David Levinthal, Andrea Modica, Keith Carter, Connie Imboden, Josephine Sacabo, and others. LIMITED EDITION & RARE BOOKS 31 Masao Yamamoto: A Box of Ku, Deluxe Edition A Box of Ku was Yamamoto’s first publication, elegantly capturing both the texture of his worn originals as well as the minimalist spirit in which he exhibits his work. It was followed by last years’ Nakazora (Cat# TR091H $200) , one of the photo-eye staff’s favorite books (see p. 8), which furthered one of his fundamental concepts: random groupings of prints as short stories (see also photo-eye booklist 2002 Summer for an article discussing Yamamoto’s work). A Box of Ku is back again, this time in an exquisite deluxe edition. The original softbound book has been bound in black cloth and is housed in a deep purple clamshell box with an accompanying gelatin silver print (both sides reproduced above; not to scale with box). With only 100 copies produced, and at this price, the deluxe edition is sure to sell out in the coming months. The first softbound edition is still available, signed. Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 1998. 112 pp., 80 color illustrations, 13x10″. Cat# TR040S Cat# TR040L Signed/Softbound Deluxe Edition $75.00 $300.00 Josef Koudelka: Reconnaissance-Wales With very limited availability, this rare Koudelka monograph is already collectible and difficult to come by; small quantities are available once again. In Reconnaissance-Wales, the legendary Magnum photographer continues his panoramic camera work, creating a dark, lyrical, and compelling view of the Welsh countryside. Beautifully printed, the book is designed as an accordionfold block between two compressed cardboard covers with the title stamped in black ink. There are numerous spectacular double-page images and an illustrated index. Ffotogallery, Cardif, 1999. Unpaged, 16 duotones, 11¼×9¼ ″. Cat# ZB431H Hardbound $200.00 Visionaire 39: Play “Sixteen artists take to their cameras or computers and create original films in the form of flip books for Visionaire #39: Play. Collected together, the sixteen flip books are encased in a sleek, black tilted case. Contributions include works by leading photographers Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, and Craig McDean, plus a provocative dance number captured by Peter Lindbergh and a blooming flower photographed by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The issue also features a daredevil explosion by video artist Roman Signer; a collaboration between film-graphics firm Imaginary Forces (Minority Report) and architect Greg Lynn; a special message from artist Tony Oursler's lips; cross-country travel from the Snorri Brothers directing team; work from preeminent filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Jonze, Darren Aronofsky, and Wong Kar Wei; and a burlesque Visionaire can-can dancer by Baz Luhrmann. Visionaire #39: Play was conceived in collaboration with the creators of PlayStation 2, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE).”—the publisher. Distributed Art Publishers’, New York, 2003. Cat# PK845L Limited Edition $175.00 Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon, Out-of-Print and Rare This is an exquisitely produced meditation on the American railroad, named by Andrew Roth as one of the century’s best photography books. Baumgarten’s large format images, in the now classical American style of Robert Adams and Stephen Shore, are subtly overlayed with the names of the railroads, animals native to the location and, printed upside-down, the Native tribes that were uprooted to make way for the rail lines. Vince Aletti has described the work as “fiercely intelligent [with] poetic underpinnings.” Published exclusively in a limited edition of 1,750 copies, Carbon contains ten short stories by the photographer, set in letterpress. This may be your last chance to own one of the most beautiful books of the 20th century. Museum of Contemporary Art/Pentii Kouri, Los Angeles, 1997. 144 pp., 118 b&w illustrations, 15×12 ″. Cat# ZB179H Spring 2003 Hardbound $525.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com 32 HISTORIES & VISUAL ANTHOLOGIES Americans in Kodachrome: 1945–1965 Edited by Guy Stricherz. “Americans in Kodachrome 1945–1965 is an unprecedented portrayal of the daily life of the people during these formative years of modern American culture. It is comprised of 95 exceptional color photographs made by over 90 unknown American photographers. These photographs were chosen from many thousands of slides in hundreds of collections. Like folk art in other mediums, this work is characterized by its frankness, honesty, and vigor. Conceived as a book and nation-wide exhibition, Americans in Kodachrome is an evocative and haunting portrait of an historic generation of Americans.”