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For this sixteenth title in the Des oiseaux collection, the great ...

Los tamarindos de La Concha is the continuation by photographer ...

Aujourd'hui presents the Franco-Swiss photographer Thaddé Comar's ...

Tina Barney’s keenly observed portraits offer a window into a ...

The photographs in American Seen were made between 1979 and 1986, ...

A multidisciplinary artist, Luciano Rigolini explores the nature of ...

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Ishimoto. Lines and bodies presents the emblematic series by Yasuhiro ...

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Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) documents the ...

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Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current ...

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The Ridge, a strip of jungle that runs north-south through New Delhi, is so named because it is situated in the foothills of an ancient mountain, the Aravalli Range. In the 19th century, The Ridge was still a bare mountain inhabited by wolves and leopards. Aimed at creating a colonial garden, it was reforested by the British according to the principles of English Romanticism, introducing a tree from Central America called Prosopis Juliflora, an invasive plant that became the endemic landscape of Delhi. Occupied by monkeys, the colonial garden was slowly transformed into a jungle. Today it is the dark and dense heart of the Indian capital, but also a kind of no man's land, timeless, without clear references. A place that could be just a vision.

For 14 years, Pablo López has been documenting this territory using the forms of the best 19th-century landscape documentary but subtly injecting it with narrative, formal and thematic codes that are fully contemporary. In doing so, López has succeeded in capturing its mystery, making the photographic document more of an enigma than a statement, and an open door to suggestion. The Ridge thus drinks from a certain documentary neoclassicism, delicate, measured and elegant, but it is as timeless as it is disturbing and perturbing.

The Ridge . Pablo López.

Specifications
Photographs, editing and text: Pablo López.
Design: underbau.
Pre-press: Eugeni Gay Marín.
Printed in tritone by Artefacto
27 x 32 cm
57 black and white photographs
96 pages + 1 fold-out
Hard cover covered with chrome. Round spine and green headpieces.
First edition: 800 copies
Winner of the 7th edition of the Fotolibro<40 Contest, organised by the Community of Madrid.

For this sixteenth title in the Des oiseaux collection, the great Brazilian photographer has plunged into his impressive archives to extract a selection of exceptional images celebrating a world populated exclusively by albatrosses, eagles, parrots, gannets and other rare species. For over thirty years, Sebastião Salgado has been photographing, on land and at sea, in the most remote regions of the world, from the Amazon, Asia and Africa to the icy spaces of Antarctica. More than half of the photographs are previously unpublished, and the book is a veritable ode to the beauty of our planet.

To accompany this visual corpus, a text by Erik Orsenna evokes our close ties with the world of birds, while an interview between Sebastião Salgado and Philippe Séclier, co-director of the Des oiseaux collection, bears witness to the photographer's special relationship with the animal kingdom.

Des oiseaux - Sebastião Salgado

Collection Des oiseaux
(On Birds)
Version: English
Hardcover, 20,5 x 26 cm
112 pages
47 photographs B&W
Texts
Erik Orsenna
Interview with Sebastião Salgado            
Collection directed by
Nathalie Chapuis et Philippe Séclier

Los tamarindos de La Concha is the continuation by photographer Ricardo Cases of an urban exploration that began in 2018 in the city of Valencia and was published in 2023 under the title El ficus del Parterre. To those brief photographic essays are now added those he has made in San Sebastian in 2024 as a result of an artistic residency proposed by Kutxa Fundazioa.

Los tamarindos de La Concha brings together five fanzines, one for each of the photographic series made in San Sebastian. The elaboration of these fanzines is the replica of an editorial practice that Cases carries out on a daily basis in his environment. The daily exploration and taking of photographs, this time in a foreign urban context, is followed by an immediate process of editing and publication.

As brief essays, the photographs reflect the emotional reaction to the stimuli that Cases encounters by chance in the city and through which he explores new compositional approaches. The city is a stimulus, it reveals itself as a fertile place to explore the limits of the image and play with estrangement, but without the pretension of offering a passive and aseptic vision. His intention is also to address local issues, and to this end he proposes symbols that explore the character and identity of those who inhabit the landscape.

Born in Orihuela (Spain) in 1971, Ricardo Cases holds a degree in Information Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (Spain). In 2006 he joined the photographic collective Blank Paper. He has published several photobooks: Belleza de barrio (2008), La caza del lobo congelado (2009), Paloma al aire (2011), El porqué de las naranjas (MACK, 2014), El blanco (Dalpine, 2016), Sol (Dalpine, 2017), Estudio elemental del Levante (Dalpine, 2020), Parques infantiles (Dalpine, 2021) and TOT (Dalpine, 2022).

“His photographic work focuses on the yearnings of the human being, the deep and universal desires of the citizen of mass society, fighting against banality in an effort to transcend, confronting his own dignity with an always unreliable medium. To this end, he turns his gaze to expressions of contemporary folklore, searching for the truth of the Spaniard: a small-town citizen forced to live in the city, in modernity. Beyond a pop appearance - distant and cynical - he is interested in the human and anthropological. Beyond the social and documentary, he looks for the truthful and universal pulsations that beat under the banal surface -often kitsch and lacking in glamour- of contemporary Spain.” (Luis López Navarro).

