PHOTOGRAPHY

Mika Ninagawa - Ninagawa Baroque. Lumen 07 Artbeat 2010 ISBN 9784902080308 Acqn 21015 Pb 37x51cm 44pp 40ills 19 Born in 1972, Mika Ninagawa is one of Japan's most popular photographers. Ninagawas photographs are usually characterized by the intense use of bright colours. In the latest issue of Lumen, Ninagawa sets herself another challenge to present a unique and solely black and white photography collection of portraits, artificial flowers and street images.

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

John Warwicker - One Thousand Fathoms Deep. Lumen 08 Artbeat 2010 ISBN 9784902080322 Acqn 21016 Pb 38x52cm 24pp 24ills 19 Issue 8 of Lumen features a photographic essay by John Warwicker.

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

Alvin Baltrop - Dreams into Glass Contemporary Art Museum Houston 2012 ISBN 9781933619392 Acqn 21417 Pb 26x22cm 60pp 40ills 10col 31 Dreams into Glass accompanies the first major museum exhibition of African-American photographer Alvin Baltrop (19482004), whose career unfolded in the late 1960s amid a period of turbulent social and political upheaval. Following a stint in the Navy, Baltrop returned to New York in the 1970s and immersed himself in the citys decaying landscape, documenting a postindustrial wasteland of vacant manufacturing buildings that included the piers located along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan. It was here that Baltrop captured his most iconic images of nocturnal danger and despair alongside intimate and voyeuristic portraits of the homeless, teenage runaways, prostitutes and clandestine sexual encounters. During this period, Baltrop captured Gordon Matta-Clarks monumental piece Days End and the work of graffiti artist, Tava, now lost to history. This survey features over three decades of vintage and reprinted photographs as well as archival material--from Baltrops intimate portraits of Navy friends and other enlisted men to his poetic body abstractions and street photography to the documentation of an era of gay sexual abandon between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS pandemic.

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

Peter Martens - Few Loving Voices Post Editions 2012 ISBN 9789460830464 Acqn 21645 Pb 24x29cm 240pp 214ills 27.95 Dutch photographer Peter Martens (1937-1992) was a versatile street photographer. His way of working was inspired by the long American tradition of engaged and personal documentary photography, but he went one step further and developed into a radical photographer who took a stand for the disadvantaged and outcast. Tirelessly he captured world's injustice and bad luck millions of people suffer from, fixed in confrontational, grainy images. In his photographs from the seventies and early eighties, Bogot, Bangkok, Calcutta, Hong Kong and Ouagadougou were the worst places on earth. Closer to home, he showed the blind faith of believers seeking redemption and forgiveness.

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

Peter Martens - American Testimony Post Editions 2012 ISBN 9789460830648 Acqn 21646 Pb 24x29cm 184pp 166ills 29.50 When Peter Martens explored American in the beginning of the 1970s, it became his domain. There he found subjects on a large scale that obsessed him as a photojournalist: the everyday war in the street, the news that is not news, but daily reality for countless people. American life, Marten indicated, could be just as ruthless as living in dictatorships or developing countries. The central figure in his universe is that of an individual lying prostrate in the midst of his fellow men, whether praying, crippled, begging, morally broken or even murdered. This is contrasted with ambiguous figures of strength, power and authority police, the military or the church representing both guidance and oppression, dominance and support.

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

Toilet Paper 6 Deste Foundation 2012 ISBN 9788897856061 Acqn 21760 Pb 23x29cm 40pp 20ills 17col 11.25 Toilet Paper is an artists magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists' mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010, Toilet Paper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art that, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.

orders@artdata.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY

Ryo Kameyama - Afrika War Journal Little More 2012 ISBN 9784898153437 Acqn 21779 Pb 23x30 132pp 101ills 28.95 DRCongo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Sudan, Angola, and Kenya. One-eyed photographer's gaze at Black Africa. One hundred and twenty photographs by Ryo Kameyama, shot from 2003 through 2010 in turbulent Africa. Massacre, rape, and plunder happening on a daily basis. This is the reality of the world's most brutal battlefields, shown through a young Japanese photographer's eye, and with autobiographical writings alongside. One can follow the tracks of the author's life, coming across the people of far countries who are suffering in agony "Not only trying to capture the critical moment or war scenes, I thought it was important to keep a record of existence itself, even if it is only partial. The atmosphere of the place and the breathes of the groaning people at the scene. I did not know how to do it, how to capture such a thing in photography. But it was absolutely certain that nothing starts without going there."

orders@artdata.co.uk