—Guy Stricherz. The Deluxe Edition comes with your choice of 1 of 4 color dye-transfer prints; visit photoeye.com/americansinkodachrome for choices. Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 2002. 120 pp., 95 color illustrations, 10×12 ″. Cat# TT112H Cat# TT112L Hardbound Deluxe Edition $60.00 $600.00 Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Edited by Gretchen Worden. Numerous contributing photographers. The Mütter Museum, in Philadelphia, owes its existence to Dr. Mütter, a 19th century professor of surgery who willed his anatomical collection to the College in 1856. Specimens were once an integral part of medical education but have largely fallen by the wayside. The Mütter Museum has survived intact and, for the past decade, has been opening its doors to certain fine-art photographers. This book is essentially a celebration of the work that has been produced by these photographers and should be seen as a continuation of the Museum’s longstanding goal of educating the public. Blast Books, New York, 2002. 192 pp., 50 color and 52 b&w illustrations, 9×11″. Cat# ZB987H Hardbound $50.00 Chambi, Algaze, and Meinel: Visions of Peru Text by Carol McCusker. Three important Peruvian photographers are the focus of this obscure catalogue from an important gallery of Latin American photography. “Chambi, Silva Meinel, and Algaze use the camera not only to record; they use it as a means of catharsis through which they continually explore and survey the visible world for validation and inclusion...Through their curiosity and efforts, they make the camera’s gaze a democratic one. And in some exemplary instances, divert attention away from what is divisive among us...”—from the essay by Carol McCusker. Throckmorton, New York City, 2002. 58 pp., numerous b&w illustrations, 9×9″. Cat# ZC063S Softbound $25.00 Photography: A Cultural History Text by Mary Warner Marien. This fine new history of photography owes its genesis and refinement to years spent in the classroom. In her brief preface, Marien lays out some of the goals of the text and repeatedly harkens back to lessons learned from her students, that “they do not dislike history, but are instead hungry for it,” and “that today’s students are puzzled by the lengthy struggle waged...to have photography accepted as an art form.” Her fresh reading and presentation are what make this book vital; ultimately, the medium itself is rejuvenated by surveys such as this. Abrams, New York, 2002. 544 pp., 160 color and 440 b&w illustrations, 8¾×11½″. Cat# AB260H Hardbound $85.00 Oceans Edited by Sue Hostetler. Text by Robert Redford and Vicki Goldberg. A calming expanse. An awesome entity. The great purifiers of our globe. All of us relate to the oceans differently, but often, and rightly so, in superlatives. This beautiful new book brings together 80 exceptional images by photographers from around the world. including Ansel Adams, André Kertész, Edward Weston, and Harry Callahan, as well as important contemporary photographers such as Shirin Neshat, Jock Sturges, and John Baldessari. Rizzoli Publishers, New York, 2003. 144 pp., numerous color and b&w illustrations, 11×12¼″. Cat# RZ189H photo eye Hardbound order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com $39.95 Divided Soul A Journey Through the Hispanic Diaspora David Alan Harvey The Grafters Colin Jones 144 pp., 81 tritone illustrations Cat# PI099H $59.95 166 pp., 100 color illustrations Cat# PI106H $49.95 Richard Prince Interview by Jeff Rian Fruits postcard set Aoki Shoichi 160 pp., 120 color, 30 b&w illus. Cat# PI105H $39.95 Due April! 45 color postcards Cat# PI107H $14.95 Due April! Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle 512pp., 500 b&w, 100 colour photographs Cat# PI098H $59.95 Bollywood Dreams Nasreen Munni Kabir and Jonathan Torgovnik 240 pp., 550 color illustrations Cat# PI108H, $39.95 Due April! 34 ESSAYS , BIOGRAPHIES & CRITICISM On High: The Adventures of Legendary Mountaineer, Photographer, and Scientist Brad Washburn Text by Donald Smith. “A Renaissance mountaineer, Brad Washburn has done it all in his 92 years—pioneered a new route up McKinley, mapped the grand Canyon and Everest, advised Amelia Earhart and the military’s top brass, and made Boston’s Museum of Science a world-class institution. His adventures are all here, along with his heart-stopping mountain photography—images that incise the great wildernesses forever in the memory.”—David Breasheras, Everest explorer and filmmaker. A new biography on a fascinating man; the photographs are stunning! National Geographic, Washington, 2003. 