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Raimond Wouda — Polder VIII Tuindorp Oostzaan w

Raimond Wouda — Polder VIII

Tuindorp Oostzaan was the first real garden village in Amsterdam, intended to offer working-class families light, air and space and a decent accommodation. Each family has its own front door and a garden at the front and back. Located near the shipyards, but far from the city center. The village grew and the world changed. The Vegabuurt was added and in the 1950s Tutti-Fruttidorp and Tuindorp Oostzaan-West. New residents moved to Noord, thousands of people worked on the yards. Now heavy industry has disappeared, North is trending and the houses are popular with young city dwellers. ‘Polder VIII’ covers 30 years of work by Raimond Wouda, in combination with the use of photographs from institutional and personal archives from inhabitants of Tuindorp Oostzaan.

Cristiano Volk — Laissez-Faire “Imagine a lif

Cristiano Volk — Laissez-Faire

“Imagine a life lived under the glow of artificial daylight, where reality is not experienced directly, but mediated through screens. Imagine a world so densely networked that all of the distinctions by which we have learned to make sense of time and place – interior and exterior, private and public, day and night – have collapsed into a single, neon- hued hallucination. Imagine the collective alienation of billions of conjoined subjects whose sole purpose is to act as vehicles for the exchange of commodities. This is the world described in Cristiano Volk’s Laissez-Faire. It may sound like a dystopian future, but it is our present.” – Eugenie Shinkle

@cristiano_volk

Now available: 'Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful

Now available: 'Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness’ by Sanne Peper. 📚 Shipping after Sept. 12.

Launch:
📍Date: Monday Sept. 11, 6pm 🥂
📍Location: Vrijpaleis, Paleisstraat 107, Amsterdam.
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔
Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness' is about The Deep South, a highly complex and interesting part of the US. And is a fairytale-like photo/text book about good and evil, the human condition, an alt-right chipmunk who goes by the name of Jeremiah Day, and ultimately about the fear of the other. The book consists of photographs, and texts about things Sanne Peper experienced and tales people told her. ✨ Design by Michael Snitker, printing @wilco_artbooks
📍Signing at Unseen Bookmarket: Friday Sept. 22, 5pm at our table🥂 🥂

Samuel James — Nightairs Twenty-six species of t

Samuel James — Nightairs
Twenty-six species of the insect family Lampyridae, commonly known as fireflies, have been identified in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio. For a brief moment at the very end of their lives, nineteen of these species communicate with silent, bioluminescent displays of wildly diverse flash patterns and colors—a kaleidoscopic procession of light varying in precise accordance to habitat, season and time of night. Since 2019, Samuel James has recorded these dialects of light with long exposures, exploring one luminous facet of life in the temperate deciduous forests of southern Ohio as it evolves through seasonal change atop eroded mountains and the stratified sediments of ancient seas.

New book 'Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville’ by @hanswils

New book 'Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville’ by @hanswilschut 📚📦📚
'Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville' recalls the aftershock of the explosion that hit Beirut in 2020. This blast gradually disappeared from the news. With this book Wilschut tries to make tangible the paralysis that remained in the city. The disaster killed 218 people and injured thousands. The devastation was enormous and many houses around the harbor were destroyed. Lebanon’s government subsequently fell, making the country politically unstable. The ensuing economic and administrative crisis is still ongoing. With an essay by Dominique Eddé.

📍Signing: Friday 22 September, 5pm. Unseen Bookmarket, Amsterdam
📍Talk: Friday, 6 October, 8pm. OMI Rotterdam (Schietbaanlaan 21)

Wytske van Keulen — Stick Holding Branch Since 2

Wytske van Keulen — Stick Holding Branch
Since 2009, Wytske van Keulen continuously visited several individuals in France, The United States and Japan who, for different reasons, chose to set aside our strongly economized and de-spiritualized world. The absence of inhabitants in the depicted living environments of Stick Holding Branch make the significance of the photographs shift from a documentary-like basis to the realm of the image, freed from space and time. Accompanied by an extensive selection of correspondence and fragments of personal notes, Van Keulen’s work shows an intimate portrait of a global community redeemed from society’s demanding expectations.
@wytskevankeulen