Los tamarindos de La Concha . Ricardo Cases

ISBN 978-84-09-64766-8
Dalpine/Kutxa Fundazioa, 2024
Design: Tipode Office
Printing: Impresum
Cover + folder + 5 fanzines
180 pages
29,7 x 21 cm

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Aujourd'hui presents the Franco-Swiss photographer Thaddé Comar's latest series, which explores the question of information and the various ways it is staged through the “media machine”. To bear witness to this highly topical subject, Thaddé Comar went to the Assemblée Nationale and the Palais de Justice in Paris, to be at the reactor core. These images of politicians immersed in a forest of microphones, cameras and poles, highlight the media hubbub and our desensitization towards the flood of information.

This series, produced specifically for the book, is put into perspective with an essay by Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the Photo Élysée Museum in Lausanne, which contextualizes Thaddé Comar's work within the history of photography. This text is accompanied by an interview with curator Song Tae Chong, presenting the creation of the 7L Photography Grand Jury Prize. Finally, writer Fabienne Radi has imagined a short story echoing the photographer's theme of public discourse.

Aujourd'hui inaugurates the new collection of the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L, revealing a new generation of photographers.

Thaddé Comar . Aujourd'hui

Limited edition
of 700 copies
with a photographic print
signed by the artist
Bilingual: English, French
Softcover with a dust jacket
17 × 22 cm
76 pages
22 color photographs

Tina Barney’s keenly observed portraits offer a window into a rarified world of privilege with sixty large-format works imbued with a spontaneity and intimacy that remind us of what we hold in common.

In the late 1970s, Tina Barney began a decades-long exploration of the everyday but often hidden life of the New England upper class, of which she and her family belonged. Photographing close relatives and friends, she became an astute observer of the rituals common to the intergenerational summer gatherings held in picturesque homes along the East Coast. Developing her portraiture further in the 1980s, she began directing her subjects, giving an intimate scale to her large-format photographs. These personal, often surreal, scenes present a secret world of the haute bourgeoisie—a landscape of hidden tension found in microexpressions and in, what Barney calls, the subtle gestures of “disruption” that belie the dreamlike worlds of patrician tableaux. Family Ties collects sixty large-format portraits from the three decades that defined Barney’s career—accompanying the first retrospective exhibition of the artist in Europe at the Jeu de Paume, Paris. The book includes an essay by Quentin Bajac, the exhibition’s commissioner and director, as well as an interview with the artist by Sarah Meister, the executive director of Aperture, and a text by the artist James Welling. These texts illuminate the artist’s approach to large-format photography, her ongoing interest in the rituals of families, and her personal ideas of composition, color, and the complex relationship between photography and painting.

Tina Barney . Family Ties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 176
Number of images: 98
Publication date: 2024-11-14
Measurements: 11.3 x 9.5 x 1 inches
ISBN: 9781597115889

The photographs in American Seen were made between 1979 and 1986, when Sage Sohier was a young photographer living in Boston. As Sohier writes in her introduction, “In that pre-digital and less paranoid era, families — and especially children and teenagers — used to hang out in their neighborhoods. A kind of theater of the streets emerged from the boredom of hot summer days and it was a great time to photograph people outside. Undoubtedly my own childhood afternoons, often spent in my neighbor’s basement creating theatrical productions with the four kids who lived there, helped to form my vision of the play of children as a kind of rite or performance. That our audience was comprised of our dogs never discouraged us.”

Over the next seven years, Sohier made portraits of people living in Boston’s many working class and ethnic neighborhoods, as well as in the towns she visited each summer during her annual road trips: one through small town Pennsylvania via dilapidated Newburgh, New York, another to mining areas in rural West Virginia, and once to Mormon enclaves in Utah and Idaho. During long Boston winters, Sohier would head south and photograph in the citrus-producing regions of inland Florida, or through the Florida panhandle to New Orleans and Cajun country.

Nazraeli Press first published American Seen in 2017, as part of our limited-edition NZ Library series. We are thrilled to announce a remastered trade edition, making this extraordinary body of work available to a larger audience.

Sage Sohier’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the International Center for Photography, New York; and the Art

SAGE SOHIER . Americans Seen (Remastered Edition)


ISBN: 978-1-59005-608-0
Hardcover, 11x13 inches, 64 pages, 51 duotone plates.

A multidisciplinary artist, Luciano Rigolini explores the nature of the photographic image, namely its ambiguity in its relationship to reality. In Apparere (“to appear” in Latin), he presents a visual corpus generated using first-generation artificial intelligence algorithm software. The images result from highly detailed indications that he himself has given to this AI software, effectively establishing a dialogue with the machine that blurs the boundary between the photographic and pictorial nature of the works. In this way, Rigolini questions our visual perception: what do we see? This ensemble evokes both the formal experiments of the avant-garde and the aesthetics of photographic abstraction.

To accompany this body of work, a text by the philosopher Élie During explores the relationship between photography and technology, and the idea of the optical unconscious through ufological imagery, laying out the contours of a photographic fiction.
 
