{"title":"All Our Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-landscape-of-murder","title":"ANTONIO OLMOS: The Landscape Of Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#555555\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Landscape of Murder\u003c\/em\u003e documents all the sites where murders occurred in London between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2012. In total 210 murders were committed over this two year period. Most murders make the news for only a fleeting moment and the landscape in which they occur reverts back to normality very quickly after the forensic teams leave. Yet the scars remain, sometimes subtle, sometimes very open, whether a single solitary flower or the gathering of grieving family and friends. Sometimes nothing remains to show that a life has ended violently in a particular location.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#555555\" size=\"2\"\u003eAntonio Olmos seeks to give memory to what are mostly forgotten events, in unseen places where great violence has occurred. A violence that is mostly silent, private and unseen by the wider public. The project has taken him to parts of London he knew little or nothing about and in the process he has created an alternative portrait of London, one shaped by violence and inequality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#555555\" size=\"2\"\u003eBorn in Mexico, Antonio Zazueta Olmos is a photojournalist who has worked on issues concerning human rights, the environment and conflict throughout his career. 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On the ground, tank rides are on offer and armed forces’ recruitment drives afford children an opportunity to indulge in their fascination with guns. There are elements of fantasy and the carnivalesque here and a clear disconnect between this ‘play’ and the actual effect of weapons. In Friend’s photographs the beach and the landscape become uneasy, surreal spaces, temporarily militarized by the fleeting presence and roar of fighter jets. Civilian aircraft displays are interwoven with military ones, whilst nostalgia for World War II is evoked by the presence of ‘war birds’ such as the Lancaster bomber, only to be followed by the ‘shock and awe’ displays of contemporary fighter jets such as the Tornado, recently deployed in Libya and Afghanistan. By contrast, the trade days of the larger air shows such as Farnborough promote military hardware in a more direct way, while deals are negotiated behind the closed doors of the hospitality chalets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan size=\"2\" color=\"#555555\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eIn her early career Melanie Friend worked as a photojournalist, and radio reporter. From the mid 1990s she shifted her focus to longer-term photographic projects, producing work for exhibition as well as for her books which include \u003cem\u003eHomes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eNo Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo \u003c\/em\u003e(2001) and \u003cem\u003eBorder Country\u003c\/em\u003e (2007). 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Photographing the urban social landscape\u003c\/em\u003e, said Benge. \u003cem\u003eDon’t talk bullshit; what are you doing?\u003c\/em\u003e Eggleston insisted. \u003cem\u003eMaking strange pictures in cities\u003c\/em\u003e, replied Benge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHowever you look at them, Harvey Benge’s photographs are mostly urban and generally strange. His work is mysterious; nothing is solid. The pictures capture contrasts and conflicts which leave you wondering what has just happened and what might happen next. He gives voice to the mundane and overlooked. His open-ended photographic sequences record small moments of everyday life that flash past with tension and ambiguity: an urban dream on the edge of reality where figures retreat, seats are empty, phones don’t work. Any and every interpretation is a valid interpretation. What is going on? You decide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eWith photographs made in Paris, London, New York and Rome, this new intensely personal, some might say autobiographical book, is enigmatically entitled Some Things You Should Have Told Me. It is a remorseless meditation on loss and misadventure, pain and impermanence, the inevitability of change. Questions are asked; there are no answers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eNew Zealander, Harvey Benge is well known for his many photobooks which have been published in Britain, Germany, France and Japan. \u003cem\u003eSome Things You Should Have Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e is his fifth book published by Dewi Lewis. Conceptual in substance, Benge’s books deal with the complexity of urban life, and the nature of seeing and understanding. 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His parents were factory workers and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began working in a factory, just like everyone else around him. A year later he moved to British Steel working as a trainee pipework engineering estimator in a job that involved costing systems for the nuclear power stations that were then being built. He remained there four years before escaping the tedium of the office by enrolling to study photography at Manchester College of Art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e is a visual autobiography of Brian Griffin’s life during the 1950s and 60s where everything surrounding him seemed to emanate from the factory. The book is a dissection of life in industrial England after the Second World War and shows the influences that would inspire the creative output of a highly successful photographer. 