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Charif Benhelima. Semites: The Album

(artist book) 500 copies

Charif Benhelima (°1967, Brussels) is an artist with Belgian, Jewish-Sefardic and Arabic roots. It is only during a visit in New York that Benhelima realizes his name also implies a Jewish background. His whole oeuvre thereafter is a photographic quest in search of identity and the sense of being an outsider.

more info € 35.00

Leonard Freed. The Italians

Early in his long career, photographer Leonard Freed discovered Little Italy in New York City and became enchanted with Italians. From then until his death in 2006 he made countless trips to Italy, where he produced some of the most memorable images of the people in their environment.

more info € 59.50

Jan Kempenaers. Picturesque

Many of the works of the Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers are artistic presentations of fragments of our environment - landscapes, as we have come to call them. Some of these landscapes are "natural" ones and continue an overtly picturesque tradition...

more info € 29.50

Rinko Kawauchi. Illuminance

Contemporary Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi creates an imaginary space where the fantastical is possible— evoking ideas of dreams, memory and temporality. The images in her book, Illuminance, span 15 years of work, both commissioned and personal projects, and have the ability to make the mundane extraordinary, leaving poetry in the viewer’s mind.

more info € 48.00

Dirk Braeckman

Dirk Braeckman is one of Belgium’s leading artistic photographers. In each of his monumental photographic works, he creates an enclosed, isolated world that appears endless in its tactility, while at the same time gives short shrift to the illusions of the medium. These images do not aim to convey anything and yet they are suggestive of complete narratives.

more info € 55.00

Roger Ballen. Animal Abstraction

Born in New York city in 1950, Roger Ballen has lived and worked in Johannesburg, as a photographer for almost 30 years. He is one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography.

more info € 60.00

Bart Heynen. Waterlanders

De reeks Waterlanders begon als een experiment in De Standaard magazine en groeide uit tot een succesvolle vaste reeks van 40 portretten die nog tot januari 2012 in het blad loopt. De hele reeks werd gebundeld en vergezeld van de originele interviews en uitgebracht als Bart Heynens eerste boek Waterlanders.

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Thomas Ruff. ma.r.s.

Ruff's most recent series, entitled MA.R.S., is a combination of the visual data obtained during explorations of Mars and the technological sophistication achieved in images on interplanetary space...

more info € 34.95

No, Fashion Please!

Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle

Today’s fashion photograph, set up like a scene from a stage production, has evolved into a projection of an artificial wishful reality. The images presented here record a changing mentality, which perceives clothes as part of a mise-en-scène that takes place only in the world of photography.

more info € 35.00

Aglaia Konrad. Carrara

Aglaia Konrad uses film and photography to visually extend her interest in urban development, cityscapes and architecture. In this artist book she presents photographs taken in the Carrara region in Italy between 2008 and 2010, along with the 16mm film ‘Concrete * Samples III – Carrara’.

more info € 26.00

Koos Breukel. Being Dutch

Koos Breukel’s studio differs very little from the traditional photographic studios that have sprung up throughout the world during the past 170 years of photography. His studio is a confined space containing a large format camera on a tripod, and a plain background sheet. Although daylight streams in through the roof, it is mainly artificial light that is being used...

more info € 35.00

Francesca Woodman's Notebook

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) has come to be recognized as one of the important photographers of her generation. Her work is well-known through exhibitions and publications. Her notebooks, however, have never been published and are rarely seen because of their great fragility.

more info € 35.00

Duane Michals. A Visit With Magritte

“If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was thirty three years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.”

more info € 25.00

Boris Mikhailov. Tea Coffee Cappuccino

For Boris Mikhailov, a society's most significant paradigm shifts are often most clearly perceived in the smallest of everyday transactions. For example, in a café or restaurant in the Soviet-era Ukraine, a waiter would have offered you "tea or coffee?" Today, two decades after the fall of the Soviet bloc and the ascent of western capitalism, it's "tea, coffee, cappuccino?"

more info € 58.00

The Unseen Eye

Photographs from the Unconscious

The Unseen Eye is one of those rare books that has the quality of a revelation. It not only gives a new perspective on the work of many of the greatest names in the history of photography but also tells us something new about ourselves with all the associated nuances of memory, wit, eroticism, fear, grief and horror.

more info € 48.50

Francesca Woodman

In her all-too-brief life, Francesca Woodman produced a remarkable collection of photographs focused on the human form, many of them featuring her own body. This volume contains many previously unpublished photos.

more info € 47.00

Olaf Otto Becker. Under the Nordic Light

For over ten years now, Olaf Otto Becker has traveled the high northern spheres. On a search for the never-before-seen image of primeval landscape, where the eye encounters the boundaries of familiar vision and nature becomes a mirror of the soul, Becker observes distinctive geographic features and waits for the ideal light conditions to manifest.

more info € 68.00

Ellen von Unwerth, Fräulein

Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers, she pays homage to the world‘s most delectable females in Fräulein.

more info € 49.99

Bruce Gilden. Stern Fotografie Portfolio No. 64

A documentary artist in the tradition of street photographers such as William Klein, Bruce Gilden has a sharp eye for idiosyncracy. His distinctive use of flash showcases each subject, just as theater lighting draws us nearer to the actors on a stage.

more info € 18.00

Deborah Turbeville. The Fashion Pictures

From internationally acclaimed photographer Deborah Turbeville comes the first book on her highly influential visionary avant-garde fashion photography. Celebrated for her poetic grace and cinematic vision, Deborah Turbeville has produced fashion tableaux that draw the viewer into her otherworldly environments.

more info € 69.95