Takashi Homma’s latest book The Narcissistic City, published by MACK, reveals the artist’s fascinating and renovated approach to cities and cityscapes, a recurrent subject of his ever-changing research.
John Radcliffe Studio, Foreigner:
Migration into Europe 2015–2016
Shortlisted for the First Book Award 2016 – a photography prize established by Mack to support emerging photographers – and selected as The Photography Book of the Month in The Observer, the publication Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016 is the result of a one-year photographic research on the Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis carried out by photographer Daniel Castro Garcia and graphic…
Taryn Simon, Paperwork and the Will of Capital
Debuted at the 56th Biennale di Venezia in 2015 and entirely shown for the first time at Gagosian Gallery in New York in Spring 2016, Taryn Simon’s latest project Paperwork and the Will of Capital was recently published by Hatje Cantz. Simon’s work was inspired by George Sinclair’s horticultural studies and experiments of…
Roe Ethridge, Shelter Island
Roe Ethridge’s latest publication Shelter Island marks the third collaboration between the American artist – born in Miami in 1969 and currently living in New York – and the London-based publisher Mack, following his monographs Le Luxe (2011) and Sacrifice Your Body (2014). Ethridge’s work is characterized by a distinctive use and…
Hans-Christian Schink, Fotografien aus Rom
The two series presented in Hans-Christian Schink’s latest publication Fotografien aus Rom, entitled respectively Aqua Claudia and EUR, were carried out in the course of a year the artist spent at the Villa Massimo in Rome. The first is dedicated to the antique aqueduct Aqua Claudia, which served to supply the roman capital with water. The overall length from the source…
Nicolai Howalt, Light Break – Photography / Light Therapy
«Yes, we embody the sun, its hesitation. Yes, we are from the sun and try to be like it. Nutrients and metabolism, we are clorophyll reaching upward.» Morten Søndegaard Danish visual artist Nicolai Howalt explores the research of scientist and Nobel laureate Niels Ryberg Finsen’s (1860-1904), based on an original use of chemical rays of light in the treatment…
Paul Graham, The Whiteness of the Whale
«Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.» H. Melville, Moby Dick Published contextually to Paul Graham’s current major retrospective at Pier 24 – the first solo show held at the beautiful exhibition space in San Francisco, open since 2010 –, The…
Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographs to electrify you with delight and startle the world
«My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real & Ideal & sacrificing nothing of Truth by all possible devotion to poetry and beauty.» Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, 31 December 1864 Julia Margaret Cameron’s major exhibition, celebrating the bicentenary…
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models
From the origins of photography, the relationship between the medium and mathematics has been a subject of great interest for many photographers. Internationally renown for his beautiful large-format, black-and-white gelatin silver prints composing, among others, his famous series Dioramas, Wax Museums, Seascapes, Theaters, and Architectures, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is not an exception. His interest towards infinity, the capability of his…
Lele Saveri at MoMA’s New Photography 2015
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series New Photography is expanding to 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries, and includes works made specifically for this exhibition. Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 will be on view from November 7, 2015 to March 20, 2016, throughout the entirety of the Museum’s Edward…
Rinus Van de Velde: Selected Works
«He lives and works in a small European town in the woods, which has been kept secret since the early Seventies. His reclusive lyfestyle has been the source of many speculations by others from the outside.» Hatje Cantz recently released the first extensive monograph of Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde (born 1983), gathering a…
Ricardo Cases, ‘El porqué de las naranjas’
A visual wandering across ephemeral details and amazing banalities compose Ricardo Cases’ publication ‘El porqué de la naranjas’ (MACK, London). The body of work was entirely produced in the region of Levante, Spain, where the author chose to let himself carried away by the beauty of his near surroundings. The vibrant and colorful portrait of the…
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, A Perpetual Season
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine’s A Perpetual Season flows, as a musical arrangement, in a minor scale. Intriguing and unsettling. Repeated encounters with detached strangers alternate with glimpses of worn-out concrete surfaces and indispensable pauses, with a rhythmic and slow cadence. The book consists of a journey through an unknown, yet familiar city, made of instants and fragments. The…
Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin, This Equals That!
What do a sailing boat and a square ruler have in common? And what about a bookstall and a brick wall? These are only few of the question marks raised by Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin in their publication This Equals That!. Entirely dedicated to all children from five to one hundred years old,…
Max De Esteban, Heads Will Roll
Max De Esteban’s volume Heads Will Roll is the fourth episode of the author’s series of Propositions, a long-term investigation arising from today’s growing embracement of technologies within the artistic approaches and methods. The images gathered in this book hail from a variety of sources, among which the digital world and the news, today definable…
Sergio Romagnoli, A Drop in the Ocean
Éditions du Lic’s volume A Drop in the Ocean is a homage to the life of Sergio Romagnoli, a 37-year old Italian naturalist and science teacher who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1994 on the island of Sao Tomè and Principe (Gulf of Guinea, Western Africa), where he had moved with his wife after…
Paul Graham, Does Yellow Run Forever?
