Michael Kenna's photographs have long inspired words such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The photographs in Kenna's important monograph, Japan, are the result of an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Kenna has had a large following in Japan ever since his first exhibition there in 1987. His many subsequent exhibitions and publications in Japan have provided him with ample opportunities to visit and photograph. During the past several years, as this project began to take shape, Kenna's trips became more frequent and intense. The resulting images are stunning. Superbly printed in tritone, Japan is hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese folding slipcase. Text in Japanese and English by Kotaro Iizawa.

MICHAEL KENNA JAPAN

Arts & Photography

KENNA, Michael

Photography & Video

NAZRAELI

MASAO YAMAMOTO THE PATH OF GREEN LEAVES (ONE PICTURE BOOK 16) /ANGLAIS

YAMAMOTO MASAO

Artist Book. The 17th title in the now-legendary "One Picture Book" Series by Nazraeli Press, one of the most superb ongoing projects of contemporary art photography. Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Accompanied by one tipped-in, original print by the artist/photographer (hence the Series' name). An elegant production: Small-size volume format. Titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Martin Parr. Presents the bitingly satirical yet oddly moving work of the internationally acclaimed British photographer Martin Parr. Parr has long been fascinated by Communist countries and by their artifacts in particular. This small but perfectly presented selection of color images ("Still Lifes", as Martin Parr calls them) colorfully depicts a range of food from a plate of luncheon meat to a gloriously decorated cake, juxtaposed with the necessities of life: Toilet roll, a bar of soap, a dripping tap. "The photographs were taken between 1999 and 2002 in Cuba, Latvia, Lithuania and Kazakhstan. Not all these countries are still under Communist rule but the subjects of Parr's still lifes still survive. Martin Parr is a Magnum photographer whose work has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide" (Publisher's blurb). A neat triumph. 6 color plates, 1 original print. The most important and most influential living British photographer.

MARTIN PARR 7 COMMUNIST STILL LIFES (ONE PICTURE BOOK 17)

Martin Parr

Michael Kenna: A twenty year retrospective / [introduction Peter C. Bunnel]

Michelle Keim grew up in rural Ohio, an area more known for its rolling pastures than industrial parks. While in college at the Columbus College of Art and Design, she became fascinated by the industrial landscape and its overbearing presence. Keim started photographing active industry in the Midwest in 1992 and moved to Chicago three years later to get closer to the great steel metropolis of Gary, Indiana. The industrial landscapes have led Keim to explore the fascinating concept of power, an overwhelming force that is inherent in the utilitarian structures she shoots. The scale and function of industry rivals the sublime beauty associated with natural forms and forces. Keim accentuates this relationship by photographing at night, which eliminates details in the massive forms. The ultimate goal for Keim is to emphasize the force and drama with which active industrial structures rise up from the contemporary landscape. Steel mills and power plants contain the same tense beauty and spectacular power as volcanoes and electrical storms, and serve as a reminder that industrial age technology is powerfully in the present. Michelle Keim's first monograph, Iron Beauties is published in a first edition of 1,000 copies.

Michelle Keim Iron Beauties /anglais

KEIM MICHELLE

From the publisher: "Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, Sleeping by the Mississippi elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. "In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex." Like Robert Frank's classic The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust."

RAYMOND MEEKS A CLEARING /ANGLAIS

RAYMOND MEEKS

"In Spring, I am going to go to Hawaii to photograph. I'm so excited, and a little anxious - I've never been there before. The idea of Hawaii has been stuck in my mind for many, many years, just as the idea of a place. I try to imagine what it's like, and I have a certain image of it - a nostalgic place, a place where time has stopped. When I get there, I'll probably find out it's nothing like that...." - Daido Moriyama, Born in 1938, Daido Moriyama is widely recognized as one of Japan's most important and influential postwar photographers. His powerful, edgy black-and-white photographs have been the subject of dozens of books, which have themselves had an enormous impact on the world of photography. The above quote, from an interview for Photo-Eye in Spring 2004, was made shortly before Moriyama embarked on his first trip to Hawaii. Three years and five trips later, Daido Moriyama has created a book of photographs of what he did find in Hawaii. This U.S. edition of Hawaii is limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.

Hawaii

Daidō Moriyama

LARS SCHWANDER ONE DAY IN APRIL 1999 (ONE PICTURE BOOK 46) /ANGLAIS

SCHWANDER LARS

Winter

Jeffrey Conley

PETER MITCHELL STRANGELY FAMILIAR /ANGLAIS

Mitchell, Peter

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