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In the final section, through text and colour, he responds to the blandishments of a tourist industry which all too often proposes that ‘Cuba is on the verge of change… now is the perfect time to visit before its distinctive character is altered forever’, countering the proposition that the Havana landscape simply presents an opportunity ‘for great dramatic photos for competitions and portfolios’, pointing to a wider culture of art and politics beyond the Che Guevara T-shirts and other souvenirs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eBorn in Somerset, John Comino-James lives near Thame in Oxfordshire. He has published five previous photography books: \u003cem\u003eNearly Every Tuesday\u003c\/em\u003e, which documented Thame’s weekly street market; \u003cem\u003eFairground Attraction\u003c\/em\u003e, which explored the way of life of travelling showmen; \u003cem\u003eA Few Streets, a Few People\u003c\/em\u003e, an intimate portrait of the people and surroundings of the Cayo Hueso barrio in Havana, Cuba; \u003cem\u003eIn a Very English Town\u003c\/em\u003e, which acknowledges qualities that typify Thame as an English market town; and\u003cem\u003e Fortunate Steps\u003c\/em\u003e, photographs made in Havana’s historic Calzada del Diez de Octubre. His work has been exhibited in Thame, Oxford, London and Havana. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 978-1-907893-30-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHardback, 168 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e95 duotoine \u0026amp; colour photos\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e222mm x 298mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #999999;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSEE ALSO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/a-question-of-england\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eA Question Of England \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/fortunate-steps\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eFortunate Steps\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/in-a-very-english-town\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eIn A Very English Town\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/fairground-attraction\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eFairground Attraction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/a-few-streets-a-few-people\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#741b47\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eA Few Streets, A Few People\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/the-rhodes-project\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eThe Rhodes Project\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":423562881,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/HAVANA_JCJ__large.jpg?v=1571265877"},{"product_id":"pierdom","title":"SIMON ROBERTS: Pierdom","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLast few copies. First edition, first printing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIntroduced by Francis Hodgson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eSimon Roberts has travelled the coastline of Britain to create a comprehensive and fascinating photographic record of the country’s remaining pleasure piers, in homage to these monuments of Victorian engineering and eccentricity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThe pleasure pier follows the story of Britain’s relationship to the seaside, from the early links with the Romantics, to the engineering feats and technical advancement of the Industrial Revolution. They bear witness to the growth of the coast as a pleasure destination for a monied elite, as well as the working class enthusiasm for the seaside brought on by the development of the railways and the introduction of bank holidays. Britain’s piers trace our changing economic fortunes too, from post-war boom to economic downturn, and now a slow re-awakening of our appreciation of these cultural and historic landmarks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAt the turn of the last century, almost a hundred piers existed; now only half remain and several face an uncertain future. Whilst some are modest structures, others are elegant and exotic, thrusting out into the sea with characteristic Victorian aplomb. Loosely following in the footsteps of Francis Frith, whose company made the last major photographic survey of these peculiarly British structures, Roberts documented the remaining piers using his signature landscape style, echoing the aesthetic and tone of his acclaimed book \u003cem\u003eWe English\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eIn 2010 Simon Roberts was selected by the UK Parliament as the official Election Artist to record the General Election. He has exhibited widely with solo shows at: National Media Museum, Bradford; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai. His work is in several major collections including George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Collection and Wilson Centre for Photography. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eMotherland\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eWe English\u003c\/em\u003e (2009).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePierdom\u003c\/em\u003e is introduced by Francis Hodgson, photography critic for the Financial Times, and the former Head of Photographs at Sotheby’s, London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e ISBN: 978-1-907893-40-7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHardback. 160 pages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e81 colour plates, 246mm x 305mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Unsigned Copies","offer_id":12909076840501,"sku":"","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Signed Copies","offer_id":424604797,"sku":"","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/files\/9781907893407.jpg?v=1756467169"},{"product_id":"inside-photography","title":"DAVID BRITTAIN \u0026 CLINTON CAHILL: Inside Photography","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDAVID BRITTAIN \u0026amp; CLINTON CAHILL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003enside Photography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e, a collaboration between the writer\/editor, David Brittain and graphic artist, Clinton Cahill, is a book of interviews that sheds light on the art photography magazine. Inciteful and often irreverent, the book demonstrates how this critically overlooked type of publication can be an invaluable resource