216 pp., numerous black-and-white illustrations, 9×10¼″. Cat# NA011H Hardbound NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOKS 16 pp., 1 original print 500 signed & numbered copies $40.00 The Photography Reader Edited by Liz Wells. The Photography Reader is a comprehensive survey of seminal writings on photography, encompassing everything from the technical to the philosophical. The focus is on twentieth century essays, with everyone from Californian Edward Weston to the brilliant Hungarian László Moholy-Nagy. Other important writers and thinkers include Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag. The book is organized by theme beginning with Wells’ introduction which sets ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context. Anthologies like this have been attempted before, but none this successfully. Routledge, New York, 2002. 416 pp., 50 black-and-white illustrations, 6¾×9¾″. Cat# RO015S Softbound Robert Heinecken: studiesnineteenseventy Cat# TR117H $35 $27.95 Julia Cameron: Walking in This World Text by Julia Cameron. This is the bestselling follow-up book to The Artist’s Way (Cat# PU010H $24.95). "When I can, I walk with friends, noting how companionable our silences become, how effortlessly deep our conversations," Cameron states. Thus begins the themed approach to enhancing ones own inner creativity that Cameron develops in this new title aimed at artists and aspiring artists. Her core insights are similar to those in her first volume, but there is a deeper practicality that informs the work. Walking is filled with insights and exercises that will resound with any reader, at any level. Penguin Putnam, New York, 2002. 290 pp., 8×9½ ″. Cat# ZC072H Hardbound Don Kirby ...until your eyes are redder... Cat# TR118H $35 $24.95 Two New Books by Brassaï: Henry Miller, Happy Rock & Conversations With Picasso The Hungarian photographer known as Brassaï, whose seminal photographic books include Paris by Night and Graffiti, was an intimate member of the French avant-garde scene that centered around the neighborhoods of the west bank of Paris between the two World Wars. He was an active reader/thinker and over the decades maintained an ongoing written correspondence with two of the most prominent figures of that period—Pablo Picasso and the American-in-Paris writer, Henry Miller. The University of Chicago, who has also published Brassaï’s Letters to My Parents (Cat# UC051H, $29.95), has now published this correspondence in 2 separate volumes. Henry Miller, Happy Rock, 184 pp., 10 b&w illustrations, 6×9 ″. Pablo Picasso, 392 pp., 53 b&w illustrations, 6×7½″. Miller Picasso photo eye Cat# UC055H Cat# UC057S Hardbound Softbound $25.00 $20.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com Masao Yamamoto Path of Green Leaves Cat# TR119H $100 Publishers in Focus / Andrew Roth cont'd always educational. The first catalogue was purely a listing of books; in the second, Roth discussed the history of Lustrum Press in an interview with the founder, Ralph Gibson. Lustrum had published such classics of photography as Gibson’s own The Somnambulist, Larry Clark’s Tulsa, and Robert Frank’s The Lines of My Hand. Books on Photography III, was published in 1999 and is a beautiful object in-and-of itself, perfect-bound with a four-color printed dustjacket. In this most recent rare book catalogue, Roth’s own fascination with a particular era of photographic history becomes evident, that of the late 60s and 70s. There is an interview with Emmet Gowin about Frederick Sommer and two collections are offered for sale: complete sets of first edition books by Robert Adams and Ed Ruscha. The value of the bibliographic and critical descriptions accompanying each title is clear. These two book collections would become the basis for his first show in the space on 70th Street. The impromptu trip to visit Robert Adams and discuss the set of books led to the revival of a project entitled Eden. Eden was a town—a truckstop, really—in Colorado which Adams had photographed in 1972, making some prints that then sat in a box for the intervening decades. Roth revived the work, publishing a gorgeous little monograph that accompanied the show of the photographs in 1999. Following threads of his own personal interest, he admits to a fixation on the 60s and 70s, the period in which he himself came of age. “That period, the 70s, was the beginning of an international zeitgeist. There was a sharing, all over the world,” of ideas and concepts within the photography community. This fascination has led to numerous other projects, most notably the history of the Provoke movement in Japan, which counted Moriyama Daido and Araki Nobuyoshi as contributing members. Incidentally, watch for a new Araki title by years’ end. The now well-known Book of 101 Books, Spring 2003 35 books on photography III. Cat# ZC081S Eden. Robert Adams. Cat# PK504H S M T W T F S. Marco Breuer. Cat# PK757H Walter Chappell and Sharon Tate. Cat# PK729H 1971/NY. Daido