In today's Lettre we are again presenting recently released photo
books. Today, Damiani and teNeues. The Italian publishing house
Damiani was founded in 2004 as the new publishing branch of the printing company, Grafiche Damiani, in Bologna.

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With Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries, Mariana Cook departs from her portrait work. In fact the she is best known for her intimate character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye, as published in her much-acclaimed collections Fathers and Daughte...

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David Armstrong gained critical attention for his intimate and sharply focused portraits of men, friends and lovers. In the nineties, he began to photograph cityscapes and landscapes in soft focus to contrast with the resolution of his portraits: street lights, street corners an...

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Since moving to the United States from his native Germany photographer Stephan Wurth has been fascinated with the mythical vistas of the American West and the isolation and freedom of vast desert expanses. Wurth culminates this geographical romance with the new series Ghost Town.

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James Casebere: Works 1975-2010 is the most comprehensive monograph to date on this important American artist.
Casebere's pioneering work has established him at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography. For the last thirty years, Casebere has devised inc...

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American photographer Mark Abrahams is one of the foremost fashion and magazine cover photographers of the past two decades. In his photographs he follows an opposite direction to the predominant commercial, spacing from the cinema to the theatre, from the art to the literature, up to the politics. Ab...

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This book has been conceived as a follow-up to his previous publication Echo (2006). Earth/Heart includes photographs taken in apparently untouched stretches of landscape in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Italy and Fanø Island in Denmark.

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The name "Dolomites" is derived from the famous French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the rock, dolomite, a type of carbonate rock which is responsible for the characteristic shapes and colour of these mountains. In 2009, the Dolomites were...

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The teNeues publishing house was founded in 1931 and today the two grand sons ago Hendrik and Sebastian teNeues are in charge. We are presenting a selection of their latest releases.

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For his third book with teNeues, Bruno Bisang shares a vivid cross-section of his Polaroid archives. Once a simple tool to test lighting, angles, and moods, this format is now a relic of photography’s analog age — with its own unique qualities. Mottled surfaces and frayed corners ...

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This spellbinding scrapbook is one artist’s tribute to androgynous waifs and tomboy dreamers. A fashion photographer for clients like Dazed & Confused and Alexander McQueen, Toyin Ibidapo records her subjects over time in her own home. Each subject is a friend; model and artist collaborat...

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Few cities spark the imagination like New York. Its name stands for excitement. Famed for both its hectic pace and for being a melting pot of cultures and ideas, this is perhaps the world’s ultimate metropolis. As a native, Chris Bliss understands the city on many levels.

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Award-winning photographer Michael Poliza’s seventh book for teNeues showcases Kenya. With its diverse landscapes and rich variety of plant and animal species, Kenya is one of the most fascinating and appealing countries in Africa.

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“The world of art is at once black-and-white and colorful, surprising and enchanting, lively and inspiring. In this realm we uncover the unknown and gain new perspective on what we already know.” In 2004, these words from art collectors Sefanie Harig and Marc Ullrich launched the L...

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As a woman and an artist, Sylvie Blum offers a unique perspective on the female form. As an ex-model, she understands how important the subject is to the creative process. Steeped in photographic tradition, Sylvie Blum has worked with such iconic artists as Helmut Newton, Andreas H. Bitesni...

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The French Riviera of the Fifties was an exciting place with much change in the air. Rock and roll and the bikini, existentialism and the atom bomb. Edward Quinn chronicled a playground that was influenced by international trends, but very much its own universe. On the Riviera every ni...

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In this unique book, photographic legend Elliott Erwitt presents a series of vignettes, each showing a sequence of photographs shot just moments apart. The characters portrayed vary widely from infants to the elderly to dogs. The themes range from the buzz of street life to lovers i...

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Following his stunning photo-safari in Africa and an unprecedented helicopter voyage from Europe to Africa in Eyes over Africa, the award-winning photographer has ventured to the polar regions. With his inimitable blend of intimate close-ups and cinematic landscapes, Poliza leads us through...

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