Ine Lamers — The Radiant Screen ’The Radiant S

Ine Lamers — The Radiant Screen
’The Radiant Screen’ is a project about the closed city of Zheleznogorsk, hidden in the heart of Siberia. Zheleznogorsk is one of the twelve (still-)closed cities in Russia. It was established in the early 1950s to serve as a top-secret site for military scientific research, designed as a utopian city according to an artistic masterplan. As a secret city, Zheleznogorsk did not officially exist or appear on any maps. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, its residents voted on whether to maintain their distance from the rest of the world and stay ‘closed’. They chose to remain in splendid isolation.’The Radiant Screen’ is a mesh of evidence for which Lamers collaborated with various people, each participant reflecting different aspects of the dream. Lamers gathered evidence, verbal descriptions, testimonies, and archival documents. Combined with her own photographs and produced recordings, this publication present a layered story of ‘the last socialist paradise on earth’, full of controversy with gaps and glitches.

Still some copies of the limited edition available (wrapped, signed, numbered with print)

@inelamers

Sabelo Mlangeni — Isivumelwano The title Isivume

Sabelo Mlangeni — Isivumelwano
The title Isivumelwano comes from Nguni, a group of languages (including Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele and Swati) spoken in several South African countries. The word stands for a contract, agreement or covenant, and here is synonymous with the marriage ceremonies of black communities recorded by Mlangeni in southern Africa. In a series of 70+ images, the viewer is invited to participate in almost as many ceremonies, very diverse in nature. Lovingly captured couples who deviate from the heteronormative standard, local populations and cultural customs defy traditional notions of the white wedding. With texts by Emmanuel Balogun, Athi Mongezeleli Joja, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni, Tshepiso Mazibuko
@mlangenisabelo

Jon Horvath — This is Bliss This Is Bliss is a t

Jon Horvath — This is Bliss
This Is Bliss is a trans-media narrative project investigating the vanishing roadside geography and culture of a rural Idaho town named Bliss. The project considers how mythologies of place and happiness collide, and are frequently confounded, in a location with a complex narrative of booms and busts that reflects the complicated history of American Idealism and Manifest Destiny. All that remains in Bliss is two gas stations, a school, a church, a diner, and two saloons to service its 300 current residents. Through a thorough look at the contemporary landscape and its residents, ‘This Is Bliss’ contrasts romantic visions of the American West with its contemporary reality and considers how the heights of idealism are envisioned on both a personal and cultural level. @jonhorvath

Hans van der Meer — Minor Mysteries Inspired by

Hans van der Meer — Minor Mysteries
Inspired by legendary street photographers Hans van der Meer took off to Budapest in the fall of 1984 and stayed, with interruptions, for a year. Minor Mysteries provides insight into what fascinated Van der Meer as a young, curious outsider in a country that at first sight seemed alienating and distant, but where he quickly found his way. Without a preconceived plan, he let his intuition guide him, wandering the streets like a director collecting scenes for a script. This is how he stumbled upon wonderous, playful, at times tragicomic situations. In retrospect, the series is like a monument to an era in transition. An era that was nearing its end, in a city in the heart of Europe, that looked battered under the weight of history, but with hope for something new.

Last copies available, also some copies left of the edition (signed, numbered with print)

Save the date for the launch of 'Slowtime, Alabama

Save the date for the launch of 'Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness’ by Sanne Peper. 📚🥂 📍Date: Monday Sept. 11, 6pm 📍Location: Vrijpaleis, Paleisstraat 107, Amsterdam. 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔 Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness' is about The Deep South, a highly complex and interesting part of the US. And is a fairytale-like photo/text book about good and evil, the human condition, an alt-right chipmunk who goes by the name of Jeremiah Day, and ultimately about the fear of the other. The book consists of photographs, and texts about things Sanne Peper experienced and tales people told her. ✨ Design by Michael Snitker, printing @wilco_artbooks

The Sapper by Bharat Sikka The Sapper’ is as mu

The Sapper by Bharat Sikka

The Sapper’ is as multi-layered as the relationship that it narrates between a father and an adult son. Through photography, Sikka creates the possibilities for observation, recollection, close comparison, and collaboration, and gives this long-term project a title that both describes and belies its substance. ‘The Sapper’ is an entitling that offers up a cue for the viewer: an explanation of the circumstances, behaviors and predilections that we can read into the portrayal of this former “sapper” of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. It suggests a double-edged understanding of this father—the push and pull of his sense of selfhood—as both held in his public, now-historical role, and despite of it. The title could be read as holding its subject at an observable distance and implies, perhaps, the urge of an adult child to adopt a vantage point of parity from which to see their father as another adult. It gestures towards the idea of photography as an act of inherent scrutiny and of pinpointing and fixing its ostensible and complicated subject. @bharatsikkastudio

