Someone Loves Someone Else. Harry Mitchell. fourteen-nineteen

Cairo, April 2012

“The ‘street’ in Cairo is symbolic, now almost a byword used to describe the general mood of the politically active, a barometer for a movement’s next motion. This mood became my point of departure, whilst I looked to the city – how it inhaled and paused, before the next exhalation.”

– Harry Mitchell

www.harry-mitchell.com

First Edition of 500, September 2013

Colour monograph, Silkscreen card cover

Price: €20.00

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Carpark  #6.

Featuring work by:

Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Sarah Maurer, David Richardson, Jan Håkon Robson, Maya Rochat featuring Aurélien Ballif, Mathias Sterner, Synchrodogs, Constantine Tsapaliras, Logan White, Mario Zoots

116 pages.

Price: D €15

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Scampia is a neighborhood in the outskirts of Naples and is mainly known as a stronghold of the Camorra mafia. Most stories about Scampia deal with gangsters or junkies.
In “ma almeno ci sei tu amore mio” (but at least you are here my love) I show the everyday life of those, who don’t have anything to do with all this. It’s a tough reality for them: Finding work is an almost impossible task, many of the flats are contaminated with asbestos and it’s hard to convince the own children of the fact that it’s not cool to work for the mafia.
In such a rough environment havens – even only mental ones – have a special significance. Religion and music play an important role, but love seems to be more meaningful than anything else. At least this is what the writings on the walls of this neighborhood testify, and which are the leitmotiv of this book.

Language: Italiano – English – Deutsch
Size: 21 × 15
Binding: Softcover

Price: €18.00
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Don Hudson is an amateur photographer born in 1950 in Michigan, USA.

From The Archives shows nearly fifteen years of personal archives and presents for the first time these photographs as a collection edited.
Native of Detroit, the Motown (Motor Town), Don Hudson had the heyday of the automobile which was then the Michigan region of global production. Three major U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler also have their headquarters in the Detroit area.

From the early 70s, Don Hudson has documented his personal relationship with the streets of Motown and small towns of Michigan. Over the years, he has compiled a unique visual archive of American daily life.
These photographs, made at political rallies, parades, fairs, or high school football games, tell of a common social landscape of the American Midwest. However, each scenario becomes a personal excuse to allow the camera to suggest alternate meanings to the literal visual world described. Each scene is an excuse to catch a fugitive and incongruous situation.

However, if the book has a certain vision of the American daily life’s style in an era of recklessness and full employment, the collection began in 1973, date of the first oil shock, and also announces that go deep tensions irreversible mark the lives of the americans and dent more the “American Dream.”

Author: Don Hudson
Publisher: Editions FP&CF
Language: English / French
Pages: 128
Size: 19 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover

D 29€
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Stefanie Seufert
Die vorliegende Publikation vertieft die Debatte um Formen der visuellen Reduktion in aktuellen fotografischen Projekten. Es beginnt sich eine Bildsprache zu formieren, die sich explizit gegen Narration wendet und im Gegenzug eintritt für den Eigenwert der fotografischen Materialität: Bilder von ephemeren Erscheinungen und Zuständen, die sich in einem fremdartigen und doch emblematischen Moment zu einer spezifischen Form verdichten. Nicht die Offenlegung oder die Ästhetisierung des Wirklichen steht dabei im Zentrum, sondern die Bearbeitung der Frage des Verhältnisses von Sichtbarkeit und Wirklichkeit.

Softcover
48 Pages
German

18€
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romka. magazine #7

Some photographs are more important than others.