Moriyama. Cat# PK756S The Book of 101 Books. Andrew Roth. Cat# PK676H $25.00 $75.00 $50.00 $50.00 $85.00 $85.00 published in 2001, is a lavish testament to the diversity and energy of photographers throughout the 20th century, but also stands as an object born of love of the medium and the inherent power of photography in book form. “Photography has the capacity to show us what our eyes can’t see: the infinite detail in a face or a pepper; the surface of the moon. Photographs can bring a far-off place into our private realm or exhibit private experience to an anonymous audience. We can visit the pyramids of Giza; walk through the dark recesses of the catacombs; study the frozen movements of a horse in motion. a photograph can fabricate an event and impose meaning; it can free our fantasies or illustrate a fact; it can seduce or repel. In short, a photograph has the power to inform and alter us. A photography book houses a collection of photographs. It is the territory where a visual idea unfolds: a narrative is built; a body of work is carefully sequenced; an idea is illuminated by images. Certain books are intimate constructions, a balance between image and text with self-contained meaning. Others are built more simply, as a place to exhibit pictures. The photography book may be used by picture researchers; students for educational purposes; photographers for inspiration; collectors for their library. Without a doubt, the book as an object is an integral part of the history of photography. It is where a body of work takes shape and is realized as a totality; where a collection of pictures may become a vehicle for influence.” Andrew Roth, from ‘books on photography’, 1996 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com TECHNICAL BOOKS THE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES by Christopher James 37 Real World Adobe Photoshop 7 “Master the essential day-in and day-out Photoshop production techniques with this definitive resource from best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser. The authors place a dual emphasis on efficiency and getting the best quality possible out of Photoshop. You'll learn everything you need to know about color management, getting great scans, tonal and color correction, prepress and the Web, and working with Photoshop selections and silhouettes.”—the publisher. Adobe, Berkeley, 2003. 828 pp., numerous color and b&w illustrations, 7½×9¼″. Cat# ZC067S Softbound $49.95 Creative Digital Photography Cat# ZB835S $53.95 Features Fully explains processes used by historical and modern art photographers — most of which do not require a darkroom—offering exciting alternatives to traditional methods and opening new doors to creative expression. Covers historical, procedural, and interdisciplinary connections, from generating hand-made camera negatives to the logical evolution of techniques from the beginning of the photographic arts to digital imaging. Delmar Thomson Learning, 2001 400 pages, 8½×11”. A photo-eye Bestseller! “James brings the art of hand-coated and alternative photography to a new level...The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes will become the new standard text for alternative hand-coated photography.” —Dick Sullivan, Founder and Co-Owner, Bostick & Sullivan Photographs and text by Michael Busselle. This indispensable new guide on digital photography keeps in mind the fact that digital imagery (and wizardry) is simply a means to an end: great images. Busselle takes the reader through clear step-by-step instructions for over 50 techniques. Watson-Guptill Publications, Lakewood, 2002. 160 pp., 155 color illustrations, 9½×10″. Cat# WG200S Softbound $29.95 Creative Digital Printmaking Text by Theresa Airey. It used to be that image-output from a computer printer couldn't equal that of darkroom processing. Not anymore! A new generation of sophisticated yet affordable printers now allows anyone to produce high-quality digital prints. And this brand-new technology isn't just for amateurs. More and more professional photographers and fine artists are outputting their images digitally, since they can produce beautiful prints that are easy to archive. In Creative Digital Printmaking, Theresa Airey provides all the information readers need to start creating beautiful prints of their own photographs on a home printer. Watson-Guptill Publications, Lakewood, 2001. 