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58 artBooK | D.a.p. 1.800.338.2665<br />
A half-century of landmark<br />
photobooks from<br />
van der Elsken to Lundgren<br />
Previously Announced.<br />
The Dutch Photobook<br />
A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards<br />
APerTure<br />
edited by frits Gierstberg, rik suermondt.<br />
the Dutch photobook is internationally celebrated for its particularly<br />
close collaboration between photographer, printer and designer. the<br />
current photobook publishing boom in the netherlands stems from a<br />
tradition of excellence that precedes World War II, but the postwar years<br />
inaugurated a period of particularly close collaboration between photographers<br />
and designers, producing such unique photography books as<br />
ed van der elsken’s Love on the Left Bank (1956) and Koen Wessing’s<br />
Chili, September 1973 (1973). Innovations such as the photo novel and the<br />
company photobook blossomed in the 1950s and 60s; later, other genres<br />
emerged to characterize the publishing landscape in Holland, including<br />
conceptual and documentary photobooks, books on youth culture, urbanism<br />
photobooks and landscape photobooks and travelogues. examining<br />
each of these genres across six themed chapters, The Dutch Photobook<br />
features selections from more than 100 historical, contemporary and<br />
self-published photobook projects. It includes landmark publications such<br />
as Hollandse taferelen by Hans aarsman (1989), The Table of Power by<br />
Jacqueline Hassink (1996), Why Mister Why by geert van Kesteren (2006)<br />
and Empty Bottles by Wassink Lundgren (2007). Dutch photo historians<br />
Frits gierstberg and rik Suermondt contribute several essays on the<br />
history of the genre, the collaborative efforts between photographers<br />
and designers and their inspiration and influences, complementing the<br />
high-quality reproductions of photobooks throughout. award-winning<br />
designer Joost grootens contributes unique charts and diagrams that<br />
consolidate all of these elements, in a visually unique map of the Dutch<br />
photobook.<br />
978-1-59711-200-0<br />
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / illustrated throughout.<br />
U.S. $75.00 CDn $75.00<br />
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Ed van der Elsken:<br />
Sweet Life<br />
Books on Books No. 13<br />
errATA edITIons<br />
Text by frits Gierstberg, ed van der<br />
elsken, Jeffrey Ladd.<br />
In 1960, armed with two magazine<br />
commissions and a stipend from<br />
netherlands television, ed van der<br />
elsken (1925–1990) and his wife gerda<br />
set off on a fourteen-month journey<br />
around the world, from West africa, the<br />
malay peninsula, the philippines, Hong<br />
Kong and Japan to the United States<br />
and mexico. Six years after their return,<br />
he published his travelogue Sweet Life<br />
(named after a little tramp steamer in<br />
the philippines): a sprawling, exuberant<br />
chronicle of their journey and his encounters<br />
with a range of people in the<br />
streets, from joyous lovers to destitute<br />
down-and-outs. the book itself exhibited<br />
a panoply of layout effects: doublepage<br />
bleeds, crops, printed in deep<br />
gravure, and different cover designs for<br />
each of the six countries in which it<br />
was published. this legendary Dutch<br />
photobook is presented here complete,<br />
with a contemporary essay by Frits<br />
gierstberg.<br />
978-1-935004-25-7<br />
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 216 pgs / 120 duotone.<br />
U.S. $39.95 CDn $39.95<br />
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Also Available:<br />
koen wessing:<br />
Chili september 1973<br />
9781935004141<br />
hbk, u.s. $39.95<br />
Cdn $39.95<br />
errata editions<br />
Keld Helmer-<br />
Petersen:<br />
122 Colour<br />
Photographs<br />
Books on Books No. 14<br />
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Text by Mette sandbye, keld helmer-<br />
Petersen, Jeffrey Ladd.<br />
