PhotobookWeekly: Toshio Shibata, Teju Cole (signed), Richard Billingham (signed), Hubert Humka, Ernest Cole, Saul Leiter

plus Tommaso Protti's new monograph Terra Vermelha Reviewed by Blake Andrews! [View this email in your browser]( [photo-eye] PHOTOBOOK WEEKLY January 13, 2023 BESTSELLER --------------------------------------------------------------- Japan Toshio Shibata Toshio Shibata’s large-format contemporary landscapes are distinguished by their haunting beauty, graceful composition, and meticulous detail. Using long exposures, and eliminating any references to people, horizons, or identifying geographic reference points, Shibata captures structures such as dams, bridges, reservoirs, and roads as they interact with their natural settings — mountainsides, rivers, forests and fields. The results are highlighted by painterly composition; filled with patterns, lines, and fluid action; and unmistakably Japanese in their aesthetic. [Order Japan or read more]( [View the full list of best sellers]( PRE-ORDER --------------------------------------------------------------- Pharmakon Teju Cole Signed copies available! Bringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, Pharmakon is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in Fernweh (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from our age of crisis, mining further the exquisite linguistic control that characterizes Cole’s novels Open City (2011) and Tremor (2023). The result is a work of strange beauty that startles and consoles in equal measure. [Pre-Order Signed copies of Pharmakon or read more]( Ray's a Laugh Richard Billingham Signed copies available! Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham’s often cha-otic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, Ray’s a Laugh was first published in 1996 to enormous acclaim. This new edition restores Billingham’s original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham’s training as a painter: it constitutes a ‘director’s cut’ and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era. [Pre-Order Signed copies of Ray's a Laugh or read more]( Eternal U Hubert Humka Eternal U is a story about the so-called good death and eternity. Through photographs of forests being natural cemeteries where the dead are buried in biodegradable urns or coffins, marked only with a previously selected tree, Humka shows a certain way of thinking about us as a code, an immortal chain of some larger universe. During life, we all draw from it, to later give it a part of ourselves. [Pre-Order Eternal U or read more]( BOOK REVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------- Terra Vermelha Tommaso Protti Reviewed by Blake Andrews "If you are like most photo-eye readers, you have a nagging sense that the Amazon rainforest is endangered. News outlets regularly report on a barrage of development threats, including logging, ranching, fires, roads, extinction, lost languages, and creeping monoculture. Whew, did I miss anything? The rainforest is under fire, literally. But what exactly does that look like? Is it heavy equipment? Stacks of timber? Indigenous kids in NFL jerseys? Smartphone screenshots viewed in a distant coffee shop?" — Blake Andrews [Read the full review]( [Order Terra Vermelha]( ARRIVING SOON --------------------------------------------------------------- The True America Ernest Cole After the publication of his landmark 1967 book House of Bondage on the horrors of apartheid, Ernest Cole moved to New York and received a grant from the Ford Foundation to document Black communities in cities and rural areas of the United States. He released very few images from this body of work while he was alive. Thought to be lost entirely, the negatives of Cole’s American pictures resurfaced in Sweden in 2017. [Order The True America or read more]( Collaboration A Potential History of Photography Collaboration is a groundbreaking publication, by five great thinkers and practitioners in photography, in collaboration with hundreds of photographers, writers, critics, artists, and academics. This collection uses the lens of collaboration to challenge dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. Working with an accumulation of more than six hundred photographs, each entry breaks apart photography’s "single creator" tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration — the various relationships, exchanges, and interactions that occur in the making of any photograph and in the shaping, undoing and transforming archives. [Order Collaboration or read more]( NEW ARRIVAL --------------------------------------------------------------- Saul Leiter The Centennial Retrospective Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a few blocks of his apartment in lower Manhattan, he was a master at discovering beauty in the most ordinary places. Created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Foundation, this definitive monograph brings together these diverse yet interconnected bodies of work ― including much that was previously unpublished ― to reveal the complete artist for the first time. [Order Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective or read more]( RECENTLY FEATURED --------------------------------------------------------------- In Visible Presence Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos A Humanist Vision The Naomi Rosenblum Family Collection The Pillar Stephen Gill Somersault Raymond Meeks Limited Edition! Megalith-still Mimi Plumb Signed copies! Lee Friedlander: Framed Edited by Joel Coen Signed Copies! In the American West Photographs 1979-1984. Richard Avedon What We Leave Behind From Jean-Luc Godard’s Archive Stéphan Crasneanscki Pasaco, 1996 Luis Corzo Signs Lee Friedlander Coincidences Sarah Moon Signed Copy! 1.2.3.4.5. Sarah Moon Limited Edition! 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