Unknown in his lifetime, Alberto di Lenardo’s work offers a precursor to some of Italy’s best-loved photographers, from Luigi Ghirri to Guido Guidi, with work made across Italy, the USA, Brasil, Morocco, Greece and beyond.
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Short Cuts 15 – The Japan Edition
Short Cuts 15 – The Japan Edition presents 4 new photobooks: (1) Yurie Nagashima: Self-Portraits (Dashwood Books, 2020) (2) Koji Taki: Searching for the Language of a House: Architectural Photography of Koji Taki (House of Architecture, 2020) (3) Momo Okabe: Ilmatar (Mandarake, 2020) (4) Joji Hashiguchi: We Have No Place to Be 1980-1982 (Session Press, 2020).
Read MoreBrenton Hamilton: A Blue Idyll – Cyanotypes and Dreams (Schilt Publishing, 2020)
For over 25 years visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, mostly concentrated within the historic processes employing XIX century photography techniques, such as gum bichromate forms, platinum, collodion ambrotypes on black glass, French variants of paper calotype and the embellished cyanotype.
Read MoreJohn Brian King: Riviera (Spurl Editions, 2020)
Riviera documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city. John Brian
King photographed Riviera from 2016 to 2018 in Palm Springs, California, and its
surroundings; a full-time resident at the time, he used a cheap instant film camera to
give his photographs a unique, washed-out, hazy aesthetic.
Cy Twombly Photographs – Lyrical Variations (Torch Press, 2014)
The catalogue for an exhibition at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, this volume features a selection of 100 photographic works by American artist Cy Twombly that span six decades, from the 1950s until his death in 2011.
Read MorePiotr Zbierski: Echoes Shades (André Frère Éditions, 2020)
Piotr Zbierski (b. 1987) studied photography at National Film School in Lodz, Poland. In 2012 he won the Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award for his series Pass by me. In 2017 Dewi Lewis published his first book titled Push the Sky Away.
Read MoreAnnie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 (HarperCollins, 1991)
Annie Leibovitz is one of America’s most famous portrait photographers. Her iconic pictures of celebrities first appeared in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair in the 1970’s and by the 1990’s were the subject of museum exhibitions worldwide.
Read MoreVolker Heinze: Ahnung // plus minus null (1989, 1986)
Volker Heinze (* 1959 in Duisburg) is a German photographer for whom the book is the primary medium; he explores his visual ideas in book form before installing his work in the gallery or museum.
Read MoreHuma Rosentalski: 1990 DDR (Hands on Papers, 2020)
February 1990, commissioned by Philippe Morris, Huma Rosentalski travelled through the still existing GDR.
Read MoreZhang Kechun: The Yellow River // 3rd edition (Jiazazhi Press, 2020)
Zhang Kechun (born 1980 in Sichuan province in China) is best known for his large format photographs of post-industrial Chinese landscapes. He produces epic vistas that dwell on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity.
Read MoreTina Barney Photographs: Theater of Manners (Scalo, 1997)
Tina Barney was born in 1945 in New York. Since 1975, she has been producing large-scale photographs of family and friends. Her meticulous tableaux chronicle the complexity of interpersonal relationships.
Read MoreCzezlaw Siegieda: Polska Britannica (RRB Photobooks, 2020)
Czeslaw Siegieda, born the son of Polish immigrants to England in Leicestershire in 1954, showed an interest in photography from an early age. From his teens he photographed the Polish community he grew up in, moving through fêtes and funerals with an ease only available to an insider.
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