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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: small PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, near fine and appears unused. FAUSTO CABRERA, C. / SOTH, ALEC. The parameters of our cage. London: MACK, 2020, 126pp., . LACKING THE TWO POSTCARDS - Series: Discourse, 003 "In January 2020, Alec Soth received a letter from Chris Fausto Cabrera, an inmate of the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Rush City, in which he asked the photographer to engage in a dialogue. This sparked an expansive and insightful correspondence over the following nine months which, set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter Movement and growing unrest, reaches to the heart of contemporary America. In amongst their exchanges of personal histories and shared influences - from Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man and André 3000, to Robert Frank's The Americans and Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet' - developed a searing investigation of the redemptive power of art and the imagination, justice and accountability, life inside America's prisons, and the astonishing capacity of empathy and curiosity to bring two people together.". ISBN 9781913620158.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well - patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement - but is it really so simple? Is it a skill one can easily learn or more of a quirk or talent? And why do some people seem to be so much better at it than others?Written by a psychoanalyst and a violin maker, 'Uneasy Listening' is a dialogue between two very different kinds of professional listener: the former working with speech, the latter with musical instruments. Beginning as total strangers, Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young embark on an engaging, entertaining, and winding meditation on communication that weaves together wide-ranging references from across psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics and culture. As they discuss the differences, similarities, and resonances between their practices, they run up against some of the illuminating difficulties of dialogue itself. The result is a kind of awkward duet in which two thinkers and practitioners accommodate, interrupt, and perplex each other in an attempt to say something about what listening means. A psychoanalyst and violinmaker come together to discuss the nature of listening, drawing on references from across psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics, and culture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After arriving in New York in 1938, Austrian photographer Lisette Model quickly found stunning early success. Her photographs graced the pages of renowned magazines and were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. Their frank portrayals of ordinary Americans, captured in bars and restaurants, on the beach and in the streets, revolutionised the world of photography. Yet by 1950, Model had all but ceased to circulate her images, devoting herself instead to teaching a new generation of photographers, including Diane Arbus and Rosalind Fox Solomon. She gained the reputation, scandalous in business-like New York, of being difficult. In this illustrated essay, Duncan Forbes offers a new interpretation of Models photography and biography, asking whether the artists rebelliousness is not in fact the key to understanding her remarkable life and work. This compelling illustrated essay offers a fresh view of photographer and teacher Lisette Model, considering the artists rebelliousness as the key to understanding her remarkable life and work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Volume III only; vol LII from commencement; hinges shaken; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe, 'Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy' (2002). In the essay, Mouffe critiqued the then-dominant 'beyond left and right' politics of neoliberalism and warned of its dangers - the rise of right-wing populist parties. Fascinated by Mouffe's strikingly prophetic ideas, as well as her bold call to fight the status quo in order to radicalise democracy and to prevent violence, Ostoya returned to the booklet in 2019. She composed for it a series of portraits based on sketches of people on the New York City subway and on reproductions of her paintings and collages from the preceding decade. She also conducted a conversation with Mouffe about the politics of the last forty years, about the contemporary moment and about art, which is included in this publication. In 2009, the artist Anna Ostoya created a booklet with textual collages using an essay by the political theorist Chantal Mouffe, 'Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy' (2002). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. with many coloured plates; clothbound.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1996, a book of photographs by an unknown young British photographer was launched on to the London contemporary art market to immediate popular and critical success. The pictures were taken within the claustrophobic, chaotic interior of a Birmingham council flat where the photographers father, Ray, an alcoholic, lived with Liz, his sedentary and occasionally violent mother, and his younger brother Jason.For the public, including cultured, art-loving viewers, the pictures were a shock: more intimate, more personal, more oppressive than the well-meaning photojournalistic study of working-class poverty to which they were accustomed. Some saw them as a betrayal exposing unsuspecting family members to potential humiliation but from Richard Billinghams point of view they made moral judgements and had no social or political purpose. He had taken them as reference images for his painting, and their lives as artworks were as much a result of the interventions of other editors and gallerists as of Billinghams own intentions.This reader traces the history of a body of work which remains as vital and provocative as on its first release, and whose story tells us much about the workings of art, publishing, and the politics of dissemination. Editor Liz Jobey charts the history in a new essay drawing on interviews with Billingham and all the primary protagonists of the works emergence, including Michael Collins, Julian Germain, and Paul Graham. This is followed by an extensive selection of conversations and essays from 1996 to the present day, by writers including Charlotte Cotton, Gordon Burn, Lynn Barber, and Jim Lewis. This reader delves into the history of Richard Billingham's landmark