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Martino Marangoni - Rebuilding, My Days In New York / 1959-2018

The Eriskay Connection 2018 ISBN 9789492051349 Acqn 29217
Pb 20x28cm 208pp col ills £45

As the son of an Italian father and an American mother, Martino Marangoni sailed to New York for
the first time in the summer of 1959, to visit his American grandparents. He was nine years old,
brought his first camera, and photographed the impressive skyscrapers. His fascination with the
city brought him back almost every year. Not only he was there when the Twin Towers were
being built, but he also happened to be there when they collapsed in 2001. 'Rebuilding' is a
collection of images from Marangoni's archive, covering 60 years. An intriguing testimonial of the
fast-changing city and street-life.

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Mary Frey - Real Life Dramas

Peperoni Books 2018 ISBN 9783941249271 Acqn 28987
Hb 29x25cm 128pp 59 col ills £50

When Mary Frey's book READING RAYMOND CARVER was released in 2017, many people
rubbed their eyes in astonishment: Why don't I know Mary Frey? What happened, that more than
30 years had to pass before these grandiose pictures are publicly shown?

It's not exactly like that. For the black-and-white photographs taken at home and in her immediate
vicinity in Massachusetts between 1979 and 1984 Mary Frey has been awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship. In 1987 and 1991 her colour photographs on the same subject were shown in New
York at the MoMA. And then? Silence. Mary Frey has continued to photograph, she taught at
several Universities, some museums and collectors have her pictures in their collections, famous
photographers have been inspired by her work, but she never took care to push her own career
as an artist.

But now something is happening. Mary Frey is the rediscovery of the moment, her pictures too
good to be overlooked. Photographed in large format on film, technically perfect, between
snapshot and enactment, intimacy and distance. Charged banalities with children, adolescents
and adults, middle class, USA, 35 years ago.

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Everyone Is Present: Essays On Photography, Memory And Family By Terry Kurgan

Fourthwall Books 2018 ISBN 9780994700964 Acqn 29216
Hb 16x22cm 280pp ills £39

In this book, Terry Kurgan begins with a family snapshot made by her Polish grandfather in 1939
on the eve of the war. Presenting this evocative image as a repository of multiple histories -
public, private, domestic, familial, and generational - she sets off on a series of meditations on
photography that give us startling insights into how photographs work: what they conceal, how
they mislead, what provocations they contain. Each essay takes up the thread of the story of her
family's epic journey across Europe as they flee Nazi occupation, until they reach Cape Town.
Kurgan's essays are part memoir, part travelogue, part analysis, and they demonstrate her
sophisticated understanding of a medium that has long engaged her as an artist.

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Erik Viklund - Om Han Var

Lihalaidun 2018 ISBN 9789163960277 Acqn 29044
Pb 21x29cm 144pp col ills £40

Portraits of young men that Erik Viklund met on city streets between 2015 and 2017 fill this
volume. He also picked up sheets of paper found on sidewalks, community billboards, and walls
of the public realm. Gluing and pressing these pages together, he crafted double-sided sheets on
which the portraits were then printed. The portraits were made in several cities and countries, but
what the young men all have in common is that they were walking or hanging out by themselves.
The images reconsider ideas of masculinity and intimacy, while the worn paper blends with the
portraits to form a new image comprising two parallel traces. Viklund hand-bound each book
himself, a tactile closure.

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Andreas Herzau – Am
Nimbus 2018 ISBN 9783038500537 Acqn 29056
Pb 20x28cm 108pp col ills £38.95

Photographer Andreas Herzau examines the relationship between politics and the public, as well
as the representation of female power, in this series featuring Angela Merkel. For years, Herzau
accompanied the German Chancellor at her public appearances in order to produce this
photographic investigation. The series reflects the theatre, the absurdities and realities of political
life, the loneliness and struggle, and the power and pain that are inherent to politics as a
profession. Herzau deconstructs the rituals of public self-presentation with excerpts and
sometimes enigmatically encrypted images, in the process allowing unexpected details to speak
for themselves.

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Rudolf Strobl – Dye

Fotohof 2018 ISBN 9783902993694 Acqn 29148
Pb 22x32cm 64pp 39col ills £23.50

In Dye, Rudolf Strobl showcases the result of several years of photographic documentary work.
He focuses on locations that have been deprived of their original purpose and are now used as
'battle grounds' by paintball players. With the artist's gaze trained firmly on a precise
topographical analysis of these battlefields, the cultural and social aspects of the (war) games
have become somewhat sidelined. These are locations which, like everything depicted in the
photographs, have been radically taken out of context and translocated to an artificial world. As
gaming arenas these former warehouses, deserted inns, and abandoned farmsteads are now
simulacra of themselves. And yet the focal point of Rudolf Strobl's exploration of the subject
matter is not just the preconditions of the game, but first and foremost its formal outcome. Indeed,
the traces of these simulated battles have been deposited over these locations as layer upon
layer of brightly coloured paints, adding a further quality. It is almost as if the photographer were
wandering through the vast open landscapes of a monumental oil painting, a painting whose
woodlands and meadows were dotted with objects as colourful as they are peculiar, creating the
perception of a walk-in art space. It is an illusion that appears at the end of a delightful
contemplation of an eminently artificial world.

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Yoshinori Mizutani - Hdr_nature

Amana 2018 ISBN 9784865872965 Acqn 29047
Hb 23x31cm 136pp col ills £61

With this photobook, Yoshinori Mizutani aims to create and explore images from the world
beyond our senses with a camera. He uses the camera's HDR setting, meaning three images are
captured with different exposure settings, which are then automatically combined. Because of the
way the photographs are taken, the final result depends entirely on the mechanics of the device.
By moving the camera while shooting, unintended outcomes emerge: vivid colour washes, hard-
edged shapes, and hazy abstractions. Mizutani uses this technique to his advantage, as a way to
discover new images while at the same time challenging and expanding the possibilities of
photography.

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Marianna Rothen - Mail Order

B.frank Books 2018 ISBN 9783906217123 Acqn 29258
Hb 21x28cm 80pp col ills £48.50

Canadian-born photographer Marianna Rothen spent her formative years working as a model in
the fashion industry, which in turn shaped her approach as a photographer. Her work reflects a
strong interest in female characters, who are often portrayed in a nostalgic manner. In 'Mail
Order', Rothen herself is the sultry, sexy subject - an archetype inspired by the silver screen. With
a collection of male mannequins, she takes part in a dystopic scenography informed by real-life
anxieties around gender and patriarchy, played out against a backdrop worn interiors and natural
surroundings. The series has overtones of mystery and disillusion that become part of a larger
narrative.

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Miki Soejima - The Passenger's Present

Fw 2018 ISBN 9789490119676 Acqn 29260
Pb 20x28cm 128pp col ills £39.50

Miki Soejima began working with photographs after completing her studies in cultural
anthropology in Kyoto. Her projects straddle the line between fact and fiction, uncovering the
inherent artifice and truths in images, the significance of authorship, and the power of suspended
disbelief. This volume proposes a multi-layered view of Japanese contemporary society. The
project ponders how our imagination can initiate a process that questions the narratives which
surround us and the frameworks that sustain them, evoking a web of histories, myths, and
constructed narratives. It comprises photographs taken in and around Tokyo, Okinawa, and other
places, interspersed with still-life images.

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