for creative and historical investigations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eDavid Brittain has been active in photography as a curator, critic, lecturer and as editor of the respected international magazine ‘Creative Camera’ (1991-2001). He has contributed to a wide range of publications and has been involved in the production of various documentaries for BBC TV programmes such as ‘The Late Show’ and the ‘Decisive Moments’ series. In 2000 his anthology of writings, \u003cem\u003eCreative Camera: 30 years of Writing \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Manchester University Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eIn 2002 David was awarded an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts to research the subject of photography and the self-published magazine. This book of interviews forms part of the extensive research that he has undertaken over the period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eClinton Cahill is an artist, designer and educator based at the Manchester School of Art. His creative practice encompasses painting, graphic design and illustration, with a particular research interest in the relationships between text, illustration and the phenomenology of the image which is focused on a long-term study of visuality of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’. 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He retired in 2007. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eMax Kandhola is an established UK photographer who has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. His work is held in private and public collections including Autograph ABP, London; The Deutsche Bank Collection; Light Work Syracuse New York; National Media Museum, Bradford; and Birmingham Library. Kandhola is currently Head of Photography at Nottingham Trent University. This is his fourth book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eA former Middleweight amateur boxer, with experience of schoolboy, student and white-collar boxing, David Scott is a professor at Trinity College Dublin where he also acts as a part-time boxing coach. 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With the help of dozens of Afghan photographers \u003cem\u003eAfghan Box Camera\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates the technique and artistry of a previously untold and visually enthralling photographic culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eLukas Birk is an Austrian multi-media artist who exhibits regularly and organises visual-media workshops. He works primarily in Asia. In China and Indonesia he has set up artist-in-residency programmes as well as networks of local artists to co-operate with those in his native Austria.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eSean Foley, an Irish ethnographer specialising in visual anthropology, works as a researcher on art projects. He first travelled to Afghanistan in 2002. 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It lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and is within European Russia. Wars have been fought here for centuries – the most recent in Chechnya. Monteleone examines the stubborn, rebellious culture of this region, which although part of Russia, differs in the ethnicity, religion and social customs of its inhabitants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘If you shoot in the Caucasus, the echo will be heard for centuries,’ says an old proverb from the region.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eBorn in Italy 1974, Davide Monteleone studied engineering before moving first to the U.S. and then to England. It was here that he discovered his interest in photography and journalism. Returning to Italy in 2000, he completed his studies in photography and began to work with Italian magazines. From 2001 – 2003 he worked as correspondent for the photo agency Contrasto in Moscow. He began working with major international newspapers such as D, Io Donna, L’espresso, New York Times, Time, Stern, New Yorker, to name a few. Since 2003 he has lived part of each year in Italy and part in Russia, where he is pursuing long-term personal projects and continues his editorial work. He published his first book Dusha, Russian Soul in 2007, and La line inesistente in 2009. His features have won numerous awards including World Press Photo in 2007 and 2009, International Photo Award in 2008, Emerging Photographer Grant, Freelens Award, and the 2010 Aftermath Project Grant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 978-1-907893-16-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHardback, 128 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e65 colour plates, 220mm x 170mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":425718245,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/RED_THISTLE_large.jpg?v=1571265879"},{"product_id":"personal-best","title":"PAUL FLOYD BLAKE: Personal Best","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eOver a period of five years, award-winning photographer Paul Floyd Blake regularly photographed sixteen young athletes in the build up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. His work documents a unique time in British history, and captures the development of a generation of sportspeople as they grow from childhood to adulthood within the intense world of elite sport.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eBlake’s restrained and subtle portraits offer an alternative to conventional sports photography, with its emphasis on dramatic moments of action. Instead, his images pay tribute to the long slog towards glory that is not usually seen or celebrated, whilst excerpts from the athletes’ own writings offer insights into their personal hopes and fears. Blake’s approach emphasises the individual’s own story and motivations beyond the values and structures of competitive sport, as the title \u003cem\u003ePersonal Best\u003c\/em\u003e suggests.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThese complex portraits bear repeated viewing and will continue to reward the onlooker long after London 2012 is over. 