Koechlin House
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This book by photographer and architect Daisuke Hirabayashi is a meditation on the often overlooked lives of buildings after the architect has left. Through a sequence of intimate, immersive images, Hirabayashi explores Koechlin House, an early private home designed by now-celebrated architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. His images picture the house as a(...)
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This book by photographer and architect Daisuke Hirabayashi is a meditation on the often overlooked lives of buildings after the architect has left. Through a sequence of intimate, immersive images, Hirabayashi explores Koechlin House, an early private home designed by now-celebrated architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. His images picture the house as a site of everyday life, with all its small joys, surprises, awkward infelicities, rituals, and revelations. The original clients left long ago, and this book quietly studies the current owner’s unplanned, harmonious occupation. The Koechlin House was designed ''inside out'', prioritising the experience of the interior home over its outward-facing appearance. In this sense, Hirabayashi works in the spirit of the building, centring the embodied experience within and disregarding the omniscient and dehumanised view prevalent in so many accounts of architecture. Alongside a text by architects and writers Ellena Ehrl and Tibor Bielicky, and an afterword by Nicolas Jérôme Hünerwadel, these images encourage us to rethink the perspectives and details we deem ''architectural'' and leave us newly aware of the long and many-storied lives of buildings.
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Sean was born in 1948 in Hull. His lifelong passion for photography began during his time at Ealing Art College in the 1970s, where he studied the craft and honed his creative vision. He spent most of his life in Bristol, working as a skilled builder specialising in the restoration of houses. However, his love for capturing the world through his lens never wavered. Sean's(...)
Sean Plunkett: Rush Hour London Underground 1973
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Sean was born in 1948 in Hull. His lifelong passion for photography began during his time at Ealing Art College in the 1970s, where he studied the craft and honed his creative vision. He spent most of his life in Bristol, working as a skilled builder specialising in the restoration of houses. However, his love for capturing the world through his lens never wavered. Sean's dedication to his craft was evident as he documented moments, scenes, and emotions throughout his entire life. Despite living, working, and raising a family in Bristol, Sean held a deep affection for his hometown of Hull. He took great pride in his roots, and his images often reflected the essence and character of Hull and its people. A true testament to his loyalty, Sean remained an avid supporter of Hull City, unwavering in his commitment to his beloved team.? In recent years Sean started rediscovering and scanning his negatives from the 70s. This caught the eye of the publisher Cafe Royal Books and his images are now available for the world to see. Sean sadly died at the beginning of 2023 - his memory lives on through his images.
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Devenir invisible
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Croisant photographie et philosophie, ce livre interroge la représentation des réfugiés. À l'heure où ces derniers sont pris en étau en Europe entre une politique de « retours » et l'arrivée au pouvoir de gouvernements d'extrême droite.
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September 2023
Devenir invisible
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Croisant photographie et philosophie, ce livre interroge la représentation des réfugiés. À l'heure où ces derniers sont pris en étau en Europe entre une politique de « retours » et l'arrivée au pouvoir de gouvernements d'extrême droite.
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Published on the occasion of the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2023, which included a section dedicated to publishers and artists from Nordic countries, Takashi Homma presents his new photobook "Islands, islets, and their mushrooms" in collaboration with Tove Jansson translator Keiko Morishita. Homma’s photographs capture the beauty of the islands and the sea between them, but(...)
Takashi Homma: Islands, islets, and their mushrooms
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Published on the occasion of the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2023, which included a section dedicated to publishers and artists from Nordic countries, Takashi Homma presents his new photobook "Islands, islets, and their mushrooms" in collaboration with Tove Jansson translator Keiko Morishita. Homma’s photographs capture the beauty of the islands and the sea between them, but also offer a brief photographic account of the various mushrooms that grow in the region. The photographs are interspersed with personal essays written by Keiko Morishita (who served as Homma’s coordinator) about his own experiences on the islands and the lives of the people who live there.
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Standing on the property line between two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, American photographer Thomas Locke Hobbs was reminded of a Renaissance painting, ''The Ideal City of Urbino'', where the illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. It inspired his book ‘L.A. Vedute’, a(...)
Thomas Locke Hobbs: L.A Vedute
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Standing on the property line between two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, American photographer Thomas Locke Hobbs was reminded of a Renaissance painting, ''The Ideal City of Urbino'', where the illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. It inspired his book ‘L.A. Vedute’, a documentary study of domestic architecture in Los Angeles. The work presents the way shared spaces recede to a common vanishing point, largely unpopulated and deserted, akin to movie sets where the actors have disappeared. Through metaphors of alienation, Hobbs exposes a city in conflict and coexistence.
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"Work in progress" is a dramatic presentation of Peter Essick's four-year project oflow-level aerial photographs of construction sites in the Atlanta Metro area.Essick said about his work, "It wasn't until I started flying a drone that I realizedconstruction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures andcolors of human-altered landscapes are(...)