In this issue, 58 professionals and amateurs from 21 countries share their favorite photos and stories behind them. We also show you excerpts from an extraordinary photo album from 1950s Germany and the five worst photos ever.

photos & stories by:
Aaron MacDonald, Ai-Lun Huang, Alec Soth, Amber Fairweather, Andreea Preda, Anke Schüttler, Anthony Tortorici, Árpád Szigeti, Ash Bowland, Brian Weiland, Christopher Sharpe, Christopher Snyder, Clara Bahlsen, Craig Johnson, David, Paul Maharam, David Roth, Elisa Longhi, Esteban Pochintesta, Eugenio Villagra, Gábor Arion Kudász, Go Itami, Hadas Tapouchi, Irina Yulieva, Iris Janke, Jan-Dirk van der Burg, Jeff Hamada, Jennife Schäfer, Jordan Sullivan, Kaupo Roivasepp, Ksenija Kucerova, Laurence Vecten, Laurent Ripoll, Leif Gunnar Boman, Mara Ploscaru, Maria Kazvan, Markus Schaden, Michal Brezinsky, Miriam Neitzel, Nadia Sablin, Neven Allgeier, Nico Krebs, Nicolas Turlais, Nils Orth, Philippe Gerlach, Roberto Rubalcava, Roger Ballen, Ryan Becker, Sachi Nasatir, Sera Marshall, Sonya Dyakova, Stefan Peters, Stéphanie Jesus, Taiyo Onorato, Trisha Thompson, Tyrone Williams, Veronica Nardulli, Wolfgang Filser, Zara Pfeifer

yellow
edition of 1,500

11.5 €

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Warsaw Modern by Czeslaw Olszewski, published by Fundacja Raster

This album of photographs by Czesław Olszewski is a unique cultural testament to the decade just prior to the outbreak of World War II. It is a fascinating voyage to the “Warsaw of the future” via the city’s modernist architecture.
The album is an attempt to revive the integrity of the Warsaw Architecture School of the interwar period. Yet it is also a narrative of the visionary modernist perspective, of how architecture creates a new spatial and aesthetic order, and how photography invokes an awareness of this order within us.
The album presents close to 300 archive photographs of selected architectural structures in Warsaw, including public buildings, residential estates and villas, as well as the modernised highways of the 1930s. These photographs were scanned from the original, glass negatives. When possible, the photographer’s original frames were restored on the basis of existing notes.
The album is preceded by an essay by Professor Marta Leśniakowska and Piotr Jamski, specialists at the Art Institute at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). The text casts a closer look at the life and works of photographer Czesław Olszewski, and also explores the significance and specific character of architectural photography as a historical document.

Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 348

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Ein Du ist eine Co-Produktion des Künstlers Béla Pablo Janssen und des Dichters Dennis Freischlad. Gemeinsam suchen sie nach den Orten und Subjekten, die einer Beheimatung gleichkommen (könnten). Prosa, Fotografie, Tagebuchnotizen, Graffiti und Lyrik sind die Mittel, mit denen sie um den Mittelpunkt ihres Gegenwartsgedächtnisses kreisen. Die Themen lesen sich wie eine Bestandsaufnahme, wie ein Festhaltenmüssen des Erlebten: Kunst, Sex, Alltag, Sehnsucht, poetische Momentaufnahmen in Wort und Bild. Im Zwischenraum dieser in die Reflektion integrierten Sujets befindet sich die ständige Frage nach der individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Bewohnbarkeit der Welt.

Béla Pablo Janssen (geb. 1981) lebt und arbeitet in Köln.
Dennis Freischlad (geb. 1979) lebt und arbeitet derzeit in Köln.

Language: German/English

D 16€

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Lederhosen 2012. One Year. 12 Month. 13 Images.

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. found-photographs.com wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.

www.found-photographs.com

D € 26

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Someone Cuts My Hair While I Sleep. Todd Fisher.

Todd Fisher´s photography originates from everyday life. He draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings and shoots just at the right moment to capture the mystical momentum rather than the narrative. His motives are of unknown protagonists at non-places. In the moment of taking a picture the situations seem to arise spontaneously, which in combination with his working methods makes Fisher´s photography authentic. Their documentary character is undeniable. Yet there is a clear distinction from photojournalism, because Fisher’s photographs incorporate artistic composition with a shifted and often non-linear focus. Where the street has a clear narrative, his personal view is more abstract and even opaque at times. Context is deliberately absent or left vague, allowing the viewer to create their own reality. His protagonists behave remarkably uniform, staring into nothingness or seem to be engaged in a strange relationship with structural features of their immediate environment. Following Todd Fishers photography is always fascinating, his work is intimate, mysterious, spontaneous, witty, and sad at the same time.

D € 22

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