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It centres on an elderly, Jewish watchmaker living in the Venice ghetto in 1943, one of the darkest periods of the Nazi occupation and the rule of the fascist regime in Italy. The city where the watchmaker has lived his entire life, now desolate and fearful, is the stage on which the story unfolds. The old man decides to build an automaton (a robot), to keep him company while he awaits the arrival of the fascist police who will deport the last of the remaining Jews from the ghetto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003ePaolo Ventura is internationally known for the complex creative process he adopts. Having created the narrative script for the book, he then builds elaborate models and miniature figurines in his studio and incorporates them in what appear as almost film sets. These are then photographed and his final artworks are the photographs of these constructed tableaux. 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Or is it defined by the surgeon's hand?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eWhen we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping away our very identity?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003ePhillip Toledano was born in 1968, in London to a French Moroccan mother, and an American father. His work is primarily socio-political, and varies in medium, from photography to installation. His installation project, 'America, the gift shop', was shown at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The premise: If George Bush's foreign policy had a souvenir shop, what would it sell? Toledano has published three previous books: Bankrupt (Photographs of recently vacated offices) published by Twin Palms in 2005, Phonesex (Twin Palms, 2008), and Days With My Father (Chronicle, 2010). His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, The London Times, The Independent Magazine, Le Monde, and Interview magazine, amongst others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eW.M.Hunt is a photography collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York. Founding partner of the prominent photography gallery Hasted Hunt (now Hasted Kraeutler) in Chelsea, Manhattan, and former director of photography at Ricco\/Maresca gallery, Hunt has been collecting photography for over 35 years. His recent book \u003cem\u003eThe Unseen Eye\u003c\/em\u003e (Aperture, Thames \u0026amp; Hudson, Actes Sud) focuses on Collection Dancing Bear, currently his largest collection of photographs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 978-1-907893-10-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eQuarter bound hardback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e64 pages, 375mm x 270mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e28 colour plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eALSO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/when-i-was-six\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eWhen I was six\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/products\/the-reluctant-father\" style=\"color: #741b47;\"\u003eThe Reluctant Father\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":425728857,"sku":"978-1-907893-10-0","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/BEAUTY_large.jpg?v=1571265880"},{"product_id":"savoy-the-restoration","title":"SIOBHAN DORAN: Savoy | The Restoration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eSiobhan Doran has photographed the ambitious restoration of The Savoy, the world-renowned hotel on London’s Embankment. Built by impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the hotel opened on 6 August 1889. It enjoyed a resurgence of fame during the 1920s with both major art deco redecoration, and guests as varied as Noel Coward, Igor Stravinsky, Josephine Baker and George Gershwin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThe book traces the work through four periods of the restoration project. It opens with the process of stripping out, which in many instances exposed original detail. The two following sections follow the painstaking structural restoration and its progression into the new designs. The final section covers the finishing touches of decoration and furnishing. As the project developed Siobhan Doran became captivated by the hotel’s fifth-floor River Suites with their varied views across the Thames. Revisiting these rooms many times in the course of more than 100 visits to the hotel, she developed the concept of returning and remaking images, which she then expanded to embrace to other areas in the building. This approach also unconsciously reflects the many views and insights that the now-reopened hotel’s customers observe daily – depending on the season in which they visit, the length of their stay, the areas that they frequent and whether it is their first visit or one of many.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eBorn in Ireland, Siobhan Doran initially trained in architectural technology, and worked in building design for over ten years combining this with her photographic work. In 2003 she began a degree in photography at the University of Westminster where she graduated in 2006. 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In the 1960s they rented a TV for a one month trial but returned it after deciding that it took up too much time. Little changed from year to year, though Mathias once said that changes were happening the whole time and it would probably end up with them getting an inside toilet with running water. Harald died from an asthma attack while shovelling snow in conditions of –20C. Mathias continued to live alone in the house until he moved into an old people’s home. He died in 2007.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eNorwegian photographer, Elin Høyland has freelanced for several major newspapers including \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently photographer with the \u003cem\u003eNorwegian Business Daily\u003c\/em\u003e and her work has been widely exhibited in France, USA, China, Scandinavia and the UK.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eGerry Badger is recognised world-wide as one of the leading writers on photography. 