Terry Richardson is undoubtedly one of the most influential, controversial and noticeable photographers of today. Turning the fashion industry upside down, Terry has transformed photography with the simple formula of the bright-flash-snapshot, fused with energy, sex, and of course, Terry...

07.11.2011[ read full story ]

“Kept awake” is the name of the book published by Alkibla Editorial. There is a certain kind of silence that speaks, that roars, and calls to account. And it exists in the graves of those executed during the Spanish CivilWar, graves which are still waiting to be opened today.

07.11.2011[ read full story ]

On the 1 November the Swedish artist Maria Miesenberg was awarded the Swedish Photo Book Prize 2011 for her book Sverige/Schweden (Steidl). Derived from Miesenberger's private family album the darkly, evocative images of the Sverige/Schweden series create a narra...

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On the cover of Gitta Seiler’s About Girls (Kehrer Verlag) is a beautiful teenager carefully applying mascara to her lashes as she gazes in a compact. Her skin glows with the porcelain finish that youth possesses in droves, and she reclines comfortably as she makes herself beautiful....

28.10.2011[ read full story ]

After Anders Petersen’s Gröna Lund, the publisher Aman Iman will release a new edition of an important work, almost impossible to find today for any price: Christer Strömholm’s Les amies de Place Blanche, first edition, 1983.

07.11.2011[ read full story ]

Power House books republishes Idols Gilles Larrain's block buster 40 years after the first publication. A work whose influence needs to be revisited today.

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

How much have Madame Bovary, Ariane, Solal and Jules and Jim taught us about other ways to love? How much have characters from novels have taught us about the rules of seduction, the paradoxes of desire?

25.10.2011[ read full story ]

With a majestic preface by Wim Wenders, Ronan Guillou’s first work arrives under the highest auspices. The fruit of a years-long trek across 17 American states (like the photographer in Wenders’ Alice in the City), Angel depicts an America in suspense.

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

On a Wednesday afternoon in broad daylight, my house was burgled.
When I returned from work I didn't realise at first but then it dawned on me my laptop was gone containing all my pictures and films from pretty much the past five years, none of it was backed up.

25.10.2011[ read full story ]

Oculus is the most recent book by Ken Schles, he interrogates the relationship between pictures, memory, and light. In his introduction, Ken Schles writes: "We infuse the world we encounter with meaning, with social and symbolic significance based on the value we place up...

25.10.2011[ read full story ]