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Hans van der Meer has been photographing football matches in the amateur leagues in Holland and beyond since 1995. The resulting pictures, often taken on pitches in apparently bizarre locations, are an amusing yet touching homage to passion and comradeship more than compensating for a lack of skill and professionalism. The photographs show some of the country's oldest(...)
Dutch fields : Hans van der Meer
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Hans van der Meer has been photographing football matches in the amateur leagues in Holland and beyond since 1995. The resulting pictures, often taken on pitches in apparently bizarre locations, are an amusing yet touching homage to passion and comradeship more than compensating for a lack of skill and professionalism. The photographs show some of the country's oldest football pitches, some humble villagepitches, others more grand, always with the flat Dutch landscape a prominent player.
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Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled "Many Are Called". This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a(...)
Many are called : Walker Evans
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Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled "Many Are Called". This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, "Many Are Called" is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. "Many Are Called" came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat--the lens peeking through a buttonhole--he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans’s subway portraits. This beautiful new edition--published in the centenary year of the NYC subway--is an essential book for all admirers of Evans’s unparalleled photographs, Agee’s elegant prose, and the great City of New York. Designed by Katy Homans with an introduction by Luc Santé.
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Robbert Flick : trajectories
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Robbert Flick's work extends the same visual, philosophical, and theoretically fertile tradition set by the highly influential and iconoclastic Robert Heinecken. But while Heinecken's emphasis can be said to rely on the manner in which images function within the intersection of popular culture and the fine arts, Flick has characteristically concentrated more intently on(...)
Robbert Flick : trajectories
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Robbert Flick's work extends the same visual, philosophical, and theoretically fertile tradition set by the highly influential and iconoclastic Robert Heinecken. But while Heinecken's emphasis can be said to rely on the manner in which images function within the intersection of popular culture and the fine arts, Flick has characteristically concentrated more intently on the artifactual, conceptual, and receptive properties of photography--specifically landscape photography. The distinctive retinal and conceptual strength of Flick's work has been evident since his early essay-format images of the 1960s. In his more recent digital work, he extends his participation in the critical discourse established around the interpretation, evaluation, and assessment of visual constructs related to the landscape. And yet, this movement has only become possible through a conceptual transition from a position of creating unique objects to an emphasis on interactivity and multiple access using still and moving images that allow for the work's insertion into the broader socio-political arena where the application defines the discourse. Trajectories traces the artist's career from the 1970s to the present, providing the opportunity to examine his visual development while also charting the conceptual and philosophical impact of contemporary culture on landscape, cultural geography, and technology. Edited by Tim B. Wride with essays by Michael Dear and David L. Ulin
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Maxime Delvaux: Châteai de Chambord, Dilmun burial Mounds, Joze Plecnik, Rio Tinto, Victora Horta
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The story of this book was built over time, through the many exchanges that took place between a photographer, the editors, graphic designers and authors. The publication is structured around five photographic series, each devoted to a particular building, site or architect: Château de Chambord in France, Dilmun Burial Mounds in Bahrain, Joze Plecnik’s buildings in and(...)
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Maxime Delvaux: Châteai de Chambord, Dilmun burial Mounds, Joze Plecnik, Rio Tinto, Victora Horta
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The story of this book was built over time, through the many exchanges that took place between a photographer, the editors, graphic designers and authors. The publication is structured around five photographic series, each devoted to a particular building, site or architect: Château de Chambord in France, Dilmun Burial Mounds in Bahrain, Joze Plecnik’s buildings in and around Ljubljana, Rio Tinto in Spain, and Victor Horta’s Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. It is, especially, a book of (hi)stories in which the series by Maxime Delvaux are accompanied by texts. For these, various authors have been invited to react to the images with the idea of experimenting with the text: fiction, historical essay, round-table discussion, scientific text and photonovel. Graphic designers played with text and images to give them form. The reader is in turn invited to create possible alliances between images and texts. Like Maxime Delvaux’s photographic approach, these texts and their articulation with the photographs are specific to each subject, illustrating five ways of showing and telling about places near and far.
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Being visual climate thermometers, glaciers are usually portrayed and talked about from that perspective. But Swiss photographer Julian Stetler looks at glaciers as living beings and active protagonists. Born out of the permanent metamorphosis from snow to ice, they are uniquely dynamic. From the human perspective, we can only ever perceive slices of them; they exist in a(...)