Collected in a precious tiny volume published by MACK, Paul Graham’s latest series of photographs Does Yellow Run Forever? brings into question what we seek and value in life – love, wealth, happiness, beauty – therefore following the author’s ceaseless research on the ephemeral and quotidian in our lives. Three distinct groups of images – rainbows…
Jochen Lempert, Phenotype
Phenotype is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the photographic work of the German biologist Jochen Lempert’s, spanning from the 1990s until today. Divided into thematic chapters and completed by a rich section of texts, the book offers an overview of Lempert’s distinctive black and white depiction of animals, plants and humans. Lempert’s method, although…
Guido Guidi, Veramente
Retracing the distinctive 40-year career of Italian photographer Guido Guidi’s, “Veramente” gathers excerpts of his entire oeuvre spanning from 1959 to the present. Pioneer of Italian landscape photography, Guidi’s body of images highlights the importance of the medium as a process and experience of understanding, and carries out a visual discourse upon the meaning of…
Roe Ethridge, Sacrifice Your Body
In his latest publication by MACK, Roe Ethridge combines a series of personal documentary images taken in western Palm Beach County and surreal collage works, together with discarded images from a Chanel fashion shoot. The author’s narrative – largely inspired by David Lynch’s approach to film-making and pertaining to the “new school of synthetic photography” – aims…
Hans J. Wegner, Just One Good Chair
In order to celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of Danish designer Hans J. Wegner (1914–2007), Hatje Cantz dedicates the monograph Just One Good Chair to his groundbreaking career, identified with the production of an unrivalled number of chairs. Trained as a furniture maker, Wegner was capable to push the technical limitations of wood by always giving…
Marcel Dzama, Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets
The book “Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets” illustrates Marcel Dzama’s solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London. The artist’s eclectic puppets and masks, a peculiar subject matter that originates from Dadaism and Marcel Duchamp’s influences above all, are presented here in form of drawings, collages, sculptures, dioramas, paintings and video stills. Best known for his…
Andy Sewell, Something like a nest
Sewell’s new book consists of beautiful landscapes, domestic interiors and still-lives that make up a delicate portrayal of today’s English countryside. The artist explores how our idea of this land, and the pastoral symbolism related to it, intersects with contemporary culture. Sewell goes beyond the clichés in order to create a visual experience in which the…
The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus
‘The Sochi Project’ was born in 2007 from the will of Rob Hornstra and Arnold Van Bruggen’s to tell the story of the city of Sochi, Russia, site of the controversial Winter Olympic Games that took place earlier this year. The city is located on the border of the conflict zone Abkhazia and, across the Caucasus…
Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
First published by Aperture in 1986, Nan Goldin’s groundbreaking publication The Ballad of Sexual Dependency – now considered as a contemporary classic – was given new life in a fresh paperback edition with new scans from the original transparencies. Originally presented as a slide projection, this body of work offers an intimate visual portrait of the photographer and…
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image
This is the first release (together with Larry Fink’s) of the new ‘Photography Workshop Series’ edited by Aperture. The series features a selection of the world’s most renowned photographers, who were asked to share their approaches, techniques and insights on photography for the purpose of recreating the workshop experience in a book. Internationally acclaimed for their color…
Erwin Wurm, De Profundis
Erwin Wurm’s De Profundis, published by Hatje Cantz, collects a series of hand-painted photographs representing naked or barely dressed men posing in front of the camera. Using a variety of media, such as drawing, photography and painting, the artist takes inspiration from the ideal beauty of the Gothic language, where the representation of the body is…
Skinnerboox publishing
We are glad to celebrate the birth of a new independent publishing house, Skinnerboox. Founded by Milo Montelli and based in Italy, it focuses on contemporary photography with particular attention towards Italian young authors. The inaugural released titles are Thoreau by Alessandro Calabrese and I resti del viandante by Giuseppe De Mattia. Alessandro Calabrese’s work…
Paul Salveson, Between the Shell
Published by MACK after winning this year’s edition of the First Book Award, Between the Shell by Paul Salveson consists of a series of photographs taken in New York and Virginia between 2006 and 2011. Absurdist playful constructions are jocosely extracted from commonplace objects, within the walls of domestic environments. Salveson’s photographic process is intended…
Linda Fregni Nagler, The Hidden Mother
Italian artist Linda Fregni Nagler’s book The Hidden Mother collects 1.002 children portraits – tintypes, ambrotypes, snapshots, daguerreotypes, cartes de visite and cabinet cards – taken between the advent of photography and the 1920’s by mostly anonymous authors. At the time the photographs were taken, because of the slow exposure times, babies needed to be…