💫 Now available: 'The Rocket's Red Glare’ by

💫 Now available: 'The Rocket's Red Glare’ by @barbaradiener ✨✨
We will launch and celebrate the book during Unseen Bookmarket, with Barbara present Friday 22st September / 5pm for a signing and 🥂🥂
About the book: 'The Rocket's Red Glare' uses the life of instrumental German rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun, as a metaphor for the selective way history is told. This series challenges the often dual retelling of significant 20th century events, starting in Nazi-era Germany and culminating in the moon landing. Diener’s interest in interpreting this chain of events comes from her own reckoning with history and my complicated German heritage surrounding World War II.

Bertien van Manen — Gluckauf Images from Apanas,

Bertien van Manen — Gluckauf
Images from Apanas, Siberia (RU, 1990’s). Bertien van Manen grew up in Heerlen, the centre of the eastern part of the former Dutch coal mining region, where her father worked as an engineer for the State Mines. Gluckauf brings together photographs Bertien van Manen made in different mining towns: Wakefield and New Sharlston, Yorkshire (UK, 1970s), Most (CZ, 1980s), the Appalachian Mountains (US, 1980-1990s), and Apanas, Siberia (RU, 1990s). The exhibition Gluckauf at @schunck_glaspaleis is extended until 1 October

@bertienvanmanen

Ben Huff — Atomic Island Adak island served as t

Ben Huff — Atomic Island
Adak island served as the westernmost physical front in defense of democracy from 1934 to 1997. In a few short years during World War 2, the previously uninhabited island of Adak in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bordered to the north by the Bering Sea, was made into the fourth largest city in the territory of Alaska. At the height of the Cold War, six thousand military personnel and their families lived in Adak. In March of 1997, with the Cold War over, the Navy abandoned the island. Today, less than seventy-five people live there amongst the crumbling buildings and fading memory of our past military ambitions.
@huffphoto

Some testprints from the past, present and future.

Some testprints from the past, present and future. 📚📚 One of the fun parts of making books, is making testprints. These sheets reflect the dna of a project very accurate. 🔵🔴🟡⚫️ At a certain point we started designing them as ‘posters’: with the names of the artists and titles of the projects mentioned on it. A poster for an audience of 3: the printer, the artist, and ourselves. With @edpanar @wytskevankeulen @workroom_general @barbaradiener @inelamers @lorawebbnichols @stephan_keppel @mlangenisabelo @huffphoto @stanleygreenberg @bertrand_cavalier @bertienvanmanen
☀️☀️ Happy Summer!

📣📣 Last Chance! 📣📣 These 6 titles are

📣📣 Last Chance! 📣📣
These 6 titles are nearly out of stock. 📦📦
Make sure to get your copy.
First come first served.

1. 'Flipping The Bird' (EN edition) by Jaap Scheeren (5 copies)
2. 'Minor Mysteries' by Hans van der Meer (25 copies)
3. 'Encampment, Wyoming' by Lora Webb Nichols (26 copies)
4. 'Were it not for’ by Michael Ashkin (16 copies)
5. ‘Ao’ by Charlotte Dumas (7 copies)
6. ‘Concrete doesn’t burn’ by Bertrand Cavalier (32 copies)
☀️☀️
Enjoy the summer!
📕📓📔📘📗📙

Coming Soon. ☀️☀️ Working on the last deta

Coming Soon. ☀️☀️ Working on the last details of our upcoming titles, scheduled for September and October.
1. Barbara Diener / The Rocket’s Red Glare
2. Hans Wilschut / Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville
3. Sanne Peper / Slowtime Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness
4. Tarrah Krajnak / RePose
5. Michael Ashkin / There will be two of you
6. Ed Panar / Winter Nights, Walking
🌎🌍🌏 Enjoy the Summer!
📕📔📓📘📗📙
@barbaradiener @hanswilschut @tarrahkrajnak_studio @workroom_general @edpanar #sannepeper

Great day on press with @barbaradiener for her new

Great day on press with @barbaradiener for her new book ‘The Rocket’s Red Glare’ 🔴⚫️🔴⚫️ More Soon! @wilco_artbooks @mariskabijl @ideabooksnl #comingsoon ✨✨