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Desperate for news, families of the missing prayed for a message, begged for the truth and often fell prey to blackmail. In almost every case, those missing had been murdered. But without any word, witness or body, the bereaved could not accept their loss. Their torment was to last years – for many it still continues. Children waited for parents to return from the grave. Mothers made up their dead son’s beds. Old men couldn’t bury their descendants. The living also ‘lost’ their lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eFor the first time in war DNA has been used to match blood and bone, reuniting families divided by death, enabling survivors to find closure and to begin to live again. Since 1991 the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Balkans has been asked by families to trace 34,384 missing men and women. The remains of half of them – most of whom were murdered over a decade ago – have now been found. 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Braden shows how a casual glance, a moment of doubt or a quick trip to the shopping mall can tell us as much about modern China as any image of a dam, a protest or a teeming workforce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e… anthropological documents and a personal travelogue; a series of intimate portraits and, more generally, studies of a country undergoing a massive transition from a predominantly agrarian to an urban culture.\u003c\/em\u003e – Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eA winner of the Jerwood Photography Prize (2003) and The Guardian Newspaper Young Photographer of the Year (2002), Polly Braden has exhibited at venues internationally including the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (USA). 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Run by paramilitary youth organisations, they brought together modernist architecture, fresh air and discipline with the intention of converting the body and soul of Italian youth to fascist principles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThe colonie were far removed from both the towns of Italy’s past and from the traditional structures of family and community. They offered a dramatic daily programme of activity with marching, synchronised exercise and gymnastics, flag raising, saluting and swearing of allegiance to the regime. It was a programme that in turn inspired architectural features in the buildings – including towers, ramps and elevated platforms – all designed to dramatise the parades and presentations by the young people. Even in the context of massive public works programmes, the building of the colonie offered unprecedented opportunities for progressive architects. They became a distinctive type of fascist building that evolved under the directives of the youth organisations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eDespite the spectacle of the buildings, official policy declared luxuries as anti-educational and anti-social. Accordingly only the most basic of accommodation was provided. Dormitories were intimidating, open plan and stark; each might accommodate several hundred children. Italian parents would routinely admonish recalcitrant children with the threat ‘ti mando in colonia!’ (Behave, or I'll send you to the colonia!). For a generation of Italians the experience of fascism was a formative one, from which some never recovered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAn architect by training, artist and photographer Dan Dubowitz is also a cultural master-planner who has worked on major public arts projects both in the UK and abroad. Patrick Duerden is a well-respected architect and writer. Penny Lewis was editor of Prospect, the Scottish architecture magazine, from 2003-2008 and now lectures at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 9781904587804 (English language edition)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 9781904587866 (Italian language edition) - O\u003cem\u003eut of print\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHardback, 136 pages, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e130 colour and b\u0026amp;w photographs\u003cbr\u003e290mm x 310mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":425843521,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/FASCISMO_COVER_large.jpg?v=1571265885"},{"product_id":"open","title":"BRIAN GRIFFIN: Open","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome years ago we announced the discovery of a number of copies of Brian Griffin’s extremely rare classic photobook ‘Open’, which featured in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s \u003cem\u003eThe Photobook: A History, vol. 2\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe had thought that these were all sold out but then discovered a small number of copies of both the standard edition and the collector's edition hidden at the back in our local storage. We are making them available at the same price as we first launched them when they were rediscovered. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003ePublished in 1986 in an edition of only 350 copies, Brian found himself too occupied with other projects to be able to focus on selling all the print run and put the balance into temporary store. Some twenty five years later he rediscovered them!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAs Parr and Badger note, “Griffin came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the generation of Chris Killip, Graham Smith, and John Davies amongst others. However, he positioned himself at a remove from the prevailing social documentary ideology of British photography at that time. In the early 1970s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHe was ‘discovered’ by Roland Schenk, art editor of the magazine, \u003cem\u003eManagement Today\u003c\/em\u003e, and began a highly successful career taking corporate portraits… Yet his style was always slightly subversive, its surreal qualities gently ‘biting the hand that fed him’….”