December 2023
Julian Stettler: The glacier is a being
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Being visual climate thermometers, glaciers are usually portrayed and talked about from that perspective. But Swiss photographer Julian Stetler looks at glaciers as living beings and active protagonists. Born out of the permanent metamorphosis from snow to ice, they are uniquely dynamic. From the human perspective, we can only ever perceive slices of them; they exist in a different timescale, beyond our grasp. This book examines the many ways of glacial expression, the diverse shapes and colours they assume, and how they influence and mingle with their surroundings. With a poem by Daniela Molnar, plus contributions by a journalist, a landscape architect, and a microbiologist.
Issei Suda: Holy night
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"Holy night" presents photographs that Issei Suda took on the night of Christmas Eve 1991 in Tokyo. "I wonder how many Japanese people actually think of Jesus Christ on Christmas. We just observe Christmas Eve by buying cake and bringing it home to eat; lovers spend it together as the most romantic night of the year. These kinds of customs have become the norm. I could(...)
Issei Suda: Holy night
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"Holy night" presents photographs that Issei Suda took on the night of Christmas Eve 1991 in Tokyo. "I wonder how many Japanese people actually think of Jesus Christ on Christmas. We just observe Christmas Eve by buying cake and bringing it home to eat; lovers spend it together as the most romantic night of the year. These kinds of customs have become the norm. I could suddenly play the part of the righteous Buddhist and call everyone out on it – You dumbasses, you aren’t even Christians – but it feels like it’d be a waste." — Issei Suda
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This latest publications by Café Royal Books presents the work of photographer Keith Nolan. This series shows his photographs of Dublin City and the surrounding suburbs and county in the 1970s.
Keith Nolan: Dublin City, suburbs & county 1970s
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This latest publications by Café Royal Books presents the work of photographer Keith Nolan. This series shows his photographs of Dublin City and the surrounding suburbs and county in the 1970s.
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A hugely respected figure in Scottish photography, Douglas Corrance has spent the last six decades training his lens on interesting subjects here in Scotland and around the globe. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Douglas was a budding photographer who loved wandering the streets of Edinburgh in search of sights to document, This latest title, Douglas' fourth with Café(...)
Douglas Corrance : Edinburgh 1970s - 1980s
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A hugely respected figure in Scottish photography, Douglas Corrance has spent the last six decades training his lens on interesting subjects here in Scotland and around the globe. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Douglas was a budding photographer who loved wandering the streets of Edinburgh in search of sights to document, This latest title, Douglas' fourth with Café Royal Books, takes us on a nostalgic trip back to the capital as it was in the days when milk deliveries were still hauled by horses and carefree children were forever out playing on the pavements. Across the 38 images contained in the photozine we're treated to the sight of ordinary scenes that have become extraordinary with the passing of the decades.
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Sanuel Hoppe: NIVAL
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"NIVAL" is a collection of photographs taken by Samuel Hoppe between 2019 and 2023 in the French Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Jotunheimen (Norway). Photographed in the higher elevations of these different mountain ranges, the subjects are stark and desolate, at once forbidding, alien, and sublime. The sweeping, panoramic vistas of peaks, snowy landscapes, and rock-strewn(...)
Sanuel Hoppe: NIVAL
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"NIVAL" is a collection of photographs taken by Samuel Hoppe between 2019 and 2023 in the French Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Jotunheimen (Norway). Photographed in the higher elevations of these different mountain ranges, the subjects are stark and desolate, at once forbidding, alien, and sublime. The sweeping, panoramic vistas of peaks, snowy landscapes, and rock-strewn slopes fill page after page, a formidable portrait of the grandiose power and limitless scale of geological time. With graphic design by Julien Hourcade.
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Joel Sternfeld: Nags Head
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In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with the potential of paralysis, a young Joel Sternfeld went off in search of a last idyll-- and found it in Nags Head, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. From June to August he captured the beach town floating in time, a sense of spatial and temporal fluidity. Sternfeld’s images show beachgoers of all ages enjoying scenes of leisure(...)
Joel Sternfeld: Nags Head
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In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with the potential of paralysis, a young Joel Sternfeld went off in search of a last idyll-- and found it in Nags Head, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. From June to August he captured the beach town floating in time, a sense of spatial and temporal fluidity. Sternfeld’s images show beachgoers of all ages enjoying scenes of leisure and partying in what became his first body of work addressing a season. Yet this summer sojourn was tragically broken by the news of the death of his brother; Sternfeld returned to New York, never to go back to Nags Head. Eventually he began working again and one day ventured to Rockaway Beach, Queens. Here he took a picture in which "all at once the ugly scene appeared beautiful to me": the hues of sand, apartments and sky fuse into a cohesive whole. This photo, with its conceptual roots in Nags Head, would lead to the color structures of Sternfeld’s magnum opus American Prospects, his ambitious realization of what he had always wanted to do: follow the seasons across America.
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