⚫️🟡⚫️ Now available: ‘Nightairs’, a

⚫️🟡⚫️ Now available: ‘Nightairs’, a new book by Samuel James ✨✨
Twenty-six species of the insect family Lampyridae, commonly known as fireflies, have been identified in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio. For a brief moment at the very end of their lives, nineteen of these species communicate with silent, bioluminescent displays of wildly diverse flash patterns and colors—a kaleidoscopic procession of light varying in precise accordance to habitat, season and time of night. Since 2019, Samuel James has recorded these dialects of light with long exposures, exploring one luminous facet of life in the temperate deciduous forests of southern Ohio as it evolves through seasonal change atop eroded mountains and the stratified sediments of ancient seas. @robstolk.amsterdam @hans.gremmen #samueljames @ideabooksnl

✨ We are in the final stages of the new book 'Sl

✨ We are in the final stages of the new book 'Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness' by Sanne Peper 🦎🦎 There is still a chance to support the book, by pre-ordering it. There are also some great prints available! For more information and overview of options 👉 link in bio.

About the project:
The project is about The Deep South, a highly complex and interesting part of the US. The project has culminated in an English publication: Slowtime, Alabama & The Beautiful Sadness, a fairytale-like photo/text book about good and evil, the human condition, an alt-right chipmunk who goes by the name of Jeremiah Day, and ultimately about the fear of the other.
Half of the book consists of photographs, but I’ve also been writing about things I experienced and the tales people told me. Of this I fabricated a very long short story in which fiction and non-fiction intertwine. Because, although I am a photographer, I need language to tell something about the very thing that's impossible to photograph, the magic of the place and its residents.

Release is scheduled for September. Design by Michaël Snitker.
Specifications: 190 x 245 mm | hardcover | 220 pages | English

🥂🥂 PHotoESPAÑA2023 just announced that Fw:B

🥂🥂 PHotoESPAÑA2023 just announced that Fw:Books has been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award 🎉 “As an independent publisher, Fw:Books focuses on photobooks and publications related to the medium. It is celebrated, not only the high quality of the projects, but also the variety of these and the diverse and current themes that they address.” 🪩🪩🪩 @photoespana_

💥💥💥💥 Happy to share that ’The Radian

💥💥💥💥 Happy to share that ’The Radiant Screen’ by @inelamers ‘Stick Holding Branch’ by @wytskevankeulen ‘Imagine’ by @studio_florianschwarz and ‘Gluckauf’ by @bertienvanmanen are nominated for the 2023 Prix du Livre by @rencontresarles 📘📗📕📓 Congratulations to Ine, Wystke, Florian and Bertien. Thanks to all involved. @zwaanlenoir @wilco_artbooks @schunck_glaspaleis
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The selected books will be on display during 'Rencontres d’Arles’ (July 3 — September 24) at Monoprix, and will be archived in the library of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles.

"It’s incredibly refreshing to see work where yo

"It’s incredibly refreshing to see work where you can see how a photographer cared deeply for the people in front of her camera. Instead of treating them as raw material for her work, they became an integral part of the photographer’s life. In fact, somewhere in the later parts of the book, Van Manen herself can be found in one of the photographs, blending in seamlessly: she’s sharing coffee and sweets with a group of people, and a woman named Galina is looking at her with a relaxed smile. All of this makes Gluckauf an absolutely essential photobook. […] Highly recommended.” — Thanks @joergmc for your kind words 🙏🙏
👉 read the full review on
Conscientious: https://cphmag.com/gluckauf/

@bertienvanmanen

On press with Samuel James to print his first book

On press with Samuel James to print his first book ‘Nightairs’ 🖤💛 In 2019 Samuel moved from to a cabin in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in southern Ohio. He arrived in May, at the beginning of firefly season. Fireflies spend just a few brief weeks as adults. Their life cycle varies from species to species, but often they live underground or underwater as larvae for one to two years before transforming, momentarily, into insects. 💥💥 The book is printed by @robstolk.amsterdam Special thanks to @charlotte_dumas_ for connecting us with James.