photobook Ray's A Laugh (1996), tracing its complex history of development and dissemination in the art world of the 1990s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Walter Benjamins essay of cultural criticism The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction has become a classic text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond. In it, Benjamin suggested the mediums of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Today, digital technology has dissolved the very category of medium itself. In this pair of succinct and pointed essays, the artist and writer Victor Burgin rereads Benjamins 1935 text twice: first to consider the relation of art to digital reproduction, and second to reflect on the further implications of artificial intelligence. Completed by a conversation with media theorist Katrina Sluis, these texts offer a compelling engagement with the image today, arguing that the camera is now profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible. Victor Burgin rereads Walter Benjamins classic text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in consideration of the relation of art to digital reproduction and artificial intelligence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Complete Essays 1973-1991 is a long-awaited collection of short, allusive texts on the curiosities of photography written by the great Italian artist, Luigi Ghirri. Ghirri's writings spiral outwards from his practice, intuitively exploring the subjects at the core of his images - the themes of identity, time, memory, vision, representation, and sense of place. With a taste for the eclectic, he interweaves references as varied as Prince, Dylan, Hendrix, McLuhan, Mallarme, Gulliver, Eggleston, Evans, neo-realist film, Cezanne and Pessoa. Together, the essays offer a unique and comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography. Above all, they constitute a special form of autobiography for someone whose ironic wit and gentle style has trickled down to so much of contemporary photography.Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions. Born in Scandiano in 1943, Luigi Ghirri spent his working life in the Emilia Romagna region, where he produced one of the most open and layered bodies of work in the history of photography. He was published and exhibited extensively both in Italy and internationally and was at the height of his career at the time of his death in 1992. His first book, Kodachrome (1978), an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre, was re-published by MACK in 2012. Published in English for the first time, this volume of essays contains 68 texts written by Luigi Ghirri between 1973 and 1991. Ghirri wrote texts for his own publications, for magazines and newspapers, as well as private notes that he committed to paper - where his thoughts might settle and then depart in new directions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Fugitive Tilts, Ishion Hutchinson, author of House of Lords and Commons (for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry), turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists that look over him with 'an angel's aura', from Treasure Island to John Coltrane.Gathering essays that range across time, place, and form, Hutchinson builds, piece by piece, a space from which the suffering of the past and the present can be reckoned with and survived. Through these texts, he pays homage to the inheritances and influences that are part of his history and to Derek Walcott in particular, whose legacy threads through the book. Above all, Fugitive Tilts is a book suffused with the sea: its sound, its geography, and, as Hutchinson writes, its 'memory in motion'. Hutchinson's prose debut comprises searing essays on poetry, notions of home, and his artistic influences, paying homage to the diverse literary works that have formed him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In Terra Infecta, Andrea Bagnato tells an unfamiliar history about a well-known place. Since the early days of tourism, the cities and landscapes of Italy have been bywords for beauty and grandeur. But, at home and abroad, the same places have also been haunted by associations with recurring epidemics and unhealthy ways of life, often more to do with politics than conditions on the ground. In this gripping narrative study, Bagnato shows how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy's urban and rural landscapes, propelling major transformations from the draining of the wetlands around Venice, to demolitions and replanning in Naples, to the expulsion of the inhabitants of ancient Matera. He argues that current north-south inequalities are founded on spurious medical narratives, and focuses on the real impact on the people caught in their ministrations. Ranging from Italian unification to the aftershocks of Covid-19, and drawing on architectural records, medical history, and the author's own travels, this vivid book reveals the lived realities of grand schemes, traces of vanished communities, and forgotten histories of collective organisation and resistance. This gripping narrative study examines the ways in which disease and public health have shaped the urban and rural landscapes of Italy, through intriguing case studies from across the country and its history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A collection of color photographs taken in Los Angeles and other neighborhoods between 2007-2012. Features a text by Judith Freeman. Includes 68 color images. A fine copy in paper covered boards. No dust jacket as issued.

Condition: Good. Original decorated cloth, illustrated with photographs in colour, oblong (circa 28x30cm).; Foxing top cut and top edge first two pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 16mo. Wear to extremities rubbing to joints. Cracking front hinge.Heavy foxing to first couple of pages. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'Etel. Her name has a talismanic quality. We heard about her in California, met her in Beirut, ate ice cream with her in Paris. [.] We wrote down everything she said because it had the feel/cadence/glow of sacred wisdom.'My Center is Not The Solar System is a sweeping and tender collection of essays on the life and work of the late Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan, whose art bore witness to so many of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' epochal shifts. In ever-evolving and experimental forms, the book gathers reflections from friends, collaborators, and admirers, alongside a selection of Adnan's final, previously unpublished watercolour paintings. Co-published with Bidoun, this volume stands as both tribute and testament to an artist whose presence, like her words, continues to radiate.With writings by Aria Aber, Omar Berrada, Gavin Bryars, Stuart Comer, Dominique Edde, Fouad ElKoury, Simone Fattal, Joana Hadjithomas, Bruce Hainley, Isabella Hammad, Lamia Joreige, Abdellatif Laabi, Emily LaBarge, Quinn Latimer, Eileen Miles, Edwin Nasr, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ariana Reines, Lynne Tillman, Fawwaz Traboulsi, Anne Waldman, Robert Wilson, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie A tender collection of essays paying tribute to the life and work of the late Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan, presented alongside a selection of Adnan's unpublished watercolour paintings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Unleashing Amores Perros tells the story behind the making of Alejandro G. Inarritu's Academy Award-nominated feature through the many individuals who brought the film to life. Comprising seventy-seven testimonials from the cast and crew - actors, cinematographers, editors, set designers, sound engineers, and production assistants - Fernando Llanos's book makes known the triumphs and challenges of the film's extraordinary production. Through these diverse perspectives, the book provides a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the creative force behind a film which redefined Mexican cinema upon its release in 2000. Underlining the collective vision of Amores Perros, these interviews reveal the passion and artistry that went into each frame, honouring each person's contribution to its masterful construction. This collection of interviews with the cast and crew behind Alejandro G. Inarritu's groundbreaking debut film Amores Perros offers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at its creation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. 80 pages with many b/ew-illustrations on plates; illustrated clothbound.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Jason Fulfords latest book is a vibrant riff on conceptual artist Sol LeWitts 1977 publication PhotoGrids. Lots Of Lots transforms the seemingly quotidian objects captured by Fulford in nearly seven hundred photographs into an evocative collection of interconnected and overlapping forms. Employing a 3x3 format with nine square images on each page, Fulford groups his photographs by idiosyncratic features such as colour palette, slogans, distinctive shadows, and geometric shape. Untethered by location, style, or time, they move between coherence and collision in reflection of the varying order and disorder of the world. An empty laundrette, a lone park bench, and a cascading waterfall are among the many sights that find new resonance in Fulfords wry and illuminating compositions, revealing beauty among endless production and consumption. Riffing on conceptual artist Sol LeWitts 1977 publication PhotoGrids, Fulford categorises over seven hundred photographs in 3x3 format, anointing familiar objects and scenery with new wonder. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: VG. hardcover. 48mo. unpp. Miniature notebook with 3 Scripture verses opposite blank area for. people's names and birthdays. Several named Statham listed.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream is the debut book by Academy Award-winning director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland, 2020), actor Jessie Buckley, and photographer Agata Grzybowska, created during the making of Zhaos latest film Hamnet (2025).Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhaos creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhaos cinematic storytelling, Buckleys mesmerising writings, and Grzybowskas haunting photographs were made. Brought together in this book, they conjure a parallel telling of the story of Hamnet, the son of William Shakespeare.Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream unfolds as a quiet companion to the film: not a document of its making, but a powerful reimagining that exists somewhere in the threshold between the worlds of waking and dreaming, reality and illusion, life and death.Hamnet is in select theaters this November.First edition published by MACK, 2025 (c) 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLCFilm (c) 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC Through Chloe Zhaos cinematic storytelling, Jessie Buckleys mesmerising writings, and Agata Grzybowskas haunting photographs, this book conjures a parallel telling of the story of Zhaos 2025 film Hamnet. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Cloth. Condition: Average. . 144 pages, edges etc foxed. Published in or after 1876.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2013, Hardcover with illustrated paper covered boards, 116 page book. Illustrated with Mr. Plademunt's great photo work in fold out pages and in full page black & white. Condition : Fine. Aleix Plademunt (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: In Shrinkwrap. First edition. Yellow photo-illustrated wraps with black and yellow lettering; 127 pp.; richly illustrated. "In 1990, a year before the Zapatistas' armed revolt, Wendy Ewald was invited to conduct photography classes for Mayan, Ladino, and Tzotzil children living in Chiapas, the southernmost province of Mexico. The sponsoring organization was the Mayan writers' cooperative, Sna Jtz-ibajom (The House of the Writers). . . . Ewald did not take pictures; instead she guided her students in taking their own pictures of their daily lives, dreams, desires, and fantasies. . . . .the resulting project, The Devil is leaving his Cave, is a unique insight into the everyday realities of life in Mayan communities just before the devastation of the Zapatista uprising. . . This book brings together Ewald's original project with new work made in collaboration with fifteen young Mexican Americans living in Chicago, coordinated with the help of Centro Romero, an immigrant service organisation. . . . Together, the Chiapas and Chicago projects trace the differences between growing up in different Mexican geographies with diverse histories, while holding on to the universal joys and sorrows of childhood''--Publisher's website (viewed on May 16, 2022).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust COVER. First Edition. Approximately 256 + 1pp book adverts, 2.75 x 4.25 inches or 7 x 10.5cms, hardcover, blue pictorial decorated cloth, front and back covers decorated, decorated spine, title in gilt, gift inscription on front endpaper, this item has been used as a birthday book and has names written within it o/w very good condition, W. Mack, London, circa 1880. * a charming birthday book for remembering birthdays with a verse for everyday. LACKS THE COLOURED FRONTISPIECE.