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eQuirky portraits, enigmatic still lifes and landscapes in a similar vein, all appear in Open, which was self-published along with a number of other photobooks by Griffin under the imprint Black Pudding. These were projects of self-expression as well as being ‘calling cards’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Open was made after the death of his father and of his close friend, the graphic designer Barney Bubbles. It serves as a memorial. You have to open the book to get to heaven, but opening it – cutting the tape and folded pages – destroys it. The book is a metaphor for life, the further we get into it, the more knowledge we gain, but the closer we are to the final end and its closure. Like all Griffin’s books, it has higher production values than the usual self-published photobooks of the period and is presented like a Japanese book, where packaging is everything. Such a concept also has a special commercial advantage, because serious book collectors are honour-bound to buy two copies – one to open and read, the other to remain closed and inviolate.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e(The Photobook: A History, vol. 2: Phaidon Press, 2004)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003ePublished in 1986 by Black Pudding \u003cbr\u003ein an edition of only 350 copies\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by John Warwicker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e21 b\u0026amp;w photographs with tissue overlays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e92 pages, 255 x 230mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eQuarter bound hardback, bound in a yellow cloth with plain boards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e.................\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen we first rediscovered the book we added a protective card box. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe copies we made available were\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e65 signed \u0026amp; numbered copies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003epriced at £150.00\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5 collector’s editions with a signed \u0026amp; numbered \u003cbr\u003e10\" x 8\" silver print: £295.00\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eUK shipping included \/ European \u0026amp; Rest of the World shipping charged at cost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Standard Limited Edition","offer_id":425946289,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Collector's Edition","offer_id":425946541,"sku":"","price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/OPEN_NEW_COVER.jpg?v=1571265885"},{"product_id":"the-last-resort","title":"MARTIN PARR: THE LAST RESORT","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.........................\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuch sad news to learn of the death of Martin on Saturday December 6th. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomehow I think I believed that Martin would always be there. He had the most extraordinary drive and energy, and such an enthusiasm for everything he was involved in. He was such a force of nature. And yet he always had time for others, time to look at the work of other photographers and give advice, time to chat, time to let anyone and everyone take selfies with him. And, almost always, with a gentleness, a warmth and a smile, no matter what pressure he himself was under.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI \u003cspan class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"html-a xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eknew Martin for over 40 years, probably even longer as I think I first met him briefly in 1976\/77 when I exhibited his chimney pots photos at a gallery I ran in Bury, North Manchester. We met again in the mid 1980s, firstly when my wife, Caroline, worked for the DPA which commissioned his 1985 Salford project and then at Cornerhouse, where I was Director, for his 1986 show ‘Connections’. Shortly afterwards our publishing relationship began and over the years we worked on so many books together – and, particularly in those early days, it was all so energising and so exciting.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin was immensely loyal, with friendships stretching back so many years. His family, his wife Susie and his daughter Ellen, will be devastated as will all those many friends.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin and I were in contact several times over recent months. His energy and his enthusiasm seemed undiminished. We were looking to the future, working on a new, revised edition of ‘Autoportrait’ as well as planning a special 40th anniversary facsimile edition of ‘The Last Resort’, the book that helped to launch his career when he self-published it back in 1986.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin has gone but the Foundation he set up remains and his work and his unerring commitment to photography and photographers will live on for many generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThank you for everything Martin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e...............................\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 16px; color: #444444;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"\u003eWhen Martin Parr’s \u003cem\u003eThe Last Resort\u003c\/em\u003e was first published and exhibited in 1986 it divided both critics and audiences alike. Some saw it as the ‘finest achievement to date’ of colour photography in Britain whilst others viewed it as ‘an aberration’. With the benefit of hindsight there is little doubt that it transformed documentary photography in Britain and placed Parr amongst the world’s leading photographers. The book is now recognised as a ‘classic’ and copies of the first edition are highly sought after by collectors worldwide. Whilst this edition keeps the same images and sequence as the original, it includes a text commissioned from Gerry Badger \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003ewho re-examines the work and its impact on British Photography. Gerry was co-author, with Martin, of the three volume \u003cem\u003eThe Photobook: A History\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eSteering a perilous course