Between 1985 and 2013 Bertien van Manen travelled

Between 1985 and 2013 Bertien van Manen travelled to the Appalachian Mountains to photograph women who worked in the mines: Georgene, Libby, Margie, Mavis, among others. 🌑🌑 In 1986 Bertien wrote an article about these women for Dutch Magazine 'Vrij Nederland’. All photos, and the complete text are in her latest book ‘Gluckauf’, and are also still on view in her exhibition at @schunck_glaspaleis in Heerlen 🖤 @bertienvanmanen 📓 The book is longlisted for Book of the Year by @photoespana_

⚫️⚫️⚫️ Tritone tests for the new book

⚫️⚫️⚫️ Tritone tests for the new book by Michael Ashkin about the NJ Meadowlands 🖤 More soon! 🌘 @workroom_general

📕📗📘 Last day of browsing books at @offpri

📕📗📘 Last day of browsing books at @offprint_projects at Tate Modern 👉 until 6pm, free entrance 💼 Bring your own bag 📚 🙏 @mondriaanfonds

Ready for day 2 at @offprint_projects at Tate Mode

Ready for day 2 at @offprint_projects at Tate Modern. ✨ we have the last copies available of (nearly) out of print titles: ‘Minor Mysteries’ by Hans van der Meer, ‘Some Things Bleak’ by @msmarkus , AO by @charlotte_dumas_ , ‘Encampment Wyoming’ by @lorawebbnichols and the English version of ‘Flipping the bird’ by @jaapscheeren 📕📘📗 Open today and on Sunday 10am-6pm 💼 Bring your own bag! Thanks @mondriaanfonds

👉 We are here! 📦 Great to be back @offprint_

👉 We are here! 📦 Great to be back @offprint_projects at Tate Modern ✨ almost ready for the opening at 2pm. When around: do drop by! Today 2-7pm, Sat.+ Sun. 10am-6pm 👉 Free entrance 📗📘📕 with @jaapscheeren @bharatsikkastudio @stephan_keppel @studio_florianschwarz @cristiano_volk @mlangenisabelo @triggerfomu @bertienvanmanen @msmarkus @lorawebbnichols @andresvgonzalez @marijn.bax @inelamers @gercoderuijter @delpeutpeter @wytskevankeulen @charlotte_dumas_ @stanleygreenberg @awoiska_vandermolen and Sam Otte and Hans van der Meer 📦📚 Bring your own bag! Thanks @mondriaanfonds

💥💥💥 Happy to share that ‘Gluckauf’ by

💥💥💥 Happy to share that ‘Gluckauf’ by @bertienvanmanen ‘Footprint’ by @gercoderuijter @delpeutpeter and ‘Isivumelwano’ by @mlangenisabelo are nominated for Best Photography Book of the Year by @photoespana_ 📘📗📕 Congratulations to Bertien, Gerco, Peter and Sabelo. Thanks to all involved. @wilco_artbooks @zwaanlenoir @robstolk.amsterdam

The selected books will be on display in the exhibition 'The best photography books of the year' in the Fernán Gómez Cultural Center of the Villa de Madrid from May 30 to July 30, 2023.

💥🚀 Now available: 'Hereafter Called: Subject

💥🚀 Now available: 'Hereafter Called: Subject’ by Sam Otte. 📗📘📕 The book is a visual journey through people and places in Europe. It contains a collection of personal, photographic experiments that explore the complexities of different relationships. In a total of 25 experiments, artist Samuel Otte examines the value of written, spoken and unspoken constructions inherent in every relationship – sometimes close by, sometimes far away. 🌎🌍🌏 Design by @jeremyjansen.studio and @__kai___________ ✨✨ thanks to @mondriaanfonds and @afk020 and Jaap Harten Fund 🙏 Thanks @foam_amsterdam for hosting the launch yesterday 🥂📚

✨ Now Shipping: ‘Gluckauf’ by Bertien van Ma

✨ Now Shipping: ‘Gluckauf’ by Bertien van Manen. ✨

Launch Sunday 16 April 3 pm @schunck_glaspaleis 🥂📕🥂

Bertien van Manen grew up in Heerlen, the centre of the eastern part of the former Dutch coal mining region, where her father worked as an engineer for the State Mines. This publication brings together photographs Bertien van Manen made in different mining towns: Wakefield and New Sharlston, Yorkshire (UK, 1970s), Most (CZ, 1980s), the Appalachian Mountains (US, 1980-1990s), and Apanas, Siberia (RU, 1990s).

The exhibition 'Gluckauf' —with over 100 works by Bertien van Manen — will be opened by Fabian de Kloe, with a talk by Hripsimé Visser.

📚 168 pages / 24x29cm / hardcover 👉 Fw-books.nl
Shops can order at @ideabooksnl

@bertienvanmanen 🖤
Thanks #jaaphartenfonds for the support

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