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Tiempo cero is a book that proposes a singular alliance between the sequence of stills from an audiovisual produced by David Jiménez and a chapter from the novel Lo demás es aire by Juan Gómez Bárcena, which here adopts a sort of versified form. Within a game of seemingly random permutations, the subtle combination of these images illuminates hidden resonances and symmetries. The selected fragment of the Cantabrian writer's work establishes a singular dialogue with the images, and from a geological perspective confronts the very human impossibility of conceiving the passage of time.

Tiempo Cero . David Jiménez
Disponible en Castellano y catalán

Infinito Books, 2022
Con la colaboración de Biblioteques de Barcelona dentro del proyecto Fotointerpretacions.
16x10,5 cm, 160 pág
ISBN 978-84-948542-2-4 (castellano)
ISBN 978-84-948542-3-1 (catalá)

In Leve, Martín Estol claims a space for fantasy. As opposed to a conventional reading of the family biography, text and images coalesce in this account, exploring and honouring the figure of a protagonist—the author’s father—who has the ability to negate the force of gravity. This book reveals the fragility of both memory and body, and thus of the human condition, from the open, free-flowing, unstable perspective of verisimilitude while highlighting the power of photography to create universes.

Through the use of images, Martín Estol explores transformation processes. Those personal or social experiences that mark turning points. He resorts to books in his search for a tangible medium to put thoughts and voices in order. He showcases and publishes his projects knowing they provide opportunities for experimentation within a process that is continuous and unique. He studied under Filiberto Mugnani and Adriana Lestido. His works have been published by La Luminosa and Ediciones Larivière. He is the co-founder of learning platforms CAMPO and Proyecto Imaginario. His project Leve was granted the Fiebre Dummy Award (2021).

Leve . Martín Estol

ISBN 978-84-09-42998-1
Dalpine / Fiebre Photobook, 2022
Photographs & Texts: Martín Estol
Editing: Fosi Vegue & Martín Estol
Design: Jaime Narváez
Prepress: La Troupe
Printing: Artes Gráficas Palermo
Flexbinder with polypropylene cover
17 x 23 cm
Language: Spanish/English bilingual edition
Edition of 500 copies

Lise Gaudaire carries out an anthropological, documentary, artistic -and also probably intimate and introspective- search or investigation through the Axarquia valley (from the Arabic Ash Sharqiyah, الشرقية; "eastern"), in Andalusia, between the Costa del Sol and the Costa Tropical.

In this region, “exotic” fruits and vegetables are cultivated on a large scale and intensively, in monoculture, as is the case with avocados, which today occupy the slopes of the mountains as far as the eye can see. Although the landscape of the Axarquia may seem green at first glance, under its generous foliage a raw, parched, thirsty and monochrome soil can be seen.

And yet, in the heart of this "almost desert", Lise finds a reassuring bubble of greenery, an oasis: Fernando's greenhouse, where he consciously grows plants with low water consumption.

In Oasis, Lise Gaudaire reveals her own experiences and projections to raise the notions of disorientation, exoticism or mental and fantastic representation of the landscape. If the word today evokes a fertile island due to the presence of water in the middle of a vast desert, it is often forgotten that an oasis is artificial, entirely created by man, whose permanent attention is necessary to ensure the proper maintenance of the irrigation system: in short, an artificial paradise. The oasis is not just a shady palm grove: behind the cliché, it raises the terribly contemporary questions of the globalized economy and its ecological impact, sustainable agriculture and water consumption.

Lise Gaudaire focuses her work on the relationships that man maintains with the landscape, his territory, the way he has of contemplating and apprehending it and, especially, those who work on it.

Beyond their sensitive dimension, her photographic series resemble both an anthropological study and an archeology of the landscape. In her works, Lise Gaudaire mixes photography, drawing and writing, seeking to question the artistic gesture itself through the decompartmentalization of disciplines and their inexhaustible dialogue.

In 2019, she received "L'aide Inviduelle à la Création" from the DRAC Bretagne, France. In 2020 she enjoyed two residencies: at the Galerie L'Imagerie de Lannion and at the Center d'Art Contemporain de Pontmain, both in France. In 2021 she was selected to do a one-year residency at the Académie de France-Casa de Velázquez, in Madrid, and she obtained a scholarship from the Institut français.