Luciano Rigolini . Apparere

Bilingual French-English
Hardcover, 24,5 x 22 cm
140 pages
102 color and B&W images 

Jacques Henri Lartigue's The proof of color sheds light on a little-known aspect of the iconic photographer's work: his fascination with the stereoscopic Autochrome - one of the first color photographic processes just introduced. From 1912 to 1927, and then more than a decade later, in 1946, Lartigue produced 300 autochromes, 90 of which are still intact today, presented here for the first time in their entirety and in their original format. This process was a formidable tool for exploration, and renewed his relationship with the medium, in contrast to his work on speed. More attentive to the composition of the image and the development of a broad chromatic palette, the photographer takes on the posture of a painter rather than an instantaneous artist.

The visual corpus is introduced by an essay written by Marion Perceval entitled The Absolute Impression of Reality followed by the text Lartigue's "Tango" Sweater of curator and photography historian Kevin Moore, which help to grasp the importance of the corpus and its impact on the history of color photography, as well as the resonance it continues to have. Several illustrated notes at the end of the book explore, through quotations and analysis, the evolution of the photographer's interest in Autochrome, and the questions it raises.

 Jacques-Henri Lartigue The Proof of Color

Hardcover, 19 × 22,5 cm
160 pages
150 color photographs

Ishimoto. Lines and bodies presents the emblematic series by Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012), combining the formal approach of Chicago's New Bauhaus with the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. This monograph allows us to rediscover the work of a photographer who published very little during his lifetime. The singularity of his vision and his work on the motif, which sometimes went as far as abstraction, made Ishimoto a key figure in the art world, shaking up the Japanese photographic scene in the 1960s. Conceived in close collaboration with the Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center, the book accompanies the eponymous exhibition at Le BAL, curated by Diane Dufour with Mei Asakura, director of the Archives.

Widely considered an outsider by his peers, Ishimoto brought a formalist perspective to the Japanese photographic scene of the time. Street scenes, portraits of children dressed up for Halloween, billboards, building facades in working-class neighborhoods: his images testify to his mastery of framing as well as his sensitive perception of textures and motifs.

Four fold-outs featuring the photographer's iconic series punctuate this publication. These include the Chicago, Beach series, in which the legs of beachgoers together create a graphic, infinite composition; and Kyoto, Katsura, one of Ishimoto's most emblematic series, which captures details of the Japanese villa - its streamlined structure, its gardens and stone paths.  
The book, which focuses on the first decades of his work, includes an introduction by Diane Dufour and a critical apparatus consisting of three texts examining the artist's influence in the various territories to which he was linked.

Yasuhiro Ishimoto Lines and Bodies

Two versions: English and French
Hardcover in a slipcase, 22 x 29 cm
216 pages, 4 fold-outs
163 B&W photographs

We publish the previously unknown photographic archive of the National Photography Prize winner Alberto García-Alix. This new volume, of 736 pages, covers the period between 1982 and 1986, showing nearly 2,500 photographs.

 

The author shows his life, his environment and his daily life in a historic moment for Spain, of great political, social and cultural turmoil, such as the end of the Transition and the Movida. This period also corresponds to the beginning of his professionalization as a photographer, a stage in which he began to use medium format, one of the most characteristic features of his work.

 

“Archivo Nómada is a lived and multi-layered archive, whose numerous lines of reading are inevitably subject to the author's emotionality. His record of everyday life makes it a faithful portrait of an era in Spain. His photographs immerse us in a changing Madrid full of impulses”.

Archivo Nómada Vol 2 – Alberto García-Alix


Photography: Alberto García-Alix
Editorial concept and edition: Frédérique Bangerter
Editorial design: Ricardo Báez
First edition: 2024 Madrid
Bilingual edition: (Esp/Ing)
Digitization & Prepress: La Troupe
Foreword: Frédérique Bangerter
Texts years: Daniel Fernández Marco
Printing: Brizzolis
Format: 17 x 24 x 4,5 cm
No. of pages: 736
No. of photographs: 2465
Photographs: 35mm, half format 6×4,5cm/6x6cm
Captions: year_contact_negative number
ISBN: 978-84-122703-7-2

Legal Deposit: M-20619-2024

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John Volynchook travelled by bicycle and on foot to photograph fragments of UK landscapes under threat from fracking. The images in his book Faultlines, were made between 2015 – 2021 and inspired by the stories gathered from people he met along the way.

Faultlines . John Volynchook

Published December 2024
245 x 290 mm
128pp, 67 images
Hardback
ISBN 978-1-915423-50-4

Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) documents the world of amateur astronomers across four continents. Over five years, photographer Daniel Stephen Homer traced a tangled web of collaborators who have made an outsized contribution to professional astronomical research. His resulting photographs blend the domestic and scientific, the mundane and the cosmic taking the viewer on a journey into the world of astronomical citizen science.

Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) . Daniel Stephen Homer

Published December 2024
245 x 290 mm
128pp, 67 images
Hardback
ISBN 978-1-915423-50-4