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. "At first the focus of my project was my gender transition, but along the way I found out that it's about an ongoing search for myself: being a human with feelings, who is continuously developing." - Marvel HarrisMARVEL describes the journey of Marvel Harris' personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years. These photographs present a new-found visual language; a tool with which Marvel was able to express those emotions that, on account of his autism, he previously struggled to make sense of. The process of making these portraits allowed him to connect to the world around him at the time he needed it most.Winner of the MACK First Book Award 2021, MARVEL is an important new voice which contributes to an increased awareness of the issues surrounding gender identity and mental health. In doing so, this deeply personal book demands a more tolerant attitude from society towards transgender people and those who don't identify as entirely male or female. MARVEL describes the journey of Marvel Harris' personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the course of five years. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Signed by the artist. Olive green cloth over boards with white lettering and illustration and mounted photo on the rear cover; unpaginated; richly illustrated. This compendium of images is unhinged from the moorings of conventional narrative readings. They speak of travel, pilgrimage, epiphany and discovery with a simple, selfless stoicism. Time of day, experiments out on the water, scientific equipment, all suggest an itinerary at once mysterious and immanent, pungent and rich. A fragmented litany of objectivities forms a cohesive chain of elliptical meanings. We are complicit in the constitution of sense as each image stakes its claim upon us. This compendium of images is inspired by the dual principle of common good and necessary evil. Canadian photographer Guillaume Simoneau explores a place far removed from our everyday vanities: the Experimental Lakes Area in the sparsely populated region of northwestern Ontario. But rather than a book about the 58 pristine lakes that comprise this world-renowned natural laboratory, Simoneau's allusive photographs use the freshwater site as a means to look outwards, to consider a world beyond our own reflections. Unhinged from the moorings of narrative readings, the sequence of images floats between botanic life - aquatic and terrestrial - and hand-made apparatus used by an influential community of international scientists based in the area. The findings of their research into human impacts on entire ecosystems have significantly influenced the decisions of governments and industries. By testing, for example, the effects in the lakes of new chemical substances, they have been able to inform global environmental policies. Simoneau's elliptical documentation of their work is punctuated by sublime vistas of calm waters and pine trees, and of remarkable natural phenomena. United by an enigmatic orbital motif, the photographs in Experimental Lake lead us on an illuminating journey -- Provided by the publisher. Good+ (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; signature on title page; interior is clean; binding is solid.). …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Following the vast critical acclaim of Stephen Shore's experimental memoir Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography, we are pleased to present this new and expanded edition, available in paperback. Perfect for both new readers and those wanting to learn more from Shore's invaluable teaching, this edition includes several new essays not included in the hardcover, over forty new images, plus an extensive notes section in which Shore reflects on elements of the original text and expands on themes such as inspiration, gifts, tragedy, and vernacular photography.Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography is an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of ground-breaking work. With essays, photographs, stories, and excerpts that draw on Shore's decades of teaching, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in learning more about mastering one's craft and the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. As much as offering meditation on the influences of a single artist, Modern Instances proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which even the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration - if only we pay attention. Following the acclaim of Stephen Shore's memoir Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography, this new paperback edition includes several new essays, over forty new images, and an extensive notes section. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of arch-itecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we build the world. Developed for the 'Grundkurs', or 'basic course', at Vienna Technical University, Tamburelli's lessons are presented through the annotated sketches that form the basis of his lectures - variously rough and precise, sarcastic and sincere, and always uniquely expressive. This volume is a rich visual sourcebook of architectural ideas that form an accessible and discursive introduction to the discipline - one which pauses on the road to grand theories to learn from the intuitive processes of notetaking, drawing, and association.Tamburelli's lessons are based around a series of dialectic couples, including Roof/Wall, Shelter/Memory, and Language/Action. The pairs are experimental and often provocative, offering a framework to be used to climb in the direction of architecture. Tamburelli trusts in the capacity of images to suspend the restraints of more rigorous theoretical approaches, embraces the flexible wisdom of the note, and relishes the intrigue of the cryptic messages we leave for ourselves. Reproduced here in their entirety, these eight lessons offer countless routes towards, through, and around architecture, providing newcomers and experts alike with an intimate and refreshing encounter with a millennia-old discipline.With an introduction by the author and a text by Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design An irreverent graphic introduction to the fundamentals of architecture from Pier Paolo Tamburelli, comprising eight 'lessons' inscribed in vivid sketches and hand-written notes. With an afterword by Mark Lee. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…