While the rise of color photography as<br />
a viable artistic medium has often been<br />
credited to the celebrated work of<br />
Willam eggleston and Stephen Shore<br />
in the 1970s, their efforts had in fact<br />
been preceded by almost two decades<br />
by the Danish photographer Keld<br />
Helmer-petersen (born 1920). Helmerpetersen’s<br />
1948 publication of 122<br />
Colour Photographs stands as an extraordinary<br />
accomplishment: inspired<br />
by the realism of the neue Sachlichkeit<br />
movement, Helmer-petersen concentrated<br />
on the mundane and the everyday,<br />
generating a panoply of geometric<br />
abstractions out of curved doorknobs,<br />
crates of tomatoes, industrial metal<br />
drums and straw-colored buildings<br />
against milky blue skies. With this reproduction,<br />
accompanied by an essay<br />
by historian mette Sandbye, 122 Colour<br />
Photographs can at last assume its<br />
proper role as the foundational book<br />
that successfully put color photography<br />
on the map and brought modernism<br />
into Danish photography.<br />
978-1-935004-27-1<br />
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 136 pgs / 80 color.<br />
U.S. $39.95 CDn $39.95<br />
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Nobuyoshi Araki:<br />
The Banquet<br />
Books on Books No. 15<br />
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Text by Ivan vartanian, nobuyoshi<br />
Araki, Jeffrey Ladd.<br />
First published in Japan in 1993,<br />
nobuyoshi araki’s The Banquet<br />
(Shokuji) offers a moving tribute to the<br />
photographer’s late wife, Yoko, through<br />
a photo-diary of the food they shared<br />
together in the last months of her life.<br />
the book is composed of three related<br />
sections: commercial color photographs<br />
of meals shot by araki from<br />
1985 onwards, using a ring flash and a<br />
macro lens; a (written) food diary; and<br />
black-and-white photographs taken at<br />
home, using only available light, a series<br />
araki began after doctors told his<br />
wife she had only a month to live. as<br />
martin parr and gerry Badger observe,<br />
“the obvious metaphor is to suggest<br />
that the color was leaving araki’s<br />
world, but his intentions are not quite<br />
so simple. the retreat from color is a<br />
retreat from realism to romanticism. . . .”<br />
this deeply personal diary of loss is<br />
here reprinted in its entirety along with<br />
an essay by Ivan vartanian.<br />
978-1-935004-29-5<br />
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 136 pgs / 40 color /<br />
45 b&w.<br />
U.S. $39.95 CDn $39.95<br />
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Culture<br />
Krass Clement:<br />
Drum<br />
Books on Books No. 16<br />
errATA edITIons<br />
Text by rune Gade, Jeffrey Ladd.<br />
photographed in a small pub in Drum,<br />
Ireland, on a single evening and with<br />
only a few rolls of film (and a rumored<br />
“five pints of guinness”), Krass<br />
Clement (born 1946) created one of the<br />
most important contributions to the<br />
contemporary Danish photobook. His<br />
1996 Drum opens in a darkening and<br />
foggy town, with a workday ending and<br />
some men heading off for a drink.<br />
through subtle shifts in focus and a<br />
masterful filmic sequencing, the book<br />
comes to concentrate on one principal<br />
character in the shadowy pub: a<br />
hunched, weather-beaten old man sitting<br />
alone with his drink. Drum is a<br />
quiet, dusky meditation on community,<br />
the outsider, alienation and the terrors<br />
of being alone. a virtually unobtainable<br />
and therefore highly sought-after photobook,<br />
Clement’s masterwork is here<br />
reproduced in full, accompanied with<br />
an essay by photo historian rune gade.<br />
978-1-935004-31-8<br />
Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 65 duotone.<br />
U.S. $39.95 CDn $39.95<br />
September/photography<br />
Also Available:<br />
Laszlo Moholy-nagy:<br />
60 fotos<br />
9781935004202<br />
hbk, u.s. $39.95<br />
Cdn $39.95<br />
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