Oasis . Lise Gaudaire

ISBN: 978-84-09-44290-4
Dalpine, 2022
Photographs & drawings: Lise Gaudaire
Texts: Lise Gaudaire & Émilie Flory
Design: Jaime Narváez
Pre-press: La Troupe
Printed by Artes Gráficas Palermo
16 x 20,5 cm
96 pages
Softcover with slipcase
Language: bilingual French/Spanish

Since I started photographing 30 years ago I have photographed men. During all these years I have also repeatedly photographed transgender persons. Another recurring motif during these 30 years are self-portraits. My own thousands of contact sheets show me a lifelong, both conscious and subconscious, search linked to identity and the constant changeability and transience connected to the human condition. In addition to these images, the book starts and ends with photographs of moraine rocks. These rocks were pushed forward by the ice sheet. When the ice melted 10.000 years ago they stopped where they are now to be found. The expanded self-portrait and the mirroring in others is a way to approach the historical renegotiation that is now taking place regarding the idea of the male.

JH Engström

The Frame is JH Engström´s extended self-portrait, a search towards and an escape from the idea of father, a meditation on the meaning of the male gender.

In times when society is starting to do a much needed and urgent re-examination of the very notions of gender, this is Engström´s personal, generous sometimes violent and desperate but always heartfelt contribution to this decisive discussion.

The book draws from Engström´s large archive of photographs and combines these portraits with Ice age immutable rocks to remind us to always look for our own anima.

The Frame . JH Engström

Hardcover, 15X21cm, 358 pages

A Zona is Diogo Simões´ first book. Twelve years in the making, it marks the arrival of a major force in Portuguese photography.
All the photos were done in Margem Sul, Tagus river south bank, opposite Lisbon.  A humanistic, poetic, politically engaged hallucinatory record of a territory with a strong industrial and postcolonial past. A beautiful land with mountains, white sanded beaches, dolphins and ghettos.
Simões is a son of the land. This is his territory.  A Zona makes justice to Margem Sul, in all its Prehistoric, Roman, Muslim glory. Indeed, a Holy Land.

A Zona . Diogo Simões
 
Hardcover, 22x28cm, 154 pages
ISBN - 978-989-54245-8-0
 
A Zona was the winner of the 1st edition of the Arte deste Século Association Book Prize and is a co-edition between this Association and Pierre von Kleist Editions.

“How can the photo of a flower hurt so much?
If your photos, Sara, had a flavour it would be that of the wardrobe in which my mum stashed clean sheets and where I used to love hiding. If I close my eyes and smell As a flower’s photos, I squeeze my nose in clean laundry and wait for someone to come and look for me.”

As a Flower . Sara Lorusso

17x22,5 cm / 104 pages
750 copies / Hardcover
Design by Giulia Boccarossa
Text Laura Rositani
Published in November 2022
ISBN: 979-12-80177-20-9

This landmark retrospective publication covers William Klein's creativity through photography, film, painting, book design, graphic design and more. * Photographer. Filmmaker. Artist. Designer. Mastering one of these disciplines would be a lifetime achievement for any creative individual, yet William Klein's career has been celebrated in each of them over the past eight decades. * Klein is one of the great image-makers of the 20th century, whose work is an enduring creative influence on a wide range of contemporary artists, photographers and filmmakers.

Featuring over 200 images, this career retrospective explores Klein's creative and artistic arc from the late 1940s to the present day. Directed by Klein himself, from content selection to book design, this large-format publication surveys his uncompromising creative life and showcases Klein's prolific and relentlessly innovative contribution to the world of photography, art, design and film. While best known as a photographer who broke all rules and conventions, William Klein: Yes focuses on the full range of Klein's work, from his abstract paintings to his astonishingly authentic street photographs, albums, and his dynamic, often satirical vision of cinema.

William Klein . Yes

Publisher: BLUME
EAN: 9788419094469
Pages: 336
Size: 255x335 mm.

In October 2017 Depoorter met Agata in a strip club in Paris. Over the next three years, the women dove deep into a collaboration, creating a small alternative universe that served as a container for them to explore questions they each had regarding identity, performance, and representation: Who is the true subject? Who is Agata? Who is Agata when being photographed? Who is Bieke? Who is Bieke when making photographs? Why make these pictures? What are the motives and motivations? Who is responsible for what?

The book tells both the story of a young woman using a photographer to find some sense of identity, and the story of a photographer using a young woman to better understand photographic authorship and herself. These intertwined narratives are threaded via a combination of images, letters, and notes, but what defines the dialogue is the ever-present reflex of self-awareness and self-reflection. The result is a project that never lands on any sort of conclusive truth, instead highlighting the slippery nature of truth in situations where power, responsibility, and control are in a constant state of flux.