192 pp., 200 color and 30 b&w illustrations, 8½×10½ ″. Cat# WG201S Softbound $29.95 Two New Monographs featuring Alternative Processes Jett Sarachek: Pinhole Photographs & Zeva Oelbaum: Blue Prints As evidenced by last year’s The Antiquarian AvantGarde (Cat# AB246 $49.95)—a survey of photographers using alternative processes—the hype and excitement surrounding nearly-forgotten photographic formulas has been steadily gaining momentum in recent years. Here are two new books of images by photographers using a process to its full potential. Sarachek’s moody pinhole photographs couple medium and content effectively. The ghostly figures that wander amidst her landscapes seem completely normal. Oelbaum’s cyanotype studies of flora and fauna evoke a previous era, one of scientific inquiry and fascination coupled with new discoveries in image-making. They are sensitively seen and wonderfully produced. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Allentown, 2002. Unpaged, 18 b&w illustrations, 8½×9½ ″. Rizzoli, New York, 2002. 96 pp., 125 color illustrations, 9×10″. Cat# ZC068S Cat# RZ185H Spring 2003 Signed/Softbound Hardbound $20.00 $35.00 order toll free: 800-227-6941 order online: photoeye.com 38 NUDES & EROTICA Ellen von Unwerth: Revenge Ellen von Unwerth is known for her sexy, unrestrained approach to fashion and photography, as witnessed in Couples (Cat# TY005H $35) and the out-of-print Snaps, also from Twin Palms. In Revenge, her first book in several years, she is the director on the set of a lusty, sadomasochistic tale. Three young ladies are invited to the estate of a voluptuous baroness for a weekend of relaxation. The baroness, however, has something quite different in mind—a little bit of this and a little bit of that (add leather and bondage, and remove most clothing). The limited edition is signed/numbered to 200. The deluxe edition, which comes in a clamshell box with an original silver print, is signed/numbered to 250 (photoeye.com/revenge for a choice of 1 of 4 different prints). Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 2002. 270 pp., 190 tritones, 6x8″. Cat# TT118H Cat# TT118L Cat# TT121L Hardbound Limited Edition Deluxe Edition $60.00 $200.00 $300.00 Bob Carlos Clarke: Shooting Sex Shooting Sex, Clarke’s first book in years, records his insightful though selfabsorbed, dry-wit musings on the life of a photographer obsessed with physical beauty and sex. His lust-laden images have been the driving force behind numerous ad campaigns over the years, and the images reproduced here along with more personal work. But honestly, the reason to buy this book is for his commentary, which is splashed along and on top of the images. His thoughts range from technical tips on lighting, to strange Hunter Thompson-esque stories about the ‘hunt’ for pretty women, all delivered with a who-gives-a-f**k attitude. It’s classic, fantastic, and somewhat offensive at the same time. But what would one expect? Edition Skylight, Zurich, 2002. 176 pp., numerous color and b&w illustrations, 11¼×13¼″. Cat# TS026H Hardbound $50.00 Rankin: Sofasosexy Rankin’s photographs are now quite familiar on this side of the Atlantic, steadily gaining in popularity commensurate with his appeal in Europe. This latest little book is a conceptual piece, and packaged quite nicely. Take one well-worn, mid-century design-ish brown leather couch and add several girls—one at a time—then subtract their clothes, and mix with a camera and lights. The result is one sexy sofa. The work is mostly informed by the power of suggestion, rather than anything terribly explicit. Vision On Publishing, London, 2002. 128 pp., 128 color illustrations, 6¼×8¼″. Cat# ZC080S Softbound $18.95 Porn? Various artists including Nick Knight, Terry Richardson, Sean Ellis, Rankin, Solve Sundsbo, and Larry Sultan. “Somewhere between the explicit revelations about President Clinton’s sex life and the making of The People vs Larry Flynt, dirt lost much of its ability to stain and in the process left a cultural vacuum. With bulk pornography over-exposed and rendered anaemic, the need to ask provocative questions about sexual imagery and the sex industry in the Western world has been answered by an idea storm in the form of a groundbreaking book: ‘Porn?’.—the publisher. The photographs in this book reflect a European taste and sensibility, but includes a hefty dose of digital work mixed in with the straight photography. Vision On Publishing, London, 2001. 320 pp., numerous color and b&w illustrations, 10×13″. Cat# ZB896H Hardbound $50.00 Chas Ray Krider: Motel Fetish What happens when you take the vision and style of Paul Outerbridge, Helmut Newton, and Ralph Gibson, mix them with plenty of cigarette smoke and 70s kitsch, and photograph naked women on saturated color film? The answer is some of the best neo-noir work out there. "Yeah. In the beginning it was all stockings and girdles and high heels that really attracted me and then in the process I discovered sheer panties...I like this veiling. This seeing and not seeing."—Krider. Intelligent, thrift-store erotica. Taschen, Los Angeles, 2002. 240 pp., numerous color illustrations, 9×12″. 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