Peter Essick: Work in progress
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"Work in progress" is a dramatic presentation of Peter Essick's four-year project oflow-level aerial photographs of construction sites in the Atlanta Metro area.Essick said about his work, "It wasn't until I started flying a drone that I realizedconstruction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures andcolors of human-altered landscapes are endlessly fascinating. Seeing andphotographing this landscape from the air has opened up for me new ways ofcreative expression. Construction sites change by the day, and the light andexposure are never the same. Wood, steel, and concrete relate to each other ininfinite varieties of order and disorder." "Work in progress" is a unique vision of a human-altered landscape.
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast(...)
Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast assortment of small ramps has emerged. These ramps possess a sculptural and expressive quality, and constitute a kind of folk brutalism. ''Rampitas'' is a small study of and appreciation for these forms that tell so much about the conditions – social, economic, and topographical – that defined the struggles and lives of the people who built them.
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« Kiss landing » est un ouvrage qui rassemble des photographies réalisées sur une période de 10 ans à Montréal et à Casablanca, deux villes entre lesquelles Fatine-Violette Sabiri fait l’aller-retour depuis son enfance. Le titre du livre, « Kiss landing », est un terme d’aviation qui désigne un type d’atterrissage où l’avion se pose délicatement sur le sol. S’il(...)
Fatine-Violette Sabiri : Kiss landing
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« Kiss landing » est un ouvrage qui rassemble des photographies réalisées sur une période de 10 ans à Montréal et à Casablanca, deux villes entre lesquelles Fatine-Violette Sabiri fait l’aller-retour depuis son enfance. Le titre du livre, « Kiss landing », est un terme d’aviation qui désigne un type d’atterrissage où l’avion se pose délicatement sur le sol. S’il bouscule moins les passagers, cet atterrissage tend en revanche à endommager les roues de l’appareil puisqu’il en brûle le caoutchouc. La métaphore, ici, exprime avec justesse le sentiment de se trouver entre les deux villes dont la photographe est originaire : si la venue dans un pays est une promesse de retrouvailles, elle entraîne nécessairement une rupture avec le lieu que l’on quitte. Les portraits, paysages et natures mortes se trouvant dans « Kiss landing » s’intéressent aux notions d’amitié, d’hospitalité et d’intimité, tout en cherchant constamment à analyser la signification d’un « chez-soi ».
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Gabriele Rossi : The Lizard
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Making photographs as a way of "feeling at home without being at home." That’s how Gabriele Rossi describes the process that led to "The Lizard", his new monograph with Deadbeat Club. "I looked for the edge of the city, went to the shore at Rockaway, the houses, anything that could remind me of where I’m from," Rossi says. This approach drove him to consider his(...)
Gabriele Rossi : The Lizard
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Making photographs as a way of "feeling at home without being at home." That’s how Gabriele Rossi describes the process that led to "The Lizard", his new monograph with Deadbeat Club. "I looked for the edge of the city, went to the shore at Rockaway, the houses, anything that could remind me of where I’m from," Rossi says. This approach drove him to consider his definition of "home" – the place where he could ultimately feel comfortable – and to return to the U.S. twice more to explore this compulsion across more than ten states in the Midwest and West. At the same time, he was interested in responding as an outsider to the structures of classic American photography, like that of Robert Adams. When the pandemic interrupted further travel, Rossi set about thinking through the pictures that he had amassed, trying to find common forms and themes – the connections that built the story about his being away from home. His effort was to understand why he was making the pictures, and not just to present a lot of pictures "about" America. As a result, "The Lizard" is a strange and uncanny atlas of the familiar transformed into the unfamiliar through the vision of a stranger who's only looking for some sort of home.
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Ian Bates : Lost Dog
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"Lost Dog" opens with a cat inquisitively turning towards us - a character inviting us to a vast land. And we can indeed speak of character, so much does "Lost Dog" resemble a fable. Throughout the pages, Bates is the solitary traveler on an odyssey, coming across with elusive figures, crossing depopulated places that, always, retain the mysterious traces of a past(...)
Ian Bates : Lost Dog
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"Lost Dog" opens with a cat inquisitively turning towards us - a character inviting us to a vast land. And we can indeed speak of character, so much does "Lost Dog" resemble a fable. Throughout the pages, Bates is the solitary traveler on an odyssey, coming across with elusive figures, crossing depopulated places that, always, retain the mysterious traces of a past presence - wreckage landed on the branches of a dead tree, details of a forgotten domestic life, blood stains on immaculate snow... And sometimes, among the crystal-clear images, a tenderness emerges here and there, rays of warmth found in a woman's gaze or in a benevolent flame. Through valleys and mountains, Ian Bates offers with "Lost Dog" a portrait of a mysterious American North West, whose strangeness and magnificent solitude he captures like no other.
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