Waiting Room, Tristan Martinez

“Waiting Room” is a celebration of transitional moments and experiences which may be otherwise overlooked.

 Martinez describes the work as “the feeling of being on the cusp of a moment, just as something is about to happen or just after something has happened.” 

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The sexiest books of all time.

Goodreads has determined the 45 sauciest stories ever written.

 The results may surprise you.

 

Earth, but not as you know it.

When Trent Parke moved to Sydney from the outskirts of a small Australian town, his first impression was of the sheer volume of people.  He would grab his camera and go out exploring.

 

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Glitch, Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein

Orejarena and Stein have spent years canvassing the internet and collecting social media posts of “glitches” — signs that our reality is not only what it appears to be.

 

Twilight, Arthur Drooker

Twilight presents a series of photographs Arthur Drooker made over four years from the same vantage point at The Sea Ranch on the Northern California coast.

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Casa Dalí ,Coco Capitán

Casa Dalí spans 96 pages of images that spotlight the small home on Spain’s Costa Brava that Dalí and his wife Gala bought in 1930.

 

The Mysteries By Bill Watterson

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. 

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Lay Us Down by Judson Womack

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Swimmers, Larry Sultan

At the age of twelve, American photographer Larry Sultan narrowly escaped drowning. Some fifteen years later, he discovered a Red Cross swimming manual whose black and white photographs inspired him to start a series on learning to swim. The project quickly became an exploration of the formal potential of water, whose captivating images had long remained in the shadows. 

Brought together for the first time in a book published by the British publishing house MACK, they reveal a little-known facet of the photographer’s work.

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Country Girls

Photography by Anna Fox Performance by Alison Goldfrapp. 

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A Leap of Faith, Rodney Smith

Prominent fashion photographer Rodney Smith‘s (1947–2016) imaginative and whimsical images from a forty-five-year career are thoughtfully curated into Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith (J. Paul Getty Museum). This title is the definitive record of the life’s work of this truly original artist and educator. Born in New York City, Smith started work as a photo essayist, before turning to portraiture, and eventually finding his niche and greatest success in fashion photography.

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Time-Keepers, Luc Debraine

Les “Garde-Temps” (Time-Keepers) here are clocks that keep precious time: those of memories.

 They have been stopped short by natural or human disasters, from the Titanic to Hiroshima, from Buchenwald to the towers of the World Trade Center. They still display fateful moments. 

They were also stopped voluntarily to mark a revolution, a liberation, a singular event.

 These timepieces are sometimes out of order, but their silence says a lot about extraordinaries destinies. They are kept in public places, museums or private homes. They are united by a will: not to forget. Through photography and text, Luc Debraine composes a fresco of these silent witnesses of history. 

 

American Gothic, Alicia Bruce

Alicia Bruce‘s book, I Burn But I Am Not Consumed (Daylight Books, June 27, 2023), is a visually immersive experience that documents through photographs, narratives, and images of ephemera, the 16 year battle between the residents of the Scottish community of Menie defending their land and homes from takeover by Donald Trump.

 

Nowhere to Now, Tom DesLongchamp

Seattle-based artist Tom DesLongchamp turns 8 years of portrait-making into an intimate art book. “Nowhere to Now” charts Tom’s evolution from doodling during breaks at work to full-time devotion. The intro and section titles share details about Tom’s approach to creativity in general, but also include specific information about his unique ink/fingerprint/masking technique.

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Living and loving in the shadows of Europe’s industrial age, HJ Hunter.

Photographer HJ Hunter’s new book examines how western Europe is fitting itself into a new landscape – after Covid, economic downturn and pit closures. It’s a surprisingly rich vista. 

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Entre, Desiré van den Berg

“Entre” is a docufiction about the Entrepotbrug, a unique building above the Borneohaven in Amsterdam where van den Berg has lived in recent years. 

The book not only captures the retro-futuristic character of the serpentine building with its round windows and spiral staircases, it sheds light on the lives behind the outer walls through still lifes and portraits of some of van den Berg’s neighbours. Interspersed with drawings by the architect and notes by van den Berg herself, “Entre” offers a personal portrait of a time and place. 

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