As a whole, Agata is a project that asks more questions than it offers answers, first recognizing the well-worn idea of photographer-as-witness as a relative impossibility, then throwing all players involved under the microscope: photographer, subject, audience, and, of course, the medium itself.

Design - the object
This book’s design is, like the dynamic it examines, complex and constantly shifting. Its contents are laid out chronologically, and the book is Japanese bound, with perforations on the fold. This  leaves the reader with the choice of whether to tear open the pages and see a hidden story; alternative narratives, versions of truth that do not fit squarely with the truth the photographer originally presents.

Once a reader decides to open a sealed page, there is no undoing that choice. To some degree, this implicates the reader, involving them in how the multifaceted story is represented. Like the photographer and subject, the audience is then forced to consider their role in this triangle of responsibility.

AGATA . Bieke Depoorter


Specifications Book
Language: English
Second Edition
Publication Year: 2022
424 pages, Japanese binding with perforations on the fold
Size: 12,60 x 9,45 inches

ISBN: 978-9-46459-027-2

Concept: Tom Callemin, Ramon Pez & Bieke Depoorter
Design: Ramon Pez & Bieke Depoorter
Editing: Bieke Depoorter

Text: Agata Kay and Bieke Depoorter
Text editing: Kim Schepens & Rein Deslé
Translations: Kim Schepens

Printed at Robstolk
Self published by Des Palais, a collaboration between Tom Callemin & Bieke Depoorter

Mikiko Hara has her own way of secretly capturing the strangers who cross her path: a young man on the train, a couple holding hands, a little girl playing in a park… Sometimes their eyes meet briefly as she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not exchange with her subjects. Yet, these portraits reveal something infinitely personal, as if the photographer and her subjects were bound by an invisible pact: being in the right place at the right time.

Mikiko Hara’s approach, firmly rooted in a documentation of every- day life, extends in the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons dozing on the floor. The eye of the photographer, who is also a mother and wife, moves back and forth from the outside to the inside, from the public to the private sphere. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life.

At the initiative of the publisher – who made the selection in collaboration with the artist – these unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been assembled in this book, entitled Small Myths.

Small Myths . Mikiko Hara

Photographs and text: Mikiko Hara
Editorial direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Design: Bureau Kayser
French / English / Japanese
Softcover
23 x 27 cm
104 pages
ISBN: 979-10-96383-34-4

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

Holy Night . Issei Suda

Specifications
Editorial direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Design: Akiko Wakabayashi
28 x 28,3 cm
60 pages
English / French / Japanese
ISBN: 979-10-96383-36-8
Date of publication: November 10th 2022

John Alinder, son of a farmer, was born in 1878 in the village of Sävasta, Altuna parish, in Uppland, a province in eastern central Sweden. Alinder remained in the village all his life. He chose not to take over his parents’ farm and instead became a self-taught photographer and jack of all trades. He was a music lover, holder of the Swedish agency for the British record label and gramophone brand His Master’s Voice. For a time he ran a country shop from his home, and he even operated an illicit bar for a while. From the 1910s to the 1930s he portrayed the local people, the landscape around them and their way of life. He often photographed them in their homes and gardens, using the technology of the time, glass plates. These he developed in a small darkroom he had built and then made the prints in the sunlight

The Alinder collection was “discovered” in the 1980s when a curator found over 8,000 glass plates stacked away in a library basement. Children placed on chairs, people perched in trees, labourers, confirmation candidates and old ladies; often depicted against a background of foliage and sprawling greenery penetrated by sunlight. Alinder’s portraiture allows for the magic of chance, both liberating and defining the subjects. Often they are looking straight into the camera. As if they can see us. As if their gaze can travel the hundred years or so that lie between their time and ours. As if they were saying, “You are alive now, but we were once alive.”

This book shows Alinder’s portraits for the first time. Published in collaboration with Upplandsmuseet and Landskrona Foto, it coincides with the launch of the first major exhibition of his work. He is a unique portrait photographer whose work can match other acknowledged photographers from the same period, such as Gertrude Käsebier, Mike Disfarmer or August Sander, and whilst he worked within the confines of his own small village, it is clear that such an original and skilled photographer deserves to be showcased to a broader, world-wide audience.

John Alinder . Portraits 1910–32

126 duotone plates, 256 pages
285mm x 220mm
ISBN 978-1-911306-80-1