between objectivity and voyeurism, Parr viewed the decaying holiday resort of New Brighton and its holidaymakers in a way that was new, unique and deeply disturbing. And he did so in colour, something which at the time was seen as revolutionary for documentary work. For some his camera seemed cold and cruel as it followed the working classes desperately pursuing their holiday dreams surrounded by dereliction and decay and wading through the apparently endless detritus of a pollution-ridden consumer society. Others felt it showed an affectionate, humorous and humanistic response from Parr. However it was viewed, it was undoubtedly a sharp, bitter satire of the Britain of the Thatcher years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eMartin Parr was a member of the prestigious MAGNUM photo agency. Internationally recognised as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life he led the development of British documentary photography with wit, style, and intelligence in a career that boasts numerous publications and exhibitions. 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These are disturbing images – a thesaurus of America’s ‘civilized’ incursions into the wildness of nature, a charting of debris-strewn topographies, and a cogent report on the abdication of any reverence towards the land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAs Robert Sobieszek observes in his introduction, Ganis’s photographs are striking in their unexpected combination of critical satire and romantic longing. He challenges his audience to reconsider their notions of ‘landscape’ in the light of current land use practices. Elements of both the picturesque and the rustic mediate between the idyllic and the apocalyptic, suggesting, ironically perhaps, that such scenes may yet be accompanied by romantic associations. In particular, Ganis’s work is really about the edge, the margin that separates the uncultivated from the over-farmed, the pastoral garden from the bleak wasteland, the ‘natural’ from the cultured, the past from the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eIn his introductory essay Robert Sobieszek, of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gives an overview of the historical responses to the American landscape and contextualising the work. Poems that resulted from a collaboration between Ganis and the late anthropologist and poet Stanley Diamond add a further dimension. There is also an Afterword by George Thompson, Director of The Center for American Places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eJohn Ganis was born in Chicago in 1951. After University he moved to New York and studied with Larry Fink and Lisette Model. He received his M.F.A. in photography from the University of Arizona where he studied with Harold Jones, Todd Walker and W. Eugene Smith. His photographs of land use in America have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 1-904587-00-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHardback, 144 pages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e86 colour plates, 320mm x 245mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":428486977,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/Consuming_The_American_large.jpg?v=1571265887"},{"product_id":"infected-landscape","title":"SHAI KREMER: Infected Landscape","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSHAI KREMER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eInfected Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e by Israeli photographer Shai Kremer is a searing portrait of the military disfiguration of the landscape of Israel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThe accumulation of ruins and military remnants is an important part of what defines the Israeli landscape today – wounds in the landscape that correspond to the wounds in the Israeli collective consciousness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThe book includes photographs from the ‘Chicago’ miltary training centre in Israel. This centre encapsulates the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Over the years it has been rebuilt to represent different war environments and reflect varying scenarios – from Lebanon through to Gaza City. A further area was also constructed to simulate a refugee camp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eThe Urban Warfare Training Center (unveiled to the press in 2007) also features. This is a mock city located in the southern Tze’elim military base. From a distance, it looks like any Arab urban centre. Built by the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers and funded largely through U.S. military aid, the 7.4-square-mile generic city consists of modules that can be reconfigured by mission planners to represent specific towns. Known as ‘Baladia’ by the Americans – balad, in Arabic, means village – it is used by U.S. forces as well as by the Israel Defense Force. Complete with shops, a grand mosque, a hospital and a Kasbah quarter, the UWTC even has a cemetery that doubles as a soccer field, depending on the operational scenario. In some of the houses openings have been created to replicate those that soldiers leave behind as they demolish walls in the process of moving through urban areas whilst avoiding streets and alleys. For added realism, charred automobiles and burned tyres litter the roadways. During training exercises Arabian music is played in the background. The facility is enveloped by cameras and an audio system that simulates helicopters, mortar rounds, and prayer calls.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eISBN: 9781904587590\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eHardback, 120pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e66 colour photos, 247mm x 295mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dewilewispublishing.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":428507857,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0304\/2641\/products\/INFECTED_LANDSCAPE_large.jpg?v=1571265887"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.dewilewis.com\/collections\/all-our-books.oembed?page=6","provider":"dewi lewis publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}