"Unfolded is a book that can function as an exhibition. The physical experience of walking through the exhibition route has been been imitated playfully in the book with renderings, so that readers imagine themselves to be walking through the different rooms of the gallery.
"80s SWM seeks LTR is an net acronym that stands for '80 years old single white male seeks long term relationship'. This is a book about love, internet dating and old cupids."
"'Einmal ist Keinmal (once is never)-What happens but once,might as well not have happened at all.If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all'―'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,'Milan Kundera― It is about freezing a single moment that will never recur and looking at it again and again. It is about capturing a moment which never happened at all through a camera lens. Or it may be an act of capturing a sole and precious moment. Attempting to perfectly preserve a certain moment, or trying to accurately convey a message, is impossible. But for the photographers, it's a good thing. Maybe photography is simply a means to connect with people. Or maybe it is merely a symbol for the things we perceive. So what is photography? That remains a mystery. A certain moment will never recur, ever again. That being said, although everything seems accidental, surely nothing happens by sheer chance.(Mika Kitamura)"
"Continente is a first monograph by Argentinian photographer Facundo Pires. His unique vision presents an alien-like world inhabited by nondescript shapes and strange objects. One might even be tempted to say that he doesn't photograph the world as much as he creates it through his looking."
"Alternating seven of his photographs taken in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district, with seven yantras designed by his father thirty years before, Tiane Doan na Champassak delivers a vision of the sexual act made sacred. Altogether elegant and suggestive, the yantras are usually geometrical magical diagrams, bearing explicit sexual and esoteric symbolism. Used in the tantric ritual, they possess considerable power and allow both man and woman to surpass their human condition."
Tantra is also available as a limited edition boxed set of gelatin silver photographs printed by the artist, together with reproductions of the drawings on tracing paper.
"Rom, Manouches, Sinti – together with pilgrims from all over the world – come each year at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a village on the coast of southwestern France, to honor their saints."
"Before tomorrow is a so far unpublished newspaper print publication and was exhibited during the International Photobook Dummy Award 2012 exhibition at Le Bal, Paris. It deals with the imminent radical changes of tourist regions in Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war in 2009 that had lasted almost thirty years."
"« È toi men prôtista Khaos genet : First became the abyss " In pace originally indicates a monastery dungeon. Declined in a contemporary vision of partition of society into individual units, Vanya Georgieva-Michel and Andreas Stathopoulos' creation reflects certain process of blinding/concealment, whether through successive layers of city soil ​​or closings affixed to bourgeois homes. The pictures interact with quotes by, amongst others, Castoriadis and Bataille."
"More than ten years after 9/11 and the international community's intervention against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the promises of bringing democracy and rebuilding this war-torn nation have proved elusive. The ongoing war and instability in Afghanistan - justified in the name of international security yet sweetened with fleeting glimpses of domestic peace, development and prosperity - continues to diminish the hope of the Afghan people, who have been caught up in this endless conflict of interests and struggles for money, power, and control. Stories of ordinary Afghans deserve to be both told and seen in order to remind us what the real images of war and poverty - of lives far from ordinary - look like."
"Walls Clean Dumb People is a collection of photos I took while traveling in Europe during the winter of 2011. This book documents my exploration of the local and tourist culture, while also seeking humor in the consumerism and embracement of American pop culture overseas."
"t's at twilight and on the outskirts of his hometown of Terrassa, located in the province of Barcelona, that Miquel Llonch realized the photographs of In the Field of Gold. The light captured, urban and remoter, immersing characters and setting in an ephemeral space, border between city and nature, light and darkness, noise and silence."
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The Birds is one of the important photo books in Taiwan. Originally self-published in March 1963, it was out of print for a long time. Reprinted version was self-published by the wife of photographer for a memorial exhibition after he passed away in 2011. Taiwan senior photographer Zheng San-Xi taking the role of continuation in the history of Taiwan photography unfortunately passed away in Feb 2nd 2011, aged 74. Born in Keelung, Taiwan in 1937, Professor Master Zheng purchased first camera in 1955 and started wandering the streets and taking pictures. He joined the Xin-Shuei Photography Exhibition Group under the guidance of photographer Zhang Cai. He was under great influence from Zhang Cai with concepts of socialist realist photography introduced from Japan, and started taking picutures of every corner of his hometown Keelung in the 1950s and 60s. He held his first individual exhibition of "birds" since 1963. The birds photo book was issued in 1963, and belonged to one of top important Taiwan Photobooks, the first themed photo book in Taiwan. Please write to me in advance if you want to order it.
"TCB Press/Tammy Mercure is publishing a book a month for 2012 on a single topic. April 2012 is Elvis."